William Travers, Esq.

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William Travers, Esq. was born circa 1510 at of Nateby, Lancashire, England. Father William Travers b. c 1485, d. 28 Jul 1524 Mother Margaret Preston b. c 1488

He married Dorothy Preston b. c 1514, daughter of Sir Thomas Preston and Anne Thornburgh, circa 1535. William Travers, Esq. left a will on 23 July 1558 at Furness Abbey, Lancashire, England.

Father of Ellen Travers; Anne Travers, Margaret Travers, Sir Richard Armiger Travers, Thomas Travers, William Travers and Robert Travers.

• SIR THOMAS PRESTON, of Preston Patrick and Under Levins Halls, in Westmoreland, and Furness Abbey and Holkar Park, Lancashire, who soon after the dissolution of the monasteries purchased from the trustees of the crown the site of the abbey of Furness, with other large estates, in value amounting to upwards of L3000 a year. He wedded Ann, daughter of William Thornburgh, esq. of Hampsfield, in Lancashire, which lady was, through the families of Musgrave, Fitzwilliam, Plantagenet, and de Warren, fifteenth in descent from King WILLIAM the Conqeror. By her he had issue,
  • I. JOHN, the heir, born 1511.
  • II. CHRISTOPHER, from whom descended the PRESTONS of Holker.
  • III. George, who died s. p.
  • I. Ann, m. to William Banastre, Esq. of Easington, in Bolland.
  • II. Ellen, m. first, Sir James Leybourne, of Cunswick Park, in Wastmoreland (by whom she had Elizabeth, wife, first, of Thomas, Lord Dacre, of Gillesland; secondly, of Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of Norfolk, K. G.); and secondly, William Stanley, third Lord Monteagle (by whom she had Elizabeth, mother to William, Lord Morley and Monteagle, the discoverer of Gunpowder plot).
  • III. Jane, m. to William Lamplough, esq. of Dovenby Hall, in Cumberland.
  • IV. Dorothy, m. William Travers, Esq. of Nateby Hall, in Lancashire.
  • V. Elizabeth, m. Robert Cancefield, esq. of Robert Hall, in Lancashire
  • VI. Catharine, m. Sir Thomas Carus, on of the judges of the court of Queen's Bench, temp. ELIZABETH (and was mother of Mary Carus, who married Henry Kighley, esq. and had issue, Ann, wife of William Cavendish, first Earl of Devonshire, whence the Duke of Devonshire, and also the Earl of Burlington, who possessed the vast estates of the Prestons of Holker, in Lancashire, which were devised to his great uncle, Lord George Cavendish by Sir William Lowther, bart. of Holker, the maternal representative of that family).
• .... etc.
• A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies ... By John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke
• http://books.google.com/books?id=DjIGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA425&lpg=PA425&dq...
• Pg. 425
• .... etc.
• Citations
• [S11579] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. I, by John Burke, Esq.,, p. 479.
• [S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2048.htm#...

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References

• “Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica”. Page 361. < Archive.Org >