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THE ANCESTRY OF WILLIAM CAVENDISH, 4TH DUKE OF
DEVONSHIRE
1 William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
bap 1 Jun 1720, St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex
d 2 or 3 Oct 1764, Spa, Germany
bap 6 Oct 1698, St Martin in the Fields
d 5 Dec 1755, Piccadilly, Middlesex
m 27 Mar 1718, Oxted, Surrey
3
Catherine Hoskins
bap 17 Nov 1698, St Andrew, Holborn, London
d 8 May 1777, London
b ca 1673
d 4 Jun 1729, Piccadilly
m 21 Jun 1688, St Giles in the Fields, Middlesex
5
Rachel Russell
b Jan 1673/74
d 28 Dec 1725
6
John Hoskins of Red Lyon Square, London
bap 22 Nov 1640, Oxted
d 16 May 1717, bur Oxted
m 17 Dec 1695, Chapel Royal
7
Catherine Hale
bap 18 Sep 1673, King’s Walden, Hertfordshire
bur 16 Mar 1704/05, King’s Walden
b 25 Jan 1640/41
d 18 Aug 1707, Piccadilly
m 26 Oct 1662, Kilkenny Castle, co. Tipperary
9
Mary Butler
b 1646
bur 6 Aug 1710, Westminster Abbey
10 William
Russell of Southampton House, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, styled Lord Russell
b 29 Sep 1639, Bedford House, London
d 21 Jul 1683, Lincoln’s Inn Fields
m 20 Aug 1669, Titchfield, Hampshire
11 Rachel
Wriothesley
bap 19 Sep 1637, Titchfield
d 29 Sep 1723, Bloomsbury
12 Charles
Hoskins of Barrow Green, Oxted, Surrey
b ca 1603
d 10 Sep 1657, bur Oxted
m 14 Dec 1626, King’s Walden
13 Anne
Hale
bap 25 Jun 1609, King’s Walden
d 2 Dec 1651, bur Oxted
14 William
Hale of King’s Walden, MP for Hertfordshire
b ca 1632
d 25 May 1688, bur King’s Walden
m 18 Dec 1655, St Andrew, Holborn, London
15 Mary
Elwes
b ca 1640
d 28 Jul 1712, bur King’s Walden
b 10 Oct 1617
d 23 Nov 1684, Roehampton House, Surrey
m ca 4 Mar 1638/39
17 Elizabeth
Cecil
b ca 1620
bur 21 Nov 1689, Westminster Abbey
18 James
Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde
b 19 Oct 1610, Clerkenwell, Middlesex
d 21 Jul 1688, Kingston Lacy, Dorset
m 25 Dec 1629
19 Elizabeth
Preston, suo jure Baroness Dingwall
b 25 Jul 1615
d 21 Jul 1684, St James’s Square, London
20 William
Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford
b Aug 1616
d 7 Sep 1700, Bedford House, London
m 11 Jul 1637, St Benet, Paul’s Wharf, London
21 Anne
Carr
bap 16 Dec 1615, St Martin’s, Ludgate, London
d 10 May 1684, Woburn, Bedfordshire
22 Thomas
Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton
bap 2 Apr 1608, Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire
d 16 May 1667, St Giles in the Fields
m 18 Aug 1634, Charenton, France
23 Rachel
de Massue
b 1603, Paris
d 16 Feb 1639/40, Westminster
24
Sir Thomas Hoskins
b Sep 1562
bur 24 Nov
1615, Oxted
m
25 Dorothy
Aldersey
b 1585, Berden, Essex
d 23 Dec 1651, bur Oxted
26 William
Hale
b ca 1569
bur 28 Aug 1634, King’s Walden
m 23 Feb 1595/96, St Olave, Old Jewry, London
27 Rose
Bond
bap 29 Jan 1573/74, St Stephen, Walbrook, London
d 31 Jul 1648, bur King’s Walden
28 Rowland
Hale of King’s Walden
bap 19 Jun 1600, King’s Walden
bur 8 Apr 1669, King’s Walden
m 12 Jul 1631, St Peter le Poer, London
29 Elizabeth
Garway
bap 16 Dec 1610, St Peter le Poer, London
d 9 Jan 1679, bur King’s Walden
30 Jeremy
Elwes of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire
bap 15 Nov 1584, St Mary Bothaw, London
d ca 1653
m 15 Jul
1627, St Giles in the Fields
31 Mary
Morley
b ca 1604
d 4 Dec 1667, bur Ayot St Peter’s, Hertfordshire
The
Complete Peerage
(2nd edition)
The
History of Parliament
Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography
Richard K.
Evans, The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales (Boston, 2007)
VCH
Hertfordshire, Vol 3
History
and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, O. Manning, continued by W. Bray, 1804-14
History
and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, R. Clutterbuck, 1815-27
Miscellanea
Genealogica et Heraldica, New Series, Vol 4
Le
Neve’s Pedigrees of the Knights, Harleian Society, Vol 8
The
Genealogist
[New York], Vol 1 no 1, pp 115, 125
Transcript
of the parish registers of St Stephen’s, Walbrook, Harleian Society, Vol 49
Transcript
of the parish registers of St Olave, Old Jewry
Transcript
of the parish registers of St Peter le Poer, London
Boyd’s
Inhabitants of London (Society of Genealogists)
Collins’
Peerage, 1779
Northamptonshire
Families
(Victoria County History series)
St
Martin in the Fields parish registers
St Giles in the Fields parish register transcript
Issues of The Derby Mercury and Drewry’s Derby Mercury
An Impartial and Full Account of the Life & Death of the Late Unhappy
William Lord Russel (London, 1684)
George
Streynsham Master, Some Notices of the
Family of Master (London, 1874)
St
Andrew, Holborn, London, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
Chapel
Royal registers (National Archives, RG 8/110)
Notes
King Charles III is descended from the 4th Duke of Devonshire. Diana Spencer
was descended from the Duke’s sister Elizabeth.