Family:Whitney, George (s1526-a1587)
George Whitney (Robert, James, Robert, Eustace, Robert, Robert, Robert, Eustace, Eustace, Robert, ...), son of Robert and Margaret (Wye) Whitney,[1] was born say 1526, Icomb, Gloucestershire,[2] and died after 1587.[3]
He married Julian -----,[4] parentage and birth unknown. She died after 1587.[5]
In his father's will, dated 1541, George Whitney was devised the following:
- "I bequethe to my sonne George when he comythe to the age of XXIIII yeres my lease and ferme of Malgasbury and three hundred shepe or the Valure thereof as they shalbe praised in the Inventarye and my wyffe to take the proffittes of the same ferme in the meane tyme tyll the saide George come to the saide age of XXIIII yeres."[6]
In 1555, George Whitney was summoned by the Privy Council to Court:
- "In the records of the Privy Council, of a date two years later, can be found this minute: ACTS OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL, At Grenewiche the XIth of Marche, 1555. A Lettre to Sir ROBERT WHITNAYE of the countye of Hereford, Knight, to give ordre fourthwith upon receipte hereof that George Whitnaye his brother maye make his undelayed repayre hither to the Courte."[7]
In his will dated 20 May 1587, Sir James Whitney of Whitney devised the following:
- "My will is that my uncle George Whitney, Julyan his wyfe and theire sonne George shall quietly and peaceably haue holde occupye enjoye and possesse the Lordshipp of Icombe aforesaid for and During theire naturall lives and the longer liuer of them anything aboue expressed to the contrary notwithstanding, yielding and paying there-fore yearly threescore and six pounds thireene shillings and foure pence of good and Lawfull money of England to my foresaid brother Eustauce Whitney and the heires above mencioned and expressed."[8]
Children of George and Julian (-----) Whitney:
i. Mary Whitney,[9] m. Thomas Mills "of the Star Chamber".[10] They may be the Thomas and Mary Mills whose son John Mills was christened 8 Jul 1587, St. Dunstan's Stepney, Middlesex.[11] Could he be the Thomas Mylls who was christened -- Dec 1541, St. Margaret's Westminster, Middlesex?[12] Thomas and Mary apparently sued her cousin Eustace Whitney, then head of the Whitneys of Whitney. "The Chancery proceedings in Elizabeth's reign include Thomas Mill and Mary his wife v. Eustace Whitney, Esq., and William Whitney, gent., for specific performance of a devise of lands under the will of Sir James Whitney and of the manors of Whitney, Pencomb and Icomb."[13] - Ch: William Myll, a printice of London in Mark Layn; Richard; and Thomas.[14]
ii. George Whitney,[15] of Icomb, Gloucestershire, m. ----- Savage of Worcestershire.[16]
References
1. ^ Henry Melville, 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), pp. 265, 269, 271, 275.
2. ^ Supposition.
3. ^ He was listed as living in the will of his nephew James Whitney, Esq., of Whitney, given in full in Melville, op. cit., pp. 169-177.
4. ^ Will of James Whitney, Esq., of Whitney, given in full in Melville, op. cit., pp. 169-177.
5. ^ She was listed as living in the will of her husband's nephew James Whitney, Esq., of Whitney, given in full in Melville, op. cit., pp. 169-177.
6. ^ Melville, op. cit., pp. 137.
7. ^ Melville, op. cit., pp. 145.
8. ^ Will of James Whitney, Esq., of Whitney, given in full in Melville, op. cit., pp. 169-177.
9. ^ Harleian Manuscript 1442, fo. 68.
10. ^ "Maria uxor Tho: Mills de Camera Stellata", Harleian Manuscript 1442, fo. 68, also Melville, op. cit., pp. 265, 269, 271, 275.
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13. ^ Morgan George Watkins, Collections towards the history and antiquities of the county of Hereford. In continuation of Duncumb's history. Hundred of Huntington ... (Hereford: 1898)
14. ^ Sir John MacLean, and W. C. Heane, eds., The Visitation of County of Gloucester Taken in the Year 1623 ... Publications of the Harleian Society, Volume 21 (London, 1885), p. 216.
15. ^ Harleian Manuscript 1442, fo. 68.
16. ^ Melville, op. cit., pp. 265, 269, 271, 275.
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