Dorothy Travers

• Dorothy Preston1,2
• F, #61554, b. circa 1514
• Father Sir Thomas Preston d. 1523
• Mother Anne Thornburgh1 b. c 1487
• Dorothy Preston was born circa 1514 at of Preston Hall, Leven, Westmoreland, England.1,2 She married William Travers, Esq., son of William Travers and Margaret Preston, circa 1535.1
• Family William Travers, Esq. b. c 1510
• Citations
• [S11579] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. I, by John Burke, Esq.,, p. 479.
• [S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2048.htm#... ____________________
• A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies ... By John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke
• id=DjIGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA425&lpg=PA425&dq=Margaret+Redmayne+Preston&source=bl&ots=scEBfNeHQx&sig=s_GYJ4GbfIvnITJ2B6IBJV2v4lc&hl=en&ei=K79zTbKeBJH6sAOIvNS2Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CEMQ6AEwCDge#v=onepage&q=Margaret%20Redmayne%20Preston&f=false
• Pg. 425
• THOMAS PRESTON, esq. of Preston Patrick and Under Levins Halls, m. a daughter of __ Redmayne, esq. of Twistleton, and had issue,
• JOHN PRESTON, esq. of Preston Patrick and Under Levins Halls, son and heir, m. Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard Redmayne, of Harewood Castle, Yorkshire, and Over Levins Hall,* Westmoreland, and by her had issue,
• SIR THOMAS PRESTON, of Preston Patrick and Under Levins Halls, in Westmoreland, and Furness Abbey and Holkar Park, Lancashire, who soon after the dissolution of the monasteries purchased from the trustees of the crown the site of the abbey of Furness, with other large estates, in value amounting to upwards of L3000 a year. He wedded Ann, daughter of William Thornburgh, esq. of Hampsfield, in Lancashire, which lady was, through the families of Musgrave, Fitzwilliam, Plantagenet, and de Warren, fifteenth in descent from King WILLIAM the Conqeror. By her he had issue,
  • I. JOHN, the heir, born 1511.
  • II. CHRISTOPHER, from whom descended the PRESTONS of Holker.
  • III. George, who died s. p.
  • I. Ann, m. to William Banastre, Esq. of Easington, in Bolland.
  • II. Ellen, m. first, Sir James Leybourne, of Cunswick Park, in Wastmoreland (by whom she had Elizabeth, wife, first, of Thomas, Lord Dacre, of Gillesland; secondly, of Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of Norfolk, K. G.); and secondly, William Stanley, third Lord Monteagle (by whom she had Elizabeth, mother to William, Lord Morley and Monteagle, the discoverer of Gunpowder plot).
  • III. Jane, m. to William Lamplough, esq. of Dovenby Hall, in Cumberland.
  • IV. Dorothy, m. William Travers, Esq. of Nateby Hall, in Lancashire.
  • V. Elizabeth, m. Robert Cancefield, esq. of Robert Hall, in Lancashire
  • VI. Catharine, m. Sir Thomas Carus, on of the judges of the court of Queen's Bench, temp. ELIZABETH (and was mother of Mary Carus, who married Henry Kighley, esq. and had issue, Ann, wife of William Cavendish, first Earl of Devonshire, whence the Duke of Devonshire, and also the Earl of Burlington, who possessed the vast estates of the Prestons of Holker, in Lancashire, which were devised to his great uncle, Lord George Cavendish by Sir William Lowther, bart. of Holker, the maternal representative of that family).
• Sir Thomas died in 1523, and was succeeded by his eldest son,
• JOHN PRESTON, esq. of Preston Patrick and Under Levins Halls, and also of the manor and abbey of Furness, who making Furness his principal residence, his family were thenceforth termed "Prestons of the Manor. He was sheriff of Lancashire in 1569. He married* Margaret, daughter to Sir Thomas Curwen, of Workington, in Cumberland, by Agnes, daughter to Sir Walter Strickland, of Syzergh Castle, and by her had issue, ___________________

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References

• “Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica”. Page 361. < Archive.Org >