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Families covered: Barley of Albury, Barlee of Bibsworth
This family is still being researched. It has NOT yet been launched formally into the Database but is shown here as DRAFT in the hope that one or more visitors to the site will contribute information that will enable us to develop this Family List to an acceptable standard.
First displayed: 18.12.08Last updated: 18.12.08Back to 'Can You Help ?'

(1) We believe it to be likely that both of the families shown on this page were connected to the Barleys of Barley (Hertfordshire) but we not yet know how.
(2) We have seen a web site (FabPedigree.com) which provides the following pedigree:. Simon (a 1066) father of John father of Robert father of John father of Roger father of Ralph father of Robert father of John (a 1270) father of George father of George father of Richard father of the following John (m. Joan de Lee) father of John (m. Catherine de Walden) father of Henry m. Anne Colvill) father of William (m. Elizabeth Darcy) father of Henry (m. Anne Grey) father of Elizabeth (m. Edward Leventhorp). Whilst the later generations largely follow VCH (see note just below), we hope to find support (or otherwise) from another source for the earlier generations in due course. Chauncy starts with ...
John Barley
m. Joan de la Lee (dau/coheir of Sir John de la Lee of Albury)
VCH (Hertfordshire, vol 3, Parishes - Braughing) shows the manor of Cockhamsted (which apparently was linked to Albury) passing from John & Joan to John (d 02.1445-6, m. "Katherine of the Prior of Anglesey") to Henry (d 1475) father of William (d 03.1521-2) father of Henry (d 1529) father of William father of the Dorothy who married Thomas Leventhorpe. Chauncy showed it as follows ...
1. William Barley of Albury, Sheriff of Hertfordshire & Essex (a 1425, 1445)
  A. Henry Barley of Albury, Sheriff of Hertfordshire & Essex (d 1475-6)
  m. Katharine
i. daughter
  ii. daughter
  m. _ Lenthal
  iii. daughter
  m. _ Scroggs
  B. William Barley of Albury (d 1521-2)
  m. Elizabeth Darcy (dau of Sir Robert Darcy of Danbury) mentioned by 'Tudor' (see note just below)
i. Henry Barley of Albury, Sheriff of Hertfordshire & Essex (b 1487, d 12.11.1529)
  Chauncy reports that Henry married Lady Anne, widow of Edward, Lord Grey. As no other marriage was mentioned, this implies that she was mother of all of his children. However, 'Tudor' reports that 'History of Parliament' reports that he married twice, as reported below. His son William is reported to have been aged 19 when Henry made his will (10.1529) and it is thought that Lord Edward Grey, one of Anne Jerningham's earlier husbands, died not long before 1517. Accordingly, Elizabeth must have been mother of at least William.
  m1. Elizabeth Northwood (dau/coheir of John Northwood of Northwood)
  a. William Barley of Albury (b c1510, d 1564-5)
  m. Joice Perient (dau of John Perient of Digswell)
  (1) Dorothy Barley
  m1. _ Clopton of Suffolk
  m2. Thomas Leventhorp (son of Edward of Shingey Hall in Sawbridgeworth)
  (2) Anne Barley
  m. Richard Barley below
  m2. Anne Jerningham (dau of Sir Edward Jernegan of Somerleyton, widow of Lord Edward Grey & Henry Berkeley)
  Not clear which wife was mother of ...
  b. Anne Barley
  m. Philip Gunter
  c. Elizabeth Barley probably the Elizabeth who married ...
  m. (after 10.1529) Edward Leventhorpe of Shingey Hall
  d.+ other issue - Anthony, Margaret
  ii. Dorothy Barley (d c1557, Abbess of Berking Nunnery)

 

 

Thomas Barlee
m. Joan Glocester (dau of Thomas Glocester by Joan, dau of Sir Edmond Bibsworth of Bibsworth)
1. Robert Barlee 'of Bibsworth'
  m. Joan Skypwith
A. Francis Barlee 'of Essex' of Bibsworth Hall, Hertfordshire
  m. Dorothy Rich (dau of (Richard) Rich, Lord Chancellor)
  i. Richard Barlee of Elsenham (Essex) (d 31.07.1593)
  m. Anne Barlee (dau/coheir of William Barlee of Alberye son of Henry son of William) above
  a. Dorothy Barlee ['coheir')
  m. Sir John Osborn of Chicksands Abbey (d 1628)
  b.+ other issue - Thomas (a 1593), Amme, Ellen, Mary
  ii. John Barlee or Barley of Bibsworth Hall
  The following comes from Visitation (Hertfordshire, 1634, Barley of Bibsworth Hall).
  m. Ann Inglesby
  a. Richard Barley (dsp)
  b. Robert Barley of Kimpton, Hertfordshire (a 1634)
  ii. Elizabeth Barlee
  m. Rafe Wiseman of Ryvenall
  iii. Mary Barlee
  m. _ Draper
  iv. Lucy Barlee
  m. John Hare
  B. Alice Barley probably of this generation
  m. William Tooke of Pope

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section : 'The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire' by Sir Henry Chauncy (vol I, 1826, Albury)
(2) For lower section : Visitation (Essex, 1552, Barlee)
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