Space for your banner! Reach out to my weekly 450,000 returning site visitors from all over the world!
Search this 5000 page website with
search tips advanced search
site search by freefind

List of pedigrees
Bland of Northern Neck Va.
Nicholas of Roundway
Hester of Fleming Co Ky
Thruston
author's autosomal DNA test results uploaded at gedmatch.com kit No. T848545
or test at familytreedna.com to show up automatically on my Match list>
Visitors since 22nd March 2009:

It is really something to sing and dance about.
Dig up those old bones and get them dancing!

Change the two party system
so people against something like abortion
but for something like environmental protection never again get bigger and badder storms
and two bankrupting wars instead.
Make the Electoral College a permanent government body with seat distribution proportional to the party tally in each state and give it the right to approve cabinet members and under secretaries instead of the US Senate!

Unwrap your family history!

Explore all branches of your ancestry with autosomal DNA test,
your mother's maternal descent with a mitochondrial DNA test, and a male line with a Y-DNA test!


Send contributions, additions and corrections and report faulty links!
Please use this blank formating file for additions and corrections in HTML and copy it into your e-mail!
If you want your entire peidgree to be posted in the InternetPlease fill in this free blank table pedigree with your pedigree data using you NotePad continuous text editor and attach it to an e-mail to the author of this site!

Cheyne x: Cheney of Boston, Cheney Cheyne of Fenn Ditton
Ch19. Henry Cheyne or Cheney of Fenne Ditton b c 1335
m x Mochete or Monchet
Ch18. Sir William Cheyne or Cheney of Fenn Ditton b c 1360 d 06.06.1399
m Catherine Pabenham d 17.07.1436, dau of Sir Lawrance Pabenham or Pavenham by Elizabeth Engayne
Ch17-1. John Cheney d before 17.07.1436
Ch17. Sir Lawrence Cheney of Fenn Ditton b c 1385 d 30.12.1461
m Elizabeth Cockayne b c 1390 dau of John Cockayne of Bury Hatley ?Cokayne Hatley
Ch16-1 Sir John Cheney of Fenn Ditton d 13/4.07.1489 ?created Lord Cheney after the Battle of Bosworth Field
m1 Elizabeth Rempston dau of Sir Thomas Rempston of Beckering and Tuxford
a. Sir Thomas Cheney of Fenn Ditton, Thenford and Irthlingborough d 13/4.01.1513/4
m1 Elizabeth Huddleston dau of Henry Huddleston of Irthlingborough
m2 Anne not Elizabeth Parr a 11.1513, dau of Sir William Parr of Kendal
1 Elizabeth Cheney b c1505, d 20.11.1556
m 1523 Thomas Vaux, 2nd Lord of Harrowden b 25.04.1509, bur 10.1556		 -1 William Vaux, 3rd Lord of Harrowden d 20.08.1595 m1 Elizabeth Beaumont dau of John Beaumont of Grace Dieu by Elizabeth, dau of Sir William Hastings +4 ch m2 Mary or Muriel Tresham d 28.12.1597, dau of John Tresham of Rushton + 4 ch
-2 Anne Vaux m Reginald Braye of Shene sb Stene
-3 Nicholas Vaux
-4 Maud Vaux d unm 		-1-1 Henry Vaux b 1558-9, dvp unm 11.1587
-1-2 Anne Vaux 'Mrs Perkins' d unm 1635
-1-3 Elizabeth Vaux m Edward Brooksby
-1-4 Eleanore Vaux
-1-5 George Vaux bpt 27.09.1564, dvp 13.07.1594 m 25.07.1585/90 Elizabeth Roper dau of John Roper, 1st Lord Teynham
-1-5-1 Edward Vaux, 4th Lord of Harrowden b 13.09.1588, d 08.10.1661 p/m. Elizabeth Howard bpt 11.08.1586, d 17.04.1658, dau of Sir Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
-1-5-1-1 Edward Knollys, '2nd Earl of Banbury' b 10.04.1627, d unm by 06.1645
-1-5-1-2 Nicholas Knollys, '3rd Earl of Banbury' b 03.01.1630/1, d 14.03.1673
-1-5-2 William Vaux d young
-1-5-3 Henry Vaux, 5th Lord of Harrowden d unm 26.09.1662
-1-5-4 Mary Vaux d c1622 m Sir George Symeon of Britwell One of their descendants George Charles Mostyn successfully claimed the barony of Vaux of Harrowden in 1838.
-1-5-5 Joyce Vaux, a nun
-1-5-6 Catherine Vaux m Henry Nevill, 9th Lord Abergavenny d 1641
-1-6 Edward Vauxdsp
-1-7 Sir Ambrose Vaux dsp
-1-8 Catherine Vaux
-1-9 Muriel Vaux
-2-1 Temperance Bray m Sir Thomas Crewe of Stene d 01.02.1633-4
-2-2 to 6 daughters
b. William Cheney of Thorngumbald d 1547/8
Shown by Visitation Cambridgeshire is William's following family.
m1 Elizabeth Wentworth dau of Henry Wentworth
1+ issue - Andrew, Lawrence
Shown by Maddison is William's following family. As son William died long after his father, it is presumed that the marriage to Anne Holme was William's 2nd.
m2 Anne Holme dau of John Holme of Paul Holme
3 William Cheney d c1601
m Frances Cheney d before 08.1608, natural dau of Sir Thomas Cheney, Warden of the 5 Ports
A John Cheney of Benington b c1568, bur 16.03.1623-4
m1 Elizabeth d 1614
i John Cheney bpt 30.06.1605, d before 11.05.1657, 2nd son, 1st John
m Anne
a+ issue - Henry a 1690, Jane, Winifred
ii John Cheney of Coningsby bpt 09.11.1609, 4th son, 2nd John
a Thomas Cheney of Boston d 1670
m Hannah Calverley d before 23.04.1670, sister of Samuel Salverley
1 Thomas Cheney of Boston bur 10.03.1689-90
m 25.03.1675-6 Anne Butler bur 14.08.1720
A John Cheney, Mayor of Boston bur 03.03.1728-9
m Ann
i+ issue - John, William, Elizabeth
B Thomas Cheney bpt 18.12.1685, a 07.1719
m Mary d before 11.05.1719
i+ issue a 1718 - Thomas b c1713, d 11.03.1788-9, John, Anne
C+ other issue - Thomas bpt 08.10.1676, bur 09.11.1676, William bpt 15.06.1687, Ann bpt 13.10.1678, Frances bpt 07.10.1680, Hannah
2 William Cheney b after 1650, bur 14.06.1685
m 21.01.1678-9 Mary Butler bur 17.07.1726
A Charles Cheney of Boston d by 1719
m 01.01.1703-4 Sarah Smith
i+ issue - Charles bur 01.06.1705, Charles a 1705, William, Mary, Sarah
B Thomas Cheney bur 16.10.1718
iii Thomas Cheney bpt 25.078.1607, dsp before 11.04.1673, rector of Kirton in Holland
m Mary
iv+ other issue - William bpt 05.02.1598-9, Edward bpt 20.07.1606, bur 03.12.1613, Richard bpt 29.09.1611, Frances bpt 20.09.1596, a 1673, Jane bpt 28.02.1600-1, a 1673, Agnes bpt 16.10.1608, a 1673, Elizabeth bpt 05.06.1614, bur 22.01.1626-7
m2 c11.1614 Alice b c1568, a 08.1627, Mrs. Skinner
B Christopher Cheney of Grantham d before 28.12.1620
m Katherine Cave dau of Thomas Cave of Belgrave Barggrave
i Thomas Cheney d before 05.06.1633
m Bridget Cawdron d 1670, dau of Robert Cawdron of Great Hale
a Anne Cheney
m John Duncalfe
b Jane Cheney
m John Turner Captain
c Jane Cheney
m John Fawcett
ii William Cheney of Mareham-le-Pen bur 09.09.1633
a+ issue - Christopher bpt 11.02.1626-7, bur 02.10.1634, William bpt 02.07.1630-1, bur 26.09.1631, Anne, Jane bpt 20.11.1628, a 1635
iii Anne Cheney
m George Smith of Nettleton
iv Katherine Cheney
m c05.1628 John Harrison of East Keal
v Frances Cheney
m Henry Yarborough of Yarborough
C William Cheney
c. Mary Cheney d 1473
m John Allington d 08.1480
d. Elizabeth Cheney
m John Hasildon of Cambirdgeshire
e. Catherine Cheney
m Henry Barley
f. Anne Cheney
m John Appleyard
Ch16 Elizabeth Cheney
m1 Sir Frederick Tilney of Boston and Ashwell Thorpe 		Ty15 Elizabeth Tilney or Tylney d 04.04.1497<
m1 Sir Humphrey Bourchier dvp Barnet 14.04.1471
m2 30.04.1472 Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk d 21.05.1524		 Bo14-1 Sir John Bourchier, 2nd Lord Berners b 1467, d 16.03.1532 inherited West Horsley from his grandmother, Margery Berners in 1475 m Catherine Howard dau of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk
Bo14-2 B014-2 Anne Bourchier a 09.1530
Bo14 Margaret Bourchier b 1468, d 1551 Lady Governess of all Henry VIII s children: Princess Mary; Henry Fitzroy, D. Richmond; Princess Elizabeth and Prince Edward. m Sir Thomas Bryan of Cheddington b 1464, d 1517 		Bo14-1-1 Mary Bourchier dvpsp m Alexander Unton of Wadley
Bo14-1-2 Jane Bourchier of Ashwellthorpe, de jure Baroness Berners d 17 Feb 1561/2
Bo14-1-3 m Edmund Knyvett d 1 Mar 1539
Bo14-1-4/5 by p Elizabeth Bacon had James and Ursula
Br13 Sir Francis Bryan in Claire (b 1549) Francis Bryan II held large estates in County Clare. m m. Ann Smith dau of Sir William Smith
m2 Sir John Sayy of Baas in Broxbourne, Bedwell in Essendon, Bennington, Little Berkhampstead, and Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, Lawford, Essex, Market Overton, Rutland, etc., Burgess, M.P. for Plymptonand Speaker of the House b 1452 d 1529 -1Sir William Say (1452-1529), of Baas in Broxbourne, Bedwell in Essendon, Bennington, Little Berkhampstead, and Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, Lawford, Essex, Market Overton, Rutland, etc., Burgess (M.P.) for Plympton, Knight of the Shire for Hertfordshire, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, 1478–9, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1482–3, Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire, 1486–1506, and, in right of his 1st wife, of East Lydford, Radstock, Spaxton, Wellesleigh, and Wheathill, Somerset, and, in right of his 2nd wife, of Wormingford Hall (in Wormingford), Essex, Great Munden, Hertfordshire, etc. m1 before 18 November 1472 (date of letters of attorney) Genevieve Hill, daug/heir of John Hill, of Spaxton, Somerset. She was still alive in 1478. m2 shortly after 18 April 1480 Elizabeth Fray, widow of Sir Thomas Waldegrave, by whom he had two daughters,
-2 Thomas Say, of Liston Hall, Essex.
-3 Master Leonard Say, clerk, Rector of Spaxton, Somerset. See Testamenta Eboracensia, 4 (Surtees Soc. 53) (1869): 86–88 (will of Leonard Say, clerk).
-4 Anne Say (died 1478/1494 m Henry Wentworth, K.B., of Nettlestead, Suffolk, Goxhill, Lincolnshire, Parlington and Pontefract, Yorkshire, and of London, Esquire of the Household, Knight of the Body, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1481–82, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1489–90, 1492, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire, 1491–92, by whom she had issue, including Margery Wentworth, mother of Jane Seymour.
-5 Mary Say m Sir Philip Calthorpe, Knt., by whom she had issue.
-6 Margaret Say, m Thomas Sampson, Esq.
-7 Katherine Say, m Thomas Bassingbourne. -1 Anne Say m m Wentworth 		-1-1 Mary Say m Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex and 6th Baron Bourchier + 1 ch daughter,
-4-1 Margery Wentworth m Seymour		 -1-1-1 Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier
-4-1-1 Jane Seymour m King Henry VIII
-4-1-1-1 King Edward VI

Sources: Visitation Cambridgeshire, 1575+1619, Cheney, Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees 1906 Cheney of Boston + TCP Engaine
return to top