HOLLAND

1. William de Holland, m. Margaret Shoresworth, of Radcliffe.

1.1. Thurstan Holland, of Denton, b. ca. 1295.

1.1.1. *Richard Holland (b. ca. 1335, d. July 1, 1402, m. Ameria de Kenyon. His i.p.m. of 1402 revealed that his son, Thurstan de Holland’s* age was “thirty years and upward”. (Towneley MS. DD, no. 1461). Ameria de Kenyons brother, John, died without any male issue, allowing Ameria’s husband to pretence her brother’s arms, they being quartered for their son, Thurstan Holland to bear his parents’ arms.

1.1.1.1. *Thurstan Holland, b. ca. 1365, d. ca. 1410. Arms: Quarterly: 1, 4. Azure (semée of fleurs-de-lis), a lion rampant guardant, between six fleurs-de-lis, argent, over all a bend gules (Holland); 2, 3. Sable, a cross lozengy argent, over all a bend gobonated argent and gules (Kenyon). (3) Crest: Out of a ducal coronet or, demi-lion, rampant guardant, argent, collared gules, holding in the dexter gamb a fleur-de-lis argent.

1.1.1.1.1. Thurstan Holland, b. ca. 1390. (1) Thurstan de Holland and Agnes, his late wife, (2), Richard de Holland, son of Thurstan. Feoffment from (1) to (2) of land in Prestwich called le Rodonheys. (2) to hold the aforesaid land for 24 years, rendering annually to (1) 20 pounds sterling at the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptis. 1429/30. (M.C.R.O, E4/5/13/4).

1.1.1.1.1.1. Richard Holland (b. ca. 1420), m. Elizabeth Southworth (b. ca. 1425; d. Dec. 21, 1472). She was the dau. of Sir Thomas Southworth (b. ca. 1392, d. 1432), and Jane, dau. of John Booth, of Barton, Esq., and Joanna, dau. of Sir Henry Trafford, Kt.

From this period, Prestwich appears to have been for many reigns in possession of the local family, who removed to Hulme on acquiring that manor, previous to 12 Hen. VI. About the same time the estates of Prestwich came by marriage into the possession of sir Robert Langley, and at his death they underwent a partition among various landowners. By an inquisition in the duchy office, without date, but which appears to have been taken in the reign of Henry VIII. Robert Langley is found possessed of the advowson of the church of Prestwich, and messuages, lands, woods, mills, and other property in Alcrynton, Crompton, and Oldham, in this parish, and in Pennilbury, Tetlowe, Broghton, Mydilton, and Salford. Among the inquisitions in the early part of the reign of Elizabeth, there is an imperfect document without date, taken on the death of sir Robert Langley, which occurred on the 3d of September, 1561, and in which sir Robert is found to have died seised of the manor of Prestwich, the manor of Pendlebury and the manor of Aggecroft, together with lands and messuages, and other property in Alkrington, Tetlowe, Oldeham, Crompton, and Manchester. Amongst the MSS. of Holland Watson, esq. is found a valuation of manors, lands, and tenements, of Sir Robert Langley, from which it appears that he held of Valuation the Queen, as duchess of Lancaster, by knight service, and a rent of 13s. 4d., messuages, lands, and tenements, in the parishes of Manchester, Prestwich, and Pendlebury, estimated at the annual value of £74. 4s. 2d. (Edward Baines, History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, vol. ii, p. 561, 1836).

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Richard Holland Esq. (b. ca. 1450), m. a dau. of Sir William Harrington, as by deed of 1468. Receipt of Richard Holland, esq., to Sir William Haryngton for money in part payment for the marriage of Richard Holland, his son, on Dec. 20, 1468. (Manchester University Library, CLD/465). William Harrington’s sister, Isabell, m. Sir John Stanley, Sheriff of Anglesey (d. 1437). Their grandson, Sir William Stanley (d. 1494/5), chamberlain to Henry VII, commanded Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, being in charge of the men of his kinsman, Richard Corbet, who was well served by William Holland, who was rewarded with half of his master’s manor of Burwarton, Shropshire.

STANLEY

1. Sir William de Stanley, of Hooton, Cheshire m. Alice, dau. of Hugh Massey, of Timperley.

1.1. Sir John de Stanley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. bef. Jan. 28, 1413/4), m. Isabel, dau, of Sir Thomas Lathom, of Knowsley.

1.1.1. Sir John Stanley, Sheriff of Anglesey (d. 1437), m. Isabel Harrington, sister of Sir William Harrington, of Hornby.

1.1.1.1. Sir Thomas Stanley, Lord, Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1458-9), m. Jean, dau of Sir Robert Goushill, of Heveringhan.

1.1.1.1.1. Sir William Stanley, d. 1494/5, military commander of Richard Corbet and William Holland* at Bosworth in 1485, m. (2) Elizabeth, dau of Thomas Hopton, relict of Roger Corbet, by whom: Joan Corbett, who m. Thomas Cressett Esq., having issue: Richard Cressett Esq., husband of Joan (Wrottesley) Cressett.

1.1.2.1. John Stanley* (d. 1476), m. (1) Cecilia, dau. of Sir Ralph Arderne, and Katherine, dau. of Sir William Stanley.

1.1.2.1.1. Isabel Stanley, m. Hugh Peshall. Russh v Peshale. Plaintiffs: John Russh and Isabel, his wife, daughter of Sir John Stanley, knight, and previously the wife of Sir Hugh Peshale, knight, son and heir apparent of Humfrey Peshale, esquire. Defendants: Humfrey Peshale, esquire. Subject: Alienation of the manors of Knyghtley Tene and Hopton, contrary to an undertaking given on the marriage of the said Isabel and Hugh and to the disherison of Katherine, their daughter. Staffordshire. 1493-1500. (C 1/222/94).

1.1.2.1.1.1. Katherine Peshale, m. Sir John Blount,* son of Sir Thomas Blount, and Anne, dau. of Sir Richard Croft, of Croft Castle, Herefs. (See PHILLIPS AND CROFT, as follows).

BLOUNT

1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Sir George Blount, of Kinlet (Stottesdon Hundr.).

1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Dorothy Blount, m. (Feb. 1576/7), John Purslowe, of Sidbury.

1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. Katherine Purslowe, m. Richard Hill, of Bickley.

1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Dorothy Hill, m. John Holland, son of Michael Holland of Pickthorne.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thurstan Holland (b. ca. 1475), m. (1) Joan, dau. of Ralph Arderne, who subsequently m. John Davenport, esq. As follows, Thurstan Holland’s wife was a sister of Cecelia, wife of John Stanley. Their graddau., Katherine Peshale, m. Sir John Blount. Their granddau, Dorothy Blount, m. John Purslowe. Their granddau., Dorothy Hill, m. John Holland, son of Michael Holland of Pickthorne, great-grandson of William Holland*.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Richard Holland (b. ca. 1500 m. Ann, dau. of John Fitton, of Gosworth, Cheshire, and sister of Cecilia, who m. Francis Charlton,* of Apley Castle; son of Robert Charlton and Ann Stanley. Francis Charlton was the son of the aforesaid William Charlton. Exemplification, at the instance of Richard Holland, esq., of an extent of 1346 showing that Richard de Radcliffe and Thurstan de Holland held land in Heton super Faghfeld in socage at 6s. 8d. p.a. Duchy seal, May 2, 1577. (Manchester University Library, CRU/660).

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2. *William Holland, b. ca. 1460. He served in the Lancastrian forces of Richard Corbet at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, for which Corbet rewarded him with half of his Shropshire manor of Burwarton, to be held by his posterity. (Trans. Shrop. Arch., 1915, p. 82,). The same source informs us that he married Matilda, dau. of William de Willaston, as detailed hereinafter.

(Sir Richard Corbet m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers; she m. (2) Thomas Leighton, who, by his mistress, Ann Baker, had a dau. who was the matriarch of the Harris family of Ludlow).

The inference is that William Holland had played a significant part in this battle, and, as Richard Corbet was under the command of his kinsman, William Stanley, William Holland, also, was part of this kinship group.

The political context of these relationships is described in an article entitled “Bosworth Field”, appearing in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, vol. 60, 1885, p. 280:

“The last of the battles of the Wars of the Roses, according to popular estimation, though the defeat of the remains of the Yorkist party at Stoke a few years later, and the death of the Earl of Lincoln on that field, more accurately mark the end of the struggle. However, the accession of the House of Tudor and the death of the last Plantagenet King at Bosworth have secured for it deserved notoriety. It is instructive to compare it with the previous battles of the war, which were fought when some principles were still at stake and when some public interest in the struggle existed. At Towton, for instance, upwards of one hundred thousand men had met and contended all day with obstinacy for a field where, by some accounts, nearly thirty thousand lost their lives. But since Towton, more certainly since Barnet and Tewkesbury, the supremacy of a central power and the subordination of a turbulent baronage had been secured, upon whatsoever head the crown rested. At Bosworth only some personal interests, hopes, and animosities were engaged.

“The forces of the four commanders in the field – the King, the Earl of Richmond (Henry Tudor) and the two Stanleys – reached only to about five-and-twenty thousand all told. Of these half the King’s army and some of Lord Stanley’s were not seriously engaged, and Sir William Stanley’s three thousand red-coats, celebrated in the ballad of the ‘Ladye Bessiye,’ only came in to overwhelm Richard and his handful of personal followers when the fight was being sustained by them alone. The whole number slain cannot be placed above a thousand, and those nearly all on the King’s side, and the fighting lasted scarcely two hours. Personal fear and dislike towards Richard had united adherents of his House with Lancastrians, and terms of alliance being agreed upon”.

A description of the Battle of Bosworth is given by Leicestershire County Council”. “Bosworth” – “With the battle not going his way, Richard saw Henry Tudor with only a small force of soldiers on the field. He rallied his mounted knights and led a mounted charge across the battlefield trying to kill Henry. At this point Sir William Stanley attacked, on Henry’s side. Richard was surrounded by his enemies, and lost his horse in the marsh. However, he fought on, vowing to win or die as the King of England. King Richard was cut down “in the thickest press of his foes”. Even his enemies describe him as dying like a valiant prince. His crown was picked up and given to the Stanleys who unofficially crowned Henry Tudor as King Henry VII of England at Stoke Golding straight after the battle. Richard’s body was stripped of his armour and slung over a horse to be unceremoniously taken to Leicester for public display, to prove that he was dead”.

A more graphic description was given here: “His helmet was knocked off his head; the crown had rolled away under a hawthorn bush; Lord Stanley picked it up and placed it, amid the cheers of the assembled knights, upon the head of Richmond (Henry Tudor). Richard’s body, stripped of his armour, was trussed behind a poursuivant of arms, like a hog or a calf, the head and the arms hanging on one side of the horse, and the legs on the other side, and all besprinkled with mire and blood, was brought to the Greyfriars’ Church at Leicester”. (John Miller, Dow Meiklejohn, A New History of England and Great Britain, p. 274, 1897).

“Character of Richard.- Richard was most probably a great statesman, who in an age of violence had been too ready to use violent means. He was only thirty-four when he died; and there can be no doubt that he would have done much for the establishment of law and order in the country had he lived longer. He was not a “bloodsupper and child-killer,” as the Tudor party called him; but neither did he scruple to put out of the way any man who opposed his plans”, ibid.

Making a wrong choice about who to support could prove fatal. The Corbets of Moreton Corbet were, at first, Yorkists, shown by Sir Roger Corbet being made a Knight of the Bath in 1465, at the coronation of Edward IV’s Queen, Elizabeth Woodville. His son, Richard Corbet, fought for King Edward at the battle of Tewkesbury, in 1471, where he was knighted. He attended the coronation of Richard III in 1483, but when Henry Tudor (Henry VII) claimed the throne in 1485, he followed his relative, Sir William Stanley, and changed allegiance In 1489, he helped to put down a rebellion in the north, undoubtedly assisted by William Holland.

WILLIAM HOLLAND OF BURWARTON

1.1.1.1.1.1.2. William de Holland, of Burwarton.

It is on record that the manor of Willaston from 1180, and doubtless long before, had been in the possession of the knightly family of Pigot, or in that of their descendants, through heirs female, the “ Williams’,” for a period bordering on five centuries.

Dwnn:
1. Griffith ap Beli.
2. Gwyn ap Griffith, Lord of Guilsfield, m. Annest, dau. of Einion Vichan ap Einion ap Ieva.
3. Griffith ap Gwyn.
4. Pasgen ap Gwyn, m. Nest, verch Llewelyn (Vichan).
5. Meuric ap Pasgen, m. Gwervyl, verch Ieuan Koch ap Rhys Gwnley, Lord of Marton.
6. Adam (Adda) ap Meuric, an official of Powys in the 1270’s.
7. David ap Adam.
8. Owen ap David.
9. Cadwallader ap Owen.

10. Katherine, verch Cadwallader ap Owen, m. (1430) David ap Griffith. She was the sister of: “Meredith ap Cadwalader was a feoffee of the Barony of Caus. Humphrey Stafford, Constable of England, sixth Earl of Stafford, first Duke of Buckingham, and Baron of Caus, sixth in descent from Robert de Stafford, who married Alice, daughter and eventual co-heiress of Sir Thomas Corbet, Baron of Caus, granted to his dearly beloved tenant and servant Meredith ap Cadwalader ap Owen and Gwenhoyvar his wife, and their heirs, male and female, for ever, for their good services performed and to be performed, all the lands, fallen to the said Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham, by escheat forfeiture or otherwise, of Howell ap Griffith ap Ririd, in our lordship of Nethirgorthor; of David Sars ap David ap Einion, in the vill of Wrobbeton or Nantcribba; and of Meredith Madoc ap ap Howell ap Griffith Vaughan, formerly of Overgorthwr, in our aforesaid Lordship. Given at our Castle of Caus, 9th February, 24 Henry VI, 1446”. (Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire, vol. vi., 1871, pp. 101/2).

11. William ap David, m. (ca. 1460) Gwenhever, verch David Llloyd ap Sir Griffith Vichan.

“Sir Griffith Vaughan married Margaret, daughter and co-heir of Griffith ap Jenkin, of Broughton, Home, and Mochdre, ap John, ap Walter (living in 18th Edw. II), ap Walter de Broughton (also living in 18th Edw. II, 1325). (Lewys Dwnn’s Visitation, vol. i, pp. 301, 314). The latter m. Avicia, heir of Thomas de Winsbury, and had for his arms sa., a chevron between three owls, The sheriff of Shropshire is said to have notified the contents of the king’s writ of 3d April, 1316, to Griffin (Vychan) de la Pole at his lands and tenements of “Deuder in Powys by Edmund de Langedon and Walter de Burghton, in the presence of Peter Corbet and Thomas de Wynnesbury”. Mr. J. Morris’s MS. Visitation of Salop, under “Descent of Marg’t Broughton, first wife of Sir Gth Vychan”.

David Llloyd of Leighton ap Sir Griffith Vaughan, married, first, Luesi’ or Lucy, heiress of Nantcribba, in the township of Wrobton and parish of Forden. Her father, Meredith ap Cadwalader ap Owen ap Meyrick ap Pasgen, was, like her husband, lineally descended from Brochwel Ysgithrog. This Meredith ap Cadwalader was likewise a feoffee of the Barony of Caus, as heretofore given.

Issue of David Llloyd and Lucy:
Gwenhever, verch David Llloyd ap Sir Griffith Vichan, m. William ap David.
Catherine, m. Edward Hopton of Rockill, son of Thomas Hopton of Rockhill. (Vis. Shrop, 1584, Hopton of Rockhill).
(“Collections Historical”, ibid,).

12. Matilda verch William, m. William Holland.

12. Reginald ap William (Williams) of Willaston, m Margaret Lee, dau. of Fulkc Lee of Langley and Elizabeth, dau. of John Leighton of Wattlesborough, son of Sir Thomas Leighton, father of Margaret Leighton, wife of John Harris, ancestors of Major William Harris and Mary (Harris) Ligon.

A MEDIEVAL WEB OF KINSHIP OBLIGATIONS

1. Roger Corbet, d. June 8. 1467 , m. Elizabeth, dau of Thomas Hopton of Hopton, who subsequently m. Sir William Stanley, Elizabeth Hopton was the cousin of the above Edward Hopton, whose wife was the sister of Gwenhever, verch David Lloyd ap Sir Griffith Vichan, aunt of (1) Matilda verch William, who m. William Holland. (2) Reginald ap William (Williams) of Willaston, who m Margaret, dau. of Fulk Lee of Langley, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Leighton of Wattlesborough, son of Sir Thomas Leighton, father of Margaret Leighton, wife of John Harris, ancestors of Major William Harris and Mary (Harris) Ligon. John Harris was of the same family as the said Fulc Lee of Langley

1.1. Sir Richard Corbet m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers; she m. (2) Thomas Leighton, who, by his mistress, Ann Baker, had a dau. who was the matriarch of the Harris family of Ludlow, from whence the said Major William Harris and Mary (Harris) Ligon)

Sir William Stanley, (d. 1494/5), chamberlain to Henry VII), military commander of Richard Corbet and William Holland* at Bosworth in 1485, m. (2) Elizabeth, dau of Thomas Hopton, relict of Roger Corbet.

HOLLAND cont.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1. Thomas Holland, b. ca. 1485, m. Elizabeth, dau. of William “Wawll” (Treswell’s Vis. Shrop., 1623). That is, William Harrys, of Wheathill*.

(1. Henry de la Lee, b. ca. 1240.

1.1. Henry de la Lee, b. ca. 1265. “Henry atte Cros de Egilton” (Edgebolton).

1.1.1. John Harrys, b. ca. 1295. (John FitzHenry).

1.1.1. Richard Harris,* born ca. 1330.

1.1.1.1. Thomas Harris, born ca. 1365. In May 1394, Richard Harrys held two messuages and half a yard land in Ryton; and Thomas Harrys, son of Richard, paid 10 s. fine to have seisin of two messuages and two nokes of land which were his father’s.

1.1.1.1. “Thomas Harrys, the younger of Wheatehal”. In 1453, the township of Wheathill presented that Thomas Harris, who held a messuage and half a yard land there, was dead. Eight years later his lands were surrendered to his son, William.

1.1.1.1.1. *William Harrys, of Wheathill.

1.1.1.1.1. John Harrys. In 1509, John Harrys of Wheathall had a grant from Sir Thomas Leighton of waste there called Woodlands.

1.1.1.1.2. Elizabeth Harrys, m. Thomas Holland.

1.1.2. Thomas Harrys,* b. ca. 1295. Thomas Henr’ (Thomas, son of Henry). Ancestor of John Harris, who m. a dau. of the said Sir Thomas Leighton).

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1. William Holland, of Burwarton, b. ca. 1520, bur. 1590, in Burwarton, m. Alice, dau. of John Detton. William Holland may have been the brother of John Holland: Lease, April 14, 1564, 1. Robert Mason and John Holland, Bailiffs of the Corporation of Ludlow. 2. Richard (Dryton), Ludlow. 1-2. (S.A., XLB/4/1/59). Lease of a close in Mill Street, Ludlow. 1577. 1. John Sherman and Thomas Candlande, Bailiffs of the Corporation of Ludlow. 2. John Holland, Ludlow, Mercer. 1-2 ‘ All that close or pasture … at the upper end of the Mill. (S.A., XLB/4/1/93).

BROUGHTON AND LEE

1. Sir Walter Broughton, b. ca. 1275.

1.1. John ap Walter Broughton.

1.1.1. Jenkin ap John Broughton.

1.1.1.1. Gruffudd ap Jenkin Broughton.

1.1.1.1.1. Margaret m. Sir Griffith Vaughan.

1.1.1.1.1.1. David Llloyd.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Gwenhever, verch David Llloyd ap Sir Griffith Vichan, m. William ap David.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Matilda verch William, m. William Holland. She was a kinswoman of Richard Broughton of Hanley.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2. Reginald ap William (Williams) of Willaston, m Margaret Lee, dau. of Fulkc Lee of Langley and Elizabeth, dau. of John Leighton of Wattlesborough, son of Sir Thomas Leighton, father of Margaret Leighton, wife of John Harris, ancestors of Major William Harris and Mary (Harris) Ligon.

Broughton – Sa., a chev. betw. three owls arg. Confirmed as the arms of Broughton. Broughton -Arg., two bars gu., on a canton of the first, a saltire of the second. Crest: A talbot pass. gu. Confirmed (with 6 quarterings) to Richard Broughton, of Hanley, 3rd in descent from Walter Broughton, of Broughton, who was 5th from Sir Walter Broughton, of the same place. (Shropshire Arms and Lineages, p. 12, 1869).

(1. Walter Broughton, of Broughton, m. Jane, dau. and heir of John Haven/Hevyn of Cleobury Mortimer.

1.1. Anna Broughton, b. ca. 1495, m. John Detton, b. ca. 1490.

1.1.1. Alice Detton, m. William Holland, of Burwarton. (Vis. Shrop. 1623, ed. Treswell, et al., p. 81, 1889).

HOLLAND cont.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1. Thomas Holland, of Pickthorne, m. (Dec. 27, 1573, in Wheathill), Alice Cocke (second-cousin of Richard Cocke of Pickthorne (in Stottesdon), Shropshire, and Bremo, Virginia. “Indenture dated Sept. 20, 1598. Between (1) Robert Purslowe of Sudbury, Esq., (2) Thomas Holland of Pyckthorne gent. & Ales his wife. Covenant to levy a Fine & Recovery of the capital messuage or farm in Pickthorne called the farm of Pickthorne, with the motte or pool adjoining & all lands etc. … to the use of Thomas Holland for the lives of Ales, Michael H, & John H. (son)”. (S.A., 6000/1918). Same person? – Much Wenlock/Shropshire. 1601. Burgesses were appointed by Thomas Holland for his time in office. Stephen Smallman of Wilderhope esq. William Holland gentleman son of the said bailiff. Michael Holland gentleman. Launcelot Deuxhill of Shipton. Thomas Corfield of Wall. William Crofte of Deuxhill. (S.A., XWB/C/1/1/352).

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Michael Holland, of Pickthorne.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. John Holland, m. Dorothy, dau. of Richard Hill, of Bickley, and Katherine (b. ca. 1582), dau. of John Purslowe, of Sudbury, and his second wife (m. Feb. 1576/7), Dorothy, dau. of George Blount, of Kinlet, and Constance Talbot, half-sister of Margaret Talbot, who m. (1) Sir Richard Ligon, of Arle, Madresfield, Worcestershire, son of William Ligon and Eleanor Denys.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Holland. bapt. May 15, 1648, bur. Dec. 29, 1694, in Nene Savage, who m. Elizabeth Kettleby, in 1678, almost certainly the parents of Michael Holland of Goochland.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.2. Francis Holland, of Burwarton, who died in 1621, in his will mentions “my cousin Thomas Holland of Bridgnorth”.* (Trans. Shrop. Arch., p. 90, 1915).

HOLLANDS OF BRIDGNORTH

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2. John Holland, b. ca. 1485. In 1561, administration of the goods of John Holland, of St. Leonard’s, Bridgnorth, was granted at Lichfield to his son Roland Holland, and to his grandson, another Roland.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1. Roland Holland, b. ca. 1510. More v Holland. Plaintiffs: John More of Wing, co. Bucks. Defendants: Roland Holland of Bridgnorth. Subject: Manor and parsonage of Ratlinghope, late of the monastery of Wigmore. Shropshire. 1553-1555. (C 1/1370/80-83)

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.1. Roland Holland, b. ca. 1535.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.1.1. John Holland, b. ca. 1560, m. Jane Steward. Lease. 1. John Whytbroke of London gentyllman. 2. John Holland of the Towne of Brydgnorthe yoman, Jane his wife and Thomas Holland their son. Consideration – a certain sum of money. Demise of a barn with a garden place adjoining, a dovecoote within the same garden place, within the town of Brydgnorthe adjoining the Towne dyche on the N. and on the S. adjoining land of Richard Yate now in tenure of Rowland Holland. August 24, 1582. (Shrop. Arch., 1496/3).

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.1.1.1. *Thomas Holland, of Bridgnorth, b. ca. 1585, d. 1649.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.1.1.2. Rowland Holland.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.1.1.2.1. Richard Holland, bur. Feb. 7, 1599/1600, in Ludlow, “son of Rowland”.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.1.1.2.2. Rowland Holland, m. Margaret Walker, Sept. 29, 1636, in Ludlow. Smalman v Hill. Plaintiffs: *Robert Smalman. Defendants: Thomas Hill, John Andros, Arthur Tully, Richard Skirme, John Davies, and Rowland Holland. Subject: money matters, Herefordshire. 1649. (C 10/3/140).

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.2. John Holland, m. Margaret Noblet on Nov, 25, 1561.

PHILLIPS AND CROFT

(1. John Phillips, servant of the Earl of Shrewsbury, m. … Vyners. Or on a chevron gules, three eagles’ heads eraised Argent; in the dexter chief a crescent.

1.1. Thomas Phillips, obit. 1530 (monumental inscript.), of Yarpool and Leaminster, ca. 10 miles S. of Ludlow. He m. Isabella Broughton (of Henley, Shropshire, the adjoining parish to Ludlow), sister of the aforesaid Anna Broughton, b. ca. 1495, who m. John Detton, b. ca. 1490; having issue: Alice Detton, who m. William Holland, of Burwarton. (Vis. Shrop. 1623, ed. Treswell, et al., p. 81, 1889).

1.1.1. Robert Phillips, of Yarpool and Leaminster (Harl. 1545), m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Pryce, of Clun, Wales, and Margaret (dau. of Sir Edward Croft), and sister of Sir Richard Croft. Margaret Croft was the aunt of Sybil Croft,* whose husband was the grandson of Elizabeth Devereux, whose 2nd husband was the father of Margaret Leighton, wife of John Harris, ancestors of Major William Harris, and Mary (Harris) Ligon.

(1.1.1.1. Walter Devereux, m. Ann Ferrers.

1.1.1.1.1. *Elizabeth Devereux, m. (1) Sir Richard Corbett, (2) by November 1496, Sir Thomas Leighton: “This indenture made at London 12 day of November the 11th yer of the reigne of Kyng Harry the 7th Bytwyne Sir Thomas Leighton Knyght and Dame Elizabeth hys wiff late wiff of S Ryc. Corbet Knyght of the one p’tie and Robert Frederick, etc.”.

1.1.1.1.2. Anne Devereux, m. Sir William Herbert, son of Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan and Gwladus v. Dafydd Gam.

1.1.1.1.2.1. Sir George Herbert of St. Julians (3rd son) m. Sybil, dau. of Sir Richard Croft, of Croft Castle).

1.1.1.1. Elizabeth Phillips, m. Thomas Noblet.

1.1.1.1.1. Margaret Noblet, m. John Holland on Nov. 25, 1561, in Ludow. She was probably the sister of Elinor Noblet, who m. William Cressett, ob Jan. 9, 1573/4 in Ludlow. (The Visitation of Herefordshire Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, in 1569).

BLOUNT AND CROFT

1. Humphrey Blount of Kinlet, Sheriff of Shrop. (d. 1477), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Winnington of Delves, Cheshire.

1.1. Sir Thomas Blount of Kinlet, Sheriff of Shrop. (b. ca. 1455, d. 1525), m. Ann, dau. of Sir Richard Croft and his wife Eleanor dau of Edmund Cornwall of Burford, who had m. 1) Hugh Mortimer of Kyre.

1.1.1. Sir John Blount of Kinlet (b. 1484), m. Katherine, dau. of Sir Hugh Pershall, of Knightly, Staffordshire.

Repeating:

1.1.1.1. George Blount of Kinlet, Sheriff of Shropshire (d 1582), m. Constance, dau. of John Talbot, whose half-sister, Margaret Talbot, m. (1) Sir Richard Ligon, of Arle, Madresfield, brother of Thomas Ligon, who m. Frances Dennys (cousin), having issue: Thomas Ligon, who m. (Oct. 10, 1602), Elizabeth Pratt; having issue: Col. Thomas Ligon, who m. Mary Harris, born in 1625 in Ludlow, by deposition, sister of Major William Harris, bapt. 1627/8; neighbour of Richard Cocke. By his first wife, Mary Russell, Sir Richard Ligon had issue: Katharine Ligon, who m. Fleetwood Dormer, Esq., who m. (2) Mary Harris, second-cousin of the said Mary and William Harris.

1.1.1.1.1. Dorothy Blount, m. (1) John Purslowe of Sudbury, as his 2nd wife,

1.1.1.1.1.1. Katherine Purslowe, who m. Richard Hill of Bickley, having issue: Dorothy Hill, who m. John Holland of Pickthorn, son of Michael Holland of Pickthorne, the son of Thomas Holland, and Alicia, “fil. Thomas Cocke of Pickthorne”, second-cousin of Richard Cocke, of “Malvern Hills”, Henrico.

HOLLAND OF BRIDGNORTH cont.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.2.1. John Holland, m. (1) Jane Wheeler, on Nov, 23, 1590; (2) Mary Baldwyn, on Oct. 14, 1601, in Ludlow.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.2.2. Roger Holland, m. Elinor Lewes, on Jan. 13, 1597/8, in Ludlow.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.2.2.1. Richard Holland, bapt. Feb. 3, 1599/1600.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.2.2.2. Samuel Holland, bapt. Nov.1, 1601.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.2.2.3. Margaret Holland, bapt. Sept. 29, 1603, m. John Harris, bapt. March 5, 1603/4, son of Rowland Harris and Jane Langford. She seems to have named her children after her brother, William, and deceased sister, Mary. John Harris was the son of Rowland Harris and Jane Langford.

Rowland Harris, m. Jane Langford, bapt. Oct. 10, 1567, on Sept. 14, 1595. She m. (2) Edward Lewis, gent (bur. June 12, 1632, in Ludlow). Edward Lewis was the father by a first wife (Anna, dau. of Thomas Blashfield) of Thomas Lewis, b. 1600, who is most likely recorded here: Hannah Boyse, dau. and heir of Luke Boyse, late of Henrico, decd., patented in Nov., 1635, 300 ac. in Henrico adjoining land of her mother Alice Edlowe; due 50 ac. for her personal adventure and 50 ac. for the personal adventure of her father, and 200 ac. for transportation of servants, viz.: “Thomas Lewis, Robert Hollum, Joseph Royall, Edward Holland, and Oliver Allen”. (Virginia Magazine, v., p. 97). Edward Lewis, gent and Jane Langford had issue: 1608. Sept. 1. Edward, s. Edward Lewis. The Will of Edward Lewis, Yeoman of Stottesden, proved Feb. 3, 1668, mentions his dau., Ann Smith, wife of Robert Smith; his (half) brother, Thomas Lewis, and his daus., Margery and Elizabeth; his brother, William, and his dau., Joan.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.2.2.4. William Holland, bapt. Sept. 1, 1605. B. 1, p. 40: “Cheney Boyse, 1550 acres Chrles City Co., land of May 1636, p. 352. N. upon the Li me hill, SW., W. upon Merchants Hope Cr., E. upon the maine woods and S. t owards the head of sd. Cr. 100 acres due as being an Ancient Planter befo re the time of Sir Thomas Dale, and 1450 acres for trans. of 29 pers :… William Holland, etc.”.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.2.2.5. Mary Holland, bapt. Sept. 11, 1608; bur. Nov. 4, 1608.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.3. Richard Holland, m. Joan Ward, on Oct. 19, 1565; undoubtedly related to John Ward, who m. Agnes Hunt, on June 30, 1562; and she related to Margery Hunt, who m. Thomas Blashfield, on Aug. 29, 1561, parents of Anna Blashfield, 1st wife of Edward Lewis, who m. (2) Jane Langford.

by m stanhope, copyright B.T. Shannon 2024