Christian Chudleigh / Clovelly / NN

• 'Christian Stretchley1
• 'F, b. circa 1532
• Father William Stretchley1 b. c 1500
• Mother Anne Gould1 b. c 1510, d. a 1582
• ' Christian Stretchley was born circa 1532 at of Stretchley, Devonshire, England.1 She married Christopher Chudleigh, son of Richard Chudleigh and Mary Wadham, on 5 February 1560 at of Stretchley, Devonshire, England.1
• 'Family Christopher Chudleigh b. c 1530, d. 1 Oct 1570
• Child
  • ◦John Chudleigh+1 b. c 1565
• Citations
• 1.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1960.htm#...
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• 'A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies ... By John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke
• http://books.google.com/books?id=DqkTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq...
• Pg. 115
• SIR RICHARD CHUDLEIGH, knt.* who m. Mary, daughter of Sir Nicholas Wadham, knt. of Merifield, in the county of Somerset, and was s. by his son,
  • 'CHRISTOPHER CHUDLEIGH, esq. of Ashton. This gentleman m. Christiana, daughter of William Stretchley, esq. of Stretchley, in the county of Devon, and thus added considerably to his paternal fortune. He left a son and heir,
    • JOHN CHUDLEIGH, esq. of Ashton, "who," according to Prince, "was of a right martial, bold, and adventurous spirit; for, living in the reign of Queen ELIZABETH, the famous actiond of Drake, Cavendish, &c. so employed his thoughts, that he had a noble emulation in him, to equal, if not excel the bravest heroes, and their noblest exploits, not at land, where is the least danger, but at sea." He did not live, however, to accomplish his generous designs, but died young, in the Streights of Magellan, leaving, by his wife, daughter of George Speke, esq. of White Lackington, in the county of Somerset, two sons and two daughters, viz. ....
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source for marriage to George Carey http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sandberg&...