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Families covered: Lyte of Lytescary (Lytes Cary)

                               
Henry Lyte of Lytescary (Lytes Cary) (b 10.03.1597/8, bur 16.06.1666)
m. (12.04.1621) Constance Baskerville (dau/coheir of Captain Nicholas Baskerville of Sunningwell by Constance, dau of George Huntley)
1. Henry Lyte of Lytescary (Lytes Cary) (b 14.04.1625, bur 22.02.1711/2, Lt. Colonel, 2nd son)
  m. Margaret Hippesley (bur 12.09.1705, dau of John Hippesley of Emborrow (Emborough))
  A. Henry Lyte (bpt 15.07.1661, bur 02.02.1685, captain)
m. Joan (m2. John Butler of Stowey)
  i. Henry Lyte (a 03.1705/6)
  B. John Lyte (bpt 13.12.1666, d 15.05.1698)
  m. (09.1690) Elizabeth Cooper a 1732, dau of Thomas Cooper (the elder) of Sherborne, m2. Thomas Cooke)
  i. Thomas Lyte, last of Lytescary (bpt 06.09.1697, d 07.09.1761)
  m. (1720) Elizabeth Mohun (b 1700, d by 1748, dau/coheir of Gilbert Maximilian Mohun of Fleet by Elizabeth Squibb)
  a. Thomas Lyte, last of Lytescary then Bath (bpt 26.09.17126, bur 1776)
  m. (before 1753) Mary Down
  (1) Henry Maximilian Lyte (b c1761, d 15.10.1834, Captain RN)
  m1. Amelia Viney (d 07.03.1818, dau/heir of Rev. James Viney of Gloucester by Sarah, da of Edmund Lambert of Boyton)
  (A) Amelia Mary Anne Lyte (b 1785, d 13.03.1875)
  m. Samuel Shaw (d 1858, Colonel)
  (B) Harriet Sophia Lyte (b 1787)
  m. Rev. Peter Macdonald
  (C) Anne Elizabeth Lyte (b 1788, d 1820)
  m. Samuel Cole
  m2. Mary (d 21.11.1850)
(2) Thomas Lyte (b 12.01.1766, d 26.07.1850)
  The following comes from Visitation (Howard & Crisp, England & Wales, vol 5 (1897), 'Lyte, formerly of Lytescary, co. Somerset', p153) which identifies Thomas as "representative of the Lytes of Lytescary"
  m. Anna Maria Oliver (a 1830)
  (A) Henry Francis Lyte of Berry Head, Brixham, Devon (b 01.06.1793, d 20.11.1847, minister of Lower Brixham, 2nd son) had issue
  Henry is identified as the author of "Abide with Me" and other well-known hymns.
  m. Anne Maxwell (dau/heir of Rev. William Maxwell of Falkand by Anne, dau of William Burrell Massingberd of Ormsby)
  (B)+ other issue - Thomas (b 06.0.1.1792, d 1831), George John (bpt 16.03.1795, a 1820)
  (3) Silvestera Lyte (a 12.1786)
  (4) Betty Worth Lyte (b 1747-8)
  m. (13.04.1768) James Hoddinet of Sherborne
  b. Elizabeth Lyte (bpt 01.05.1730, d 01.211.21777)
  m. Thomas Gibbons of Somerton (d before 08.10.1804, malster)
  c.+ other issue - Thomas (bpt 01.02.1722, bur 13.07.1731), Henry (bpt 20.09.1727, bur 17.04.1728), Thomas (bur 16.03.1732), Silvestra (bpt 03.10.1724, bur 15.01.1726)
  C Thomas Lyte of London, later of Charlton Mackrell (Somerset) & Groombridge (Kent) (bpt 1673, bur 23.09.1748)
  m1. (1702) Silvestra Brace (b c1669, d 24.12.1734, widow)
  i. Silvestra Lyte (b 26.02.1703/4, d 27.05.1749)
  m. (20.08.1726)Thomas Blackwell (b 18.04.1697, d 09.02.1773, Rector in London, son of Joshua of Stamford
  m2. (08.1735) Anne Packer (bur 20.04.1738, dau/coheir of John Packer of Groombridge)
  D. Margaret Lyte (b c1659)
  m. (c02.1679/80) Thomas Harris of Glastonbury (b c1647)
  E. Constance Lyte
  m. (c05.1680) Thomas Cooke of Shepton Mallet
  F. Catherine Lyte (bpt 27.12.1662)
  m. (c09.1680) Thomas Cooke of Shepton Mallet (b c1665)
  G. Rebecca Lyte (bpt 21.11.1667, d 03.03.1709)
  m. William Day
  H. Elizabeth Lyte (bpt 1669)
  m. William Warman of Somerton
  I. Gertrude (Gualtery) Lyte (bpt 11.10.1671)
  m. (30.11.1690) Richard Saunders
  J.+ other issue - Frances (bpt 21.04.1664), Phoebe (bpt 27.07.1665, a 07.1747)
2. Thomas Lyte of Martock, Somerset (b 16.07.1627, d 1690) had issue
  m. Gertrude Chandler of Wilton (d by 1698)
  A. Thomas Lyte (b 1655, d 1717, Rector of Bleadon)
  m. Mary Anne Morgan (dau of Lt. Col. John Morgan of Warminster (by Mary, dau of Captain Nicholas Baskerville of Sunningwell), m1. _ Coward)
  i. John Lyte of Chard, Somerset (a 02.1726/7)
  m. (28.09.1718) Edith Arnolf (b 23.02.1696, d 18.12.1760, dau of Henry Arnold of Piddletown by Susan, sister/coheir of Francis Hiull of Tolpuddle)
  a. Henry Lyte of Bishops' Hull, Somerset (b 06.08.1726, d 21.10.1791)
  m. (06.1788) Mary Coker (d 01.1815, dau of William Coker of Mappowder, m1. Thomas Stephen)
  b. Susanna Lyte (b 13.02.1728/9)
  m. _ Hussey
  c.+ other issue - Thomas (b 14.09.1719, d 26.10.1719), John (b 18.10.1722, d 01.08.1719), Thomas (b 06.08.1725, d 15.09.1725), Constance (b 23.05.1724, d 04.09.1724)
  ii. Mary Lyte (b 1683-4, d 11.09.1768)
  m. _ Latter of West Tarring
  iii.+ other issue - Thomas (bpt 07.10.1680, d before 1725), Anne
  B. Constance Lyte (b 1656)
  m1. John Arden of Crewkerne
  m2. (25.12.1705) John Tayler (Rector of Charlynch)
  C.+ other issue - Henry (b 1658), Richard (bur 1661)
3. Paul Lyte in Barbadoes (bpt 18.06.1635, a 1679, Major)
  m. Ann (widow)
4. John Lyte of Bristol (bpt 29.09.1637, a 1683)
  m. _ Roots of Barbadoes
5. Constance Lyte (b 01.01.1622)
  m1. John Browne of Chilthorne (d before 10.09.1657)
  m2. Giles Lock of Charlton Mackrell
6. Hester Lyte (b 18.05.1626)
  m. _ Marwood of Devon
7. Mary Lyte (bpt 05.04.1630)
  m. Robert Browne of Chilthorpe
8. Rebecca Lyte (bpt 10.12.1640, d 10.11.1699)
  m. John Stocker of Somerton (b 1672-3, d 20.09.1703)
9.+ other issue - Thomas (b 10.02.1623/4, bur 27.08.1634), Joseph (bpt 19.11.1639, bur 15.03.1640), Edmund (bpt 12.04.10642, bur 1675), Nicholas (bpt 01.10.1644, bur 24.05.1646), Frances (bur 23.12.1659), Phoebe (bur 30.12.1667)

Main source(s): Visitation (Wiltshire, 1623, 'Lyte'), Visitation (Frederick Arthur Crisp, England & Wales, Notes, vol 6 (1906), 'Pedigree of Lyte of Lytescary, co. Somerset', p61+) with just a very little input/support from Visitation (Wiltshire, 1623, 'Lyte'), Visitation (Somerset, 1672, 'Lyte of Lyte's Cary')
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