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    Wardour, Mary

    Female Abt 1610 -


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    • Name Wardour, Mary 
      Born Abt 1610  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Female 
      Died England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I08446  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 20 Jun 2015 

      Family Nicholas, Oliver,   b. Abt 1587, Of Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1660, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 74 years) 
      Children 
      +1. Nicholas, Edward,   b. Abt 1629, Of Manningford Bruce, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 18 Apr 1706, Manningford Bruce, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 77 years)
      Family ID F01851  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Daughter of Sir Edward Wardour, clerk.(1578-1646)

        ... The estate belonged in the early 17th century to Sir Edward Wardour, (fn. 59) son of Chideock Wardour and active in local affairs. (fn. 60) After Sir Edward had moved to Turret House, (fn. 61) his former house was apparently sold to James I's disgraced favourite Robert Carr, earl of Somerset (d. 1645), who paid church rates from 1624 and whose wife died at Chiswick in 1632. (fn. 62)
        From: 'Chiswick: Other estates', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden (1982), pp. 74-78. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22562 Date accessed: 11 May 2011.


        Epitaph of Sir Edward Wardour, knt. 1652. {Peshall, p. 7.)

        Will of Chidiok Wardour of Saint Martin in the Fields, Middlesex 30 September 1611 PROB 11/118

        500 To Edward Wardour, Clerk of the Pells in the Receipt of the Exchequer, for his Fee, at 90 /. 13 s. 4 d. by the Year for himself, and 20 /. by the Year for a Clerk under him, for writing the Pell of Exitus, in all yearly . .

        ....By this period the freehold of Colman Hedge Close had descended to Edward Wardour, who had probably inherited the property on the death of his grandfather, Sir Edward Wardour, in 1646/7. (ref. 12)
        From: 'Broadwick and Peter Street Area', Survey of London: volumes 31 and 32: St James Westminster, Part 2 (1963), pp. 219-229. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41473 Date accessed: 16 May 2011.


        Mary Becher
        b. 1549
        d. 7 January 1635
        She married on the 4th September 1569 at St Christopher-Le-Stocks Chidiock Wardour and they had issue; Sir Edward Wardour/Warder, Elizabeth & Ursula. Chidiock died on the 26th September 1611 & she married 2ndly a Mr Keith.


        The House of Commons, April 29, 1643, appointed " Arthur Squibb the younger. Gentleman,"Clerk of the Pells in place of Sir Edward Wardour, Knight, and Edward Wardour, Esq., who "have withdrawn themselves; to the great Disservice of the Commonwealth."

        Marriage settlement COL/CCS/CO/13/B2/001 12 Charles [1636] Apr 27
        These documents are held at Corporation of London Records Office
        Contents:
        1. Edward Pit of Heckfield, co. Southampton [Hants] esq., Richard Moore of 'Ockingham' [?Wokingham], Berks, and John Wheeler of Datchet, Bucks., gent., trustees of Richard Wheeler of the City of Westminster, esq. deceased, convey to
        2. Sir Edward Wardour of Westminster, kt. and Edward Wardour his son, trustees for
        3. William Wheeler of the Middle Temple esq., to his use 'for and in consideration of the marriage between William Wheeler and Jane Wardour' etc.
        Messuage and 2 gardens in St. Botolph Without Bishopsgate, London, sometime in the occupation of John Thrill, esq., and the field called Spitalhope alias Lollesworth in Stepney, Middx. containing 43 acres late in the occupation of Elias Elliott

        .... William's heir at his death in 1502 was his sister Joan, wife of Nicholas Wardour. (fn. 86) She was succeeded at her death in 1531 by her grandson William Wardour, who in 1541 settled his Netheravon estate on himself, his future wife Mary Bamfield, and their heirs. (fn. 87) Mary Wardour held the lands from her husband's death in 1563 until 1586, when her son Chidiock Wardour (d. c. 1611) recovered the manor, which by 1592 was also known as Wardour's. (fn. 88) Chidiock was succeeded by his son Edward (later Sir Edward) Wardour (d. 1646), and his grandson Edward Wardour. (fn. 89) That Edward was apparently still owner at the end of the 17th century. (fn. 90) At his death the manor passed, in accordance with a settlement of 1667, to his only child Anne, in possession by 1705. In 1711 she and her husband Arthur Savage sold the manor to William Lewis Le Grand.
        From: 'Parishes: Netheravon', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 11: Downton hundred; Elstub and Everleigh hundred (1980), pp. 165-181. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=115493 Date accessed: 16 May 2011.

        Text: Wardour, Sir Edward, Westminster (Mdx.) (former grant May 1648 ) (Ltd.) 1656 30 Book: Index to Acts of Administration in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1655-1660 (Acts of Administration) Collection: England: Canterbury - Administrations in The Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1655-1660 (R-Z)

        Text: Wardour, Jane (Lady), wife of Sir Edw. W., Knt. 20 Jan 1652. (Neve's Mon. 224.) Book: T Collection: The Harleian Society. Obituary Prior To 1800 (As Far As Relates To England, Scotland, and Ireland), Compiled By Sir William Musgrave, 6th Bart., of Hayton Castle, Co. Cumberland, and Entitled By Him "A General Nomenclator and Obituary, With Referrence To The Books Where The Persons Are Mentioned, and Where Some Account of Their Character Is To Be Found." Volume 49.

        Text: Wardour, Edw. (Sir), Knt., at Oxford. 14 Mar 1645. (Neve's Mon. 224.) Book: T Collection: The Harleian Society. Obituary Prior To 1800 (As Far As Relates To England, Scotland, and Ireland), Compiled By Sir William Musgrave, 6th Bart., of Hayton Castle, Co. Cumberland, and Entitled By Him "A General Nomenclator and Obituary, With Referrence To The Books Where The Persons Are Mentioned, and Where Some Account of Their Character Is To Be Found." Volume 49.