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THE ANCESTRY OF ROBERT BANKS JENKINSON, 2ND EARL OF
LIVERPOOL
1 Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
b 7 Jun 1770, Westminster
d 4 Dec 1828, Coombe Wood, Surrey
2
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool
b 26 Apr 1729, Winchester
d 17 Dec 1808, Mayfair
m 9 Feb 1769, St Marylebone
3
Amelia Watts
bap 22 Dec 1750, Calcutta
d 12 Jul 1770, Westminster
4
Charles Jenkinson of Burford Lawn Lodge, Oxfordshire, Colonel of the
Horse Guards
bap 13 Jun 1693, Charlbury, Oxfordshire
bur 23 Jun 1750, Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire
m 7 Sep 1725, St Paul, Covent Garden, London
5
Amarantha Cornewall
bap 12 Jun 1700, St Thomas, Winchester
d 27 Jul 1785, Winchester
6
William Watts of South Hill, Ascot, Berkshire, and of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, Governor of Fort William, Bengal
b ca 1722
d 4 Aug 1764, South Hill
m 24 Nov 1749, Calcutta
7
Frances Croke
b 10 Apr 1728, Fort St David
d 3 Feb 1812, Calcutta
8
Sir Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Baronet, of Walcot,
Oxfordshire and of Hawkesbury
b ca 1655
bur 4 Feb 1709/10, Charlbury
m 14 Feb 1683/84, St Botolph, Aldersgate, London
9
Sarah Tomlins
bap 1 Sep 1659, Bromley, Middlesex
bur 15 Aug 1709, Charlbury
10
Captain Wolfran Cornewall
of Winchester
b ca 1655
bur 21 Jan 1719/20,
Bath Abbey
m
11 Elizabeth
b
bur 18 Feb
1740/41, Shipton-under-Wychwood
12 William Watts of London, academy master
b 16 Mar 1691/92, bap 23
Mar 1691/92, Orpington, Kent
bur 20 Nov 1757, Lee, Kent
m 28 Oct 1712, St Martin in the
Fields, Westminster
13 Mary Hills
bap 13 Jan 1683/84, Lee
d ca 1725
14 Edward
Croke, Governor of Fort St David
b 1690, Madras
d 12 Feb 1769, Madras
m 16 Jan 1725/26, Madras
15 Isabella
Beizor
b ca 1710
d 4 Oct
1780, Madras
16 Robert
Jenkinson, 1st Baronet, of Walcot and Hawkesbury
bap 27 Mar 1621, St Peter le Poer,
London
bur 10 Apr 1677, Charlbury
m 26 Feb 1651/52, St Clement, Eastcheap,
London
17 Mary
Bankes
b
d 13 Jun 1691, bur Charlbury
18 Thomas
Tomlins of Bromley, Middlesex and of London, grocer
b
bur 14 Apr
1677, Bromley
m 26 May
1656, St Michael Bassishaw, London
19 Susanna
Cranmer
bap 24 Jul 1620, St Michael Bassishaw, London
bur 5 Jan 1681/82, St Leonard, Bromley
20 Humphrey
Cornewall of Berrington, MP for Leominster
bap 14 Jul 1616, Eye
bur 7 Jul
1688, Ludlow
m
21 Theophila Skynner
bap 5 Jun
1622, Thornton Curtis, Lincolnshire
bur 25 Apr
1718, Ludlow
22
b
d
m
23
b
d
24 Thomas Watts, vicar of Orpington
b 24 Aug 1664, Hereford
d 17 Feb 1738/39, Goadby, Leicestershire
m
25 Audria Oliver
bap 30 Apr 1668, Shoreham, Kent
bur 11 Feb 1716/17, Orpington
26
Major Nathaniel Hills
b
bur 1 Sep 1722, Lee
m
27 Jane Mason
b
bur 8 Jun 1721, Lee
28 George
Croke of the Bengal Civil Service
b
d ca 1695
m 25 Sep 1689, Madras
29 Lucy
Fleetwood
b ca 1665
d 25 Oct
1712
30
b
d
m
31
b
d
Sources
The Complete Peerage
(2nd edition)
Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography
Edward
J. Davies, “Thomas Watts, M.P., and William Watts, Governor of Fort William and
Grandfather of Lord Liverpool”, Genealogists’
Magazine, 32(2016-18):185-90
C.G.S.
Foljambe, Earl of Liverpool, and Compton Reade, The House of Cornewall (Hereford, 1908)
Miscellanea
Genealogica et Heraldica, 2nd ser., vol. 5
Ivor
Edwards-Stuart, The Calcutta of Begum Johnson (London, 1990)
The
Gentleman’s Magazine,
1764, 1770, 1785
Burke,
The Landed Gentry (1863)
Visitation
of England and Wales,
ed. J.J. Howard and F.A. Crisp, Notes vol. 6
Julian
James Cotton, List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Madras
(Madras, 1905)
St
Michael Bassishaw parish register transcript
(Harleian Society, register series vol. 73)
The
Leeds Intelligencer,
24 Jul 1770
Bengal
baptisms, marriages and burials (British Library, IOR/N/1/1)
St
Botolph, Aldersgate, London, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
St Peter le Poer, London,
parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
St
Clement, Eastcheap, London,
parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
St
Michael Bassishaw, London, parish
registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
Bromley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
Notes
The House of Cornewall, 90-91,
283, shows Wolfran Cornewall
(number 10) as having married first, Elizabeth Humphrey or Humphreys of the
family of Humphreys of Pennant, Montgomeryshire, and second Elizabeth, daughter
of Edward Devereux of Cefngwarnfa in Forden, Montgomeryshire, and Mary Saithon,
with Elizabeth Devereux being the mother of Amarantha
Cornewall, wife of Charles Jenkinson. John Edwards
Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire
Families (Horncastle, 1914), 249,
shows Edward Devereux and Mary Saethon but does not
give a daughter Elizabeth. The primary sources cast doubt on the Devereux/Cornewall connection. The 1686 will of Edward Devereux
(National Library of Wales, SA1686-4)
mentions his eldest son George Devereux, and “my younger Children (vizt) To Bridgett Devereux Mary Devereux Margarett Devereux and to any other younger Child of mine lawefully begotten”, but does not mention a daughter
Elizabeth. Moreover, the 1682 will of Edward’s father George Devereux (National
Archives, PROB 11/377/4) refers to “Bridgett Devereux eldest daughter of my
said sonne Edward Devereux” which seems to preclude
the possibility that there was an older unmentioned Elizabeth. The dates of
baptism of the daughters of Edward Devereux suggest that they were young when
he wrote his will in 1686 (Margaret being baptised in 1683) and the likelihood
of a daughter Elizabeth marrying and being the mother of Amarantha
Cornewall by 1700 seems low.
Rose, daughter of Wolfran and Elizabeth Cornewall,
was baptised in 1687/88 at Newport Pagnell. The marriage of “Woollfran Cornwall .B.” and “Eliz: Slack .S.” took place at
St James, Duke’s Place, London, on 20 Apr 1693. This may be the marriage of Amarantha’s parents, although the indication of the bridgegroom being a bachelor would appear to be incorrect
in that case. There was also a “Woollfran Cornwell”
buried at Rochester on 11 Dec 1726, and a Woolfran,
son of William Cornwall, shipwright, and Anne, baptised on 23 May 1712 at
Greenwich.