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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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