'Fanshawe01'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Fanshawe of Dromore, Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate, Fanshawe (Faunchall) of Holmesfield, Fanshawe of Ware Park

                               
John Faunchall of Holmesfield, Derbyshire (a 1417)
1. John Faunchall of Holmesfield (a 1436)
  A. John Faunchall of Faunchall Gat Nede (b before 1414, a 1456)
  m. Joan (a 1454)
  i. John Faunchall of Faunchall Gat Nede (b c1437, d before 1509)
  m. Johanna (a 1507)
a. Henry or Robert Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate (d 1523) first generation mentioned by BE1883 & Visitation
  BLG1952 identifies him as "Henry (or Robert)". BE1883 names him Robert. Visitation does not name either him or his wife.
  m. _ More
  (1) John Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate (b 1504, d 22.02.1578)
  m1. ??
  (A) Helen Fanshawe
  m. (1561) Robert Alney
(B) Agnes Fanshawe
  m. (1564) John Outram
  m2. Ellen or Margaret Eyre (d 15.06.1573, dau of Rowland Eyre of Hassop)
(C) Thomas Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate, Ware Park, Dengie Hall, etc. (d 19.02.1600, remembrancer)
  m1. Mary Bourchier (d 09.06.1578, dau of Anthony Bourchier of Gloucestershire)
  (i) Sir Henry Fanshawe of Ware Park, etc (bpt 13.08.1569, bur 12.03.1615-6, remembrancer) - continued below
  m. Elizabeth Smythe (bur 03.06.1613, dau of Thomas Smythe of Ostenhanger)
  m2. (1580) Joan Smythe (dau of Thomas Smythe of Ostenhanger, etc.)
  (ii) Sir Thomas Fanshawe of Jenkins & Barking Manor (bpt 15.09.1580, d 17.12.1631)
  m. (1604) Anne Babington (bur 01.10.1638, dau of Uriah Babington of Leicestershire)
(iii) William Fanshawe of Parsloes (bpt 04.05.1583, a 1634)
  m. (c11.1615) Catherine Wolstenholme (bur 18.05.1642, dau of Sir John Wolstenholme of Nostell Abbey)
  (iv) Alse Fanshawe (d 1623)
  m. (13.03.1602) Sir Christopher Hatton of Kirby, Holdenby and Clay Hall (d 11.09.1619)
  (v) Catherine Fanshawe (bur 20.05.1628)
  m. (30.06.1616-8) John Bullock of Darley and Harding
  (vi) Margaret Fanshawe (d 21.05.1658)
  m. (09.05.1616) Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, Bart of Braxted (d 1662-3)
  (vii) Mary Fanshawe (d 1684)
  m. Thomas Hardwicke of Leeds
  (viii) Elizabeth Fanshawe (d unm)
  (D) Robert Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate (bur 24.06.1613) had issue
  m1. Diana Eyre (dau of Rowland Eyre of Bredway)
m2. Dionis (dsp 02.1597, dau of Edward Barber or Barker of Rowley)
  (E) Godfrey Fanshawe (dsp bur 07.02.1587-8)
  m1. Anne Waldegrave (dau of John Waldegrave of Burley)
  m2. (1563-4) Grace Pagett of London (dsp 01.1589, widow of Robert Robotham of Raskell)
  (F) Margaret Fanshawe
  m. (24.07.1564) Richard Castle of Dronfield
  (G) Catherine Fanshawe
  m. Sir John Wolstenholme of Nostell Abbey (d 1639)
  (2) Henry Fanshawe of Jenkins, Dengie and Burch Hall (d 28.10.1568)
  m1. (c07.1554) Thomasine Hopkins (dsp 1561-2, dau of William Hopkins)
  m2. Dorothy Stonard (dau of George Stonard of Loughton)
  (A) Susan Fanshawe of Vallance, etc
  m. (1583) Timothy Lucy of Bitterley (d 21.01.1616, son of William of Charlecote)
  (B)+ other issue - Anne of New Barns (d unm bur 07.04.1584), Dorothy (bur 10.01.1565-6)
  (3) Colyn Fanshawe of Brimington Hall then Dronfield (d by 1596)
m1. Agnes (bur 24.09.1563)
  (A) Colyn Fanshawe of Brimington (bur 10.08.1593)
  m. (28.07.1574) Elizabeth Hurst
  (B)+ other issue
  m2. ??
  (C) Arthur Fanshawe (d by 1596)
  (4) Helen Fanshawe dau of Henry of Fanshaw Gate, possibly of this generation
  m. Christopher King of Milnthorp
  (A) Joan King (eldest dau, coheir)
  m. (03.07.1555) Arthur Mower
  b. John Fanshawe of Holmesfield (a 1523)
  c. Thomas Fanshawe of Rawsethe (d 1544)
  m. Margaret (a 1540)
  (1) Sir William Fanshawe (a 1550, priest)
  (2) Margaret Fanshawe
  m. (before 1540) Nicholas Parkinson
2. Joan Faunchall of Holmesfield (d before 1431)

 

 

Sir Henry Fanshawe of Ware Park, etc (bpt 13.08.1569, bur 12.03.1615-6, remembrancer) - continued above
m. Elizabeth Smythe (bur 03.06.1613, dau of Thomas Smythe of Ostenhanger)
1. Thomas Fanshawe, 1st Viscount Fanshawe of Dromore (b c1596, d 26.03.1665, remembrancer)
Both BE1883 & BEB1841 report that Thomas left at his decease 3 sons and 4 daughters by his 1st wife but TCP reports that Anne dspm and that Thomas had many children by his 2nd wife of whom 3 sons and 5 (or 3?) daughters remained at about 1676. The dates given by TCP for Anne suggest that she could have had only one delivery (a daughter) before she died. It is possible that Thomas's eldest daughter was by Anne.
  m1. (23.09.1627) Anne Alington (bpt 13.04.1607, bur 17.07.1628, dau of Sir Giles Alington of Horseheath by Dorothy Cecil)
  A. daughter (possibly Anne?)
  m2. (24.06.1629) Elizabeth Cockayne (bpt 02.04.1609, bur 27.02.1667-8, dau of Sir William Cockaine of Rushton by Mary Morris)
  B. Thomas Fanshawe, 2nd Viscount of Dromore (bpt 17.06.1632, bur 19.05.1674)
  m1. (04.1648) Catharine Ferrers (b c1635, dsp bur 13.06.1660, dau of Knighton Ferrers of Bayfordbury by Catherine, dau of Sir William Walter)
  m2. (before 1666/7) Sarah Evelyn (bur 16.10.1717, dau of Sir John Evelyn of West Dene)
i. Evelyn Fanshawe, 3rd Viscount of Dromore (bpt 09.08.1669, d unm 10.10.1687)
  ii. Katharine Fanshawe
  C. Charles Fanshawe, 4th Viscount of Dromore (b 06.02.1642/3, d unm 28.03.1710, 3rd son)
  D. Simon Fanshawe, 5th Viscount of Dromore (b c1648, d unm 23.10.1716)
  E. Elizabeth Fanshawe
  m. Sir Thomas Fanshawe of Jenkins
  F. Mary Fanshawe (bpt 07.11.1635, bur 01.12.1701) apparently of this generation, of this marriage
  m1. (by 1662) Sir Thomas Cambell, 1st Bart of Clay Hall (b c1620, bur 02.09.1665)
  m2. Robert Sheffield of Kensington
  G.+ other issue - son, Anne (possibly by 1st wife?), Katharine, Abigail
2. Sir Simon Fanshawe (bpt 23.04.1604)
  m. Katharine Walter (dau of Sir William Walter of Wimbledon, widow of Knighton Ferrers)
3. Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Bart (4th son)
  m. (18.05.1644) Anne Harrison (dau of Sir John Harrison of Balls)
  A. Sir Richard Fanshawe, 2nd Bart (b 06.08.1665, d unm c1695)
  B. Margaret Fanshawe
  m. Vincent Grantham of Goltho'
  C.+ other issue (d young unm)
4. Alice Fanshawe
  m. Sir Capel Bedell of Hammerton
5. Mary Fanshawe
  m. William Newce of Great Hadham
6. Joan Fanshawe
  m1. (1631) William Boteler (son of Sir Oliver, Bart of Teston)
  m2. (1647) Sir Philip Warwick
7.+ other issue - Walter (bpt 01.09.1605), Henry, Elizabeth, Anne

Main source(s): BLG1952 (Fanshawe formerly of Parsloes), BEB1841 (Fanshawe), BE1883 (Fanshawe), TCP (Fanshawe of Dromore)
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