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The Seize Quartiers of Sir Robert Walpole

1 Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford

Will dat 26 Dec 1744, pr PCC 20 Mar 1744/45

b 26 Aug 1676, Houghton, Norfolk

d 18 Mar 1745, Piccadilly, Middlesex

Parents

2 Robert Walpole of Houghton; MP for Castle Rising

Will pr PCC 22 Feb 1700/01

b 18 Nov 1650

bur 18 Nov 1700, Houghton

m 25 Apr 1671, Rougham, Suffolk

3 Mary Burwell

bap 23 Oct 1654, Rougham

d 14 Mar 1711, bur Houghton

Grandparents

4 Sir Edward Walpole of Houghton; MP for King’s Lynn

Will pr PCC 5 Jun 1668

bap 9 or 16 Nov 1621

d 18 Mar 1667, bur Houghton

m 1649

5 Susan Crane

bap 10 Jun 1630, Chilton, Suffolk

bur 8 Jul 1667, Houghton

6 Sir Jeffrey Burwell of Rougham Place, Suffolk

bap 20 Jul 1606, Woodbridge

bur 10 Jul 1684, Rougham

m 1648

7 Elizabeth Derehaugh

b ca 25 Mar 1614

d/bur 24 Oct 1677, Rougham

Great-grandparents

8 Robert Walpole of Houghton

Will pr PCC 27 May 1663

b 23 Sep 1593

bur 4 May 1663, Houghton

9 Susan Barkham

bap 18 Jan 1595/96, St. Laurence Jewry, London

bur 9 Nov 1622, Houghton

10 Sir Robert Crane of Chilton, 1st Baronet

Will dat 13 Feb 1642/43, pr PCC 23 Feb 1642/43

b ca 1586

d 17 Feb 1642/43, London

m 21 Sep 1624, Chilton

11 Susan Alington

Will dat 18 Aug 1676, pr Archdeaconry of Sudbury 7 Oct 1681

bap 30 Sep 1605, Horseheath, Cambridgeshire

bur 14 Sep 1681, Chilton

12 Edmund Burwell of Woodbridge

bap 18 Nov 1574, Woodbridge

d 4 Oct 1652, bur Rougham

m 13 May 1605, Woodbridge

13 Mary Pitman

d 23 Aug 1647, bur Woodbridge

14 Thomas Derehaugh of Colston Hall, Badingham, Suffolk

Admon PCC 29 Sep 1619

b ca 29 Jan 1590

bur 26 Apr 1619, Badingham

m 4 May 1611, St. Lawrence Pountney, London

15 Mary Sheppard

bap 1593

Great-great-grandparents

16 Calibut Walpole of Houghton

Will pr PCC 9 Jun 1646

bap 14 Mar 1561

bur 4 May 1646, Houghton

m 14 Oct 1591, Hessett, Suffolk

17 Elizabeth, dau of Sir Edmund Bacon, of Hessett, Suffolk

bur 1 Feb 1624, Houghton

18 Sir Edward Barkham of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, citizen and draper; Lord Mayor of London

1621/22; MP for Boston 1625-26

Will pr PCC 15 Jan 1633/34

b ca 1551, South Acre, Norfolk

d 15 Jan 1633/34, St. Mary Bothawe, London

m bef 1594

19 Jane, dau of John Crouch of Cornbury, Hertfordshire

b/bap 13 Aug 1568, St. Lawrence Jewry

d May 1654, bur South Acre

20 Henry Crane of Chilton

Will dat 20 Jun 1586, pr PCC 12 Nov 1586

b ca 1545

d 1 Aug 1586

21 Katherine, dau of John Jernegan of Somerleyton

d 13 Feb 1613

22 Sir Giles Alington of Horseheath

Will dat 24 Sep 1638, pr PCC 29 Jan 1638/39

bap 18 Sep 1572, Horseheath

bur 23 Dec 1638, Horseheath

23 Dorothy, dau of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter

bap 11 Aug 1577, St. Martin, Stamford, Lincolnshire

bur 11 Nov 1613, Horseheath

24 Nicholas Burwell of Woodbridge, Suffolk

b ca 1517

d 1583

m 23 Sep 1571, Woodbridge

25 Alice Curtis

b 1549

26 Jeffrey Pitman of Woodbridge; High Sheriff of Suffolk

Will dat 18 May 1627, pr PCC 16 Jun 1627

bap 16 Mar 1561, Woodbridge

d 21 May 1627

27 Alice

b ca 1561

d 29 Aug 1613

28 William Derehaugh of Colston Hall

Admon Norwich 9 Sep 1610

b ca 1558

bur 4 Sep 1610, Badingham

29 Mary, dau of Edmund Wright of Sutton Hall and Bradfield Combust, Suffolk and Little

Buckenham, Norfolk

Will dat 3 Jul 1619, pr Archdeaconry of Suffolk 14 Mar 1621/22

b bef 15 Apr 1564

bur 4 Mar 1621/22, Badingham

30 Owen Sheppard of Kirby Bedon, Norfolk

bap 1568

bur 1629

m 1590, Kirby Bedon

31 Elizabeth, dau of Thomas Osborne of Kirby Bedon

bur 1630

Sources

The Complete Peerage (2nd edition)

The Complete Baronetage

The History of Parliament

The Dictionary of National Biography

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Robert Battle, “English Ancestry of Anne (Derehaugh) Stratton of Salem, Massachusetts,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 155(2001):367-390 and 156(2002):39-61

Alumni Cantabrigienses

Le Neve’s Pedigrees of the Knights [Harleian Society, vol 8]

J.J. Howard and F.A. Crisp, eds., Visitation of England and Wales, Notes vol. 7

W.A. Copinger, The Manors of Suffolk, (1905-11), vols. 4 and 6

The Visitations of Norfolk [Harleian Society, vol. 32]

The Visitation of Norfolk, 1664 [Norfolk Record Society vols. 4 and 5]

Woodbridge Marriages [Phillimore transcript – these should be checked]

Boyd’s Inhabitants of London [unpublished - at the Society of Genealogists, London]

William Musgrave, The life of the late Right Honourable Robert Earl of Orford, including a brief history of his whole family, 2nd edition (1745)

Francis Blomefield and Charles Parkin, An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, 1st edition (1739-75) and 2nd edition (1805-10)

William Sumner Appleton, Memorials of the Cranes of Chilton, with a pedigree of the family, etc. (1868)

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 (Phillimore, 1897)

Rougham MIs transcription (Society of Genealogists, SF/M13)

Hessett PR transcription (Society of Genealogists, SF/R271)

Funeral Certificate of Sir Edward Barkham in The Herts Genealogist and Antiquary, 2(1897):336-37

H.A. Pitman, “Pitman of Woodbridge, Co. Suffolk”, The British Archivist, 1:93-95

Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archæology and Natural History, 9(1897):305-06

Michael J. Sayer, “Sheppard of Kirby Bedon”, Norfolk Genealogy, 6(1974):160

Egerton Castle, ed., The Jerningham Letters (1780-1843), 2 vols. (London, 1896), 2:186.

Notes

Prince William is descended from Sir Robert Walpole through Anne Horatia Waldegrave (ancestor G6 in David Williamson, “The Ancestry of Lady Diana Spencer,” The Genealogists’ Magazine, Jun 1981).