Elizabeth Dennis

Manor of Orleigh

Orleigh in the parish of Buckland Brewer, situated 4 miles to the south west of Bideford, North Devon, England is a historic manor. The manor house, known as Orleigh Court, survives. .... etc.

• Anthony Dennis (1585–1641)
• Anthony Dennis married twice:
• Firstly in 1610 to Elizabeth Wise (d.1623), daughter of Thomas Wise (1546-1593) of Sydenham, Devon.[20] She bore him a son William (born 1611), who predeceased his father, and two daughters who died young.
• Secondly, as her 2nd husband, to Gertrude Grenville, daughter of Sir Bernard Grenville (1567-1636), lord of the manors of Bideford, the seaport 4 miles north of Orleigh, and of nearby Stowe, in the parish of Kilkhampton, Cornwall. Sir Bernard was the son of the renowned Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591), Captain of "The Revenge" which was lost heroically fighting the Spaniards in the Azores, and the father of the renowned Sir Bevil Grenville (1596–1643) killed in heroic circumstances during the Civil War at the Battle of Lansdowne leading the Cornish Pikemen, memorialized by Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument on Lansdowne Hill near Bath, whose son was John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628-1701). Gertrude bore him eight children, of whom only three infant daughters, aged between 8 and 14, survived their father as co-heiresses: .... etc.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_Orleigh _________________________
• The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising ..., Volume 1, Pages 1-452 edited by John Lambrick Vivian
• https://books.google.com/books?id=GmqlIibS95IC&pg=PA791&lpg=PA791&d...
• Pg.791
  • WISE OF SIDENHAM. ____________________________