THS
Thomas Homer Saunders
THE
SAUNDERS, SANDERS,
SANDARS FAMILY
AND ITS BLOOD CONNECTIONS
(COPYRIGHT)
(Under the Sprig of Alexander (Alisaundre) the Great,
from which the surname is derived and which
came into existence during the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries)
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LINEAGE OF THOMAS HOMER-SAUNDERS
OF LEYLANDS PARK, SUSSEX.
The family of SAUNDERS, SANDERS, and SANDARS is of very ancient descent, and has
produced many prominent members, amongst whom in the mail line we find: SIR WILLIAM and SIR
THOMAS SAUNDERS, M.P., High Sheriffs of Sussex and Surrey (1553), SIR EDWARD SAUNDERS,
M.P., Lord Chief Justice (1576), DR. NICHOLAS SANDERS, celebrated Catholic controversialist and
historian (1581), Sir EDMOND SAUNDERS, Judge (1683), REAR-ADMIRAL SIR GEORGE
SAUNDERS, M.P., a Commissioner of His Majesty’s Navy (1734), whose brother CAPTAIN AMBROSE
SAUNDERS, of Woodhall, near Manchester, was father of ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES SAUNDERS, P.C.,
K.B., M.P., Commander-in-Chief of the British Fleet with Wolfe at Quebec (described by historians as
“one of the great men of the eighteenth century’), who afterwards became First Lord of the Admiralty and
who is buried in the Islip Chapel in Westminster Abby (1775), whose grand-nieces married Robert Dundas,
2nd Viscount Melville, from whom Sir Richard Saunders Dundas descended, a celebrated Admiral in charge
of the British Fleet in the Baltic during the Crimean War (1855), and John Fane, 10 th Earl of Westmoreland.
Frith, in “Naval Songs and Ballads,” has written concerning him: Neptune with wonder heard the story
Of George’s sway and Britain’s glory,
Which time shall ne’er subdue;
Boscawen’s deeds and SAUNDERS’ fame,
Join’d with brave Wolfe’s immortal name,
Then cried, “Can this be true?”
MORLEY SAUNDERS, LL.D., M.P., for Enniscorthy; JOHN CUNNINGHAM SAUNDERS, a
famous Ophthalmic Surgeon; JOHN COMPTON SAUNDERS, whose mother was Rebecca Compton of
the Marquess of Northampton’s family; ROBERT SAUNDERS, a Colonel in Cromwell’s Army, who was
appointed Governor of Kinsale; SIR JOHN SAUNDERS, of Shottesbrook Park, near Windsor (1530);
THOMAS SAUNDERS, Governor of Madras, who married Christian Pitt, aunt of the Earl of Chatham;
ABRAHAM SAUNDERS, High Sheriff of Bristol (1681); JOHN SAUNDERS, a prominent Abbot of
Sherborne, Dorsetshire, under whose direction a considerable portion of Sherborne Abbey was built;
RICHARD SAUNDERS, J.P. for Bedfordshire, who married a member Ellen Franklin of Sir John
Franklin’s family, a member of which, as an author, used the pseudonym of “RICHARD SAUNDERS”;
SIR JOHN SAUNDERS, Prebendary of Wingham and Vicar of Ash, near Sandwich, Kent (1496);
WILLIAM SAUNDERS, Mayor of Coventry (1469), which City in early times had an Elephant as its crest,
from which it is supposed the Saunders’ Armorial Bearings of Three Elephants’ Heads originated;
EDMOND SAUNDERS, who married Philippa, daughter of Sir Edward Gage, K.B., of Firle Park, Sussex
(Viscount Gage’s family); SIR NICHOLAS SAUNDERS, M.P., whose seventh grandfather was King
Edward III through his mother, who was Isabella Carew, daughter of Sir Nicholas Carew, K.G., Lieutenant
of Calais, and sister of Sir Francis Carew, of Beddington, Surry; ANDERSON SAUNDERS, M.P. for
Taghmon, CLEMENT SAUNDERS, the son of SIR WILLIAM SAUNDERS, who was Chief Carver-inOrdinary to Kings Charles, James II, and William III, who is buried in the East Wall of St. John-theEvangelist’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey; EDWARD SAUNDERS, M.P. for Gatton, Surrey (1680), SIR
JOHN SAUNDERS, Vicar of Halstow, Kent (1496); HENRY SAUNDERS, who married Gertrude Drake,
niece of the celebrated Admiral, Sir Francis Drake (1580), SAMUEL SANDERS, who married Cecily
Armine, daughter of Sir Walter Armine, whose ancestor had been Chancellor of Salisbury and Bishop of
Norwich, and whose sister Ann married Sir Thomas Wodehouse (Earl of Kimberley’s family); JOHN
SANDERS, who married Mary Langton, whose brother was Sir John Langton, High Sheriff of
Lincolnshire, descended from the family of Stephen Langton, elected by the Pope Archbishop of
Canterbury in the reign of King John; SIR THOMAS SAUNDERS, who married a daughter of Sir David
Watkins; SIR WILLIAM SAUNDERS, who was Rector of Hinton, Northamptonshire (1452); JOHN
SAUNDERS, who married Margaret Boleyn whose great-aunt Ann married Henry VIII; LEONARD
SAUNDERS, who married Elizabeth Roper (Baron Teynham’s family), whose brother William married
Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England, who was beheaded on Tower Hill for
refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy and whose “Utopia” is one of the world’s noted books (1535):
Eleanor Roper, sister of Elizabeth, married Sir ohn Digby; RICHARD SAUNDERS, of Charlwood, who
married Agnes Courtenay of the Earls of Devon, whose cousin, Sir William Courtenay, married Catherine,
daughter of Edward IV, and whose great-uncle married Matilda, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Kent, by his
wife Joan, the daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, the son of Edward I. Sir Hugh Courtenay, Earl of
Devon, his grandfather, married Margaret, the daughter of Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford, by
Elizabeth, his wife, the daughter of Edward I ; AMBROSE SAUNDERS, who married Mary, the daughter
of Sir John Goodwin, Kt., from whom Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, K.B., M.P., descended; FRANCIS
SAUNDERS, who married Susan, daughter of Sir Robert Lovett; THOMAS SAUNDERS, who married
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Heneage Proby, a member of whose family afterwards married a son of the 1 st
Marquess of Abercorn (Duke of Abercorn); SIR JOHN SAUNDERS, of Bedfordshire; SIR THOMAS
SAUNDERS, who married Agnes Harrington, whose mother was a daughter of Lord Clifford: Sarah,
daughter of Sir James Harrington, married Francis, Lord Hastings, son of the Earl of Huntingdom;
EDWARD SAUNDERS, who married a daughter of Lord Zouch of Harrington, Northamptonshire;
LAURENCE SAUNDERS, the brother of Sir Edward Saunders, M.P., who suffered martyrdom at
Coventry, rather than surrender his faith (1555); NICHOLAS SAUNDERS, who married Joan Iwarby (or
Ewarby), the widow of Sir John St. John, and only daughter of Sir Iwarby by his wife Catherine, daughter
of Sir Hugh Annesley (Earl of Anglesey), 1512; REV. ERASMUS SAUNDERS, M.A., of Jesus College,
Oxford, the Author of “A Domestic Charge or the Duty of Household Governors” (1700); THOMAS
SAUNDERS, High Sheriff of Surrey (1677); SIR MATTHEW SAUNDERS, who married Margaret
Skipwirth (Sir Grey Humberston-D’Estoteville Skipwirth’s family); NICOLAS SAUNDERS, M.P. for
Bletchingly, Surrey (1553); WILLIAM SAUNDERS, of Compton Martin, who married Ann Bouchier,
whose ancestor was Sir William Bouchier, Count of Ewe, who married Ann, daughter of Thomas of
Woodstock, the son of Edward III; FRANCIS SAUNDERS, who married Catherine, eldest daughter of Sir
Henry Jerningham, 1st Bart. (Sir Henry Stafford Jeringham’s family); THOMAS SAUNDERS, who
married Elizabeth Bathurst, whose father was an Alderman of the City of London, of Earl Bathurst’s
family; RICHARD SAUNDERS, M.P., High Sheriff of Wexford (1707); ROBERT SAUNDERS, M.P.,
Prime Sergeant-in-Law (1707); LAURENCE SAUNDERS, who married Frances Shuckburgh, of the
family of Sir Gerald Francis Stewkley Shuckburgh, Bart., High Sheriff of Warwickshire; HENRY
SAUNDERS, Mayor of Shaftesbury; RICHARD SAUNDERS, celebrated astrologer; WILLIAM
SAUNDERS, who married Joan, daughter of Sir John Spencer, ancestor of the Duke of Marlborough;
JOHN SAUNDERS, novelist and dramatist; MELANCTHON SAUNDERS, of Burstow Lodge, Surry
(1785); HUMPHREY SAUNDERS, of Mapowder, Dorsetshire, who married Edith Pitt (Earl of Chatham’s
family); JOHN SAUNDERS, of Weymouth, who married Margaret, sister of Andrew Pitt, of Weymouth,
of the same family; THOMAS SAUNDERS, who married Margaret Cave, descended from Sir John Cave
of the family of the Rev. Genille Cave-Browne-Cave, 12th Bart.; JOHN SAUNDERS, Prior of Sherborne
(1459); SIR RICHARD SAUNDERS, an eminent divine (1550); HENRY SAUNDERS, Mayor of
Guildford (1690); EDWARD SAUNDERS, who married Milicent Temple, of the family of Earl Temple of
Stowe; REV. ANTHONY SAUNDERS, D.D., of Uffington, Berkshire (1654), and his son, REV.
ANTHONY SAUNDERS D.D., founder of the Uckfield Grammar School, Sussex (1718), whose mother
was Margaret Wentworth, descended from Henry Wentworth, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry,
son of Sir John Howard, and from Sir Thomas Wentworth, Leader of the House of Commons, afterwards
made Earl of Strafford, who was executed (1641). Mary, her cousin, married Thomas, Lord Howard of
Effingham, and a daughter of Sir Nicholas Wentworth married Sir Thomas, son of Ulric, Earl of
Clanricarde, by Margaret his wife, the daughter of Richard FritzAlan, Earl of Arundel (1640); Margaret,
second daughter of Sir Henry Wentworth, married Sir John Seymour (Duke of Somerset’s family), and was
mother of Thomas, Lord Seymour, nephew of Edward VI, who married Queen Catherine Parr, widow of
Henry VIII, EDWARD SAUNDERS, the foster brother of Queen Elizabeth, and in recent years : SIR EDWIN SAUNDERS; the Honble. A.C. SAUNDERS, K.C., Prime Minister of Prince
Edward Island (and also Attorney-General); ROBERT JOSEPH PRATT SAUNDERS, C.B., J.P., D.L., of
Saunders Grove, Wicklow, High Sheriff of that county, and A.D.C. to the Duke of Marlborough, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland (ob. 1908); SIR SIDNEY SMITH SAUNDERS, C.M.G.; SIR CHARLES RENAULT
SAUNDERS, K.C.M.G., Civil Commissioner of Zululand; RT. REV. CHARLES JOHN GODFREY
SAUNDERS, Lord Bishop of Ludlow; WILLIAM FRANCIS ALLEN SAUNDERS, J.P., D.L., High
Sheriff of Lancashire; EDWARD HENRY SAUNDERS, J.P., D.L., High Sheriff of Tipperay (1900); RT.
Hon. J.S. SANDARS, P.C., C.V.O., who was Private Secretary to the Rt. Honble A.J. Balfour as Prime
Minister; AUGUSTUS SAUNDERS, Headmaster of Charterhouse School (1832); JOHN DRYSDALE
SANDARS, J.P., D.L., High Sheriff of Derbyshire (1902), who married a daughter of the 5 th Baron Graves;
WILLIAM SAUNDERS, M.P. for East Hull, a prominent land reformer (1870); SIR CHARLES JOHN
HUGH SANDERS; C.B.E.; SIR EDGAR CHRISTIAN SANDERS; BENJAMIN LAURENCE
SAUNDERS, J.P., D.L., High Sheriff of Herefordshire (1880), J.C. SAUNDERS, Deputy Minister of
Finance for Canada; BRIG.-GENERAL ARTHUR RICHARD CARELESS SANDERS, who married a
relative of Sir William Springett, of Ringmer, Sussex; W. S. SAUNDERS, M.P. for Norht Battersea;
RICHARD SAUNDERS, of Newtorn, Ireland, 17th in a direct line from Edward I, through his mother, a
daughter of Owen Wynne, Esq., whose great-grandfather married Catherine, daughter of Claud, Lord
Strabane whose mother was Lady Jean Gordon, 4 th daughter of the Marquess of Huntley; DANIEL ELLIS
SAUNDERS, whose mother was Elizabeth Ellis of Lord Howard de Walden’s family; AUGUSTUS
SAUNDERS, D.D., Dean of Peterborough, Northamptonshire; ARTHUR LESLIE SAUNDERS, C.S.I.,
V.D., I.C.S., Commissioner U.P., India, and Member of Legislative Council of Governor-General; A.C.
SAUNDERS, Librarian of the Socie’te’ Jersiaise; SIR ROBERT SANDERS (Baron Bayford), a Junior
Lord of the Treasury and an Under Secretary for War; COL. CYRIL SAUNDERS, D.S.O., in command of
British troops in Khartoum, 1922-3; LIEUT.-COL. E.C. SANDARS, C.M.G., and many others.
Prominently in the female line we have:
JOAN SANDERS, who married Sir Richard Lee, ancestor of the Earls of Litchfield; ISABELLA
SAUNDERS, who married the ancestor of Sir Roger Twysden, Bart.; MARGARET SAUNDERS, who
married John Leigh, whose son, Sir John, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas West, who was the
second son of Lord Delawarr (Earl De La Warr’s family); ELIZABETH SAUNDERS, who married
Thomas Catesby, whose mother was a daughter of Sir Robert Lytton, and the grandson of Sir William
Catesby, High Sheriff of Northamptonshire, whose relative, Robert, was connected with the Gunpowder
Plot. Elizabeth afterwords married Francis Lumley, of the family of Sir Thomas Lumley (Earl of
Scarborough’s family), who married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV; MARGARET SAUNDERS,
daughter of Sir Thomas Saunders, M.P., King’s Remembrancer of the Exchequer, of Surrey, by his wife
Alice, daughter of Sir Edmund Walsingham, Lieutenant of the Tower of London (a near relative of
Walsingham, Secretary of State to Queen Mary). Frances, daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham, married
Richard, son of the Earl of Clanricarde by Margaret his wife, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, Earl of
Arundel; Margaret Saunders married Thomas Goodyere, son of Sir Francis Goodyere by his wife, who was
a daughter of Sir Ralph Rowlett of Herfordshire; ALICE SAUNDERS, who married Sir John Cooke and
was grandmother of Mildred, who married William Cecil, 1 st Lord Burghley, Queen Elizabeth’s celebrated
Treasurer, and became great-grandmother of Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, whose son, William (2 nd
Earl), married Catherine, daughter of Thomas Howard, 1 st Earl of Suffolk, and whose granddaughter
married John, Lord Russell of Bedford (from whose daughter, Ann, who married the 1 st Marquess of
Worcester, the Duke of Beaufort, is descended), and Sir Nicholas Bacon, father of Francis Bacon, Lord
High Chancellor of England; FRANCES SAUNDERS, daughter of Robert Saunders of Weymouth, who
married William Russell, descended from Henry Russell, M.P. for Weymouth, whose cousin John, Lord
Russell, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose mother was Alice Saunders, daughter of
William Saunders of Banbury, Oxfordshire, from whom the Duke of Bedford is descended; BRIDGETT
SAUNDERS, who married Sir Robert Willoughby, son of the 4 th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (Baron
Willoughby de Broke’s family), whose mother was Alice, daughter of Sir William Skipwith, Lord Chief
Baron of the Exchequer; HONORA SAUNDERS, who married Willoughby Skipwith of the same family;
CHRISTIAN SAUNDERS, who married Christopher Bretton, whose son, Robert Bretton, was Deputy
Recorder of Northampton (1675), of the family of Lord Monk Bretton, C.B.; FRANCES SAUNDERS, who
married Richard Wolfe, and was great-grandmother of Major-General James Wolfe of Quebec fame, whose
striking monument is seen in Westminster Abbey; CORDELLA SAUNDERS, who married George
Pendred, Esq., High Sheriff of Wicklow, whose son, Morley, adopted the surname of Saunders, and
married Lady Martha Stratford, daughter of John, Earl of Aldborough; FRANCES SAUNDERS, who
married Richard Grenville, whose brother Edward married Dorothy Thynne (Marquess of Bath’s family),
from whose family George Grenville, the celebrated statesman, descended; ANN SAUNDERS, who
married Sir John Drury, Kt.; JERIMA SAUNDERS, who married Sir Edward Synge, Bart., High Sheriff of
Cork; ANN SAUNDERS, who married John Inglett-Fortescue, of the family of Earl Fortescue;
CATHERINE SAUNDERS, who married Robert Read, a son of Judge Read; FRANCES SAUNDERS,
who married Paul Darrel, a near relative of Sir Richard Darrel, who married Margaret, daughter of
Edmund, Duke of Somerset, whose grandfather was John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the son of Edward
III. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Darrel, married John St. Maur (Seymour), Duke of Somerset’s
family; CATHERINE SAUNDERS, who married Hugh Carlyle, a near relative of Thomas Carlyle, the
essayist and historian; JOAN SAUNDERS, who married Edward Rich of the family of Lord Rich (Earl of
Warwick’s family), who was Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Chancellor of England in 1547,
from whom has descended Sir Almeric Edmund Frederick Rich, 5 th Bart.; JANE SAUNDERS, who
married Clement Villiers (Earl of Jersey’s family); ELIZABETH SAUNDERS, whose grandmother was
Elizabeth Cromwell, granddaughter of Oliver Cromwell by Elizabeth his wife, the daughter of Sir James
Bourchier; JANE SAUNDERS, who married Sir Alexander Clifford, of the family of Baron Clifford of
Chudleigh; ANN SAUNDERS, who married Edmond Fisher, a member of Lord Fisher’s family;
ELIZABETH SAUNDERS, who married Francis son of Sir John Kennedy; GRACE SAUNDERS, who
married Maurice Osborne, from whom descended Vice-Admiral Osborne, a prominent colleague of
Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, (Duke of Leeds’s family); ANN SAUNDERS, who married Richard
Browne, son of Sir Matthew Browne of the family of the Earl of Kenmore; ELIZABETH SAUNDERS,
who married John Napier of Baron Napier’s family; JANE SAUNDERS, who married Sir Richard Bray, of
Ewell, Surrey, whose sons were Sir John Bray and Saunders Bray, of the family of Baron Brave;
HARRIET SAUNDERS, who married William Bishop, of Cattistock, Dorsetshire, whose daughter
Elizabeth married Major-General Sir Francis Wheeler, Bart., C.B., of Warwickshire; ELIZABEH
SAUNDERS, who married Henry Pitt (Earl of Chatham’s family), of Alton, Hampshire, whose son John
(“John Pitaeus”) was author of the celebrated “De Illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus”; MARTHA
SAUNDERS, of Sopley, Hampshire, who married Henry Pitt, of Ringwood (Earl of Chatham’s family);
MARY SAUNDERS, the daughter of Sir Edward Saunders, M.P., Lord Chief Justice of England, by his
first wife Margaret (Sir Edward’s second wife was Agnes Hussey, of Shapwick, Dorsetshire, the widow of
Walter Curzon, of Waterperry, Oxfordshire), the daughter of Sir Thomas Inglefield, who married Thomas,
the son of Judge Morgan. Ann, daughter of Thomas Morgan, married Henry, Lord Hunsdon, whose mother
was Mary Boleyn (sister of Anne who married Henry VIII), daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, Viscount
Rochford and Earl of Wiltshire, buy his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk (1596);
ALICE SAUNDERS, who was the mother of the noted Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor of
Engalnd, to whom Queen Elizabeth gave Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire, and who is buried in St. Paul’s
Cathedral; DOROTHY SAUNDERS, who married Humphrey Newton, of Sir Issac Newton’s family;
AUDREY SAUNDERS, who married Sir George Villiers (who by his second wife, Agnes Beaumont, was
the father of the great Duke of Buckingham), from whom are descended the Earls of Jersey. Edward
Saunders, her brother, married Susan MacWilliams, the sister of Ann, who married Arthur Stourton,
brother of Lord Stourton, of Owremoigne, Dorsetshire; ANN SAUNDERS, who married Nicholas
Beaumont, whose sons were Sir Thomas and Sir Henry, the ancestor of Viscount Beaumont; ISABELLA
SAUNDERS, who married Walter Curzon (a branch of the Marquess Curson of Keddleston’s family);
ANN MARIA SAUNDERS, the daughter of Sir George Saunders, M.P., who married Colonel William
Egerton, M.P. for Buckinghamshire; SUSAN SAUNDERS, who married Robert Pleydell, from whom
Viscount Downe is descended; ALICE SAUNDERS, daughter of Edmund Saunders of Long Sutton, who
married Walter Pears of the celebrated Pears’ Soap family (“He won’t be happy till he gets it”); JANE
SAUNDERS, who married Sir John Guise, 4th Bart., M.P., whose daughter, Jane, married the Rt. Rev.
Shute Barrington, D.D., Bishop of Durham, and from who, has descended Sir Anselm William Guise, 6th
Bart.; HARRIET SAUNDERES, who married James Morris, a Governor of the Bank of England;
CONSTANCE SAUNDERS, who married Edward Sherwood, of Buckinghamshire, a near relative of Sir
John Sherwood, of Bere Regis; HESTER SAUNDERS, who married Bryan I’Anson (Earl of Lichfield’s
family), and was a great-aunt of Admiral Lord George Anson, First Lord of the Admiralty, the navigator of
great eminence, whose “Voyage Round the World” is so well known, and who took Admiral Sir Charles
Saunders with him; MARGARET SAUNDERS, who married William Parker (of the family of Admiral Sir
Hyde Parker), who was also with Admiral Lord George Anson in his famous voyage; SUSAN
SAUNDERS, who married Ralph Butler, son of Sir Henry Butler, of Middlesex; JOAN SAUNDERS, who
married William Russell, and whose son, William Russell, was Treasurer of the Royal Navy (1630);
SARAH SAUNDERS, who married Thomas Tregonwell, descended from Sir John Tregonwell, to who
Henry VIII gave Milton Abbey in Dorsetshire; CATHERINE SAUNDERS, who married Sir Walter Pye;
FRANCES SAUNDERS, eldest daughter of Sir Nicholas Saunders, M.P., who married Edward Warham,
of Osmington, Dorsetshire, of Archbishop Warham’s family; ANN SAUNDERS, who married Sir
Bartholomew Tate (Sir William Tate, their grandson, married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Lord
Zouche), and afterwards Sir Thomas Longueville, whose descendants became connected with the 1 st Earl of
Derwentwater, Sir Francis Radcliff, who married Mary, the daughter of King Charles II, with whose family
William Henry Radcliffe Saunders is connected, and John, son of Sir Kenelm Digby; MARIE
SAUNDERS, who married Richard Bagot, whose son, Walter, married Elizabeth Cave, whose mother was
Margaret Cecil, sister of William Cecil, Lord Burgley, from whom is descended Baron Bagot, J.P., D.L.,
A.D.C., to the Governor-General of Canada; DOROTHY SAUNDERS, who married Sir John
Throckmorton, of the family of Sir Richard Charles Action Throckmorton, 10 th Bart.; ELLEN
SAUNDERS, who married William Duncombe (Earl of Feversham’s family), whose son, Sir Saunders
Duncombe, M.P., was the first to introduce Sedan Chairs into this country, in 1634; CATHERINE
SAUNDERS, who married Cornelius Ogle, son of Sir John Ogle, from whom has descended Sir Edmund
Ashton Ogle, 8th Bart.; MARGARET SAUNDERS, a celebrated actress, daughter of Jonathan Saunders, of
Weymouth, who frequently performed at Drury Lane Theatre, whose grandfather was Captain Wallis, of
Weymouth (1744); LOUISA JOSEPHINE SAUNDERS, who married Sir Henry de Hoghton, Bart; ANN
SAUNDERS, who married Stephen Cope, whose son, Anthony, married Ann, the daughter of Sir
Humphrey Stafford, son of the Duke of Buckingham, whose mother was Ann, daughter of Thomas of
Woodstock, the son of Edward III, whose brother, Henry Stafford, married Catherine Woodville, sister of
the Queen and daughter of Sir Richard Woodville, Earl Rivers, by Jacquetta of Luxemburg, who was
formerly the wife of John, Duke of Bedford, the great-grandson of Edward III, whose first wife, Ann, was
daughter of John, Duke of Burgundy; DOROTHY SAUNDERS, who married Francis Ingoldsby, from
whom we get the Marquess of Winchester; SUSAN SAUNDERS, who married John Courthorpe, whose
great-grandson, Sir George Courthrope, J.P., of Kent, married Alice, daughter of Sir George Rivers;
MARGARET SAUNDERS, who married Thomas Penn, a near relative of the celebrated William Penn,
who founded Pennsylvania; ELIZABETH SAUNDERS, who married Sir James Altham, K.B., M.P., Lord
Chief Baron of the Exchequer (1589), whose granddaughters by his first wife both married at the age of ten
years only (1) Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey and Viscount Valentia, (2) Richard Vaughan, Earl of
Carberry. Sir James’s great-grandniece, Mary Hawtrey, married Sir John Bankes, Lord Chief Justice, of
Corfe Castle, and was the celebrated lady defender of the castle in 1660. John Saunders, of Dinton,
Buckinghamshire, married Ann, daughter of Sir William Hawtrey of this family; URSULA SAUNDERS,
who married Thomas Hungerford, descended from Sir Walter Hungerford, whose grandmother on her
mother’s side was Catherine, the daughter of Sir Hugh Annesley (another Catherine of this family was
mother of Charles and John Wesley); FRANCES SAUNDERS, the mother of the eminent antiquary, Sir
Henry Spelman, who is buried in Westminster Abbey, who married Lady Elinor L’Strange, who is also
buried there; ANN SAUNDERS, who married Edmund Kyrvill, whose daughter Ann married Sir Clement
Spelman; ELIZABETH SAUNDERS, who married Sir Thomas Newman, from whose family Cardinal
Newman descended, who wrote “Lead, Kindly Light” and the “Dream of Gerontius”; MARY
SAUNDERS, who married John Cripps, of Somerset, a member of Lord Parmour’s family; FRANCES
SAUNDERS, who married Thomas Gilbert, of the family of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who added
Newfoundland to the British possessions, and who was the stepbrother of Sir Walter Raleigh; ANN
SAUNDERS, who married another member of the Gilbert family; JANE SAUNDERS, of Saunders Court,
Wexford, who married Arthur, 1st Earl of Arran, from whom are descended the Earls of Arran (Baron
Saunders); ELIZA BENITA SANDERS, who married Baron Hotham; DOROTHY SAUNDERS, daughter
of John Saunders, Provost or Oriel College, Oxford, who married Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1 st Bart. (Earl of
Bradford’s family), from whom has descended Lady Florence Katherine Bridgeman, who married the 5 th
Earl of Harewood, and is the mother of Viscount Lascelles; ANN SAUNDERS, who married Sir Edward
Sebright, High Sheriff of Worceststershire (and secondly, Charles Lyttleton, eldest son of Sir Charles
Lyttleton, Viscount Cobham’s family), from whom is descended, through Henrietta Saunders Sebright,
who married Henry, the 2nd Earl of Harewood, Viscount Laselles, who married Princess Mary, now the
Countess of Harewood, the daughter of our present King and Queen, His majesty King George V and
Queen Mary.
LINEAGE.
In the earliest records of this country we find the family of ALEXANDER, spelt ALISAUNDRE –
ALISANDRE, holding important positions as early as 1250. The line of descent is as follows :
COUNT ALEXANDER (whose Arms are shown in the Rose Window of Wilton Church, nr.
Salisbury, and in Harleian MS. at the British Museum, No. 6137), the son of EUDO, LORD of
MONTAGU and CHAGNY in France, who was the son of ALEXANDER, the son of HUGH III, the son of
EUDO, DUKE of BURGUNDY (who married MARY, the daughter of THEOBALD, COUNT of
CHAMPAGNE, the grandson of WILIAM THE CONQUEROR, and brother of KING STEPHEN of
ENGLAND), descended from ROBERT, KING of FRANCE, 1032, came into England during the reign of
HENRY III, circa 1220, HUGH III, by his first wife, ALICE, daughter of MATTHEW, DUKE of
LORRAINE, whose ancestors were the COUNTS of HAPSBURGH, closely related by blood to the
HERMANS, COUNTS of HOCHERG and DUKES of ZARINGEN and TECK, had ALEXANDER,
LORD of MONTAGU and CHAGNY (and an elder son EUDO, DUKE of BURGUNDY, who married
THERESA, daughter of Alfonso, KING of PORTUGAL), who married BEARTICE, daughter of
WILLIAM, COUNT of CHALLON, and had issue EUDO, who married ELIZABETH, the daughter of
PETER of COURTNAY, EMPEROR of CONSTANTINOPLE (the son of LOUIS VI, KING of
FRANCE), the widow of WALTER, COUNT of BARR, who was great-great-uncle of AGNES, the second
wife of RUDOLPH, COUNT of HAPSBURGH, who afterwards became EMPEROR of GERMANY, from
whom are descended the ARCH-DUKES of AUSTRIA. The issue of EUDO and ELIZABETH is as
follows :
WILLIAM, LORD of MONTAGU and CHAGNY, PHILLIP, SCARVOLA, ALEXANDER
(ancestor of the SAUNDERS, SANDERS, SANDARS family), and EUDO.
COUNT ALISAUNDRE settled in Wiltshire and had issue :
JOHN ALISAUNDRE, summoned to Parliament as first M.P. for Arundel, Sussex, 1296 (ancestor
of the Sussex, Dorset, and Surrey Saunderses : Arms -- Three Bulls’ Heads); SIR ROBERT
ALYSANDRE, of Melksham (ancestor of the Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Hertfordshire, and Irish Saunderses
: Arms -- Three Elephants’ Heads); NICHOLAS, WILLIAM, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in
Ireland, and afterwards High Sheriff of Kildare, 1300; HERMAN (in some records HARLOWEN oR
HARLOVEN), ROGER, RICHARD, CECILIA, and CONSTANCE.
JOHN ALISAUNDRE had issue JOHN of Wareham, Co. Dorset, and from him descended JOHN
SAUNDRE of Morden in that County, from whom came RICHARD SAUNDERS, Lord of the Manor of
Piddlehinton (1408) who had issue JOHN of Bere Regis, whose son JOHN had issue THOMAS, whose son
JAMES had WILLIAM of Turnerspuddle, whose son JOHN of Bere Regis married EDITH GALTON of
that town, from whose family has descended SIR FRANCIS GALTON, the eminent scientist and traveller,
who married Louisa Jane, daughter of Henry Montague Butler, D.D., Headmaster of Harrow; MARY ANN
GALTON (Mrs. Schimmelpennick), the Authoress; SIR DOUGLAS STRUTT GALTON, K.C.B., F.R.S.,
D.C.L.; RT. REV. COMPTON THEODORE GALTON, J.P., D.L., HIGH SHERIFF of
WORCESTERSHIRE. JAMES SAUNDERS, their son, of Sopley, Hampshire, had THOMAS whose son
WILLIAM, of Bristerne in that County, had THOMAS of Bere Regis, whose son EDWARD (baptised at
Ringwood Parish Church, 26th December, 1730, ob. Affpiddle, Dorsetshire, 1803) married ANN BISHOP
(or BISSHOPP, BYSSHOPP), descended from RICHARD BISHOP, HIGH SHERIFF of HAMPSHIRE,
1664, whose family was connected with the Michells of Somerset, Jane of which married Sir Henry
Portman (Viscount Portman’s family). Elizabeth Saunders, cousin of Edward, married William Michell,
and her sister Harriett married James Morris, Governor of the Bank of England. Harriet Saunders, another
cousin, married William Bishop of Cattistock, and their daughter Elizabeth married major-General Sir
Francis Wheler, 10th Bart., C.B. Edward Wheler, Esq., J.P., grandson of Sir Charles Wheler, M.A., 7 th Bart.,
and Lucy, daughter and heiress of Sir John Strange, Master of the Rolls, married Elizabeth Ann, eldest
daughter of Samuel Tertius Galton, J.P., D.L. Sir Edward Bishop was High Sheriff of Sussex (1636), and
Sir Cecil Bishop was summoned to Parliament as Baron Zouch (1815). His grandfather married Ann,
second daughter of Hugh Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth (see Frith’s “Naval Songs and Ballads,” page 4).
Their son, JOSEPH SAUNDERS, of Bovington, Dorsetshire (born 1764, brother of Thomas, who married
Mary Compton of the Marquess of Northampton’s family), married JANE HOMER, a descendant of SIR
THOMAS ST. OMER, HIGH SHERIFF of WILTSHIRE, whose ancestors came over with WILLIAM
THE CONQUEROR (see Battle Abbey Roll). Their eldest son, THOMAS HOMER SAUNDEERS, born
1799 – John Homer, his brother, married Frances Oakley (or Oakeley) whose ancestors came out of
Hampshire and Shropshire and afterwards became connected by marriage with James, 1 st Duke of Chandos.
Sir Herbert Oakeley, Bart., married Atholl Keturah, daughter of Charles Murry-Aynsley, fifth son of John,
3rd Duke of Atholl, K.T. See also Charles Oakley Saunders, of Liege, Belgium. (Arms : Three Bulls’
Heads) – of Watercombe, Dorsetshire, married (1) REBECCA CHAPMAN, of Stratton in that Country
(Elizabeth of this family married Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough, whose sister Susan married
Anthony, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury. Hannah Chapman married Charles Saunders, of Sneaton Castle, near
Whitby, and Sir John Chapman, of West Hampnett, near Chichester, was Knighted by King James I at
Tichborne, Hampshire, on 29th August, 1618. He was High Sheriff of Sussex and Surrey in 1634) whose
mother was REBECCA COPPER, descended from SIR JOHN COPPER, M.P., ancestor of the EARLS of
SHAFTESBURY, of Rockborne, Hampshire, and (2) MRS. JANE WALLIS (nee Jarvis), of Preston, near
Weymouth, from whom there was no issue, From his first wife, REBECCA CHAPMAN, he had issue : -(1) THOMAS CAHPMAN, (2) LUCY REBECCA, who married RICHARD GENGE, of
Waterson, (3) Julietta, the wife of JAMES FORRESTER, of Bryanston, Dorset. THOMAS
CHAPMAN, born in 1834, married in 1874 ANNA ELIZABETH SMITH, eldest daughter
and heiress of ROBERT SMITH, of Bradford Peverall, Dorsetshire, whose ancestor was
ROBERT SMITH, HIGH SHERIFF of EXETER, and ANNA FOOKS (or FOWKE), of
Symondsbury, whose ancestor was WILLIAM FOWKE, of Brewood, Straffordshire, from
whom has descended SIR FREDERICK FERRERS CONANT FOWKE, Bart., of
Leicestershire, and had issue : -1. THOMAS HOMER, eldest son and heir, of whom presently.
2. John Smith.
3. Andrew Chapman.
4. Robert, a Lieut., M.G.C., killed in France in Great War.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Anna Elizabeth, married H.C. F. Cousin.
Rebecca Chapman, died young.
Alice Margaret.
Mary Grace.
Emily Christina.
Eva Catherine.
Thomas Chapman Saunders, of Watercombe and Charminster, died in 1923, and is
survived by his eldest son.
THOMAS HOMER, Banker and Author, born at Watercombe, 8 th July, 1879. Twentysixth in a direct blood line from WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR; twenty-eighth from ROBERT,
KING of FRANCE; and Thirty-fifth from CHARLEMAGNE, the Wise and Powerful, KING of
the FRANKS and EMPEROR of the ROMANS (814), married LILIAN, youngest daughter of
GEORGE VERNEY TOMLIN of Brighton, and took the surname of HOMER-SAUNDERS by
Deed Poll in 1924.
Arms,- Gules on Cheveron Ermine between in Chief two Double-headed Eagles displayed (SAUNDERS of
DEVNSHIRE) and in base a Lion Rampant crowned Or (SAUNDERS of HAHMPSHIRE and
OXFORDSHIRE) a Fleur de Lys (FOWKE of STAFFORDSHIRE) between two Bulls’ Heads
(SAUNDERS of SURREY) cabossed of the first, on a Chief of the third two Elephants; Heads
(SAUNDERS of WARWICKSHIRE) erased Sable and for the Crest on a wreath of the colours in front of a
Demi Lion Rampart Or, holding in the mouth a SPRIG of ALISAUNDRE (cutting of the Smyrnium
Olusatrum, or ALEXANDER THE GREAT plant as shown in the Crest of SIR THOMAS SAUNDERS,
M.P., HIGH SHERIFF of SUSSEX and SURREY, 1553), two Thistles leaved and slipped (representing the
Scotch descent on her mothers’ side of his wife LILIAN) proper.
MOTTO : IN DEO FIDEMUS
Address : -- 47, CARLISLE ROAD, HOVE, SUSSEX, GREAT BRITAIN.
Any enquiries by members of relatives of the different branches of the family as to their own
blood line should be sent to the above address.
The SAUNDERS, SANDERS, SANDARS SPRIG is the Sprig of Alexander the Great, a cutting
of the Smyrnium Olusatrum plant, commonly known in this country as English Alexander. This grows in
large quantities on the cliffs at Dover, and in the Fifteenth Century was frequently eaten as celery.
So now, dear Reader, when you feel
Inclined to take a wander,
Just try and find a dainty sprig
Of princely ALISAUNDER.
Further copies of these important records can be forwarded on application, together with other
records which do not appear herein.
KNOWN SANDERS/SAUNDERS FAMILY MEMBERS IN ENGLAND
(Arms: three elephants' heads, etc.)
[Note: some individuals are listed with different fathers and/or dates on various pedigrees]
Generation A:
Name
Abra
Ambrose
Ambrose
Ambrose
Ann
Anna
Anne
Anne
Anne
Charles
Constance
Edmund
Edward
Edward
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Frances
Francis
Henry
John
John
John
Years
Father
1600- ?
c.1606-1678
c.1600- ?
c.1608-1618+
bapt.1619/20- ?
c.1600- ?
c.1591- ?
c.1600- ?
c.1660- ?
c.1660- ?
c.1600- ?
c.1620- ?
c.1600- ?
c.1600- ?
c.1648- ?
c.1630- ?
bapt.1617- ?
c.1600- 1640
c.1600- ?
c.1600- ?
c.1610- ?
c.1630- ?
c.1660- ?
c.1645- ?
c.1624- ?
c.1590- ?
Spouse
Michael
Ambrose
Ambrose
Ambrose
Tobias
Humphrey
Richard
Richard
Valentine
Valentine
Michael
Sir Thomas
Richard
Humphrey
John
Francis
Tobias
John
John
Richard
Ambrose
Francis
Valentine
John
Francis
Richard
Source Location
John Waller
Alice Chapman
Hatton Barwick
Robert Lovet
William Waller
Thomas Todd (m.1634)
Sir Walter Pye (m.1628)
Rowland Burton
Christopher Clark
(t)
(f)
(a)
(r)
(v,z)
(t)
(l)
(a)
(p)
(p)
(t)
(l)
(a)
(t)
(c)
(l)
(v,z)
(l,m)
(m)
(l)
(r)
(l)
(p)
(c)
(l)
(l)
Bedworth, War
Sibbertoft, Northants
Sibbertoft, Northants
Sibbertoft, Northants
Amersham, Bucks
Bedworth, War
Wavendon, Bucks
Lipscombe, Bucks
Blofield, Norf
Blofield, Norf
Bedworth, War
Agmondesham,Bucks
Pottsgrave, Beds
Bedworth, War
Woolster, Berks
Dinton, Bucks
Amersham, Bucks
Dinton, Bucks
Long Marston, Herts
Wavendon, Bucks
Sibbertoft, Northants
Dinton, Bucks
Blofield, Norf
Woolster, Berks
Dinton, Bucks
Wavendon, Bucks
John
Margaret
Martha
Mary
Mary
Mary
Michael
Richard
Richard
Richard
Robert
Susan
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Timothy
Tobias
Valentine
William
William
c.1572-1670
c.1600- ?
c.1650- ?
c.1660- ?
c.1580- ?
c.1595- ?
c.1592-1619+
c.1590-1634+
bapt.1623- ?
c.1595-1619+
c.1600- 1660
c.1627- ?
c.1660-1704
c.1644- ?
c.1632- ?
c.1638-1676
c.1625-1693
c.1600-1693
c.1625- ?
c.1620- ?
c.1589-1619+
bapt.1629/30-1695
c.1661-1695/6
c.1660- ?
c.1600- ?
unknown
John
John
Valentine
Laurence
Richard
Michael
Richard
Tobias
Michael
Richard
Francis
Richard
John
Tobias
Ambrose
John
John
Francis
Sir Thomas
Michael
Tobias
Valentine
Valentine
Richard
Alice Coles (m.1610)
Thomas Fowler
(c)
(m)
(c)
(p)
(f)
(l)
(t)
(l)
(v,z)
(t)
(a)
(l)
(d)
(c)
(z)
(a)
(e)
(m)
(l)
(l)
(t)
(v,z)
(p)
(p)
(l)
Weeke, Wilts
Long Marston, Herts
Woolster, Berks
Blofield, Norf
Foxton/Naseby, Leics
Wavendon, Bucks
Bedworth, War
Wavendon, Bucks
Amersham, Bucks
Bedworth, War
Warrendon, Bucks
Dinton, Bucks
North Marston, Bucks
Woolster, Berks
Amersham, Bucks
Sibbertoft, Northants
Beechwood, Herts
Beechwood, Herts
Dinton, Bucks
Agmondesham,Bucks
Bedworth, War
Amersham, Bucks
Blofield, Norf
Blofield, Norf
Wavendon, Bucks
Generation B:
Ambrose
Ambrose
Ambrose
Andrew
Ann
Anthony
Anthony
Barnard, Esq.
Bridget
Bridget
Carew
Clement
Dorathey
Dorothy
Edward
Edward
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Ellen/Helen
Frances
Francis
Francis
Francis
Francis
Francis, Esq.
Henry
Hester
Humphrey
Jane
Jane
Jane
John
c.1610-1654
c.1575-1654
c.1575-1618+
c.1608-1618+
bapt.1594- ?
c.1625- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1570- ?
bapt.1587- ?
c.1575- ?
c.1588- ?
c.1611-1695
c.1550- ?
c.1575- ?
1588-1618+
c.1570- ?
c.1630- ?
bapt.1596- ?
c.1590- ?
c.1590- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1560- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1610- ?
c.1600- ?
c.1590- ?
c.1598- ?
c.1590-1634+
c.1610- ?
c.1590- ?
c.1575- ?
c.1625- ?
c.1610- ?
c.1590- ?
c.1620- ?
Ambrose
Ambrose
Lawrence
Francis
Mr.(Richard?)
Thomas
William
Edward
Richard
Edward
Edward
William
William
Edward
Edward
Edward
John
Mr.(Richard?)
Edward
Matthew
Sir William
William
William
Francis
Thomas
Edward
Richard
Matthew
Francis
Edward
William
Thomas
Francis
Matthew
Thomas
Martha Cotton
Alice Chapman (d.1623)
Martha Cotton
(f)
(a)
(r)
(r)
(v)
______ Holloway (widow) (c)
(r)
(g,r)
Thomas Watkins (m.1608) (v)
Richard Fitzherbert
(g,r)
(r)
(r)
Francis Mannock
(r)
Humphrey Newton
(g,r)
(r)
(g,r)
(c)
(v)
(r)
(f)
(r)
William Duncombe
(c)
(r)
(r)
(l)
(r)
Susan Lovett
(l)
(f,i)
(r)
Thomas Ashton
(r)
Marie Tompson?
(t)
William Packer
(c)
(r)
John Halford
(f,i,r)
Anne Cleeve
(c)
Foxton, Leics
Sibbertoft, Northants
Sibbertoft, Northants
Siresham, Northants
Amersham, Bucks
Woolstor, Berks
Welford, Northants
Flore, Northants
Amersham, Bucks
Flore, Northants
Brixworth, Northants
E. Haddon, Northants
Welford, Northants
Flore, Northants
Brixworth, Northants
Flore, Northants
Woolstor, Berks
Amersham, Bucks
Brixworth, Northants
Shankton, Leics
E.Haddon, Northants
Pottsgrave, Beds
Welford, Northants
Siresham, Northants
Dinton, Bucks
Brixworth, Northants
Dinton, Bucks
Shankton, Leics
Siresham, Northants
Brixworth, Northants
Bedworth, War
Woolster, Berks
Siresham, Northants
Shankton, Leics
Woolster, Berks
Shukbrugh Ashby
William Rockhall
Ann Brasbridge
Anne Wrey
Mabel Howes
Elizabeth ______
Joanna Whitehall
Ellen Sadleir (m.1662)
Mary Brooke
Elizabeth Foxley
Elizabeth Norden
John
John
John
John, Dr.
John
Katherine
Laurence
Lettice
Margaret
Margaret
Margaret
Maria
Mary
Mary
Mathew
Michaell
Millicent
Nicholas
Richard
Richard
Richard
c.1600-1648
c.1610- ?
bapt.1590/91- ?
c.1585-1615+
c.1575- ?
c.1590- ?
c.1560- ?
c.1630- ?
c.1630- ?
c.1590- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1575- ?
c.1600- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1600- ?
c.1575-1601+
c.1595- ?
c.1575- ?
c.1600- ?
c.1575- ?
c.1563-1639
Thomas
Francis
Richard, esq.
Richard
Richard
Edward
Ambrose
John
John
Matthew
Sir William
William
Lawrence
Sir William
Francis
William
Edward
William
Richard
William
William
3.Beatrice Annesley
(a)
Robert
Roger
Susan
Susannah
Thomas
Thomas
Sir Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Tobias
Valentine
William
William
William
c.1570- ?
c.1575- ?
c.1590- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1630- ?
c.1625- ?
c.1590- ?
bapt.1593- ?
c.1590- ?
c.1570- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1550- ?
bapt.1596-1642
c.1625-1680
c.1585- ?
c.1550-1618+
c.1550-1618+
Edward
William
Edward
William
Thomas
John
Richard
Mr.Richard
Matthew
Edward
William
Sir William
Richard
William
Edward
William
Sir William
Generation C:
Ambrose
Ambrose, gent
Ambrose
Anna
Anne
Audrey
Blaze
Bridget
Charles
Christopher
Dorathey
Dorothy
Dorothy
Edward
Edward
Edward
Edward
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
c.1550-1618+
c.1580- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1540- ?
c.1540-1602
c.1575- ?
c.1540- ?
c.1550-1615
c.1575- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1540- ?
1556-1630
c.1540- ?
c.1540- ?
c.1525- ?
c.1575- ?
Blaston
unknown
Ambrose
Edward
Joseph
William
Robert
Robert
Thomas
Ambrose
Ambrose
Francis
Edward
Ambrose
Francis
William
Robert
George
Francis
Mary Coningsby
(e,m)
(r)
(v)
(d)
Anne Hawtrey
(l,m)
(r)
Frances Shukbrugh (m.1578)
(c)
(c)
(f)
(r)
Golde Tompson
(t)
Thomas Wood
(r)
(r)
(r)
Margaret Booty
(t)
Rafe Whaley
(r)
(t)
Elizabeth ______ (d.1656) (d)
______ Lago
(t)
1.Elizabeth Charge (m.1584)
2.Frances FitzHugh
(a)
Pottsgrave, Beds
4.Frances Staunton
(a)
(g,r)
(t)
_______ Pleydell
(r)
(a)
Phoebe Cleeve
(c)
(c)
Alice Watkins
(l)
(v)
(f,i)
(g,r)
(r)
(a,r)
Isabell Willde (m.1616) (v,y,z)
Anne Mannock
(p)
(r)
Mary Brownlow
(r)
(a,r)
Long Marston, Herts
Siresham, Northants
Amersham, Bucks
North Marston, Bucks
Dinton, Bucks
Brixworth, Northants
(f)
Sibbertoft, Northants
Woolstor, Berks
Woolstor, Berks
Shankton, Leics
E. Haddon, Northants
Bedworth, War
Sibbertoft, Northants
E. Haddon, Northants
Siresham, Northants
Bedworth, War
Brixworth, Northants
Bedworth, War
North Marston, Bucks
Bedworth, War
(a,l)
Wavenden, Bucks
Pottsgrave, Beds
Martha Cotton
Martha Cotton (m.1606)
Alice Chapman
______ Gilbert
Philip Hanard
Sir George Villers
Sibbertoft, Northants
Mowsley, Leics
Sibbertoft, Northants
Bedworth, War
Faxton, Northants
Harrington, Northants
Flore, Northants
Flore, Northants
Agmondesham,Bucks
Sibbertoft, Northants
Sibbertoft, Northants
Shankton, Leics
Bedworth, War
Sibbertoft, Northants
Brixworth, Northants
Harrington, Northants
Flore, Northants
London
Welford, Northants
(a)
(aa)
(f,h)
(t)
(k)
(a,n,q)
(g)
Robert Willoughby
(a,g,r)
d.s.p.
(l)
(r)
Francis Morgan
(r)
John Thornton
(f,i,r)
_______ Adams
(t)
(r)
Milicent Temple (m.1583) (f,i,r)
Susannah Tunbolton?
(a,h,q)
Frances Tirringham
(a,g,r)
(a,o)
Thomas Tirringham
(f,r)
Pottsgrave, Beds
Flore, Northants
Bedworth, War
Brixworth, Northants
E. Haddon, Northants
Woolstor, Berks
Woolstor, Berks
Agmondesham,Bucks
Amersham, Bucks
Shankton, Leics
Flore, Northants
Welford, Northants
E. Haddon, Northants
Amersham, Bucks
Blofield, Norf
Brixworth, Northants
Welford, Northants
East Haddon, Northants
Frances
Francis
Francis
George
Hugh
Jane
John
John
John
Laurence
Lawrence
Libius
Margery
Mark
Mary
Mary
Matthew
Richard
c.1575- ?
c.1575- ?
c.1540- ?
c.1525- ?
c.1575- ?
c.1540- ?
c.1590-1638
c.1575- ?
c.1525- ?
c.1540- ?
c.1560- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1540- ?
c.1561-1563
c.1543- ?
c.1540- ?
c.1575-1623
c.1550- ?
Francis
Francis
Ambrose
George
Valentine
Ambrose
Thomas
Valentine
George
Blaston
Ambrose
Edward
Ambrose
Joseph
Sir Edward
Ambrose
Francis
John
Richard
Richard senior
Richard
Richard
Richard
c.1560-1629/30
c.1560-1629
c.1550-1629
c.1550-1629
c.1550- ?
unknown
unknown
unknown
unknown
Thomas
Richard
Samuel
Samuel
Susanna
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Valentine
Walter
William
William
William
Sir William
c.1535-1602
c.1553- ?
c.1550-1588+
c.1575- ?
c.1575- ?
c.1575- ?
c.1540- ?
c.1540- ?
c.1525- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1575- ?
c.1525- ?
c.1575-1625
1538- ?
c.1540-1618+
c.1525-1612+
Francis?
Rev.Laurence
unknown
Francis
Thomas
Thomas
Ambrose
Robert
George
John
Valentine
George
Valentine
Thomas
Francis
Clement
William
William
William
c.1525- ?
c.1535- ?
c.1525- ?
Clement
Ambrose
Edward
Generation D:
Alice
Ambrose
Anne
c.1525- ?
c.1515-1585
c.1525- 1564
Laurence
Thomas
Laurence
Anne
Audrey
Blaston
Bridget
Christian
Clement
Dorothy
Dorothy
Dorothye
c.1500-1591
c.1525- ?
c.1525-1585
c.1500- ?
c.1525-1544/5
c.1500- ?
c.1535-1600
c.1500- ?
c.1500- ?
Sir William
Laurence
Thomas
Sir William
Thomas
Sir William
Thomas
Sir William
Laurence
Thomas Gilbert
Frances Andrew
(f,i,r)
(f,i,r)
(r)
(a,o)
Barbara Perient
(p)
Peter Andrew
(r)
Margaret Evelyn
(c)
(p)
(a)
(a)
Frances Shukburgh
(r)
d.s.p.
(t)
John Winchcomb
(r)
d.s.p.
(k)
Thomas Morgan, esq.
(a,b,g)
Henry Weldon (c.1580) (r)
Margaret Skipwith (m.1598)
(m)
(m,e)
Johanna Osborne (m.1582) (v,y)
Joan _______ (bur.1614/15)
Ann _______ (bur.1584) (v)
Anne Isham (1558-1584) (s)
1.Anne Isham (d.1584)
(l)
2.Elizabeth Blount
(l)
Elizabeth ______
(d)
(j)
(x)
Rafe Butler
(f,i,r)
Martha Pleydell
(c)
(l)
(r)
(g,r)
(o)
Jane Clark
(e,m)
(p)
(o)
Bridget Godfrey
(p)
Anne Duncombe
(a)
Anne Morgan
(r)
1.Susan Reade
(a,r)
2.Elizabeth Bagshaw
(r)
(q)
(r)
Elizabeth Purifoy
(t)
Shankton, Leics
Siresham, Northants
Sibbertoft, Northants
London
Sutton Court, Midds
Sibbertoft, Northants
Woolstor, Berks
Sutton Court, Midds
London
Sibbertoft, Northants
Sibbertoft, Northants
Bedworth, War
Sibbertoft, Northants
Faxton, Northants
Newbold, Northants
Sibbertoft, Northants
(f,i)
Shankton, Leics
Beechwood, Herts
Dinton, Bucks
Amersham, Bucks
(v)
Amersham, Bucks
Amersham, Bucks
Amersham, Bucks
Agmondesham,Bucks
Denton, Bucks
North Marston, Bucks
London
Coventry, War
Shankton, Leics
Woolstor, Bucks
Dinton, Bucks
Sibbertoft, Northants
Floore, Northants
London
Long Marston, Herts
Sutton Court, Midds
London
Sutton Court, Midds
Pottsgrave, Beds
Welford, Northants
E. Haddon, Northants
E. Haddon, Northants
Lt.Bowdon, Northants
Sibbertoft, Northants
Bedworth, War
William Hatton (d.1546) (g)
Mary Goodwin
(f,j,q,r)
1.______ Befford
(q)
2.______ Wadham
(q)
3.Bartholomew Tate
(a,q)
4.Sir ThomasLongville d1536
Nicholas Beaumont
(a,q)
William Starkey
(a,q)
______ Godwyn?
(a,j)
Edward Browne
(a)
Christopher Breton (d.1556)
Joan (Farnham) Belgrave (a,q)
Lawrence Eyton (d.1607) (g)
Francis Ingoldsby
(a,q)
George Belgrave
(a,q)
Harrington, Northants
Sibbertoft, Northants
Harrington, Northants
Harrington, Northants
Harrington, Northants
(a,g,q) Harrington,Northants
Lt.Bowdon, Northants
Harrington, Northants
Sibbertoft, Northants
Welford, Northants
(g)
Sibbertoft, Northants
Lt.Bowdon, Northants
Sibbertoft, Northants
Lt.Bowdon, Northants
Harrington, Northants
Edward
Sir Edward
c.1500- ?
1517/18-1576
John
Thomas
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Frances
Francis
Francis
c.1535- ?
c.1525- ?
c.1500- ?
c.1534- 1606
c.1550- ?
c.1524-1585/6
Thomas
Thomas
Sir William
Sir William
Francis
Sir William
Francis
George
Isabel
Jane
John
John
c.1510-1546
c.1500-1573
c.1535-1587
c.1535- ?
c.1525- ?
c.1525- ?
unknown
Sir William
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Joseph
Katherine
c.1525-1547
c.1525- ?
Thomas
Thomas
Kinboro
Rev.Laurence
Margaret
Mary
Mary
Mary
Ralf
Richard
Robert
Robert
c.1550- ?
1519/20-1555
c.1500- ?
c.1525- ?
c.1500- ?
c.1500- ?
c.1500- ?
c.1525- ?
c.1525- ?
c.1515- ?
Francis
Thomas
Sir William
Thomas
Sir William
Sir William
Thomas?
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Saul
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Ursula
Valentine
William
William
William
c.1550- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1540- ?
c.1525-1585
c.1516- 1563
c.1511- ?
c.1550- ?
c.1535-1583
c.1519-1582
c.1525- ?
William
unknown
Thomas
William
Thomas
Laurence
Sir William
Francis
Thomas
Laurence
Laurence
Generation E:
Dorothy
Francis
Grace
John
Laurence
Thomas
Thomas
Sir William
c.1475- ?
c.1525-1578
c.1500- ?
c.1489- ?
c.1475-1545
c.1475-1528
c.1475-1550
c.1489-1542
Edward
unknown
Edward
Edward
Edward
Edward
Richard
Edward
Generation F:
Edward
Richard
Rev.William
c.1450-1514
c.1450-1524
c.1430-1452
John
William
John
Generation G:
John
c.1410-1506
Robert
Thomasine Turner
(t)
1.Margaret Englefield d.1563
2.Agnes Hussey
(b)
Thomas Catesby (d.1532) (a,g)
John Mitchell
(w)
Thomas Newman
(a,q)
Pawle Darrell (m.1552)
(a,q)
Katherine Soone
(p)
1.Elizabeth Carew
(a,f,i,r)
2.Eleanor Chaloner
(a,f,i,r)
3.Frances Pope
(a,f,i,r)
(d)
Anne Newdigate
(a,o,q)
Thomas Duncomb
(c,w)
Clement Villers
(n)
Elizabeth Puttenham
(e,m)
1.Elizabeth Duncombe
(w)
2.Ursula (Yates) Lee
(w)
Margery Yonge
(a,g,j)
1.John Egerley
(w)
2.____ Grover
(w)
William Edgar
(p)
________ (m.1549)
(b,f,i,j)
_____ Parker
(a,q)
____ Ferne
(w)
Ralph Bagott
(a,h,q)
John Sharpe
(a,o,q)
(a)
Elizabeth Saunders
(w)
(w)
1.Margaret Staunton
(a,r)
2.Joyce Goodwyn
(g)
(k)
Martha Pleydel
(c)
Mary Evelyn
(a)
(l)
Mary Goodwine
(f,j)
(h)
Thomas Haddon (m.1532) (a,q)
Mary Pratt
(p)
(j)
Frances Zouch
(q)
Mary Zouche
(a)
Bedworth, War
(a,b,g) Newbold, Northants
Newbold, Northants
Sibbertoft, Northants
Agmondesham,Bucks
Welford, Northants
Welford, Northants
Darsham, Suff
Welford, Northants
Welford, Northants
Welford, Northants
North Marston, Bucks
Welford & London
Agmondesham,Bucks
Sibbertoft, Northants
Agmondesham,Bucks
Agmondesham,Bucks
Agmondesham,Bucks
Faxton, Northants
Agmondesham,Bucks
Agmondesham,Bucks
Blaxhall, Suff
Shankton, Leics
Welford, Northants
Agmondesham,Bucks
Welford, Northants
Welford, Northants
Sibbertoft, Northants
North Marston, Bucks
Hambleden, Bucks
Flore, Northants
Flore, Northants
Brixworth, Northants
Woolstor, Berks
Sibbertoft, Northants
Agmondesham,Bucks
Faxton, Northants
Harrington, Northants
Welford, Northants
Sutton Court, Midds
Sibbertoft, Northants
Harrington, Northants
Harrington, Northants
(j)
(p)
(a,q)
(f,i,j,t)
Alice Brookesby
(a,j)
Margaret Cave
(a,j)
Alice ____
(w)
1.Dorothy Belgrave (m.1510)
2.Dorothy Young
(a)
Harrington, Northants
Blaxhall, Suff
Harrington, Northants
Bedworth, War
Harrington, Northants
Sibbertoft, Northants
Agmondesham,Bucks
(a,j)
Welford, Northants
Welford, Northants
Joan St.Owen?(d.1514)
Alice ____(d.1540)
(a,f,i,j)
(w)
(a)
Harrington, Northants
Agmondesham,Bucks
Hinton, Northants
(a,f,i,j)
Harrington, Northants
Alice Jay
Morris Osborne
Thomas
William
William
living 1444
Mayor 1469
c.1425-1480
Robert
Robert
unknown
Generation H:
Robert
Roger
c.1380-1439?
living 1402
unknown
unknown
Isobel (d.1497)
(a)
(a)
(w)
Harrington, Northants
Coventry, War
Agmondesham,Bucks
(brother of Robert?)
(a,f,i,j)
(a)
Harrington, Northants
Wendlebury, Oxon
SOURCES
(a)"Biographical Notes from the Northamptonshire Visitation of 1616", by John Holland, n.d., unpublished manuscript, pp.30 & 31.
(b)Dictionary of National Biography, 1882, xvii:811, Sir Edward Saunders; xvii:816, Laurence Saunders, martyr.
(c)Founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, by Sarah Saunders Smith, 1897, pp.4 & 5, Thomas Saunders of Woolstor, Co. Berks.
(d)History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, by George Lipscomb, 1847, i:336, Saunders of North- Marston.
(e)History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, by Robert Clutterbuck, 1815, i:362, Sebright & Saunders (Richard Saunders of
Denton).
(f)History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, by John Nichols, 1798, ii:564-565, Saunders of Foxton & Sibbertoft; ii:792, Saunders
of Shankton; ii:893, Additions & Corrections.
(g)History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton, by George Baker, 1836, i:27, Longueville of Little Billing (Anne); i:114, Eyton
of Brockhole (Dorothy); i:153, Saunders of Flore (Robert); i:196, Holdenby & Hatton of Holdenby (Alice); i:220 Breton of Teton
(Christian); i:293, Saunders of Newbold (Sir Edward); i:538, Catesby of Hinton & Althorp (Elizabeth).
(h)History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, by John Bridges, ed. by Rev. Peter Whalley, Oxford, 1791; i:593 (Welford), ii:33
(Harrington), ii:75 (Sibertoft).
(i)History of the Parish of Langton, by John Harwood Hill, 1867, p.61, Saunders of Shangton (Rev.Laurence).
(j)Lawrence Saunders the Martyr, and His Friends, by J. Hixon Irving, 1903?, pp.12 & 13 (Lawrence ancestry).
(k)Victoria History of the County of Northampton, 4:152 (Brixworth Manor), 4:170 (Faxton Manor).
(l)Visitation of Buckingham 1634, Harleian Society Publications, 58:109-111, Sanders of Wavendon, Sanders of Dinton al's Donington, and
Saunders of Denton.
(m)Visitations of Hertfordshire 1572 & 1634, Harleian Society Publications, 22:90, Saunders of Beechwood.
(n)Visitation of Leicester 1619, Harleian Society Publications, 2:29, Villers (Audrey & Jane); 2:67, Belgrave (Dorothy); 2:125, Cave
(Margaret).
(o)Visitation of London 1568, Harleian Society Publications, i:34, Saunders (George of London).
(p)Visitation of Norfolk 1664, Harleian Society Publications, 86:190, Saunders (Francis of Blaxhall).
(q)Visitation of Northampton 1564, p.44, Saunders of Little Bowdon (Clement); p.45, Saunders of Harington (Laurence).
(r)Visitation of Northamptonshire 1618-19, p.131, Saunders of Briksworth, Welford & Syresham (William); p.132, Saunders of Sibbertoft
(Ambrose); Appendix p.195, Saunders of Floore (Robert); Appendix p.196, Saunders of East Haddon (Clement).
(s)Visitation of the County of Northampton in the year 1681, Harleian Society Publications, 87:135, Morgan of Kingsthorp; 87:150,
Newton of Yardley Hastings; 87:236, Weltden of Thornby; 87:250, Isham of Lamport.
(t)Visitation of Warwick 1619, Harleian Society Publications, 12:371, Saunders (John of Northamp.).
(u)Visitation of Yorkshire 1563-4, Harleian Society Publications, 16:51, Cave (Margaret).
(v)Vital Records from Amersham Parish Registers, Bucks Record Office, Aylesbury, 1997.
(w)Will of Thomas Saunders of the Bury, Agmondesham, Co. Bucks, proved 10 June 1550.
(x)Will of Johane Brownell of Coventry, widow, proved 22 April 1590. Drury, 24.
(y)Will of Richard Saunders of Agmondesham, miller, proved in Buckingham, November, 1630.
(z)Will of Tobias Saunders of Amersham, inn holder, proved in Buckingham, 20 Feb., 1642/3.
(aa) Index Library, vol. 38, p.356, Leicestershire Marriage Licenses, 1570-1729. (Ambrose)
PAS 8/7/98
My thanks to Paul Saunders for submitting this information.
EXTRACT FROM RECORDS OF TOBIAS SAUNDERS AND HIS DESCENDANTS, BY N.B.VARS, 1880
THE SAUNDERS LINEAL OF ENGLAND
The Genealogie of "Anderson Saunders" Esq. of Newtown Laundries, in the County of Micklon [Wicklow], originally
descended and deriving his pedigree from Sir Harlowen who came into England in or about the year 1170 [1370?], and
deriving his pedigree from Robert, Lord of Insprunck [Innsbruck] in Germany, who was second brother of Rudolph,
Count of Habspurge [Hapsburg], who became Emperor [1273-1291], whose successor became the Archdukes of
Austria, Princes, Kings of many countries, as our ancient and authentic annals give an account. Transcripts of which
have been carefully preserved and lineally transmitted to the ancestors of Charles Lynegar (alias) O. Lunnin, who was
successively chief antiquarres of this Kingdom of Ireland; and his great grandfather by presenting the King at Arms of
England at that time with the Genealogies of the Nobilities of Ireland in remembrance thereof, obtained them from the
said King at Arms, the pedigree of all the most ancient and honorable families in the Kingdom of England.
Therefore the said Charles Lynegar having these transcripts did from thence bring out the following genealogies of the
said Anderson Saunders, at Trinity College the 2nd day of May, 1718 A.D.
Robert, Lord of Insprunck in Germany, who begat Charles senior, Lord of Insprunck in Germany, who begat Charles
Jr., 3rd Lord of Insprunck in Germany, who begat David, who begat Robert, who begat Enda, who begat Saunders, by
Annulla, daughter [of] Hebe the Prince of Denmark. The said Saunders was the first of his family surnamed Saunders;
who begat Harlowen Saunders, who came into England in or about the year 1170. He married Marianna, daughter of
Sir Edward Marsh, who was lineally derived of the Saxon race. He had by her Sir Robert Saunders, who married
Dorothy Vickers of Lancashire and had by her Sir Charles Saunders, who married Agnes Fosthe, of Gloucestershire,
and had by her Sir Edward Saunders, who married Anna Field of Lancashire and had by her Sir Robert Saunders, who
married Julianna Savage of Rock Savage in England and had by her Sir Richard Saunders, who married Susannah
Austurn of Kentington in Kent, and had by her Sir Edward Saunders, who married Catherine Pelkington, a Knightly
family of good antiquity, and had by her Sir Robert Saunders, who married Judith Russel of Bedford, who lineally
descended of the How family of the Earl of Medevia, Marshals of France, and had by her Sir Harlowen Saunders, who
married Marianna M. Lidger, then Knight of the most noble order of the Garter; and had by her Sir Robert Saunders,
who married Honory Forth of Gloucestershire, and had by her Sir Charles Saunders, who married Dorothy Parsons, and
had by [her] Sir Robert Saunders, who married Anabella, daughter of Marmaduke Humphrey of Kent, and had by her
Sir Harlowene Saunders, eldest son, also Robert and Charles and Richard Saunders Esq., who married Mary Stanley of
Hutton, and had by her Sir Robert Saunders Esq., who married Julianna Harrison of Yorkshire and had by her Richard
Saunders Esq., who married Elizabeth Forth and had by her Robert Saunders Esq.
Said Robert Saunders came over to Ireland with Oliver Cromwell and had a Regiment under him, was made Governor
of Kinsale, said Kingdom by said Oliver, and served under him in all his wars in the Kingdom, particularly at the seige
of Droghede [Drogheda] where he eminently distinguished himself and was wounded. (It is presumed to be about this
time that one Tobias, with two brothers by the name of Saunders, left England and came over to the New World,
America.) He begat Anderson Saunders, his third son, who married Elizabeth Batters [Battersby?], of Battersly Coast
[Battersby Court] in the city of Westminster, and had by her Anderson Saunders, Esq., who married Lucy Wymen of
Hallwood, Co. of Sligo, in Ireland, and had by her one son Richard and one daughter Anna. The said Anderson
Saunders afterwards married Miss Elizabeth Childers of Yorkshire Co. in England, by whom he had Anderson,
William and Elizabeth Saunders. Anderson married Catherine Atherton of Walton Hall, Lancashire, and had by her
Anderson Childers Saunders, (also William, John, Charles, Robert, Richard and Issabella) who married Frances
Godfrey, by whom he had Hugh Walbank Childers Saunders, also Anna, Frances, Jane, Allice, Eliza, Harriet and
Felicia.
The above Anderson Saunders Esq., for whom this Genealogy is faithfully transcribed, bears as his paternal "Coat
Armor" as follows.
Argent [silver] - a Cheveron [chevron] between three elephants' heads, erased sable [black], on the chief gules [red] a
sword erected, broken pointed, raper [proper?] between two plates: and for his Crest on a helmet, befitting his degree,
an elephant's head issuing out of crown murel [mural], argent, charged with an ogress mouth, gules double argent.
Motto - Genitum Secredere Mundo.
FROM BURKE'S GENERAL ARMORY ENTRIES FOR SANDERS/SAUNDERS IN IRELAND
SAUNDERS COURT, CO. WEXFORD. Descended from Joseph Saunders, Esq., of Saunders Court, eldest son of Col.
Robert Saunders, who went to Ireland with Oliver Cromwell, was made by him Governor of Kinsale, and had a grant of
3,725 acres in co. Wexford, 1666. The heiress of this family, Jane, only dau. of Richard Saunders, Esq., of Saunders
Court, m. 1730, Arthur, 1st Earl of Arran, to whom she conveyed the estates.
SAUNDERS GROVE, CO. WICKLOW. Descended from Robert Saunders, Esq., of Dublin, Prime Sergeant 1693,
second son of Col. Robert Saunders, Governor of Kinsale, male line extinct. The heiress, Cordelia, dau. of Morley
Saunders of Saunders Grove, Prime Sergeant 1712, m. George Pendred, Esq., to whom she conveyed the estates.
NEWTOWN SAUNDERS, CO. WICKLOW; AND LARGAY, CO. CAVAN. Descended from Anderson Saunders,
Esq., of Newtown Saunders, third son of Col. Robert Saunders, Governor of Kinsale, whose direct male descendant and
representative, Saunders, of Largay, is, by the termination of the two senior lines in heiresses, heir male of the family.
FROM THE BOSTON TRAVELER NEWSPAPER ABOUT FIFTY YEARS AGO
YOUR FAMILY ORIGIN, BY REG WILLIS, HERALDIC ARTIST
SAUNDERS
The ancient lords of Insbruck, in the Austrian Tyrol, are claimed as the ancestors of this family. Sir Harloven Saunders,
who came to England about 1370, traced his descent from Robert, Lord Insbruck, brother of Rodolph, County of
Hapsburgh and later Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1273-1291).
The family, whose name has been variously spelled as SAUNDERS, SAUNDER and SAUNDRES, held lands in the
shires of Northampton and Buckingham until the reign of Charles II (1660-1685).
About this time, the family removed to Ireland, acquiring lands in the County of Wicklow. The family later obtained
properties in Kildare, Meath and Dublin. In Ireland, members of the family were active in local government, several of
them holding the postion of magistrate for the County of Wicklow.
Other members of the family won distinction in the armed forces; in the army John Stratford Saunders attained the rank
of lieutenant-general, his nephew Edward Henry Saunders, serving in the Royal Navy, was killed while sailing home an
American ship captured during the War of 1812.
In America, the name is found among the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It is interesting to note that when
Benjamin Franklin published his famous "Poor Richard's Almanac", he used the pen-name of Richard Saunders.
EXTRACT FROM THE SAUNDERS GENEALOGY BY T. HOMER SAUNDERS
"In the earliest records of England we find the family of Alexander (spelt Alisaundre, Alisandre) holding important
positions as early as 1250. Count Alexander, from France, settled in Wiltshire. His eldest son, John Alisaundre,
summoned to Parliament as first M.P. for Arundel, Surrey, 1291 [1296?], became the ancestor of the Sussex, Dorset &
Surrey Saunderses. Arms - Three bulls heads. The second son, Sir Robert Alysandre of Meltsham, Wilts, was the
ancestor of the Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Hertfordshire & Irish Saunderses. Arms - Three elephants heads. Younger
sons were Nicholas, William, Herman, Roger and Richard."
EXTRACT FROM BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES FROM THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE VISITATION OF 1616 BY
JOHN HOLLAND
"This family have been seated in the Centrical Counties of England many ages particularly at Hetherington, annciently
spelled Arintone, since Harrington in the Hundred of Rothwell, County of Northampton. Arintone is bounded on the
East side by Rothwell, on the North by Arthingworth & on the West & South by Kelmarsh Yorton. The old Manour
House stands on a high site, the lands contain according to Doomsday Book 10 Carracutes in Demesne, 17 Villians
[villeins], 13 Cottages, 4 free Sounen [?] & 4 mills. 12 Henry 3rd [1228] it was presented by John DeMontainti to the
Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, at which time the Saunders Family were the Anncient Tennants here.
They afterwards held these lands of the Prior Hospitallers by Fealty, untill the Dissolutions of the Monasteries by
Henry 8th when their Descendants, by the Inquisition taken 36 said reign [1545], was found to have held them of the
King. The Family is of Saxon origin & annciently spelled their name Saundhurst."
PAS 4/29/98
Reply-to: glyn.davies@cwcom.net
Hello Jefferson, I have gone through all the colliery casualty lists and made the following extraction’s:Black Vein, Risca, Dec 1st 1860, 142 dead. Father and son.
Isaac Saunders, aged 42, choke damp
Llewellyn Saunders, aged 11, came out alive but burnt, died Dec 6 1860.
New Tredegar Colliery, Explosion, Sat Dec 3 1875, 22 dead.
George Saunders, unmarried of Troedyrhiwfuwch
Tylorstown, Jan 28 1896, 57 dead
Robert Saunders, widower
Middle Duffryn, Aberdare, explosion Dec 12 1850
William Saunders, aged 12, doorboy
Ferndale Colliery explosion, Nov 8 1867, 159 dead
Benjamin Saunders, aged 20
Park Slip, Tondu, Aug 26 1892, 110 dead
Herbert Saunders
Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, Sat 25 Jun 1894, 281 dead
Fred Sanders, aged 21 of 4 Evan’s Houses
Charles Saunders, aged 43 of 53 Anne Street
Abercarn, Fire and Flood, Sept 11 1878, 259 dead
Henry Saunders, aged 15
Richard Saunders, aged 37.