'Kirke02'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Kirke of Cookridge

                               
Thoresby identifies the arms of the following family as "Parted per Fess Or & Gules, a Lozenge counterchang'd".
Thomas Kirke of Buslinthorpe
m. (04.06.1539) Alice Morley
1. Gilbert Kirke (dsp 01.09.1586)
  m. (07.1560) Jane Hobson
2. Thomas Kirke (d 31.08.1579)
A. Gilbert Kirke of Cookridge (bpt 14.10.1576, d 08.1628, 2nd son)
  m. (16.10.1598) Ellen Long (d 08.1643, dau of R. Long of Winsley)
  i. Thomas Kirke of Cookridge (bpt 02.1600, bur 10.03.1633)
  m. (02.10.1621) Mary Armitage (b c1602, bur 11.03.1682, dau of Nicholas Armitage, brother of John the father of Sir Francis, 1st Bart)
a. Gilbert Kirke of Cookridge (b 30.03.1624, bur 23.11.1663)
  m. (22.09.1649) Margaret Layton (bur 07.1688, dau of Francis Layton of Rawdon)
  (1) Thomas Kirke of Cookridge (b 22.12.1650, d 24.04.1706)
  m. (11.07.1678) Rosamund Abbot (b 12.9.1661, d 30.08.168*, dau/coheir of Robert Abbot of Preston Jacklin)
  (A) Thomas Kirke of Cookridge (b 21.04.1684, dsp 01.1709)
  m. (1707) Lidia Light (dau of Antony Light of London, m2. Robert Lumley) ## see here ##
  (B)+ other issue - Henry (b 1679, d 1680), Margaret (b 1683, d 05.12.1708), Anne (b/d 1685)
  (2) Gilbert Kirke (b 1653, d 1693)
  m. Elizabeth Nightingale of Doncaster
(A)+ issue - Layton of London (a 1712), Francis (a 1712), Mary
  (3)+ other issue - John (b 1658, d 1693), Elizabeth (b 1655, a 1712), Margarert (b 1656, a 1712)
  b. Dorothy Kirke
  m. Edard Waddington
  c.+ other issue (dsp) - Thomas, Richard, Susan
  ii. Francis Kirke (b c1610, d 10.1688)
  B. Frances Kirke (bur 07.1649)
  m. (13.07.1594) Francis Cloudsley of Leeds (bur 21.12.1633)
  C.+ other issue - Richard (b 1572), Thomas (b 1578)
3. Richard Kirke
  m. (1576) Agnes Mathew
  A. ?? Kirke
  i. Richard Kirke
  a. Thomas Kirke of London (a 1702)
4.+ other issue - Christopher, Nicholas, Dowsabel

Main source(s): 'Ducatus Leodiensis' (Ralph Thoresby, 1715, p158)
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