'Venables02'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Venables of Golborne, Venables of Kinderton

                               
William Venables, later of Golborne (Constable of Chester)
m. Blanche
1. Thomas Venables of Golborne, later of Kinderton
  m. (1427) Margaret Stanley (dau of Sir William Stanley of Hooton)
A. William Venables of Golborne, later of Kinderton
  m1. Petronell Coversonell (dau of Sir Piers Coversonell)
  i. Thomas Venables of Golborne and Kinderton (d Flodden 09.09.1513)
  Visitation shows this Thomas as son of William of Golborne, son of Thomas, son of the Roger who brought Golborne into the family by his marriage to the heiress Elizabeth Golborne whom we show as uncle of the William at the top of this page.
  m. Cicely Stanley (dau of ?? Stanley of Weaver)
  a. Sir William Venables of Kinderton (d 07.1544)
  m1. Elenor Cotton (dau of Richard Cotton of Richware)
(1) Sir Thomas Venables of Kinderton (d 07.1580)
  m. Maud Needham (dau of Sir Robert Needham of Shevington)
  (A) Anthony Venables (dvp)
  m. Anne Brereton (dau of Randle Brereton of Westonhall)
(B) James Venables (dvp)
  (C) Thomas Venables of Kinderton (d 1606)
  m1. Elizabeth Brereton (d 06.1591/2, dau of Sir William Brereton of Brereton)
  (i) Thomas Venables (d young 1572)
(ii) Elizabeth Venables
  m. Sir Thomas Egerton (dvp)
  (iii) Mary Venables
  m. Sir Richard Assheton of Middleton (d 07.11.1618)
  m2. Anne Gargrave (dau of Sir Cotton Gargrave of Nostell)
  (iv) Charles Venables (dvpsp)
  (v) Sir Peter Venables of Kinderton, Sheriff of Cheshire (b 1605, d 1679)
  m1. Mary Wilbraham (dau of Sir Richard Wilbraham of Woodhey)
(a) Thomas Venables (dvp 1669)
  m. Grace Fenwick (dau of Sir John Fenwick, Bart of Wallington)
  ((1)) Peter Venables of Kinderton (b c1648)
  m. Catherine Shirley (d 06.07.1717, dau of Sir Robert Shirley of Stanton Harold)
  ((A)) child (d young)
  ((B)) Anne Venables (dsp 28.04.1715)
  m. (22.05.1687) Montagu Venables-Bertie, 2nd Earl of Abingdon (dsp 16.06.1743)
((2)) Mary Venables (b c1651)
  m. Thomas Pigot of Chetwynd
  ((A)) Anne Pigot (b c1692, d 04.1714)
  m. Henry Vernon of Sudbury (b c1686, 25.02.1718/9)
  Kinderton passed to their son who took the name Venables-Vernon.
  ((3))+ other issue - Grace, Elizabeth, others (d young - Thomas, Thomas, Hugh, Grace)
m2. Frances Cholmondeley (sister of Sir Robert Cholmondeley, Bart, Earl of Leinster)
  (b) Robert Venables (a 1666)
  m. Elizabeth Stanley (dau of Sir Thomas Stanley, Bart of Alderley)
  (c) Anne Venables
  m. Francis Leveson Fowler of Harnage Grange
  (d)+ other issue - William (a 1666), others (d young - Gilbert, Peter, Francis)
  (vi) Mary Venables
  m. Humphrey Mackworth
  (D) Catherine Venables
  m. Peter Leigh, younger of Lyme (dvp 1570)
  (E) Elinor Venables
  m. Henry Mainwaring (son of Randle of Casincham)
(F) Agnes Venables
  m. (1553) Robert Collier of Darlaston
  (2) John Venables
  (A) ThomasVenables
  (3) Cecily Venables
  m. _ Talbot
  (4)+ other issue - Hugh, Robert, William
m2. Katherine Grosvenor (dau of Robert Grosvenor)
  (7) Anthony Venables
  (8) Margaret Venables
  m. John Minshull
  (9) Katherine Venables (d 1557) shown by Visitation as a generation earlier
  m. Sir John Massey of Pottington (d 15.07.1551)
  (10) Elizabeth Venables
  m1. James Marberry (d 25.07.1558)
  m2. Christopher Davenport of Woodford
  b. Isabel Venables
  m. Geffery Shakerley
  c. Elizabeth Venables possibly of this generation
  m. Thomas Bulkeley of Eaton (dsp)
  m2. Katherine Grosvenor (dau of Robert Grosvenor of Hulme)
  The following comes from Collins (Egerton Brydges, vol 5 (1812), 'Grosvenor Earl Grosvenor', pp252-3).
  ii. Anthony Venables
  iii. Anne Venables
  m. Richard Leigh of High Leigh
  B. Peter Venables
2. Ellen Venables possibly of this generationv
  m. Thomas Crewe of Nantwich
3.+ other issue - William of Ridley, Piers, Irham

Main source(s): information kindly provided by a contributor (SV, 20.12.04), apparently based on Ormerod (Cheshire, vol 2 (1882)), with some support from Visitation (Cheshire, 1580+1613, Venables Baron of Kinderton) and further support & some input from various web sites, in particular http://venables.free.fr
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