Is your surname Chauncey?

Research the Chauncey family

Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love

  • Build your family tree online
  • Share photos and videos
  • Smart Matching™ technology
  • Free!

Agnes Chauncey (Welsh)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Yardleybury,, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Death: Yardleybury,, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Edward Welsh and (No Name)
Wife of Edward Humberstone and George Chauncy of Yarley
Mother of Rev. Charles Chauncey

Managed by: Andrew Jonathan Smith
Last Updated:

About Agnes Chauncey

  • 'The Magna charta barons and their American descendants with the pedigrees of ... By Charles Henry Browning
  • The Magna charta barons and their American descendants with the pedigrees of ... By Charles Henry Browning
  • Pg. 256
  • 10. JOHN CHAUNCY, of Pishobury manor, son and heir, d. June 4, 1546. He m. Elizabeth (Proffit), widow of Richard Mansfield, and had:
    • 11. HENRY CHAUNCY, second son and heir, who inherited ten manors, located in the counties of Kent, Sussex, Hertford, and Essex. He resided on his manor of Gifford, or Gelston, Herts, where he erected a mansion, called "New Place," and d. April 14, 1587. He had by his wife Lucy, whose surname has not been preserved:
      • Pg. 257
      • ' 12. GEORGE CHAUNCY, of New Place, Herts, second son and eventual heir, who succeeded his father in the manors of Gifford, Nether Hall, etc. He m. first, Jane, daughter and heiress of John Cornwall, of Stebbing, Essex, and became possessed of Yardley and other manors. He m. secondly, Anne (or Agnes), daughter of Edward Welsh, of Great Wymondly, and widow of Edward Humberston, and dying in 1625 (buried at Barking, Essex), had by her:
        • 13. REV. CHARLES CHAUNCY, fifth son, and third son of the second wife, bapt. and registered in Yardley Bury Church, Herts, November 5, 1592. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and came to New England in May, 1638, and was the pastor at Scituate, Massachusetts, 1641, and November 29, 1654, was installed as the second president of Harvard College, with a salary of one hundred pounds per annum. He d. February 19, 1671/2, having issue by his wife, whom he m. in England, March 17, 1630, Catherine, d. March 23, 1667, aged sixty-six, daughter of Robert Eyre, of Sarum, Wilts, by his wife Agnes, or Anne, daughter of Rev. John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1592-1607:
  • ______________________

http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.cfm/George-Chauncey/f50201

view all

Agnes Chauncey's Timeline

1548
1548
Yardleybury,, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
1592
November 5, 1592
Yardley-Bury, Ardeley, Hertfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
????
Yardleybury,, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom