'DZmisc14'
Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Decker of London, Dillingham, Dew of Whitney Court, Dance of London
| TCB reports that the undermentioned Matthew was "of a family which, being Protestant, had fled from Flanders at the time of the Spanish persecution under the Duke of Alva". | |||||||||||||||
| Cornelius Decker of Harlem, Holland ("from flanders") | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Dirk Decker of Amsterdam | ||||||||||||||
| A. | Sir Matthew Decker of London, Sheriff of Surrey, Bart (b c1679, d 18.03.1749, MP) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (before 1717) Henrietta Watkins (b 1678-9, d 04.05.1759, dau of Rev. Richard Watkins of Wickford) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Catherine Decker | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | Henrietta Maria Decker (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (05.1737) John Talbot (son of Lord Chancellor Talbot) | |||||||||||||||
| iii. | Mary Decker | ||||||||||||||
| m. (12.1738) William Crofts of Saxham | |||||||||||||||
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| Gilbet Dillingham (d before 15.12.1635, Rector of Sandon, Essex, and St. Giles in the Fields) | |||||||||||||||
| m. (18.03.1605-6) Anne Steere (a 1635, dau of Rev. William Steers of Bermondsey (who d 1604)) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Samuel Dillingham (d before 24.07.1672, Rector of St. Pancras Soper-lane then Hadley) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Streatfeild (b 1627, d before 20.08.1703, dau of Thomas Streatfeild of Shoreham, widow of William Stanley of the Middle Temple) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Anne Dillingham (a 1725) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Winny | |||||||||||||||
| i.+ | issue - Anne, Rachel, Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Hester Dillingham (a 1712) | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Cotterell of Limehouse (d before 30.04.1712) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | John Cotterell | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | Hester Cotterell | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Holman | |||||||||||||||
| C.+ | other issue (d unm) - Henry (d before 10.07.1675), Samuel (d unm 14.09.1725) | ||||||||||||||
| 2.+ | other issue - Henry, William, Anne | ||||||||||||||
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| Visitation identifies the arms of the following family as "Argent, a fess dancetté sable between three chaplets of roses proper". It was possibly connected to, perhaps even descended from, the Lumley Dew of Bishop's Upton (Upton Bishop). | |||||||||||||||
| Tomkyns Dew of Whitney Court (Herefordshire) & London, Sheriff of Herefordsdhire (b 1720, bur 06.11.1799) | |||||||||||||||
| m1. (13.10.1759) Sarah Thorborrow of St. Martin's in the Fields (dsp 15.01.1788) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (16.03.1789) Ann Styleman (b 20.12.1760, d 20.010.1823, dau of Rev. Armine Styleman of Ringstead (by Ann, dau of James Blakeway), son of Nicholas (by Lucy, dau/coheir of Sir Nicholas le Strange of Hunstanton, Bart), Ann m2. Lt. Col. Thomas Powell) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Tomkyns Dew of Whitney Court, Sheriff of Herefordsdhire (b 09.07.1791, d 01.02.1853) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (29.04.1813) Margaret Beatrice Napleton (b 18.07.1794, d 11.07.1877, dau of Rev. Timothy Napleton of Powderham by Decima, dau of Jonathan Green of Ashford Hall) | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | Ann Dew (b 10.01.1790, d 13.04.1873) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c1820) John McGachen | |||||||||||||||
| 3. | Armine Dew (b 14.10.1794, d 03.09.1856) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (29.10.1819) Charles John Furlong (b 09.01.1793, d 27.12.1872, Lt. Colonel, m1. Elizabeth Reece) | |||||||||||||||
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| Giles Dance of Hoxton in St. Leonard, Shoreditch (d 06.07.1751) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | George Dance ('the elder') of London (b 1695, d 08.002.1768, architect & surveyor) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizaberth Gould of Hackney | |||||||||||||||
| A. | James Dance (aka Love) (b 1721-2, d 1744, playright & poet) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Hooper | |||||||||||||||
| i.+ | issue - Nathaniel, Sarah | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Sir Nathaniel Dance, later Dance-Holland of Wittenham, Berkshire, Bart (b 08.05.1735, dsp 15.10.1811, painter, MP) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1790) Harriet Bisshopp (d 1825, dau of Sir Cecil Bisshopp, 6th Bart, widow of Thomas Dummer of Cranbury & Thomas Chamberlaine) | |||||||||||||||
| C. | George Dance ('the younger') of London (b 01.04.1741, d 4.01.1825, architect & portraitist, professor of architecture, 5th son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (24.03.1772) Mary Gurnell (b 07.02.1752, d 1791, dau of Thomas Gurnell of Ealing) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Sir Charles Webb Dance (b 1785, d 13.11.1844, Colonel, 2nd son) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (28.07.1805, div 1812, sp) Eliza Scott Evans | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (17.12.1816) Isabella Anne Cooper (b 1796, a 1844, dau of Captain Allan Cooper of the East India Company) | |||||||||||||||
| ii.+ | other issue - Thomas of Salisbury (b 04.1773, d 1813, cleric), George (b 1778, d 1813) | ||||||||||||||
| D. | Hester Dance (a 1800) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (04.12.1764) Nathaniel Smith of Bloomsbury (d by 1800, director of the East India Company) | |||||||||||||||
| E.+ | other issue - Giles, William | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s):
(1) For Decker (uploaded 02.08.23) : BEB1841 ('Decker of London'), 'Pedigrees of the Knights' (Peter Le Neve, (G.W. Marshall 1873), p516), TCB (vol 5, 'Decker of London', p39)
(2) For Dillingham (uploaded 11.03.24) : 'Monken Hadley' (Frederick Charles Cass, 1880, 'Pedigree of Dillingham', p92)
(3) For Dew (uploaded 25.07.24) : Visitation (Howard & Crisp, England & Wales, vol 1 (1893), 'Dew of Whitney, co. Hereford', p281+)
(4) For Dance (uploaded 21.01.26) : BEB1844 ('Holland of Wittenham'), Wikipedia ('George Dance the Elder' and connected articles)
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