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The Seize Quartiers of the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham

 

1  Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham

   Will pr 1784

   b 13 May 1730

   d 1 Jul 1782, London

 

Parents

 

2  Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham

   Will pr 1751

   b 13 Nov 1693, Tidmington, Worcestershire

   d 14 Dec 1750, Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire

   m 22 Sep 1716

3  Mary Finch

   b

   d 30 May 1761, Hill Street, London

 

Grandparents

 

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

   b 17 Jun 1665

   d 6 Oct 1723, bur York Minster

   m lic 18 Jul 1689

5  Alice Proby

   b 1673

   d 2 Oct 1743, Great Harrowden, Northamptonshire

6  Daniel Finch, 7th Earl of Winchelsea

   Will pr 1730

   b 2 Jul 1647

   d 1 Jan 1729/30, Burley-on-the-Hill

   m 29 Dec 1685, St.-Giles’s-in-the-Fields, Middlesex

7  Anne Hatton

   Will pr 1743

   b ca 1667

   d 26 Sep 1743, Grosvenor Square, London

 

Great-grandparents

 

8  Edward Watson, 2nd Baron Rockingham

   Admon 9 Jul 1689 and 28 Jan 1695/96

   bap 13 Jul 1630, Rockingham

   bur 26 Jun 1689, Rockingham

   m 13 Nov 1654, St.-Giles’s-in-the-Fields

9  Anne Wentworth

   Will dat 1691, pr 1696

   b 8 Oct 1629

   bur 8 Jan 1695/96, Rockingham

10 Sir Thomas Proby, Baronet, of Elton Hall, co. Huntingdon

   bap 18 Oct 1632

   d 22 Apr 1689

   m

11 Frances Cotton

   b

   d

12 Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham

   Will pr Jan 1682/83

   b 23 Dec 1621, Kent

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

   m 30 Jul 1646, Allhallows-in-the-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

   Will pr 1707

   bap 6 Nov 1632

   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

   Will dat 19 Oct 1647, admon 17 May 1653

   bap 14 Jul 1584, Rockingham

   bur 12 Jan 1652/53, Rockingham

   m 3 Oct 1620

17 Eleanor, dau of Sir George Manners of Haddon Hall, Derbyshire

   Will pr 1679

   b

   d 23 Oct 1679, London

18 Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

   b 13 Apr 1593, Chancery Lane

   d 12 May 1641, Tower Hill, London

   m 24 Feb 1624/25, London

19 Arabella, dau of John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare

   b

   d 5 Oct 1631, York

20 Sir Heneage Proby of Raans, Amersham, Buckinghamshire

   b ca 1595

   d 10 Feb 1662/63, bur Amersham

   m 1627

21 Helen, dau of Edward Allen of Bread Street, London, fishmonger

   bap 28 Dec 1606

   d 12 Jun 1678

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

   Admon 25 Jan 1674/75

   b 1594

   d 13 May 1662, bur Conington

   m lic 17 Apr 1640

23 Alice, dau of Sir John Constable of Dormanby, Yorkshire

   b

   d

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

   b ca 30 Dec 1580

   d 5 Dec 1631, bur Eastwell, Kent

   m

25 Frances, dau of Sir Edmund Bell of Beaupré Hall, Outwell, Norfolk

   b

   d 11 Apr 1627, bur Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire

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

   Will pr PCC 1649

   b 31 May 1587, Folkestone

   d 10 Sep 1647, bur St. Lawrence Pountney

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

27 Elizabeth, dau of Henry Kynnersley of London, merchant

   b

   d/bur 7 May 1655, St. Lawrence

28 Christopher Hatton, Baron Hatton of Kirby

   Admon 21 Jul 1670

   bap 11 Jul 1605, Barking, Essex

   d 4 Jul 1670, Kirby Hall

   m 8 May 1630, Hackney, Middlesex

29 Elizabeth, dau of Sir Charles Montagu of Boughton, Northamptonshire

   b

   d 30 Dec 1672, Castle Cornet

30 John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet

   Will pr 1664

   bap 20 Dec 1608, Hothfield

   d 7 May 1664, Thanet House, London

   m 21 Apr 1629, St. Bartholemew, London

31 Margaret, dau of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset

   Will dat 19 Jun 1676, pr 21 Aug 1676

   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

Boyd’s Inhabitants of London [unpublished - at the 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)

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

Encyclopædia Britannica (online at www.britannica.com)

 

Notes

 

Prince Charles is descended from number 6 (see Paget).

 

The IGI shows the apparent baptism of Mary Finch, the PM’s mother, in Sep 1701 at Burley, Rutland, but I have not yet checked the entry in the parish registers.