Is your surname Cheney?

Research the Cheney 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!

John Cheney

Also Known As: "John Cheyney"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Devon, England
Death: 1499 (43-52)
Immediate Family:

Son of Sir John Cheney, Kt. and Elizabeth Cheney
Husband of Alicia Cheney
Brother of Alianor Strode; Agnes Stawell; Joan Strode; Elizabeth Wadham; Edmund Cheney and 1 other

Managed by: Kira Rachele Jay
Last Updated:

About John Cheney

  • The Antiquary, Volume 32 edited by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson
  • https://archive.org/details/antiquary32slsniala
  • https://archive.org/stream/antiquary32slsniala#page/223/mode/1up
  • Pg. 223 CHART
  • Elizabeth (Hill) m. John Cheney of Pinhoe, near Exeter; several times Sheriff of Devon (son of Sir Wm. Cheney d.1421), parents of John (m. Alice Stawel), Edmund, Robert, Ciceley (m. Sir Wm. Courtenay), Agnes (m. Edward Stawel), Elinor (m. William Strode), Isabel (m. Sir John Wadham) Cheney
    • John Cheney m. Alice Stawel, of Cotherlstone, near Taunton, parents of Isabel (Mabel, or Elizabeth) d. June 7, 1505 (m. Edward, son of Elizabeth (Fray) & Thomas Walgrave), Joan (m. Thomas Say & Sir Gyllan de la Ryvere)
      • Joan Cheney m1. Thomas Say, of Liston, Essex, brother of Sir Wm. Say, parents of William (d. Aug. 1, 1508), Anne (b.1488, m. Rt. Hussey of Sleaford (d.May 28, 1538), Elizabeth (b.1490, m. Wm. Clopton, of Liston (d.1537)) Say; m2. Sir Gyllan de la Ryvere, parents of Elizabeth (d. before 1529 m. John Ellis) de la Ryvere.
  • ________________
  • Dictionary of national biography (1885) Vol. 50
  • https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati50stepuoft
  • https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati50stepuoft#page/387/mode...
  • Pg.387
  • SAY, SIR JOHN (d.1478) ....
  • https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati50stepuoft#page/388/mode...
  • Pg.388
  • He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Lawrence Cheyney of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, who died in 1473, and by whom he had a son, William, who succeeded him, and perhaps two other sons, Leonard, and Thomas who married Joan, daughter of John Cheyney of Liston, Essex ; and, secondly, Agnes, daughter of John Danvers of Cothorpe, Oxfordshire, and widow, it is said, of John, lord Wenlock (d. 1471) (CUSSANS), and of Sir John Fray (d. 1461), chief baron of the exchequer. His eldest son, Sir William Say (d. 1529), married, first, Genevese, daughter of John Hill, and, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir John Fray, his stepmother's husband, and widow of Sir Thomas Waldegrave, by whom he had two daughters, Elizabeth, who married William Blount, fourth lord Mountjoy [q. v.] ; and Mary, who married Henry Bourchier, second earl of Essex [q. v.] Sir William and his two wives are buried in Broxbourne church.
  • Alternate link: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Say,_John_(DNB00)
  • ________
  • The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Herald's Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620. ... By College of Arms (Great Britain)
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=GmqlIibS95IC&pg=PA721&lpg=PA721&dq...
  • Pg.171
    • CHENEY OF PINHOE. Pedigree Chart
  • Sir John Cheney son of Cicily Stretche & William Cheney, mar. Elizabeth dau. of John Hill of Spaxton.
  • children: John (m. Margaret Kirkham), Joan (m. John Strode), Elizabeth (m. Edward Stock), Cicily (m. William Courtney)
  • John Cheney of Pinhoe, Sheriff of Devon 32 Hen.VI, and 1, 2 and 12 Edw. IV. son of Elizabeth Hill & Sir John Cheney, mar. Margaret dau. of Nicholas Kirkham of Blagdon, remarried William Bampfield of Poltimore, vide ped. ante, p. 39
  • children: Anne (m. _ Hussey), Elizabeth (m. William Clopton), Isabella (m. Edward Walgrave), Ellen (m. George Babington) Cheney
  • __________________
  • Links
  • http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I7101&tree=E...
view all

John Cheney's Timeline

1451
1451
Devon, England
1499
1499
Age 48