Click here for other prime ministers.

THE ANCESTRY OF CHARLES WATSON-WENTWORTH, 2ND MARQUESS OF ROCKINGHAM

1 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham

b 13 May 1730, Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire

d 1 Jul 1782, London

Parents

2 Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham

b 13 Nov 1693, Tidmington, Worcestershire

d 14 Dec 1750, Wentworth Woodhouse

m 2 Oct 1716, Burley, Rutland

3 Mary Finch

b 9 Sep 1701

d 30 May 1761, London

Grandparents

4 Thomas Watson-Wentworth of Malton, Yorkshire and Wentworth Woodhouse

b 17 Jun 1665

d 6 Oct 1723, bur York Minster

m ca 18 Jul 1689

5 Alice Proby

b 1673

d 2 Oct 1743, Great Harrowden, Northamptonshire

6 Daniel Finch, 7th Earl of Winchelsea

b 2 Jul 1647

d 1 Jan 1729/30, Burley

m 29 Dec 1685, St Giles in the Fields, Middlesex

7 Anne Hatton

b ca 1667

d 26 Sep 1743, Westminster

Great-grandparents

8 Edward Watson, 2nd Baron Rockingham

bap 13 Jul 1630, Rockingham

bur 26 Jun 1689, Rockingham

m 13 Nov 1654, St Giles in the Fields

9 Anne Wentworth

b 8 Oct 1629

bur 8 Jan 1695/96, Rockingham

10 Sir Thomas Proby, Baronet, of Elton Hall, Huntingdonshire

bap 18 Oct 1632, Amersham, Buckinghamshire

d 22 Apr 1689

11 Frances Cotton

bap 28 Aug 1642, Conington, Huntingdonshire

bur 17 Feb 1700, Elton

12 Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham

b 23 Dec 1621, Kent

d 18 Dec 1682, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London

m 30 Jul 1646, Allhallows London Wall, London

13 Elizabeth Harvey

bap 19 Apr 1627, St Lawrence Pountney, London

d 15 Mar 1675/76, Lincoln’s Inn Fields

14 Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton of Gretton

b 22 Oct 1632, bap 6 Nov 1632, St Bartholomew the Great, London

d Sep 1706, Kirby, Northamptonshire

m 12 Feb 1666/67, the Mews

15 Cicely Tufton

bap 7 Jun 1648, Hothfield, Kent

d 30 Dec 1672, Castle Cornet, Guernsey

Great-great-grandparents

16 Lewis Watson, 1st Baron Rockingham

bap 14 Jul 1584, Rockingham

bur 12 Jan 1652/53, Rockingham

m 3 Oct 1620

17 Eleanor Manners

d 23 Oct 1679, London

18 Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

b 13 Apr 1593, London

d 12 May 1641, Tower Hill, London

m 24 Feb 1624/25, London

19 Arabella Holles

bap 7 Aug 1606, St Clement Danes, Westminster

d 5 Oct 1631, York

20 Sir Heneage Proby of Raans, Amersham

bap 15 Oct 1595, St Martin, Ludgate, London

d 10 Feb 1662/63, bur Amersham

m 14 Feb 1627/28, St Peter le Poer, London

21 Helen Allen

bap 28 Dec 1606, St Mary le Bow, London

d 12 Jun 1678

22 Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet, of Conington, Huntingdonshire

b 13 Jun 1594, Long Combe, Oxfordshire

d 13 May 1662, bur Conington

m ca 17 Apr 1640

23 Alice Constable

bur 9 Dec 1657, Conington

24 Sir Heneage Finch of Kensington, Speaker of the House of Commons

b 15 Dec 1580, The Moat, Kent

d 5 Dec 1631, bur Eastwell, Kent

25 Frances Bell

d 11 Apr 1627, bur Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire

26 Daniel Harvey of Folkestone, Kent, grocer and Turkey merchant

b 31 May 1587, Folkestone

d 10 Sep 1647, bur St Lawrence Pountney, London

m 1 Jun 1619, All Hallows, Bread Street, London

27 Elizabeth Kynnersley

bur 7 May 1655, St Lawrence Pountney, London

28 Christopher Hatton, Baron Hatton of Kirby

bap 11 Jul 1605, Barking, Essex

d 4 Jul 1670, Kirby Hall

m 8 May 1630, Hackney, Middlesex

29 Elizabeth Montagu

d 30 Dec 1672, Castle Cornet

30 John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet

bap 20 Dec 1608, Hothfield

d 7 May 1664, Thanet House, London

m 21 Apr 1629, St Bartholemew, London

31 Margaret Sackville

b 2 Jul 1614, Dorset House, London

bur 19 Aug 1676, Withyham, Sussex

Sources

The Complete Peerage (2nd edition)

The Complete Baronetage

The History of Parliament

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Boyd’s Inhabitants of London (Society of Genealogists, London)

Collins’ Peerage (1779)

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

Sir William Segar and Joseph Edmondson, Baronagium Genealogicum (1764-84)

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

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

Bryan I’Anson, The History of the Finch Family (London, 1933)

The Scots Magazine

The Northampton Mercury

John Le Neve, Monumenta Anglicana... 1600 to... 1649 (London, 1719)

The History of the Reign of Queen Anne, Digested into Annals: Year the Fifth (London, 1707)

G.E. Cokayne, Some Account of the Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of the City of London During the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century, 1601 to 1625 (London, 1897)

The Daily Gazetteer

Burley parish registers (Society of Genealogists, RU/REG/59010)

St Bartholomew the Great, London, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

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

St Mary le Bow, London, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

St Lawrence Pountney, London, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

St Clement Danes, Westminster, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

St Martin, Ludgate, London, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

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

Buckinghamshire Baptism Index (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

Huntingdonshire Burials (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

B. Wyatt Greenfield, “Cotton of Connington”, Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, n.s. 1(1874):337-40

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N8B9-V56)

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

Notes

King Charles III is descended from number 6.