'Oxenden1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Oxenden of Brook, Oxenden of Dene (Deane), Oxenden of Wingham

                               
Richard Oxenden of Wingham, Kent
m. Isabella de Witham
1. John Oxenden of Wingham
  m. Isabella Retling of Mownington (Nonnington or Newington?)
  A. John Oxenden of Wingham
  m. Jane Dene
  i. Richard Oxenden of Wingham (dsp)
  m. Jane Wenderton
  ii. Thomas Oxenden of Reculver, Kent
  m. Jane Urleston
  a. Thomas Oxenden of Dene (in Wingham)
  m. Elizabeth Rainscroft or Ravenscroft
  (1) Edward Oxenden of Dene
  m. Alice Barton
Visitation & Berry show that Edward & Alice had 2 sons, William (m. Elizabeth Hill) & Henry (no wife mentioned) and 2 daughters (Elizabeth & Mary). Visitation & Berry then show William & Elizabeth as parents of Edward (m. Alice Fowler), Henry (m. Elizabeth Brooker) and others (Thomas, Christopher, William & Mary). We follow Crisp who starts with Henry, 2nd son of Edward of Brook, showing him as father of those children.
  (A) William Oxenden of Wingham
  m. Elizabeth Hill
  (B) Henry Oxenden of Dene in Wingham (b 1512-3, d 01.08.1597)
  m1. Elizabeth Young (bur 02.09.1588, relict of John Sea)
  (i) Edward Oxenden of Brooke in Wingham (bur 08.12.1617)
  m. (20.01.1576/7) Alice Fowler (bur 05.02.1615/6, dau of Edward Fowler of Helden or Islington, sister of Thomas of Islington)
(a) William Oxenden of Brook (bpt 22.09.1588, d 07.04.1657)
  m. (c09.1613) Dorothy Grove (dau of Ralph Grove of Canterbury)
  (b) Henry Oxenden of Twitham in Wingham (bpt 22.09.1588, bur 12.10.1647)
m. (27.04.1620) Mary Vinall (b 1589/90, a 05.1643, dau of _ Vinall of New Romney)
  ((1)) Henry Oxenden of Brook (bpt 09.09.1620, bur 31.12.1694, Lt. Colonel)
  m. (28.09.1653) Margaret Master (bpt 16.01.1629/30, dau of Richard Master of East Langdon)
  ((A)) William Oxenden of Brook (b c1654, bur 0802.1685/6)
  ((B)) Margaret Oxenden (b c1656)
  m. (c01.1683/4) John Benskin of Woodnesborough (b c1657)
  ((C)) Mary Oxenden (bpt 17.08.1658)
  m. (21.09.1687) Richard Oxenden of Brook (son of Sir Henry)
  ((D))+ other issue - Henry (bpt 20.11.1663, d young), Richard (bpt 22.12.1665, d young), Anne (bur 04.12.1684), Elizabeth (bpt 24.12.1659), Henrietta (bpt 20.03.1660/1, bur 11.09.1675)
  ((2))+ other issue - William (bpt 27.05.1623, bur 09.07.1653), Katherine (a 05.1643), Mary (bpt 14.06.1626, bur 24.10.1643), Anne (bpt 01.04.1630, bur 23.09.1650)
  (c) Mercy Oxenden (bpt 17.02.1578/9)
  m. Richard Waltham of London
  (d) Jane Oxenden (bpt 13.07.1580)
  m. William Wade of Bildeston
  (e) Catharine Oxenden (bpt 26.09.1582, a 12.1618)
  m. Anthony Sanders or Saunders of Walmer Castle (a 12.1618)
  (f) Priscilla Oxenden (bpt 17.01.1584/5)
  m. (c11.1618) William Lennard (jurate of Dover)
  (g) Elizabeth Oxenden (bpt 22.05.1586)
  m. (c11.1610) Thomas Harflett or Harflete of Ash
  (h) Margaret Oxenden (bpt 24.09.1587, a 06.1619)
  m. (1613) William Brigham (a 06.1619, curate of Wingham)
  (ii) Sir Henry Oxenden 'of Wingham' of Dene
m1. (22.05.1581) Elizabeth Brooker (bur 02.09.1588, dau/heir of Jacob (James) Brooker of Maydken (Maydeston) (by Cecilia, dau of John Aldeston of Littleborne) son of Henry (by Elizabeth, dau of John Warren of Dover) son of John of Canterbury (by Dorothy, dau of John Sampson of Spelmanden) son of John Brooker of Sussex)
  (a) Sir James Oxenden of Dene (bpt 28.08.1586, d 24.09.1657)
  m. (27.09.1605) Maria or Margaret Nevinson (d 1671, dau of Thomas Nevinson of Estrey (Navinson of Eastry))
  Crisp does not follow this line but indicates that Sir James & Maria had issue. Visitation ends with naming James & Maria's children. TCB confirms that the Henry was ...
((1)) Sir Henry Oxenden, 1st Bart of Dene (b 28.04.1614, d 08.1686)
  m1. (sps) Mary Baker (dau of Robert Baker)
  m2. Elizabeth Meredith (dau of Sir William Meredith of Leeds Abbey)
  m3. (sp) Elizabeth Read (dau of Matthew Read)
  ((2)) Sir George Oxenden, Governor of Bombay (President of the East India Company)
  ((3)) Anna Oxenden presumably the Anne (b c1606) who married ...
  m. (1626) Richard Master of Dover Castle
  ((4)) Elizabeth Oxenden presumably the Elizabeth who married ...
  m. William Dalison of Halling (d 05.1642)
  ((5)) Jane Oxenden who married ...
  m. (by 1643) Sir Thomas Piers of Stonepit, Bart
  ((6))+ other issue - Jacob (James, d unm 1638), William (d young), Christopher (d 1659), Maria, Margaret
  (b) Richard Oxenden of Great Maydekin in Barham, Kent (b 30.07.1588, d 20.05.1629)
m. (11.01.1607/8) Catherine Sprackling (b 19.07.1587, d 03.12.1642, dau of Sir Adam Sprackling) of Canterbury
  (c) Elizabeth Oxenden (bpt 04.04.1585, bur 02.09.1588)
  m2. Mary Theobald (bur 27.12.1636)
  (iii) Mary Oxenden
  m. Bartholomew Sanders of Minster
  (iv)+ other issue - Thomas (dsp), Christopher (dsp), William
  m2. Thomasine Sea (dau of Vincent Sea)
  (C) Elizabeth Oxenden (d infant?)
  (D) Mary Oxenden
  m. Thomas Hardres of Hardres (d 1550)
  (2) William Oxenden

Main source(s): Visitation (Kent, 1619, Oxenden), 'Fragmenta Genealogica' (vol X, 'Pedigree of Oxenden') by Frederick Arthur Crisp (1904), CountyGen (Kent, Berry, p224+)
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