Family:Whitney, Eustace (s1475-1525)

Eustace Whitney, Esq. (John, [perhaps] Robert, Eustace, Robert, Robert, Robert, Eustace, Eustace, Robert, ...), perhaps son of John and ----- (Walter) Whitney, was born say 1497, Gorsington, Clifford, Herefordshire, and died unknown.

He married ----- Vaughan, "dau. and heir of William Vaughan, the tyrant of Clifford."^[1]

He was of Gorsington.^[2]

Children of Eustace and ----- (Vaughan) Whitney, order uncertain, and possibly incomplete:

i.	James Whitney, b. say 1520; m. Sibyl Parry.[3]
ii.	Richard Whitney, named in brother James's will in 1562. He seems to be the Richard Whitney who left a will in 1583 naming his wife Anne, his daughter Mary, wife of Thomas Vaughan, daughter Isabell, wife of [___] ap Pritcharde, Richard Whitney the bastard son of his deceased son James Whitney, Joan Whitney, bastard daughter of the said son James, and made his executors James ap Parrie, Esquire, and Eustace Whitney, gentleman.
iii.	John Whitney, d. 1597, had made a claim on the estate of his niece Eleanor (Whitney) Bull, when he stated his residence was at Lambeth. He died without issue, his will stating he was a servant of the Archbishop of Canterbury, his nephew Eustace Whitney of Clifford, and Eustaces's son James, and Thomas Whitney of Clifford.
iv.	William Whitney, d. 1563; m. ----- Vaughan.[4]
iv.	Eleanor Whitney,, mentioned in her brother William's will, 1558
iv.	Margaret Whitney, mentioned in her brother William's will, 1558
iv.	Elizabeth Whitney, mentioned in her brother William's will, 1558

References

1.^  Henry Austin Whitney, Memoranda Relating to Families of the Name of Whitney in England (Boston: 1859), p. 3.

2.^  Ibid.

3.^  Ibid.

4.^  Henry Austin Whitney, H''The First Known Use of Whitney as a Surname: Its Probable Signification, and Other Data'' (Boston, MA: Henry Austin Whitney, 1875), p. xv.

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