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'Cunliffe1'
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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 | ||||||||||||||
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| 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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