'Cunliffe1'
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Families covered: Cunliffe of Acton Park, Cunliffe in Liverpool

BP1934 reports that this family claims Saxon origin and that descended from Adam de Conlive of Cunliffe (a 1275) was ...
John Cunliffe of Hollins (a 1660)
m1. _ Hartley (dau of _ Hartley of Winewall)
m2. Mary Cheatham (dau of Ralph Cheatham of Castleton)
Not known which wife was mother of ...
1. Nicholas Cunliffe (eldest son) ancestor of Cunliffes of Wycollar
  m. _ Foster (dau of _ Foster of Airton)
2. Ellis Cunliffe (rector of Newmarket and Etwall)
  m. _ Foster (dau of _ Foster of Airton)
  A. Foster Cunliffe in Liverpool (MP)
  m. Margaret Carter (dau of Robert Carter of Lancashire)
  i. Sir Ellis Cunliffe in Liverpool, 1st Bart (b 12.04.1717, d 16.10.1767, MP)
  m. (19.12.1760) Mary Bennet (d 08.10.1814, dau of Henry Bennet of Moston)
  a. Mary Cunliffe (dsp 27.02.1804)
  m. Sir Drummond Smith, 1st Bart of Tring Park (d 22.01.1816)
b. Margaret Elizabeth Cunliffe
  m. William Gosling of Roehampton Grove
  ii. Sir Robert Cunliffe, 2nd Bart of Acton Park (b 17.05.1719, d 1778)
  m. (1752) Mary Wright (d 19.02.1791, dau of Ichabod Wright of Nottingham)
  a. Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Bart (b 08.02.1755, d 15.06.1834)
  m. (01.10.1781) Harriet Kinloch (d 09.09.1830, dau of Sir David Kinloch, Bart)
  (1) Foster Cunliffe, later Cunliffe-Offley of Madeley (b 17.08.1782, dvpsp 19.04.1832)
  m. (21.04.1809) Elizabeth Emma Crewe (d 15.02.1850, dau of John Crewe, 1st Lord)
  (2) Sir Robert Henry Cunliffe, 4th Bart (b 22.04.1785, d 10.09.1859, General) had issue
  m1. (15.12.1805) Louisa (d 04.05.1822, widow of Major Arthur Forest)
  m2. (02.04.1825) Susan Emily Paton (d 11.11.1856, dau of Col. John Paton)
(3) Ellis Watkin Cunliffe (b 05.09.1787, d 20.12.1866) had issue
  m. (13.06.1822) Carolin Kingston (d 1856, dau of John Kingston)
  (4) Brooke Cunliffe of Erbistock Hall (b 23.07.1790, d 11.12.1857) had issue
  m1. (1814) Mary Pirrie (d 11.09.1825, dau of John Pirrie)
  m2. (1827) Elizabeth Rayson (d 04.08.1833, dau of John Rayson)
  m3. (12.09.1850) Frances Lyon (d 16.01.1865, dau of Rev. James R. Lyon)
  (5) George Cunliffe (b 03.06.1795, vicar of Wrexham)
  m. (08.02.1821) Dorothea Townshend (d 1877, dau of J.S. Townshend of Trevallyn)
  (6) Mary Cunliffe (d 14.06.1838)
  m. (09.04.1808) Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn (d 02.09.1850)
(7) Harriot Cunliffe (d 13.04.1825)
  m. (04.12.1809) Sir Richard Brooke, 6th Bart of Norton (b 118.08.1785, d 11.11.1865)
  (8)+ other issue - Emma (b c1793, d 19.11.1875), Charlotte (b c1795, d 27.12.1875)
  b. Elizabeth Cunliffe
  m. (04.1782) Clement Stafford Courtney
  c. Mary Cunliffe (d 13.04.1825)
  m. (04.05.1780) Sir Richard Brooke, 5th Bart of Norton (d 06.03.1795)
  d. Margaret Cunliffe (d 16.12.1826)
  m. (02.05.1780) Thomas Brooke of Church Minshull (b 1760, d 16.12.1826)
  iii. Anne Cunlliffe (b 1715) apparently of this generation
  m. (1728) Charles Pole of Holtcroft (b 06.09.1695, d 09.1779, MP)
  iv. daughter

Main source(s): BP1934 (Cunliffe, Barts)
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