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, of Hardwicke, m. Anne -----. 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, mentioning his nephew Eustace Whitney of Clifford, and Eustaces's son James, and Thomas Whitney of Clifford. iv. William Whitney, d. 1563; m. ----- Vaughan.[4] v. Eleanor Whitney,, mentioned in her brother William's will, 1558 vi. Margaret Whitney, mentioned in her brother William's will, 1558 vii. 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.
4.^ Henry Austin Whitney, 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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