'Fletcher03'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Fletcher of Cannock, Fletcher of Shareshill, Fletcher of Wirley Magna (Great Wyrley)

                               
Thomas Fletcher of Morrey, Staffordshire
m. (1568) Barbara Foljambe (dau of Sir James Foljambe of Walton by Constance Littleton)
1. Thomas Fletcher of Shareshill & Water Eyton, Staffordshire (bur 24.10.1610) the first mentioned by MGH
  m. Margaret Alport (bur 15.04.1616, dau of Ralph Alport of Cannock)
  A. Thomas Fletcher of Fetherstone in Shareshill, later of Wirley Magna, etc. (bpt 02.10.1590, d Marston Moor 1643-4)
  m. (24.07.1620) Elizabeth Poole (bpt 07.07.1588, dau of William Poole of Shareshill)
  i. Thomas Fletcher of Wirley Magna (Great Wyrley) in Cannock, Staffordshire (bpt 03.08.1628, d 10.09.1691)
m1. (18.01.1659) Mary Boulton (bur 27.10.1673, dau of George Boulton of Forsbrook (Fosbrooke), widow of Thomas Bourne of Shareshill)
  a. Thomas Fletcher of Wirley Magna (b 21.03.1664, d 21.02.1718)
  m. Catherine (bur 09.01.1732, widow of Thomas Richards of Cannock)
  (1) Thomas Fletcher of Cannock (bpt 19.03.1707, d 12.1790)
m. (15.06.1738) Mary Keelinge (bpt 12.02.1698, bur 02.03.1773, sister of Timothy & dau of William Keelinge of Sedgley Park by Eleanor, dau of William Gibbons of Ettingsall)
  (A) Thomas Fletcher of Cannock (b 14.05.1739, d unm 26.08.1802)
  (B) William Fletcher of Cannock (b 02.10.1740, d 21.10.1804)
  m. (11.07.1769) Alice Blakemore (b 24.12.1749, d 01.06.1831, dau of Thomas Blakemore, aunt of Sheriff Richard Blakemore)
  (i) Thomas Fletcher of Handsworth (b 19.02.1772, d 01.04.1827) had issue
  m. (10/14.05.1804) Anne Russell (b 03.03.1779, d 10.03.1845, dau of Thomas Russell of Wednesbury)
  (ii) Mary Fletcher (b 21.12.1775, dsp bur 30.12.1846)
  m1. John Waltham (b 1749-50, dsp 18.07.1814, Rector of Rock & Darlaston)
  m2. (03.10.816) John Howells (d 31.12.1856, Vicar in Coventry)
  (iii) Sarah Fletcher (b 17.08.1786, d 05.03.1852)
  m. Charles Thornhill (d by 1852)
  (iv) Catherine Fletcher (b 07.03.1787)
  m. T. Theodorius (d 01.01.1856, Rector of Burwarton)
(v)+ other issue - Joseph (b 07.02.1780, d c08.1780), Elizabeth (b 13.04.1781, d unm 14.12.1829), Anne (b 13.04.1781, d unm 14.12.1829), Jane (b 28.02.1784, married with issue), Frances (b 09.08.1791, d 05.10.1853, married with issue), Harriet (b 21.10.1793, d 29.07.1797)
  (2) Catherine Fletcher (b 1708, dsp 1731)
m. Humphrey Hodgetts
  (3) Elizabeth Fletcher (b 1709)
  m. (1733) George Keen of Stafford
  (A) George Keen, Mayor of Stafford
  m. Elizabeth Mary Pickering (dsp, dau of Willoughby Richard Pickering of London)
  (4) Anne Fletcher (b 1710, bur 23.03.1757)
  m. (1737) Thomas Cope of Leacroft, Cannock
  (A) Anne Cope of Handworth (b 09.08.1748, d unm 19.08.1839)
  b.+ other issue - John (bpt 02.06.1670), Katherine (b 12.10.1661)
  m2. (1676) Ellen (widow of John Critchley of Kingswood)
  ii.+ other issue - Anne (bpt 13.11.1621), Margerie (bpt 07.06.1625)
  B. Richard Fletcher of Shareshill (bpt 02.10.1590, bur 08.05.1632) had issue
  m. Margery
  C. Margaret Fletcher (bpt 23.03.1592)
  m1. (09.06.1608) William Chetwynd of Ridge (bur 08.12.1619)
  m2. Francis Giffard of Water Eyton (d 1646)

Main source(s): BLG1952 ('Fletcher of Wyrley and Strete End formerly of Lawneswood'), MGH (NS1, vol 4 (1884), 'Pedigree of the Family of Fletcher', p214+)
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