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THE
ANCESTRY OF GEORGE GRENVILLE
1 George
Grenville
bap
11 Nov 1712, St Martin, Westminster
d 13
Nov 1770, Piccadilly, Middlesex
Parents
2 Richard
Grenville of Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire
b 23
Mar 1677/78
bur
22 Feb 1726/27, Wotton Underwood
m ca
25 Nov 1710
3 Hester
Temple, Countess Temple
bap
7 May 1684, St Paul, Covent Garden, Westminster
d 6
Oct 1752, Bath, Somerset
Grandparents
4 Richard
Grenville of Wotton Underwood
b 14
Jan 1646/47, bap St Paul, Covent Garden, London
bur
4 Jul 1719, Wotton
m ca 12 Apr 1666
5 Eleanor
Temple
b ca
1647
bur
25 Mar 1729, Wotton
6 Sir Richard
Temple of Stowe, Buckinghamshire, 3rd Baronet
b 28
Mar 1634
bur
12 May 1697, Stowe
m 25 Aug 1675
7 Mary
Knapp
b
d
19 Jan 1726/27, bur Stowe
Great-grandparents
8 Richard
Grenville of Wotton Underwood
b 8
Aug 1612
d 10
Jan 1665/66
m 9 Feb
1634/35, St Martin in the Fields
9 Anne
Borlase
b ca
1617
bur
30 Jan 1646/47, Wotton
10 Sir Peter Temple of Stantonbury,
Buckinghamshire
bap 26 Sep 1613, Great Linford, Buckinghamshire
bur
14 Jan 1659/60, St Peter Mancroft, Norwich
m 8 Sep 1635, St Mary le Strand, Westminster
11 Eleanor Tyrell
bap 1 Feb
1614, Oakley, Buckinghamshire
d
24 May 1671, bur Stantonbury
12 Sir Peter Temple of Stowe, 2nd Baronet
bap
10 Oct 1592, Stowe
bur
12 Sep 1653, Stowe
m 20
May 1630, Kensington
13 Christian Leveson
bap 21 Apr 1613, Cuxton, Kent
bur 3
Apr 1655, Stowe
14 Henry Knapp of Rawlins, Oxfordshire
bap
4 Nov 1599, South Stoke
d 27
Apr 1674, bur Checkendon, Oxfordshire
m 23
Feb 1630/31, Lambourne, Berkshire
15 Hester Clarke
bap
10 May 1607, Stowe
d 27
Dec 1678, bur Checkendon
Great-great-grandparents
16 Richard Grenville of Wotton Underwood
b
1567
bur
8 Apr 1618, Wotton
m
17 Frances Saunders
b
bur 1
Dec 1653, Wotton
18 Sir William Borlase of Little Marlow,
Buckinghamshire
bap 28 Dec 1589, Little Marlow
d
10 Dec 1630, Bockmer, Buckinghamshire
m
19 Amy Popham
b
bur 1
Aug 1661, Little Marlow
20 Sir John Temple of Biddlesden,
Buckinghamshire
b 10
Nov 1593
d 23
Sep 1632, Biddlesden
m
21 Dorothy Lee
b ca
1597
d 1625
22 Sir Timothy Tyrell of Oakley
b
bur
18 Dec 1632, Thornton, Buckinghamshire
m 22
Aug 1613, Marsworth, Buckinghamshire
23 Eleanor Kingsmill
b
bur 1
Sep 1622, Thornton
24 Sir Thomas Temple of Stowe, 1st Baronet
bap
9 Jan 1566/67, Everdon, Northamptonshire
bur 10
Feb 1636/37, Burton Dassett, Warwickshire
m
1595
25 Hester Sandys
bap 21 Jan 1569/70, Chesham
bur
15 Jul 1656, Burton Dassett
26 Sir John Leveson of Haling, Kent and
Lilleshall, Staffordshire
bap
3 May 1587, Cuxton
bur 3 Dec 1614, Cuxton
m 1611
27 Frances Sondes
b
d
28 Richard Knapp of Woodcote, South Stoke,
Oxfordshire
b ca
1562
bur
18 Apr 1611, South Stoke
m 20
Sep 1591, Harpsden
29 Agnes Symeon
b
bur 17
Oct 1628, Shottesbrooke, Berkshire
30 Sir Edward Clarke of Ardington, Berkshire
b
d
ca 1630
m
28 Feb 1602, Kidlington, Oxfordshire
31 Susan Temple
b
d
Sources
The Complete Peerage (2nd
edition)
The Complete Baronetage
The History of Parliament
The Dictionary of National Biography
Alumni Oxonienses
Victoria County History,
Buckinghamshire, vols 3 and 4
Victoria County History,
Oxfordshire, vol. 7
G. Lipscomb, The History and Antiquities of the
County of Buckingham
Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage
(106th edition)
Oswald Greenwaye Knapp, A History of the Chief
English Families bearing the name of Knapp (London, 1911)
W. Harry Rylands, ed., The Visitation of the
County of Buckingham made in 1634 (London, 1909)
The Genealogist [London], New
Series, vol 2
H.B. Hoff, “The Temple Family of Stowe”, The
Genealogist [New York], vol 2 no 1
Lambourne parish register transcript
Kidlington parish register transcript
Faculty Office marriage allegations
William H. Hunt, The
Registers of St. Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, London, vol. 1 (London,
1906)
J.L. Chester, Allegations for Marriage Licences,
ed. G.J. Armytage (London, 1886)
J.W. Garrett-Pegge, A Transcript of the First
Volume, 1538-1636, of the Parish Regiser of Chesham (London, 1904)
Will of Sir Edward Clarke (National Archives, PROB
11/159/9)
St Pancras Old Church parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
St Martin in the Fields parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
South Stoke parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
Harpsden parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
Everdon parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
St Mary le Strand,
Westminster, parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Burton Dassett parish
registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Cuxton parish registers (https://cityark.medway.gov.uk/wwwopacx/wwwopac.ashx?command=getcontent&server=files&value=P108-01-01(1).pdf)
Buckinghamshire Baptism
Index (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Finmere parish registers