'Whitgreave1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Whitgreave of Burton, Whitgreave of Whitgreave

                               
Alan de Whitgreave of Whitgreave, Staffordshire (a c1140)
1. Edwin de Whitgreave of Whitgreave (a 1170, 1203)
  A. Herbert de Whitgreave of Whitgreave (d before 1225)
  i. Adam de Whitgreave (d before 1233)
  m. Margaret Gully (dau of Robert Gully)
  a. William de Whitgreave (a 1271)
m. Margaret (d 1275)
  (1) William de Whitgreave (d 1291)
  m. Alice de la Launde (dau of John de la Launde of Whitgreave)
  (A) William Whitgreave of Whitgreave (a 1300)
  (i) William de Whitgreave (a 1299, 1328)
  (a) Thomas Whitgreave of Whitgreave (d before 1380)
  ((1)) William Whitgreave of Whitgreave 'of Burton' (b c1359, d 1431)
  m. (1390) Joann Tomlinson (dau/heir of William Tomlinson of Halifax)
  ((A)) Robert Whitgreave of Bridgford, Burton, Logford, etc. (b 1392, d 1449, 3rd son) - continued below
  m. Emma Bruggeford
  ((B))+ other issue including Thomas of Nantwich
  ((2))+ other issue
  b.+ other issue
  ii. son

 

 

Robert Whitgreave of Bridgford, Burton, Logford, etc. (b 1392, d 1449, Ranger of Needwood Forest) - continued above
m. Emma Bruggeford (dau/heir of John Bruggeford alias Waterson of Bridgeford & Rickerscote)
1. Humphrey Whitgreave of Whitgreave & Burton (b c1421, d 1502)
  m. Alice Egerton (d 1498, dau of Ralph Egerton of Wrynehill)
A. Robert Whitgreave of Burton (a 1502) generation omitted by Visitation & Commoners
  m. Ellen Stanley (dau of Sir Humphrey Stanley of Pype Ridware)
  i. Humphrey Whitgreave generation omitted by Visitation & Commoners
  a. Humphrey Whitgreave generation omitted by Visitation & Commoners
  m. _ Forester (dau of Thomas Forester of Gnosall)
  (1) Robert Whitgreave of Burton (b c1500, d 03.12.1550)
m. (1523) Margery Stanford (d 1557, dau of Thomas Stanford of Rowley)
  (A) Humphrey Whitgreave of Burton, etc. (b 1527, a 1583)
  m1. Ann Corbet (dau of George Corbet)
  m2. (1569) Joyce Astley (dau of Anthony Astley of Onslow or Oslowe)
  (i) Robert Whitgreave of Burton (b c1569, d 1652)
  m1. _ Skrymshire (dau of _ Skrymshire of Aqualate)
m2. Jane Erdeswicke (dau of John Erdeswicke)
  (a) Walter Whitgreave of Gnowsall, Staffordshire (b c1598, d 1655, 2nd son)
  m. Elizabeh Cox of Moseley
((1))+ issue (a 04.1663) - Thomas (b 1640-1), Joyce, Elizabeth, Jane
  (b) Thomas Whitgreave of Burton (d 02.02.1643)
  m. Mary Crompton (dau of Thomas Crompton of Stone)
  ((1)) Sir Thomas Whitgreave of Bridgford 'of Burton' (b 1628-9, a 04.1663)
  m. Mary Bowyer (dau of Sir William Bowyer of Knipersley)
  BLG1952, which does not follow this line past Humphrey (b 1527), reports that the Burton estate was sold by the last male heir, Richard Whitgreave, in 1720.
((2)) George Whitgreave (d unm)
  ((3)) Margaret Whitgreave
  m. Thomas Worsick of Stafford
  (a) Margaret Whitgreave
  m. William Collyns of the Lee
  (a)+ other issue - Humphrey (dvp), Edward, Jane, Joyce
  (ii) Elizabeth Whitgreave
  m. Walter Colman of Cannock
  (B) Thomas Whitgreave of Bridgford (d 09.1590)
  m. (1559) Dorothy Noel (dau of Robert Noel of Hilcote)
  (C) George Whitgreave of Stafford (b 1532, d 1594)
Visitation suggests that George dsp but BLG1952 reports that he was ancestor of the Whitgrove family in Worcestershire.
  m1. (1564) Ellen Harcourt (dau of Robert Harcourt of Rinton)
  m2. (sp?) Anne Postel (d 1636)
  (D) Ellen Whitgreave
  m. John Babington of Tinsmore
  (E) Margaret Whitgreave (d unm)
  (F) Elizabeth Whitgreave
  m. Sir Ralph Bagnall of Baraston (d 1586)
  (G) Alice Whitgreave
  m. Henry Grosvenor of The Hill in Offley (d 1597)
  (2)+ other issue - William of Rickerscote, Edmund of Gnosall (d 1580)
  B. William Whitgreave (a 1510, rector of Tatenhill)
  C. George Whitgreave 'of Staffordshire'
  i. Alice Whitgreave
  m. Thomas Ferne
2. Thomas Whitgreave of Longford, Shropshire (dsp)

Main source(s): BLG1952 (Whitgreave formerly of Stockerston Hall) with some support for the lower section from Visitation (Staffordshire, 1583, Whitgreave of Burton), Commoners (vol 4, Whitgreave of Moseley Court), Visitation (Staffordshire, 1614+1663-4, Whitgreave of Bridgford and Burton)
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