NORREYS FAMILY
Notes: The name Norreys has at least 2 potential derivations: one who came from the north or who lived in the north (there was a word "noreis" or "norreis" meaning a northerner), or from one who cared for others (the word "norrice" for nurse). There are also references to Noreis back in the 12° century and to a Robert le Noris in the 1297 Yorkshire Subsidy Roll.
Married: Nichole HASELLWALL
Children:
1. Alan Le NORREYSFather: John Le NORREYS
Mother: Nichole HASELLWALL
Married: ¿?Children:
1. Henry Le NORREYS (Sir)Father: Alan Le NORREYS
Mother: ¿?
Married: Agnes IRELANDChildren:
1. John Le NORREYSFather: Henry Le NORREYS (Sir)
Mother: Agnes IRELAND
Married: Cecily MASSEYChildren:
1. Henry NORREYSBorn: Speake, Lancaster, England
Father: John Le NORREYSMother: Cecily MASSEY
Married: Alice ERNEIS (dau. of Roger Erneis of Chester and Joan Molineux)Children:
1. John NORREYSBorn: Bray, Berkshire, England
Father: Henry NORREYS
Mother: Alice ERNEIS
Married: Millicent RAVENSCROFT
Children:
Born: England
Father: John NORREYS
Mother: Millicent RAVENSCROFT
Married: ¿?
Children:Father: Roger NORREYS
Mother: ¿?
Married: Christian STRECH (b. Ruscombe, Berkshire, England)
Children:
1. John NORREYS (Esq.)Born: ABT 1420, Bray, Berkshire, England
Father: William NORREYS
Mother: Christian STRECH
Married: Thomas BULSTRODE
Children:
1. Jane BULSTRODE (m. Sir Walter Hungerford)
Died: 1 Sep 1466
Notes: keeper of the great wardrobe to Henry VI. He acquired the manor of Yattendon through his first wife and bought many neighbouring estates.
Father: William NORREYS
Mother: Christian STRECH
Married 1: Alice MERBROOKE (dau. of Richard Merbrook of Yattendon)
Children:
1. Anne NORREYS
3. John NORREYS of Bray (Esq.)
Married 2: Margaret CHEDWORTH (D. Norfolk) (d. 1494 - bur. Stoke Neyland) (dau. of Sir John Chedworth) (w. of Nicholas Wyfold, Lord Mayor of London - m.3 John Howard, 1° D. Norfolk) AFT 1456
Born: ABT 1450, Bray, Berkshire, England
Father: John NORREYS (Esq.)
Mother: Alice MERBROOKE
Married: John HARCOURT (Sir Knight) ABT 1471, Bray, Berkshire, EnglandChildren:
2. Robert HARCOURT (Sir Knight)
3. Richard HARCOURT (b. ABT 1482, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England)
4. William HARCOURT (b. ABT 1485, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England)
Died: 10 Oct 1485
Father: John NORREYS (Esq.)
Mother: Alice MERBROOKE
Married 1: Elizabeth (Isabel) WILFORD (dau. of Nicholas Wyfold, Aldermen of London, and Margaret Chedworth, D. Norfolk) (m.2 Henry Marney, 1° B. Marney)
Children:
1. Anne NORREYS
Born: 1482
Died: 6 Sep 1508
Father: John NORREYS of Bray (Esq.)
Mother: Elizabeth (Isabel) WILFORD
Married: Julyan TYRRELL (d. 1556) (dau. of Humphrey Tyrrell and Elizabeth Walwyn) (m.2 Richard Norwich)
Children:
1. John NORREYS (b. 1507)
Born: ABT 1480, Little Warley, Essex, England
Died: 1531
Notes: requested to be buried within the Barking Abbey’s Lady Chapel, as “nyghe my dought[er] fortune I may. Step daughter Susan Sulyard, and “cousin”, Dame Agnes Townsend - both beneficiaries of her will in their own right - were nuns at Barking Abbey. Barking is the only religious house mentioned in her testament, and is the target of substantial patronage: Anne bequeathed to the abbey a gilt cup, satin gowns to make two vestments, and forty shillings to the nuns to pray for her; a pax and vestment were to go to its appanage, the chapel of All Hallows; and the abbess, Dorothy Barley, was gifted a richly illuminated tablet of gold.
Father: John NORREYS of Bray (Esq.)
Mother: Elizabeth (Isabel) WILFORD
Married 1: Edward SULYARD (Esq.)
Children:
2. Mary SULYARD
Married 2: John TYRRELL of Little Warley Hall (Sir) (son of Humphrey Tyrrell and Elizabeth Walwyn)
Children:
3. Gertrude TYRRELL (b. ABT 1504 - d. 28 May 1541) (m. Sir William Petre)
4. Mary TYRRELL (Nun at Barking)
5. John TYRRELL
6. Margaret TYRRELL
7. Maurice TYRRELL
Born: ABT 1440, Yattendon, Berkshire, England
Died: 4 Jan 1507
Notes: was among the army Henry VII brought from France in 1485 and was present at the battle of Bosworth.
Father: John NORREYS (Esq.)
Mother: Alice MERBROOKE
Married 1: Isabel INGOLDESTHORPE (M. Montague) (b. 1441, Borough Green, Cambridgeshire, England - d. 25 May 1476, Bisham, Berkshire) (dau. of Edmund Ingoldesthorpe and Joan Tiptopf) (w. of John Neville, 1° M. Montague) 25 Apr 1472
Children:
Married 2: Joan HORNE (dau. of Robert Horne and Joan Fabian) (w. of John Harcourt) ABT 1480
Children:
2. Lionel NORREYS (b. ABT 1480 - d. 1537)
4. Anne NORREYS
5. Jane NORREYS
Married 3: Jane De VERE
Children:
Died: AFT 1552
Father: William NORREYS (Sir)
Mother: Isabel INGOLDESTHORPE (M. Montague)
Married: William FERMOR (Sir Knight) (See his Biography) BEF 1539
Born: ABT 1481
Father: William NORREYS (Sir)
Mother: Joan HORNE
Married: John LANGFORD
Children:
1. Anne LANGFORD (b. 1500) (m. William Stafford)
Born: ABT 1482
Father: William NORREYS (Sir)
Mother: Joan HORNE
Married: Thomas WROUGHTON
Born: ABT 1483
Father: William NORREYS (Sir)
Mother: Joan HORNE
Married: John CHENEY 1505
Children:
1. John CHENEY (b. ABT 1507)
2. John CHENEY
3. Margaret CHENEY (B. Zouche of Harryngworth)
6. Jane CHENEY
8. Elizabeth CHENEY
Born: ABT 1488, Bray, Berkshire, England
Father: William NORREYS (Sir)
Mother: Jane De VERE
Married: Gilbert BULLOCK (Esq.) (b. ABT 1485, Arborfield, Berkshire, England) (son of Robert Bullock and Eleanor?)
Children:
1. Thomas BULLOCK
2. Christopher BULLOCK
3. Alice BULLOCK
4. Anne BULLOCK
5. Eleanor BULLOCK
Died: 22 Jan 1518
Father: William NORREYS (Sir)
Mother: Jane De VERE
Married: Thomas FETTIPLACE of Compton Beauchamp
Children:
1. Thomas FETTIPLACE of Compton Beauchamp
2. Elizabeth FETTIPLACE
3. Catherine FETTIPLACE (b. ABT 1482)
Born: ABT 1465
Died: ABT 1522
Father: William NORREYS (Sir)
Mother: Jane De VERE
Married: Eleanor CHENEY
Children:
1. Anne NORREYS
Born: ABT 1497
Father: Richard NORREYS
Mother: Eleanor CHENEY
Married: Richard BRYDGES BEF 1525
Born: ABT 1465, Yattenden, Berkshire, England
Father: William NORREYS (Sir)
Mother: Jane De VERE
Married: Frideswide LOVELL
Children:
1. John NORREYS of Yattendon (Sir)
John NORREYS of Yattendon (Sir)
Born: ABT 1484
Died: 1563
Notes: Esquire of the body of Henry VII, and was afterwards usher of the outer chamber both to Kings Henry VIII and Edward VI. He was afterwards promoted, as ‘a rank papist’, to be chief usher of the privy chamber to Queen Mary. He married Elizabeth, sister of Edmund, Lord Bray; but dying, according to Dugdale, on 21 Oct 1564, left no legitimate issue, and his property descended to his brother's son.
Father: Edward NORREYS (Sir)
Mother: Frideswide LOVELL
Married 1: Elizabeth BRAY
¿Married 2: Catherine HOWARD?
Born: 1491
Died: 17 May 1536, Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Edward NORREYS (Sir)
Mother: Frideswide LOVELL
Married 1: Anne LOVELL
Married 2: Mary FIENNES ABT 1520, Hurstmonceaux, Sussex, England
Children:
1. Henry NORREYS (1º B. Norreys of Rycote)
2. Edward NORREYS (b. 1524 - d. 16 Jul 1529)
3. Mary NORREYS
Died: 1570
Buried: 24 Oct 1570, Dartington, Devon, England
Notes: maid of honor, some say to Anne Boleyn, probably to Jane Seymour, definitely to Anne of Cleves, and probably to Catherine Howard. There was also a "Mary Norice" in Elizabeth Tudor's household c. 1536, and this may also be the same woman. Mary married Sir George Carew, Vice Admiral of the English fleet and was at Southsea Castle with the King in 1545, watching the ship her husband was aboard, the Mary Rose, when it suddenly rolled over and sank. Lady Carew fainted. In armor, her husband had no hope of surviving. She married a second time in 1546 to Sir Arthur Champernowne of Dartington.
Father: Henry NORREYS (Sir Knight)
Mother: Mary FIENNES
Married 1: George CAREW (Sir)
Married 2: Arthur CHAMPERNOWNE (Sir Knight)
Children:
5. George CHAMPERNOWNE
6. Edward CHAMPERNOWNE (d. 1612)
Henry NORREYS (1º B. Norreys of Rycote)
Born: ABT 1525, Bray, Berkshire, England
Acceded: 1572
Died: 27 Jun 1601
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Henry NORREYS (Sir Knight)
Mother: Mary FIENNES
Married: Margery WILLIAMS (B. Norreys of Rycote) BEF 1544
Children:
6. Thomas NORREYS (Sir Lord President of Munster)
8. Mary NORREYS
Died: Oct 1603, Ireland / Englefield, Berkshire, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Henry NORREYS (1º B. Norreys of Rycote)
Mother: Margery WILLIAMS (B. Norreys of Rycote)
Married: Elizabeth NORREYS 17 Jul 1600
Born: 1554
Died: 1599
Notes: fought in the Netherlands and then in Ireland, where he was
killed in 1599.
Governor of Ostend in 1590
Father: Henry NORREYS (1º B. Norreys of Rycote)
Mother: Margery WILLIAMS (B. Norreys of Rycote)
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. John NORREYS
Father: Henry NORREYS (Sir)
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Mary NORREYS
Notes: her fifth son died aboard Mayflower, Plymouth Harbour, 22 Dec 1620.
Father: John NORREYS
Mother: ¿?
Married: Isaac ALLERTON ABT 1610Children:
1. Bartholomew ALLERTON
2. Remember ALLERTON
3. Mary ALLERTON4. Son ALLERTON
5. Son ALLERTON
Died:
1593 Notes: killed in Brittany. |
Thomas NORREYS (Sir Lord President of Munster)
Born: 1556
Died: 1599
Notes:
went as a
soldier to Ireland in 1579 and acted for a few months as president of Connaught.
He fought against the Fitzgeralds and also in Ulster; in 1585 he became
vice-president of Munster, and in 1597 he succeeded his brother, Sir John
Norreys, as president.
In Ireland with Captain Careill in 1584 before he became general of
troops for the Roanoke voyages. Thomas Gates his lieutenant.
Father: Henry NORREYS (1º B. Norreys of Rycote)
Mother: Margery WILLIAMS (B. Norreys of Rycote)
Married: Bridget KINGSMILL (b. 1574 - d. AFT 1600) (dau. of Sir William Kingsmill of Sydmonton and Bridget Raleigh)
Children:
Father: Thomas NORREYS (Sir Lord President of Munster)
Mother: Bridget KINGSMILL
Married: John JEPHSON (Sir Maj. General)
Children:1. William JEPHSON (Maj. General)
Born: ABT 1553
Died: 1602
Father: Henry NORREYS (1º B. Norreys of Rycote)
Mother: Margery WILLIAMS (B. Norreys of Rycote)
Married: Anthony PAULET (Knight) ABT 1581, Rycote, Oxfordshire, England
Children:
1. Elizabeth PAULET2. John PAULET (1° b: Paulet of Hinton)
Born: ABT 1541/1545/1546
Died: 3 Jul 1597, Mallow, Ireland
Buried: Tattendon Church, Berkshire, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Henry NORREYS (1º B. Norreys of Rycote)
Mother: Margery WILLIAMS (B. Norreys of Rycote)
Married: ¿?
Father: Henry NORREYS (1º B. Norreys of Rycote)
Mother: Margery WILLIAMS (B. Norreys of Rycote)
Married: William COCKAYNE (b. 1561 - d. 20 Oct 1626) (son of William Cockayne and Elizabeth Metcalffe) 22 Jun 1596, Rushton, Northamptonshire, EnglandChildren:
1. Anne COCKAYNE (b. ABT 1603 - d. May 1668) (m. Hatton Fermor)2. Martha COCKAYNE (m. Montague Bertie, 2° E. Lindsay)
3. Charles COCKAYNEBorn: ABT 1541/1545/1546
Died: 27 Dec 1579, Ireland
Father: Henry NORREYS (1º B. Norreys of Rycote)
Mother: Margery WILLIAMS (B. Norreys of Rycote)
Married: Elizabeth MORISON (C. Lincoln) (b. 1545 - d. 1611)(dau. of Sir Richard Morison and Bridget Hussey)
Children:
1. Francis NORREYS (1° E. Berkshire)
Francis NORREYS (1° E. Berkshire)
Born: 1578 / 6 Jul 1582
Acceded: 28 Jan 1621/2
Died: 29 Jan 1621/2
Notes: succeeded to his grandfather’s barony as 2° B. Norreys of Rycote and also to the estates of his uncle Sir Edward Norreys. In 1621 Francis was created Earl of Berkshire. He was contemplating divorce when he committed the crime of elbowing Lord Scrope in the presence of royalty and was sent to the Fleet. Upon his release, he went home to Rycote and killed himself using a crossbow. His estate was then forfeit to the Crown. He left no sons and the earldom became extinct, but the barony descended to his daughter Elizabeth (d. 1645), the wife of Edward Wray (d. 1658). Their daughter Bridget (b. 1627 — d. 1657) married as his second wife Montague Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey, and their son James Bertie (1654—1699) became Baron Norris (or Norreys) in 1657, and was created Earl of Abingdon ifl 1682. His descendants the Berties, earls of Abingdon, still hold this barony, and are the present representatives of the family of Norris.
Father: William NORREYS (Sir)
Mother: Elizabeth MORISON (C. Lincoln)
Married: Bridget De VERE (B. Norreys of Rycote) Apr 1598
Children:1. Elizabeth NORREYS (B. Norreys of Rycote)
Elizabeth NORREYS (B. Norreys of Rycote)
Buried: 28 Nov 1645, Westminster Abbey, London, England
Notes: by 1621, Elizabeth was being courted by Edward Wray of the king’s household. The couple were said to be in love. But her father, who had just been created Earl of Berkshire, was making difficulties. For one thing, he was contemplating divorce, which would make Elizabeth illegitimate. For another, Berkshire had elbowed Lord Scrope out of his way when Scrope tried to push in front of him in the House of Lords. Unfortunately, since Prince Charles was in attendance, this was a crime. Berkshire was sent to the Fleet. When he was released, he went home to Rycote and killed himself with a crossbow. As his death was a suicide, his estate was forfeit to the Crown and Elizabeth became the king’s ward. Fearful that she would be forced into a marriage with Christopher Villiers, brother of the king’s favorite, Elizabeth resolved to elope. She was apparently living in, or at least visiting, Phillip Herbert, Earl of Montgomery, who was married to her aunt, Susan de Vere —the likely source of the story that she was his mistress— on 27 Mar 1622 when she crept out and walked three miles to St. Mary Aldermary’s Church to marry Wray. After the ceremony, she went to the Fleet Street house of her uncle, Henry de Vere, Earl of Oxford, for protection. When news of the secret marriage got out, Wray was put under house arrest until Feb of 1623 and lost his post at court. Oxford was sent to the Tower. It is said that the story of the elopement inspired Orlando Gibbons’s Fantazies. It is not clear where Elizabeth was while her new husband was confined to his house, but they were eventually reunited and had a daughter, Bridget.
Father: Francis NORREYS (1° E. Berkshire) Mother: Bridget De VERE (B. Norreys of Rycote) Married: Edward WRAY (Groom of the Bedchamber) 27 Mar 1622 Children: 1. Bridget WRAY (b. 12 May 1627 - Mar 1657) |
Born: ABT 1525
Father: John NORREYS
Mother: ¿?
Married: Richard STAVERTON (b. ABT 1520 - d. 1577) (son of Richard Staverton and Margaret Weston)
Children:
1. Mabel STAVERTON (b. ABT 1548) (m.1 Nicholas Williams - m.2 Francis Waferer - m.3 Reade Stafford)
2. Richard STAVERTON (b. ABT 1550 - d. 10 Jun 1617) (m. Elizabeth Butler)
Born: ABT 1382, Norries, Devonshire, England
Father: William NORREYS
Mother: ¿?
Married: John FORTESCUE (Sir)
Children:
3. John FORTESCUE (Sir Chief Justice)