'Fortescue04'
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Families covered: Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh, Fortesecue of Clermont, Fortescue of Dromisken, Fortescue of Ford, Fortescue of Shebbear
| William Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh (b c1503, d before 06.04.1583) | |||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Giffard (dau of Sir Roger Giffard of Brightleigh) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | John Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh (bur 01.04.1604) | ||||||||||||||
| Vivian mentions in a note that John m2. Susanna Chichester but shows John & Faithful as children by Anne and does not suggest that he had any children by Susanna. Provisionally we follow Commoners & BE1883 in showing Susanna as mother of John & Faithful. | |||||||||||||||
| m1. Anne Porter (dau of Walter Porter of Thetford, relict of Digorie Thorne of Shepwash) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Roger Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh (bur 10.04.1629) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Norleigh (bur 08.06.1628, dau of Richard Norleigh of Inwardleigh, widow of John Leigh of Churston then Martin Hext of Staverton) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | John Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh (b 1597, bur 08.6.1655) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomasine Prideaux (a 1655, dau of Humphrey Prideaux of Soldon by Honor Fortescue) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | William Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh (b 06.06.1622, bur 03.01.1679-80) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Emlyn Trosse (b 1633-4, bur 16.05.1706, dau of Henry Trosse) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Henry Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh (b 28.04.1659, d 09.12.1691) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c03.1680) Agnes Dennis (dau of Edward (or Nicholas) Dennis of Barnstaple, m2. Gilbert Budgell) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | William Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh (bpt 26.06.1687, d 16.12.1749, Master of the Rolls) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (07.07.1709) Mary Fortescue (b c1689, d 01.08.1710, dau/coheir of Edmund Fortescue of Fallapit) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Mary Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh and Fallapit (b 16.07.1710, d 24.07.1752) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1734) John Spooner | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Mary Spooner (d infant bur 02.03.1746-7) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | George Fortescue of Tavistock (b 1668, 3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (15.05.1697) Rebecca Fortescue (dau of Edward Fortescue of Spridleston) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | John Fortescue of Bampton, later of Buckland Filleigh (bpt 14.09.1700, d unm bur 14.10.1776) | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | Elizabeth Fortescue (bpt 31.07.1698, bur 28.01.1700-1) | ||||||||||||||
| (C) | Rebecca Fortescue, later of Buckland Filleigh (bpt 08.07.1699, bur 13.04.1764) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1724) Caleb Inglett of Dawlish (b 1701-2, bur 20.04.1752, son of Caleb by heiress of the Crewys of Ashburton) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Richard Inglett, later Inglett-Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh (b 1731, d 1790) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1758) Elizabeth (dau of Lucy Weston of Dawlish) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | John Inglett-Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh (b 23.10.1758, d 25.11.1841) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (09.1788) Anne Saunders (b 1755-6, bur 08.04.1815, dau of Thomas Saunders or Sanders of Exeter) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | John Dicker Inglett-Fortescue (b 03.08.1789, d 08.08.1860, cleric) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. (1818, sp) Sarah Bridget Marwood (b c1750, d 1821, dau of James Benedict Marwood of Sutton, widow of Henry Stevens of Cross) | |||||||||||||||
| (b) | Mary Weston Inglett or Inglett-Fortescue (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Peter Churchill of Dawlish | |||||||||||||||
| (c) | Elizabeth Inglett or Inglett-Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Davy Foulkes of Medland | |||||||||||||||
| (d) | Anne Inglett or Inglett-Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Brickdale of Bristol and/or West Monkton | |||||||||||||||
| Their son "assumed the name of Fortescue before his own in 1861". | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | John Fortescue Inglett (b 1737-8, d 16.05.1743) | ||||||||||||||
| (3)+ | other issue - Roger (bpt 04.10.1666, a 1676), William (bur 12.02.1657-8), John (bur 10.03.1657-8) | ||||||||||||||
| b. | James Fortescue of Ford (bpt 18.12.1625) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1657) Mary Woollocombe (dau of John Woollocombe of Roborough) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | James Fortescue (bpt 12.10.1664, 3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
| (A) | George Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | George Fortescue of Ford (bpt 27.06.1666, bur 07.11.1741) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (05.01.1710-1) Mary Barrett (bur 08.01.1757-8, dau of John Barrett of St. Tudey) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Mary Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (24.07.1735) Nicholas Venning of Hampton | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Anne Fortescue (bpt 26.08.1719) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (23.12.1761) Thomas Luxmore | |||||||||||||||
| (C)+ | other issue - James (bpt 21.07.1716, d unm 1777, rector of Wotton, author), George (bur 15.10.1737), John (bpt 22.12.1721, bur 20.04.1742), William (bpt 23.12.1724, bur 07.05.1748) | ||||||||||||||
| (3)+ | other issue - John (bpt 01.01.1659-60, dsp bur 20.04.1720), James (bpt 27.06.1663, bur 20.12.1663), Sara (bur 1661), Thomasine (bpt 07.04.1662) | ||||||||||||||
| c. | John Fortescue of Shebbear (bpt 06.09.1629, bur 08.11.1696, 5th son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (26.05.1658) Ellen Badcock (bur 27.08.1712, dau/heir of Thomas Badcock of Shebbear) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | John Fortescue of Shebbear (bpt 29.03.1669, bur 10.05.1738_ | ||||||||||||||
| Commoners reports that John m. Johanna, dau of John Parsons, and was father of John of Hatherleigh who was father of seveal children by Joan, dau of William Wyvill. Vivian, which reports John's family as shown below, does not mention such a son but does have a separate page for a John of Exeter who, by Joan Wivell, was father of several children including a Faithful of Hatherleigh. That page contains a note that that John "is generally supposed to have been a son of John Fortescue and Joan Parsons ... but there is no proof" and adds that his pedigree "has been omitted at the request of that branch of the family." | |||||||||||||||
| m1. (c04.1679) Joan Parsons (bur 30.11.1702) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Jone Fortescue (bpt 25.10.1687) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (13.01.1712-3) Richard Hawkings | |||||||||||||||
| (B)+ | other issue - William (bpt 19.05.1685), Mary (bpt 17.03.1690-1) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. (30.06.1704) Anne Hawken of Shebbear (bur 01.10.1715) | |||||||||||||||
| m3. Hannah (bur 19.11.1772, widow of _ Risby) | |||||||||||||||
| (D) | George Fortescue of Buckland Brewer (bpt 28.02.1728-9, bur 04.11.1772, 2nd son of this marriage) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (28.04.1756) Elizabeth Northcot of Buckland Brewer | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | James Fortescue of Shebbear (bpt 14.12.1758) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Judith Mill | |||||||||||||||
| (a)+ | issue - George (bpt 01.01.1794), John Mill, William Faithful (bpt 03.08.1796), Mary, Betsy, Lucy | ||||||||||||||
| (E)+ | other issue - Henry (bpt 10.08.1725, bur 23.07.1797), James (bpt 07.06.1731, bur 08.08.1796) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Brown Fortescue of Chalhanger (bpt 08.09.1669, bur 10.10.1738, 3rd son) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (31.01.1705-6) Martha Gilbert | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Elizabeth Fortescue (bpt 02.04.1672) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (02.07.1702) Nathaniel Gilbert | |||||||||||||||
| (4)+ | other issue - Thomas, Anne (bpt 21.08.1660, bur 12.01.1699-1700), Thomasine (bpt 03.05.1674, bur 21.02.1741-2), Mary (bpt 21.08.1677, bur 09.02.1741-2) | ||||||||||||||
| d. | Mary Fortescue (bpt 21.03.1623-4) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1647) William Holland of Upcott Avenell | |||||||||||||||
| e. | Anne Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c12.1665) William Stanbury of North Tamerton | |||||||||||||||
| f. | Elizabeth Fortescue (bpt 07.09.1627) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (14.12.1647) George Fortescue of Combe | |||||||||||||||
| g. | Honora Fortescue (bpt 15.04.1632) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (25.06.1652) George Luttrell of Dunster | |||||||||||||||
| h.+ | other issue - Roger (bpt 09.11.1634), Humphrey (bpt 23.10.1638, bur 1639), Gertrude (bpt 30.09.1640, bur 1667), Thomasine (bpt 19.03.1647-8) | ||||||||||||||
| Vivian provides a separate page on the Fortescues of Plymouth which is headed by a Robert of St. Budeaux, who "left Shebbear about 1700", noting that he "is generally understood to have been a son of John Fortescue and Ellen Badcock ... but there is no proof, the leaves of the parish Registers between 1660 and 1669 havae been evidently wilfully cut out". | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Anne Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Hutchins of the Middle Temple | |||||||||||||||
| iii. | Pasco Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (17.03.1613-4) John Currie of Currie | |||||||||||||||
| iv. | Gartrud Fortescue (d 1632) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Adam Lugge of Barnstaple | |||||||||||||||
| v. | Catherin Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (03.01.1626-7) Reed Fortescue of Cornwood | |||||||||||||||
| vi. | Elizabeth Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (01.01.1629-30) John Stukeley of Cobleigh | |||||||||||||||
| vii.+ | other issue (dsp) - Bartholomew, Francis, George, William, Frances | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Ethelred(a) Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Predeaux of Langford in South Tavistock | |||||||||||||||
| C. | Grace Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. James Bagg of Plymouth (Sir James Bagge of Saltram) | |||||||||||||||
| D. | Anne Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (24.12.1612) Francis Trelanie | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Susannah Chichester (dau of Sir John Chichester of Raleigh) | |||||||||||||||
| E. | John Fortescue (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| F. | Sir Faithful Fortescue of Dromisken, Governor of Knockfergus (bpt 22.08.1585, bur 29.05.1666) | ||||||||||||||
| Vivian identifies Sir Faithful's but does not follow his line other than to note that he was ancestor of Lord Clermont through ... | |||||||||||||||
| m1. Anne Moore (d 05.09.1634, dau of Gerald Moore,1st Viscount Drogheda) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Christopher Fortescue (dvp) | ||||||||||||||
| a. | Elizabeth Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Richard Graham, Bart of Norton Conyers | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Sir Thomas Fortescue of Dromisken, Governor of Carrickfergus (b c1620, d 1710, 3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m(2). Sidney Kingsmill (dau of Colonel ?? Kingsmill) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Chichester Fortescue of Dromisken (Colonel) | ||||||||||||||
| Not mentioned by BE1883 but probably an early spouse of Chichester, presumed divorced, was ... | |||||||||||||||
| m(1). (div?) Elizabeth Slingsby (b c1619, bur 23.01.1695/6, dau of Sir William Slingsby of Kippax) | |||||||||||||||
| m(2). (1681) Frideswood Hall (dau of Francis Hall) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Thomas Fortescue of Dromisken (d 19.05.1725) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (30.08.1716) Anne Garstin (dau of John Garstin of Bragganstown) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Chichester Fortescue of Dromisken, Sheriff of Down (b 05.06.1718, d 16.07.1757) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (09.04.1743) Elizabeth Wellesley (b c1720, d 10.10.1752, dau of Richard Wellesley, 1st Lord Mornington) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Thomas Fortescue of Dromisken, Sheriff of Louth (b 01.05.1744, d 1779) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (03.1770) Mary Pakenham (d 1775, dau of Thomas Pakenham, 1st Lord Longford) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Anna Maria Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (18.01.1802) W.P. Ruxton of Redhouse | |||||||||||||||
| (b)+ | other issue - Chichester (d young), Elizabeth (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Mary Nicholson (dau of Edward Nicholson by Henrietta Sandford) | |||||||||||||||
| (d) | Chichester Fortescue of Dromisken, Sheriff of Louth (b 12.08.1777, d 25.11.1826) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (10.08.1809) Martha Angel Hobson (dau of Samuel Meade Hobson of Waterford) | |||||||||||||||
| Their elder son was created Lord Clermont. | |||||||||||||||
| (e) | Henrietta or Harriet Fortescue (d 21.01.1816) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (12.11.1812) George Knox (son of Viscount Northland) | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Richard Fortescue (b 07.05.1749, d 1774) | ||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Sir Chichester Fortescue (b 07.06.1750, Rear Admiral, Ulster King of Arms) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1791) Frances Anna Jones (d 03.01.1803, dau of David Jones of Bensfort) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Frances Anne Fortescue (d 07.1875) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (1825) Rev. George Hamilton (b 19.12.1784, d 09 08.1830, rector of Killemogh) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Rev. Loftus George Reade | |||||||||||||||
| (b) | Henrietta Catherine Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. H. McEvatt | |||||||||||||||
| (c)+ | other issue - Richard (b 11.12.1791, d 1805), Chichester (b 28.11.1794), Sidney, Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| (iv) | Gerald Fortescue (b 15.11.1751, d 27.10.1787/8, Ulster King of Arms) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Tew (dau of _ Tew, alderman of Dublin) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Thomas Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (19.03.1859) Louisa Margaret Eager (dau of Francis Russell Eager) | |||||||||||||||
| (b) | Anne Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Richard Hopkins-Northey of Oving House | |||||||||||||||
| (v) | Elizabeth Fortescue (b 03.04.1745, d 30.09.1780) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1762) William John Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian (b 13.03.1737, d 1815) | |||||||||||||||
| (B)+ | other issue - John (b 09.06.1719), Anne (b 30.06.1720, d unm 12.1751) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Lettice Fortescue (d 1726) apparently of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Rev. Thomas Tisdall (d 1729) | |||||||||||||||
| (3)+ | 3 daughters | ||||||||||||||
| b. | William Fortescue of Newragh (d 1733) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1681) Margaret Gernon (dau of Nicholas Gernon of Miltown) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Thomas Fortescue of Randalston (b c1686, d 02.1769) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Hamilton (d 12.08.1756, sister of James Hamilton, Earl of Clanbrassil) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | William Henry Fortescue, 1st Viscount Clermont, Earl of Clermont (b 05.08.1722, d 30.09.1806) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (29.02.1752) Frances Cairnes Murray (b c1734, 03.12.1820, dau of Colonel John Murray of co. Monaghan) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Louisa Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (21.09.1776) Rev. _ Harrington | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | James Fortescue of Ravensdale Park (b 15.05.1725, d 1782) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Henrietta Hunter (dau of Thomas Orby Hunter of Crowland Abbey) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Thomas Fortescue (d 1785, MP) | ||||||||||||||
| (ii) | William Charles Fortescue, 2nd Viscount Clermont (b 12.10.1764, d unm 24.06.1829) | ||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Maria Fortescue (d c1853) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (1781) _ Sloper (Captain) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. George Francis Barlow of Hampton-on-Thames (Colonel) | |||||||||||||||
| (iv) | Charlotte Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1796) Sir Harry Goodricke, Bart of Ribston Hall (d 1820) | |||||||||||||||
| (v) | Emily Fortescue (d 27.02.1864) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1811) Charles Grantham of Ketton (dsp 21.12.1859, Captain RN) | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | Margaret Fortescue (d 22.09.1756) apparently of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Arthur Brooke, Bart (d 07.03.1785) | |||||||||||||||
| (D)+ | other issue - Matthew (b 07.11.1726), John (b 28.02.1730) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Faithful Fortescue of Corderry (d 22.03.1740, 4th son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Tipping (dau of Thomas Tipping of Castletown) | |||||||||||||||
| (A)+ | issue - Thomas (b 30.06.1731, d 06.11.1733), Faithful (d 1785) | ||||||||||||||
| (3) | John Fortescue (rector of Haynestowne) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Bellingham (dau of Henry Bellingham of Castle Bellingham) | |||||||||||||||
| (A)+ | issue including James | ||||||||||||||
| (4) | Alice Fortescue (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| m. George Vaughan of Buncranagh | |||||||||||||||
| (5) | Mary or Elizabeth Fortescue (d 29.10.1762) | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Foster of Dunleer | |||||||||||||||
| (6)+ | other issue - Chichester, Matthew | ||||||||||||||
| iii. | Lettice Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Thomas Meredyth of Dollardstown (d 1677) | |||||||||||||||
| iv. | Eleanor Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Thomas Burnet of Ballyleck | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Brent Moore | |||||||||||||||
| v.+ | other issue - John (d unm 1668), Roger, Garret, William, Mary, Elizabeth, Alice (a 1656) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. (1639, sp) Eleanor Whitechurch (dau of Sir Marmaduke Whitechurch, widow of John Symonds) | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | Sir Faithful Fortescue (b c1512, d c1608) | ||||||||||||||
| A. | John Fortescue of Northam (d 1662) | ||||||||||||||
| i. | John Fortescue of Parkham (d temp George I who r. 1714-1727) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth | |||||||||||||||
| a.+ | issue - John (d 1710), William (d 1722) | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Faithful Fortescue (Lt. Colonel) | ||||||||||||||
| i. | Faithful Fortescue (d by 1691 (1679?)) | ||||||||||||||
| C.+ | other issue - Arthur, daughters | ||||||||||||||
| 3. | Martin Fortescue of Hoverley (Hatherleigh) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jane Gove (dau of John Gove of Idsley) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Hugh Fortescue of High Bickinton (bpt 23.03.1589-90, a 1620) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Lettice Wichalse (dau of Nicholas Wichalse of Barnestable) | |||||||||||||||
| i.+ | issue (a 1620) - Thomas (b c1613, bur 20.09.1623), Martin (b c1616, bur 20.09.1623), John (b c1618, bur 20.09.1623) | ||||||||||||||
| B.+ | other issue (dsp) - Susan (bpt 28.11.1592, bur 22.12.1592), Jaquet (bpt 20.02.1595-6) | ||||||||||||||
| 4. | Jane Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Harris | |||||||||||||||
| 5. | Elizabeth Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m1. John Yeo of Hewish | |||||||||||||||
| m2. John Herle of West Buckland | |||||||||||||||
| 6. | Mary Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Rockley of Buckland | |||||||||||||||
| 7. | Grace Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anthony Herle of West Buckland | |||||||||||||||
| 8. | Catherine Fortescue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (07.11.1571) David Knight | |||||||||||||||
| 9.+ | other issue - Bartholomew (dsp), Eleanor, Frances | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s):
Visitation (J.L. Vivian (1895), Devon, 1531+1564+1620+additions, Fortescue), BE1883 (Fortescue of Clermont), Commoners (vol ii, Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh)
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