FINCH FAMILY
Born: ABT 1285, Warblington, Sussex, England
Notes: According to BP1934 (Winchilsea and Nottingham), reporting Sir William Dugdale, the Finch family is probably descended from Henry FitzHerbert, chamberlain of King Henry I and ancestor of the Herbert Earls of Pembroke. They are thought to have changed their name to Finch after marriage to an heiress daughter of an earlier Finch family.Married: Dau. FINCH
Children:
Born: ABT 1309, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Mathew FITZHERBERT
Mother: Dau. FINCHMarried: Joan SALERNE (dau. of Sampson Salerne)
Children:
2. John HERBERT
3. Joan HERBERT
4. Vincent HERBERT
10. Dau. HERBERT
Died: AFT 1377
Father: Vincent HERBERT
Mother: Joan SALERNEMarried: Lucy De WIGSELL ABT 1370, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Vincent HERBERT
Mother: Joan SALERNEMarried: John De PELHAM
Children:1. John De PELHAM (Sir)
Father: Vincent HERBERT
Mother: Joan SALERNEMarried: John BATTAYLE (b. ABT 1345)
Born: ABT 1348, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Vincent HERBERT
Mother: Joan SALERNEMarried: Henry ALLARD
Father: Vincent HERBERT
Mother: Joan SALERNEMarried: Henry ALLARD
Father: Vincent HERBERT
Mother: Joan SALERNEMarried: Thomas MAIDSTONE
Father: Vincent HERBERT
Mother: Joan SALERNEMarried: John WALLER
Father: Vincent HERBERT
Mother: Joan SALERNEMarried: Henry COLEHAND
Died: 1385
Father: Vincent HERBERTMother: Joan SALERNE
Married: Parnell ALLARD (dau. of Nicholas Allard) ABT 1355, Winchelsea, Sussex, EnglandChildren:
3. Isabel FINCH
5. Joan FINCH
6. Henry FINCH
Born: ABT 1361, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Henry HERBERTMother: Parnell ALLARD
Married: Stephen De FORSHAM
Born: ABT 1363, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Henry HERBERTMother: Parnell ALLARD
Married: Hugh COLEBRAN
Born: ABT 1365, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Henry HERBERTMother: Parnell ALLARD
Married: John GODING
Born: ABT 1367, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Henry HERBERTMother: Parnell ALLARD
Married: Theobald HOPE
Born: ABT 1369, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Henry HERBERTMother: Parnell ALLARD
Married: Joan PADDIHURST
Born: ABT 1371, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Henry HERBERTMother: Parnell ALLARD
Married: Elizabeth HAWLO
Born: ABT 1359, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Henry HERBERTMother: Parnell ALLARD
Married: Joan PASSENDEN (dau. of Robert Passenden and Isabella Holden) ABT 1380, Kent, England
Children:
2. Henry FINCH
3. John FINCH
Born: ABT 1383, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Vincent FINCHMother: Joan PASSENDEN
Married: Elizabeth O'DINGSELLESBorn: ABT 1381, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Vincent FINCHMother: Joan PASSENDEN
Married: Isabella CRALLE (dau. of Robert De Cralle and Margaret Pepplesham) ABT 1402Children:
1. Isabel FINCH
2. William FINCH of Netherfield
3. John FINCH
4. Joan FINCH
Born: ABT 1401, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Died: 20 Nov 1454, Clifton, Newark, Nottinghamshire, EnglandFather: Vincent FINCH
Mother: Isabella CRALLEMarried 1: Gervase CLIFTON (Sir Knight) (b. ABT 1390 - d. BEF 1423) (son of John De Clifton and
Catherne De Cressy)Children:
1. Gervase CLIFTON (b. ABT 1418 - d. 8 Dec 1453) (m. Isabel Francis)
2. Robert CLIFTON (b. ABT 1419 - d. 7 Apr 1478) (m. Alice Booth)
Married 2: William SCOTT (Sir Sherrif of Kent) (b. ABT 1390 - d. 5 Feb 1433) (son of John Scott and Dau. Cumbe) ABT 11420, Scott's Hall, Kent, EnglandChildren:
1. John SCOTT (Sir High Sheriff of Kent) (b. 1423 - d. 1485) (m. Agnes Beaufitz)
Born: ABT 1405, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Died: 19 May 1442
Buried: Servington, Kent, England
Father: Vincent FINCH
Mother: Isabella CRALLEMarried: Elizabeth SEWER (dau. of Richard Sewer) ABT 1430, Lenstead, Kent, England
Born: ABT 1407, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Vincent FINCH
Mother: Isabella CRALLEMarried: Adam UNDERWOOD
Born: ABT 1409, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Vincent FINCH
Mother: Isabella CRALLEMarried: Thomas ASHBURNHAM
Born: ABT 1403, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Notes: Sheriff of Sussex and Surrey (a 1430).Father: Vincent FINCH
Mother: Isabella CRALLEMarried: Agnes ROO (dau. of Walter Roo of Dartford) ABT 1437
Children:1. John FINCH (b. ABT 1438 - d. 1447)
3. Vincent FINCH
4. Isabel FINCH
5. Nicholas FINCH
Died: 1493
Buried: 1493, Eklesham ChurchFather: William FINCH of Netherfield
Mother: Agnes ROO
Married: Alice BELKNAP (dau. of Phillip Belknap of The Moat) ABT 1457Children:
1. William FINCH of Burmarshe (Sir)
2. Henry FINCH
3. Phillip FINCH
William FINCH of Burmarshe (Sir)
Born: ABT 1475, Kent, EnglandFather: Henry FINCH of Netherfield
Mother: Alice BELKNAPMarried 1: Elizabeth CROWMER (dau. of Sir James Crowmer of Tunstal and Catherine Cantelope) ABT 1507, Tunstal, Kent, England
Children:
Married 2: Catherine GAINSFORD (dau. of Sir John Gaynsford of Crowhurst) ABT 1530, Crowhurst, Surrey, EnglandChildren:
6. Mary FINCH
Born: ABT 1531, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: William FINCH of Burmarshe (Sir)
Mother: Catherine GAINSFORDMarried: Marian SOMMERS ABT 1554
Born: ABT 1533, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: William FINCH of Burmarshe (Sir)
Mother: Catherine GAINSFORDMarried 1: Richard MORTON ABT 1555
Married 2: Thomas WOLTEN
Father: William FINCH of Burmarshe (Sir)
Mother: Catherine GAINSFORDMarried: Son WHITNEY ABT 1557
Born: ABT 1537 , Netherfield, Sussex, England
Notes: dsp.Father: William FINCH of Burmarshe (Sir)
Mother: Catherine GAINSFORDMarried: Dau. FERRERS ABT 1561
Born: ABT 1539, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: William FINCH of Burmarshe (Sir)
Mother: Catherine GAINSFORDMarried: Thomas THAWYTES
Died: ABT 1563
Notes: dsp.Father: William FINCH of Burmarshe (Sir)
Mother: Elizabeth CROWMERMarried: Mary KEMPE (dau. of Christopher Kemp)
Father: William FINCH of Burmarshe (Sir)
Mother: Elizabeth CROWMERMarried: Eleanor WALSINGHAM ABT 1536
Died: ABT 1563
Notes: In the fifteenth century a Cornwall family called Moyle came to Kent. They began to acquire wealth through land when in 1537 one Sir Thomas Moyle became a member and later Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, which administered the monastic property seized by Henry VIII. He hunted down heretics zealously, and with his rewards was able to buy the estate of Eastwell from the daughters of Sir Christopher Hales, Henry VIII's Attorney-General. Sir Thomas Moyle married Catherine Jordan or Jourdain, dau. of Sir Edward Jourdain. Their daughter Catherine married Sir Thomas Finch, a member of the then middling minor gentry of Kent. This man had distinguished himself on the battlefield and fighting at sea. Sir Thomas was knighted for his share in suppressing Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion in Kent against Queen Mary in 1553, was a soldier of note, and was the son and heir of Sir William Finch, who was knighted in 1513.Father: William FINCH of Burmarshe (Sir)
Mother: Elizabeth CROWMER
Married: Catherine MOYLE (b. ABT 1529 - 9 Feb 1586/7) (dau. of Sir Thomas Moyle of Eastwell and Catherine Jordan) (m.2 Nicholas St. Leger of Beamstone) 1 Mar 1552/3
Children:3. Thomas FINCH
4. Jane FINCH
Born: ABT 1560, Kerstenings, Berkshire, England
Buried: 27 Mar 1644, Boxley, Kent, EnglandFather: Thomas FINCH (Sir)
Mother: Catherine MOYLE
Married: George WYATT (Sir) 8 Oct 1582, Caswell, Kent, EnglandChildren:
2. Henry WYATT
3. Thomas WYATT
4. George WYATT
Born: ABT 1558, Eastwell, Kent, England
Notes: Sp.Father: Thomas FINCH (Sir)
Mother: Catherine MOYLE
Married: Dau. WILKINSBorn: ABT 1550, Eastwell, Kent, England
Died: 18 Dec 1614
Buried: Eastwell, Kent, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Thomas FINCH (Sir)
Mother: Catherine MOYLE
Married: Elizabeth HENEAGE (C. Winchelsea) 4 Nov 1572
Children:
1. Anne FINCH
2. Thomas FINCH (1º E. Winchelsea)
4. John FINCH
6. William FINCH
7. Robert FINCH
10. Elizabeth FINCH
Died: 14 Nov 1638
Father: Moyle FINCH (Sir Bt.)
Mother: Elizabeth HENEAGE (C. Winchelsea)
Married: William TWYSDEN (1° Bt. of Roydon Hall) (d. 8 Jan 1628) (son of Sir Roger Twysden of Pickham and Anne Wyatt)Children:
1. Roger TWYSDEN (Sir Bt.)
2. Thomas TWYSDEN (Sir Bt.)
3. Elizabeth TWYSDEN
4. Anne TWYSDEN
Died: BEF 1633
Notes: Knighted 30 Jul 1599. 2nd Bt. Member of Parliament. dsp.
Father: Moyle FINCH (Sir Bt.)
Mother: Elizabeth HENEAGE (C. Winchelsea)
Married: Elizabeth (Agnes) HEYDON 16 Jul 1596Died: 1639
Father: Moyle FINCH (Sir Bt.)
Mother: Elizabeth HENEAGE (C. Winchelsea)
Married: Anne WALLER (dau. of Thomas Waller) ABT 1603Children:
1. John FINCH
2. William FINCH
3. Elizabeth FINCH
Died: ABT 1612
Father: Moyle FINCH (Sir Bt.)
Mother: Elizabeth HENEAGE (C. Winchelsea)
Married: Anne BARKERBorn: 1588
Died: 1639
Notes: 2nd dau.
Father: Moyle FINCH (Sir Bt.)
Mother: Elizabeth HENEAGE (C. Winchelsea)
Married: John WENTWORTH (1° Bt.)
Children:
1. Cecilia Priscilla Anne WENTWORTH
2. Lucy WENTWORTH (C. Cleveland)
Born: ABT 1595, London, England
Died: 5 Dec 1631, Eastwell, Kent, EnglandFather: Moyle FINCH (Sir Bt.)
Mother: Elizabeth HENEAGE (C. Winchelsea)
Married 1: Frances BELL (dau. of Sir Edmund Bell of Beaupre Hall and Anne Osborne) ABT 1620, Beaupre-Hall, Norfolk, England
Children:
1. Heneage FINCH (1° E. Nottingham)
3. John FINCH (b. 1630 - d. 18 Nov 1682)
5. Son FINCH
6. Son FINCH
7. Son FINCH
8. Son FINCH
9. Dau. FINCH
10. Dau. FINCH
11. Dau. FINCH
Married 2: Elizabeth CRADDOCK (dau. of William Cradock of Staffordshire)
Children:
12. Elizabeth FINCH
13. Anne FINCH
Heneage FINCH (1° E. Nottingham)
Born: 23 Dec 1621
Died: 18 Dec 1682
Father: Heneage FINCH (Sir Knight)
Mother: Frances BELL
Married: Elizabeth HARVEY 30 Jul 1646, Allhallows, London, Middlesex, England
Children:
1. William FINCH
2. Charles FINCH
3. Henry FINCH
4. Robert FINCH
5. Edward FINCH
6. Thomas FINCH
7. Elizabeth FINCH
8. Mary FINCH
9. Mary FINCH
10. Heneage FINCH (1° E. Aylesford)
11. John FINCH
12. Daniel FINCH (7° E. Winchelsea / 2° E. Mottingham)
13. Anne FINCH
Father: Heneage FINCH (Sir Knight)
Mother: Frances BELL
Married: Elizabeth PARKHURST
Born: ABT 1631
Died: ABT 1650
Father: Heneage FINCH (Sir Knight)
Mother: Frances BELL
Married: Clifford CLIFTON (Sir) (son of Sir Gervase Clifton, Bt., and Frances Clifford)
Children:
1. Catherine CLIFTON
2. Arabella CLIFTON
3. William CLIFTON
Thomas FINCH (1º E. Winchelsea)
Born: ABT 1575, Winchelsea, Eastwell, England
Died: 4 Nov 1634, Charter-House, Yard, London, EnglandFather: Moyle FINCH (Sir Bt.)
Mother: Elizabeth HENEAGE (C. Winchelsea)
Married: Cecily WENTWORTH 1609, St. Mary Magdalen, LondonChildren:
1. Heneage FINCH (2° E. Winchelsea)
3. John FINCH
4. William FINCH
5. Anne FINCH
6. Catherine FINCH
7. Cecily FINCH
Died: 1676
Father: Thomas FINCH (1º E. Winchelsea)
Mother: Cecily WENTWORTH
Married: William STRICKLAND (Sir 1° Bt.) 3 May 1631
Children:
1. Thomas STRICKLAND of Boynton (Sir 2° Bt.)
Died: 1668
Father: Thomas FINCH (1º E. Winchelsea)
Mother: Cecily WENTWORTH
Married: William WALLER of Osterley Park (Sir) (b. ABT 1598 - d. 1668) (son of Sir Thomas Waller and Margaret Leonard) ABT 1635
Children:
1. William WALLER
2. Anne WALLER
Died: 1696
Father: Thomas FINCH (1º E. Winchelsea)
Mother: Cecily WENTWORTH
Married: Erasmus PHILLIPS (3° Bt. of Picton Castle) (d. 18 Jan 1697) (son of Sir Richard Philips, 2nd Bart of Picton Castle and Elizabeth Dryden)
Father: Thomas FINCH (1º E. Winchelsea)
Mother: Cecily WENTWORTH
Married: Nicholas TOKE ABT 1645
Died: 1652
Father: Thomas FINCH (1º E. Winchelsea)
Mother: Cecily WENTWORTH
Married: Ambrose MOORE (son of Thomas Moore of Croghan and Margaret Forth)
Heneage FINCH (2° E. Winchelsea)
Born: 1619, Eastham, Kent, EnglandDied: 28 Aug 1689, Eastwell, Kent, England
Buried: 4 Sep 1689, Eastwell, Kent, EnglandFather: Thomas FINCH (1º E. Winchelsea)
Mother: Cecily WENTWORTH
Married 1: Diana WILLOUGHBY (C. Winchelsea) 21 May 1645, St. Giles In Field, London, Middlesex, England
Children:
1. Son FINCH (bur. 27 Sep 1647)
Married 2: Mary SEYMOUR (C. Winchelsea) BEF 1649, Somersetshire, England
Children:
2. William FINCH (B. Maidstone) (b. 1648 - dvp 28 May 1672) (m. Elizabeth Wyndham)
3. Thomas FINCH (b. 1652 - 1695) (m. Anne Haydon)
4. Charles FINCH (b. 1654 - d. 1678)
5. Heneage FINCH (4° E. Winchelsea) (b. 3 Jan 1656 - dsp 30 Sep 1726)(m. Anne Kingsmill)
6. Lashly FINCH (b. 1658) (m. Barbara Scroop)
7. Henry FINCH (b. 1660 - d. 1671)
8. Frances FINCH (b. 1662 - d. 17 Apr 1712) (m. Thomas Thynne)
9. Leopold FINCH (b. 1662 - d. 14 Nov 1702) (m. Lucy Davie)
10. Mary FINCH (b. 1663 - d. 1658)
11. Elizabeth FINCH
12. Jane FINCH (b. 1667 - d. 1689)
Married 3: Catherine NORCLIFFE (dspm 1679) (dau. of Sir Thomas Norcliffe of Langton) 10 Apr 1673Married 4: Elizabeth AYRES (d. 10 Apr 1745) (dau. of John Ayres of London) 29 Oct 1681
Children:
13. John FINCH (5° E. Winchilsea) (b. 24 Feb 1682/3 - d. 09 Sep 1729)
14. Cecily FINCH (b. 7 Aug 1681 - d. 4 Mar 1690)15. Anne FINCH (b. 1687 - d. 17 Nov 1704)
Born: ABT 1553, Eastwell, Kent, England
Died: 11 Oct 1625Father: Thomas FINCH (Sir)
Mother: Catherine MOYLE
Married: Ursula THWAITES ABT 1590Children:
1. John FINCH (1° B. Finch of Fordwich)
Born: ABT 1592
Father: Henry FINCH (Sir)
Mother: Ursula THWAITES
Married: Henry WYATT 8 Dec 1618, St. Andrews
Children:
1. Eleanor WYATT
John FINCH (1° B. Finch of Fordwich)
Born: 17 Sep 1584
Died: 27 Nov 1660
Buried: St Martins Church, near Canterbury
Notes: Lord Chief Justice. generally known as Sir John Finch, English judge, a member of the old family of Finch, was called to the bar in 1611. He was returned to parliament for Canterbury in 1614, and became recorder of the same place in 1617. Having attracted the notice of Charles I, who visited Canterbury in 1625, and was received with an address by Finch in his capacity as recorder, he was the following year appointed kings counsel and attorney-general to the Queen and was knighted. In 1628 he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons, a post which he retained till its dissolution in 1629. He was the speaker who was held down in his chair by Holles and others on the occasion of Sir John Eliots resolution on tonnage and poundage. In 1634 he was appointed Chief Justice of the court of common pleas, and distinguished himself by the active zeal with which he upheld the kings prerogative. Notable also was the brutality which characterized his conduct as chief justice, particularly in the cases of William Prynne and John Langton. He presided over the trial of John Hampden, who resisted the payment of ship-money, and be was chiefly responsible for the decision of the judges that ship-money was constitutional. As a reward for his services he was, in 1640, appointed lord keeper, and was also created Baron Finch of Fordwich. He had, however, become so unpopular that one of the first acts of the Long Parliament, which met in the same year was his impeachment. He took refuge in Holland, but had to suffer the sequestration of his estates. When he was allowed to return to England is uncertain, but in 1660 he was one of the commissioners for the trial of the regicides, though he does not appear to have taken much part in the proceedings. His peerage becoming extinct at his death.
Father: Henry FINCH (Sir)
Mother: Ursula THWAITES
Married 1: Mabella FOTHERBY (dau. of Charles Fotherby and Cecilia Waller) ABT 1609
Children:
1. Dau. FINCH (m. Sir George Radcliffe in Ireland)
Married 2: Eleanor WYATT 6 Feb 1618, Boxley, Kent, England
Father: Ralph FINCH
Mother: ¿?Married: Josias CHENEY ABT 1570, Kingsdown, Kent, England
Children:
1. John CHENEY
2. Ashley CHENEY (b. 1572)
3. Norton CHENEY (b. 1573)
5. Agnes CHENEY (b. 1575)
6. Dorothy CHENEY (b. 1576)
7. Elizabeth CHENEY (b. 1577)
Father: James FINCH
Mother: ¿?Married 1: John DAWES (Alderman of London)
Married 2: Richard GREY (3º E. Kent) 23 Jan 1520
Father: Roger FINCH
Mother: ¿?Married: George CLIFFORD of Bobbing Court (Esq.) ABT 1560, Bobbing, Kent, England
Children:
4. Lewis CLIFFORD
5. Richard CLIFFORD
6. Clement CLIFFORD
7. George CLIFFORD
8. Elizabeth CLIFFORD
9. Mary CLIFFORD
10. Catherine CLIFFORD