Family:Whitney, ----- (s1525-b1574)

From WRG

----- Whitney, parentage unknown, but brother of Geoffrey Whitney (s1520-?).

He married Jane -----. She married, second, 22 Nov 1574, Saint Alkmund, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, John Grinsell.

Children of ----- Whitney:

i.	Geoffrey/Jeffrey Whitney, of London, Citizen, and Merchant Taylor. Will dated 20 Oct; proved 8 Feb 1602/3 (P.C.C. 15 Bolein). Gives to the poor of Drayton-in-Hales, in Shropshire. Sister, Katharine, wife of John Cartwright, of Drayton-in-Hales, in Shropshire, and their children, Jeffrey, John, Jane, and Mary. Brother-in-law, Edward Mauncell. Brother-in-law, William Yeadley. Sister Yeadley. Late partner, Master William Webbe, Citizen, and Merchant Taylor, of London.
ii.	Walter Whitney, citizen and plasterer of London (Commissary Court of London, Orig. Will, 1608). Will dated July 25, 1608; proved August 11, 1608. Desires to be buried in the church of St. Bridget, alias St. Brides, where he is a parishioner. Bequeaths to the poor of St. Brides 40s. To his mother, Jane Grinsell, the new wife of John Grinsell, £6, 13s. 4d. To his brother Thomas Whitney, dwelling at York, £6, 13s. 4d., and one jewel of gold that was given to testator by his cousin Jeffrey Whitney. To his brother Thomas Grinsell, of London, Ironmonger, £6, 13s. 4d., and his best cloak or a mourning cloak, at his choice, and his best Flanders hose. To the company of Plasterers, 40s. for a repast or supper after his burial. To his cousin Arundel, a book; and to cousin Elizabeth Arundel, his wife, a book of Emblems; and to their six children, each 5s. in gold. To Elizabeth Whitney, 5s. Several bequests or apparel and household stuff, and a musical instrument called a gittern. Appoints his wife Margaret executrix. He married firstly, 19 Jan 1571/2, St. Andrews, Holborn, London, Margaret Stoks. On 3 Dec 1596, Walter Whitney, of St. Bride's, London, Plasterer, & Margaret Cotton, of same, widow of Thomas Cotton, late of same, Draper, obtained a marriage license.[1]
iii.	Thomas Whitney of York, co. York, 1608, mentioned in his brother Walter's will. Was he perhaps the father of Elizabetha, bp. 11 Sep 1609 and Joanna or Jana, bp. 8 Nov 1611, both baptized in Saint Savior, York, Yorkshire, daughters of a Thomas Whitney?
iv.	Katherine Whitney, named in her brother's will as the wife of John Cartwright, of Drayton-in-Hales, Shropshire. They had children Jeffrey, John, Jane, and Mary.

Notes

He was probably a grandson of Thomas Whitney of Coole Pilate, who m. Anne Brooke, given that his brother Geoffrey named a son "Brooke Whitney."

References

1. ^  Sir George J. Armytage and Joseph Lemuel Chester, Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued by the Bishop of London, 1520 to [1828] (London: The Harleian Society, 1887), p. 235.

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