WILLOUGHBY FAMILY

II. PARHAM LINE

William WILLOUGHBY (1° B. Willoughby of Parham)

Born: ABT 1515, Parham, Suffolk, England

Acceded: 20 Feb 1547

Died: 30 Jul 1570, Minting Park, Lincolnshire, England

Buried: 15 Aug 1570, Parham Church, Suffolk, England

Notes: See his Biography.

Father: Christopher WILLOUGHBY of Parham (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth TALBOYS

Married 1: Elizabeth HENEAGE (B. Willoughby of Parham) ABT 1535

Children:

1. Charles WILLOUGHBY (2° B. Willoughby of Parham)

2. Mary WILLOUGHBY

Married 2: Margaret GARNEYS (V. Hereford) (w. of Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford) AFT 20 Aug 1559


Charles WILLOUGHBY (2° B. Willoughby of Parham)

Father: William WILLOUGHBY (1° B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Elizabeth HENEAGE (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Married: Margaret CLINTON FIENNES (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Children:

1. William WILLOUGHBY

2. Ambrose WILLOUGHBY of Malton (Sir)

3. Thomas WILLOUGHBY (Sir Knight)

4. Edward WILLOUGHBY

5. Anne WILLOUGHBY


Anne WILLOUGHBY

Father: Charles WILLOUGHBY (2º B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Margaret CLINTON FIENNES (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Married: William PELHAM of Brocklesby (Sir) BEF 1593

Children:

1. William PELHAM of Brocklesby (d. 1644) (m. Frances Conway)

2. Henry PELHAM

3. Son PELHAM

4. Dau. PELHAM

5. Son PELHAM

6. Son PELHAM

7. Son PELHAM

8. Son PELHAM

9.  Son PELHAM


Edward WILLOUGHBY

Born: ABT 1570

Father: Charles WILLOUGHBY (2º B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Margaret CLINTON FIENNES (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Married: Elizabeth MANBY


Ambrose WILLOUGHBY of Malton (Sir)

Notes: 2nd son, of Malton, Gloucestershire

Father: Charles WILLOUGHBY (2º B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Margaret CLINTON FIENNES (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Married: Susan BROOKE

Children:

1. George WILLOUGHBY (Esq.)


George WILLOUGHBY (Esq.)

Father: Ambrose WILLOUGHBY of Malton (Sir)

Mother: Susan BROOKE

Married: ¿?

Children:

1. Henry WILLOUGHBY (b. 1626 - d. 1685)

2. Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY (b. ABT 1633) (m. Col. Isaac Allerton)


William WILLOUGHBY

Born: ABT 1561, Parham, Suffolk, England

Died: 1 Jun 1601

Father: Charles WILLOUGHBY (2º B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Margaret CLINTON FIENNES (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Married: Elizabeth HILDYARD (b. ABT 1558, Winsted, Yorkshire, England - d. 7 Jan 1600 - bur. Gainsborough, Lincoln, England) (dau. of Sir Christopher Hildyard and Frances Constable)

Children:

1. Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY

2. Catherine WILLOUGHBY

3. Mary WILLOUGHBY

4. William WILLOUGHBY (3º B. Willoughby of Parham)

5. Thomas WILLOUGHBY (Sir) (b. ABT 1587)

6. Honora WILLOUGHBY (b. ABT 1589)

7. Priscilla WILLOUGHBY (b. ABT 1591)

8. Ursula WILLOUGHBY (b. ABT 1593)

9. Christopher WILLOUGHBY (b. ABT 1595)

10. Edmund WILLOUGHBY (b. ABT 1597)

11. Charles WILLOUGHBY (b. ABT 1599)


Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY

Born: ABT 1582, Parham, Suffolk, England

Buried: 18 Nov 1622

Father: William WILLOUGHBY

Mother: Elizabeth HILDYARD

Married: William HICKMAN (Sir)

Children:

1. William HICKMAN

2. Willoughby HICKMAN


Catherine WILLOUGHBY

Born: 1583, Parham, Suffolk, England

Died: 15 Aug 1658

Father: William WILLOUGHBY

Mother: Elizabeth HILDYARD

Married: Joseph GODFREY 15 Jun 1604, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England

Children:

1. Mary GODFREY (b. 30 Mar 1605)

2. Elizabeth GODFREY (b. 18 Mar 1606)

3. William GODFREY (b. 22 Mar 1607)

4. Willoughby GODFREY (b. 8 Nov 1609)

5. Grusilla GODFREY (b. 18 Sep 1611) (m. George Wawen)

6. Francis GODFREY (b. 9 Aug 1613)

7. John GODFREY (b. 14 Jul 1615)


Mary WILLOUGHBY

Born: ABT 1584, Parham, Suffolk, England

Father: William WILLOUGHBY

Mother: Elizabeth HILDYARD

Maried: William BOOTH (Sir) 5 Mar 1601


William WILLOUGHBY (3° B. Willoughby of Parham)

Born: 1584/5

Acceded: 1612

Died: 28 Aug 1617, Knaith, England

Buried: Lincoln Cathedral, England

Notes: The Complete Peerage vol XIIpII,p.704-705.

Father: William WILLOUGHBY

Mother: Elizabeth HILDYARD

Married: Frances MANNERS (B. Willoughby of Parham) 4 Feb 1602/3, Lincoln, England

Children:

1. Henry WILLOUGHBY (4º B. Willoughby of Parham)

2. Francis WILLOUGHBY (5° B. Willoughby of Parham)

3. William WILLOUGHBY (6º B. Willoughby of Parham)

4. Frances WILLOUGHBY


Henry WILLOUGHBY (4º B. Willoughby of Parham)

Born: ABT 1603

Died: 1618

Father: William WILLOUGHBY (3° B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Frances MANNERS (B. Willoughby of Parham)


Frances WILLOUGHBY

Died: 1649

Father: William WILLOUGHBY (3° B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Frances MANNERS (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Married: Bulstrode WHITELOCKE of Chilton (Sir) (b. 1605 - d. 1675)

Children:

1. William WHITELOCKE (m. Mary Overbury)

2. Frances WHITELOCKE

3. Elizabeth WHITELOCKE

4. Mary WHITELOCKE (m. George Neville)

5. Cecily WHITELOCKE

6. Hester WHITELOCKE

7. Anne WHITELOCKE


Francis WILLOUGHBY (5° B. Willoughby of Parham)

Born: ABT 1605, Parham, Suffolk, England

Died: 1666

Notes: Bequeaths to his daughters, Frances, wife of William Lord Brereton, and Elizabeth, wife of Richard Jones, eldest son of Viscount Ranelagh, his moiety of the revenue of Barbadoes and the other Caribbee Islands (except 100,000 lbs. sugar yearly to his nephew, Henry Willoughby during his stay in Barbadoes), and to their younger children (not their eldest sons) after them; also to his said daughters his plantations, &c. on Antigua, and two-thirds of his moiety of the land in the Province of Willoughby Land, and two-thirds of his plantation of Parham Hall, on the river of Surinam, and all his private estate in Willoughy Land. To said Henry Willoughby the remaining thirds of his lands in Willoughby Land and Surinam; to his nephew, William Willoughby, £200 per annum for life; to Dr. Peter La Rouse, for his constant care, £50,000. Muscovado sugar, formerly lent to him; to his executors 20,000 lbs. sugar apiece, wherewith to buy each other a ring; to Jane, wife of William Frith, clerk, for her faithful care in the government of testator's family, £20,000 sugar and £20 per annum for life; also legacies or annouities to his servants, John Fowlles, Dixon, Robert Stokes, Edward Spragg, Dodsworth, Nicholas Walker, and Richard Wills. Appoints Henry Willoughby, his nephew, Thomas Wardall, Samuel Barwick, Dr. Peter La Rouse, and testator's secretary, Henry Haughton, executors. To Henry Haughton, for his faithful services, and to attend to the payment of legacies and look after the plantations at Antigua and Surinam, his expenses and 100l. per annum for life. Appoints his brother, William Willoughby, Sir Bulstrode Whitelock, and Sir Charles Pim, overseers in trust of this will, with £20 apiece for a ring. Testators rents, issues, and profits in England or elsewhere to be paid to John Champante of London, merchant - who for his pains is allowed £100 per annum - to such uses as his said daughters or their children shall direct.
Annexed is an Order from William, Archbishop of Canterbury, appointing Elizabeth Viscountess Ranelagh administratix of this will, dated London, 10 May 1678. Died 1666 in the ship Hope when she sank in a hurricane. (Burkes Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages)

Father: William WILLOUGHBY (3° B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Frances MANNERS (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Married: Elizabeth CECIL (B. Willoughby of Parham) ABT 1629

Children:

1. Diana WILLOUGHBY (C. Winchelsea)

2. Frances WILLOUGHBY

3. Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY (C. Ranelagh)

4. William WILLOUGHBY


Diana WILLOUGHBY (C. Winchelsea)

Born: ABT 1625, Parham, Suffolk, England

Buried: 27 Mar 1648, Eastwell, Kent, England

Father: Francis WILLOUGHBY (5° B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Elizabeth CECIL (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Married: Heneage FINCH (2° E. Winchelsea) 21 May 1645, St. Giles In Field, London, Middlesex, England

Children:

1. Son FINCH (bur. 27 Sep 1647)


Frances WILLOUGHBY

Born: 1625

Died: 1659

Father: Francis WILLOUGHBY (5° B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Elizabeth CECIL (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Married: William BRERETON (3° B. Brereton of Leighin) BEF 1644, Rutland, Derbyshire, England

Children:

1. John BRERETON (4° B. Brereton of Leighlin)

2. William BRERETON

3. Francis BRERETON (5° B. Brereton of Leighlin)


Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY (C. Ranelagh)

Died: 1 Aug 1695

Father: Francis WILLOUGHBY (5° B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Elizabeth CECIL (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Married: Richard JONES (1º E. Ranelagh) 28 Oct 1662

Children:

1. Elizabeth JONES (b. 1663 - d. 1684)

2. Elizabeth JONES (b. 1665 - d. 1758)

3. Catherine JONES (b. 1668 - d. 1740)

4. Frances JONES (b. 1671 - d. 1714)


William WILLOUGHBY (6º B. Willoughby of Parham)

Born: ABT 1616

Died: 1673

Father: William WILLOUGHBY (3° B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Frances MANNERS (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Married: Anne CAREY (B. Willoughby of Parham) ABT 1636

Children:

1. George WILLOUGHBY (7° B. Willoughby of Parham)

2. John WILLOUGHBY (9º B. Willoughby of Parham) (b. 1643 - d. 1678)

3. Charles WILLOUGHBY (10º B. Willoughby of Parham) (b. 1650 - d. 1679)

4. William WILLOUGHBY (b. 1651 - d. AFT Jul 1668)

5. Henry WILLOUGHBY (Hon. Gov. of Antigua) (b. AFT 1652)

6. Anne WILLOUGHBY (b. 1652) (m. John Harpur)

7. Catherine WILLOUGHBY (b. 1655 - d. 1689) (m. Charles Cockayne)


George WILLOUGHBY (7° B. Willoughby of Parham)

Born: 1636

Died: 1674

Notes: Hon. James Bertie, born in Mar 1673, was seated at Stanwell, in Middlesex County and was one of the representatives of the County of Middlesex in the last three parliaments of Queen Anne, the two following called by George I, and the first summoned by George II. On Jan 5, 1692, he married Elizabeth, the only surviving daughter of George Willoughby, seventh Lord Willoughby of Parham, and by the death of her brother John, eighth Lord Willoughby (to whom she was heir), and by the will of her uncle Charles, tenth Lord Willoughby (who left no issue), inherited a great estate. She was born Apr 26, 1673 and died Sep 26, 1715. She gave birth to fourteen children of whom six lived to maturity. "James Bertie distinguished himself as a friend to the liberties of his country". He died in the year 1735 and was succeeded by his son Willoughby who afterwards became the third Earl of Abingdon. James' second son, Edward of Gray's Inn, County of Middlesex, was a lawyer and with three others handled the legal papers when the property of the Lords Proprietors was transferred in 1729 to the King. He died in 1734.

Father: William WILLOUGHBY (6º B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Anne CAREY (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Married: Elizabeth CLINTON FIENNES

Children:

1. John WILLOUGHBY (8º B. Willoughby of Parham)

2. Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY


Thomas WILLOUGHBY (Sir Knight)

Father: Charles WILLOUGHBY (2º B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Margaret CLINTON FIENNES (B. Willoughby of Parham)

Married: Mary THORNEY

Children:

1. Thomas WILLOUGHBY (11º B. Willoughby of Parham)


Thomas WILLOUGHBY (11º B. Willoughby of Parham)

Died: 1691

Father: Thomas WILLOUGHBY (11º B. Willoughby of Parham)

Mother: Mary THORNEY

Married: Eleanor WHITTLE (dau. of Hugh Whittle)

Children:

1. Son WILLOUGHBY (12º B. Willoughby of Parham)

2. Francis WILLOUGHBY (13º B. Willoughby of Parham) (m. Eleanor Rothwell)


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