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, and died after 1587.
He married Julian -----, parentage and birth unknown. She died after 1587.[2]
Children of George and Julian (-----) Whitney:
i. Mary Whitney, m. Thomas Mills "of the Star Chamber".[3] They may be the Thomas and Mary Mills whose son John Mills was christened 8 Jul 1587, St. Dunstan's Stepney, Middlesex. Could he be the Thomas Mylls who was christened -- Dec 1541, St. Margaret's Westminster, Middlesex? 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." - Ch: William Myll, a printice of London in Mark Layn; Richard; and Thomas.[4]
ii. George Whitney, of Icomb, Gloucestershire, m. ----- Savage of Worcestershire.[5] George was perhaps an ancestor of George Whitney of Church Iccombe, who had a daughter named Julian.
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.^ Will of his nephew James Whitney, Esq., of Whitney, given in full in Melville, op. cit., pp. 169-177.
3.^ Melville, op. cit., pp. 265, 269, 271, 275.
4.^ 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.
5.^ Melville, op. cit., pp. 265, 269, 271, 275.
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