PARR FAMILY
I. KENDAL LINE
Died: AFT 1350
Married: Maud LEYBURNE (dau. of Sir Richard Leyburne)
Children:
Died: 4 Oct 1405, Kendal Castle, Westmoreland
Father: John PARR (Sir Knight)
Mother: Maud LEYBURNE
Married: Elizabeth ROS 1383
Children:
Born: ABT 1383
Died: 1409
Father: William PARR (Sir Knight)
Mother: Elizabeth ROS
Married: Agnes CROPHULL (dau. and heir of Sir Thomas Crophill and Sybil De La Bere) (w. of Walter Devereux - m.3 John Marbury)
Children:
1. Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Born: ABT 1411
Died: 1464
Notes: Attainted at Coventry, 38 Henry VI.
Father: John PARR of Kendal
Mother: Agnes CROPHULL
Married: Alice TUNSTALL (dau. of Sir Thomas Tunstall of Thurland Castle and Eleanor Fitzhugh)
Children:
1. William PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
2. Mabel PARR (B. Dacre of the North)
3. Agnes PARR
4. John PARR (Sir Sheriff of Westmoreland)
5. Thomas PARR
7. Anne PARR
Mabel PARR (B. Dacre of the North)
Born: ABT 1441, Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England
Died: 14 Nov 1508
Father: Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice TUNSTALL
Married: Humphrey DACRE (1° B. Dacre of the North)
Children:
1. Thomas DACRE (2º B. Gillesland/ 1º B. Greystoke)
3. Catherine DACRE (B. Fitzhugh)
4. Christopher DACRE (Sir Sheriff of Cumberland)
6. Anne DACRE
Born: ABT 1443, Kendal, Westmoreland, England
Died: ABT 1490
Father: Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice TUNSTALL
Married: Thomas STRICKLAND of Sizergh (Sir)
Children:
1. Walter STRICKLAND of Sizergh (Sir Knight)
5. Gervase STRICKLAND (b. ABT 1469 - d. AFT 1516)
6. Thomas STRICKLAND (b. ABT 1467 - d. 10 May 1516)
John PARR (Sir Sheriff of Westmoreland)
Notes: Sir John is noticed by Burn, Hist. Westm. vol. i. p. 43. In Nichols's Leicestershire is an elaborate pedigree of his descendants, which embraces two branches--one settled in Derbyshire, and the other in Leicestershire, of whom was the late Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D. See Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. iv. p. 725 ; and Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 779.
Father: Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice TUNSTALL
Married: Dau. YONGE (dau. of Sir John Yonge, Lord Mayor of London)
Died: 1472, slain at Barnet Field
Buried: Greyfriar´s Church, London
Father: Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice TUNSTALL
Born: ABT 1440
Father: Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice TUNSTALL
Married: Thomas RADCLIFFE of Derwentwater (Sir)
Children:1. John RADCLIFFE of Derwentwater (Sir)
2. Richard RADCLIFFE (Sir Knight)
5. Christopher RADCLIFFE
6. Rowland RADCLIFFE
7. Ellen RADCLIFFE
10. Thomas RADCLIFFE
11. Elizabeth RADCLIFFE
12. Margaret RADCLIFFE
Father: Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice TUNSTALL
Married: William HARRINGTON of Cartmell
Children:Father: Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice TUNSTALL
Married: Christopher MORESBY of Moresby (Sir)
Children:
1. Anne MORESBY (m. James Pickering)
Father: Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice TUNSTALL
Married: Henry AGARD (Sir)
William PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Born: ABT 1439, Kendal Castle, Westmoreland, England
Died: shortly BEF 26 Feb 1483/4
Notes: Knight of the Garter. High in favour with Edward IV. Sheriff of Cumberland 1473, Member of Parliament for Westmoreland 6 and 12 Edward IV. Fought as a Yorkist on the side of the Nevilles at Banbury.
Father: Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Mother: Alice TUNSTALL
Married 1: Joan TRUSBET
Married 2: Elizabeth FITZHUGH (B. Vaux of Harrowden)
Children:
1. Anne PARR
2. Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir)
3. William PARR (1°. B. Parr of Horton)
Born: ABT 1476, Kendal Castle, Westmoreland, England
Died: 4 Nov 1513
Father: William PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Mother: Elizabeth FITZHUGH (B. Vaux of Harrowden)
Married: Thomas CHENEY of Irthlingborough (Sir)
Children:
1. Elizabeth CHENEY (B. Vaux of Harrowden)
Died: 8 Sep 1508, in d.s.p.
Buried: Irthlinghborough
Father: William PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Mother: Elizabeth FITZHUGH (B. Vaux of Harrowden)
Married: Constance De VERE 15 Sep 1499
Born: ABT 1483
Died: Nov 1517
Buried: Blackfriars Church, London
Notes: Master of the Guards and Comptroller to Henry VIII. Sheriff of Northampton 1509, and of Lincoln 1510. Sir Thomas was found to have held messuages, lands, woods, and rents in Parr, Wigan, and Sutton, with the manor of Thurnham. Maud Green was a ward of the crown before she married Sir Thomas Parr. She was at court as a lady of the privy chamber to Catalina of Aragon. She was actively involved in arranging marriages for her two oldest children, and saw to it that all three were well educated. Lady Parr was buried with her husband in Blackfriars, London, where they had a house.
Father: William PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Mother: Elizabeth FITZHUGH (B. Vaux of Harrowden)
Married: Maud GREEN (b. ABT 1492 - d. 1 Dec 1531) (dau. of Sir Thomas Green of Green's Norton and Joan Fogge) 1508
Children:
1. Catherine PARR (Queen of England)
2. William PARR (1° M. Northampton)
Born: 1514
Died: 20 Feb 1551/2
Buried: 28 Feb 1551, St. Paul Cathedral, London, Middlesex, England
Notes: See her Biography.
Father: Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir)
Mother: Maud GREEN
Married: William HERBERT (1° E. Pembroke)
Children:
1. Henry HERBERT (2º E. Pembroke)
3. Anne HERBERT
William PARR (1° M. Northampton)
Born: ABT 1513
Acceded: 16 Feb 1546
Died: 28 Oct 1571, Warwick, England
Buried: Collegiate Church, Warwick, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir)
Mother: Maud GREEN
Married 1: Anne (Claire) BOURCHIER (16° B. Bourchier) 9 Feb 1526, London DIVORCED 1551
Married 2: Elizabeth BROOKE (M. Northampton) Jan 1547/48, England
Married 3: Helen SNAKENBORG (M. Northampton) (b. ABT 1549 - d. 1 Apr 1635) (dau. of Wolfangus Snakenborg) (m.2 Sir Thomas Gorges)(See her Biography)
Catherine PARR (Queen of England)
Born: ABT 1508/12/20, probably Blackfriars, London, England
Died: 30 Aug/5 Sep 1548, Childbirth
Buried: St Mary's Church, Sudeley Castle
Notes: See her Page.
Father: Thomas PARR of Kendal (Sir)
Mother: Maud GREEN
Married 1: Edward BOROUGH (Sir) ABT 1526, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England
Married 2: John NEVILLE (3° B. Latimer) 1533, London, Middlesex, England
Married 3: HENRY VIII TUDOR (King of England) 1543, Hampton Court chapel
Married 4: Thomas SEYMOUR (1° B. Seymour of Sudeley) 4 Apr 1547
Children:
1. Mary SEYMOUR
William PARR (1° B. Parr of Horton)
Acceded: 23 Dec 1543
Died: 10 Sep 1546
Buried: Horton
Notes: Sheriff of Northamptonshire. Esquire to the Body to Henry VII & Henry VIII. He was the uncle of Catherine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII of England. As such, he was chamberlain to her Majesty. He was made a peer of the realm on 23 Dec 1543.
Father: William PARR of Kendal (Sir Knight)
Mother: Elizabeth FITZHUGH (B. Vaux of Harrowden)
Married: Mary (Alice) SALISBURY (d. 10 Jul 1555 - Bur. Horton) (dau. and co- heir of Sir William Salisbury)
Children:
1. Maud PARR
2. Anne PARR
4. Mary PARR
5. Margery PARR
Born: ABT 1507
Died: 1558/9
Notes: married Sir Ralph Lane of Orlingbury in 1523, although they did not live together as man and wife until 1527. In 1543, by then a widow, she entered the service of her cousin, Queen Catherine Parr. She shared evangelical religious views with several other of the Queen’s ladies and was at one point in danger of arrest. Maud Lane survived Henry VIII’s reign and retired to the country until her death in 1558 or 1559. She is not, therefore, the Lady Lane who gave Queen Elizabeth a New Year’s gift in 1561/2. That was probably Maud’s daughter-in-law, Catherine Copley (d. Mar 1563), wife of her son Robert. Her second son, Ralph Lane, is remembered for his career under Elizabeth, when he took part in the voyages to the New World and was for a time governor of Virginia, later served with Drake and finally became a leading official in Ireland. Lane was in his twenties, and perhaps still a member of the Middle Temple, when he was returned for Higham Ferrers to Mary's last Parliament. He was its first Member, for the borough had been given its single seat in Parliament by a charter of Mar 1556, and the choice of so young and untried a man is somewhat surprising. Lane's principal attraction is likely to have been his domicile in London, which would spare the borough the ‘charges and costs’ provided for in the charter, but there would have been no lack of similarly inexpensive candidates. As a duchy of Lancaster borough Higham Ferrers might have been expected to return a duchy nominee. Lane had no known connexion with the successive chancellors at this time, Sir Robert Rochester and Sir Edward Waldegrave, but he was related by marriage to the chief duchy official on the spot, the steward and receiver Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, and his other relatives the Throckmortons were not without standing there: John Throckmorton had been bailiff from 1535 until 1554, and since 1553 Sir Nicholas Throckmorton had held the reversion of the stewardship. It was with Sir Nicholas Throckmorton that Lane's elder brother Robert had been a knight of the shire in the Parliament of March 1553, and although Throckmorton was under a cloud in 1558 his local influence was still strong. It was to these and his other impressive connexions as a grandson of the 1st Baron Parr and cousin of a Queen and a marquess that Lane probably owed his election in 1558 and in 1563. He died in Oct 1603 and was buried in St. Patrick's, Dublin.
Father: William PARR (1° B. Parr of Horton)
Mother: Mary (Alice) SALISBURY
Married: Ralph LANE of Orlingbury (Sir) (b. 1509 - d. 1540) 1523
Children:
1. Laetitia LANE (m. Sir Peter Wentworth, Knight)
2. Robert LANE (Sir Knight) (b. 7 Jan 1527, Hogshaw, Bucks. and Horton, Northants. - d. ABT 1588) (m.1 Catherine Copley - m.2 Mary Heneage)
3. Ralph LANE (b. 1532 - d. 1603)
4. William LANE
5. Frances LANE
6. Mary LANE
7. Jane LANE
8. Dorothy LANE
9. Catherine LANE
Born: ABT 1490
Father: William PARR (1° B. Parr of Horton)
Mother: Mary (Alice) SALISBURY
Married: Thomas TRESHAM (Sir)
Children:
4. Mary TRESHAM
Father: William PARR (1° B. Parr of Horton)
Mother: Mary (Alice) SALISBURY
Married: Nicholas WOODHALL (Sir)
Father: William PARR (1° B. Parr of Horton)
Mother: Mary (Alice) SALISBURY
Married 1: John DIGBY of Ketilby (Sir)
Married 2: Henry BROOKE (Sir)
Born: ABT 1520
Died: 1562
Father: William PARR (1° B. Parr of Horton)
Mother: Mary (Alice) SALISBURY
Married: Richard PERRY
Children:
1. Maria PERRY (m. Thomas Baskerville)