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Families covered: Wyrley of Dodford

                               
Guy Wyrley
Baker identifies Guy's wife Jane as a daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford of Grafton by Eleanor Aylesbury. Provisionally, we follow Visitation (1614-1663-4) which identifies her as ...
m. Jane Stafford (natural dau of Sir Humphrey Stafford of Blatherwick (and Grafton))
1. Thomas Wyrley of Dodford
m. Elizabeth Bellingham (dau of Henry Bellingham)
  A. John Wyrley of Dodford (bur 05.04.1584)
  m. Margaret Wake (bur 31.03.1586, dau/heir of John Wake of Flore, son of Roger of Blisworth)
  i. Francis Wyrley of Dodford (bur 07.07.1592)
  m. Jane Duffield (a 1608, dau of Francis (not James) Duffield of Medmenham, sister of James)
a. John Wyrley of Dodford, Sheriff of Northamptonshire (b 1572-3, bur 13.04.1655)
  m1. Elizabeth Duncombe (dsp bur 03.08.1615, dau of William Duncombe of Barrlesden)
  m2. Bridget Montfort (d 28.03.1637, dau/heir of Baldwin Montfort of Tamworth)
  (1) Mary Wyrley (d 1645)
  Baker shows that Mary (d 1645) m. (13.05.1627) Hatton Rugeley of Curdworth (and had 3 sons: John, William & Hatton) but the Rugeley records suggest that this was probably the Mary who married ...
  m. William Rugeley of Dunton (d 21.09.1655)
  (2) Jane Wyrley (bpt 19.09.1616, d by 1649)
  m. (1640) William Colley (son/heir of Sir Anthony of Glaiston)
  (3) Anne Wyrley (bpt 17.01.1621-2, d 30.09.1668)
m1. Henry Saunderson of Hedleyhope, co Durham (bur 04.03.1650)
  m2. (16.10.1651) Richard Benson of Charwelton (b 1623-4, bur 30.09.1668)
  (4) Dorothy Wyrley (bpt 22.05.1623, a 1669)
  m. William Bolton
  (5)+ other issue - Francis (bpt 19.10.1624, dvp bur 26.11.1643), Elizabeth (bpt 17.03.1617-8, d unm bur 03.07.1634)
  m3. (1644) Dorothy Coxe (b c1595, d 1678, dau of Thomas Coxe of Bishops Itchington, m2. James Enyon of Flore)
  b. Valentine Wyrley of Michell's Manor, Dodford (d 04.02.1653-4, 4th son)
m. Mary Gates (dau of Antony Gates of Oxford)
  (1) Mary Wyrley (bpt 18.07.1613, a 1680)
  m. Rev. Thomas Hogg of Farthington
  (2) Jane Wyrley (bpt 17.10.1615, a 1680)
  m. Francis Butlin of Hollowell
  (3)+ other issue (dsp) - Francis (a 1663, vicar of Shustoke), Judith
  c. Mary Wyrley (bpt 14.02.1585-6)
  m. Thomas Wightman of Leicestershire
  d. Knightley Wyrley
  m. Humprey Wyrley of Hamstead (m1. Catherine, dau of Edward Holt of Duddleston)
  e.+ other issue - Francis (a 1608), Thomas (dsp), Eusebius (a 1647), Edward (bpt 04.03.1587-8, a 1669)
  ii. Alice Wyrley
  m. Robert Moyle of Bulkwell
  iii. Elizabeth Wyrley (d 11.05.1575)
  m. John Breton of Tamworth
  iv. Margaret Wyrley
  m. William Starkey of Whitley
  v. Ursula Wyrley
  m. Thomas Carnock of Layer Marney
  vi.+ other issue - Robert, John, Dorothy, Hastings (d infant)
  B. Emma Wyrley
  m. John Pounter
  C. Winifred Wyrley
  m. Edward Wyrley
  D.+ other issue - William, Edward
2. Jane Wyrley
  m. Robert Power

Main source(s): 'The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton' (George Baker, vol 1, 1830, 'Keynes, Ayote, Purefoy, Cressy, Aylesbury, Stafford, Wyrley, Benson, &c.', p356) with some input/support from Visitation (H. Sydney Grzsebrook (1883), Staffordshire, 1614+1663-4, 'Wyrley of Hampstead')
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