Anne Yonge

Daughter of Robert Charlton & Mary Corbet. Married Francis Yonge died - 1533

Children

1. Anthony Yonge
2. George Yonge
3. John Yonge - BET 1551 AND 1552
4. Richard Yonge
5. Roger Yonge
6. Thomas Yonge
7. William Yonge

disputed origins

Richard Charlton, of Apley, (in Wellington) Shropshire, married Elizabeth Mainwaring, daughter of William Mainwaring, of Ightfield, Shropshire, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Griffin Warren, Esq. [1]

"They had two sons, Richard and William, and two daughters, Anne (1st of the name) and Anne (2nd of the name)." One of the Anne Charltons married Francis Yonge, and the other married Randall Grosvenor. [1]

Richard Charlton died in 1522. [1]

From https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Anne_Charlton_(5)_

Richardson, Douglas, and Kimball G. Everingham. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2005), page 178.

Richardson lists both Anne Charlton, wife of Randall Grosvenor, and Anne Charlton, wife of Francis Yonge, as daughters of Richard Charlton, and cites Currer-Briggs English Wills of Colonial Families (1972): 3-8 as "evidence for existence of two daughters named Anne". He also acknowledges (without commenting on) Jacobus's speculation that the wife of Francis Yonge may have been Richard's sister rather than his daughter.

Not having access to the cited work, it is not clear what the evidence for Richard having two daughters named Anne is, but it is possible that a will has been misinterpreted as evidence that the wife of Francis Yonge was the daughter of Richard of Apley, when she was actually his sister. On page 760 of Plantagenet Ancestry, also by Richardson, the author gives the marriage date of Anne Charlton and Francis Yonge as "say 1470-1475", which seems a bit early for the daughter of a man who was born about 1450 (Bulkeley Ancestry, page 13 and Magna Carta Ancestry, page 178).

None of this is conclusive evidence that Anne the wife of Francis Yonge was Richard's sister rather than daughter, but the dates alone would seem to argue for it being more likely.

sources

• 1. Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, (2011), Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume I, page 421, #12, entry for Richard Charlton.