'Thimbleby1'
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Families covered: Thimbleby (Thimelby) of Irnham, Thimbleby of Poolam
| Thomas Thimbleby of Poolam (Poulham) in Edlington | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Thomas Thimbleby | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Billesby (dau/heir of Sir William Billesby of Billesby (Bilsby)) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Richard Thimbleby or Thimelby of Poolam and Irnham, Lincolnshire (d before 1523) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Hilton (dau of Sir Godfrey Hilton of Irnham by dau of Sir Andrew Lutterell) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Sir John Thimbleby or Thimelby of Irnham | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Boys (dau of John Boys) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Sir Richard Thimbleby or Thimelby of Irnham & East Bridgeford (d 28.09.1590) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Katharine Tyrwhit (dau of Sir Robert Tyrwhit of Kettleby) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | John Thimbleby or Thimelby of Irnham (d 07.01.1625-6, 2nd son?) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (before 30.12.1558) Mary St. Paul (bur 03.10/2.1564, dau of George St. Paul of Snarford) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Richard Thimbleby or Thimelby (dvp bur 02.02.1622-3) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Brooksby (dau of Edward Brooksby of Shoby) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Sir John Thimbleby or Thimelby of Irnham (b 17.06.1603, d 19.12.1661) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Savage (dau of Thomas Savage, 1st Earl Rivers) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | John Thimbleby of Irnham (b 20.06.1635, dsp 28.06.1712) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (28.01.1657-8) Dorothy Petre (b c1634, d 09.01.1720, dau of Robert, 3rd (not 2nd) Lord) | |||||||||||||||
| (b) | Elizabeth Thimbleby (b 17.10.1643, a 1676) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Francis Cottington (d by 1676) | |||||||||||||||
| (c)+ | other issue - Robert (b 10.11.1645), Henrietta Maria (b 18.10.1649, d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Henry Thimbleby (dsp 1655) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Gertrude Aston (dau of Walter Aston, 1st Lord of Forfar) | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Elizabeth Thimbleby | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Conquest of Houghton Conquest (a 1634) | |||||||||||||||
| (iv) | Mary Thimbleby | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir William Pershall | |||||||||||||||
| (v) | Catharine Thimbleby | ||||||||||||||
| m. Herbert Aston (son of Walter, 1st Lord) | |||||||||||||||
| (vi)+ | other issue - Edward, Richard (dsp), Robert (dsp), William (dsp), Anne, Ellen, Dorothy, Frances, Winifred (nun) | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | Elizabeth Thimbleby | ||||||||||||||
| m. Henry Clifford of Brackenborough | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (c02.1566-7) Magdalen Billesby (dau of Andrew Billesby of Bilsby) | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | John Thimbleby of Snydale, Yorkshire (bpt 20.02.1567-8) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Jackson (dau of Charles Jackson of Snydale) | |||||||||||||||
| (D) | Mary Thimbleby (bpt 16.02.1576-7) possibly the Maria who married ... | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Lacon of Linley (a 1623) | |||||||||||||||
| (E)+ | other issue - George, Nicholas, Thomas, Robert, William, Katherine (bpt 24.09.1570), Lucy (bur 08.08.1610), Alice | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Edmund Thimbleby (d 25.10.1607) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (12.05.1578) Sophia Copwood | |||||||||||||||
| (A)+ | issue - John (bpt 05.02.1581-2), Katharine (bpt 06.01.1583-4) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. (30.04.1599) Jane (bur 07.07.1603, widow of John Laughton) | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Richard (Robert?) Thimbleby of Great Grimsby (bpt 28.02.1543-4, bur 09.04.1595) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (11.11.1585) Maude Joyce (dau of William Joyce, m2. William Barnard) | |||||||||||||||
| (A)+ | issue (a 1592) - John (bpt 31.08.1589), Katharine (bpt 30.07.1586), Hester (bpt 08.04.1588, bur 21.02.1620-1) | ||||||||||||||
| (4) | Elizabeth Thimbleby | ||||||||||||||
| In the section on this family, Maddison shows Elizabeth as married to Thomas (or William) Welby and then John St. Paul. The St. Paul & Welby records suggest that the marriages were the other way around. Visitation (1562-4) just shows the marriage to Thomas Welby. | |||||||||||||||
| m1. (1558-9) John St. Paul (dsp c02.1558-9) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (1560) Thomas (not William) Welby 'of Moulton' (d 1570) | |||||||||||||||
| (5) | Mary Thimbleby (bur 26.11.1565) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edward Skipwith of Haburgh | |||||||||||||||
| (6) | Margaret Thimbleby (d 06.10.1598) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Nicholas (or Michael) Empringham or Erpingham | |||||||||||||||
| (5)+ | other issue (dsp) - Edward, Anne | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Elizabeth (dau of Thomas Moore?) | |||||||||||||||
| (7) | John Thimbleby (d young) | ||||||||||||||
| b. | John Thimbleby | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Chatteron of Wiltshire | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Elizabeth Thimbleby (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| d. | Katherine Thimelby | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1525-6) William Ermin (Armine) (d 25.12.1558) | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Thomas Thimbleby of Poolam, Tetford, etc. (dsp c1527, rector of Tetford) | ||||||||||||||
| iii. | Richard (or Robert) Thimbleby (a 1550) | ||||||||||||||
| a. | Matthew Thimbleby of Poolam (d c1551) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Elizabeth Skipwith (dau of Sir John Skipwith of South Ormsby, widow of Anthony Rigges) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Thomas Thimbleby of Poolam | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Witherwick of Claxby | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Elizabeth Thimbleby | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Tilston of Nettleham | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Anne Hussey (dau of Sir Robert Hussey of Linwood, m2. Sir Robert Savile) | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Richard Thimbleby of Poolam (b c1524) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Dorothy Gascoigne (dau of Sir William Gascoigne) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | William Thimbleby (b c1563, a 1587) | ||||||||||||||
| (B) ? | Dorothy Thimbleby | ||||||||||||||
| m. Oliver Witherwick of Claxby | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Katharine Thimbleby | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Bambrough | |||||||||||||||
| (4)+ | other issue - Stephen (dsp 21.08.1587, recorder of Lincoln, MP), Dionysius (Denys) | ||||||||||||||
| iv. | Ellen Thimbleby shown by Maddison, same person as Eleanor? | ||||||||||||||
| m. John St. Paul of Snarford (d before 18.06.1546) | |||||||||||||||
| v. | Eleanor Thimbleby shown by Visitation (1562-4), same person of Elen? | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Goode | |||||||||||||||
| vi. | Anne Thimelby shown by Visitation (1562-4) | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Booth of Killingholme | |||||||||||||||
| vii.+ | other issue - Elizabeth (nun), Margaret (nun) | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees (1906, 'Thimbleby (or Thymelby) of Poolam in Edlington and Irnham', p957+) with some support/input from Visitation (Walter Metcalfe, 1881, Lincolnshire, 1562-4, 'Thimbleby (Thimolby)') and just a very little support from Visitation (Walter Metlcalfe, 1882, Lincolnshire, 1592, 'Thimbleby')
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