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THE ANCESTRY OF WILLIAM WYNDHAM GRENVILLE, 1ST BARON GRENVILLE

 

1  William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville

   b 24 Oct 1759, Wotton House, Buckinghamshire

   d 12 Jan 1834, Dropmore Lodge, Buckinghamshire

 

Parents

 

2  George Grenville

   bap 11 Nov 1712, St Martin, Westminster

   d 13 Nov 1770, Piccadilly, Middlesex

   m ca 12 May 1749

3  Elizabeth Wyndham

   bap 31 Jan 1719/20, St James, Westminster

   d 5 Dec 1769, Wotton

 

Grandparents

 

4  Richard Grenville of Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire

   b 23 Mar 1677/78

   bur 22 Feb 1726/27, Wotton Underwood

   m ca 25 Nov 1710

5  Hester Temple, Countess Temple

   bap 7 May 1684, St Paul, Covent Garden, Westminster

   d 6 Oct 1752, Bath, Somerset

6  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

7  Catherine Seymour

   b 24 Oct 1688, Petworth, Sussex

   d 8 Apr 1731

 

Great-grandparents

 

8  Richard Grenville of Wotton Underwood

   b 14 Jan 1646/47, bap St Paul, Covent Garden, London

   bur 4 Jul 1719, Wotton

   m ca 12 Apr 1666

9  Eleanor Temple

   b ca 1647

   bur 25 Mar 1729, Wotton

10 Sir Richard Temple of Stowe, Buckinghamshire, 3rd Baronet

   b 28 Mar 1634

   bur 12 May 1697, Stowe

   m 25 Aug 1675

11 Mary Knapp

   b

   d 19 Jan 1726/27, bur Stowe

12 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

13 Catherine Leveson-Gower

   b ca 1669

   d 14 Mar 1704

14 Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset

   b 13 Aug 1662, Preshute, Wiltshire

   d 2 Dec 1748, Petworth

   m 30 May 1682, Montagu House

15 Elizabeth Percy

   bap 29 Jan 1666/67, Petworth

   d 23 Nov 1722, Northumberland House

 

Great-great-grandparents

 

16 Richard Grenville of Wotton Underwood

   b 8 Aug 1612

   d 10 Jan 1665/66

   m 9 Feb 1634/35, St Martin in the Fields

17 Anne Borlase

   b ca 1617

   bur 30 Jan 1646/47, Wotton

18 Sir Peter Temple of Stantonbury, Buckinghamshire

   b 1613

   bur 14 Jan 1659/60, St Peter Mancroft, Norwich

   m 8 Sep 1635, St Mary le Strand, Westminster

19 Eleanor Tyrell

   b ca 1614

   d 24 May 1671, bur Stantonbury

20 Sir Peter Temple of Stowe, 2nd Baronet

   bap 10 Oct 1592, Stowe

   bur 12 Sep 1653, Stowe

   m 20 May 1630, Kensington

21 Christian Leveson

   bap 21 Apr 1613, Cuxton, Kent

   bur 3 Apr 1655, Stowe

22 Henry Knapp of Rawlins, Oxfordshire

   bap 4 Nov 1599, South Stoke

   d 27 Apr 1674, bur Checkendon, Oxfordshire

   m 23 Feb 1630/31, Lambourne, Berkshire

23 Hester Clarke

   bap 10 May 1607, Stowe

   d 27 Dec 1678, bur Checkendon

24 Sir William Wyndham of Orchard Windham, MP for Taunton

   bap 26 Mar 1634, St Decumans

   d 28 Oct 1683, St Decumans

   m 8 Jun 1653, Black Bourton, Oxfordshire

25 Frances Hungerford

   bap 23 Dec 1635, Black Bourton

   bur 6 Apr 1697, St Decumans

26 Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet, of Stittenham, Yorkshire, and of Lilleshall

   b ca 1647

   d 22 Dec 1691

   m ca 1669

27 Jane Granville

   b 23 Aug 1653, London

   d 27 Feb 1696

28 Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge

   b 5 Feb 1621

   bur 7 Sep 1665, Trowbridge

   m

29 Elizabeth Alington

   bap 16 Sep 1635, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire

   bur 30 Oct 1691, Horseheath, Cambridgeshire

30 Joceline Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland

   b 4 Jul 1644

   d 21/31 May 1670, Turin

   m 23 Dec 1662

31 Elizabeth Wriothesley

   b ca 1646

   d 19 Sep 1690, Boughton

 

Sources

 

The Complete Peerage (2nd edition)

The Complete Baronetage

The Dictionary of National Biography

The History of Parliament

Faculty Office marriage allegations

Peter Jupp, Lord Grenville, 1759-1834 (1985)

George Lipscomb, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham

A.B. Connor, “Monumental Brasses in Somerset, Part XVII”, Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archæological & Natural History Society, 93(1947):84-99

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

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

St Decumans parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

Black Bourton parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

Petworth parish registers (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-D47Q-4JJ)

Kilkhampton parish registers (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-63TQ-ZVD)

Granville Leveson Gower, “Extracts from the Parish Registers of Trentham, Staffordshire”, Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 2nd ser., 1(1886):111-14

Will of Frances Wyndham (National Archives, PROB 11/438/26)

Other sources cited in the ancestor table for George Grenville