'Pelham02'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Pelham of Chichester, Pelham of Crowhurst, Pelham of Laughton, Pelham of Stanmer

                               
Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Bart of Laughton, Sheriff of Sussex and Surrey (b c1540, d 02.12.1624)
m. (by 1590) Mary Walsingham (bur 07.06.1634, dau of Sir Thomas Walsingham of Scadbury)
1. Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Bart of Laughton (bpt 22.09.1597, bur 28.08.1654)
  m1. Mary Wilbraham (bur 07.03.1634, dau/coheir of Sir Roger Wilbraham by Mary, dau of Edward Barber of Tew)
  A. Sir John Pelham, 3rd Bart of Laughton (b c1623, bur 20.01.1702-3)
  m. Lucy Sydney (bur 19.10.1685, dau of Robert Sydney, 2nd Earl of Leicester)
  i. Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Lord of Laughton (b c1650, d 23.02.1711-2)
  m1. (18.03.1679-80) Elizabeth Jones (bur 13.10.1681, dau/heir of Sir William Jones of Ramsbury (attorney general) by Elizabeth, dau of Edmund Alleyne of Hatfield Peverell)
a. Lucy Pelham (d young 02.05.1689)
  b. Elizabeth Pelham (d 11.05.1711)
  m. (03.07.1698) Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (d 21.06.1738)
  m2. (21.05.1686) Grace Holles (d 13.09.1700, dau of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare)
  c. Thomas Pelham-Holles, Prime Minister, 1st Duke of Newcastle (b 01.07.1693, dsp 17.11.1768)§E
  The Dukedom passed to Henry Clinton, son-in-law of his younger brother who had been Prime Minister before him.
  m. (02.04.1717) Henrietta Godolphin (d 17.07.1776, dau of Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin)
d. Henry Pelham, Prime Minister (b 1696, d 06.03.1754)§E
  m. (29.10.1726) Catherine Manners (d 18.02.1780, dau of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland)
  (1) Catherine Pelham (b 24.07.1727)
  m. (03.10.1774) Henry Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln, 2nd Duke of Newcastle (b 16.04.1720, d 22.02.1794)
  (2) Grace Pelham (b 18.08.1728, d 31.07.1777)
  m. (12.10.1752) Lewis Monson Watson, 1st Lord Sondes (d 30.03.1795)
  (3)+ 2 daughters (d unm)
  e. Grace Pelham (d 04.1710)
  m. George Naylor
  f. Frances Pelham (d 27.06.1756)
m. (31.05.1715/7) Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer (d 23.06.1719)
  g. Gertrude Pelham
  m. (20.08.1713) David Polhill of Ottord
  h. Lucy Pelham (d 20.07.1736)
  m. (16.05.1717) Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln (b 1684, d 07.09.1728)
  i. Margaret Pelham (d 23.11.1758)
  m. (16.03.1726-7) Sir John Shelley, 4th Bart of Michelgrove (b 05.03.1691-2, d 06.09.1771)
  ii. John Pelham (d unm)
  iii. Henry Pelham of Stanmer (d 01.04.1721)
  m. (18.12.1683) Frances Bine (dau of John Bine or Byne of Rowdell)
  a. Henry Pelham of Stanmer (d unm 01.06.1725)
b. John Pelham (d unm 1721)
  c. Thomas Pelham of Stanmer (d 1737)
  m. Annetta Bridges (dau of Thomas Bridges)
  (1) Thomas Pelham, 1st Earl of Chichester (b 28.02.1728, d 08.01.1805)
  m. (15.06.1754) Anne Frankland (d 05.03.1813, dau of Frederick Meinhardt Frankland)
(A) Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester (b28.04.1756, d 04.07.1826)
  m. (16.07.1801) Mary Henrietta Julia Osborne (d 21.10.1862, dau of Francis Goldophin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds)
  (i) Thomas Pelham (b 20.06.1802, d 04.03.1803)
  (ii) Henry Thomas Pelham, 3rd Earl of Chichester (b 25.08.1804, d 15.03.1886) had issue
  m. (18.08.1828) Mary Brudenell (d 22.05.1867, dau of Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan)
  (iii) Frederick Thomas Pelham (b 02.08.1808, 21.06.1861, Admiral) had issue
  m. (26.07.1841) Ellen Kate Mitchell (d 08.01.1900, dau of Rowland Mitchell of London)
  (iv) John Thomas Pelham, Bishop of Norwich (b 21.06.1811, d 01.05.1894) had issue
m. (06.11.1845) Henrietta Tatton (d 31.12.1893, dau of Thomas William Tatton of Wythenshawe Hall)
  (v) Amelia Rose Pelham (b 17.06.1806, d 02.01.1884)
  m. (05.09.1854) Sir Joshua Jebb (d 26.06.1863, Major General)
  (vii) Catherine Georgiana Pelham (b 21.07.1814, d 18.01.1885)
  m. (26.10.1837) Lowther John Barrington (d 17.03.1897, rector of Watton)
  (viii) Lucy Anne Pelham (b 03.11.1815, dsp 16.01.1901)
  m. (24.08.1858) Sir David Dundas, 2nd Bart of Beechwood (d 23.03.1877)
  (ix)+ other issue (d unm) - Mary (b 04.08.1803, d 23.07.1860), Frances (b 1810, d 1817), Henrietta Juliana (b 27.03.1813, d 01.12.1905)
(B) Henry Pelham (b 1759, d 1797)
  m. (1788) Catherine Cobb (dau of Thomas Cobb)
  (i) Catherine Elizabeth Anne Pelham (d 12.01.1876)
  (ii) Fanny Pelham (d 22.02.1860)
  m. (1834) James Hamilton Murray (d 1841, Captain)
  (C) George Pelham, Bishop of Bristol then Exeter then Lincoln (b 13.10.1766, dsp 1827)
  m. (1792) Mary Rycroft (dau of Sir Richard Rycroft, Bart)
(D) Henrietta Anne Pelham (d 06.12.1797)
  m. (24.05.1789) George William Leslie, 13th Earl of Rothes (b 28.03.1768, d 11.02.1817)
  (E) Frances Pelham (d 1783)
  m. (05.12.1778) George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton
  (F) Lucy Pelham (dsp 18.01.1797)
  m. (26.12.1794) John Holroyd, later Baker-Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (d 30.05.1821)
  (2) Harriet or Henrietta Pelham (d 31.08.1768)
  m1. (18.05.1748) Richard Temple (d 08.08.1749, of Palmerston family)
  m2. (05.02.1753) George Nevill, 1st Earl of Abergavenny (b 24.06.1727, d 10.09.1785)
d. Elizabeth Pelham
  m. Thomas Pelham (MP) @@ below
  e. Grace Pelham (dsp)
  m. William Poole (of Poole family)
  f. Frances Pelham (d 30.04.1760)
  m. Sir Francis Poole, 2nd Bart of Poole (d 10/6.02.1763)
  g. Lucy Pelham (db 15.01.1695/6, 25.05.1730)
  m. (1726) Talbot Yelverton, 1st Earl of Sussex (b 02.05.1690, d 27.10.1731)
  iv. Dorothy Pelham (b 15.12.1648, d infant)
v. Elizabeth Pelham (d 13.07.1723)
  m1. (30.05.1678) Edward Montagu (of Halifax family)
  m2. Thomas Woodcock (dsp 03.07.1732)
  vi. Lucy Pelham (dsp bur 16.07.1721)
  m. (14.03.1679/80) Gervase Pierrepont, Lord of Hanslope or Ardglass (dsp 22.05.1715)
  B. Judith Pelham
  m. Sir John Monson (dvp 1674)
  C. Elizabeth Pelham
  m. Henry Pelham of Lincolnshire
  D.+ other issue - Thomas (bur young 13.09.1638), Anne (bur 22.01.1644), Jane (bur 09.11.1635)
  m2. (1637) Judith Honywood (b 05.07.1602, bur 21.11.1638, dau of Sir Robert Honywood (by Alice Barnham), widow of John Shurley of Lewes)
G. Sir Nicholas Pelham of Cottesfield Place (b 1649, d 1739)
  The following is supported by BLG1886 (Pelham of Cound).
  m. Jane Huxley (dau of James Huxley of Downford, sister of Elizabeth, wife of Robert Cressett of Upton Cressett & Cound)
  i. Thomas Pelham (MP)
  m. Elizabeth Pelham (dau of Henry Pelham of Stanmer) @@ above
  a. Henry Cressett-Pelham of Crowhurst
  m. Jane Hardinge (dau of Nicholas Hardinge)
  (1) John Cressett Pelham of Cound and Crowhurst (d unm 08.1838)
  (2) Frances Pelham (d 17.01.1836)
  m. (24.05.1800) George Augustus Thursby (rector of Abingdon)
  Their son inherited Cound and took the name Thursby-Pelham.
  (3) Anne Pelham (d 1839)
  m. (02.05.1791) Thomas Papillon of Acrise (d 1838)
  b. Frances Pelham
  m. Edward Cressett, Bishop of Llandaff (cousin)
  H. Philadelphia Pelham (d 13.08.1685)
  m. (08.07.1673) Francis Howard, 5th Lord of Effingham (bpt 17.09.1643, d 30.03.1695)
  m3. Margaret Vane (a 01.1652/3, dau of Sir Henry Vane by Frances, dau of Thomas Darcy of Essex)
2. Judith Pelham
  m. Henry Cary, Lord Hunsdon, 1st Earl of Dover (d 1668)

Main source(s): BP1934 (Chichester), BLG1952 (Thursby-Pelham (now Chapman) of Upton-Cressett) with a little support from Visitation (Sussex, 1662, Pelham of Laughton)
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