BROMLEY FAMILY
Born: ABT 1170, King's Bromley, Staffordshire, England
Died: ABT 1225
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: BEF 1212, King's Bromley, Staffordshire, England
Died: 1272, King's Bromley, Staffordshire, England
Father: Benedict De BROMLEY (Sir)
Mother: ¿?
Married: Phillipa BAGOT
Chilren:
1. Robert De BROMLEY
Born: ABT 1238, Bromley, Cheshire, England
Died: ABT 1297, Bromley, Cheshire, England
Father: Geoffrey De BROMLEY
Mother: Phillipa BAGOT
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: 1268
Died: 1330
Father: Richard De BROMLEY
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
2. Roger De BROMLEY
4. Walter De BROMLEY
Born: ABT 1290
Died: 1360
Father: Ranulph De BROMLEY
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
2. William De BROMLEY of Badinton
3. Roger De BROMLEY of Barkesford
Father: Richard De BROMLEY
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
Father: Walter De BROMLEY
Mother: ¿?
Married: John COLMONDELEY of Chorley
Roger De BROMLEY of Barkesford
Notes: Ancestor to the Bromleys of Barfkesford.
Father: Richard De BROMLEY
Mother: ¿?
Married: Lettice CHOLMONDELEY (dau. of Hugh Cholmondeley and Isabel Harcourt)
Born: ABT 1294
Father: Ranulph De BROMLEY
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: ABT
Died:
Father: John De BROMLEY
Mother: ¿?
Married: Amabilla De CHETELTON (dau. of Mathew De Chetelton and Joan Clifton) (w. of John De Lascy) 1345
Children:
2. John BROMLEY
Born:
Died:
Father: William BROMLEY
Mother: Amabilla De CHETELTON
Married: Agnes PRAERS (dau. of William Praers and Lettice Wittenhall) ABT 1369
Children:
1. John BROMLEY of Badington (Sir)
John BROMLEY of Badington (Sir)
Born: Baddington, Cheshire, England
Died: , France
Notes: aka Bromlegh, Bromleh.
Father: Richard BROMLEY
Mother: Agnes PRAERS
Married: Margery MASSEY (dau. of John Massey and Alice Worsley) 1385
Children:
1. William BROMLEY of Badington
Born: Baddington, Cheshire, England
Died:
Father: John BROMLEY of Badington (Sir)
Mother: Margery MASSEY
Married: Richard CHOLMONDELEY (son of William Cholmondeley and Elizabeth Brereton)
Children:
1. William CHOLMONDELEY
Born: ABT
Died: ABT
Notes: William had previously been betrothed to Agnes Mainwaring, but Agnes died before the marriage and he married her sister Margery.
Father: John BROMLEY of Badington (Sir)
Mother: Margery MASSEY
Married: Margery MAINWARING (b. 1392 - d. 1436) (dau. of Randall Mainwaring and Margery Venables) (m.2 John Needham)
Children:
1. John BROMLEY of Badington (Sir)
Died: 1454, Baddington, Cheshire, England
Father: William BROMLEY of Badington
Mother: Margery MAINWARING
Married: William HEXSTALL (Sir) (son of Richard Hexstall and Anne Grovehurst) 1425, East Peckham, Kent, England
Children:
1. Margaret HECKSTALL (m.1 William Wettenhall - m.2 Sir Henry Ferrers)
2. Joan HEXTALL
John BROMLEY of Badington (Sir)
Born: ABTBaddington, Nantwich, Cheshire, England
Died: 1488, Baddington, Cheshire, England
Father: William BROMLEY of Badington
Mother: Margery MAINWARING
Married 1: Joan HEXSTALL (dau. of Richard Hexstall and Anne Grovehurst) (b. 1413 - d. 1453)
Children:
Married 2: Martha WOODVILLE
Associated with: ¿?
Children:
Died: 1489, Cranage, Congleton, Cheshire, England
Father: John BROMLEY of Badington (Sir)
Mother: Joan HEXSTALL
Married: William NEEDHAM (Sir) (b. 1438 - d. 1498) (son of Thomas Needham and Maud Brereton)
Children:
1. Robert NEEDHAM (Sir) (b. 1476 - d. 4 Jun 1556) (m. Agnes Mainwaring)
2. Margaret NEEDHAM (m. 1 Thomas Whittington - m.2 Thomas Milbourne)
3. William NEEDHAM (b. 1495 - d. 23 Mar 1545) (m. Isabel ?)
Died: 1469
Father: John BROMLEY of Badington (Sir)
Mother: Joan HEXSTALL
Married: Thomas STANLEY (Sir)
Children:Father: John BROMLEY of Badington (Sir)
Mother: Joan HEXSTALL
Married: John HARPUR (Sir)
Children:
1. Elizabeth HARPUR (m. William Leigh)
Born: ABT
Died: ABTFather: John BROMLEY of Badington (Sir)
Mother: ¿?
Married: Jane PARKERChildren:
1. John BROMLEY (Monk at Sheen)
2. Richard BROMLEY
3. Robert BROMLEY
4. Thomas BROMLEY
5. Roger BROMLEY (Priest)
6. Margaret BROMLEY (Nun at Syon)
7. William BROMLEY of Nantwich
Margaret BROMLEY (Nun at Syon)
Died: BEF 1518
Notes: nun at Syon.
Father: Thomas BROMLEY
Mother: Joan PARKER
Born: 1500
Died: AFT
Notes: related to the well-known legal family, is described in the visitations of Shropshire and Cheshire as comptroller to Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby. Since the Earl exercised considerable influence in Liverpool, usually nominating one Member, it must have been this William Bromley who sat four times for Liverpool and not any of his namesakes, notably William Bromley of Stoke in Shropshire, brother of Sir Thomas Bromley, the chief justice of the common pleas. It was also presumably he who in July 1546 received a 21-year lease of escheated lands in Cheshire. In Jan 1553 a grant of lands to the earl included Cheshire lands in the tenure of William Bromley.The only known feature of Bromley’s parliamentary career is his inclusion among the Members of the Parliament of Nov 1554 who were prosecuted in the following Easter term for having been absent from the House without licence when a roll-call was taken early in Jan 1555. The information against him was not followed by any further process, a circumstance which might imply that Bromley was absent on other than political or religious grounds, unless the silence which descends on Bromley at this point signifies his early death. He appears to have made no will and he is not mentioned in that of his master the earl, who died in 1572. If Bromley died during the reign of Mary (perhaps soon enough after his prosecution to explain its discontinuance) he would not have lived to see any of his children married, his eldest son William to a daughter of Edward Underhill and his third son Roger to a daughter of Sir John Harington of Exton. Such seemingly reformist affiliations are offset by the recollection that Bromley’s elder brother John was a Carthusian monk at Sheen and his sister Margaret a Bridgettine nun at Syon. See: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/bromley-william-1525-55-or-later.
Father: Thomas BROMLEY
Mother: Jane PARKER
Married: Margaret ALEXANDER (dau. of Nicholas Alexander of Dover)
Children:
Father: William BROMLEY of Nantwich
Mother: Margaret ALEXANDER
Married: Catherine HARRINGTON
Father: William BROMLEY of Nantwich
Mother: Margaret ALEXANDER
Married: Ellen UNDERHILL (dau. of Edward Underhill and Joan Perrins)
Father: William BROMLEY of Nantwich
Mother: Margaret ALEXANDER
Married: John MASTERSON
Father: William BROMLEY of Nantwich
Mother: Margaret ALEXANDER
Married: Ellen MAINWARING
Born: ABT 1560
Died: 5 Sep 1592
Father: William BROMLEY of Nantwich
Mother: Margaret ALEXANDER
Married: Gabriel WETTENHALL (son of Thomas Wettenhall and Margery Masterson)
Children:
1. William WETTENHALL
2. Margaret WETTENHALL
Born: ABT 1549
Died: 3 Sep 1598
Father: William BROMLEY of Nantwich
Mother: Margaret ALEXANDER
Married: Geoffrey MINSHULL (son of Edward Minshull and Margaret Mainwaring)
Children:
1. John MINSHULL (b. ABT 1570 - d. 26 Oct 1638) (m. Ellen Mainwaring)
Born: 1346
Father: William BROMLEY
Mother: Amabilla De CHETELTON
Married: Agnes TRENTHAM (dau. of John Trentham)
Children:
Born: 1381
Father: John BROMLEY
Mother: Agnes TRENTHAM
Married: Joan DELVES (dau. of Richard Delves)
Children:
Born: ABT 1415
Father: Walter BROMLEY
Mother: Joan DELVES
Married: Jane MITLEY (dau. and heir. of Richard De Mitley and Ellen Hawkeston)Children:
Father: Roger BROMLEY
Mother: Jane MITLEY
Married: Agnes HULSE (dau. and heir. of William Hulse)
Children:
Father: Nicholas BROMLEY of Mitley
Mother: Agnes HULSE
Married: Dau. HULSE
Children:
Father: Thomas BROMLEY of Norbury
Mother: Dau. HULSE
Married: Elizabeth WILBURGHAM
Children:
Father: Thomas BROMLEY of Norbury
Mother: Elizabeth WILBURGHAM
Married: Elizabeth HUNTINGDON
Children:
Father: William BROMLEY of Norbury
Mother: Elizabeth HUNTINGDON
Married: Alice EGERTON (dau. and heir. of Thomas Egerton and Dau. Bressy) 1562
Children:
Died: 1628
Father: Hugh BROMLEY of Norbury
Mother: Alice EGERTON
Married 1: Anne BRADSHAW (w. of Richard Lochard)
Married 2: Anne MASSYE (dau. of David Massye of Broxton)
Children:
1. Thomas BROMLEY
2. Dorothy BROMLEY
3. Alice BROMLEY
Born: ABT 1440
Father: Roger BROMLEY
Mother: Jane MITLEY
Married: Anne BORROW (dau. of David Borrow and Cecily Rathbone)
Children:
Born: ABT 1470
Died: AFT 1505
Father: Roger BROMLEY
Mother: Anne BORROW
Married: Jane JENNINGS (dau. of Thomas Jennings and Eleanor Jay)
Children:
1. Thomas BROMLEY (Lord Chief Justice)
3. William BROMLEY
Born: ABT Ashley, Staffordshire, England
Father: Roger BROMLEY
Mother: Jane JENNINGS
Married: John LYSTER (Esq.)Children:
Father: Roger BROMLEY
Mother: Jane JENNINGS
Married: Joan ?Children:
1. Joan BROMLEY
Born: ABT 1548, Ashley, Staffordshire, England
Died: 1604, Ashley, Staffordshire, England
Married: Edward SUTTON 2 Nov 1566, Ashley, Stafford, EnglandChildren:
1. Edward SUTTON
Thomas BROMLEY (Lord Chief Justice)
Born: ABT 1500
Died: 15 May 1555
Buried: St. Andrew, Wroxeter, Shropshire, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Roger BROMLEY
Mother: Jane JENNINGS
Married 1: Elizabeth DODD (dau. of John Dodd of Cloverley)
Married 2: Isabel LYSTER
Children:
Born: 1521
Died: 10 Aug 1598
Father: Thomas BROMLEY (Lord Chief Justice)
Mother: Isabel LYSTER
Married: Richard NEWPORT (Sir) (son of Thomas Newport and Anne Corbet)
Children:
1. Francis NEWPORT (Sir) (b. Feb 1557 – d. 15 Mar 1623) (m. Beatrix Lacon)
2.
Magdalen NEWPORT (b. 1558 - d. Jun 1627)
3. Andrew NEWPORT (b. Jul 1562 – d. Apr 1611) (unm.)
4. Mary NEWPORT (m.1 William Gratwood - m.2 Ralph Sneyd)
5. Isabel NEWPORT (m. Sir Charles Fox of Bromfield)
6. Elizabeth NEWPORT (m.1 Francis Lawley of Spoonhill - m.2 Sir Thomas Lawley of Wenlock)
Born: ABT 1460
Died: 1504
Father: Roger BROMLEY
Mother: Anne BORROW
Married: Beatrice HILL (b. 1472 - d. 1495) (dau.of Humphrey Hill and Agnes Bird)
Children:
1. Joan BROMLEY
5. Thomas BROMLEY
Born: 1474
Father: William BROMLEY
Mother: Beatrice HILL
Married: Richard SANDFORD of the Lee, Edgton and Alselde (son of William Sandford and Sybil Springseaux)Children:
1. George SANDFORD of the Lee, Edgton and Alselde (d. 24 Oct 1585) (m. Anne Otteley)
Father: William BROMLEY
Mother: Beatrice HILL
Married: William LEIGHTON
Father: William BROMLEY
Mother: Beatrice HILL
Married: Rowland JENNINGS of Walliborne Hall (dau. of Thomas Jennings and Eleanor Jay)Children:
1.
Eleanor JENNINGS2. Thomas JENNINGS (m. Catherine Otteley)
3. William JENNINGS
Born: 1495
Died: 7 Jul 1533
Father: William BROMLEY
Mother: Beatrice HILL
Married 1: Jane LACON (b. 1507 - d. 1600) (dau. of Thomas Lacon and
Maria Corbet) (m.2 William Egerton)Children:
2. Thomas BROMLEY (Lord Chancellor of England)
Thomas BROMLEY (Lord Chancellor of England)
Born: 1530, Rodd Castle and Hodnet, nr. Oswestry, Salop
Died: 12 Apr 1587
Buried: Westminster Abbey
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: George BROMLEY of Hodnet
Mother: Jane LACON
Married: Elizabeth FORTESCUE
Children:
3. Edward BROMLEY
5. Gerard BROMLEY
7. Anne BROMLEY
8. Jane BROMLEY
9. Joan BROMLEY
Born: 1566
Died: 20 Dec 1655
Father: Thomas BROMLEY (Lord Chancellor of England)
Mother: Elizabeth FORTESCUE
Married: Thomas DUNHAM (son of Ralph Dunham, Esq., and Elizabeth Wentworth)
Children:
1. Robert DUNHAM
Born: 1560
Died: 1630
Notes:
married to John Lyttleton or Littleton, a Papist and conspirator in Essex’s Rebellion who died in prison. He had been condemned to death and his estates forfeited but Muriel “begged the estate” of King James and managed to pay fines totally £25,000. This took her thirty years, during which time she raised her children at Hagley, Worcestershire.Father: Thomas BROMLEY (Lord Chancellor of England)
Mother: Elizabeth FORTESCUE
Married: John LITTLETON of Frankley (b. 1563 - d. Jul 1601) (son of Gilbert Lyttleton and Elizabeth Conningsby)
Children:
1. Thomas LITTLETON (b. 1596 - d. 22 Feb 1651)
2. Anne LITTLETON (d. 6 Feb 1624)
3. Bridget LITTLETON (m. Robert Tracy, 2nd Viscount Tracy)
4. Joan LITTLETON (b. 1593 - d. 18 Apr 1652) (m. Sherrington Talbot)
5. Edward LITTLETON
6. John LITTLETON
Born: 1566
Died: 1600
Father: Thomas BROMLEY (Lord Chancellor of England)
Mother: Elizabeth FORTESCUE
Married: Oliver CROMWELL (Sir Knight)
Children:
2. Thomas CROMWELL 4. William CROMWELL5. Elizabeth CROMWELL
7. Joan CROMWELL
8. Jane CROMWELL
Died: 1624
Father: Thomas BROMLEY (Lord Chancellor of England)
Mother: Elizabeth FORTESCUE
Married: Richard CORBETT (son of Reginald Corbet and Alice Gratewood)
Children:
1. John CORBETT (m. Anne Mainwaring)
2. Jane CORBETT (m. George Vernon)
Died: 1636
Father: Thomas BROMLEY (Lord Chancellor of England)
Mother: Elizabeth FORTESCUE
Married: Edward GREVILLE
Children:
1. John GREVILLE
2. Mary GREVILLE
Died: 1617
Father: Thomas BROMLEY (Lord Chancellor of England)
Mother: Elizabeth FORTESCUE
Married: Mary VINER
Children:
1. Anne BROMLEY (m. Oliver Chivers)
Henry BROMLEY
(Sir)
Born: ABT 1556, Holt Castle, Worcestershire, England Died: 15 May 1615, Shrarwardine, Shropshire, England Buried: Holt Castle, Worcestershire, England Notes: See
his Biography. Father:
Thomas BROMLEY
(Lord Chancellor of England) Mother:
Elizabeth FORTESCUE Married 1:
Elizabeth PELHAM Children: 1.
Thomas BROMLEY (Sir Knight) 2. Mary BROMLEY 3. Dau. BROMLEY 4. Dau. BROMLEY 5. Dau. BROMLEY Married 2:
Elizabeth VERNEY
26 Nov 1591 Children: 6. Son BROMLEY Married 3:
Anne SCOTT (dau. of
Sir Thomas Scott of Scot's Hall, and
Children:
7. Henry BROMLEY
8. Son BROMLEY
9. Son BROMLEY
Married 4: Anne BESWICKE (d. 1 Jan 1629) (dau. of William Beswicke of London) (w. of
William Offley) 7 Jun 1604Born: ABT 1525
Died: 2 Mar 1589
Buried: St Peter's, Worfield, Shropshire, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: George BROMLEY of Hodnet
Mother: Jane LACON
Married: Joan WAVERTON (dau. of John Waverton and Alice Baker)
Children:
4. Mary BROMLEY
7. George BROMLEY
8. John BROMLEY
Born: ABT 1560, Condover, Shropshire, England
Died: 1603
Father: George BROMLEY (Sir)
Mother: Joan WAVERTON
Married: Jane STEPHENS
Children:
1. William BROMLEYBorn: ABT 1565
Died: 1616, Combermere, Cheshire, England
Father: George BROMLEY (Sir)
Mother: Joan WAVERTON
Married: Francis WOLRYCHE (son of William Wolriche and Dorothy Poyner)
Children:
1. Thomas WOLRYCHE (1° Bt. of Dudmaston)
Born: 21 Jul 1566, Worfield, Shropshire, England
Died: ABT 1647, Comberbach, Cheshire, England
Father: George BROMLEY (Sir)
Mother: Joan WAVERTON
Married: George COTTON (son of
Richard Cotton and Mary Mainwaring) 20 Apr 1585, Worfield, Shropshire, EnglandChildren:
1. Thomas COTTON (Esq.) (b. 4 Apr 1599 - d. 1646) (m.1
Frances Needham - m.2 Elizabeth Calverley)2. Elizabeth COTTON
3. Martha COTTON
4. Dorothy COTTON
5. Frances COTTON
6. Judith COTTON
7. Anne COTTON
8. Grace COTTON
9. Joyce COTTON
10. Margaret COTTON
Father: George BROMLEY (Sir)
Mother: Joan WAVERTON
Married: Roger PULLESTON (Sir) (son of Roger Pulleston and Margaret Hanmer)
Born: 1556
Died: 1591
Notes: secured the county seat in 1584 through the influence of his father, who had held it in the two previous Parliaments. As knight for Shropshire he was appointed to the subsidy committee on 24 Feb 1585. On 11 Mar he was licensed to depart from the Parliament to attend the assizes. On his father’s death he inherited lands in Hodnet, Wistanswick, Allerton and elsewhere in Shropshire. He also came into a part of his mother’s estate at Hallon, near Bridgnorth.
Father: George BROMLEY (Sir)
Mother: Joan WAVERTON
Married: Joyce LEIGHTON (dau. of Sir Edward Leighton and Anne Dayrrell)
Born: 1563
Died: 2 Jun 1626
Notes: well placed both in legal circles at Westminster and in the society of his own county, where, on the death of his father in 1589, he acquired some land. He came into Parliament for Bridgnorth, where his father was recorder, and continued to sit for the borough until his elevation to the bench, making no mark on the proceedings of the House. Described by the letter-writer John Chamberlain on 23 Jan 1610 as ‘one Bromley an obscure lawyer of the Inner Temple’.
Father: George BROMLEY (Sir)
Mother: Joan WAVERTON
Married: Margaret LOWE (bur. 23 Mar 1657) (dau. and heir. of Nicholas Lowe of Enville) 18 Apr 1593
Born: ABT 1169, Weston, Staffordshire, England
Married: John De WESTON (Sir)
Children:
1. Hugh De WESTON (Sir)
2. John De WESTON (b. ABT 1196)
3. Henry De WESTON (b. ABT 1197)
4. Nicholas De WESTON (b. ABT 1200)
5. William De WESTON (b. ABT 1202)
6. Agnes De WESTON