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 1613 - 1696 (~ 82 years)
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| Name |
Berkeley, Rowland |
| Christened |
1 Aug 1613 |
Cradley, Hertfordshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1696 |
Cotheridge, Worcester, England |
| Person ID |
I01558 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
21 Jul 2012 |
| Family |
Cave, Dorothy, c. 29 Apr 1619, St Sepulchre, Holborn, London, England , d. 1663-1696, Cotheridge, Worcester, England (Age ~ 76 years) |
| Married |
26 Nov 1635 |
Stanford, Northampton, England [1] |
| Family ID |
F00636 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Possibility??
ROWLANDUS BARCLEY Pedigree
Christening: 01 AUG 1613 Cradley, Hereford, England
Parents:
Father: GULIELMI BARCLEY Family
Mother: MARGARETA
Son of William, sheriff of Worcester 1617.
In 1537?8 Robert Acton as tenant of the manor received pardon for acquiring it without licence. (fn. 25) The manor then followed the descent of Elmley Lovett (fn. 26) until it was sold by Sir John Acton in 1615 to William Berkeley of Cowleigh, (fn. 27) son of Rowland Berkeley of Worcester and Spetchley, a wealthy clothier who came from Hereford to Worcester in the 16th century. William was sheriff of the county in 1617 (fn. 28) and compounded for not taking the order of knighthood in 1631. (fn. 29) William conveyed the manor, in trust for his wife, to his brother Sir Robert Berkeley in 1636, (fn. 30) and, though he did not die until 1658, (fn. 31) he seems to have been succeeded at Cotheridge before 1646 (fn. 32) by his son Sir Rowland Berkeley, who compounded for delinquency on 11 August in that year. (fn. 33) The charge against him was that 'his house being within three miles of Worcester, he continued to live there while it was held for the king, and was placed on a Commission for the safeguarding of the County, and for raising contributions for the king's forces.' On 25 August 1646 he paid a fine of £2,030. (fn. 34) He was among the Cavaliers who at the surrender of Worcester on 23 July 1646 obtained written passes of safety to their homes on taking the oath not to bear arms again against Parliament. (fn. 35) A valuable description of the Worcester battle-field at the memorable fight of the evening of 3 September 1651 survives from the pen of Sir Rowland, (fn. 36) who seems to have been brought to Worcester, much against his will, from Cotheridge, where he had this time remained at home 'resolved not to meddle.' He wrote to his father-in-law, Sir Thomas Cave, that he was fetched to 'King Charles' from Cotheridge by a major with a party of horse. Having learnt that a commission had been issued to him and other gentlemen of the county to assist Major-General Massey, then governor of Worcester, and 'not liking the employment,' he, while waiting for audience with the king, got to his horse and fled home with what speed he could, the battle being already hot on both sides of the town. He got in about nine that night, after an exciting ride through the army, being captured once by the Scots, and escaping from them again. The next morning by sunrise a party of the Parliament horse rode to Cotheridge and told Sir Rowland he must come with them to their general. They carried him off and took his dun colt with them, but by the time they reached St. John's he found they had no order for what they did, and again escaped home.
Sir Rowland was one of the gentlemen chosen by King Charles in 1660 to be invested with the order of the Royal Oak, an order which was not instituted. (fn. 37)
From: 'Parishes: Cotheridge', A History of the County of Worcester: volume 4 (1924), pp. 255-260. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42891 Date accessed: 08 February 2009.
Thomas Berkeley, the only son of Sir Rowland, died in Greece, unmarried, on 25 October 1669, as is recorded in an inscription in Cotheridge Church. Sir Rowland's eldest daughter, Elizabeth, had married Henry Green of Wyken (co. Warw.), and her son Rowland inherited the manor in accordance with Rowland Berkeley's will. (fn. 38) He assumed the surname of Berkeley, (fn. 39) and was sheriff of the county in 1710. (fn. 40) His name is written 'Mr. Barkley Green' in a letter from Thomas Foley to Robert Harley of 17 July 1710, which describes a recent visit of Dr. Sacheverell to Cotheridge, at Mr. Berkeley Green's invitation. (fn. 41) On his death in 1731 he was followed in succession by his son Rowland, who died in 1759, and by his grandson of the same name, (fn. 42) who became sheriff of the county in 1764 (fn. 43) and M.P. for Droitwich in 1774. (fn. 44) He died in 1805, and was succeeded by his brother, the Rev. Henry Rowland Berkeley, D.C.L., Fellow of New College, Oxford, who also died childless in 1832. Cotheridge then passed to his nephew, (fn. 45) the Rev. Richard Rowland Tomkyns, Fellow of New College, rector of Great Horwood, Bucks., who assumed the name of Berkeley and died in 1840. (fn. 46) He was succeeded by his cousin, the Rev. John Rowland Berkeley, (fn. 47) who died unmarried in 1850, being followed by his brother William. William Berkeley died in 1869, when the manor of Cotheridge passed to his eldest son, the Rev. William Comyns Berkeley, who died in 1885, (fn. 48) and whose son Mr. Rowland Comyns Berkeley is now lord of the manor.
From: 'Parishes: Cotheridge', A History of the County of Worcester: volume 4 (1924), pp. 255-260. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42891 Date accessed: 08 February 2009.
"1635 M^ Rowland Bartleigh and M^«. Dorothy Cave were married the twenty six day of November." This was afterwards Sir Rowland Berkeley, of Cotheridge, co. Worcester, Knt.
Possibility?? Son?
Will of Sir Rowland Berkeley of Cotheridge, Worcestershire 11 April 1696 PROB 11/431
Mentions daughter Penelope Street, wife of Sir Thomas Street, grandson Rowland Greene, daughter Margaret, wife of William Bromley, daughter Dorothy Berkeley,
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- [S00073] Clifton Warwickshire Parish Registrers, "1635 M^ Rowland Bartleigh and M^«. Dorothy Cave were married the twenty six day of November." This was afterwards Sir Rowland Berkeley, of Cotheridge, co. Worcester, Knt.
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