'Sandys3'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Sandys of Downe Hall, Sandys of Northbourne Court, Sandys of Ombersley

                               
Samuel Sandys of Ombersley, Governor of Evesham (d 1685)
m1. Mary Barker (dau of Hugh Barker, Dean of the Arches)
1. Samuel Sandys of Ombersley (d 04.08.1701, eldest son)
  m. Elizabeth Pettus d 1714, dau of Sir John Pettus)
A. Edwin Sandys (dvp 1699, MP)
  m. Alice Rushout (d 1701, dau of Sir James Rushout, 1st Bart of Northwick Place)
  i. Samuel Sandys, 1st Lord of Ombersley (b 10.08.1695, d 21.04.1770, Chancellor of the Exchequer)
  m. (09.06.1725) Letitia Tipping (d 26.05.1779, dau of Sir Thomas Tipping, Bart of Wheatfield)
a. Edwin Sandys, 2nd Lord of Ombersley (b 18.04.1726, dsp 11.03.1797)
  m. (26.01.1769) Anna Maria Colebrooke (b c1720, d 01.11.1806, dau of James Colebrooke of London)
  b. Martin Sandys (b c1729, d 26.12.1768, Colonel, 4th son?)
  m. (1760) Mary Trumbull (dau of William Trumbull of Easthampstead Park)
  (1)+ 2 sons (d young) - William, Edward
  (3) Mary Sandys, Baroness Sandys of Ombersley (b 19.09.1764, d 01.08.1836)
  m. (29.06.1786) Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (b 03.03.1753, d 07.09.1801)
  Their eldest son inherited the Marquessate but the Barony of Sandys passed first to their 2nd son then to their 3rd.
  c. Anne Sandys
  m. (21.07.1768) Christopher Bethell (dsp 1797)
d.+ other issue - Cheek (d young), Thomas (d young), William (d 1749), John (d 1758), Henry (d 1737), Letitia, Catherine (d young)
  B. Martin Sandys had issue
  m. Elizabeth Burton
  C. Penelope Sandys
  m. Henry Townsend
  D. Mary Sandys
  m. Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford (d 03.10.1740)
  E. Frances Sandys
  m. Samuel Pytts of Kyre
  F.+ other issue (d young) - Henry, Elizabeth
m2. Elizabeth Pakington (dau of Sir John Pakington, Bart)

 

 

Sir Edwin Sandys of Northbourne (d 1629)
m1. Margaret Eveleigh (dau of John Eveleigh of Devon)
1. Elizabeth Sandys
  m. Sir Thomas Wilsford of Heding
m2. Anne Southcoft (dau of Thomas Southcoft)
m3. Elizabeth Nevinson (dau of Thomas Nevinson of Eastry)
2. Anne Sandys
m4. Catharine Bulkeley (d 1640, dau of Sir Richard Bulkeley of Anglesey)
3. Henry Sandys (b c1606?, dsp 1619)
  m. Margaret Hamond (dau of Sir William Hamond of St. Albans in Nonington)
4. Edwin Sandys of Northbourne Court (d 1642, Colonel)
  m. Catherine Champneys (dau of Richard Champneys of Hall Place)
  A. Sir Richard Sandys of Northbourne Court (d 1669)
  m. Mary Heyman (b 28.0.1643, dau of Sir Henry Heyman, 1st Bart)
  i. Sir Richard Sandys, Bart of Northbourne Court (b 06.01.1670, d 02/5.05.1720/6)
  m1. (12.04.1694) Jane Ward (b c1678, bur 16.10.1696, dau of Thomas Ward, Prebendary of Salisbury)
  m2. Mary Rolle (bur 05.10.1703, dau of Sir Francis Rolle of Shapwick by Priscilla Foote)
  a. Priscilla Sandys (3rd dau)
  m. Henry Sandys of Downe Hall @@ below
b. Mary Sandys (4th dau)
  m. William Roberts of Harbledon
  c. Anne Sandys (d 1789, 7th dau)
  m. Charles Pyott of St. Martin's (dspm 1789)
  d.+ other daughters
5. Richard Sandys of Downe Hall, Kent (Colonel)
  m. Hester Aucher (dau of Anthony Aucher of Bourne)
  A. Edwin Sandys (2nd son)
i. Jordan Sandys of Downe Hall (d 1753, Captain RN)
  m. Deborah St. Quintin (dau of George St. Quintin of London)
  a. Henry Sandys of Downe Hall, later of Northbourne Court
  m. Priscilla Sandys (dau of Sir Richard Sandys, Bart of Northbourne) @@ above
(1) Richard Sandys 'of Canterbury' of Northbourne Court
  m. Susan Crayford Taylor (d 1777, dau of James Taylor)
  (A) Richard Sandys (d 1782, Rev.)
  m1. Catherine Hougham (dau of William Hougham)
  (i) Richard Edwin Sandys (dsp Copenhagen 02.04.1801)
  (ii) Catherine Sandys
  m. (1803) John Chesshyre (Admiral RN)
  m2. Frances Alicia Bennet (dau of Charles Bennet, 3rd Earl of Tankerville)
  (iii) Alicia Arabella Sandys (d 1854)
  m. (1804) Francis Cockburn (d 24.08.1868, son of Sir James, Bart of Langton)
  (B) Edwin Humphrey Sandys of Kingston (4th son?)
m1. Sarah Fagge (dau of Sir William Fagge, Bart of Mystole)
  (i)+ issue (d infant) - William, Sarah Elizabeth
  m2. Helen Chick (a 1828, dau of Edward Lord Chick)
(iii) Edwin Sandys, later Sandys-Lumsdaine (rector of Upper Hardres) had issue
  m. (16.11.1816) Mary Lillias Lumsdaine (d 1864, dau of William Lumsdaine of Edinburgh)
  (iv) Charles Sandys of Canterbury (b 26.10.1786, d 1859) had issue (just 1 dau?)
  m. (27.05.1815) Sedley Frances Burdett
  (v) John Sandys (rector of Rockland St. Mary) had issue
  m. Mary Almeria Willyams (dau of Rev. Cooper Willyams)
  (vi) Mary Sandys (b 27.02.1793)
  m. (after 1828?) Henry Benson of Ramsgate
  (vii)+ other issue - Henry (b 27.11.1789, d unm 1803/1812), George (b 1791, d unm 1812), James (b 09.09.1794, d unm 1815), Sarah (b 30.04.1797, d unm 1813)
  (C) Susan Sandys
  m. Henry Godfrey Faussett of Heppington
6. Elizabeth Sandys
  Visitation shows Catherine as m. Edward Scrimshere of Aquilat. However, it was apparently Elizabeth who marred ...
  m. Gerard Skrymshire of Aqualate (b c1605, d c1665)
7. Penelope Sandys probably the Penelope who married ...
  m. Sir Nicholas Lechmere (b 1613-4, d 30.04.1701)
8.+ other issue - William, Thomas, Francis, Catherine, Mary, Frances, Elizabeth

Main source(s):
(1) For Sandys of Ombersley : BE1883 (Sandys of Ombersley), TCP (Sandys of Ombersley), CountyGen (Kent, Berry, 1830, p42)
(2) For Sandys of Northbourne and Downe Hall : BEB1844 (Sandys of Northbourne), TCB (volume iv), BLG1886 (Sandys-Lumsdaine of Lumsdaine), CountyGen (Kent, Berry, 1830, p41+) with a little support from Visitation (Cumberland, 1619, Sandis)
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