'Newport01'
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Families covered: Newport of Bradford, Newport of High Ercall
| BE1883 identifies the arms of the following family as "Arg., a chevron gu., between three leopards' faces, sa.". | |||||||||||||||
| Thomas Newport of High Ercall (d 1401) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Thomas Newport of High Ercall, Sheriff of Shropshire (a 1403) | ||||||||||||||
| A. | ?? Newport | ||||||||||||||
| i. | William Newport of High Ercall, Sheriff of Shropshire (a 1473) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Burgh (dau of Sir John Burgh of Mowthwy) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | John Newport of High Ercall, Sheriff of Shropshire (d 1512) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alice Swynerton (dau of Sir Thomas Swynerton) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Thomas Newport of High Ercall, Sheriff of Shropshire (a 1542) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Ann Corbet (dau of Sir Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Sir Richard Newport of High Ercall, Sheriff of Shropshire (d 1570) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Bromley (dau of Sir Thomas Bromley, chief justice) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Sir Francis Newport of High Ercall (d 1623) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Beatrix Lacon (dau of Rowland Lacon of Willey) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Sir Richard Newport of High Ercall, 1st Lord (b 07.05.1587, d 08.02.1650/1) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (before 1615) Rachel Leveson (d 31.01.1661, dau of Sir John Leveson of Haling, sister/coheir of Sir Richard of Trentham) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford (b 23.02.1619/20, d 19.09.1708) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (28.04.1642) Diana Russell (d 30.01.1694/5, dau of Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford (b 03.09.1644, d 14.06.1723) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (20.04.1681) Mary Wilbraham (b c1661, d 03.12.1737, dau of Sir Thomas Wilbraham, Bart of Woodhey) | |||||||||||||||
| ((i)) | Henry Newport, 3rd Earl of Bradford (b 1683, dspl unm 23.12.1734) | ||||||||||||||
| p. Ann Smyth (b c1693, d 31.10.1742) | |||||||||||||||
| ((a)) | John Harrison, later Newport (b c1720, d 29.04.1783) | ||||||||||||||
| ((ii)) | Thomas Newport, 4th Earl of Bradford (b c1686, d unm 18.04.1762, 3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
| ((iii)) | Elizabeth Newport (dsps) | ||||||||||||||
| m. James Cocks of Worcester | |||||||||||||||
| ((iv)) | Anne Newport (d 19.08.1752) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (09.04.1719) Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Bart of Great Lever and Castle Bromwich (b 02.07.1685, d 25.07.1764) | |||||||||||||||
| Their eldest son was created Lord Bradford in 1794 and his eldest surviving son was created Earl of Bradford in 1815. | |||||||||||||||
| ((v)) | Diana Newport (d 14.07.1766) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (28.11.1721) Algernon Coote, 6th Earl of Mountrath (bpt 06.06.1689, d 27.08.1744) | |||||||||||||||
| ((vi))+ | other issue - Richard (dvp unm 03.12.1716), Francis (d young), Andrew (d young), William (d unm 04.12.1711), Mary (d unm 11.07.1711) | ||||||||||||||
| ((B)) | Thomas Newport, Lord Torrington (b 1654-5, dsp 27.05.1719) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Lucy Atkyns (d c1696, dau of Sir Edward Atkyns, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by Elizabeth, dau of Francis Lucy of the Strand, son of Sir Thomas of Charlecote) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (22.07.1700) Penelope Bridgeman (d 1705, dau of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Bart of Ridley) | |||||||||||||||
| m3. Anne Pierrepont (d 17.02.1734/5, dau of Robert Pierrepont of Nottingham) | |||||||||||||||
| ((C)) | Elizabeth Newport | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Sir Henry Littleton (Lyttleton), 2nd Bart of Frankley (dsp 24.06.1693) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Edward Harvey of Combe | |||||||||||||||
| ((D)) | Catherine Newport | ||||||||||||||
| m. Henry Herbert, 4th Lord of Chirbury (dsp 09.12.1678) | |||||||||||||||
| ((E)) | Diana Newport | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Thomas Howard of Ashtead (son of Sir Robert) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. William Fielding | |||||||||||||||
| ((F))+ | other issue (d unm) - Francis, Anne | ||||||||||||||
| ((2)) | Beatrix Newport | ||||||||||||||
| m. (10.01.1627) Sir Henry Bromley of Shrawarden (d 1652) | |||||||||||||||
| ((3)) | Mary Newport | ||||||||||||||
| m1. John Steventon of Dothill | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Francis Forester of Watlingstreet | |||||||||||||||
| ((4)) | Margaret Newport | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Fowler of Harnage Green | |||||||||||||||
| ((5)) | Anne Newport | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edward Corbett of Longnor (b 1620, dvp 30.05.1653) | |||||||||||||||
| ((6)) | Elizabeth Newport | ||||||||||||||
| Henry Powle of Williamsthorpe | |||||||||||||||
| ((7))+ | other issue (d unm) - Andrew, Christian | ||||||||||||||
| (b) | Margaret Newport possibly of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Barker of Haghmond (dsp) | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Magdalen Newport (d 1627, patron of John Donne) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Richard Herbert of Llyssyn (d 1597) | |||||||||||||||
| Various web sites on George Herbert, one of her sons, report that Magdalen also married ... | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Sir John Danvers | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Elizabeth Newport probably of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Francis Lawley of Spoonhill | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Sir Thomas Lawley of Wenlock (d 22.02.1621) | |||||||||||||||
| (iv) | Isabella Newport probably of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Charles Fox of Bromfield (a 1623) | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Ursula Newport probably of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Adams of Longdon | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | Elizabeth Newport probably of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Pakington of Chaddesley | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s): BP1934 (Bradford), BE1883 (Newport of Bradford), TCP (Newport of Bradford, Bradford)
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