'Smithson1'
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Families covered: Smithson of Stanwick, Percy of Beverley, Percy of Northumberland

Anthony Smithson of Newsome
m. Eleanor Catterick (dau of George Catterick of Stanwick)
1. Sir Hugh Smithson, 1st Bart of Stanwick (b c1598, d 21.10.1670, 2nd son)
  m. Dorothy Rawsthorne (dau of Jerome Rawsthorne of Plaistow)
  A. Sir Jerome Smithson, 2nd Bart of Stanwick (b c1630, 1689)
  m. Mary Wingate (bpt 30.08.1636, dau of Edward Wingate of Lockley Hall)
i. Sir Hugh Smithson, 3rd Bart of Stanwick (b 1657, d 02.03.1733)
  m. Elizabeth Langdale (dau of Marmaduke Langdale, 2nd Lord of Holme)
  a. Langdale Smithson of Stanwick (dvp, 2nd son)
  m. Philadelphia Reveley (dau of William Reveley of Newby Wisk)
  (1) Sir Hugh Smithson, 4th Bart of Stanwick, later Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b 1714, d 06.06.1786)
  m. (16.07.1740) Elizabeth Seymour, Baroness Percy (b 26.11.1716, d 05.12.1776, dau of Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset)
(A) Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland (b 14.08.1742, d 10.07.1817, General)
  m1. (02.07.1764, div 16.03.1779) Anne Stuart (b 08.1746, dau of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute)
  m2. (23.05.1779) Frances Julia Burrell (b 21.12.1752, d 28.04.1820, dau of Peter Burrell of Langley Park)
  (i) Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b 20.04.1785, dsp 11.02.1847)
  m. (29.04.1817) Charlotte Florentia Clive (b 12.09.1787, d 27.07.1866, dau of Edward Clive, 1st Earl Powis)
  (ii) Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland (b 15.12.1792, dsp 12.02.1865, Admiral)
m. (25.08.1842) Eleanor Grosvenor (b 22.10.1820, d 04.05.1911, dau of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster)
  (iii) Agnes Percy (dsp 04.06.1856, 3rd dau)
  m. (16.08.1821) Frederick Thomas Buller of Pelynt and Lanreath (d 06.1860)
  (iv) Emily Percy (b 07.01.1789, d 20.06.1844)
  m. (19.05.1810) James Murray, 1st Lord Glenlyon (b 29.05.1782, d 12.10.1837)
  (v)+ other issue (d unm) - Elizabeth (d 10.01.1820), Julia (d 20.03.1812)
  (B) Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley (b 21.01.1750, d 21.10.1830)
  m. (08.06.1775) Isabella Susannah Burrell (d 24.01.1812, dau of Peter Burrell of Langley Park)
  (i) George Percy, 2nd Earl of Beverley, 5th Duke of Northumberland (b 22.06.1778, d 22.08.1867) had issue
m. (22.06.1801) Louisa Harcourt Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (b 10.1781, d 31.01.1848, dau of James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie of Wortley)
  (ii) Hugh Percy, Bishop of Carlisle (b 29.01.1784, d 05.02.1856) had issue
  m1. (19.05.1806) Mary Sutton (d 04.09.1831, dau of Charles Manners Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury)
  m2. (03.02.1840) Mary Hope-Johnstone (dsp 22.11.1851, dau of Sir William Hope-Johnstone)
  (iii) Josceline Percy (b 29.01.1784, d 19.10.1856, Vice Admiral) had issue
  m. (09.12.1820) Sophia Elizabeth Walhouse (d 13.12.1875, dau of Moreton Walhouse of Hatherton)
  (iv) Charles Percy, later Greatheed-Bertie-Percy (b 04.03.1794, d 11.10.1870) had issue (1 dau)
m. (20.03.1822) Anne Caroline Greatheed (b c1805, d 08.06.1882, granddau of Bertie Bertie Greatheed of Guyscliff)
  (v) Charlotte Percy (d 26.11.1832)
  m. (23.07.1795) George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham (b 25.12.1760, d 27.10.1830)
  (vi) Emily Charlotte Percy (d 22.05.1877)
  m. (25.07.1808) Andrew Mortimer Drummond of Charing Cross and Denham (d 01.06.1864)
  (vii)+ other issue - Algernon (b 1779, d 1833), Henry (b 14.09.1785, d 1825, Lt. Colonel), William Henry (b 24.03.1788, d 05.10.1855, Rear Admiral), Francis John (b 1790, d 23.08.1812, Captain), Susannah Elizabeth (d unm 07.04.1847)
  (C) Elizabeth Percy (d unm 27.05.1761)
  b. Anthony Smithson of Armine & Tottenham had issue - probably of this generation
  m. Susanna Barkham (dau of Sir Edward Barkham of Southacre, Bart)
  c.+

4 daughters (nuns)

  ii. Dorothy Smithson apparently of this generation
  m. (1686-7) Thomas Pulleine of Carleton Hall
  B. Hugh Smithson of St. Augustine's
  m(2). (05.1663) Alice Yeend

Main sources: BP1934 (Northumberland), TCB (volume 3).
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