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About Susanna Temple
dau. of Thomas Spencer, of Everton, co. Northampton, esq. wife of John Temple, of Stow
Children
- Thomas (m. Esther Sandys),
- George (d. infant), John (m. _ Tomlins),
- Sir Alexander (m. Mary Somers),
- William (m. Jane Beaumont), Peter (m. _ Kendal),
- Millicent (m. Edward Saunders),
- Dorothy (m. Paul Risley),
- Catharine (m. Sir Nicholas Parker),
- Susanna (m. Thomas Denton),
- Mary (m. John Farmer), and
- Elizabeth (m. William lord Say and Sele) Temple
According to an inscription in Everdon church, the eldest son of William Spencer and Agnes Heritage, Thomas Spencer (d. 17 August 1576) of Everdon, married Dorothy Spencer (d. 14 September 1575), the daughter of Sir William Spencer (d. 22 June 1532) of Wormleighton by Susan Knightley, the daughter of Sir Richard Knightley (d. 8 December 1534) of Fawsley, Northamptonshire, by whom he had five sons and seven daughters, of whom seven died as infants.
The only surviving son and heir William Spencer, married Elizabeth Milney, but died without issue, leaving his four married sisters, Dorothy (wife firstly of George Cope, esquire, and secondly of Gabriel Pulteney, esquire), Susanna (wife of John Temple, esquire), Mary (wife of Richard Wallop, esquire), and Catherine (wife of Thomas Browne, esquire), as his coheirs.
See the will of Thomas Spenser of Everdon, dated 26 June 1576 and proved 22 August, 1576, TNA PROB 11/58/322; the will, dated 22 January 1529 and proved 10 February 1535, of Sir Richard Knightley, TNA PROB 11/25/292; the will of Sir William Spencer (d. 22 June 1532) of Wormleighton, dated 17 June 1532 and proved 8 July 1532, TNA PROB 11/24/12; and Collins, Arthur, The English Baronetage, (London: Thomas Wotton, 1741), Vol. I, pp. 202-3 at: GoogleBooks
References
- Will dated 15 September 1496 and proved 25 January 1497, of John Spencer (d. 4 January 1497) of Hodnell, Warwickshire: PDF
- The Risley family history, including records of some of the early English Risleys' a geneaology of the descendants of Richard Risley, of Newtown (Cambridge), Massachusetts (1633), and of Hartford, Connecticut (1636); an account of the family reunion at Hartford, August 3, 1904, and a list of the founders of the commonwealth of Connectucut; by Risley, Edwin Hills, 1842- [from old catalog] Published 1909. Page 6-7. "The Risleys of Chetwood."
- The Risley Family history, page 8.
- Ancestry tree
Susanna Temple's Timeline
1533 |
1533
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Everton,Northamptonshire,England
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1567 |
January 9, 1567
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Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
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January 9, 1567
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Burton Dassett, Warwickshire, England (United Kingdom)
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1568 |
October 8, 1568
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Stowe, Warwickshire, England
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1570 |
1570
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Frankton, Warwick
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1570
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Stowe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
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1572 |
1572
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Longhouse, Essex, England
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1572
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Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England
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1574
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