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Families covered: Gill of Anstey, Gyll of Dartford, Gyll of Wraysbury (Wyrardisbury)
[This page was originally launched as Gyll2. It was renamed to facilitate a review of the Gyll family.]

                               
Edward Gylle or Gill of Anstey & Little Court in Laystone, Hertfordshire (bur 11.05.1616)
m1. (10.05.1574) Margaret Campion (bur 16.02.1605, dau of Thomas Campion of Essex, widow of Henry Brograve of Buntingford)
1. Thomas Gill (dsp bur 16.07.1625)
2. Edward Gill of Bandons, Anstey (bur 29.10.1642)
  m. (09.10.1604) Mary Mitchell (b c1585, bur 30.11.1675, dau of Edward Mitchell, widow of Richard Smartfoote of Puckeridge)
  A. Edward Gill of Anstey (bpt 09.03.1614, bur 19.12.1658)
  m1. (25.10.1638) Anne Swann (bur 1641, dau of Robert Swann of Newton)
  i. Anne Gill (bpt 22.08.1639)
  ii. Mary Gill (bpt 04.05.1641)
m. (04.11.1662) John Gynne of Anstey
  m2. Lucy Bolnest of Great Hormead (bur 18.02.1664)
  iii.+ other issue - Edward (bpt 31.05.1649, bur 11.07.1677), Howard of Croydon (bpt 03.04.1655, a 1678), Lucy (bpt 24.10.1646), Lavinia (bpt 30.12.1652), Barbara (bpt 12.02.1658)
  B. John Gill of Anstey & Braughing, Hertfordshire (bpt 15.05.1623, d 05.04.1693)
  m1. (09.05/09.08.1650) Alice Griffith (bur 25.02.1665, dau of John Griffith of Antsey)
  i. John Gill of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire (bpt 22.05.1656, d 04.06.1711, 2nd son?)
  m. (03.01.1684) Dorothy Luther (b c1660, d 23.01.1700, dau of Anthony Luther of Doddingshurst by Dorothy, dau of Sir Henry D'Awtrey)
  a.+ issue - Delawood (bpt 24.09.1689, d young), William (bpt 19.09.1690, a 1714), John (bpt 11.08.1695, d 1696), John (a 1714), Dorothy (bpt 19.10.1697), Luther (bpt 17.01.1700)
  ii. Alice Gill (bpt 27.07.1660)
  m. (03.01.1692) John Beeton of Braughing
  iii. Mary Gill (bpt 05.11.1662)
  m. (27.12.1686) Thomas Lyle of Braughing
  iv.+ other issue - John (b 01.05.1654, d young), Thomas (bur 10.05.1659), Griffith (b/bpt 17.02.1665)
  m2. (13.08.1668) Elizabeth Burrel (bur 16.07.1688, dau of Ninian Burrel of Cuckfield, widow of George Slater of London)
  vii. Delawood Gill (b/bpt 18.07.1669)
  C. George Gill of Anstey (bpt 22.06.1626, bur 14.10.1682))
  m. (12.11.1654) Elizabeth Day (bpt 10.07.1632, bur 07.02.1704, dau of John Day of Reed)
  i. George Gill of Arrington, Cambridgeshire (bpt 31.03.1657, d 10.08.1723)
  m. Dorothy (a 1723)
  a.+ issue - Dorothy, Elizabeth, Susanna
  ii. John Gill of Bourn, Cambridgeshire (bpt 21.12.1660, bur 07.03.1704)
  a. John Gill (dsp bur 21.02.1705/6)
  iii. Mary Gill (bpt 02.05.1658)
  m. Stephen Bentley of Bourn.
  iv. Ann Gill (bpt 01.12.1663)
  m. _ Ellis of Bourn
  v. Susannah Gill (bpt 01.01.1666, bur 09.06.1682)
  D. Barbara Gill (bpt 21.08.1617, bur 23.12.1638)
  m. (1634) Thomas Cutler of Anstey
  E. Susan Gill (bpt 19.10.1620)
  m. (26.05.1642) John Allen of Witham (b 1613-4)
m2. (23.09.1607) Barbara Bradbury (b c1546, d 18.12.1618, dau of Mathew Bradbury of Littlebury & Wicken Bonant, widow of Sir Henry Cutts of Bedgbury then Sir Thomas Flood of Milgate, m4. William Covert of Vintners)

 

 

John Gill of Sutton at Hone, Kent (bur 06.04.1624)
m. Anne (bur 12.04.1626)
1. John Gill of Sutton (bur 04.04.1626/1646) ## see possible (but unlikely?) alternate ancestry here ##
  m. (14.06.1611) Ursula Langridge of Sutton
  A. Thomas Gyll of Dartford (bur 18.09.1667)
  MGH & Lipscomb show just one wife for Thomas, his widow Alice Jannings, showing her as mother of his children. CTG shows that an earlier wife (and mother of his children) as ...
  m1. (26.04.1643) Elizabeth Pickwell
  i. Thomas Gyll (bur 04.10.1664)
  ii. George Gyll of Dartford & Boxley, Kent (b 1648, bur 25.01.1726)
  m. (25/26.02.1676/7) Susannah Cox (b c1652, bur 07.07.1721 ,dau of Thomas Cox of Dartford)
a. William Gyll of Boxley (bpt 30.09.1686, d 10.08.1754, youngest son)
  m. (08.09.1713) Elizabeth Laurence (b 1689-90, bur 28.04.1750, dau/heir of John Laurence (Lawrence) of Deptford or Maidstone by Elizabeth, dau of Richard Brooke & sister of James Brooke of Lewisham (Sheriff of Kent))
  (1) William Gyll of Wraysbury (Wyrardisbury) House & Yeoveny Hall (Middlesex), Sheriff then Lord Mayor of London (d 26.03.1798, youngest son)
  m1. (04.10.1751) Elizabeth Hassel (b 1729-30, d 29.06.1769, dau/coheir of Robert Prowse Hassel of Wraysbury (Wyrardisbury) House)
  (A) Margaret Gyll (bpt 15.07.1753, d 09.11.1799)
  m. (07.04.1772) John Deschamps of Ealing (b 1744-5, d 07.02.1810)
  (B) Susanna Gyll (bpt 12.03.1756, d 07.12.1833)
  m1. (11.02.1779) Thomas Chudleigh Sanders of Charlwood (b 1751-2, d 22.05.1816)
  (i) William Sanders (dsp 22.05.1811)
  (ii) Harriet Sanders (d 01.01.1845)
  m. (1806) George Dinely Goodyear (rector of Otterden, vicar of Tibshelf)
  m2. (10.06.1819) William Bailey of Tonbridge Castle (dsp 29.09.1832)
(C) Harriet Gyll (bpt 31.01.1762, d 18.11.1794)
  m. (11/17.02.1784) Archibald Paxton of Watford Place, Sheriff of Hertfordshire (b c1737, d 02.08.1817)
  (i) William Gyll Paxton, of Henbury, Sheriff of Dorset (b 1787-8, d 03.05.1850, MP)
  (D)+ other issue - Robert Hutton (b 04.12.1758, dsp 29.10.1792), Elizabeth (bpt 09.08.1752, d unm 09.06.1776), Frances (bpt 28.02.1760, d 26.01.1785), Grace (bpt 18.03.1763, d 01.06.1847)
  m2. (20/23.12.1773) Mary Brome (bpt 07.08.1731, d 11.03.1820, dau/coheir of John Brome or Broome of Ludlow, son/heir of Peter of Wolferlow)
(H) William Gyll of Wraysbury (Wyrardisbury) (b 13.09.1774, d 10.02.1806, Captain)
  m. (13.10.1794) Harriet Jane Flemyng (b c1777, d 26.11.1813, dau/heir of Hamilton Flemyng, 9th Earl of Wigton)
  (i) Brooke Hamilton Gyll of Wyrardisbury House & Yeoveny Hall (b 16.07.1795, dsp 05.12.1865)
  m. (03.05.1821) Maria Jane Richardson (b 1793-4, d 21.07.1821, dau of William Richardson by Elizabeth, dau of John Armstrong of Godalming)
  (ii) Gordon Willoughby James Gyll of Wraysbury & Yeoveney Hall (b 05.08.1803, 6th son) had issue
  m. (20.08.1839) Anne Elizabeth Smijth (dau of Sir Edward Bowyer Smijth of Hill Hall, Bart)
  (iii) Hamilton Gyll of Shenley Lodge & Salisbury Hall, Hertfordshire (b 05.05.1804, d 21.02.1844) had issue
  m. Frances Caroline Murray (dau of Sir John of Peebles, Bart, widow of Ferdinand Thomas Williamson, m3. George Innes)
  (iv) Sir Robert Gyll (b 11.07.1805 Colonel)
  m. (21.04.1847) Jane Price Pinhorn (dau of Sir John Pinhorn of Ningwood Park, widow of Henry Botfield Thomason)
  (v) Louisa Jane Grace Gyll (b 21.07.1800)
  m. (12.05.1819) Sir Jasper Atkinson of Lodon & North Frith, Tunbridge (b c1791, d 06.10.1856)
  (vi)+ other issue - William (b 06.1796, bur 27.08.1796), Thomas Wright (b 06.1796, d 27.08.1796), Bellenden Charles of Wraysbury (b 17.07.1799, d 24.09.1822), Gordon (b 08.1801, d 17.06.1802), Marianne (b 31.05.1798, d 1807)
  (2) Elizabeth Gyll (b 1718, dsp 13.10.1800)
  m1. (28.06.1751) Thomas Baytop of Rochester (bur 06.06.1777)
  m2. (13.05.1784) James Kincaid of Rochester and/or Chatham (b 1722-3, d 05.07.1798)
  (3) Anne Gyll (b 1727, d 04.05.1809)
  m. (18.11.1746) Thomas Wright of Dulwich, Lord Mayor of London (b 1721-2, d 09.04.1798)
  (A) Anne Wright (b c1749, dsp 27.10.1817)
  m. (1810) Thomas Willes of Dulwich (d 10.08.1818)
  (4)+ other issue (dsp) - Brooke (b 1714, bur 13.03.1744), Thomas of Maidstone (bur 22.10.1744)
  b. Ann Gyll
  m. Thomas Walter of Fawkham
  c. Elizabeth Gyll (bpt 17.03.1680)
  m. (24.09.1700) Thomas Newman of Boxley
  d.+ other issue - Thomas (dsp bur 12.03.1693), George (bpt 08.05.1683, dsp young), George (bpt 19.02.1684), Susanna (bpt 08.05.1681), Susanna (bpt 08.05.1685, bur 04.12.1703)
  iii. Sarah Gill mentioned by CTG & Lipscomb
  m. (02.02.1674) John Bency of Dartford
  m2. Alice (d before 18.01.1672) shown by CTG as dau of George Gill, by MGH as dau of _ Jannings of Dartford
  MGH & Lipscomb show just one other child for John & Ursula, Ann (bur 01.1667/8). CTG shows the following
  B. Sarah Gyll
  m. (24.06.1666) Thomas Cox
  C.+ other issue - John of Dartford (bur 04.04.1646), Anne (bur 13.01.1667)

Main source(s): MGH (NS1, vol 2 (1876), 'Gyll Pedigree', p26+), CTG (vol 8 (1843), 'Pedigree of Gill of Wyddial, co. Hertford', p276+), Lipscomb (Bucks, vol 4, 'Pedigree of Gyll of Buckland and Wyddiall-Hall, co. Herts; Yeoveny Hall, co. Middlesex' and Wyrardisbury House, co. Bucks.', p606+), BLG1858 ('Gyll of Wyrardisbury')
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