Family:Whitney, Eustace (c1411-c1468)
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Sir Eustace Whitney (Robert, Robert, Robert, Eustace, Eustace, Robert, ...), son of Robert Whitney,[1] was born circa 1411, Clifford, Herefordshire,[2] and died about 1468, Whitney, Herefordshire.[3]
He married firstly, Jennet Russell.[4] She was the dau. of Sir Thomas Russell (some authorities say Sir William Trussell), Knight, by dau. of Sir John Ludlow, Knight; and 2d, Jane, dau. of Sir Robert Clifford, Knight.[5]
He married secondly, Jane Clifford.[6]
Sir Eustace Whitney of Whitney, etc., Knight. Born in 1411. Head of commission sent to Wales by Henry VI. in 1455. Member of Parliament for Herefordshire in 1468.[7]
Children of Sir Eustace and Jennet/Joan (Trussell/Russell) Whitney:
i. Robert Whitney,[8] b. ca. 1436, Whitney, Herefordshire;[9] m.(1) Constance Touchet;[10] m.(2) Elizabeth/Alice ferch Thomas ap Roger Vaughan.[11] ii. (perhaps) John Whitney,[12] b. 1450 or earlier, of Gorsington, Herefordshire,[13] ancestor of the Whitneys of Clifford.
Children of Sir Eustace and Jane (Clifford) Whitney, if any, unknown.
References
1. ^ "Robert died on the 12th day of the month of March last past, and that Eustace Whitney is his son and nearest heir, and is aged thirty years and more", Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 90, citing "the return annexed to the writ" of his father's inquisition post mortem. Unfortunately, the scan of the IPM that has been ordered (C 139/112/62) does not include the supposedly annexed return. This document may be E 153/971 which has now been ordered.
2. ^ ibid (date). Since his father had just been granted Clifford Castle in 1404 due to the destruction of Whitney Castle, he was probably born in Clifford.
3. ^ Source for his death information.
4. ^ Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 90.
5. ^ Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 216.
6. ^ Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 90.
7. ^ Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 216.
8. ^ Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 90
9. ^ Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), p. 216.
10. ^ Source for Robert's marriage to Constance Touchet.
11. ^ Source for Robert's marriage to Elizabeth/Alice.
12. ^ Source for his possible parentage of John Whitney.
13. ^ Source for John Whitney's birth information.
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