The Yelverton Family of Norfolk and the Catesby Family of Warwickshire, and
Other Families Connected by Marriage
Connections to the ancient families of Yelverton and Catesby commence with Michael Gregory’s 12 th great grandmother,
Catherine Yelverton, who was married to Sir John Bowyer of Knypersley1. She was born in 1572 in Easton Maudit,
Northamptonshire, one of 12 children of Sir Christopher Yelverton and his wife Mary Catesby. Mary Catesby was born in 1543
in Whiston, Northamptonshire. She and Sir Christopher were married in 1573. She died in 1611.
The parents of Mary Catesby were Thomas Catesby (b. ca 1526 in Whiston, Northant’s and Isabella Tresham, the daughter of Sir
Thomas Tresham of Whiston2. Thomas Catesby’s father was Anthony Catesby (b.1500); his grandfather was called Humphrey
Catesby (b.1454) and his great grandfather was Sir John Catesby, a Judge of Common Pleas. Sir John was married to Elizabeth
Green of Bridgenorth, Shropshire. Elizabeth and Sir John married in 1455. Sir John Catesby was born in 1433 and died in 1468.
His father was Edmund Catesby (b.1406; d.1474). Edmund had a brother, John Catesby, of Althorp.
The father of Edmund was John Catesby who was born in 1378. He married Margaret (als. Rose) Mountford, the daughter of
William Mountford and Agneta Holt (the daughter of John Holt). William Mountford’s father was Richard Mountford who was
married to Rose, the daughter of Hugh de Brandeston and Sybil. Hugh’s father was also called Hugh and his grandfather was
Radus de Brandeston, the Lord of Brandeston in Leicestershire.
As the attached pedigree illustrates, the Catesby line can be traced back from John Catesby who was born in 1378 a further eight
generations to the earliest known ancestor in this line who was Philip de Catesby, born ca 1085 in Ashby St Ledger. Philip’s
descendants and direct ancestors of Michael Gregory married into a number of families which may offer opportunities for further
research, including John Catesby who was married to Isabel Ladbrooke (the daughter of Henry Ladbrooke) in 1321; William
Catesby (b. ca 1323) who married Joanne Radborne (the daughter of William Radborne) in 1347 and John Catesby who married
Emma, the daughter of Robert Crawford of Ashby St Ledger in 1375.
Attention can now be turned to the Yelverton family. Sir Christopher Yelverton was Michael Gregory’s 13th great grandfather.
He was born in 1537 in Easton Maudit. He died between 1607-12. A portrait of him can be found in the National Portrait
Gallery by the artist Robert Dunkerton (see left). The following abstract is from a booklet
(date of publication unknown) entitled “A Complete History of the Yelverton Family Since
the Reign of Edward II” [ pub. Abel Heywood, Manchester].
“Christopher Yelverton, after his school and university education,
was entered a student at Grey’s Inn, where he was noted for his
general talents and learning. While a student he wrote the epilogue
of a play translated from Euripides called “Jocasta”. He was a most
eminent counsel; and in 1573 and 1582 was Lent Reader at Grey’s Inn,
and elected treasurer of the society in the 21st and 27th of Elizabeth.
In the 31st of Elizabeth (1588-89), he was called to the Degree of
Sergeant-at-Law, being in the same year constituted Queen’s Sergeant.
He sat in Parliament for Brackley and Northampton, a great number of
years, and was also one of the Knights of the Shire for the County of
Northampton, in two Parliaments. So well was he thought of, that in
the 39th of Elizabeth (1597), he was chosen Speaker of the House of
Commons. The year after, his patent of Queen’s Serjeant was renewed.
On 8th February 1602, he was made Puisne Judge of the King’s Bench and
had, as such, his patent renewed by James I on his accession to the
throne; and that King, in addition, knighted him at Whitehall, 23 July 1603. He died at
his seat at Easton Maudit in 1607 (his eldest son, Henry Yelverton, succeeding him)”.
The House of Lord Journal3 records the election of Sir Christopher as Speaker of the House of Commons:
In the presence of the Queen [Elizabeth I]:
Serjeant Yelverton, Speaker of the House of Commons, presented.
“This day, Mr Serjeant Yelverton, being chosen Prolocutor, or Speaker, of the Lower
House, was by divers of the Knights and Burgesses, brought up into the Higher House, and
presented to Her Majesty, and the House, by the hands of Sir William Knollis, Comptroller
of Her Majesty’s Household and Sir John Fortescue, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, by a
speech full of gravity and modesty, signifying the accomplishment of the duty of the
Lower House, in making an election, but excusing himself by pretence of many disabilities
and imperfections, and wishing earnestly that he were of sufficiency to perform the duty
See: Gregory, M.P., (2006), “The Bowyer Family of Knypersley”, Personal Family History Report.
See: Gregory, M.P., (2006), “The Tresham Family of Northamptonshire”, Personal Family History Record.
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House of Lords Journal, Volume 2: 27 October 1597, Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 2, 1578-1614 (1802),
pp.192-3.
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of that place, made humble suit to Her Majesty, that he might be discharged; and that the
Lower House might proceed to a new election:
which excuse not being allowed by Her
Majesty (as the Lord Keeper delivered by answer), and the choice of the said Mr Yelverton
being by Her Majesty very well approved, and his sufficiency much commended, he then
proceeded, in another speech (according to the Manner), to undertake that charge and
place, and to present unto Her Majesty, in the behalf of the Lower House, certain humble
petitions, for access unto Her Majesty, in the behalf of the said house, upon needful
occasions, and for the using and enjoying of such liberties and privileges as in former
times had been granted allowed by Her Majesty’s proprietors and herself; whereunto, Her
Majesty making answer (by the mouth of the Lord Keeper) did yield her gracious assent,
with admonition that the said liberties and privileges should be discreetly and widely
used, as was meet”.
The father of Sir Christopher Yelverton was William IV Yelverton. He was born ca 1490 at Rougham, Norfolk. He married
Anne, the daughter of Sir Henry Fermour, a Knight of East Barham, Norfolk. William IV was the eldest of two sons. His
brother was John Yelverton. He also had sisters: Susan, Mary and Eleanor. William IV had five sons: Henry, William,
Christopher (Michael Gregory’s ancestor), Humphrey and Launcelot; as well as a number of daughters. He lived to a good age
and died on 12 August, 1585, seisen of no fewer than 10 Manors, with significant landholdings in Norfolk, all of which
descended to his first-born son, Henry, then in his 59th year
of age. A brass rubbing of him and his first wife is shown
left.
The father of William IV was also called William (III)
Yelverton. He was born ca 1490 and died in 1541. By his
will, he appointed that his body should be buried in the
Church of Our Lady at Rougham, and ordered that his
executors should give to the poor people at his funeral, as
much money as they might think necessary. He also ordered
that they should make restitution to all persons they think he
had wronged. William III Yelverton married Margaret
Gernon in London in 1515. His father was William II
Yelverton. In 1474-75, this William Yelverton was retained
by indenture to attend the King in person, in his wars in
France, with two men at arms and four archers. Even at this
early period, therefore, the family must have been, as
commoners, financially well off, or he could not have
maintained six followers. It appears that he married, firstly,
Anne, daughter of John Paston, of Paston in the County of
Norfolk, by whom he had issue one son William (who died
without issue) and three daughters. He married again to the
ancestor of Michael Gregory, Eleanor, daughter of Thomas
Brewse, Knight. William and Eleanor had William II
referred to above, who succeeded to the estates at Rackheath
and Rougham.
The father of William was John Yelverton, of Rackheath.
He was born around 1412. He married Margery, the
daughter of William Morley. Margery survived to a good
old age, outliving both her husband and her son. She died in 1503. Describing herself as Margery Yelverton of Norwich, widow,
in her will dated 4 June 1501, she ordered that her body should be buried in the Friars St Austins, near Norwich, near unto the
body of John Yelverton, late her husband, and bequeathed £4 to the Parish Church of Castle St Edmund’s. She was a benefactor
to the reparation of several churches, and gave ten marks to her son, John, who was a monk. She also willed her Manor of Castle
St Edmund’s, and all lands and tenements within the same, together with Markeshall, to Richard Walter, her son-in-law, for
seventeen years, to pay her debts and legacies, and after to William Yelverton, son and heir to William Yelverton, lately
deceased, and in default, to Amy Yelverton, sister to the said William.
John Yelverton’s parents were Sir William Yelverton (b. ca 1386 at Rackheath, Norfolk) and his first wife, Joane Gross (b. ca
1411), the daughter of Sir Oliver Gross. Sir William was the second son of his parents. He became the Burgess of Yarmouth in
1435-36, in the Parliament at Westminster. He was a barrister by profession and gained an eminent reputation, such that, shortly
afterwards (1439-40) he was elected to the degree of Serjeant-at-Law. On 6 February 1444, he was made a Puisne Judge of the
Court of King’s Bench. Edward IV kept him in that appointment, and at the coronation of King Edward IV, he was made a
Knight of the Bath, on 26 June 1461. By patent bearing the date 9 October 1470, he was constituted one of the Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas. He lies buried at Rougham, where, according to Weaver’s Fn. Mon., page 821, the following epitaph
remains to his memory: “Orate pro animabus Will. Yelverton, Militis, et quandum Justic. Dom Regis de suo Banco et Dominae
Agnetis uxoris suae, qui quidem willis obiit”. The Agnes referred to is his second wife, Agnes Campe. She also was previously
married, to John Rands. She was the sister of Richard Campe. She survived her husband, dying in 1489. She was a staunch
Catholic. She was, of course, not a direct ancestor of Michael Gregory. Nonetheless, her will provides some genealogical clues.
Her will was dated 3 November 1489. She orders her body to be buried in Rougham Church, before the image of our lady there,
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besides the sepulchure of Sir William Yelverton, late her husband; and that her executors buy for the said church, a chesible and
a cope of the price of 20 marks, as also a basin for a lamp to hang in before the sacraments in the said chancel. And that they
suffer the brotherhood and sisterhood of the fraternity of Christ’s resurrection, founded in the said church of Rougham, to receive
yearly the revenues of her messuages, and appurtenances belonging to the same, in Buknam’s, to keep her obiit yearly and pray
for her soul, her husband’s soul, and all Christian souls. She bequeaths to the altar where her former husband John Rands, lieth
buried, in the Parish of Berking, one chalice of silver, weighing 18oz.; and to the Church of St Peter in Brentwood, Essex,
another chalice of like weight, and two altar cloths. She further orders that five marks, bequeathed to her by her mother, and in
the hands of Richard Campe, her brother, be disposed of to the said church of St Peter, for the souls of her father and mother, and
that Ralph Parmer, her priest, sing for her soul, the souls of her husbands, for those of her father and mother, and for all Christian
souls for the space of two years, and to have for his salary eight marks. She also bequeathed to William Yelverton, her godson,
the stuff of her chamber when he cometh to twenty-one years of age.
The father of Sir William Yelverton was John Yelverton of Rackheath, Norfolk. John was born ca 1355 and died on 4 December
1408. He had a son, Robert, by his first wife, who succeeded to the estate. His second wife, and the ancestor of Michael
Gregory, was Elizabeth Read, the daughter of John Read, of Rougham. She was the mother of Sir William Yelverton.
John Yelverton’s parents were Robert Yelverton (b.1327) and Cycely (Cecelia) Bardolfe, the daughter of Sir Thomas Bardolfe,
Knight, a descendant of the ancient family of the Bardolphs (or Bardolfs), Barons of England. Indeed, Cycely’s ancestry can be
traced back to the ancient families of Agnillon, Ferrers and to Sir William, Earl Marshall of England, through the latter’s
daughter, Sybil Marshall.
There is considerable scope for further research on the Yelverton, Catesby and related families.
Detailed research on the Catesby family of Ashby St Ledger was carried out by members of the Monumental Brass Society and
others4, and this has been drawn upon to provide a summary below of the Catesby ancestors of Michael Gregory. The study of
brasses is sometimes of crucial importance, not only to the commemoration of the deceased, but to the legitimation by which
families drew attention to their status and affirmed their position in the elite.
In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Catesby’s were involved in the turbulence of English politics and therefore have a footnote in
British history.
According to a tradition, preserved in the Visitation Records of the Heralds, the Catesby’s are descended from the ancient
knightly family of de Esseby. According to Payling, however, this was a fiction to disguise much more modest origins. The
founder of the family, Jon de Hul (d.1323) of Fleckenoe in Warwickshire, appears to have been of peasant stock, although he
prospered enough to marry the daughter of the Lord of the nearby manor of Ladbroke. Their son, William, adopted the name of
Catesby, which implies the origins of the family in the village of Catesby, two miles south of Flecknoe. He built substantially on
the foundations of his father, acquiring by piecemeal purchase an estate concentrated in East Warwickshire (with major holdings
in Coventry) and taking an important place in the affairs of that County.
He represented in at least six Parliaments between 1339 and 1365, an exceptional record for one newly established among the
County gentry. The source of this success is difficult to determine, although it is clear he had a connection with the Royal
Household, as also did his two most notable 15th century successors. By his death in 1383, his son John was already a man of
independent influence. The younger man was a lawyer attached, most notably to the service of Edward III’s son, the Black
Prince, for whom he acted as Steward of Coventry. After the Prince’s death, he attracted the patronage of another Lord whose
interests were much more local to his own, namely Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. This was to bring to the Catesby’s the
first taste of the dangers of service to the great in the disturbed conditions of late medieval England. In August 1397 Beauchamp
was in custody awaiting trial for treason. The Crown ordered the seizure of goods of his leading supporters, among whom was
John Catesby. However, the family remained unscathed.
John Married Emma Cranford in about 1380 (see image of a brass rubbing of the pair on the next page). Her lands, according to
a value drawn up in 1386, brought the total value of the Catesby patrimony to about £125 per annum, and with this extension of
the estate came a slight realignment of the family’s interests. Her principal property was the manor of Ashby St Ledger, worth, at
some £30 per annum, more than any of the older Catesby properties. Its acquisition caused John to abandon Ladbroke, a few
miles to the south-west, for Ashby as his principal residence. On his late death in 1404 or 1405 he was the first of all the
Catesby’s to be buried there (see image of a brass rubbing of John Catesby on page 10). John was not a fighting man. He was
more of an administrator, and this is the possible explanation why in his memorial he is dressed in civilan attire rather than
wearing military armour.
Bertram, J., [Ed.], (2006), “The Catesby Family and Their Brasses at Ashby St Ledgers”, Members of Monumental
Brass Society (MBS) & Others, MBS, ISBN 0954327136.
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Brass rubbing of the memorial of John Catesby
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John’s younger son and eventual heir (he succeeded to the estates following the death of his elder brother William in 1407/8,
another John, was Michael Gregory’s direct ancestor. This John was a lawyer. Biographical details are available about his life5.
In 1412 he joined his mother in securing from the Crown a grant indicative of the family’s rising status, one of free warren in
their demesne lands in Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. By 1417 he was in receipt of a fee from the son and heir of his
father’s patron, Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and he probably had the earl to thank, at least in part, for the advantageous
marriage he contracted about this time. His bride, Margaret Mountford, a young widow and heiress from a family long
associated with the Beauchamps, brought him two manors in Warwickshire at Lapworth and Grandborough. These new
acquisitions, combined with this connection with Beauchamp, might have tipped the family’s centre of political gravity back to
that County. Yet John’s public career was largely played out in Northamptonshire. Furthermore, he invested in strengthening the
family’s ties with Ashby. In the late 1420’s he purchased the nearby manor of Althorp, and soon after he bought a subsidiary
manor in Ashby from John Stokes. More interestingly, he commissioned new bells for the church. In 1429 he brought an action
in the Court of King’s Bench against a Leicester bell-maker, William Noble, claiming that the defendant had defaulted in a
contract to make three bells, weighing a total of 6,000 lbs for the church of Ashby. This strengthens the architectural evidence
that it was he who was responsible for the church’s rebuilding.
In 1417, John II was appointed a Justice of the Peace in Warwickshire. Five years later he was appointed to a similar position in
Northamptonshire. From the 1420s he served as a justice in one or other of these counties until his death. On two occasions, in
1425 and 1429, he was elected a knight of the shire (MP) for Northamptonshire. Like his father, John II almost certainly had the
benefit of a lawyer’s training. Again like his father, he developed close ties with the Earl of Warwick, in this generation Earl
Richard, whose retainer he was. His standing with local society is indicated by his marriage into the Mountforts, one of the
richest families of Warwickshire.
There is much that can still be learned about the Catesby and associated families.
Date of Report:
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17 March 2007
Driver, J.T., (1998), “The Career of John Catesby”, Northamptonshire Past & Present, Ii, pp.7-14.
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THE VISITATIONS OF NORFOLK, 1563, 1589 AND 1613 SHOWING THE PEDIGREE OF THE
YELVERTON FAMILY AND THE VISITATION OF WARWICKSHIRE (Pub 1877, HARLEIAN
SOCIETY) DETAILING THE PEDIGREE OF THE CATESBY FAMILY OF NORTHAMPTON
AND COVENTRY
See: Ferrers Family History Report
Thomas Yelverton = Maud
b.1281 (Rackheath)
Andrew Yelverton
b. ca 1307 (Rackheath)
d.1377
Robert Yelverton
b.1327 (Rackheath)
(1) [--?---]
=
John Yelverton
b. ca 1417
(Rackheath)
= Cycely Bardolfe
b.1333
m.1354
Amy
Thomas Bardolfe
b.1282 (Walton at Stone,
Hert’s)
d. 15 Dec 1328
bur. Shelford Priory
Sir William Yelverton
b. ca 1386 (Rackheath)
d. ca 1470
Judge of the King’s
Bench
Heir to his cousin,
Thomas Yelverton
= Margery Morley
d.1503
=
Agnes de Grandson
m. On the Lake,
Neuchatel
Switzerland
John Read = [---?---]
of Rougham
John Yelverton
= (2) Elizabeth Read
b.ca 1355 (Rackheath)
m.1385
d. 4 Dec 1408
d. ca 1434
John Yelverton
A Monk
=
= [?]
(1) Jane Gross
b. ca 1411
= [-?-]
= Eleanor Brewse
m. ca 1480 (Essex)
John Catesby
Nicholas Catesby
John Randes
b.1429
=
William IV Yelverton
=
b. ca 1520 (Rougham)
d. 12 Aug 1585 (Norfolk)
Susan = Edward Eston
Mary = William Baker
Eleanor = Richard Draper
= [-?-]
Henry Fermour
b. ca 1500 (Rougham)
(1) Anne Fermour
b. ca 1512
(Rougham)
m. ca 1531
(Rougham)
Wliiam de Catesby = [---?---]
Randulphus de Catesby
dispensator Huguos
Cestriae & D’ns do
Coventry
Henry Ladbrooke = [-?-]
b.1278
=
= Joanne Radborne
=
Hugh de Brandeston
Dom de Brandeston
& Lapwith, com Wark’s
Richard Mountford
Emma Cranford
of Ashby St Ledger
m. ca 1375
= [-?-]
=
Sir John Catesby
Justice of the
Common Pleas
b. 1433
d. 1468
See Bowyer Family
History Report &
Genealogy Chart No 13
Sir John Bowyer
Of Knypersley
=
=
Mary Catesby
b.1543 (Whiston)
m. ca 1573
d.1611
Catherine Yelverton
b. ca 1572 (Easton Maudit)
[---?---]
= Sybil
Agnes = Philip Alesbury
de Edston
=
= Agneta Holt
dau of John Holt
Hellena = Richard Merebank
Walter Green = Elizabeth Warner
b. ca 1410
b. ca 1414 (Bridgenorth)
Eusbius Catesby
Isabel Wyburg Piggott
Isabelle Tresham
dau of Sir Thomas Tresham
of Whston
= Anne, dau of
Edward Seiton
Edmund Catesby = Anne, dau of
Thomas Hasillrigge
Michael Catesby = Anne, dau of
Jacob Osborne
See Tresham Family
History Report and
Genealogy Chart No 14
Sir Christopher Yelverton
b.1537 (Easton Maudit)
d. ca 1607
Justice of the King’s Bench
Speaker of the
House of Commons
=
= Elizabeth Green
of Bridgenorth, Shropshire
m. 1455
Humphrey Catesby = [-?-] Marriott
of Whiston
b. ca 1454
Thomas Catesby
=
b. ca 1526 (Whiston,
Northant’s)
William Yelverton
b.1544
Humphrey Yelverton
b.1549
Winifred
b.1553
Frances
b.1558
Rose
William Mountford
John Catesby of Althorp
Anthony Catesby
b. ca 1500 (Whiston)
Henry Yelverton
b. ca 1533
Martha
b. 1540
Launcelot Yelverton
b. 1551
Anne
b. 1553
Radus de Bradeston = [---?--]
Dom de Brandeston
in com Leicester
Robert Cranford = Margaret Watford
Margaret
John Yelverton
William de Catesby
Phillip de Catesby
Founder of the Abbey of Catesby
William Rodbourne = [?] Hugh de Brandeston
of Arden
John Catesby = Margaret (Rose) Mountford
b. ca 1378
m. ca 1401
d. 4 Jun 1437
Edmund Catesby
b.1406 (Whiston)
d.1474
William III Yelverton = Margaret Gernon
b. ca 1490 (Rougham)
m. 1515 (London)
d. 1541
= [---?---]
William de Catesby
b. ca 1323
(Wark’s)
Reinold Catesby
= (2) Agnes de Campe
Sister of Richard de Campe
Philip de Catesby
= [?]
b. ca 1085 (Ashby St Ledger)
Simon de Catesby = [---?---]
b.1209 (Coventry)
John Catesby = Isabel Ladbrooke
b.1304
m.1321
William II Yelverton = Katherine Randes
b. ca 1458
b.1455 (Essex)
(Rackheath, Norfolk)
d. 18 Apr 1491
(2) Jane Lockett
Joan de Ferrers
m.1252
Reginald de Catesby = [?]
b.1242 (Catesby)
Simon Catesby
b.1273 (Coventry)
Sir Oliver Gross
Sir Thomas Brewse
Sir William Yelverton
d. bef 1503
John Yelverton
Thomas Yelverton
Nicholas Yelverton
Edward Yelverton
=
Hugh Bardolf = Isabel Agnillon
b.25 Mar 1258 (Addington, Surrey)
m.1281
= [?] Bozun
Robert Yelverton
Succeeded to the estate
See Marshall Family History Report
William Ferrers = Sybil Marshall
Robert Agnillon
b.1226 (Walton at Stone, Herts)
Genealogy
Chart No 14
Richard Catesby
Thomas Catesby
Elizabeth
b. 1570
Anne = (1) [?] Sherlock of Suffolk
b.1574
(2) Sir Edward Crockett
Judith
b.1578
Judith
b.1584
Mary = Sir William Gardiner of Rougham
Christopher Yelverton
b.1576
Isobel
b.1578
Elizabeth
b.1580
Henry Yelverton
b. 19 Jun 1566
William Glegg = Hannah Bowyer
of Gayton
b.ca 1600
b. 1589
d. 20 Sep 1670
d. 15 Dec 1644
See Glegg(e) Pedigree and Genealogy Chart No 12
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GLEGGE PEDIGREE
WILLIAM GLEGG of Caldey = HANNAH, daughter of Sir John
Grange, esq. aged upwards
Bowyer of Knipersley, co.
of 24 years at the Visitation
Stafford, [married in or about
th
of 1613, died 15 Dec.
Nov 14 Jac. 1.,] died 20th
1644, aged 57 years, buried
Sept. 1670, buried at West
at West Kirby.
Kirby, aged 70 years.
HESTER
GLEGG.
HANNAH, only daugh. = JOHN GLEGG of
Obiit Sept 19, 1729,
Tranmore, gent.
Bur. At West Kirby,
3d son, living
a aet. 41 Had iss.
1703
ROGER = MARTHA,
GLEGG. daughter
of ….
Moss,
Obiit Sept.
2, 1697
ALICE,
wife of
George Bennet
of Greaseby
ANNE, only = EDWARD GLEGG = MARGARET, dau.
daughter of
of Caldey
William Glegg
Roger
Grange, esq.
of Gayton, esq by
Lowndes of
aged 42 at the
Cicely, daughter
Overton
Visitation of
to Robert Sephton
co. Cest.
1664, born 1622,
of Mollington,
Obiit June
married Anne,
[gent., not]
5, 1675
dau. of …
esq., sister and coaged 51
Thelwall, esq.
heir to Thomas
years.
3d. wife, who
Sephton. 1st wife
died s.p.
JANE, daughter of John Scorer = EDWARD GLEGG of Irby,
Of Westminster, gent. Buried
esq. 2d son, obiit Dec
at Thurstanston, Mar 7, 1720
15, 1703, a aetat. 45;
a aet 46
buried at Thurstanston
ANNE, wife of the
Rev John Urmson
of Neston, ob. Feb.
6, 1769, aged 61
JOHN.
GILBERT, [living
14 Jac. 1.]
EDWARD.
ARTHUR [living
14 Jac. 1.]
PRUDENCE,
SILENCE,
Died young
ROGER, died
unmarried
Decem. 7,
1777
JOHN GLEGG of = FRANCES, eldest dau
Irby, esq. Eldest
of Henry Birkenhead
son and heir, ob.
Of Backford, and coMay 14, 1768
heiress of her uncle
Vide Backford
Thomas Birkenhead
GLEGGS of
Backford
DEBORAH, 2d dau. And coheiress = WILLIAM GLEGG of Grange, esq
of Henry Birkenhead of Backford
baptized at West Kirby, Dec 28,
Esq re-married to Lt Colonel
1704, died Dec 21, 1739, without
Charles Crosbie, o.s.p.
surviving issue
FRANCES, daugh. of = WILLIAM GLEGG, esq. only son = SIDNEY, dau of …
Thomas Jennings,
and heir, who sold the estate
Lloyd, living at Parkgate,
1st wife
1814
HANNAH
GLEGG, bur.
at West
Kirkby
Aug. 2
1663.
A daughter,
and four
younger
sons
WILLIAM GLEGG of = ?….
Grange, esq. son
dau of
and heir, aged 11
….
years 1664.
EDWARD GLEGG of = ELIZ, dau
Caldey Grange, esq.
and heiress
obiit Aug 4, 1714,
of John
aged 33 years, buried
Kent of
at West Kirby
Tranmore
EDWARD GLEGG,
baptized at West
Kirby, July 1706,
o.s.p.
MARY.
FRANCES.
MARGARET
GLEGG
MARGARET,
wife of …
Becket,
buried at
Haselwall,
1715
JOHN GLEGG = MARY, dau
of Grange, esq.
… Carr of
born 1712, ob.
Liverpool
April 23, 1749
ob. Feb 28,
1758, aet 39
MARGARET, obiit
Nov. 2, 1749
ABIGAIL,
bapt. 1708
SILENCE
bapt. 1710
CATHERINE,
obiit, March 1746
See below
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The Glegge Family (Ancestors of Michael Gregory)
Sidney Lloyd
b. 1752/53
m. 1774
d. 27 Mar 1822
bur Neston
Admon. 1822
=
William Glegge
b. ca 1750
d. 1785
=
Frances Jennings
Emily
b. 1775
d. 20 Feb 1843 (Cheshire)
Thomas Glegge
b. ca 1775
Mariner (1800)
Mariner (1806)
d. 4 Feb 1818
=
Catherine Davies
Francis Glegge
dau of Wm Davies
d. By 1851?
(Ropemaker)
b. 1777 (St John’s Liverpool)
m. Nov 1793
d. 4 Nov 1859
Living at Elm Terrace
Tranmere (1851) Proprietor of Houses
Thomas Glegge
b. 1800 (Liverpool)
Master Mariner
d. 18 Aug 1848
=
Mary Miller
b. 1808 (Liverpool)
Living 5 Osborne
Terrace Liverpool
(1851)
William Glegge
Emily
b. 1838 (Liverpool)
b. 1834 (Liverpool)
Living at 5 Osborne
Living at 5 Osborne
Terrace, Liverpool (1851) Terrace, Liverpool
(1851)
Mary Glegge =
b. 22 May 1806
m. 3 Jan 1828
d. 7 Jan 1885
Frances
William
Humphrey Thomas
b. 1 Jan 1807
m. 3 Jan 1828
d. 13 Jan 1877
Thomas Glegge Thomas
architect
b. 11 Jun 1829
Tranmere, Cheshire
d. 18 Nov 1881
Tranmere (age 52)
=
[-?-]
[-?-]
William
b. 12 July 1803
d. By 1836?
Eliza Catherine George
b. 9 Sep 1826
m. 25 Sep 1851
Walton on the Hill
Lancashire
See Below
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Line of Descent from Thomas Glegge Thomas to Michael Gregory
THOMAS GLEGGE THOMAS
b. 11 Jun 1829
Architect
RALPH ABRAHAM BLAKE
Shopkeeper
b. 1854
= MARY CATHERINE THOMAS
b. 30 Oct 1853 Tranmere
bp. 13 Jul 1854
St Nicholas’ Church, Liverpool
m. 11 May 1878
See Blake Family History
Report and Genealogy Chart
No 8
=
GEORGE THOMAS
b. 1 Nov 1855 Tranmere
ALFRED THOMAS
b. ca 1856
TYSILIO THOMAS
b. ca 1857-60
WILLIAM ARTHUR
THOMAS
b. ca 1858
ELISA CATHERINE GEORGE
b. 9 Sep 1828
m. 25 Sep 1851
Walton-on-the-Hill
Lancashire
HENRY THOMAS
ELIZA
GLEGGE THOMAS
b. 14 Apr 1865
b. 1 Nov 1855 (Tranmere)
MARTHA EMILY
Tranmere
b. ca 1862
WILLIAM ARTHUR THOMAS
Tranmere
b. 20 Jan 1871
Tranmere
WALTER AUBREY THOMAS = MAUD PARIS
b. 14 Dec 1863
b. ca 1868 (Chester)
Architect (1881)
d. aged 75 (?) in 1934
FREDERICK JOHN HALL GREGORY
b. 29 Oct 1884
Glen Parva Barracks, Leicester
=
FREDERICK WILLIAM GREGORY
Colchester
b. 25 Dec 1906 Colchester
d. 1 March 1975 Blackburn
=
ANNIE BLAKE
b. 8 Apr 1886 in Mold, Clwyd
m. 5 Nov 1906 St James RC
Church, Colchester
MARGARET MARY O’NEILL
m. 26 December 1929, St Chad’s Church,
Cheetham Hill, Manchester
d. 10 July 1989 in Wigan
DORRIT M
b. ca 1890 (Neston)
HUMPHREY THOMAS
b. ca 1897 (Neston)
LOUISA E THOMAS
b. ca 1888 (Neston)
WINSOME
b. ca 1890
AUBREY
b. after 1881
d. 30 Nov 1945
EDWARD THOMAS
b. ca 1892 (Neston)
OLIVER G THOMAS
b. ca 1895 (Neston)
WALTER G THOMAS
b. ca 1887 (Birkenhead)
WINIFRED C THOMAS
b. ca 1894 (Neston)
GLEGGE THOMAS
b. after 1881
See O’Neill Family
History Report and Genealogy Chart No 3
MALCOLM PETER GREGORY
b. 26 February 1935
Hayfield, Manchester
Blackburn
d. 2001 Blackburn
MICHAEL PETER GREGORY
=
BERNADETTE CAFFREY
b. 13 April 1934, Blackburn
m. 21 July 1956, St Peter’s RC Church,
d. 2001 Blackburn
See Caffrey Family History Report and Genealogy Chart No 2
See Gregory Family History Report and Genealogy Chart No 1
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