GAWSWORTH
Sir Richard (III) of Fulbourne
abt 1119
d. 1200
Fulbourne, Camb.
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Sir Richard (IV) Phytun of Fallibroome (Fulbourne) m. Lady Katherine de Massey
1148 - 1210 1156 - 1186
Fulbourne
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Sir Richard (Lord Bolyn) m. Ellen Hugh of Pownall Lord Hamon V
abt 1175 1203 abt 1171
b. Fulbourne, Camb. b. Fulbourne, Camb.
d. 1237 d. 1253
Bollingbrook, London d. Fulbourne, Camb.
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Sir Hugh Roger (Parson of Wilmslowe)
b. Bollingbrook, London
d. pre 1262
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Edmund (Edward?) of Bolyn m. Joyce Margaret (or Margery)
1234 - 1297/8 m. Robert de Downes
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Sir John (Jonathan) Thomas of Gawsworth m. Isabel de Orreby Rev. Hugh
Bollin Maxfield Hundred 1282 - 1322 (dau. of Thomas de Orreby of Gawsworth)
abt 1280 1316 d. 1346 living 1335
d. 1346 I rect. Wilmslowe
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Thomas m. Margaret Legh of Bechton (dau. Peter Legh & Ellen Bechton)
abt 1322 1358 abt 1332
d. 22 Mar 1396/7 Gaws. d. 17 Dec 1379
bur. Gawsworth
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Sir Lawrence m. Agnes Hesketh of Rufford, Lan. Lady Margrett m. Sir John Burdet Father Phillip
abt 1365 1351 - 1434 I 1360 - 1414
d. 14 Feb 1456/7 d. 3 Jan 1441/2 Elizabeth Gaws
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Thomas of Gawsworth m. Ellen Mainwaring Alice Elizabeth Lawrence Father Richard
abt 1394 (dau. of Randle of Over Peover - Esq) abt 1395 1396 - 1478 1406 - 1434 1410 - 1459
d. 16 Jul 1449 d. 25 Feb 1480/1 d. 1478
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Lady Elizabeth Sir Thomas Younger Joanna George Sir Edward Randall
1420 1421 1427 1431 1434 1437
d. 25 Feb 1481 d. abt 1492 d. 1433 d. 1440 d. 15 Feb 1509/10 d. 1453
Wimslow
m. abt 1438 m. m. 1459 Gaws.
Thomas Weaver Esq Cicely Mainwaring Emma Siddington
1427 - 1516 1438 - 1500
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Lady Ellen Lady Katherine Sir Jonathon
1448 1457 1462
d. 3 May 1536 d. 1480 d. 19 Feb 1524
m. m.
Sir Rbt. Grosvenor Sir Humphrey Newton
John of Gawsworth m. Ellen Brereton (daughter of Sir Andrew Brereton & Agnes Legh of Brereton)
1471 5 Sep 1498 1477
d. 19 Feb 1523/5 d. 1541
or 22 Sep 1541
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Ann Elizabeth Edward (1) John Lawrence Ellen Randle Thomas Matilda William Cicily
1495 1499 1500 1502 1504 1506 1509 1510 1512 1514 1516
d. abt 1577 d. 17 Feb 1547/8
Prestbury
m. m. 1525 ?
Thomas Mary Harbottle
Davenport 1507 - 1556
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Susan Edward (2) Margaret Mary Ellen Anne Katherine Jane Thomas Francis Anthony George John
1526 31 Mar 1527 1529 1530 1531 1532 1534 1536 1539 1540 1541 1542 1544
Siddington Wor. Connaught
d. 3 Jul 1579 d. 1612 d. aft 1580 d. 1599/1600 d. 1608
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bur. 21 Sep bur. 20 Apr bur. 17 Jun
St. Patricks Cath.
Dublin, Ireland
m. 17 Jan 1538
London
Ann Warburton
Fitton, Sir Edward (1548/9–1606), administrator, was the son and heir of Sir Edward Fitton (1527–1579) of Gawsworth, Cheshire, and his wife Anne Warburton (1527–1574) of Arley, Cheshire. Born into one of the most prominent gentry families in Cheshire, he
was the eldest surviving son in a family of nine sons and six daughters. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating BA on 6 April 1566, and he subsequently studied at Gray's Inn. He married Alice (d. 1626), daughter and sole heir of Sir John Holcroft of Holcroft, Lancashire; they had two sons, Edward and Richard, and two daughters, Anne [see Newdigate, Anne] and Mary. Their eldest son and heir, Edward, was born on 3 December 1572. Their younger daughter, Mary Fitton, baptized in 1578, became a maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth in 1595.
During the 1570s Fitton was an active participant in his father's administrative career as vice-treasurer and treasurer-at-wars in Ireland and was occasionally employed to transport money into Ireland. From his Gawsworth home he kept in contact with Lord
Burghley concerning Irish affairs. On his father's death in July 1579 it was reported that Fitton, then aged thirty, expected to inherit the office and he was adamant ‘that none shall mixe with my father's reckoning but my self’ (TNA: PRO, SP 63/67, no. 55). He was appointed receiver-general for Ireland in that year in succession to Edward Waterhouse.
On 11 October 1579 he was knighted at Dublin Castle by the newly appointed lord justice, Sir William Pelham, and on the following day was issued with a passport to return to England with his company and his goods. His father's accounts were still a
subject of debate in the Dublin administration well into the 1580s.
Under the terms of his father's will Sir Edward inherited his father's entire estate on condition that he pay any outstanding debts, support his sisters until they married, and provide dowries for them when their marriages were arranged, and provide for the
education of two of his younger brothers, William and Francis. Besides the principal family estate at Gawsworth he also inherited his father's interest in the manors of Aldford, Echeles, and Alderley in Cheshire; he entered on his Gawsworth lands on 25 April 1583.
[by 1600 Sir Edward Fitton’s daughter, Mary] had become the mistress of William Herbert (1580–1630), also styled Lord Herbert, eldest son of Henry Herbert, second earl of Pembroke. When she was revealed to be pregnant the following January, the queen's wrath fell on the maids' chamber as a whole, and Mary was committed to the care of Lady Hawkins. By 5 February 1601 her lover, now third earl of Pembroke, had confessed his responsibility, but Cecil reported that ‘he utterly renounceth all marriage’ (Brewer and Bullen, 4.20) and predicted that they would both go to the Tower. In March Pembroke was sent to the Fleet prison, where he remained for some weeks, while Mary gave birth to a son, who died soon afterwards.
Sir Edward Fitton’s uncle, Francis Fitton (d.1608), married Katherine (nee Neville) Percy
(1545/6-1596), daughter of John Neville (d.1577), 4th Baron Latimer, son of John
Neville (1493-1543), 3rd Baron Latimer, and his first wife, Dorothy de Vere (d.1527),
and widow of Henry Percy (c.1532-1585), 8th Earl of Northumberland. From the Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography, available online:
The dowager countess of Northumberland remarried shortly after 5 December 1587, her
second husband being Francis Fitton of Binfield in Berkshire, a kinsman of
Northumberland who had long been her steward. She died on 28 October 1596 and was
buried in Westminster Abbey.
Edward Edward m. Margrett Gybsonne
20 Jun 1559
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Marie Francis Ann Marie Thomas Joane Margaret Ann Ann Edward
27 Jul 1557 13 Nov 1559 24 Jul 1561 27 Jul 1561 9 Apr 1564 7 Mar 1564/5 13 Jul 1566 2 Jun 1567 23 Aug 1570 25 Mar 1573
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Anne Minerva
6 Oct 1599 Mar 1598
d. 1599
bur. 10 May
Richard and Helen Stubbs Richard m. Helen Stubbs
19 Jan. 1577
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Edward
bur. 29 Aug 1576
Edward Edward
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(Sir) Edward Roger Ales Richard Jane Margrett
26 Apr 1602 26 Aug 1604 7 Oct 1605 17 Apr 1607 10 Oct 1615
m. m. 23 Apr m. 22 Oct
1629 1632
(Lady) Jane M. Merrick Thomas Mottershead
bur. 9 Jun 1638
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Edward Margaret Roger
6 Oct 1620 abt 1624 2 Feb 1630
bur. 2 Oct 1631
(memorial inscription)
Notes:
MARGARET FITTON abt. 1624: Died aged 7 yrs. Memorial inscription in old part of church.
Henry m. Johanna
bur. 27 Apr 1634
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Edward Thomas George
23 Mar 1627 10 Jan 1630 21/24 Feb 1640
bur. 14 Jan 1641
Thomas m.
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Thomas Catherine Mary Sarah Charles Henry Charles Edward Sarah
31 Jan 1700/1 13 Jun 1702 8 Feb 1704/5 11 Feb 1705/6
5 Feb 1684/5 18 Feb 1690 14 Jan 1692/3 29 Jul 1697 2 Mar 1700/1 21 Jun 1702 4 Mar 1704/5 24 Feb 1705/6 13 May 1711
d. 1700/1 d. 1756 d. 1706
bur. 20 Mar bur. 9 May bur. 6 Jul
Gawsworth Gawsworth Gawsworth
m. 22 Sep 1750
Gawsworth
Mary Lownds
d. 1774
bur. 19 Mar 1774
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Alexander
30/1 Jan 1750
d. 14 May 1801
bur. 17 May
Gawsworth
m. 18 Feb
1777
Martha Whittaker
b. abt 1756
d. 1814
bur. 30 Jan
(widow)
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Michael Mary Jesse Anne John Martha Elizabeth Catherine
13/6 Apr 1777 6 Jun 1779 b. 9 Feb1781 b. 21 May 1783 b. 8 Dec 1785 15 Feb 1789 15 May 1791 5 Jan 1794
c. 15 Mar c. 13 Jul c. 8 Jan 1786
d. 3 Jun 1855 d. 1809 d. 1830 d. 1815
bur. 7 Jun bur. 4 Apr bur. 8 Aug bur. 3 Sep
Gawsworth Gawsworth Gawsworth
m. 15 Nov 1812
Mary Stanway
abt. 1791
d. 1819
bur. 25 Feb
Gawsworth
m. Dec 1819
Frances Stanway
abt. 1789
Withington
d. 1867
bur. 25 Oct
Gawsworth
Ann Fanny
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Michael Celina Mary Josiah Michael Elizabeth William Thomas Frances
24 Jun 1814 5 Sep 1816 Feb 1819
17 Jul 1814 12 Jan 1817 4 Mar 1821 16 Oct 1823 5 Aug 1825 24 Dec 1826
Gawsworth Gawsworth Gawsworth Gawsworth
d. 1819 ? d. 1855
bur. 19 Mar bur. 2 Mar
Gawsworth Gawsworth WRONG
Notes:
ELIZABETH FITTON: 1841 - 20 yrs, with parents in Gawsworth.
FRANCES FITTON: 1841 - 12 yrs, with parents in Gawsworth.
JOSIAH FITTON: 1841 - 30 yrs, Tailor, with parents in Gawsworth.
MARY FITTON 1819: Died aged 4 weeks.
MICHAEL FITTON 1777: 1812 - married by lic. Both of this parish and over 21. He a tailor and signed his name. 14 November 1812 signed for marriage lic. 1819 - Marriage Lic - he awidower of Gawsworth - signed. 1821 - Tailor. 1841 - 60 yrs, Tailor, dwelling Gawsworth with wife and 6 offspring. 1851 - 73 yrs, dwelling Walkers Heath, Gawsworth with wife, two adult sons, stepdaughter by first marriage Elizabeth Stanway (32 yrs unmarried), and grandaughter Bessy F aged 4.
Wife MARY STANWAY abt 1791: 1812 - Illiterate spinster. Died aged 28 yrs after birth of baby who also died shortly after.
Wife FRANCES STANWAY: 1819 - Lic bond - she a widow of Maccesfield. 1841 - 50 yrs.
MICHAEL FITTON: 1841 - 25 yrs, Tailor,
THOMAS FITTON: 1841 - 14 yrs, with parents in Gawsworth.
WILLIAM FITTON: 1841 - 15 yrs, with parents in Gawsworth.
Notes:
JOHN FITTON 1777: Died aged 78 yrs.
MARTHA FITTON 1789: Died aged 26 yrs
MICHAEL FITTON 1814: Died aged 42 yrs.
Henry m. Mary
d. 1786 d. 1713
bur. 31 Oct bur. 4 Apr
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John Samuel Mary Henry Charles James Henry
3 Oct 1703 20 Oct 1706 2 Jan/Feb 1715 4 Aug 1717 1 Oct 1719
d. 1702 d. 1708
bur. 4 Aug bur. 31 Aug
Henry m. Ann Kelsall
abt. 1718 18 Oct 1756
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Charles Elizabeth Hannah Mary Michael Thomas Martha
10 Feb 1757 29 Oct 1758 27 Feb 1760 7 Aug 1761 29 Dec 1762 4 Dec 1763 18 Jun 1769
Notes:
HENRY FITTON: Marriage Lic. 12 Oct 1756 - bachelor 38 yrs - of Gawsworth -signed.
Wife ANN KELSALL: Marriage Lic. 12 Oct 1756 - spinster 29 yrs - of Gawsworth.
