'Wombwell1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Wombwell of Barnsley, Wombwell of Thundercliffe Grange, Wombwell of Wombwell

                               
Hugh Wombwell of Wombwell (a 1404)
m. Jane Lowell (dau of John Lowell of Wombwell, sister/heir of Henry)
1. Thomas Wombwell of Wombwell (d 1452)
  m1. Joan Troutbeck (dau of John Troutbeck)
A. John Wombwell of Wombwell (d before 31.07.1487)
  m. Elizabeth Bosvile (dau of John (sb William?) Bosvile of Ardsley)
  i. Thomas Wombwell of Wombwell
  m. Catherine Ingleby (dau of William Ingleby)
  a. Roger Wombwell of Wombwell (d before 26.09.1521)
  m. Catherine Radcliff (dau of Alexander Radcliff of Ordsall)
(1) Hugh Wombwell of Wombwell (b c1489, a 16.04.1531)
  m. Catherine Mauleverer (dau of Sir William Mauleverer of Wothersome)
  (A) William Wombwell of Wombwell (b 1508/c08.1516, d 01.02.1577)
  m. Elizabeth Woodruffe (dau of Thomas Woodruffe of Wooley)
  (i) Thomas Wombwell of Wombwell
  m. Frances Wentworth (dau of Sir John Wentworth of Elmsall)
(a) William Wombwell of Wombwell (b c1565)
  m1. Ann Savile (dau of John Savile of Stanley)
  m2. Mary Rockley (dau of William Rockley of Rockley)
  ((1))+? issue - Darcy (bur 27.12.1605), Gervase (bur 03.07.1599)
  m3. Olive Barnell (bur 05.03.1653, dau of William Barnell of Wynkerburne)
  ((3)) William Wombwell of Wombwell (bur 04.02.1662)
  m. Margaret Wentworth (bpt 04.04.1608, bur 16.03.1640, dau of Michael Wentworth of Wolley)
  ((A)) Thomas Wombwell of Wombwell (bur 10.08.1663)
  m. (26.06.1655) Martha Wentworth (bpt 17.03.1634, dau of Sir Thomas Wentworth of Empsall, she m2. Sir Henry Marwood, Bart)
((i)) William Wombwell of Wombwell (bpt 02.09.1658, bur 22.02.1695, 2nd son)
  m. Elizabeth Copley (b c1662, bur 15.07.1742, dau of Sir Godfrey Copley of Sprotborough)
  ((ii))+ other issue - Thomas (bpt 14.05.1657, bur 09.05.1660), Thomas (dsp), daughter (d infant)
  ((B))+ other issue - William, Frances (bpt 10.10.1635, bur 16.03.1640)
  ((4)) Roger Wombwell of Darfield (bur 22.04.1658, 6th son)
  m. Elizabeth
  ((A)) George Wombwell of Wombwell, Yorkshire (b 1645/6, d 17.05.1682) - continued below
  m. Hannah Waugh (dau of William Waugh, she m2. William Stanley)
  ((B)) Margaret Wombwell (bpt 1646)
  m. Robert Cliffe of Matlock
  ((C))+ other issue - Olivia (bur 24.10.1657), Anne (bur 12.05.1659), Alice (bur 19.03.1659)
  ((5)) Foljambe Wentworth Wombwell of Hemingfield (bur 13.02.1654)
  m. Mary (bur 27.07.1690)
  ((A)) John Wombwell (bur 29.08.1664)
  ((6)) Elizabeth Wombwell
  m. John Blythe of Finchampsted
  ((7)) Oliva Wombwell
  m. Stephen Taylor of York
((8)) Dorothy Wombwell
  m. Thomas Brooke of London
  ((9)) Mary Wombwell
  m. Francis South of Bradfield
  ((10))+ other issue - Thomas (d unm, vicar of Wath), John (dsp), Francis (dsp)
  (b) Mary Wombwell
  m. Richard Washington of Adwick
  (c)+ other issue - John (d young), Cotton of Wombwell (d before 03.08.1636), Woodruffe (d young), Francis, Appleton (bur 22.06.1629), Wentworth, Dorothy
  (B) Roger Wombwell
  (2) Katherine Wombwell apparently of this generation
  m1. Nicholas Drax of Woodhall
m2. James Woodrove of Preston Jacklin (d 1557)
  (3) Elizabeth Wombwell apparently of this generation
  m. Robert Amyas of Netherton
  b. John Wombwell of Kent
  c. Hugh Wombwell (d c1520)
  (1) Henry Wombwell of Thundercliffe Grange (dvp)
  m. Anna Rokeby (dau of Thomas Rokeby of Thundercliffe Grange)
  The following is supported in Commoners (vol 3, Carleill of Sewerby).
(A) Nicholas Wombwell of Thundercliffe Grange (b c1506, bur 30.05.1571)
  m. Isabel Wentworth (bur 07.06.1593, dau of Thomas Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse)
  (i) Thomas Wombwell of Thundercliffe Grange (bur 02.09.1592)
  m. Isabel Arthington (dau of Richard Arthington of Arthington)
  (a) Barbara Wombwell
  m. (11.06.1577) Nicholas Shiercliffe of Ecclesfield
  (b) Isabel Wombwell
  m. (06.01.1584/5) Francis Stringer of Sharlston
  (c) Margaret Wombwell
  m. (22.07.1584) Nicholas Wordsworth
(d) Juliane Wombwell
  m. Francis Poole
  (e) Elizabeth Wombwell
  m. (09.11.1585) Nicholas Mauleverer
  (f)+ other issue - John (bur 30.10.1569?), Anne (bur 11.05.1561?)
  (ii) Nicholas Wombwell of Tickhill (a 1585)
  m. (15.05.1573) Elizabeth Rolston (dau of James Rolston, widow of Nicholas Mauleverer of Letwell)
  (iii) John Wombwell
  ii. John Wombwell
  iii. Elizabeth Wombwell
  m. William Fleming of Wath
  B. Thomas Wombwell
  C. Margaret (or Margery Wombwell possibly of this generation
  m. Thomas Langley of Rathorp Hall
  m2. Joan Fitzwilliam (dsp before 18.11.1454, dau of Sir William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough)
2. Agnes Wombwell
  m. Robert Grice

 

 

George Wombwell of Wombwell, Yorkshire (b 1645/6, d 17.05.1682) - continued above
m. Hannah Waugh (dau of William Waugh, she m2. William Stanley)
1. William Wombwell of Wombwell (bpt 09.01.1670-1, d 25.09.1716)
  m. (11.02.1696) Elizabeth Wentworth (bpt 22.11.1677, bur 07.06.1764, dau of Sir Michael Wentworth of Wolley)
  A. William Wombwell of Wombwell (bpt 21.10.1700, d 21.07.1733)
  m. Margaret Standish (d 1776, dau of Sir Thomas Standish, Bart, m2. Anthony Hall)
  i. Margaret Wombwell (dsp 20.12.1776)
  m. (1761) Anthony St. Leger of Park Hill (dsp 1786)
  ii. Elizabeth Wombwell (bpt 23.08.1731, dsp bur 18.06.1768)
  m. Sir Charles Turner, 1st Bart of Kirkleatham (b c1726, d 20.10.1783)
  B.+ other issue - George (bpt 10.02.1701-2, bur unm 26.04.1756, vicar of Norton), Michael of Wakefield (bpt 24.08.1704, dsp 24.02.1742), Dorothy (dsp), Elizabeth (bpt 26.07.1699, bur 27.01.1702), Catherine (bpt 29.11.1705, d 05.05.1794), Ann (bpt 10.10.1707)
2. John Wombwell of Leeds and Barnsley (b 15.10.1672, bur 21.02.1733-4)
  m. Elizabeth Nottingham (bur 29.05.1745, dau of Richard Nottingham of Leeds)
  A. George Wombwell of London (b 02.09.1701, d 08.10.1763)
  m. (08.10.1743) Anne Nottingham (dau of John Nottingham of London)
i. John Wombwell (b 14.08.1748, d unm)
  ii. Anne Wombwell (b 25.03.1750, d 1826)
  m. (14.11.1770) John Strachey (archdeacon of Suffolk)
  B. Roger Wombwell of Barnsley (b 31.05.1708, d 1740, grocer, 3rd/5th son)
  m. Mary Chadwick (bur 07.04.1745, dau of Francis Chadwick)
i. Sir George Wombwell, 1st Bart of Wombwell (bpt 11.0.1736, d 02.11.1780)
  m. (04.06.1765) Susannah Rawlinson (d 27.09.1816, dau of Sir Thomas Rawlinson, Lord Mayor of London)
  a. Sir George Wombwell, 2nd Bart of Wombwell (b 14.03.1769, d 28.10.1846)
  m1. (19/21.07.1791) Anne Belasyse (b 27.12.1768/9, d 07.07.1808, dau of Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg)
  (1) Sir George Wombwell, 3rd Bart of Wombwell (b 13.04.1792, d 14.01.1855) had issue
  m. (23.06.1824) Georgiana Hunter (d 10.05.1875, dau of Thomas Orby Hunter of Crowland Abbey)
  (2)+ other issue - Henry Walter (b 24.05.1795, d 17.02.1835), Frederick Richard (b 13.04.1797, d 24.08.1807)
  m2. (1813) Eliza Little (d 21.03.1856, dau of T.E. Little of Hampstead)
  (4)+ other issue - Charles Orby (b 03.04.1813, d 14.09.1898, had issue), Alfred D'Arcy (d 1834), Caroline (d 23.02.1864), Louisa (d 28.12.1882), Emily (d unm 03.04.1911)
  b. Susannah Wombwell (bpt 24.03.1766)
  m. (1781) Edward Roche (d 1828)
  c. Caroline Frances Wombwell (b 03.10.1767)
  m. Richard Clay
  d. Emma Wombwell (b 07.08.1770, d 04.06.1775)
  ii. John Wombwell of Heath Hall, Wakefield (bpt 18.06.1737)
  m1. (24.10.1783) Elizabeth Grigsby (dsp, dau of Joshua Grigsby of Suffolk, MP)
  m2. (24.11.1785) Frances Baker (d 28.12.1809, dau of Richard Baker of London)
  a. Frances Wombwell (bpt 07.02.1787)
  m. (25.05.1809) William Pitts Greg of the Middle Temple
  iii. Mary Wombwell
  C.+ other issue - William (d young), Thomas of Leeds (bur 21.09.1740), Frances

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (uploaded 03.02.07) : Visitation (J. W. Clay 1907, Yorkshire, Dugdale, 1665/6 (vol 2), Wombwell of Wombwell)
(2) For lower section (uploaded 12.11.06) : BP1934 (Wombwell) with support/input from Visitation (J. W. Clay 1907, Yorkshire, Dugdale, 1665/6 (vol 2), Wombwell of Wombwell)
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