John Woodhouse

• From this family it came by marriage to Sir Miles Stapleton, and from that family, by marriage, to Sir William Calthorpe, whose grandson, William Calthorpe, Esq. sold it to Sir Thomas Woodhouse, and Sir William his brother succeeded him, and left it Sir Henry Woodhouse, who was lord in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and of the manor of Ingham, as may be seen there at large.
• This family of the Woodhouses is a distinct family from that of Kimberley, and bore, for their arms, quarterly, azure, and ermin, in the first quarter a leopard's head, or; which arms belong to the family of Power, and I find these Woodhouses to be formerly styled Woodhouse, alias Power.
• John Woodhouse of Waxham, Esq. married Alice, daughter of William Croft, of Whitton in Norfolk, Esq. and was father of Sir Thomas and Sir William Woodhouse.
  • Woodhouse's Pedigree.
• John Woodhouse, Esq. = Alice, daughter of William Croft, Esq.; ch: Sir Thomas (m. Margaret Hubbard), Sir William (m. Ann Repps & Elizabeth Calthorp)
  • Sir Thomas Woodhouse of Waxham, died s.p. = Margaret dau. of William Hubbard.
  • Sir William Woodhouse 2d son = 1st. Ann dau. of Henry Repps of Thorp Market, Esq., = 2d. Elizabeth dau. of Sir Philip Calthorpe, widow of Sir Henry Parker,; ch: Sir Thomas (m. Ann Wootton), Sir Henry (m.Ann Bacon & Cecily Gresham), Ann (m. Sir William Heydon), Mary (m. Sir Ralph Shelton)
    • Sir Thomas Woodhouse m. Ann dau. of John Wooton of Tudenham, Esq., and died s.p.
    • Sir Henry Woodhouse 2d son, died 1624, = 1st. Ann dau. of Sir Nicholas Bacon; ch: Sir William (m. Frances Jermys), Henry, Mary (m. _ Killigrew), Vere (m. _ Godfrey), Elizabeth (m. Sir Francis Stoner), Ann (m. _ Hungate, Sir Julius Caesar); = 2d. Cecily dau. of Thomas Gresham, Esq.; ch: Gresham, Esq.
      • Sir William Woodhouse = Frances dau. of Sir Robert Jermys of Rushbrook; ch: Thomas, Esq.
        • Sir William, son of Sir William Woodhouse, lived in the reign of King James I. and is said to have been the first person in England that erected and invented decoys for the taking of wild ducks
• From: 'Happing Hundred: Waxham', An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 9 (1808), pp. 352-355. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78561 Date accessed: 13 March 2013. _________________________________
• WOODHOUSE, Sir William (by 1517-64), of Hickling, Norf.
• b. by 1517, 2nd s. of John Woodhouse of Waxham by Alice, da. of William Croftes of Wyston; bro. of Sir Thomas. m. (1) Anne, da. of Henry Repps of Thorpe Market, 2s. inc. Henry 2da.; (2) settlement 11 Nov. 1552, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir Philip Calthrope of Erwarton, Suff., wid. of Sir Henry Parker†, 2s. 2da. Kntd. 13 May 1544.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/wo... _____________________________
• WOODHOUSE, Sir Thomas (by 1514-72), of Waxham and Great Yarmouth, Norf.
• b. by 1514, 1st s. of John Woodhouse of Waxham by Alice, da. of William Croftes of Wyston; bro. of Sir William. educ. ?L. Inn 1525. m. Margaret, da. of William Stubbert, wid. of one Wymer of Scottow, s.p.; 1da. illegit. suc. fa. prob. by 1533. Kntd. 1549.
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