'Clavering2'
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Families covered: Clavering of Axell Park, Clavering of Callaly, Clavering of Greencroft, Clavering of Yatlington

Sir Alan de Clavering of Callaly and Yatlington (d c02.1328)
m. Isabella Riddell (dau of William Riddell of Tilmouth)
1. William de Clavering of Callaly and Yatlington (b c1304)
  m. Mathilda (d 28.11.1351)
  A. Sir Robert de Clavering of Callaly and Yatlington (b c1326, d 17.01.1394)
i. Sir John Clavering of Callaly and Yatlington (b c1364, d 22.03.1425)
  m. Johanna (dau of Thomas Hetton or Heton)
  a. Robert Clavering of Callaly and Yatlington (b c1402, d 21.03.1453)
  m. Elizabeth
  (1) Robert Clavering of Callaly and Yatlington (b c1430)
(A) John Clavering of Callaly (d 06.09.1518)
  Commoners shows John as father of Robert (m. Joan Reims of Shortflat) father of John (m. Elizabeth Fenwick). We (provisionally) follow Blacker Morgan's book.
  m. Joan Remis (of Shortslet)
  (i) John Clavering of Callaly (b c1503, d 14.12.1536)
  m. Elizabeth Fenwick of Fenwick
  (a) Robert Clavering of Callaly (d 1583) - continued below
  m. Ann Grey (dau of Sir Thomas Grey of Horton)
  (ii) Anne Clavering probably of this generation
  m1. Robert Raymes of Shortflat
  m2. John Swinburne of Chopwell (b c1504, a 09.1545)
  (B) Robert Clavering ancestor of Claverings of Learchild & Tilmouth

 

 

Robert Clavering of Callaly (d 1583) - continued above
m. Ann Grey (dau of Sir Thomas Grey of Horton)
1. Robert Clavering of Callaly
  m. Mary Collingwood (dau of Sir Cuthbert Collingwood of Eslington)
A. Sir John Clavering of Callaly
 

m. Anne Riddell (dau of Sir Thomas Riddell)

  i. Sir Robert Clavering (dvp unm, Colonel)
  ii. Ralph Clavering of Callaly
  m. Mary Middleton (dau of William Middleton of Stokeld)
  a.

John Clavering of Callaly (b 1659)

  m. Anne Widdrington (dau of William, Lord Widdrington, by Elizabeth Bertie)
(1) Ralph Clavering of Callaly (b 1695)
  m. (1723) Mary Stapleton (dau of Nicholas Stapleton of Ponteland & Carleton)
  (A) Ralph Clavering of Callaly (b 27.06.1727)
  m1. (sp) Eliza Egan (dau of James Egan)
  m2. Frances Lynch (dau of John Lynch)
  (i) John Aloysius Clavering of Callaly (b 1765, dsp 01.12.1826)
  m1. Christina Swynburne (dau of Sir Edward Swynburne, Bart)
  m2. (1819-20) Catherine Selby (dau of Thomas Selby of Beddleston)
  m3. (1767) Mary Walsh (dau of Edward Walsh)
  (ii) Edward Clavering of Callaly Castle had issue
  m. (10.10.1803) Mary Byrne (dau of J.O. Byrne)
  (iii) Lucy Clavering
  m1. John Stapleton of Clintz
  m2. J. Paston of Norfolk
(iv) Frances Clavering
  m. Henry Robinson
  (v)+ other issue - Anne, Ellen, Eliza
  (B) Francis Clavering
  m. Eleanor Lambton of Durham
  (2) Anne Clavering
  m. F. Maire of Hardwick
  (3)+ other issue (d unm)
  b. Mary Clavering
  m. Gerrard Salvin of Croxdale
  iii. William Clavering ancestor of Claverings of Berrington
2. John Clavering
3. James Clavering of Axwell Park, Mayor of Newcastle
  m. Grace Nicholson (dau of Roger Nicholson of Newcastle)
A. John Clavering of Axwell Park
  m. Ann Shaftoe (dau of Robert Shaftoe of Newcastle)
  i. Sir James Clavering of Axwell Park, 1st Bart (a 1661)
  m. Jane Maddison (dau of Charles Maddison of Satwell Side)
  a. John Clavering (dvp)
  m. (15.09.1663) Dorothy Savile (b 01.05.1647, dau of John Savile of Methley)
  (1) Sir James Clavering of Axwell Park, 2nd Bart
  m. Elizabeth Middleton (dau of Sir William Middleton, Bart of Belsay Castle)
(A) (Elizabeth) Clavering
  m. Nicholas Fenwick
  (B)+ 2 sons (d infant)
  (2) Sir John Clavering, 3rd Bart
  m. Jane Mallaber (dau of Robert Mallaber)
  (A) Sir James Clavering, 4th Bart (d unm 1726)
  (B) Alice Clavering (d 24.11.1776)
  m. (12.08.1735) Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor of Blackcastle, 2nd Lord Mountjoy (bpt 01.05.1707, d 25.01.1758)
(C) Elizabeth Clavering (dsp 11.08.1742)
  m. (21.04.1737) James Petty, Viscount Dunkeron (son of 1st Earl of Shelburne)
  (3) Sir Francis Clavering, 5th Bart (dsp 1738)
  (4)+ 3 daughters
  b. James Clavering of Greencroft (b 17.09.1647, d 26.01.1721)
  m. Jane Ellison (d 15.03.1718, dau of Benjamin Ellison of Newcastle)
  (1) Sir James Clavering of Greencroft, 6th Bart
  m1. (1702-3) Catharine York (dau of Thomas York of Richmond)
  (A) Sir Thomas Clavering, 7th Bart (dsp)
  (B) George Clavering of Greencroft
  m1. (sp) Elizabeth Browell (dau of Rev. Edward Browell)
  m2. Mary Palmer (dau of Rev. Palmer of Comb Raleigh)
(i) Sir Thomas John Clavering, 8th Bart (b 06.04.1771, d 1853) had issue
  m. (21.08.1791) Clara de Gallais (dau of John de Gallais, Count de la Sable)
  (ii) Catherine Clavering (d unm 1785)
  m3. (1777) Margaret Ellison (dau of Rev. John Ellison)
  (C) Sir James John Clavering (d 1777, Lt. General, CIC Bengal)
  m. (09.11.1756) Diana West (d 05.1766, dau of John West, 1st Earl De La Warr)
  (i) Charles Clavering
  m. _ Adair
  (a) Diana Clavering
  m. _ Elphinstone (Colonel)
(ii) Henry Clavering (Brigadier General)
  m. Augusta Campbell (b 31.03.1760, d 22.06.1831, dau of John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll)
  (a) Rawdon Clavering had issue
  m. Jane Dunbar (dau of Sir Archibald Dunbar, Bart)
  (b) Douglas Clavering (dsp)
  (c) Charlotte Catherine Clavering
  m. (27.12.1817) Miles Fletcher
  (iii) Maria Margaret Clavering (d 29.12.1821)
  m. (16.12.1784) Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (b 23.02.1758, d 01.08.1823)
(iv) Charlotte Clavering (d 23.10.1841)
  m. (28.04.1783) Sir Thomas Pechell, later Brooke-Pechell, 2nd Bart (b 23.01.1753, d 18.06.1826, Major General)
  (v) Caroline Clavering
  m. Sir Borlase Warren
  m2. (sp) ??
  The following connection was kindly provided by a site visitor (DS. 14.11.03).
  (2) Elizabeth (or Alice ?) Clavering (b 20.1.1681)
  m. George Grey of Southwick (b 20.02.1680, d 24.05.1772)
  (A) George Grey of Southwick (b 1713, d 1746)
  m. Elizabeth Ogle (b 1714, dau of Nathaniel Ogle of Kirkley)
  (i) Elizabeth Grey (b 1744, d 26.05.1822)
  m. (08.06.1762) Sir Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey (b 23.10.1729, d 14.11.1807, CIC)
4. Isabella Clavering possibly of this generation
  m. Thomas Selby of Biddleston

Main sources:
(1) Upper section: 'The Titular Barony of Clavering' (by G. Blacker Morgan, privately printed in 1891), Commoners (vol I, Clavering of Callaly)
(2) Lower section: Commoners (vol I, Clavering of Callaly), BP1870 (Clavering)
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