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Families covered: Woodcock of Keame (Cayham)

                               
(1) Nichols identifies the arms of this family as "Or, on a bend sinister Gules, three crosslets fitchy Or".
(2) Nichols starts with Thomas, father of the Ralph who m. Catharine Clarke, describing him as "descended from a family in London". BLG1879 starts with that Ralph, identifying him as "supposed to be descended from Sir John Woodcock, Lord Mayor of London, 1405". HoP ("John Woodcock of London") identifies that John's immediate family. We presume to show a descent from that John as follows ...
William Woodcock of Doncaster, Yorkshire
m. Joan
1. Sir John Woodcock, Sheriff then Lord Mayor of London (d 01.1409, MP)
  m. (by 10.1391) Felicity Austyn (dau of Thomas Austyn of London, m2. Sir John Lumley of Co. Durham)
  A. ?? Woodcock presumed father of ...
  i. ?? Woodcock
  Uncertain on number of intervening generations.
  a. ?? Woodcock
(1) ?? Woodcock
  (A) Thomas Woodcock of Keame (Cayham), Leicestershire
  (i) Ralph Woodcock of Keame (b c1558, d 1656)
  m. Catharine Clarke (dau of William Clarke of Bruntingthorpe)
(a) Edward Woodcock of Keame (b 1606, d 1658)
  m1. Margaret Faunt (dau of Henry Faunt of Claybrooke)
  ((1)) Ralph Woodcock of Keame (b 1633) - continued below
  m. Elizabeth Lewin (d 1696, dau of Thomas Lewin of Thurnby)
  ((2)) Henry Woodcock of London (b c1635, a 1682)
  m. Mary Cotton (dau of Thomas Cotton of Laughton, sister of Samuel of Dadlington)
  ((A))+ issue (a 1682) - Henry (b 1664), Margaret, Mary
  m2. Jane Roe (dau of William Roe of Welborn)
  ((3)) Thomas Woodcock of Keame (b c1648, a 1682)
  m. Anne Goodall (dau of Sampson Goodall of Earl Shilton)
  ((A)) Mary Woodcock (b c1678, a 1682)
  ((4)) Elizabeth Woodcock (b c1650, a 1682)
  (b) Thomas Woodcock of Keame (b c1610, a 1682, dsp, 3rd son)
  m. Mary Jennour (d c1677, dau of Thomas Jennour of Llandornrod)
  (c) Ralph Woodcock of London (d 1666)
  m. Anne Gearing (dau of Simon Gearing of London)
  ((1))+ issue (a 1682) - Ralph (b 1648), Thomas (b 1651), Catharome (b 1657)
  (d)+ other issue (d unm?) - William, Elizabeth
  B. Joan Woodcocks
  m. William Lumley of Yorkshire
  C.+ 1 other son + 1 other daughter

 

 

Ralph Woodcock of Keame (b 1633) - continued above
m. Elizabeth Lewin (d 1696, dau of Thomas Lewin of Thurnby)
1. Thomas Woodcock of Keame (b 1663, bur 1734)
  m. Elizabeth Pochin (dau of Thomas Pochin of Barkby by Barbara, dau of Sir Wolston Dixie of Bosworth Park, Bart)
  A. Thomas Woodcock of Keame (bpt 25.11.1690, d 1763)
  m. (22.01.1716) Mary Pochin (dau of Thomas Pochin of Barkby by Mary, dau/heir of Sir Charles Hussey of Caythrope, Bart)
  i. Thomas Woodcock (b 01.05.1718, d 09.03.1763, vicar of Wistow & Kilby)
  m. (24.07.1745) Christiana Fox  of Burton Latimer (d 1774)
  a. Henry Woodcock (b 12.08.1775, d 28.07.1826, vicar of Barkby, rector of Caythorpe)
  m. (01.11.1785) Anne Cleever (d 04.08.1835, dau of John Whattoff Cleever of Syston)
  (1) John William Woodcock (b 13.09.1786, d 11.11.1819) had issue
  m. (04.07.1811) Joanna Williamson (d 15.10.1824, dau of George Williamson of Gaddesby)
  (2)+ other issue - George (b 08.11.1789), Henry (b 04.06.1794, d 1802), Anne (b 23.12.1787), Eleanor Mary Frances (b 03.09.1792), Mary Christian (b 25.12.1795)
  ii. Ralph Woodcock (b 09.11.1719)
  a. Sarah Woodcock
  iii. Edward Woodcock (b 05.02.1723)
  m. _ Somerfield of Keame
  a.+ issue - Edward, Thomas, 3 daughters
  iv.+ other issue - Elizabeth (b 10.12.1720, d unm 24.05.1776), Mary (d infant), Catharine (d infant), Catharine (d infant)
2. Margaret Woodcock
  m.Thomas Hall of Shakerston
3.+ other issue - Ralph (b 1666), Edward (b 1667), Henry (b 1681), Elizabeth, Alice

Main source(s): 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John Nichols, vol 3, part 2, 1804, 'The Pedigree of Woodcock of Keame, alias Cayham, and of Barkby, in the County of Leicester', p983) with some input/support from BLG1879 ('Woodcock of Rearsby House')
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