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THE ANCESTRY OF WILLIAM LAMB, 2ND VISCOUNT MELBOURNE

 

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

   b 15 Mar 1779, Piccadilly, Middlesex

   d 24 Nov 1848, Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire

 

Parents

 

George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont

   b 7 Dec 1751, London

   d 11 Nov 1837, Petworth House

   Not married to Elizabeth Milbanke

Elizabeth Milbanke

   bap 15 Oct 1751, Croft, Yorkshire

   d 6 Apr 1818, Whitehall

 

Grandparents

 

Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont

   bap 30 Aug 1710, St Martin’s-in-the-Fields

   d 21 Aug 1763, Piccadilly

   m 12 Mar 1750/51, St George, Hanover Square, Westminster

Alicia Maria Carpenter

   b 2 Dec 1729, bap 16 Dec 1729, St George, Hanover Square, Westminster

   d 1 Jun 1794, Piccadilly

6  Sir Ralph Milbanke, 5th Baronet, of Halnaby, Yorkshire, MP for Scarborough

   bap 1 Jun 1722, Croft

   d 8 Jan 1798, London

   m 4 Jul 1747, Chester-le-Street

Elizabeth Hedworth

   bap 26 Jan 1731, Chester-le-Street

   d 6 Jul 1767, Bath

 

Great-grandparents

 

8  Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, of Orchard Windham, St Decumans, Somerset

   b 16 Oct 1688, Trentham, Staffordshire

   d 17 Jul 1740, Wells, Somerset

   m 21 Jul 1708, Isleworth, Middlesex

Catherine Seymour

   b 24 Oct 1688, Petworth, Sussex

   d 8 Apr 1731

10 George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter of Killaghy

   b 20 Apr 1697

   d 12 Jul 1749, Grosvenor Square, Middlesex

   m 26 Aug 1722, Leyton, Essex

11 Elizabeth Petty

   b 16 Feb 1703/04, bap 20 Feb 1703/04, St Benet Gracechurch, London

   d 21 May 1791, London

12 Sir Ralph Milbanke, 4th Baronet, of Halnaby

   b 6 Oct 1688, bap 30 Oct 1688, Croft

   d 9 May 1748, Westminster

   m ca 13 Sep 1721

13 Anne Delaval

   bap 8 Sep 1702, Newburn, Northumberland

   d 21 Mar 1765, London

14 John Hedworth of Chester-le-Street, co. Durham, MP for co. Durham

   bap 10 Jul 1683, Chester-le-Street

   d 31 May 1747, near Leicester

   m 14 Aug 1729, Gateshead

15 Margaret Ayton

   bap 16 Sep 1711, Houghton-le-Spring

   bur 1 Sep 1731, Chester-le-Street

 

Great-great-grandparents

 

16 Sir Edward Wyndham, 2nd Baronet, of Orchard Windham

   b ca 1667

   bur 29 Jun 1695, St Decumans

   m 16 May 1687, St Peter, Cornhill, London

17 Catherine Leveson-Gower

   b ca 1669

   d 14 Mar 1704

18 Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset

   b 13 Aug 1662, Preshute, Wiltshire

   d 2 Dec 1748, Petworth

   m 30 May 1682, Montagu House

19 Elizabeth Percy

   bap 29 Jan 1666/67, Petworth

   d 23 Nov 1722, Northumberland House

20 George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter of Killaghy

   b 10 Feb 1656/57, Pitcher’s Ocull, Herefordshire

   d 10 Feb 1731/32, bur Owslebury, Hampshire

   m 23 Jan 1693/94, St Edmund the King, London

21 Alice Caulfield

   b ca 1660

   d 7 Oct 1731, Bath

22 David Petty of Wanstead, Essex, citizen of London

   b 1 Feb 1671/72, bap 4 Feb 1671/72, Otford, Kent

   d 18 Mar 1745/46, Wanstead

   m 6 May 1703, All Hallows by the Tower, London

23 Mary Cookes

   b 10 Feb 1686/87, bap 18 Feb 1686/87, St Peter, Cornhill, London

   d 28 Jan 1726/27, bur 4 Feb 1726/27, Wanstead

24 Sir Mark Milbanke, 2nd Baronet, of Halnaby and of Dalden Tower, co. Durham, MP for Richmond

   b 11 Dec 1661

   bur 13 May 1698, Croft

   m 3 Feb 1680, Houghton-le-Spring

25 Jane Carr

   bap 20 Oct 1663, St Nicholas, Newcastle

   bur 14 May 1704, St Andrew, Holborn

26 Edward Delaval of South Dissington, Northumberland

   bap 28 Oct 1664, Newburn

   d 3 Aug 1744

   m

27 Mary Blake

   b ca 1664

   bur 7 Dec 1711, Newburn

28 Ralph Hedworth of Chester-le-Street

   bap 26 Feb 1653/54, Chester-le-Street

   d 17 Jan 1704/05

   m 6 Apr 1676, Chester-le-Street

29 Eleanor Lambton

   b

   bur 20 Dec 1722, Chester-le-Street

30 Samuel Ayton of West Herrington, co. Durham

   bap 15 Jan 1670, Lanchester

   bur 19 Jun 1725, Houghton-le-Spring

   m 26 Sep 1706, Seaham

31 Elizabeth Watson

   b

   bur 28 Nov 1721, Houghton-le-Spring

 

 

Sources

 

The Complete Peerage (2nd edition)

The Complete Baronetage

The History of Parliament

Robert Surtees, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham

T.R. Nash, Collections for the History and Antiquities of Worcestershire

W. Percy Hedley, Northumberland Families (1968-70)

A History of Northumberland, vol. 9 (1909)

L.G. Mitchell, Lord Melbourne 1779-1848 (1997)

The Gentleman’s Magazine

The Scots Magazine

A New and Complete History of Essex (1769-72)

Debrett’s Peerage (1831)

Cuthbert Sharp, Chronicon Mirabile (1819-25)

The East Anglian, 4(1870):17

T.C. Wales and C.P. Hartley, The Visitation of London Begun in 1687 (London, 2004), 139-40

John Crawford Hodgson, ed., North Country Diaries (Second Series) (Durham, 1915)

Herbert M. Wood and Reginald Peacock, The Registers of Seaham (Sunderland, 1910)

Bishop’s Hatfield parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

St George, Hanover Square, parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

Croft parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

Otford parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

Stillingfleet parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

St Peter, Cornhill, London, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

St Benet Gracechurch, London, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

All Hallows by the Tower, London, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

Wanstead parish registers (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-66B9-V6B)

National Burial Index (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

Saunders’s News-Letter, 9 Jun 1794

The Leeds Intelligencer, 15 Jan 1798

The Chester Chronicle, 27 May 1791

The Newcastle Courant, 14-21 May 1748

The Newcastle Courant, 30 May-6 Jun 1747

The Stamford Mercury, 27 Mar 1746

The Newcastle Chronicle, 30 Mar 1765

England Marriages, 1538–1973 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NLZX-TMB)

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3XJ-RML)

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NBQS-455)

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NBQV-TYZ)

England, Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WCN8-9MZM)

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JMRN-GX9)

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JMTQ-JYJ)

The ancestor table of William Wyndham Grenville for details of 8 and 9 and their ancestry

 

Notes

 

Number 3 was married to Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne. See Mitchell for a discussion of the paternity of number 1.