Family:Whitney, Watkin (s1495-?)
Watkin Whitney (James, Robert, Eustace, Robert, Robert, Robert, Eustace, Eustace, Robert, ...), son of James and Blanche (Milbourne) Whitney,[1] was born say 1495, Whitney, Herefordshire, and died unknown.
He married Margaret verch Jenkin, daughter and heiress of Jenkin Reese of Clyro, Radnorshire, Wales.[2] Nothing is known of her birth or death dates.
Children of Watkin and Margaret (verch Jenkin) Whitney:
i. Jenkin Whitney.[3] He may have been father or other close relative of Thomas Whitney of Clyro, mentioned in the will of James Whitney of Whitney in 1587. Perhaps father of Thomas Whitney (?-1589). ii. Katherine Whitney, m. Robert Clough of Shropshire.[4]
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. 264-265, 269, 271, 275.
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