'Wellesborne1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Wellesborne (Welisburne) of West Hanny

                               
What may be some earlier generations of the following family are referred to on Purefoy1.
Thomas Wellesborne of Wickham, Berkshire
m. Margery Powre (dau of Thomas Powre of Blechingdon)
1. Sir John Wellesborne of Fulwell, Oxfordshire
  A. John Wellesborne (a 1589)
2. Oliver Wellesborne of West Hanny, Berkshire
Ashmole shows Oliver as father of John, Frideswide & Dorothy by Jane Yate. The Harleian editor, which refers to Ashmole, shows as follows.
  m1. Joan (Joyce) Humfreys of Abendon
  A. Francis Wellesborne of West Hanny (b c1526, d 06.12.1602)
  m1. (sp) Alice Martin of Evelton (widow of Henry Barton)
  m2. Elenor Stafford (dau of Thomas Stafford of Bradfield)
  i. Frances Wellesborne
m. Paul Ambrose Crooke
  ii.+ other issue - Katharine (d young), Anne
  B. John Wellesborne
  C. Friswith (Frideswide) Wellesborne
  m. Richard Hinton of Bourton
  D. Margery Wellesborne (d 06.1591)
  m. John Ashcombe of Lyford
E. daughter
  m. _ Coxshed of Genge
  F. daughter
  m1. _ Eision
  m2. _ Hewet
m3. _ Fournes of Oxfordshire
  m2. Jane Yate (dau of John Yate of Lyford)
  G. Dorothy Wellesborne
  Visitation shows Dorothy also as a daughter of the first marriage although there she is shown in italics.
  m. John Latton of Kingston Bakepuze
  H. (Martha) Wellesborne
  Visitation shows an unnamed daughter of this marriage as married to _ Blomer. This appears to be Martha who married ...
  m. William Blomer of Hatherop
3 Arthur Wellesborne (dsp)
4. Lucy Wellesborne
  m. _ Hyde of Stokelyne
5. Margery Wellesborne
  m. Robert a Wood

Main source(s): Visitation (Berkshire, 1569, 'Wellesborne of Hanney' in the Notes section) with some support from 'Antiquities of Berkshire' (Elias Ashmole, vol 3 (1723), 'Welisburne of West Hanny', p299)
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