'Overbury1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Overbury of Barton-on-the-Heath, Overbury of Bourton-on-the-Hill

                               
Thomas Overbury of Aston-sub-Edge, Gloucestershire (bur 02.02.1580)
m. Isabell Rutter (bur 15.03.1601, dau of Nicholas Rutter of Hidcot)
1. Sir Nicholas Overbury of Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire (bpt 07.05.1549?, bur 31.05.1643, recorder of Gloucester, MP)
  m. Mary Palmer (bur 14.06.1617, dau of Giles Palmer of Compton Scorphin)
  A. Sir Giles Overbury of Thistleworth (Middlesex) then Bourton-on-the-Hill (bpt 04.05.1590, d before 06.02.1653, 3rd son)
  m. Anna Shurley (bur 17.10.1660, dau/coheir of Sir John Shurley of Isfield)
i. Sir Thomas Overbury of Bourton-on-the-Hill (bur 06.03.1683)
  m. Hester Leach
  a. Mary Overbury (a 1703)
m. (19.05.1659) Sir William Whitlock
  ii. Mary Overbury (b after 1634?)
  m. William Whitlock of Wiltshire
  iii.+ other issue - Giles, Nicholas, John (d young), Edward, Richard (bur 19.12.1642, MP?), Anna (b by 1634)
  B. Walter Overbury of Barton-on-the-Heath, Warwickshire (bpt 02.04.1593, bur 06.04.1637, MP)
  m1. Mary Pinchen (d by 1640, dau of Sir Edward Pinchen of Essex (Pinchon of Writtle))
i. Mary Overbury
  m. (31.01.1642) Edmund Meese-Goodyer of Heithrop
a. Mary Meese-Goodyer (bpt 27.03.1650)
  m2. Magdalen Marsham (a 1637, dau of Thomas Marsham of London, widow of Edward Grimston of Suffolk (brother of Sir Harbottle, Bart, Master of the Rolls))
  ii. Nicholas Overbury of Barton-on-the-Heath (bpt 26.05.1629, d 10.07.1681)
  m. Catherine Sheppard (a 1682, dau of William Sheppard of Rolright Magna)
  a. Thomas Overbury (bpt 03.06.1680, d 06.05.1739)
  m. Frances Sheldon (bur 23.09.1731, dau of Ralph Sheldon of Ditchford)
iii. Elizabeth Overbury (bpt 20.04.1628, d before 25.06.1687)
  m1. Sir Thomas Pettus, Bart (d 1671)
  'The Genealogist' reports that "Dugdale says she mar. 2ndly Sir Henry Poole, Bart., but?" (sic). TCP (vol 2, Pettus, p145) suggests that she married ...
  m2. _ Pode
  iv. Magdalen Overbury (bpt 25.04.1632)
  m. Samuel Malines of London
  v. Anne Overbury (bpt 16.07.1637)
  m. (03.04.1665) William Stratford (son/heir of William of Farmcot & Wick Risington)
vi.+ other issue - Thomas (bpt 21.12.1630, bur 18.08.1634), Walter (bpt 11.06.1633. d 24.05.1700), Thomas (bpt 04.05.1636, bur 1637)
  C. Frances Overbury (bpt 05.06.1580, d 1601)
  m. (01.10.1599) John Palmer of Compton Scorphin (d 1632)
  D. Mary Overbury
  m. (14.11.1611) Sir John Litcott
  i.+ issue - Nicholas, Giles, Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, Anne, Ursula
  E. Meriall Overbury (bpt 02.05.1585)
  m. (02.09.1604) Robert Oldisworth (a 1640)
  i.+ issue - Nicholas (bur 26.03.1645, rector of Bourton-on-the-Hill), Robert, William, Mary, Margaret, Elizabeth, Sarah
  F. Margaret Overbury (bpt 18.10.1591, d by 1641)
  m. (28.09.1610) Edmund Lechmere of Hanley Castle
  G.+ other issue - Nicholas (bur 05.05.1593), Sir Thomas (bpt 18.06.1581, d 14.09.1631, essayist)
2. Elizabeth Overbury (bpt 08.10.1544, a 1580)
  m. (19.06.1569) John Sessions
  A. Thomas Sessyons
3. Grizogona Overbury (bpt 30.05.1554?)
  m. (02.06.1577) Robert Cartwright (a 1580)
  A. Anthony Cartwright
4.+ other issue - Anthony (bpt 09.07.1557, bur 21.08.1559), Mary (bpt 08.03.1545, d 30.03.1548), Agnes (bpt 27.11.1555, bur 02.10.1573?)

Main source(s): 'The Genealogist' (New Series, George Marshall, vol 1 (1877), 'Pedigree of Overbury', p271+) with some support from Visitation (Warwickshire, 1619, Overbury of Barton on the Heath')
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