William Stourton, 11th Baron Stourton

William Stourton, 11th Baron Stourton

William Stourton, 11th Baron Stourton (c. 1594-25 April 1672) was the son of Edward Stourton and Frances Tresham. He married Frances Moore (d. 5 January 1662), daughter of Sir Edward Moore. William and Frances had five children;

• William
• Mary (d. 1650); married Sir John Weld
• Frances; was a nun
• Edward (1617-January 1644); married and had issue
• Thomas (d. 1684 Paris); was a monk

His eldest son William died young and childless, and he was succeeded by his grandson William, son of Edward.

William was a royalist and a papist, and suffered heavily due to this. Stourhead, his home, was at one point garrisoned for the King and then, in September 1644, was ravaged by General Ludlow.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stourton,_11th_Baron_Stourton

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• William Stourton, 11th Baron Stourton
• M, #60855, b. circa 1594, d. 25 April 1672
• Last Edited=21 Nov 2004
• William Stourton, 11th Baron Stourton was born circa 1594. He was the son of Edward Stourton, 10th Baron Stourton and Frances Tresham. He married Frances Moore, daughter of Sir Edward Moore, circa 1616. He died on 25 April 1672.
• He gained the title of 11th Baron Stourton. He suffered heavily as a Royalist and as a papist. In his lifetime, Stourton House was garrisoned for the King and ravaged by the regicide General Ludlow in September 1644.
• Children of William Stourton, 11th Baron Stourton and Frances Moore
  • 1.William Stourton d. b 1672
  • 2.Thomas Stourton d. 1684
  • 3.Mary Stourton d. 1650
  • 4.Frances Stourton
  • 5.Edward Stourton+ b. 1617, d. Jan 1644
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p6086.htm#i60855
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• William STOURTON (11º B. Stourton of Stourton)
• Born: ABT 1594
• Died: 1672
• Father: Edward STOURTON (10º B. Stourton of Stourton)
• Mother: Frances TRESHAM (B. Stourton of Stourton)
• Married: Frances MOORE (B. Stourton of Stourton) (dau. of Edward Moore of Odingham) 1615
• Children:
  • 1. Edward STOURTON
  • 2. William STOURTON (m. Margaret Morgan)
  • 3. Thomas STOURTON (Monk) (d. 1684, Paris, France)
  • 4. Mary STOURTON (m. Sir John Weld)
  • 5. Frances STOURTON (Nun at Cambrai)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STOURTON.htm#William STOURTON (11º B. Stourton of Stourton)
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• Charles [Stourton], 8th Baron Stourton
• born betw. 1518 and 1524
• mar. after 10 Feb 1548/9 Lady Anne Stanley (b. c. 1531; mar. (2) c. 1560 Sir John Arundell, of Lanherne, co. Cornwall (d. 17 Nov 1590) ; died 22 Sep 1602; bur. at Columb Major, co. Cornwall), 1st dau. of Edward [Stanley], 3rd Earl of Derby, by his first wife Lady Dorothy Howard, 4th dau. by his second wife of Thomas [Howard], 2nd Duke of Norfolk
• children
  • 1. Hon John Stourton, later 9th Baron Stourton
  • 2. Hon Edward Stourton, later 10th Baron Stourton
  • 3. Hon Charles Stourton
  • 1. Hon Mary Stourton, mar. Thomas Tregian
  • 2. Hon Anne Stourton, mar. Edward Rogers
  • 3. Hon Katherine Stourton, mar. 1578 Richard Sherborne, of Stonyhurst, co. Lancaster (b. 1546/7; d. bef. 2 Apr 1628), 1st son and heir of Richard Sherborne, of Stonyhurst, co. Lancaster, and had issue
• died 6 Mar 1556/7 (bur. in Salisbury Cathedral)
• suc. by son
• note entered the service of the Duke of Somerset 1547; fought at the Battle of Pinkie 1547; knighted by the Duke of Somerset at Roxburgh 1547; Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset 1553; charged with others of the murder of William Hartgill, of Kilmington, co. Surrey, formerly land steward to his father, he was found guilty at a trial in Westminster Hall and hanged a few days later in the market place at Salisbury
• Edward [Stourton], 10th Baron Stourton
• born c. 1555
• mar. in or bef. 1588 Frances Tresham (d. bef. 1633), sister of Sir Lewis Tresham, 1st Bt., and of Francis Tresham, one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, and 3rd dau. of Sir Thomas Tresham, of Rushton, co. Northampton, by his wife Muriel Throgmorton, dau. of Sir Robert Throgmorton, of Coughton Court, co. Warwick, by his second wife Elizabeth Hungerford, widow of Walter [Hungerford], 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury, and 2nd dau. of John [Hussey], 1st Baron Hussey, by his second wife Lady Anne Grey, only dau. of George [Grey], 2nd Earl of Kent, by his second wife Lady Catherine Herbert, 3rd dau. of William [Herbert], 1st Earl of Pembroke
• children
  • 1. Hon William Stourton, later 11th Baron Stourton
  • 2. Hon Thomas Stourton (dsp. 20 Aug 1669)
  • 3. Hon Francis Stourton (b. 1599; d. 1638), mar. Elizabeth Norton, dau. of Henry Norton, and had issue
  • 4. Hon Edward Stourton (b. 1605; d. unm.)
  • 1. Hon Margaret Stourton, mar. Sir Thomas Sulyard, of Wetherden, co. Suffolk
  • 2. Hon Mary Stourton (d. an infant 1591)
  • 3. Hon Mary Stourton, mar. Walter Norton, of Sibsay, co. Norfolk
  • 4. Hon Bridget Stourton (d. young 1607)
• died 7 May 1633 (bur. at Stourton, co. Wiltshire)
• suc. by son
• note sum. to attend the Queen with a troop of horse to resist the Spaniards 1599; fined 6,000 marks and confined in the Tower of London 1605-06 and later in the Fleet Prison on suspicion of involvement in the Gunpowder Plot
• William [Stourton], 11th Baron Stourton
• born in or bef. 1594
• mar. 2 Jul 1615 Frances Moore (d. 5 Jan 1662/3; bur. at Dorking, co. Surrey), dau. of Sir Edward Moore, of Odiham, co. Hampshire, by his second wife Hon Frances Stourton, widow of his uncle John [Stourton], 9th Baron Stourton, and 2nd dau. by his second wife of William [Brooke], 10th Lord Cobham of Kent
• children
  • 1. Hon Edward Stourton, a strong supporter of King Charles I (b. c. 1617; dvp. Jan 1643/4), mar. after 28 Oct 1638 Hon Mary Petre (mar. (2) bef. 20 Sep 1650 Sir Thomas Longueville, of Bradwell; bur. 27 Sep 1672 at Stourton, co. Wiltshire), 1st dau. of Robert [Petre], 3rd Baron Petre, by his wife Hon Mary Browne, 6th dau. of Anthony Maria [Browne], 2nd Viscount Montagu, and had issue:
    • 1a. William Stourton, later 12th Baron Stourton
    • 1a. Mary Stourton (d. unm.)
  • 2. Hon John Stourton (dvp. unm.)
  • 3. Hon William Stourton (dsp.), mar. Margaret Morgan, dau. of George Morgan, of Penrith, co. Cumberland
  • 4. Hon Thomas Stourton, a monk (d. 1684)
  • 1. Hon Mary Stourton (d. 1650), mar. 1649 Sir John Weld, of Lulworth Castle, co. Dorset, and Compton Bassett, co. Wiltshire (d. 11 Jul 1674), 3rd son of Sir John Weld, of Arnold's Court, co. Middlesex, by his wife Frances Whitmore, dau. of William Whitmore, and had issue
  • 2. Hon Frances Stourton, a nun at Cambrai
• died died 25 Apr 1672 (bur. at Stourton, co. Wiltshire)
• suc. by grandson
• note Knight of the Bath on the creation of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales 1616; he gave £300 for the war against the Scots 1638/9; in the Civil War he was not militarily active in his support for King Charles, but he still suffered as a Catholic at the hands of the Parliamentarians, having his estate sequestered in 1645 ; he was in Oxford when it surrendered to the Parliamentary Army in 1646 ; between 1649 and 1654 he was fined several times for being a recusant
• From: http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/stourton1448.htm
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• The registers of Stourton, County Wilts, from 1570 to 1800 (1887)
• https://archive.org/details/registersofstour00harl
• https://archive.org/stream/registersofstour00harl#page/n8/mode/1up
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• The river Stour has its source in the six springs within the parish, which are represented on the coat of arms borne by the Stourton family.
• This ancient family undoubtedly resided here in very early times, but there are no records to shew that they were landholders in Wilts till the reign of Edward I., when a Nicholas Stourton was holding one knight's fee here under the Lovells of Castle Cary, co. Somerset.(*)
• In the fourteenth century the manor was held under that of Castle Cary by the Fitz Payn family. Early in the fifteenth century the Stourtons must have become owners of the manor, for in 1427 John de Stourton was granted a licence to enclose a park of 1000 acres, in 1428 he presented to the Rectory, and in 1448 he was created Baron Stourton. The property, largely increased by marriages with the heiresses of Moigne and Chidiock, remained in possession of the Stourton family till about the year 1720, when Edward the twelfth Baron sold the manor of Stourton and other lands to Henry Hoare, Esq. Old Stourton House, a large and curious building retaining all the internal arrangements of old baronial days, was then pulled down and the present mansion of Stourhead was built.(f) .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/registersofstour00harl#page/n9/mode/1up
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• The parish church (dedicated to St. Peter) formerly contained many memorials of the Stourtons. Aubrey mentions many escutcheons in stone and glass, all of which, with one exception, are now gone. There is, however, a fine monument with recumbent figures of Edward the fifth Baron, who died in 1536, and his wife Agnes Fauntleroy. These figures are engraved in Hoare's 'Modern Wilts,' vol. i., page 45. There are also some inscriptions on black marble slabs covering the Stourton vault, and as Sir R. C. Hoare's transcripts in 'Modern Wilts' are not quite accurate, I print them again here.
• https://archive.org/stream/registersofstour00harl#page/n10/mode/1up
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• 2. Item hic jacet sepultus d'nus Edwardus Stourton Baro' de Stourton, frater praedicti Johannis, qui obiit septimo die Maii, anno Caroli Primi Regis Angliae nono, annoque Domini 1633.
• 3. Item hic jacet sepultus dominus Gulielmus Stourton Baro' de Stourton, filius praedicti Edwardi, miles balnei, qui obiit vigesimo quinto Aprilis, anno Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae vigesimo quarto, annoque Domini Dei 1672.
• 4. Item hic jacet sepultus dominus Gulielmus Stourton Baro' de Stourton, filius honorandi Edwardi Stourton, filii natu maximi praedicti militis balnei, primusque exclusorum(f) suae domus Baronum in Parliamentariis apud magnates sessionibus et suffragiis, propter non ejurare fidem avorum sauctam, qui obiit septimo die Augusti anno Jacobi Secundi Regis Angliae primo, annoque Domini Dei 1685.
• All these four inscriptions are on one large slab.
• 5. Here lyes Francis Stourton, daughter of William Lord Stourton, obiit 4 Aug. 1646.
• This inscription is on the same stone as No. 9, and below it.
• 6. Here lyes interred the body of Mary Lady Weld, wife of Sir John Weld, Knight, the eldest daughter of William Lord Stourton, who died the 15th day of May 1650.
• 7. Hic jacet Domina Margarita Stourton, filia Georgii Morgan, Arm., ex antiqua familia Lanthernham et Pentre ; obiit die septimo Maii, Anno Dom. 1665. Carissimae conjugi posuit Gulielmus Stourton, Ar'g'r.
• The slab containing this inscription is now hidden by the floor of the seating, but both Aubrey and Hoare read it as above.
  • (*) The date of burial given in the Registers is Nov. 25, 1588. Burke's 'Peerage' gives the exact date of death, on what authority I know not, as Oct. 13, 1588. The 28th year of Elizabeth does not coincide with any part of the year 1587, but there is no doubt about the figures on the tombstone.
• https://archive.org/stream/registersofstour00harl#page/n11/mode/1up
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• It may be well to state that Sir R. C. Hoare has not printed all the entries in these Registers which relate to the Stourton family. The list he gives in 'Modern Wilts,' vol. i., page 64, is far from complete. .... etc.
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  • BAPTISMS.
• 1599.
• Jan. 12 Fraunces Stourton s. of the right honorable Lord Edward, lord of Stourton
• https://archive.org/stream/registersofstour00harl#page/4/mode/1up
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• 1605.
• July 22 Edward Stourton s. of Ld Edward St.
  • BURIALS
• https://archive.org/stream/registersofstour00harl#page/66/mode/1up
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• 1633.
• May 25 The right Honourble Edward, Lord Stourton of Stourton(*)
  • (*) The ninth Baron.
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• 1646.
• Aug. 5 Mrs Francis d. of the right Honourable William, Lord Stourton
• 1650.
• May 17 Marie w. of Sir John Wild & d. of the right Honourable William, Lord Stourton
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• 1665.
• May 11 Mrs. [blank](*) Stourton w. of Mr. William Stourton
  • (*) An inscription in the church gives the name Margaret. See Introduction.
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• 1672.
• May 7 The Rt ho'ble Lord Will. Stourton(f)
• Sept. 27 Mrs. Mary Stourton
  • (f) The tenth Baron.
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• William Stourton, Baron Stourton
• Born Abt 1594 of, Stourton, Wiltshire, England
• Died 25 Apr 1672
• Buried 7 May 1672 Stourton, Wiltshire, England
• Father Edward Stourton, Baron Stourton, b. Abt 1555, of, Stourton, Wiltshire, England , d. 7 May 1633, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England
• Mother Frances Tresham, of, Rushton, Northamptonshire, England , d. Bef 7 May 1633
• Family Frances Moore, of, Odiham, Hampshire, England , d. 5 Jan 1663, Dorking, Surrey, England
• Married 2 Jul 1615 Odiham, Hampshire, England Settlement> Parish Register Ante-nuptial deed of settlement 15 Jun 1615
• Children
  • 1. Edward Stourton, b. Cal 1617, of, Stourton, Wiltshire, England , d. Jan 1644, Bristol, Gloucestershire and Somerset, England
• From: https://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I66502&tree...
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• History of the noble house of Stourton, of Stourton, in the county of Wilts; (1899)
• https://archive.org/details/historyofnobleho01mowb
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• The Right Honourable Sir John Stourton, knight, P.C., Treasurer of the Royal Household, created Baron and Lord Stourton, of Stourton, Co. Wilts., in the Peerage of England, only son and heir of Sir William Stourton, knight, Speaker of the House of Commons, knight in Parliament for the shires of Somerset, Wilts., and Dorset, and Lord of Stourton, Co. Wilts., Great Easton, Co. Essex, Sopley, Co. Hants and of several other Manors, by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and coheir (or sole heir) of Sir John Moigne, knight, by Catherine (Belvale,) his wife. He was born in 1399 and was aged 14 years on the death of his father in 1413. .... etc.
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• Lord Stourton, by Margery, his only wife (who was under age in 1411), daughter of Sir John Wadham,(*) knight, of Merefield, Co. Somerset, one of the Puisne Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, 1388-1397, by Joan Wrottesley, his wife, had issue :(f) .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/211/mode/1up
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• John, Lord Stourton, died on St. Catherine's day, the 25th day of November, 1462, and the Inquisitions taken after his death shew he died seized of considerable manors, advowsons, lands, tenements and hereditaments in the Counties of Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Gloucester, Southampton, Essex, London, Middlesex and Wilts, leaving William Stourton, his son and next heir, aged 32 years, who succeeded his father in the peerage as William, 2nd Lord Stourton.
• https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/226/mode/1up
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• The Right Honourable William, Lord Stourton, 2nd Baron of Stourton, Co. Wilts, in the peerage of England, son and heir of Sir John Stourton, knight, of Stourton aforesaid, who had been created Baron of Stourton by Letters Patent on the 13th May, 1448, by Margaret, (or Margery) his only wife, daughter of Sir John Wadham, knight, of Merryfield, Co. Somerset, one of the Puisne Judges of the Court of Common Pleas.
• Lord Stourton succeeded his father in the Stourton peerage on St. Catherine's day, 25th November, 1462(*). He inherited the vast estates which his father succeeded to, some of which descended paternally, as coming from Sir William Stourton, and some through his wife, Elizabeth Moigne ; and those which John, Lord Stourton, inherited under the charter of John Hame, and by purchase, as well as by favour of Henry VI. He was born about 1432, and was aged 30 years on the 25th November, 1462, and in the same year he had livery of his fathers estates, but his homage was respited, .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/227/mode/1up
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• This estate was settled as the jointure of Margaret, Lady Stourton, who after the death of her first husband, William, 2nd Lord Stourton, presented with her second husband. Sir John Cheyne or Cheyney, knight. Lord Cheyney, K.G., who died sine prole on the 30th May, 1499. .... etc.
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• He married Margaret, eldest daughter and coheir of Sir John Chidiock, knight, of Chidiock and Caundle, Co. Dorset, .... etc.
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• William, Lord Stourton, died on the 18th February, 1477-8, 17 Edward IV., and was buried in the parish church of Mere, dedicated to the honour of St. Michael the Archangel, probably in the Chantry Chapel of the blessed Virgin Mary, .... etc.
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• The Right Honourable John, Lord Stourton, eldest son and heir of William, 2nd Lord Stourton, by Margaret (Chidiock,) Lady Stourton. his only wife. He succeeded his father on the 18th February, 1477-8, as the 3rd Baron of Stourton, Co. Wilts, in the peerage of England, when of the age of 24 years.
• He was born circa 1453-4, was of Stourton, Co. Wilts, and Fulham, Co. Middlesex, was as the Lord Sturtons son and heir among those who were inhanced to the honour of knighthood, as knight a of the Bath, by Edward IV., on Whit-sunday, the 18th April, after the custom of England in the time of peace, 1475, and had livery and seizen of his father's possessions the year following his father's death, but his homage was then respited.
• Lord Stourton married Katherine(*), only daughter of Sir Maurice Berkeley, (who died in 1474(t),) of Beverston, Co. Gloucester, knight of the body of Edward IV., by Ann, his wife, daughter of Reginald West, Lord de la Warr, ancestor of the Earls Delawarr.
• Lady Stourton, after Lord Stourton's death, remarried to Sir John Brereton, knight, and as sole sister .... etc.
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• The Right Honourable William, 5th Baron and Lord Stourton of Stourton, Co. Wilts, in the peerage of England, was the second son of William, second Lord Stourton, by Margaret (Chidiock) Lady Stourton, his wife. He succeeded as fifth Lord Stourton at the death (February iSth, 14S7,) of his nephew Francis, fourth Lord Stourton, whose uncle and heir he was then found to be.
• William, 5th Lord Stourton, must have been born about the year 1457, being described as "aged 30 years and upwards" in the inquisitions taken after the death of his infant nephew.
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• William, 5th Lord Stourton, married (firstly) Katherine, eldest daughter of John de la Pole(*), Duke of Suffolk, K.G., by Lady Elizabeth Plantagenet, his wife, second daughter of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, and sister of Edward IV. and Richard III(f). The Duke was made Constable of Wallingford Castle 1
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• Henry VII. He died in 1491 and was buried(*), with his Duchess, under a table monument in the Collegiate Church of St. Andrew in Wingfield, Co. Suffolk, of which he was lord and owner by inheritance from his ancestor. Sir John Wingfield, of Wingfield Castle. ....
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• Lord Stourton married (secondly) Thomasine, daughter of Sir Walter Wrottesley, knight, who adhered to the Earl of Warwick, the King Maker, and was proclaimed a traitor in 1470, when a price was set on his head. He escaped with Warwick to Calais(*). Sir Walter Wrottesley was Lord of Perton 9 Edward IV., was buried in the Grey Friars Church, now Christ Church, London, in 1471. He came of an ancient family long seated at Wrottesley, co. Stafford, (where the present Lord Wrottesley, his descendant, now resides,) by Jane, his wife, daughter and heir of William Baron, Esquire, of Reading, Co. Berks, one of the Tellers of the Court of Exchequer temp. Henry VI. and Edward IV. This William Baron (or his father), is mentioned in Fullers Worthies as one of those bearing arms from their ancestors. ....
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• The exact date of the death of this Lord Stourton is stated to be February 17th in the various Inquisitions taken after his death. His will was proved in March, 1523. He left no issue whatever and consequently his lands and honours passed to his brother Edward, who thereupon succeeded as 6th Lord Stourton.
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• The Right Honourable Edward, sixth Baron and Lord Stourton of Stourton, Co. Wilts, third son of William, second Lord Stourton, by Margaret (Chidiock) Lady Stourton, his wife, succeeded as sixth Lord Stourton at the death of his brother William, fifth Lord Stourton. He was probably born about the year 1462. .... etc.
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• Edward, 6th Lord Stourton married Agnes, daughter of John Fauntleroy, of Marsh, near Sherborne, Co. Dorset, by Joane, his wife, daughter and co-heir of John Walsh of Purbeck in that county. On the 2nd January, 21 Henry VIII., Lord and Lady Stourton granted the Manor and Advowson of Upcerne, and lands, tenements and hereditaments there, with one moiety of Melbury-Osmund, to their son, Roger Stourton and Joan, his wife, and the heirs male of Roger Stourton, under the yearly rent of L20, payable to the grantors during their respective lives ; and Lord and Lady Stourton released the reversion in the same premises to Roger Stourton and his heirs on 1st January. 26 Henry VIII(*). ....
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• Lord Stourton died on the 13th of December, 27th of Henry VIII., and William Stourton was found to be his son and next heir, then aged 30 years and more, and he accordingly succeeded. Lord Stourton, as will be seen from the foregoing copy of his will, bequeathed his body to be buried in the north aisle of St. Peter's Church at Stourton, in which church a tomb was raised showing the sepulchral effigies of Lord and Lady Stourton, on which were impaled the respective arms of Stourton and Fauntleroy, the accompanying illustration of the figures on the tomb being reproduced from the work of Sir Richard Colt Hoare. Lord Stourton, by his wife, Agnes (Fauntleroy), Lady Stourton, had issue : .... etc.
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• The Right Honourable William, seventh Baron and Lord Stourton, of Stourton, Co. Wilts, in the Peerage of England, and of Stourton House, in Tothill Fields, Westminster,(*) was Knighted the 1st of November, 1523, and was Deputy-General of Newhaven and the Marches adjacent in France. He was by birth the second, but was the eldest surviving son and heir of Edward, 6th Lord Stourton, by Agnes (Fauntleroy), Lady Stourton, his wife. .... etc.
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• Lord Stourton married Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Dudley, Esquire, one of the Privy Council to King Henry VII.(*) Elizabeth Dudley(t) was half-sister of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.(+) The contention that Lord Stourton married a second wife in the person of Agnes Ryse, the daughter of the Countess of Bridgewater, seems untenable, and is disputed by the actual facts. Nevertheless, the marriage is said to have taken place January 6th, 1545-46. Lord Stourton, in leaving her a legacy under his Will (as will be seen later), describes her, however, as "Mrs.
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• Agnes Ryse, dau. of the Countess of Bridgewater."(*) Lady Stourton was then (in 1548, when the will was made) living, and, in fact, survived Lord Stourton, not dying until 1560. Agnes Ryce (or Ryse) sued Lord Stourton's son in her maiden name after the death of Lord Stourton, and continued to so use it in all the proceedings. It has been stated, however, that, as "Agnes Stourton," widow, she administered to the will of William, 7th Lord Stourton, in July, 1557. It will, however, be shortly seen from the will itself that probate was granted of this same will on two occasions, viz., November 25th, 1548, immediately following upon the death of William, 7th Lord Stourton, and again on July 15th, 1557, after the execution and attainder of Charles, 8th Lord Stourton. Anne (not Agnes) Stourton, named in the later act of probate, was the widow of Charles, Lord Stourton, not of his predecessor. When Agnes Ryse married Sir Edward Baynton after Lord Stourton's death, she married him in her maiden name. The assertion in Collins's " Peerage " (taken from the Gentleman's Magazine) that she married Lord Stourton is certainly not proved by the evidence he brought forward to substantiate his contention. The allegation in the deed of 9th October, 1573, of Richard Gore, who had married Mary, daughter of Agnes Ryse, is hardly evidence admissible in law. There was nothing to prevent Richard Gore describing his wife Mary as a daughter of William, Lord Stourton, by Agnes Ryse, his wife. And although under the deed he appointed (nearly thirty years afterwards) Richard Askew as his lawful attorney, to enter on the lands of Lord Stourton and take possession for Mary Gore as the alleged daughter and sole heir of the 7th Lord, it is known that this had no effect. This Mary was the only issue of Lord Stourton and Agnes Ryse, and it is worthy of note that, in a pedigree recorded in the College of Arms (I., ix., p. 83), in which she appears as the wife of Richard Gore, no suggestion of bastardy is made, though her legitimacy is almost impossible. Charles, 8th Lord Stourton, moreover, undoubtedly succeeded his father as son and heir, inheriting the Peerage and all Lord Stourton's estates. The mere fact that the Court of Probate granted the 8th Lord Stourton Letters of Administration, with his father's will annexed, would seem to be prima facie evidence that Lord Stourton must have been the "natural and lawful son" of the testator. When Charles, Lord Stourton, sued Agnes Ryse, witnesses tried, but failed in the attempt, to prove that she was the legal wife of Lord Stourton. In the Inquisition Post Mortem of William, 7th Lord Stourton, Sir Charles Stourton, Knight (afterwards 8th Lord Stourton), was found to be the next heir. This was a complete answer in support of the validity of
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• the marriage with Elizabeth Dudley, and it also disproves completely Mary Gore's claim of heirship by blood. By Elizabeth Dudley, his wife, William, 7th Lord Stourton, had issue : .... etc.
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• Lord Stourton died on the 16th of September, 1548, and on the 15th November I'ollowing, Charles, 8th Lord Stourton, having renounced the executorship, had grant of ad. cum test. (Populwell 17). Charles, Lord Stourton, being dead before the completion of the Administration, Letters of Administration de Bonis non were granted on the 15th of July, 1557, to Anne, Lady Stourton, widow of Charles, Lord Stourton, deceased, (Wrastley 24). .... etc.
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• The Right Honourable Charles, eighth Baron and Lord Stourton, of Stourton, Co. Wilts, in the Peerage of England, was the eldest son and heir of William, 7th Lord Stourton, by his wife Elizabeth Dudley, and succeeded his father at the death of the latter 16th September, 1548. According to the inquisition taken after the death of his father he was then aged 24 years and more, but according to the Particulars of Liveries he was aged 30 years when his father died. He must consequently have been born between 1518 and 1524, .... etc.
• His father dealt with giving him in marriage when he was quite an infant, viz., 4th April (1528), 19 Henry VIII. Under an indenture quoted at length later, William Stourton, Knight (his father), son and heir apparent of Edward, Lord Stourton (his grandfather), agreed with Walter Hungerford, Esquire of the Body to the King (son and heir of Sir Edward Hungerford, deceased), for the marriage of Charles, or failing him of Andrew, (the first and second sons of the said Sir William Stourton), with one of the three daughters (Elynn, Mary or Anne) of the said Walter(*). Neither of these marriages however, ever took place or were further proceeded with, and Charles, Lord Stourton, eventually married by license (granted 10th February, 1548) Anne, daughter of Edward Stanley (t), third Earl of Derby, K.G., K.B., Viscount Kynton, Lord Stanley and Strange, Lord of Knokyn, Mohun, Bassett, Burnal and Lacy, Lord of Man and the Isles, by Dorothy his first wife, daughter of Thomas (Howard) second Duke of .... etc.
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• The following particulars are taken from the Book of Wards, and are of much interest : —
• Charles, Lord Stourton for murder by hym commytted, the 12th of Januarie 3 and 4 to Phi & M &c was thereupon atteynted, and the 6th daye of Marche in the said yere sufifred paynes of deth. By force whereof, and for that at the tyme of his deth he was seased of sundry manors, lands and hereditaments in tayll to hym and heires of his body by sundry ancient covenants thereof made, of whiche said Manors some beholden of the king and the Queen's Ma'ties by knights .... etc.
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• By his wife the Lady Anne (Stanley), daughter of the third Earl of Derby, Charles, Lord Stourton had issue : — .... etc.
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• With the death of Charles, Lord Stourton, one epoch of the history of the House of Stourton came to a close. To that point the Stourton family had been steadily increasing in influence, in position, in wealth and in importance. The execution and attainder of Lord Stourton were the beginning of that long catalogue of misfortune, of reverse, and of persecution through which the House of Stourton was to pass in the centuries which followed. Lord Stourton s infant son succeeded to a sadly diminished inheritance.
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• The Right Honourable John, ninth Baron and Lord Stourton, of Stourton, Co. Wilts., in the Peerage of England, was the eldest son and heir of Charles, eighth Lord Stourton, by his wife, the Lady Anne (Stanley), daughter of Edward, third Earl of Derby.
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• According to a statement in the "Complete Peerage"(§) a marriage between Lord Stourton and a "Mrs. Paston" was in contemplation in Feb., 1576-7. This did not take place, however, and Lord Stourton married, in the 22nd year
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• of Elizabeth, (1580) Frances, daughter of William (Brooke), 10th Lord Cobham, K.G., Ambassador to the King of Spain and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, by Frances his second wife, daughter of Sir John Newton, Frances (Brooke), Lady Stourton, was born January the 12th, 1561-2. Of this marriage there was no issue.
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• After the death of Lord Stourton, Lady Stourton married Sir Edward Moore of Odiham, Co. Hants., and of Worth, Co. Sussex, Knight, by whom she was mother of Frances Moore, who married William, 11th Lord Stourton.
• John, 9th Lord Stourton, having died without issue, the Peerage and estates devolved upon his next brother Edward.
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• The Right Honourable Edward, tenth Baron and Lord Stourton of Stourton, Co. Wilts., in the Peerage of England, was the next brother and heir of John, ninth Lord Stourton, and the second son of Charles, eighth Lord Stourton, by his wife, the Lady Anne (Stanley) daughter of Edward, third Earl of Derby.
• There is some uncertainty as to the exact date of the birth of Edward, 10th Lord Stourton. The entry of his matriculation at Exeter College on the 3rd of December, 1575, states his age as then 16. But, as has been previously explained, this cannot be correct . In the Inquisition Post Mortem of his brother (see page 448) taken Sept. 16th, 1589, his age is said to be 32 years and upwards. This is probably correct and his birth most likely occurred during the year 1556. .... etc.
• Edward, Lord Stourton married before 1598(!) Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Tresham, of Rushton and Liveden, Co. Northampton, Knight, by his wife Muriel, daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton of Coughton, Co. Warwick, Knight. .... etc.
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• By his wife Frances (Tresham) Edward, 10th Lord Stourton, had issue : —
  • I. — The Right Honourable William Stourton, 11th Lord Stourton, of whom hereafter.
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  • II. — Thomas Stourton of Bonham, Somerset, of Duke St., Covent Garden, London, and of Stourton, Co. Wilts. This is probably the "Thomas Stourton, Esq.", who fought a duel with Lord Henry Paulet, which is referred to in the "Historical Manuscripts Commission. — Fifteenth Report Appendix Part II." (The Manuscripts of J. Eliot Hodgkin, Esq., F.S.A. of Richmond, Surrey), page 283, as follows : .... etc.
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  • Thomas Stourton married EHzabeth, widow first of .... Cornwallis of Wandsworth, Surrey, and secondly of . . . Watson.
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  • III. — Francis Stourton, of Owre Moigne, Dorset, who was baptised at Stourton on the 12th of January, 1599. He is described in the entry in the registers as "Fraunces Stourton s. of the right honorable Lord Edward, lord of Stourton." He married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Norton, Esquire, of Chediston, Suffolk. She afterwards married Archibald Guthrie. .... Francis Stourton made his will the 22nd of July, 1637, and added a Codicil of the 29th of July, 1637. It was proved [168 Lee] in November, 1638, after sentence by Elizabeth Stourton, his relict and executrix, who had administration of his personalty granted to her on the 27th of April, 1638. The will recites legacies to the poor Catholics in London and Dorset, to his cousins Wilford, Catherine Trudgean and Grissell, and others of his relatives(+). He had a daughter and heir : — .... etc.
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  • IV. — Edward Stourton, who was baptised at Stourton the 22nd of July, 1605. In the entry in the Registers he is described as "Edward Stourton s.. of Ld Edward St." He was a witness to the signature of the codicil to his father's will, and a facsimile reproduction of his own signature will be found on page 464. He died unmarried.
  • V. — Margaret Stourton, who married Sir Thomas Sulyard, Knight, ot Wetherden, Co. Suftolk. She had a green emerald ring under the will of her brother, Francis Stourton. In the 1688 pedigree the arms of "Suliard" are emblazoned "argent, a chevron gules, between three pheons points upward sable."
  • VI. — Mary Stourton, who was buried in the Chancel of St. James' Church, Clerkenwell, on the 28th of September, 1591. Presumably she died in infancy.
  • VII. — Mary Stourton, who married Walter Norton, Esquire, of Sibsey, Co. Norfolk. She is mentioned as his sister in the will of her brother, Francis Stourton. She died in childbed on Wednesday the 23rd of May, and was buried on Thursday, the 24th of May, 1638, at St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, Co. Middlesex(*).
  • VIII. — Bridget Stourton, who was christened at St. James', Clerkenwell, on the 8th of April, 1607. She is not mentioned in the 1688 pedigree so doubtless did not survive her infancy.
• Edward, 10th Lord Stourton, died at his house in Clerkenwell(t), in the suburbs of London, May the 7th, 1633. .... etc.
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• Lord Stourton was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir William Stourton, K.B., eleventh Lord Stourton.
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• The Right Honourable William, eleventh Baron, and Lord Stourton of Stourton, Co. Wilts., in the Peerage of England, Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, was the eldest son and heir of Edward, tenth Lord Stourton, by his wife Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Tresham, Knight, of Rushton, Co. Northampton.
• In the Inquisition taken September the 26th, 1633, after the death of Edward, Lord Stourton, William his eldest son and next heir was found to be of the age of 39 years or more (see page 491), and must consequently have been born about the year 1594. Though the baptismal registers of the parish church of Stourton commence in the year 1572, they contain no entry of his baptism, nor of that of his next brother Thomas. Francis, the third son was, however, baptised there (see page 456) on January the 12th, 1599.
• Lord Stourton married "about 1616"(*) Frances Moore, daughter of Sir Edward Moore, Knight, of Odiham, Co. Hants., and of Worth, Co. Sussex, Lord of the Manor of Godalming, Surrey, by his wife Frances (nee Brooke) daughter of William, 10th Lord Cobham, and widow of John, 9th Lord Stourton [vide page 448). Sir Edward Moore, by his will, bequeathed to his son-in-law, Lord Stourton, the Manor of Hurtmore in Surrey, which the Testator had .... etc.
  • (*) This is the date given in the "Complete Peerage." The indenture dated June the 15th, 1615 (see page 480) and recited in the Inquisition taken after the death of Edward, Lord Stourton, was doubtless the ante-nuptial deed of settlement. Frances, wife of William, 11th Lord Stourton, is therein referred to throughout by her maiden name of Frances Moore.
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• Frances, Lady Stourton, died January the 5th, 1662, and was buried in Dorking Church, Surrey. In the floor of the Chancel is a black stone slab. It bears in a plain shield, surmounted by a Baron's coronet, the arms of Stourton and Moore impaled. Below this is the following inscription(^) to the memory of Lady Stourton : — .... etc.
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• By Frances (Moore) his wife, William, 11th Lord Stourton, had issue four sons and two daughters, namely : —
  • I. Edward Stourton, eldest son and heir, who was aged 5 years in 1622. He was a strong and devoted adherent of King Charles I. On the 6th of July, 1641, he and others, as lay Catholic recusants, petitioned the House of Lords for the redress of grievances under which they were then suffering.(*) By way of settlement upon him his Father had conveyed all his landed estates in Dorset, Wilts, and Somerset, subject to a life interest which he reserved for himself. He died during the lifetime of his Father in the garrison of Bristol, in January 1644. He had married Mary (Petre), eldest daughter of Robert, 3rd Lord Petre, by his wife Mary, daughter of Anthony (Browne), 2nd Viscount Montagu, by Jane, daughter of Thomas (Sackville), Earl of Dorset. Robert, 3rd Lord Petre, was the grandfather of Robert, 7th Lord Petre, whose widow eventually married Charles, 15th Lord Stourton. Mary, wife of Edward Stourton, was buried at Stourton in the Parish Church, September the 27th, 1672. The entry in the registers describes her as " Mrs. Mary Stourton." Edward Stourton, by Mary (Petre) his wife had issue — .... etc.
  • II. John Stourton, who died unmarried in his Father's lifetime.
  • III. William Stourton, who married Margaret, daughter of George Morgan of Penrith, Cumberland. The 1688 illuminated pedigree describes her as "dau. of Thomas Morgan of Penros, Monmo'th" The Morgan arms therein emblazoned are, "Or, a gryphon segreant sable." It is not known that there was any issue of this marriage. William Stourton died during his
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  • Father's lifetime. His wife died May the 7th, and was buried at Stourton May the 11th, 1665, the entry in the Registers merely describing her as "Mrs. . . . Stourton, w. of Mr. William Stourton." The slab in Stourton Church containing the inscription to her memory is now hidden by the floor of the seating, but both Aubrey and Hoare give the inscription as follows : — "Hic jacet Domina Margarita Stourton, filia Georgii Morgan, Arm., ex antiqua familia Lanthernham et Pentre ; obiit die septimo Maii, Anno Dom. 1665. Carissimsae conjugi posuit Gulielmus Stourton, Ar'g'r."
  • IV. Thomas Stourton, a monk in holy orders of the Catholic Church, professed at St. Gregory's, Douai, 1645 ; a Missioner in the South Province. He died the 5th of January, 1684, at St. Edmund's, in Paris, where he was buried. The Archives of St. Lawrence's College, Ampleforth, co. York, say that "F. Thomas Stourton was born in the castle of Stourton in Wiltshire, & was professed at St. Gregory's, Douai, on the 2nd of April 1645 during the Priorship of F. John Meutisse. He was a Missioner in the South Province for many years, but for some time before his death he was allowed to travel as tutor to some young noblemen, & had said his Mass at St. Edmund's at Paris two days before his death. He died on the 5th of January 1684 of a defluxion which fell on his lungs & was buried at St. Edmund's, for which the Church of the parish in which he was buried received 100 florins, for allowing him to be buried there."
  • V. Mary Stourton, who married in 1649, Sir John Weld, Knight, of Lulworth Castle, in the county of Dorset, and Compton Bassett, in co. Wilts. She died the 15th of May, and was buried at Stourton, the 17th of May, 1650. The description in the entry of the burial in the Stourton parish registers, May the 17th, 1650, is as follows : — "Marie w. of Sir John Wild & d. of the right Honourable William Lord Stourton." There is an inscription now remaining in Stourton church to her memory as follows : — "Here lyes interred the body of Mary, Lady Weld, wife of Sir John Weld, Knight, the eldest daughter of William Lord Stourton, who died the 15th day of May 1650." But the registers at Lulworth state that the body of Mary, Lady Weld, wife of Sir John Weld, was brought from Stourton, co. Wilts, and interred in the vault at Lulworth, May the 12th, 1676, the inscription on her coffin-plate being "Mary, wife of John Weld, deceased anno 1650." Sir John Weld died the 11th of July, 1674, as stated on his coffin-plate, and was buried at Compton Bassett, in co. Wilts, the registers at Lulworth stating that the body of Sir John Weld was brought from Compton Bassett and interred in the vault at Lulworth May the 9th, 1676. There is an inscription to his
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  • memory on a marble tablet in Lulworth Church, as follows :— "Here lieth buried the body of Sir John Wild alias Weld, who died the 11th day of July, 1674," &c., and stating that he married the daughter of William, Lord Stourton, of Stourton. Within the grounds of Lulworth was founded an Asylum for the Monks of La Trappe, when those austere brothers were driven from France by the Revolution. A lineal descendant of Sir John and Mary, Lady Weld, viz. Catherine Weld, who was born at Lulworth, the 18th of December, 1778, was married there the 1st of October, 1800, to the Honourable William Stourton, of Stapleton Park,(*) co. York, who afterwards succeeded as 18th Lord Stourton.
  • VI. Frances Stourton, a nun at Cambray, who died the 4th of August, and was buried at Stourton, the 5th of August, 1646. She is described in the Stourton Parish Registers in the entry of her burial, August the 5th, 1646, as "Mrs Francis d. of the right Honourable William, Lord Stourton." There is an inscription, (t) as given hereunder, to her memory in Stourton Church, but for some reason this is upon the same stone as, and below, the inscription to the memory of Winifred, Lady Stourton, who died more than a century (1753) later: "Here lyes Francis Stourton, daughter of William Lord Stourton, obiit 4th Aug. 1646."
• William, 11th Lord Stourton, died April the 25th, 1672, and was buried at Stourton the 7th of May following. He is described in the entry of his burial in the Parish Registers as "The Rt. ho'ble Lord Will. Stourton." Upon the same large slab, which bears the inscriptions to the memories of his uncle, John, 9th Lord Stourton, his father, Edward, 10th Lord Stourton, and his grandson, William, 12th Lord Stourton, is the inscription to himself, which is as follows : .... etc.
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• Edward, son and heir-apparent of Lord Stourton, having died in the lifetime of his father, William, only son and heir of Edward Stourton and grandson and heir of William, eleventh Lord Stourton, consequently succeeded as twelfth Lord Stourton upon the death of his grandfather, April the 25th, 1672.
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• 'Stourton02'
• Families covered: Stourton of Over Moigne, Stourton of Stourton
• William Stourton, 7th Lord (b c1505, d 16.09.1548)
• m. Elizabeth Dudley (dau of Edmund Dudley, Councillor to King Henry VII)
  • 1. Charles Stourton, 8th Lord (b c1520, d 16.03.1556-7)
  • m. (1548) Anne Stanley (dau of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby)
    • A. John Stourton, 9th Lord (b 01.1552-3, dsp 13.10.1588)
    • m. (1580) Frances Brooke (dau of William Brooke, 10th Lord Cobham)
    • B. Edward Stourton, 10th Lord (b c1556, d 07.05.1633)
    • m. (before 1598) Frances Tresham (dau of Sir Thomas Tresham of Rushton)
      • i. William Stourton, 11th Lord (b c1594, d 25.04.1672)
      • m. (c1616) Frances Moore (d 05.01.1662, dau of Sir Edward More or Moore of Oldham by Frances Brooke, widow of John Stourton, 9th Lord)
        • a. Edward Stourton (b 1617, dvp 01.1644)
        • m. Mary Petre (d 1672, dau of Robert Petre, 3rd Lord, m2. Sir Thomas Longueville of Bradwell)
          • (1) .... etc.
        • b. William Stourton (dsp)
        • m. Margaret Morgan (dau of George Morgan of Penrith)
        • c. Mary Stourton (d 1650)
        • m. (1648/9) Sir John Weld of Compton Bassett (d 11.07.1674)
        • d.+ other issue - John (dvp unm), Thomas (d 1684, monk), Frances (nun)
      • ii. Francis Stourton (b 1599, d 1638, 3rd son)
      • m. Elizabeth Norton (dau of Henry Norton)
        • a. .... etc.
      • iii. Margaret Stourton
      • BP1934 reports that Margaret married Sir Thomas Sulyard of Wetherden but Visitation (Suffolk, 1664-8, Sulyard of Haughley) shows that her husband was ...
      • m. Sir Edward Sulyard of Haughley (a 1664)
      • iv. Mary Stourton (d 1650)
      • m. Walter Norton of Sibsay
      • v.+ other issue - Thomas (dsp 20.08.1669), Edward (b 1605, d unm), Mary (d infant 1591), Bridget (b 1607)
    • C. .... etc.
• Main sources: BP1934 (Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ss4tz/stourton02.php#top
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