'Whitehead2'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Whitehead of Bent Hall, Whitehead of Boulmer, Whitehead of Espley

                               
William Whitehead of Bent Hall in Lothersdale, Craven, Yorkshire (d 15.11.1671)
m. (c1648) Esther Heywood (d 22.10.1695, dau of Richard Heywood, sister of Oliver)
1. William Whitehead, last of Bent Hall (2nd son)
  m. Catherine Entwistle
  A.+ issue - Nathaniel (b 01.02.1676-7, d infant), William (b 1683, a 1693), OIiver (b 1687), Thomas (b 1691), Rebecca (b 1678), Elizabeth (b 1680), Anne (b 1681), Catherine (b 1686), Esther (b 1690, d young), Esther (b 13693, d young)
2. Mary Whitehead
  m. (23.04.1680) Thomas Wostenholm
  A.+ issue - William (a 1697), John, Nathaniel, Mary, Hannah, Anne, Esther
3. Alice Whitehead
  m. Roger Crook
  A.+ issue - William, Joseph, Elizabeth, Hester
4. Esther Whitehead
  m. Thurston Longworth
  A.+ issue - Hester, 2 others
5.+ other issue - John (d young in Barbadoes), Nathaniel (d 1668), Edmund (b c1667, d 08.05.1672), Joseph (d 1668), William (d infant), daughter (d young), daughter (d young), Elizabeth (b 1667-8, d 22.09.1674)

 

 

Bateson starts with 2 probably brothers, shown as sons of ...
?? Whitehead
1. Henry Whitehead of Boulmer & High Buston (a 1626, 1635)
  A. James Whitehead of Boulmer (d 1657-8)
2. George Whitehead in Boulmer (a 1608, 1649)
  A. Nicholas Whitehead of Boulmer (bur 04.03.1685/6)
  m. Margaret Widdrington (bur 27.09.1669, dau of Sir Henry Widdrington of Cheeseburn Grange)
i. Henry Whitehead of Boulmer (bur 10.1724, Captain) probably of this generation
  a. John Whitehead of Boulmer & Espley (bur 27.09.1773)
  m. (01.07.1731) Elizabeth Weems (d 03.07.1783, dau of Robert Weems of Stranton)
  (1) Henry Whitehead of Low Espley (bpt 12.1734, a 1767)
  (A) Elizabeth Whitehead (d 05.02.1853)
  m. Henry Butterworth of London
  (B) daughter (b c1797, a 1892)
  m. _ Trenow
  (2) Jane Whitehead (bpt 06.1732)
  m. (04.1752) John Archbold of Acton
  (3) Elizabeth Whitehead (bpt 02.1736, bur 02.1741/2)
  (4) Margaret Whitehead (bpt 02.1744/5)
  m. _ Ware
  b. Nicholas Whitehead of Berwick (bpt 1706)
  m. (23.04.1733) Margaret Ogle
c. Margaret Whitehead (bpt 29.11.1694)
  m. (05.03.1720) George Cook of Foxton Hall
  d. Deborah Whitehead (bpt 1696)
  m. (05.1718) John Cook of Sturton Grange Eastfield
  e. Mary Whitehead (bpt 08.02.1697/8)
  m. (08.1729) Anthony Coats of Stockton
f. Catherine Whitehead (b 1710-1,d 07.01.1802)
  m. (20.08.1741) Thomas Forster of Warenford
  g. Elizabeth Whitehead (bpt 1714)
  m. (04.05.1747) Robert Taylor of Berwick
  h.+ other issue - William (bpt 22.03.1692/3, bur 11.07.1695), Nicholas (bpt 12.09.1700, bur 10.11.1706), Henry (bpt 23.08.1702, bur 08.1723), William (bpt 1704, bur 1711), Joshua 'of Boulmer' (bpt 11.1705), Edmund (bpt 26.01.1709/10), Elizabeth (bpt 1707, bur 1711)
  ii. Nicholas Whitehead of Lesbury Field House (bpt 26.12.1667)
  m. (10.06.1701) Barbara Craster (bur 10.1732, dau of Daniel Craster of Craster)
  a. Nicholas Whitehead of Long Houghton (bpt 07.1705)
  m. (06.1738) Eleanor Robinson of Hepburn
  (1)+ issue - John (bpt 11.1739), Nicholas (bpt 12.1741), Robet (bpt 03.1742)
  b. Margaret Whitehead (d c11.1741) probably of this generation
  m. (12.06.1731) James Reveley of Alnmouth
  iii. Elizabeth Whitehead probably of this generation
  m. (26.11.1689) William Lock (bailiff of Alnwick)
  iv.+ other issue - William (bpt 28.08.1665), Katherine (bpt 09.1669)
  B. James Whitehead (bur 25.08.1663)
  C. Katherine Whitehead
  m. (04.08.1663) Gilbert Swinhoe

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (originally uploaded to WZmisc09 on 21.12.15) : FMG (vol 1, MS28, 'Whitehead', p68)
(2) For lower section : 'A History of Northumberland' (vol 2, Edward Bateson, 1895, 'Whitehead of Boulmer', p403+)
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