ANCESTOR TABLE FOR OLIVE WELBY

Generation One

1. OLIVE WELBY, the daughter of Richard and Frances (Bulkeley) Welby was baptized on 17 June 1604 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. [1]

1. "England, Lincolnshire, Parish Registers, 1538–1990," database, FamilySearch, entry for Oliva Welbie, daughter of Richardi Welbie and Franc Bucklie.

Generation Two

2. RICHARD WELBY, the second son of Thomas Welby and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Richard Thimbleby, was baptized in 1564 in Moulton. [1] He married Frances Bulkeley on 4 June 1595 in Whaplode, Lincolnshire. [2]

3. FRANCES BULKELEY, the daughter of Reverend Edward Bulkeley and Olive Irby, was born about 1568 and was buried in Moulton in 1610. [3]

Frances Welby and her unnamed brothers and sisters were left a bequest by Richard Wittington, gentleman of Sutterton, Lincolnshire in his will of 6 March 1614. Richard also refers to his wife Elizabeth, his father-in-law Mr. Doctor Bulkeley, his brother-in-law Mr. Peter Bulkeley and Edward Bulkeley, son of the said Peter. [4] The Reverend Edward Bulkeley, born in 1614, was the son of the Reverend Peter Bulkeley who emigrated in 1635. This Peter Bulkeley was the son of Edward Bulkeley, D.D. Reverend Peter Bulkeley was the first minister of Concord and he had many sisters, but their names are not know. From the will, Elizabeth Wittington is the sister of Peter Bulkeley, and Frances Bulkeley probably is as well. [5]

A Shrewsbury Corporation Record Roll from 1580 has: Edward Bulkeley of Shrewsbury, professor of theology, son of Thomas, with children Nathanial, age six, Mary, age 13, Frances, age 12, Judith, age ten, Martha, age eight, Deborah, age five, Dorcas, age three, Elizabeth age one. [6]

1. Donald Lines Jacobus, The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor), 22.
2. "England, Lincolnshire, Parish Registers," entry for Richard Welby and Francis Bucklye.
3. Jacobus, Bulkeley Genealogy, 22–23
4. John Dennis Farwell, Jane Harter Abbott and Lillian M. Wilson, The Farwell Family (Rutland, VT: Frederick Henry Farwell and Fanny Barber Farwell, 1929), transcription of will.
5. Ibid., 32.
6. Jacobus, Bulkeley Genealogy, 13.

Generation Three

4. THOMAS WELBY of Moulton was the second son of Thomas Welby of Halsted. [1] He died in 1570. [1][2] He asked to be buried in Statlys [?] church in Bath. [3] He married Elizabeth Thimbleby on 20 July 1560. [1]

Thomas wrote his will in 1570; it was proved in 1571. [1] He mentioned his wife Mary [!], his daughter Jane, his children Richard and Thomas, his daughter Katherine, the wife of Pulvertoft, his brother John Thimbleby. His son and heir Thomas was age 21. [3]

5. ELIZABETH THIMBLEBY was the daughter of Sir Richard Thimbleby, Knt. [1] She was the widow of John St. Paul of Nettleton. [1]

1. A.R. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 55 (London: Harleian Society, 1906), 1313–5.
2. F.N. Craig, “Lady Millicent’s Cat,” NEHGR 70 (1995), 100.
3. A. Gibbons, Notes on the Visitation of Lincolnshire, 1634 (Lincoln: James Williamson, 1898), 198.

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6. REVEREND EDWARD BULKELEY was the second son of Thomas Bulkeley of Woore, Shropshire and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Randall Grosvenor. [1] He was probably born about 1540 and he died in January 1620/1 in Odell, Bedfordshire. He married Olive Irby about 1566. [1] He was buried on 5 January 1620/1. [2]

7. OLIVE IRBY was the daughter of John and Rose (Overton) Irby. [1] She was born about 1547 and was buried on 10 March 1614/5. [2]

Edward matriculated pensioner at St. John's, Cambridge in Michaelmas 1555. He received his BA in 1559/60, his MA in 1563, his BD in 1569 and his DD in 1578. He was a fellow in 1560. [1]

He was appointed rector of Odell in 1571. He was a prebendary of Chester in 1574, of Westminster in 1583 and Litchfield in 1594. He was vicar of St. Mary Shrewsbury from 1578 to 1582. [1]

Edward was a moderate puritan. [1] He resigned from his rectorship of Odell in 1601. He was buried there on 5 January 1620/1 and his successor, his son Peter, entered the record. [1]

Edward's will was proved in January 1620/1 and it no longer exists. [1]

1. Jacobus, Bulkeley Genealogy, 14–16.
2. Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th ed. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), 39.

Generation Four

8. THOMAS WELBY of Halstead, the son of Thomas Welby and Joan Leake, was born in 1488, as he was eight years old in 1496 and 21 in 1488/9. [1][2] He died between 6 September 1520, when he wrote his will, and 18 August 1524, when it was proved. [2]

He was described as a lunatic in 1521. [2]

Will of Thomas Welby, Esq., of Hallstead in the parish of Stixwould, 1520. [3]

9. CATHERINE BRAY was the daughter of Thomas or John Bray of Co. Middlesex. [2] She was the executrix of her husband's will in 1524. [2] She married second John Hall. [2, no first name]

Pitshanger manor was a free tenement in 1423. The demesne consisted of about 140 acres stretching northward from Hanger Hill to the Brent. It was held by William, the son of Thomas Bray in 1423 and descended in the Bray family to Catherine (Bray) Welby in 1508. She was perhaps the Catherine on whom Pitshanger was settled jointly with her husband John Hall in 1537. [4]

1. Gibbons, Notes on the Visitation of Lincolnshire, 198.
2. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 55, 1313–5.
3. "Lincoln Wills: 1520," in Lincoln Wills: Volume 1, 1271-1526, ed. C W Foster (London: British Record Society, 1914), 83-87. British History Online, accessed February 17, 2020, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/lincoln-wills/vol1/pp83-87.
4. Diane K Bolton, Patricia E C Croot and M A Hicks. "Ealing and Brentford: Manors," in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7, Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden, ed. T F T Baker and C R Elrington (London: Victoria County History, 1982), 123-128. British History Online, accessed February 17, 2020, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol7/pp123-128.

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10. SIR RICHARD THIMBLEBY, KNIGHT of Irnham, Nottinghamshire was the son of Sir John Thimbleby, Knight of Inrham and Margaret Boys. [1] He was born about 1507. He died on 28 September 1590.  [1] He married first Elizabeth Moore. [3] He married Katherine, the daughter of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, Knight of Kettlby. [4]

According to the 1553 pardon roll, Thymbleby was of Irnham and late of Lynn Regis, Norfolk, although he still had a house in Lynn in July 1553. As one of Northumberland's adherents he was committed to the custody of the knight marshal and then licensed to return to Lynn so long as he did not come to court until Queen Mary's pleasure was known. He was a protestant, classified as "earnest in religion." However he spent most of his apparently quiet life as a country gentleman and sheep farmer. [2]

He was a justice of the peace in Lincolnshire, probably by 1547. He was sheriff there in 1551–1552 and 1560–1561. He was a commissioner to inquire into church good in Lincolnshire in 1553. He was M.P. from Lincolnshire in 1559. [2]

11. KATHERINE TYRWITT, the daughter of Sir Robert Tyrwitt and Maude Talboys, married Sir Richard Thimbleby. [5]

Katherine Tyrwitt married Sir Richard Thimbleby of Irnham and "this family was Catholic and closely associated with the Tyrwitts." [4]

1. A.R. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52 (London: Harleian Society, 1904), 957.
2. "Thymbley, Sir Richard (c.1507-90), of Irnham, Lincs. and East Bridgeford, Notts.," in P.W. Hassler, ed., The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1558–1603 (London: Stationary Office, 2006), online,The History of Parliament, http://histparl.ac.uk.
3. F.N. Craig, “Lady Millicent’s Cat,” NEHGR 70 (1995), 100.
4. Patrick Martin and John Finnis, "Tyrwitt of Kettleby, Part I: Goddard Tyrwhitt, Martyr, 1500," Recusant History 26 (October 2002), 301–13, specifically fn. 25.
5. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52, 1018–9.

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12. THOMAS BULKELEY was the son of William and Beatrice (Hill) Bulkeley of Oakley. [1] He was born say 1515/20 and he died in 1591. [1] He married Elizabeth Grosvenor say 1520. [1]

13. ELIZABETH GROSVENOR was the daughter of Randall Grosvenor [1] and Anne Charlton. [2] She was born about 1515. [2]

Thomas lived in Buntingsdale in the parish of Market Drayton, Shropshire and was buried there [1] in the Buntingsdale Chapel in Saint Mary Church. [3]

Thomas wrote his will on 23 June 33 Elizabeth [1591]. It was recorded on 19 October 1591. [3]

Against the east wall in the Buntingsdale chaple is a sixteenth-century slab "commemorating Thomas, son and heir of William Bulkeley, and Elizabeth his wife. The male figure is in civil costume; the lady wears ruffs at the neck and wrists." [4]

Thomas was steward of Drayton Manor and had "property and messuages at Gravenhunger and Woore (in Mucklestone), Shropshire; Knighton and Oakley (in Mucklestone), Staffordshire; Hurleston, Cheshire; Buerton (in Audlem), Cheshire; Haughton (in Eddisbury Hundred), Cheshire; Bridgemere, Hunsterson and Poole (in Nantwich Hundred), Cheshire; Moulton (in Northwich Hundred), Cheshire; and Stoke (in Wirral Hundred), Cheshire." [3]

1. Bulkeley, Bulkeley Genealogy, 5.
2. Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 8th ed., 39.
3. "Thomas Bulkeley," Findagrave, 51912428, biograhy by Todd Whitesides.
4. D.H.S. Cranage, The Churches of Shropshire (Wellington, Shropshire: Hobson & Co., 1905), 678.

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14. JOHN IRBY was the son of Anthony and Alice (Bountaine) Irby. [1] He died on 10 April 1553. [1] He married Rose Overton. [1]

15. ROSE OVERTON was born say 1527. [2] She was buried on 16 May 1579 in St. James Clerkenwell. [2] She married second Richard Buckland, Esq. of Clerkenwell, co. Middlesex. [1][2] He died in 1558. [2] She married third Richard Bowe or Beauwe, gentleman of London. [1][2]

Rose Beawe, widow, made her will on 30 April 1579 and it was proved on 17 June 1579. Among others, she mentioned her daughter Oliff, the wife of Mr. Edward Bulkley, clerk, DD and preacher at Odell and her brother Dr. Overton. [1]

1. Bulkeley, Bulkeley Genealogy, 19–20.
2. Clifford Stott, “In Search of Mr. Overton,” NEHGR 172 (2008), 221.

Generation Five

16. THOMAS WELBY died on 16 October 1495. [1] He was buried in Croyland in 1496. [2] He was of Gedney in 1491. [2] He was the high sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1492. [2][3] He married Joan Leake. [1]

In a 12 August 1465 codicil to his father's will says, "Item, I wol that Maister Thomas my sone be presented to the Churche of Pynchebek, when it fallyth." [4]

Thomas wrote his will in 1496. He asked to be buried next to his brother Richard in Crowland Abbey. He mentions his children: Thomas, who was underage, and Isabel, who was nine. [1]

His inquisition post mortum was held in 1 Henry VIII (1509/10). His son Thomas was said to be 21. [1]

Thomas's brother Richard wrote his will on 12 November 1487. He founded a chantry in Croyland Abbey and asked to be buried there. He named his brother Thomas his executor and left bequests to his brothers Morris, Sir John, Thomas, William and Roger. [1]

Thomas's brother Roger wrote his will in 1496 and asked to be buried in Moulton, near his father. He mentioned his wife Margaret, his borther Robert clerk, his late brother Richard, his children. His will was probed on 2 March 1496. [1]

17. JOAN LEAKE, the daughter of Sir Richard Leake, Knight, died in 1488. [2]

There is an inscription on a brass plate in Holbeach church to Joan, the wife of Thomas Welby, Esq. and daughter of Sir Richard Leake, Knt. [5]

1. Gibbons, Notes on the Visitation of Lincolnshire, 195–6,198
2. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 55, 1313–5.
3. William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire (Sheffield: William White, 1872), 55.
4. "XVIII: Will, 1465, and Codicil of Richard Welby, of Moulton (near Spalding), Lincolnshire,"Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme : accessed 13 March 2020).
5. A member of the family, Notices of the Welby Family (Grantham: S. Ridge, 1842), 38.

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20. SIR JOHN THIMBLEBY, KNIGHT, was the son and heir of Richard Thimbleby of Poolam and Elizabeth Hilton. [1][2] He marred Margaret Boys. [1]

21. MARGARET BOYS was the daughter of John Boys.

1. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52, 957–8.
2. James Conway Walter, A History of Horncastle from the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Horncastle: W.K. Morton & Sons, 1908), 22–24.

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22. SIR ROBERT TYRWITT, KNIGHT (1482–1548) was the son of William Tyrwitt and Anne Constable. [1] He was born in 21 Edward IV (1482). [2][3]  He died on 4 July 1548 and is buried in Wrawby Church. He married Maud Tailboys. [2]

23. MAUD TAILBOYS was the daughter of Sir Robert Talboys, Knight and Elizabeth Heron. [1][2][3]

Robert was knighted at Touraine in 1513. [2] He was high sheriff of Lincolnshire in 15 Henry VIII (1524). [2]

He received a grant of the priory of Cameringham in 27 Henry VIII (1545) and a grand of Stanfield Priory in 29 Henry VIII (1549). [2]

He or his son Philip built an mansion in Stanfield. [3]

He was made seneschal of the priories of Newstead-on-Ancholmes and Elsham and bailiff of Baraton-on-Humber, all in north Lincolnshire, in 26 Henry VIII (1543). [3]

King Henry VIII and his then queen Katherine Howard and their retinue visited Sir Robert at Kettleby on 8–9 October 1541. [3]

Robert and Maude had children Elizabeth (who married William Monson), Anne (or Agnes, who married William Hansaid), Katherine, Margaret (who married Matthew St. Paul), Maude (who mararied Henry Portington), Philp, Sir Robert (who was buried in 1572 and married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Goddard), Sir William (buried in 1540/1 in Scotter, who married Isabel Girlington). [4]

Elizabeth, the granddaughter of Maud's brother Sir George Tailboys, and her husband Thomas Wimbish, sold the manor of Tailboys in the parish of Croydon cum Clopton—16 km. southwest of Cambridge—to Sir Robert Tyrwitt, who resold it in 1546. [5]

1. Frederick Lewis Weiss and Walter Lee Sheppard, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America before 1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), 199.
2. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52, 1018–9.
3. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999), 10.
4. Robert Philip Tyrwhitt, Notices and Remains of Family of Tyrwhitt (London: Harrison and Sons, 1858), 17–18.
5. A. P. Baggs, S. M. Keeling and C. A. F. Meekings, "Parishes: Croydon cum Clopton," in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 8, ed. A. P. M. Wright (London, 1982), pp. 30-42. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol8/pp30-42 [accessed 28 February 2020].

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24. WILLIAM BULKELEY of Oakley died on 4 March 1571. He married Beatrice, the daughter and co-heir of William Hill of Buntingsdale, Shropshire and his wife Alice, the sister and heir of Richard de Bunbury. [1]

25. BEATRICE HILL

The Bulkeley Genealogy has a speculative discussion of the ancestry of William Bulkeley, going back to Peter Bulkeley of County Cheshire, alive in 1390, and his wife Nicola, the daughter of Thomas le Bird. [1]

1. Bulkeley, Bulkeley Genealogy, 3–5.

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26. RANDALL GROSVENOR of Bellport, County Salop, was born about 1480 and died in 1559/60. He married Anne Charlton in 1500. [1][2]

Randall Grossvenor made his will on 23 February 1558/9; his inventory is dated 3 March 1559/60. He named his daughter Elizabeth Bulkeley and his son-in-law Thomas Bulkeley. [2]

27. ANNE CHARLTON, the daughter of Richard Charlton and Anne Mainwaring, was born about 1480. [1][2]

The post mortem on the estate of Randall Grosvenor's father refers to his son's wife as the daughter of Richard Charlton. [2] Richard Charten gave an indenture in 1500 at the marriage settlement of his daughter. [2]

1. Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 8th ed., 39.
2. John G. Hunt, "Piers de Gavaston: Ancestor of Bulkeley and Other American Families," The American Genealogist 35 (1950): 100–106.

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28. ANTHONY IRBY

29. ALICE BOUNTAYNE

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30. GUTHLAC OVERTON, the son of William Overton, was born about 1478. He died on 20 April 1536 in Clerkenwell. He married Olive Browne. [1]

31. OLIVE BROWNE, the daughter of Robert and Isabel (Browne) Sharpe of Walcott, Northamptonshire, between 19 December 1545, when she wrote her will, and 7 June 1546, when it was proved. [1]

Guthlac was a gentleman, royal auditor, solicitor and M.P. [1]

The inquisition post morton on his estate was held on 28 May 1537 in Boston. [1]

1. Clifford Stott, “In Search of Mr. Overton,” NEHGR 172 (2008), 231–5.

Generation Six

32. RICHARD WELBY died in 1465 and was buried in Moulton. [1] He married Joan Stynte or Joan Rochford. [1]

Richard Welby of Moulton (near Spalding), Lincolnshire wrote his will on 2 August 1465 and he added a codicil on 12 August; it was proved in 1465. [2][3]

After various charitable bequests, the will says, "The Residue of my goodis I put in disposicion of myn executours, which shall be Ionet my wiff, sir Iohn Welby, Richard Welby my sone, and sir Robert Swet — thei to dispose my goodis to the plesyng of god & to the helth of my soule." In the codicil he mentions his brother Sir John; his sons at Cambridge, his sons and home and his son Morys in London. He left his son Richard Wynthrop and its appurtenances and, if his wife chose not to stay in his house, Richard was to have all the lands and tenements in Moulton that he received from his father. He left bequests to his son Morys, his son John (who was possibly to be a priest), his sons Thomas, William, Robert, Roger. He also menteing his sister "haugh", his sister "Braunche." [3]

33. JOAN SYNTE or ROCHFORD died in 1488. [1]

1. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 55, 1313–5.
2. Alfred Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills ... 1280–1547 (Lincoln: James Williamson, 1888), 190–1.
3. "XVIII: Will, 1465, and Codicil of Richard Welby."

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34. SIR RICHARD LEAKE, KNIGHT

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40. RICHARD THIMBLEBY of Poolam was the son of Thomas Thimbleby and Unknown Billesby. [1] He died on 3 March 3 Henry VIII (1512). He married Elizabeth Hilton. [1]

Irnham Manor passed to the Thimblebys when Richard Thimbleby married Eliazabeth Hilton. [2]

Richard built Irnham manor. The fine Tudor-style house stood in a 250-acre deer park. Unfortunately, it burned down on 12 November 1887. [2]

The post mortem inquisition for Richard Thimbleby, Esq., taken at Horncastle on 5 October 1512, showed that Richard was seized of the manor of Parish-fee in Horncastre and a messuage and appurtenances in Horncastre called Fool-thyng. [2]

41. ELIZABETH HILTON was the daughter of Sir Godfrey Hilton, Knight

1. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52, 957–8
2. Walter, History of Horncastle, 22–24.

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42. JOHN BOYS

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44. SIR WILLIAM TYRWITT, KNIGHT was born on 1456. [1] He died on 9 April 12 Henry VIII (1522) and was buried in Lincoln Cathedral. [1][2] He married Anne Constable. [1][2]

William was "armiger de corpore" to King Richard III. On 3 December 2 Richard III (1489) Richard granded him the office of senechal of the lordship of Caistor in Lincolnshire for life. [1] It is believed that he received lands in Scotter near Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire from Richard III. [1]

At the accession of Henry VII he received a pardon. He received a knighthood for valor at the battle of Stoke near Newark, Nottinghamshire on 16 June 2 Henry VII (1487). He was made a banneret for valor at the battle against the "Commons of Cornwall" at Blackheath on 17 June 12 Henry VII (1497).

William was knighted in 1487 at Stoke. He was made a banneret in 1497 at Blackheath. [2]

The inscription on his momument says, "Here lyeth the body of Sir William Tirwhitt of / Ketilby, Knight Bannerett who mard ——, dr. / of Sir Robert Constable of Flamburghe, Knt. The which / Sir William Tirwhitt departed out of this present life / The IX of Aprill the year of our Lord God 1522."

45. ANNE CONSTABLE was the daughter of Sir Richard Constable, knight of Flamborough, co. Kent. [2]

William and Anne had children Philip (living in 1532), Sir Robert, Katherine (who married John Bolle), Agnes (or Anne, who married Thomas, third Lord Burgh of Gainsborough), Elizabeth (who married Sir William Skipworth). [2]

1. Tyrwhitt, Family of Tyrwhitt, 14–16.
2. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52, 1018–9.

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46. SIR ROBERT TAILBOYS, KNIGHT, LORD KYME was the son of William Tailboys. [1] He died on 30 January 1494/5. [2] He married Elizabeth Heron after 1467. [3] Robert and Elizabeth were ancestors of George Washington. [3]

47. ELIZABETH HERON was the daughter of Sir John Heron and Elizabeth Heron. [3]

Robert Tailboys was a member of parliament 1472–1478. [2]

Elizabeth's brother Roger Heron have the parish of Tailboys to Sir Robert after Robert married his sister. Later this parish would belong to Robert and Elizabeth's great-granddaugher Elizabeth Heron and she and her husband sold it Sir Robert and Elizabeth's son-in-law Sir Robert Tyrwitt. [1]

1. Baggs et al., "Parishes: Croydon cum Clopton."
2. Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 10.
3. Weiss and Sheppard, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 200.

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54. RICHARD CHARLTON, the son of Robert Charlton alias Knightley and Mary Corbet, was born say 1450. He died in 1522. [1] He married Anne Mainwaring. [1]

55. ANNE MAINWARING was the daughter of William Mainwaring of Ightfield, County Salop. [1]

1. Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 8th ed., 39.

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60. WILLIAM OVERTON, gentleman, was born before 1432. He died on 2 June 1487. He married Rose Unknown. [1]

William was possibly the son of Thomas Overton, a tax collector in Swineshead, Lincolnshire in 1434. His mother was named Cecily and she died in 1459/60. [1]

William's wife Rose was the granddaughter of John Pulter, a draper of Ives, Huntingdonshire. John died between 17 November 1452, when he wrote his will, and 17 November 1455, when it was proved. [1]

William's inquisition post mortem was held long after his death on 23 October 1522. [1]

1. Clifford Stott, “In Search of Mr. Overton,” NEHGR 172 (2008), 228–31.

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62. ROBERT BROWNE of Walcott, Northamptonshire.

63. ISABEL SHARPE

Generation Seven

80. THOMAS THIMBLEBY was the son of Thomas, Lord of the Manor of Poolam. [1] He married Unknown Billesby. [1]

81. UNKNOWN BILLESBY was the daughter and heiress of Sir William Billesby, knight of Bilsby. [1]

1. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52, 957–8.

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88. SIR ROBERT TYRWITT, KNIGHT of Kettleby died in 36 Henry VI (1457/8). [1][2] He married Jane Waterton. [1]

Robert received a general pardon in 34 Henry VI for all treasons and offenses he might have committed. [2]

He was possessed of three manors in Yorkshire, 16 manors in Lincolnshire and additional property in Nottinghamshire, Essex, Sussex and London. [2]

89. JANE WATERTON was the daughter of Sir Richard Waterton, knight of Methley, co. York. [1]

Children of Robert and Jane: Sir William and Jane. [1]

1. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52, 1018–9.
2 Tyrwhitt, Family of Tyrwhitt, 14.

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90. ROBERT CONSTABLE died in 1488. [1]

91. AGNES WENTWORTH died in 1496. [1]

1. Craig, "Lady Millicent's Cat."

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92. WILLIAM TAILBOYS was the son of Walter Tailboys. He was executed in 1464. [1]

William is believed to have owned land in Croyden at his forfeiture in 1461. [1]

1. Baggs et al., "Parishes: Croydon cum Clopton."

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94. SIR JOHN HERON, KNIGHT was born in 1415/8. He was slain at the Battle of Towton on 29 March 1461. [1] Sir John Heron of Ford married Elizabeth Heron in 1438. [2]

95. ELIZABETH HERON was the daughter of Sir William Heron and Anne Ogle. [1][2]

John was descended from a younger brother of Elizabeth's great-grandfather Sir Roger Heron. [2]

John Heron was sheriff of Northumberland. [1] He was a Lancastrian, and was killed and attainted in 1461. [2]

John and Elizabeth held Elizabeth's father's manor Tailboys, but after John was attainted it was granted in 1465 to Thomas Gray, esquire to Edward IV, with possession from 1462. John and Elizabeth's son Roger obtained a reversal of the attainder in 1472 and he gave Tailboys to his sister Elizabeth's husband Robert Tailboys. [2]

1. Weiss and Sheppard, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 200.
2. Baggs et al., "Parishes: Croydon cum Clopton."

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108. ROBERT CHARLTON alias KNIGHTLEY, the son of Thomas Charlton and Elizabeth Francis, was born before 1430. [1] He died after 1472. He married Mary Corbet. [1]

Robert was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1472. [2]

109. MARY CORBET, the daughter of Robert Corbet and Margaret Mallory, was born by 1430 and she died in 1471. [1]

1. Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 8th ed., 38–39.
2. Hunt, "Piers Gavaston."

121. CECILY ___

Generation Eight

160. THOMAS THIMBLEBY was the Lord of the Manor of Poolam in Edlington. [1]

1. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52, 957–8.1. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52, 957–8.

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176. ADAM TYRWITT married first Elizabeth Lumley. He married second the daughter of Sir William Newport, knight, of Kent. [1]

177. ELIZABETH LUMLEY was the daughter of Ralph, second Lord Lumley. [1]

Adam's first wife was his cousin [first cousin once removed], the daughter of Sir William Newport and Cecilia Tyrwitt, daughter of Sir William.

Chidlren of Adam and Elizabeth: Sir Robert. [1]

1. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52, 1018–9.

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182. ROGER WENTWORTH died about 1452. [1]

183. MARGERY DESPENCER married first John, Lord Roos. [1] He died in 1420. [1]

1. Craig, "Lady Millicent's Cat."

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184. WALTER TAILBOYS was the son of Walter Tailboys. He died in 1444.

Walter was named as lord of Croyden in 1428.

1. Baggs et al., "Parishes: Croydon cum Clopton."

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190. SIR WILLIAM HERON was the son of William Heron. [1] He was born about 8 November 1400. He died in September 1428. [ARC]

191. ANNE OGLE possibly married second Sir John Middleton. [2]

William's father died the year that William was born and the manor of Tailboys remained with his his grandfather's wife Margaret until she died in 1407. In 1401 she remarried John Blacket, who obtained wardship of William in 1407. When William died he left the manor to his daughter Elizabeth. [1]

1. Baggs et al., "Parishes: Croydon cum Clopton."
2. 1. Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 8th ed.

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216. THOMAS DE KNIGHTLEY DE CHARLTON, the son of Richard Knightley of Fawesley, co. Northampton and Anne de Charleton, was born on 30 March 1394 and died on 4 January 1460. He married Elizabeth Francis. [1]

217. ELIZABETH FRANCIS was the daughter of Sir Robert Francis (Franceys) of Foremark, co. Derby. [1]

1. Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 8th ed., 39.

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218. ROBERT CORBET, the son of Roger Corbet and Margaret Erdington, died in 1440. He married Margaret Mallory. [1] Robert and Margaret were the parents of Mary Corbet. [2][3]

219. MARGARET MALLORY died in 1438. [3] She was the daughter of Sir William Malllory, Knight of Shawbury. [1]

Robert was of Moreton Corbet. He was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1419. [2] He was the son of Robert Corbet and Margaret de Erdington. [2]

1. Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 8th ed., 38–39.
2. Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., "Joan Princess of Wales, Daughter of King John: Ancestress to Bulkeley, James, Mellowes, Welby, Whittingham, Haugh, and St.John—Whiting Families," The American Genealogist 35 (1959): 29–33.
3. Hunt, "Piers Gavaston."

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244 or 246. JOHN PULTER was a draper of St. Ives. [1] He was living in 1417. [1]

1. Stott, “In Search of Mr. Overton,”

Generation Nine

352. SIR WILLIAM TYRWITT, KNIGHT died in 29 Henry VI (1450). [1][2] He married Constance St. Quintin. [1]

William was a knight of the King's body guard in 1 Henry V and he was at the battle of Agincourt on 25 October 1415. [2]

On 31 July 1 Henry V (1412) he was appointed under the seal of the Duchy of Lancaster seneschal of various castles and parks in Lincolnshire. [2] In 8 Henry V (1420/1) he was given the captaincy of Mantes, near Rouen, and of Montjoy, St. Germaine-on-Laye and Poissy, all near Paris. [2]

He was M.P. for co. Lincoln in 14235. [1]

He founded the hospitals of Wrawby and Glandford Brigg in Lincolnshire, a chantry of the alter of the Trinity in Beverley Minister, co. York, and the chantry and chapelry of Higham, Essex. [2]

A hospital was founded at Glanford Bridge in Wrawby by Sir William Tyrwhitt in 1422 The foundation charter speaks of it as 'lately built' by Sir William, and it was dedicated to St. John Baptist. It was to provide maintenance for seven poor men living in the hospital, and two chaplains, of whom one was to be master; they were to pray continually for the souls of King Henry VI and the founder. [3]

"In 1441–2 Sir William Tyrwhitt founded a chantry of one chaplain in a chapel of St. Edward lately built by him at Higham; he granted to the chaplain the chapel, a house, and 4 a. of land at Higham." [4]

In 2 Henry VI (1423) he was knight of the shire for Lincolnshire. In 12 Henry VI (1435) he was sheriff of Yorkshire.

The Sir William Trywitt who built the Higham chapel in 1422 recieved the manor of Salisbury Hall in Higham from Thomas Ketelby in 1450. His [geat-granddson] Sir William Tyrwhitt held it in 1509. Sir William's son Sir Robert sold the manor to the crown in 1541. [5]

353. CONSTANCE ST. QUINTIN was the daughter of Sir Anselm St. Quintin, knight, of Brandsburton, co. York. [1]

Children of Sir William and Constance: Adam. [1]

1. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52, 1018–9.
2. Tyrwhitt, Family of Tyrwhitt, 13–14.
3. "Hospitals: Glanford Bridge or Wrawby," in A History of the County of Lincoln: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London: Victoria County History, 1906), 232. British History Online, accessed February 18, 2020, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lincs/vol2/p232b.
4. "Walthamstow: Churches," in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6, ed. W R Powell (London: Victoria County History, 1973), 285-294. British History Online, accessed February 18, 2020, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol6/pp285-294.
5. "Walthamstow: Manors ," in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6, ed. W R Powell (London: Victoria County History, 1973), 253-263. British History Online, accessed February 18, 2020, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol6/pp253-263.

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366. PHILIP LE DESPENCER (d. 1424)

367. ELIZABETH TYBOTOT

Philip Le Depsenser died in 1424. [1] He married Elizabeth Tybotot. [1] They were the parents of Margery Despenser. [1]

1. Craig, "Lady Millicent's Cat."

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368. WALTER TAILBOYS died in 1411. [1]

Walter was the son or grandson of William Tailboys, from a prominent Northumberland family. [1]

William acquired the manor of Tailboys by 1315 and was still lord of it in 1347. After his death, it passed to Sir William Heron of Ford (#1520). [1]

1. Baggs et al., "Parishes: Croydon cum Clopton."

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380. WILLIAM HERON was the son of Sir Roger Heron and his wife Margaret. He died in 1400. [1]

381. ISABEL SCOTT

William died in 1400, living a new-born son William. His father's manor Tailboys remained with his mother. [1]

1. Baggs et al., "Parishes: Croydon cum Clopton."

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382. SIR ROBERT OGLE was born between 1379 and 1383 and he died on 12 August 1436. He married Maud Grey about 21 May 1399. [1] Robert was the warden of Roxborough castle. [1]

383. MAUD GREY was living on 22 August 1451. [1]

1. 1. Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 8th ed.

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432. ROGER CORBET

433. MARGARET DE ERDINGTON

Roger Corbet , the son of Robert Corbet and Elizabeth Le Strange, died about 1394. [1] He married Margaret, the daughter of Sir Giles de Erdington of Shrewsbury. [1]

1. Sheppard, "Joan Princess of Wales, Daughter of King John."

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438. SIR WILLIAM MALLORY was born before 1386. [1] He was the son of Sir Anketil Mallory and Alice de Driby. [2] He died in 1445. [1][2] He married, perhaps second, Margaret ___. [1]

In 1425 he lived in Shelton, Bedfordshire or Papsworth, where his manor was on the border of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire. [1]

1. Hunt, "Piers Gavaston."
2. Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 8th ed., 24.

Generation Ten

704. ROBERT TYRWITT was buried at Bigby in a marble tomb, within a mile of Kettleby. He married Alice Kelke. [2]

Robert was justice of the King's bench in 1406, 1414, 1423. [2]

705. ALICE KELKE was the daughter of Sir Roger Kelke of Kelke, co. Kent. [2]

Children of Robert and Alice: Sir William and John of Harpswell. [2]

1. Tyrwhitt, Family of Tyrwhitt, 12.
2. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52, 1018–9.

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734. ROBERT, LORD TYBOTOT (d. 1372)

735. MARGARET DEINCORT (d. 1380)

Robert, Lord Tybotot died in 1372. [1] He married Margaret Deincourt. [1] She died in 1380. [1] She married second John Cheyne. [1] Robert and Margaret were the parents of ElizabethTybotot. 1]

1. Craig, "Lady Millicent's Cat."

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760. SIR ROGER HERON was the eldest son of Sir William Heron of Northmberland. He married Margaret Unknown.

Sir William Heron acquired the manor of Tailboys that had been acquired by William Tailboys in 1315 sometime between 1347 and 1364 and probably by 1354. When William died he left this manor and land at Croyden to his eldest son Sir Roger Heron. From 1389 to 1395 William Tailboy's grandson and heir Walter sued Sir Roger and his wife Margaret to regain the manor. Walter possibly regained some rights as his son Walter was lord of Croydon in 1428. The bulk of the manor remained with the Heron's however. [1]

1. Baggs et al., "Parishes: Croydon cum Clopton."

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766. SIR THOMAS GRAY of Wark married Joan de Mowbray. [ARC]

767. JOAN DE MOWBRAY [ARC]

1. Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 8th ed., 39.

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866. SIR GILES DE ERDINGTON

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872. ROBERT CORBET of Moreton Corbet was born in 1304 and he died in 1375. He married Elizabeth Le Strange by 1332. [1]

873. ELIZABETH LE STRANGE

1. Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 8th ed., 38–39.

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876. SIR ANKETIL MALORY died on 26 March 1393. [1]

877. ALICE DE DRIBY was born say 1350. [1] She died on 12 October 1412. [1] She married first Sir Ralf Bassett, Lord Bassett of Sapcote. [1] He died on 17 July 1738. [1] She married second Sir Robert Tochet, who died very soon after. [1] She married third Sir Anketil Malory of Kirby. [1]

Alicia Basset de Bytham made her will (in Latin) in April 1412; it was proved on 26 October 1412. [1] She mentions her husbands by name; her parents John and Anne Dryby, and her children, including William Maloree. [1] The original no longer exists; the copy was made long after her death and her mother's name might be read as Anne or Amie. [1]

The 1413 post mortem of Alicia Basset calls her "wid. Rad. Basset of Sapcote, vidua ___ Malory." [1]

1. Hunt, "Piers Gavaston."

Generation 11

1408. SIR WILLIAM TYRWITT, KNIGHT of Kettleby married Unknown Grovall. [1] He was his parents' second son. [2]

1409. UNKNOWN GROVALL was the daughter and heiress of John Grovall of Harpswell. [1]

Children of William and Unknown: Robert and Cecilia (who married Sir William Newport, knight, and became the Abbess of Ipswich after his death). [1]

1. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52, 1018–9.
2. Tyrwhitt, Family of Tyrwhitt, 5,6.

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1470. WILLIAM, LORD DEINCOURT died in 1364. [1] He married Millicent La Zouche. [1] They were the parents of Margaret Deincourt. [1]

1471. MILLICENT LA ZOUCHE died in 1379. [1]

1. Craig, "Lady Millicent's Cat."

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1520. SIR WILLIAM HERON of Ford died in 1379. [1]

Sir William Heron acquired the manor of Tailboys that had been acquired by William Tailboys in 1315 sometime between 1347 and 1364 and probably by 1354. When William died he left this manor and land at Croyden to his eldest son Sir Roger Heron. [1]

1. Baggs et al., "Parishes: Croydon cum Clopton."

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1534. JOHN DE MOBRAY, Fourth Lord Mobray, was born in 1340 and died in 1368. He married Elizabeth de Segrave abut 1349. [1]

1535. ELIZABETH DE SEGRAVE was born on 25 October 1338 and died about 1368. [1]

1. Weis et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 8th ed., 24.

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1730. FULKE LE STRANGE was summoned as Baron Strange of Blackmere in 1309, was born about 1267 and died before 23 January 1324/5. [1] He married Aelinor, the daughter of John, First Lord Giffard and Maud Clifford. [WLSJ] The were the parents of Elizabeth le Strange. [1]

"Baron Strange was a very important man, a field commander of the forces of Edward I and Edward II in Scotland and France, and serving four years as seneschal of the Duchy of Aquitaine. [1]

1731. AELINOR GIFFARD

1. Sheppard, "Joan Princess of Wales, Daughter of King John."

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1754. JOHN DE DRIBY

1755. AMY GAVASTON was born shortly after 6 January 1312. [1]

Hunt [1] argues that the Anne (Amy) who married John de Driby was Amy the daughter of Piers Gavaston.

1. Hunt, "Piers Gavaston."

Generation 12

2816. ROBERT TYRWITT of Kettleby was probably born about 1301. He was living in 1322. He married Agnes Wycliff. [1]

2817. AGNES WYCLIFF was the daughter of William Wycliff of Wycliff, co. York. [1]

Robert was probably 21 in 1322. [2]

Children of Robert and Agnes: Thomas (eldest son, born about 1337, and married the daughter of Alan de Burstwick), Sir William Tyrwitt [2]

1. Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 52, 1018–9.
2. Tyrwhitt, Family of Tyrwhitt, 5,6.

3510. PIERS GAVASTON was the son of of Sir Ernaud de Gavastan and his wife Clarmunda de Marsan et de Louvigny, known as Lady Marchia. He was executed on 19 June 1312. He married Margaret, the daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and his wife Joan de Acre, the king's sister.

Piers was a favorite of Edward II and was made Earl of Cornwall.

1. Hunt, "Piers Gavaston."

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2942. WILLIAM, LORD LA ZOUCHE (1276–1351/2) was born in 1276 and died in 1351/2. [1] He married Maud Lovel. [1] They were the parents of Millicent La Zouche. [1]

2943. MAUD LOVEL died before 1346. [1]

1. Craig, "Lady Millicent's Cat."

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3494. SIR JOHN GIFFARD, FIRST BARON GIFFARD was born about 1232. [1] He summoned as a baron in 1295, and died on 29 May 1299. [1] He married first Maud Cliffard. [1] He married second Margaret, widow of Sir John de Nevill. [WLSJ]

3495. MAUD CLIFFORD married first William Longspee III, Earl of Salisbury, who died in 1257. [1] She married second Sir Gohn Giffard of Brimsfield, First Baron Giffard. [1] She died between 1282 and 1285. [1]

1. Sheppard, "Joan Princess of Wales, Daughter of King John."

Generation 13

5884. EUDO LA ZOUCHE died in 1279. [1] He married as her second husband Millicent Cantilupe. [1] Eudo and Millicent were the parents of William, Lord La Zouche. [1]

5885. MILLICENT CANTILUPE died in 1298/9. [1] She married first John de Monte Alto. [1] He died vefore 1260.

1. Craig, "Lady Millicent's Cat."

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6988. WALTER DE CLIFFORD died in 1263. [1]

6989. MARGARET OF WALES married first John de Braose about 1219. [1] He died in 1231/2 and Margaret married second, after 1233, Walter de Clifford of Clifford Castle in Herefordshire. [1] He

Walter de Clifford and Margaret of Wales were the parents of Maud Clifford. [1]

1. Sheppard, "Joan Princess of Wales, Daughter of King John."

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7070. SIR ERNAUD DE GAVASTAN

7071. CLARMUNDA DE MARSAN ET DE LOUVIGNY

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7072. GILBERT DE CLARE, EARL OF GLOUCESTER

7073. JOAN DE ACRE was the daughter of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile.

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Generation 14

11,770. WILLIAM CANTILUPE died in 1254. [1] He married Eve De Briouse. [1] They were the parents of Millicent Cantilupe. [1]

11,771. EVE DE BRIOUSE

1. Craig, "Lady Millicent's Cat."

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13,978. LLEWELLYN AP IORWERTH, Prince of Wales

13,979. JOAN OF WALES was the illegitimate daughter of King John. [1] She was betrothed to the Prince of Wales by 15 October 1204. [1] She was legitimized by Pope Honorius III in April 1226. [1] She died on 30 May 1236 or in February 1237. [1]

Llewellyn ap Iorwerth and Joan were the parents of Margaret of Wales. [1]

1. Sheppard, "Joan Princess of Wales, Daughter of King John."

Generation 15

27, 956. JOHN, KING OF ENGLAND (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216), son of Henry II (1133–1189) and Eleanor of Aquitaine

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