'Cunliffe1'
Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Cunliffe of Addingham, Cunliffe of Acton Park, Cunliffe of Hollins, Cunliffe of Ilkley, Cunliffe in Liverpool, Cunliffe of Woodhead

BP1934 reports that this family claims Saxon origin and was descended from Adam de Conlive of Cunliffe (a 1275).
Robert Cunliffe of Hollins, Lancashire (a 1559)
1. Henry Cunliffe of Hollins
  m. _ Wood of Woodhead (heiress)
  A. Ellis Cunliffe of Hollins, Woodhead & Baxenden (Lancashire) (d 1603/4)
m. Janett Crombrocke (dau of John Crombrocke of Whalley)
  i. John Cunliffe of Hollins & Woodhead
  m. Isabel Robinson (dau/heir of James Robinson of Pendle)
  a. Nicholas Cunliffe of Hollins (d by 07.11.1669)
  m. _ Hartley of Wycollar
  (1) John Cunliffe of Hollins (a 1660) - continued below
  m1. _ Hartley (dau of _ Hartley of Winewall)
  m2. Mary Cheatham (dau of Ralph Cheatham of Castleton)
  b. Ellis Cunliffe (alderman of London) had issue
  m. Margaret King (dau of Francis King)
  c. John Cunliffe of Iconhurst, Accrington, Lancashire (bur 19.08.1649)
  m. Margaret
  (1) Ellis Cunliffe of Wakefield, Yorkshire (bpt 12.05.1642, d 1681)
  m. Mary Stocks
  (A) Nicholas Cunliffe of Ilkley, Yorkshire (bpt 08.01.1677, bur 29.10.1724)
  m. (12.02.1701/2) Anne Hodgson (dau of David Hodgson of Bradford)
  (i) Ellis Cunliffe of Ilkley & High House, Addingham (bpt 07.06.1705)
  m. (22.10.1738) Elizabeth Lister (dau/coheir of Rev. Thomas Lister of Ilkley by Mary, dau of Henry Bowling)
(a) John Cunliffe of High House (Addingham) (bpt 16.05.1724, d 19.03.1813)
  m. (22.11.1772) Mary Thompson (d 13.06.1834, dau of Rev. William Thompson of Addingham)
  ((1)) Ellis Cunliffe, later Cunliffe-Lister, later Lister-Kay of Manningham & Farfield (d 24.11.1853) had issue
  m1. (01.04.1795) Ruth Myers (dsp 07.1797, heir of Samuel Lister of Manningham Hall, cousin)
  m2. (02.1809) Mary Kay (d 06.03.1844, dau of William Kay of Cottingham)
  m3. (11.11.1844, sp) Eliza Talbot (d 13.07.1855, dau of Richard Talbot of Malahide (by Margaret, Baroness Talbot de Malahide), widow of George Waters Mellifont of Ballenclea)
  ((2))+ other issue
  (b) Lister Cunliffe (b 1747, d 1778) ancestor of the Cunliffes of Esholt
  (c)+ other issue
  (ii)+ other issue
  (2)+ other issue
  d. Robert Cunliffe of Whitefriars, London (d by 29.10.1647)
  e. Henry Cunliffe of Brownbeck, London (d 1663) had issue
  ii.+ other issue - Robert, Margaret

 

 

John Cunliffe of Hollins and/or Wicollar (a 1660) - continued above
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 (b 1685-6, d 11.04.1758, 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 of Saighton, Sheriff of Cheshire, 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. (09.04.1806) 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 Strafford Courtney or Courtenay of Bath
  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)
  m. William Shawe of Preston, Sheriff of Lancashire (a 1746)
  Anne may also have married (first then divorced?) ...
  m1/2. (1728, div?) Charles Pole of Holtcroft (b 06.09.1695, d 09.1779, MP)
  iv. Mary Cunliffe (d unm)

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (uploaded 18.02.11) : BPGY2001 (Swinton)
(2) For lower section (uploaded 18.02.05) : BP1934 (Cunliffe, Barts) with some support from FMG (vol 1, MS25, Courtenay-Cunliffe)
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