William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

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THE ANCESTRY OF WILLIAM PITT, 1ST EARL OF CHATHAM

1 William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

b 15 Nov 1708, Westminster

d 11 May 1778, Hayes, Kent

Parents

2 Robert Pitt of Boconnoc, Cornwall, clerk of the Board of Green Cloth

b 18 Aug 1681, Ashburton

d 21 May 1727, Westminster

m 9 Jul 1703, Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire

3 Harriet Villiers

d 21 Oct 1736, Paris

Grandparents

4 Thomas Pitt, Governor of Fort St George, East Indies

b 5 Jul 1653, Blandford, Dorset

d 28 Apr 1726, Swallowfield, Berkshire

m 1 Jan 1679/80, Hugli, East Indies

5 Jane Innes

b 24 Aug 1659, bap 28 Aug 1659, St Breock, Cornwall

d 10 Jan 1727/28, Westminster

6 Gen. Edward FitzGerald, otherwise Villiers, of Dromana, co. Waterford

d 1693

m 20 May 1673, Lambeth Chapel

7 Catherine FitzGerald, Viscountess Grandison of Limerick

b ca 1659

bur 12 Jan 1725/26, Westminster Abbey

Great-grandparents

8 John Pitt, rector of Blandford St Mary

b ca 1610

d 25 Apr 1672

9 Sarah Jay

bur 2 Dec 1664, Blandford St Mary

10 James Innes, rector of St Breock, Cornwall

m 3 Nov 1646, Sedgefield, Co. Durham

11 Sarah Vincent

12 George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison of Limerick

bap 22 Dec 1617, St Mary le Strand, Westminster

d 16 Dec 1699, bur Brantfield, Hertfordshire

m bef 1652

13 Mary Leigh

d 7 Jul 1671, Brantfield

14 Sir John FitzGerald of Dromana, MP for Dungarvon

b ca 1635

d ca 1663, bur Youghall

m 1658

15 Catherine Power

d 22 Aug 1660, bur Youghall

Great-great-grandparents

16 Thomas Pitt of Blandford Forum

d ca 1662

m 6 Dec 1606, Thorncombe

17 Priscilla Searle

18 John Jay of Witchampton, Dorset

d 1671

20 Adam Innes of Reid Hall, co. Moray

d aft 1631

21 Katharine Clerk

22 John Vincent, rector of Sedgefield

bur 1646, Sedgefield

23 Sarah

24 Sir Edward Villiers, President of Munster

b ca 1585

d 7 Sep 1626, Youghall

m 6 Oct 1610, Stanford

25 Barbara St John

bur 16 Sep 1672, Westminster Abbey

26 Francis Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester

b 28 Apr 1598

d 21 Dec 1653, Apscourt, Surrey

m ca 1618

27 Audrey Boteler

d 16 Sep 1652

28 Gerald FitzGerald

b ca 1610

d Aug 1643

29 Mabel Digby

30 John Power, 5th Baron Le Power and Coroghmore

b ca 1599

d 1661/62

31 Ruth Pypho

d ca 1641

Sources

The Complete Peerage (2nd edition)

John Hutchins, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd edition, ed. W. Shipp and J.W. Hodson (1861-74, reprinted 1973)

The Dictionary of National Biography

Alexander Jacob, A Complete English Peerage (1766-69)

Arthur Collins, The Peerage of England (1779)

John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland, revised by Mervyn Archdall (1789)

Robert Edmond Chester Waters, Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley (London, 1878)

Sir T.J.P. Lever, The House of Pitt (1947)

Charles Mosley, ed., Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition (ca 1999)

The Visitation of Dorset, 1677 (Harleian Society, vol. 117)

T.M. McKenzie, Dromana: The Memoirs of an Irish Family (Dublin, 1906)

The Northampton Mercury

The Historical Register: The Chronological Diary for the Year 1727

W.H. Sandon, "Stanford Church and its Registers, &c.", Reports and Papers of the Associated Architectural Societies, 17(1883):121-53

Hertingfordbury PR abstract (Society of Genealogists, HT/R63)

Joseph Lemuel Chester, ed., The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, Harleian Society, registers series, 10(1876 for 1875)

Edward J. Davies, “Jane Innes, Wife of Governor Thomas Pitt”, Notes and Queries, 253(2008):301-03

Blandford St Mary parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

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

St Mary le Strand, Westminster parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

St Martin in the Fields parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

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

Constance Russell, Swallowfield and Its Owners (London, 1901)

Will of Thomas Pitt, 1662, Archdeaconry of Dorset (online at www.ancestry.com)

Will of John Jay (National Archives, PROB 11/337/595)

Notes

Number 11 may have been the Sarah Vincent baptised at St Margaret, Westminster, in Nov 1629. Her parents may have been the John Vincent and Sarah Prynne married at St Luke, Chelsea, on 10 Feb 1628 (London Metropolitan Archives, X026/012).

Lodge/Archdall quotes the monumental inscription of 14 which gives his date of death as 1 Mar 1664, but states that this is wrong and that he died in 1662. McKenzie writes that he died in 1664.