Ancestry of Sir Robert Peel

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THE ANCESTRY OF SIR ROBERT PEEL

1 Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet

b 5 Feb 1788, Chamber Hall, near Bury, Lancashire

d 2 Jul 1850, Whitehall

Parents

2 Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, of Bury and of Drayton Manor, Staffordshire

bap 18 May 1750, Blackburn

d 3 May 1830, Drayton Park

m 8 Jul 1783, Bury

3 Ellen Yates

b 5 Mar 1766

d 28 Dec 1803, Buxton, Derbyshire

Grandparents

4 Robert Peel of Peele Fold, Oswaldtwistle, and of Ardwick

b 1723, Peel Fold

d 12 Sep 1795, Ardwick

m 28 Aug 1744, Blackburn

5 Elizabeth Haworth

b ca 1722

d 19 Mar 1796, Great Harwood, Lancashire

6 William Yates of Bury, chapman

bap 13 Feb 1739/40, Blackburn

d 17 Jul 1813, Bury

m 22 Feb 1764, Blackburn

7 Mary Bentley

bap 28 Feb 1741/42, Blackburn

bur 11 Jun 1768, Blackburn

Great-grandparents

8 William Peel of Peele Fold, yeoman

bap 9 Dec 1682, Blackburn

bur 24 Jul 1757, Blackburn

m 9 Aug 1712, Blackburn

9 Jane Walmsley

bur 29 Mar 1772, Blackburn

10 Edmund Haworth of Walmesley Fold, Blackburn, yeoman

bur 31 Oct 1759, Blackburn

11 Catherine Pickering or Anne

12 John Yates of Blackburn, yeoman and innkeeper

bap 8 May 1713, Blackburn

bur 13 May 1781, Blackburn

m 18 Feb 1734/35, Blackburn

13 Jane Knowles

bap 15 Oct 1710, Blackburn

d 30 May 1797, Bury

14 Henry Bentley of Blackburn, woollen draper

bap 13 Nov 1707, Great Harwood

bur 30 Jun 1778, Blackburn

m 8 Dec 1730, Burnley

15 Ellen Ormerod

bap 16 Sep 1703, Padiham

bur 19 Apr 1753, Blackburn

Great-great-grandparents

16 Robert Peel of Peele Fold, yeoman

bur 15 Feb 1733/34, Blackburn

m 10 Oct 1681, Blackburn

17 Anne Warde

bur 20 Jun 1721, Blackburn

18 Lawrence Walmsley of Lower Darwen, yeoman

bur 8 Aug 1715, Blackburn

24 William Yates of Livesey

m 26 Oct 1704, Haslingden

25 Isabel Rishton

26 Henry Knowles of Livesey, yeoman

bur 8 Feb 1754, Blackburn

28 Daniel Bentley of Great Harwood

bur 20 Feb 1759, Great Harwood

m 30 Aug 1702, Colne

29 Mary Shaw

bur 8 Mar 1758, Great Harwood

30 Lawrence Ormerod of Ormerod and Simonstone, yeoman

b 18 Aug 1658

bur 18 Mar 1717/18, Burnley

m ca 29 Mar 1684

31 Margaret Cockshutt

b 29 May 1660

bur Jul 1711, Burnley

Sources

J.J. Howard and F.A. Crisp, eds., Visitation of England and Wales, Notes, vol. 10

W.A. Abram, A History of Blackburn (Blackburn, 1877)

G.E. Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage

N. Gash, Mr. Secretary Peel (London, 1985)

W. Jerdan, National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century (London, 1830-34)

T.A. Glenn, The Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd (London, 1934)

William Haworth, “The Haworths of Thurcroft, co. Lancaster, and the Descent of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., from the Haworths, of Haworth, in the Same Co.”, The Reliquary, 18(1877-78):29-32

Thomas Dunham Whitaker, An History of the Original Parish of Whalley, 3rd ed. (London, 1818), facing 364

“Local Muniments”, The Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical Journal, 3(1875):64-80, at 78

The Times, 2 Jan 1804 and 10 Jul 1850

The Blackburn Mail, 23 Mar 1796

Blackburn parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

Blackburn bishop’s transcripts (online at www.ancestry.com)

Bury parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

Bury bishop’s transcripts (online at www.ancestry.com)

Burnley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

Great Harwood parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

Colne parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

Haslingden bishop’s transcripts (online at www.ancestry.com)

Padiham parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

The Lancaster Gazette, 31 Jul 1813

Will of Henry Bentley

Will of Lawrence Walmsley

Will of Henry Knowles

Will of Grace Cockshutt

Apprenticeship books (National Archives, IR 1/49)

Marriage bond for Lawrence Ormerod and Margaret Cockshutt (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

Notes

Abram gives the father of Edmund Haworth (number 10) as Thomas Haworth, but Glenn gives Edmund’s father as Giles Haworth. William Haworth argues that Edmund was the one of that name baptised on 13 Nov 1692 at Blackburn, son of John Haworth.

Numbers 10 and 11 may be the Edmund Haworth of Darwen, husbandman, and Anne Brown of Colne, spinster, who were married at Padiham on 4 Apr 1722. The 1720 will of Thomas Pickering of Lower Darwen mentions his daughter Katherine, wife of Edmund Haworth.