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Bushe, Wandesford, Osborne, Leveson, Lowther and Bowes

The Bushe connection to the Coghills

This brief history begins with a focus on Charles Kendal Bushe – ‘the Incorruptible Irishman’, but continues to contemplate the Wandesford, Lowther, Osborne, Leveson and Bowes ancestors.

Charles Kendal Bushe (the ‘Incorruptible Irishman’)

Charles Kendal Bushe (‘CKB‘) (211 112 1) was born 13th January 1767, the only son of the Rev. Thomas Bushe of Kilmurry, County Kilkenny, Ireland.

CKB’s entry in the Dictionary of National Biography, below, is a picture of the distinguished gentleman’s life.  This life was also captured in her book “The Incorruptible Irishman” by Edith Anna Œnone Somerville (a relative of the Coghills), and reviewed in the Spectator magazine in 1932.

http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/14th-may-1932/19/portrait-of-an-irishman

CKB married Nancy Crampton in 1793 and one of their daughters, Anna Maria Bushe, married (as his second wife) Admiral Sir Josiah Coghill Bt.

The Bushe Ancestry

This ancestry takes us through some illustrious family lines (such as the Wandesfords, Lowthers, Bowes and others) into the circles of William Shakespeare and back to Lord Mayors of London.

1. Charles Kendal BUSHE (211 112 1) was born on 13th January 1767 at Kilmurry, Co. Kilkenny.  He married, in 1793, Anne (Nancy) CRAMPTON (211 112 2). Charles died on 10th July 1843 at Furry Park near Dublin (his son’s home).

Charles was the son of Rev. Thomas BUSHE (211 112 11) (born in 1727 at Kilmurry, died September 1795) and Katherine DOYLE (211 112 12), the daughter of Charles DOYLE (211 112 121).

2. Rev. Thomas Bushe (211 112 11) was the son of Arthur BUSHE (211 112 111) (born in 1691 at Kilmurry) and Mary MARTIN (211 112 112).

3. Arthur Bushe (211 112 111) was the son of Amyas BUSHE (211 112 111 1) and Eleanor WANDESFORD (211 112 111 2) (who was born on 15th October 1656 at Kirklington, Yorkshire, and who died in 1706)

4. Amyas Bushe (211 112 111 1) was the son of John BUSHE (211 112 111 11) and Mary GREY (211 112 111 12), the daughter of John GREY (211 112 111 121).

There is some debate as to whether Amyas or his father John was a colonel in Cromwell’s army and was granted the lands of Kilfane and Kilmurry near Thomastown in County Kilkenny in 1670.

[5. John Bushe (according to uncorroborated internet sources) was born in 1594 to John BUSHE and Agnes KITLEY, who married in 1577.

6. John Bushe was the son of William BUSHE and Johane PACKER

7. William Bushe was the son of John BUSHE and Elizabeth FERNEFOLDE.]

NOTE: the square brackets signify doubt, and this doubt is reinforced by the book of the County Families of The United Kingdom which suggests that Col. John Bushe’s grandfather was Paul Bushe, the first Protestant Bishop of Bristol.

Further research may take the Bushe line further back (with the evidence to corroborate it). The interesting lineage here is that of Eleanor WANDESFORD (211 112 111 2), the daughter of Sir Christopher WANDESFORD, Bt (1627-1686) (211 112 111 21) and Eleanor LOWTHER (died circa 1714) (211 112 111 22) of another interesting family.

Eleanor WANDESFORD’s paternal grandmother was Alice OSBORNE (1593-1659), the daughter of Sir Hewet OSBORNE, Kt (1564-1599) and Joyce FLEETWOOD (1559-1619)

The Wandesford line

Eleanor WANDESFORD (211 112 111 2) (born 15th October 1656 at Kirklington, Yorkshire, and died in 1706) eloped with Amyas Bushe (211 112 111 1) and married without her father’s consent (witness the will of Christopher Wandesford): “my daughter Eleanor has without my privity or consent intermarried with one Mr Amyas BUSHE who has not yet made any settlement or provision  for her maintenance”

1687 Sir Christopher Wandesford Bt

Eleanor Wandesford (211 112 111 2) was the daughter of Sir Christopher WANDESFORD
(211 112 111 21), 1st Baronet (born 1627 at Kirklington in Yorkshire and died on 23rd February 1686/7 in London), and his wife (married 30th September 1651 in Lowther, Westmoreland) Eleanor LOWTHER (211 112 111 22), (died about December 1714), the daughter of John LOWTHER (211 112 111 221) (1605-1675) and his wife, Mary FLETCHER (211 112 111 222).

The Wandesfords came by the manor of Kirklington through the marriage of Elizabeth de MUSTERS, daughter and heiress of Sir Henry de MUSTERS (who died before 1367) with John de WANDESFORD of Westwick.

The known Wandesford line goes as follows:

The known Wandesford line, mostly consistent with the book: STORY OF THE FAMILY OF WANDESFORDE OF KIRKLINGTON & CASTLECOMER by HARDY BERTRAM M’CALL (SIMPKIN MARSHALL HAMILTON KENT & CO. LTD.) LONDON (1904) goes as follows:

1. Geoffrey de WANDESFORD (211 112 111 211 111 111 111 1) of Alnwick in Northumberland was admitted a Freeman of York in 1345/6 and he possessed the Manor of Westwick in the Liberty of Ripon. He had a son:

2. John de WANDESFORD (211 112 111 211 111 111 111) of Westwick in Yorkshire (died in or around 1396) who married Elizabeth de MUSTERS (211 112 111 211 111 111 112) (widow of Alexander Mowbray), daughter of Sir Henry de MUSTERS (211 112 111 211 111 111 112 1) (who died before 1367) by his wife Elizabeth THORNHILL (211 112 111 211 111 111 112 2) on 2nd February 1370; they had several children, including:

3. John WANDESFORD (211 112 111 211 111 111 11) of Kirklington in Yorkshire (born circa 1371, died 1448 in London) who married Isabel COLVILLE
(211 112 111 211 111 111 12), daughter of Sir John de COLVILLE
(211 112 111 211 111 111 121) (beheaded at Durham 20th August 1405) and Alice D’ARCY (211 112 111 211 111 111 122), the daughter of John, Lord D’ARCY
(211 112 111 211 111 111 122 1).

4. John WANDESFORD (211 112 111 211 111 111 1) of Kirklington (born circa 1390, died 4th May 1463 at Kirklington) who married Eleanor MOUNTFORT
(211 112 111 211 111 111 2) (died 1473), daughter of Thomas MOUNTFORT
(211 112 111 211 111 111 21), lord of the Manor of Hackforth in the parish of Hornby in Yorkshire.

5. Christopher WANDESFORD (211 112 111 211 111 111) of Kirklington who married Sybilla THWAITES (211 112 111 211 111 112), the daughter of John THWAITES (211 112 111 211 111 112 1) by his wife Joan THORNTON (211 112 111 211 111 112 2); and granddaughter of Robert THORNTON (211 112 111 211 111 112 21) and Alice de LEKE (211 112 111 211 111 112 22), the daughter of Ralph de LEKE (211 112 111 211 111 112 221) and Margaret LARDINER (died 1334 at Leke) (211 112 111 211 111 112 222), the daughter of Philip LARDINER (211 112 111 211 111 112 222 1).

6. Sir John WANDESFORD (211 112 111 211 111 11) of Kirklington (died 4th June 1503) who married Joan PIGGOTT (211 112 111 211 111 12), daughter of Sir Geoffrey PIGGOTT, Knight, (211 112 111 211 111 121).

7. Christopher WANDESFORD (211 112 111 211 111 1) of Kirklington (died 1540, buried in Doncaster) who married Anne CONYERS (died 1547) (211 112 111 211 111 2), daughter of Sir John CONYERS of Norton Conyers, near Ripon in Yorkshire (211 112 111 211 111 21).

8. Francis WANDESFORD (211 112 111 211 111) of Kirklington (1526 to 1559) who married Anne FULTHORPE (211 112 111 211 112) (died 1593) in 1547, the daughter of John FULTHORPE (211 112 111 211 112 1) of Hipswell

9. Sir Christopher WANDESFORD (211 112 111 211 11) of Kirklington, Knight, Vice-President of the Council of the North (born 1548 at Kirklington, died 12th July 1590, buried at St Andrew’s Holborn in London) married (26th September 1568) Elizabeth BOWES (211 112 111 211 12), daughter of Sir George BOWES of Streatlam (211 112 111 211 121), Knight Marshal.

(Sir Christopher and Lady Elizabeth are pictured below in around 1585):

10. Sir George WANDESFORD (211 112 111 211 1) of Kirklington, Knight (born 20th May 1572, knighted 29th April 1607, died 11th September 1612 in London) who married (on 10th August 1591) Catherine HANSBY (born 1574) (211 112 111 211 2), daughter and co-heir of Ralph HANSBY (211 112 111 211 21) of Bishop Burton and Beverley in Yorkshire and of Gray’s Inn, London, by his wife Isabel DANIEL (211 112 111 211 22).

11. Christopher WANDESFORD (211 112 111 211) of Kirklington (born 24th September 1592 at Kirklington, and died 3rd December 1640 in Dublin, Ireland), Master of the Rolls in Ireland in 1633; Lord Chief Justice in 1639, and Lord Deputy in 1640; who, (on 22nd September 1614 at Kirklington) married Alice OSBORNE (211 112 111 212) (born 5th January 1592/3 at Kiveton, Yorkshire, died 10th October 1659 at Hipswell in Yorkshire), the only daughter of Sir Hewit OSBORNE (211 112 111 212 1), Knight

1660 Dame Alice Wandesford

12. Sir Christopher WANDESFORD (211 112 111 21) of Kirklington and Castlecomer, 1st Baronet (born 1627 at Kirklington, died 23rd February 1686) who (on 30th September 1651) married Eleanor LOWTHER (211 112 111 22) (died 1714), daughter of Sir John LOWTHER of Lowther in Westmoreland, Baronet (211 112 111 221).

1687 Sir Christopher Wandesford Bt
1713 Dame Eleanor Wandesford – extract

13. Eleanor WANDESFORD (211 112 111 2) (born 15th October 1656 at Kirklington, died 1706); who married Amyas BUSHE (211 112 111 1)

The Lowther line

The ancestry of Eleanor LOWTHER (211 112 111 22) is yet another long history of an aristocratic family with links to the monarchy and with its share of interesting characters.

1. Dolfin (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 111 111 111 1) who was alive in 1150 (31 generations back)

2. Hamon (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 111 111 111), alive in 1202

3. Robert (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 111 111 11)

4. Geoffrey de LOWTHER (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 111 111 1), alive in 1246

5. Sir Hugh de LOWTHER, Knight (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 111 111), (ca 1250 to 1317), knighted ca 1292; King’s Attorney, 1291, who married, circa 1285, Inetta (or Jenet) (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 111 112) who outlived her husband

6. Sir Hugh de LOWTHER, Knight (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 111 11), (ca 1287 to 1338), knighted before 1322; who married Margaret de LUCY (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 111 12), daughter and heir of John de LUCY (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 111 121) of Wythop (descendant of Alfred the Great of England and Duncan I of Scotland).

7. Sir Hugh de LOWTHER, Knight (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 111 1), (died circa 1366), knighted before 1336; who married Margaret de WHALE (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 111 2) (died 1369), daughter and heir of William de WHALE (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 111 21) of Whale.

8. Sir Hugh de LOWTHER, Knight (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 111), (ca 1326 to ca 1385), knighted before 1363; who married Maud de TILLIOL (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 112) (died 1400), the daughter of Sir Peter de TILLIOL (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 112 1) of Scaleby Castle in Cumbria.

9. John LOWTHER (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 11), MP for Westmoreland 1377-80; who married Maud or Margaret (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 12).

10. Sir Robert LOWTHER (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 1) (circa 1365 to 1430), knighted in 1403; who married Margaret STRICKLAND (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 2) (died 1449), widow of Sir John de Derwentwater, daughter and heir of William STRICKLAND, Bishop of Carlisle 1400-1419, (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 21) by his wife Isabel WARCOP (211 112 111 221 111 111 111 22).

11. Hugh LOWTHER (211 112 111 221 111 111 111) (born circa 1392, died before 1455), fought at Agincourt in 1415; who married circa 1412 to Mary [SOULBY]
(211 112 111 221 111 111 112).

12. Hugh LOWTHER (211 112 111 221 111 111 11) (born circa 1418, died 4th August 1475); who married the daughter of William STAPLETON of Edenhall (211 112 111 221 111 111 121).

13. Hugh LOWTHER (211 112 111 221 111 111 1) (born circa 1435; died 17th September 1475); who married in 1456 to Mabel LANCASTER (alive in 1500) (211 112 111 221 111 111 2), the only child and heir of Sir William LANCASTER (211 112 111 221 111 111 21) of Hartsop and Sockbridge in Westmoreland.

14. Sir Hugh LOWTHER (211 112 111 221 111 111), Knight (1461 to 1510), Knight of the Bath, 1501; who married Anne THRELKELD of Yanwath in Westmoreland (211 112 111 221 111 112), daughter of Sir Lancelot THRELKELD (211 112 111 221 111 112 1) (died 1492), second husband of Margaret BROMFLETE (211 112 111 221 111 112 2) (died 1493), daughter and heir of Henry Lord VESCY (died 1469)
(211 112 111 221 111 112 21).

15. Sir John LOWTHER (211 112 111 221 111 11) (born circa 1487, died 1553), Knight, Captain of Carlisle Castle from 1544 to 1553, knighted by 1514; who married Lucy CURWEN (alive in 1553)(211 112 111 221 111 12), daughter of Sir Thomas CURWEN (211 112 111 221 111 121), MP of Wokingham, Berkshire.

16. Hugh LOWTHER (211 112 111 221 111 1) (born circa 1510, died 1555); who married in 1528 to Dorothy CLIFFORD (211 112 111 221 111 2) (died 1562), daughter of Henry 10th Lord CLIFFORD (211 112 111 221 111 21) (1454 to 1523) by his wife Florence PUDSEY (died 1558) (211 112 111 221 111 22), and granddaughter of John 9th Lord CLIFFORD (211 112 111 221 111 211) by his wife (he was the first husband of Margaret BROMFLETE (died 1493), (211 112 111 221 111 212) also (211 112 111 221 111 112 2) daughter and heir of Henry Lord VESCY (211 112 111 221 111 212 1) also (211 112 111 221 111 112 21) (died 1469).

17. Sir Richard LOWTHER (211 112 111 221 111) (1532 to 26th January 1607/8), Knight, knighted in 1603; who married (in 1553) Frances MIDDLETON (died 26th September 1597), (211 112 111 221 112) daughter of John MIDDLETON (211 112 111 221 112 1) of Middleton Hall, Westmoreland. 

18. Sir Christopher LOWTHER (211 112 111 221 11) (born 8th September 1557 at Whitehaven, died 28th July 1617), Knight, knighted in 1603; who married firstly (1576) Eleanor MUSGRAVE of Hayton Castle (211 112 111 221 12) (born 1560 at Hayton, Cumberland, died 1597).

19. Sir John LOWTHER (211 112 111 221 1) (born 1582, died 15th September 1637 at Lowther), Knight, knighted in 1626; who married (1602) Ellinor FLEMING (211 112 111 221 2) (born circa 1583, died 1659) of Rydal, Westmoreland, the daughter of William FLEMING (211 112 111 221 21) (died 1601) and Agnes BINDLOSS (died August 1631) (211 112 111 221 22), and granddaughter of Anthony FLEMING (211 112 111 221 211) and his wife Elizabeth HUTTON (211 112 111 221 212); and of Robert BINDLOSE
(211 112 111 221 221) and his wife Agnes HARRISON (211 112 111 221 222).

20. Sir John LOWTHER (211 112 111 221) (born 20th February 1605/6 at Lowther, died 30th November 1675 at Lowther), 1st Baronet (1638); who married firstly (1626) Mary FLETCHER (211 112 111 222) (died 1648) of Cockermouth, the daughter of Richard FLETCHER (211 112 111 222 1) (died 23rd March 1637) and Barbara CRAKENTHORP (211 112 111 222 2); granddaughter of Thomas FLETCHER (211 112 111 222 11) (born 1554 at Cockermouth Castle) and Jane BOLTON or BULLEN; and of Henry CRAKENTHORP (211 112 111 222 21) (died 1st May 1593) and his wife (married 1575) Winifred PICKERING (died 1589) (211 112 111 222 22).

1675 Sir John Lowther Bt

21. Ellinor LOWTHER (211 112 111 22) (1633 to 1714); who married (30th September 1651) Sir Christopher WANDESFORDE, 1st Baronet (1662) (211 112 111 21) (1628 to 23rd February 1686/7 in London).

The Osborne Line – from the Wandesford Line (11):

Christopher WANDESFORD (211 112 111 211) of Kirklington (born 1592 and died 3rd December 1640), Master of the Rolls in Ireland in 1633; Lord Chief Justice in 1639, and Lord Deputy in 1640; who, in 1614, married Alice OSBORNE (211 112 111 212) (born 1591, died 1659 at Hipswell in Yorkshire), the only daughter of Sir Hewit OSBORNE (211 112 111 212 1), Knight.

1600 Hewet Osborne

There are several interesting aspects to the Osborne Line, not least as it connects with the LEVESON family (an uncle in which line was Shakespeare’s agent), and both these lines are set out below:

1. Thomas HEWETT (211 112 111 212 121 11) of Wales, a hamlet in Laughton-en-le-Morthen, Yorkshire.

2. Edmund HEWETT (211 112 111 212 121 1) (died 1567).

3. Sir William HEWETT (1496 to 25th January 1566/7) (211 112 111 212 121), Knight, Lord Mayor of London in 1559; who married Alice LEVESON (211 112 111 212 122), daughter of Nicholas LEVESON (died 1539) (211 112 111 212 122 1), Mercer – son and heir of Richard LEVESON of Staffordshire (211 112 111 212 122 11) – by his wife Dionyse BODLEY (died 1561) (211 112 111 212 122 2), and granddaughter of Thomas BODLEY (died 1492) (211 112 111 212 122 21), Tailor, and Joan LECHE (211 112 111 212 122 22) (later Joan BRADBURY by marriage to Thomas BRADBURY, Lord Mayor of London), herself the daughter of Denis LECHE (211 112 111 212 122 221) of Wellingborough by his wife Elizabeth (alive in 1491) (211 112 111 212 122 222).

4. Anne HEWETT (211 112 111 212 12) (born 1543 in London, died 14th July 1585 in London); who married Sir Edward OSBORNE, Knight (211 112 111 212 11), Lord Mayor of London in 1583, (1530 to 15th February 1592), son of Richard OSBORNE (of Ashford, Kent, died 18th February 1583/4 in London) (211 112 111 212 111) and his wife Jane BROUGHTON (211 112 111 212 112) (born 1514 at Broughton, Buckinghamshire, died 1570 at Ashford, Kent), the daughter of John BROUGHTON of Broughton, Buckinghamshire (211 112 111 212 112 1).

5. Sir Hewett OSBORNE (211 112 111 212 1) (born 13 March 1564, died in battle on 4th August 1599), Knight; who married (26th December 1588 in St Dionis Backchurch in London) Joyce FLEETWOOD (211 112 111 212 2) (born Jan 1559 in Heskeith, Lancashire, and died April 1619 in Staveley, Derbyshire), the daughter of Sir Thomas FLEETWOOD (1518 to 1st November 1570) (211 112 111 212 21),  Master of the Royal Mint, Knight, by his wife Bridget SPRING (1531 to 1570) (211 112 111 212 22), and granddaughter of Sir John SPRING, Knight (1500 to 1547) (211 112 111 212 221) by his wife Dorothy WALDEGRAVE (1485 to 1564) (211 112 111 212 222).

6. Alice OSBORNE (211 112 111 212) (born 1591, died 1659 at Hipswell in Yorkshire); who married Christopher WANDESFORD (211 112 111 211) of Kirklington (born 1592 and died 3rd December 1640), Master of the Rolls in Ireland in 1633; Lord Chief Justice in 1639, and Lord Deputy in 1640

The Leveson Line

1. Sir Richard LEVESON (211 112 111 212 122 111 111) (born 1210) married Agnes CLEMENT (211 112 111 212 122 111 112), the daughter of William CLEMENT (211 112 111 212 122 111 112 1).

2. John LEVESON (211 112 111 212 122 111 11), whose wife was Agnes (unknown)

3. Richard LEVESON (211 112 111 212 122 111 1), who married Joanna de RUSHALL (211 112 111 212 122 111 2), daughter of John de RUSHALL (211 112 111 212 122 111 21)

4. Nicholas LEVESON (211 112 111 212 122 111) married Maud PRESTWOOD (211 112 111 212 122 112), daughter of John PRESTWOOD (211 112 111 212 122 112 1)

5. Sir Richard LEVESON (211 112 111 212 122 11) (born 1410, Kinver, Staffordshire, died 1449 at Kinver, Staffordshire), married Johanna KNIGHTLEY (211 112 111 212 122 12) (born 1415 at Chesterton near Stratford on Avon, died 1457 at Kinver, Staffordshire), daughter of John KNIGHTLEY (211 112 111 212 122 121) (born 1369 at Gnosall, Staffordshire, died 5th July 1416 at Chesterton, Warwickshire) by his wife Joan THORNBURY (211 112 111 212 122 122) (born 1375 at Chesterton, died 3rd October 1418 at Chesterton); granddaughter of John KNIGHTLEY (211 112 111 212 122 121 1) (born 1340 at Gnosall, died 1413) and Elizabeth de BURGH (born 1345, died 1416 at Gnosall, Staffordshire) (211 112 111 212 122 121 2), the daughter of Adam de BURGH (1320 to 1347) (211 112 111 212 122 121 21) and Alice HARCOURT (211 112 111 212 122 121 22); and of Sir John THORNBURY (211 112 111 212 122 122 1) (died 4th September 1396 at Little Munden, Hertfordshire) and his wife Naverina from Italy.

6. Nicholas LEVESON (211 112 111 212 122 1) (born 1490 in London, died 20th August 1539), who married Dionyse BODLEY (born 1495, died 2nd December 1560) (211 112 111 212 122 2), daughter of Sir Thomas BODLEY (born 1458 in London, died 1493) (211 112 111 212 122 21) and Joan LECHE (211 112 111 212 122 22) (died March 1530), and granddaughter of Denys LECHE (211 112 111 212 122 221) and his wife Elizabeth (211 112 111 212 122 222).

7. Alice LEVESON (211 112 111 212 122) (died 8th April 1561), married Sir William HEWETT (211 112 111 212 121) (1496 to 25th January 1566/7), Knight, Lord Mayor of London in 1559

The Bowes Line – from the Wandesford Line (9):

Sir Christopher WANDESFORD (211 112 111 211 11) of Kirklington, Knight, Vice-President of the Council of the North (died 1590) married Elizabeth BOWES (211 112 111 211 12), daughter of Sir George BOWES of Streatlam (211 112 111 211 121), Knight Marshall.

1. Sir Adam BOWES, Lord of Streatlam, Knight (211 112 111 211 121 111 111 11) (alive in 1310 and 1347), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; who married Alice TRAYNE (211 112 111 211 121 111 111 12), daughter and heir of Sir John TRAYNE, Lord of Streatlam (211 112 111 211 121 111 111 121).

2. Robert BOWES (alive in 1330) (211 112 111 211 121 111 111 1); who married Elizabeth LIBURNE (211 112 111 211 121 111 111 2), daughter of Sir John LIBURNE (211 112 111 211 121 111 111 21).

3. Sir William BOWES (alive in 1384) (211 112 111 211 121 111 111), Knight, knighted at Poitiers in 1356; who married Maude de DALDEN (211 112 111 211 121 111 112), daughter of Robert de DALDEN (211 112 111 211 121 111 112 1), Lord of Dalden, Pallion, Hamildon and Clowcroft.

4. Sir Robert BOWES (211 112 111 211 121 111 11) (born in 1378, died 21st March 1421), Knight; who married Joan or Jane CONYERS (211 112 111 211 121 111 12) (died 7th November 1438 at Streatlam), daughter of Sir Robert CONYERS of Ormesby, Knight, (211 112 111 211 121 111 121) (born between 1325 and 1330, died 1392), and his second wife Aline de COTHAM (211 112 111 211 121 111 122).

5. Sir William BOWES (died circa 1465) (211 112 111 211 121 111 1), Knight, who served in France and rebuilt Streatlam Castle; and who married Jane GREYSTOKE (211 112 111 211 121 111 2) (born 1428 at Grestoke, Northumberland, died 1515), daughter of Lord GREYSTOKE (211 112 111 211 121 111 21).

6. Sir William BOWES (died 18th October 1476) (211 112 111 211 121 111), Knight, Sheriff of Northumberland and Warden of the Middle Marches; who married Maude FITZHUGH (211 112 111 211 121 112) (born 1446 at Ravensworth Castle, Yorkshire, died 10th July 1516 at Streatlam), daughter of William Lord FITZHUGH, 4th Baron FITZHUGH (born ca 1399 at Ravensworth, died 22nd October 1452) (211 112 111 211 121 112 1) and his wife Margery WILLOUGHBY (211 112 111 211 121 112 2); and granddaughter of William WILLOUGHBY, 5th Baron WILLOUGHBY de ERESBY (211 112 111 211 121 112 21) and Lucy le STRANGE (211 112 111 211 121 112 22); and of Henry FITZHUGH, 3rd Baron FITZHUGH (211 112 111 211 121 112 11) (born circa 1363, died 11th January 1425) and his wife Elizabeth GREY (211 112 111 211 121 112 12), daughter of Sir Robert de GREY (211 112 111 211 121 112 121) by his wife Lora St QUENTIN (211 112 111 211 121 112 122).

7. Sir Ralph BOWES (born 1st September 1468 at Streatlam, died 3rd July 1528 at Yafforth, Yorkshire) (211 112 111 211 121 11), Knight; who married Margaret CONYERS (211 112 111 211 121 12) (died 12th Aug 1532), daughter of Richard CONYERS (211 112 111 211 121 121) and Alice WYCLIFFE (born 1438 at Wycliffe, Yorkshire, died 22nd August 1482) (211 112 111 211 121 122).

8. Richard BOWES (died 10th November 1558) (211 112 111 211 121 1), Captain of Norham; who married Elizabeth ASKE (born 1505, died circa 1572)  (211 112 111 211 121 2), daughter of Roger ASKE (211 112 111 211 121 11).

9. Sir George BOWES (1527 to 20th August 1580) (211 112 111 211 121), Knight, knighted in 1560, made Marshal of Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1558, Provost – Marshal North of the Trent; who married firstly Dorothy MALLORY (211 112 111 211 122), daughter of Sir William MALLORY (211 112 111 211 122 1); he married secondly Jane TALBOT, daughter of Sir John TALBOT (from which marriage descends the line that reaches the Late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (Elizabeth Bowes Lyon).

10. Elizabeth BOWES (211 112 111 211 12) who married (26th September 1568) Sir Christopher WANDESFORD (born 1548 at Kirklington, died 12th July 1590 in London) (211 112 111 211 11) of Kirklington, Knight, Vice-President of the Council of the North. Sir George Bowes escorted Mary, Queen of Scots to her confinement in Bolton Castle in 1568

Coghill

This page and its posts will set out to illustrate the background of the Coghill Family.

The family lineage is recounted in Debrett’s and Burke’s Peerage and further information is provided here and in Posts to this website under the Category ‘Coghill’.

There have been several hypotheses about the original Coghill from which there is no clear consensus and no glaringly obvious answer as to who the first Coghill really was – if indeed there was a single originator of the name.

Of the opinions articulated in various sources, there has been a regular recital of an old story suggesting that the first known Coghill ancestor was a John Cockhill of Cock Hill who lived in the fourteenth century.

Indeed, Burke’s Peerage refers to the family origins as follows:

“Sir John Coghill of Coghill Hall, W.R., Yorks., and Drumcondra, co. Dublin. LL.D., Master in Chancery in Ireland, seventh in descent from John Cockhill of Cockhill, living at Drumcondra in the reigns of Richard II and Henry IV”

Colonel Bellingham’s Diary (1688-1690) recounts the similar story as follows:

“he [Sir John Coghill] was Master in Chancery in Ireland.  He was the seventh in decent from John Cockhill of Cockhill, who was in the reigns of Richard II and Henry IV living at Russesborough” [1]

It is certain that the Coghill family has firm roots in the historic Doomsday town of Knaresborough in the West Ridings of Yorkshire.

Some distance outside Knaresborough is a hill called Cock Hill, near to the River Cock, and this may have given rise to a man being called John of Cock Hill, mutating to John O’Cockhill and finally to John Cockhill.  On the other hand, in the absence of any documentary evidence to support this hypothesis, this may be no more than a flight of fancy.

1. John Coghill (living 1437)

Another interesting alternative is offered by an old book about Knaresborough (Knaresborough and its Rulers by William Wheater, 1907)  as follows:

“Burke commences the lineage with Sir John Coghill LL.D., Master in Chancery in Ireland;  he has, however, a footnote to record that the knight was seventh in descent from John Cockhill, living at Knaresburgh in the reigns of Richard II and Henry IV.  The rolls explode the “Cockhill of Cockhill” nonsense.  John was a shrewd clothier, probably a descendant of a John o’ the Cog-hill, where were made rough cloths called “cogs” in vogue before our John saw the light.  This career presents him as the builder of Coghill Hall, on the site of the very old Wether Hall an ‘outside’ magisterial residence when the lord of Scriven was a sheriff and the Danesgeld was paid at Danyell-brygg.”

Whatever the origins, the first mention I have found of John Coghill is with the nickname ‘Ready Money John’ trading as a clothier in ‘lez tentures’ or at ‘le Tentergate’, described by William Wheater as follows:

“Two old features of Bond-end [“wholly in Scriven-with-Tentergate, is an ancient roadway, first marked by the British trackway through the forest from Ottley to Boroughbridge”] were Wederall-garth and the Baiards croft.  The former is now represented by Conyngham House, formerly Coghill Hall, built by the Coghills in the first half of the fifteenth century.  At that time three members of the family are in evidence, Margaret, a widow, the mother of John and William and her family.  John Coghill was a clothier in ‘lez tentures’ at ‘le Tentergate’; well-known, probably as “ready-money John”, and appreciative of the instrument he used; in the police records certified for risky accumulation.  Keen rivalry existed between John Coghill and his neighbour John Roundell, although in different trades.  For one thing both were keen to grab property in Harrogate, then in unprecedented success.  John Pykeryng and Agnes his mother, widow of Robert Pykeryng, in 1442 surrender by John Dykson, sergeant of the bailiff of the liberty of Knaresburgh, “Wederallgarth in le bondende” to John Coghill.  John Roundell, a considerable owner in Harrogate and Knaresburgh, had just died, leaving a widow, Margaret Christiana Roundell, and Robert Roundell.  With his sharp-witted neighbour no longer watching him, Coghill enclosed ‘a road to the Nydd at the north end of Danyell-brygg”, probably the present carriage entrance to Conyngham House.”

It seems, therefore, that “Ready-Money” John lent money extensively and he obtained Wether Hall in Knaresborough and subsequently engaged in several property transactions to build up his estate and on the site constructed a new hall, COGHILL HALL.  According to William Wheater:

“One of the oldest trading sites was the Pelwell, the “pale field” where the ‘pale’ is a fixed boundary – as the English Pale in Ireland wherein the English lived under their own laws apart from the Irish.  That is the Pelwell of Bond-end.  The early cloth-workers gathered here… The Coghills are of this district.  In 1437, John Coghill obtains two acres in Pelwell from William Burton, and a rood from Agnes Pickering, widow.”

“In 1461 John Cokill exchanges an acre and a half upon Bygyngbarth in Knaresburgh fields with John Cundall, for half an acre upon Pelwell.”

In 1462, the Knaresborough court records show that a John Coghill was accused of cloth-stealing when he “is found to have in his possession a grey horse, a ‘tunic de velwett, blod color’, a piece ‘des beuges’; though he pleads ‘not guilty’ and seeks inquiry”.  [2]

2. Thomas Coghill (Coughyll)

James Henry Coghill in his book ‘The Book of Coghill’ written in [1878] notes that Thomas Coghill (or Coughyll), son of John Cockhill (almost certainly a deviation from the John Coghill referred to above, not least because Coghill Hall was passed down through the family by successive wills) married Marjory Slingsby (211 111 112 111 111 2) in 1461.  I am assuming, for the purposes of this treatise, that Thomas Coghill (211 111 112 111 111 1) was John Coghill’s son but I am aware of the possibility of having missed a generation.

m. Marjory Slingsby 1461

Marjory Slingsby (211 111 112 111 111 2) was the daughter of John Slingsby of Scriven Hall on the outskirts of Knaresborough (211 111 112 111 111 21) by his marriage to Joan Calverley (211 111 112 111 111 22), daughter of Walter Calverley (211 111 112 111 111 221).

3. Thomas Coghill

Thomas (211 111 112 111 111 1) and Marjory (211 111 112 111 111 2) had at least two sons, Thomas Coghill (211 111 112 111 111) and Robert Coghill and we know that Thomas (211 111 112 111 111) married twice, firstly to Jane Tempest, daughter of Sir Thomas Tempest and secondly to Anne Nettleton (211 111 112 111 112)

m2. Anne Nettleton

Anne Nettleton (211 111 112 111 112) was the daughter of a gentleman [?] Nettleton Esq., of Roundegrange and his wife who was the sister of Sir Robert Suttle (or Sothill) knight of Suttle (Sothill) Hall, Yorkshire.

4. Marmaduke Coghill

Marmaduke Coghill (211 111 112 111 11) was the eldest son of Thomas (211 111 112 111 111) and Anne (211 111 112 111 112), and, in 1555, rebuilt Coghill Hall near Knaresborough (now Conyngham Hall).  Marmaduke married Maude Pulleyn (211 111 112 111 12).

m. Maude Pullein

Maude Pulleyn (or Pulleyne or Pullein) (211 111 112 111 12) was the daughter of John Pulleyne Esq. (211 111 112 111 121) of Killinghall, Steward of Knaresborough and Ripon, by his wife Jane Roos (211 111 112 111 122) daughter of Thomas Roos Esq., of Ingmanthorp (211 111 112 111 122 1).

5. Thomas Coghill

Thomas Coghill (211 111 112 111 1) was the eldest son of John (211 111 112 111 11) and Maude (211 111 112 111 12) and succeeded his father in the 22nd year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1580).  He married Isabel Tallentyre (211 111 112 111 2).

m. Isabel Tallentyre

Isabel Tallentyre (211 111 112 111 2) was the daughter of [?] Tallentyre Esq., of Carlisle and the sister of William Tallentyre, incumbent of Kirby Overblows in Yorkshire and Routhbury in Northumberland.

6. Thomas Coghill

Thomas (211 111 112 111 1) and Isabel (211 111 112 111 2) had two sons and three daughters, of whom the eldest son was Thomas Coghill (211 111 112 111).  Thomas married Beatrice Halley (211 111 112 112).

m. Beatrice Halley d. 1623

Beatrice Halley was the daughter of William Halley Esq. (211 111 112 112 1) of York, and was buried at Knaresborough July 9th 1623.

7. John Coghill chr. 1615

John Coghill (211 111 112 11) was the eldest of three children, was baptised at Knaresborough, March 11th 1615 and married Lucy Tancred (211 111 112 12).

m. Lucy Tancred

Lucy Tancred (211 111 112 12) was the daughter of Charles Tancred Esq., of Whixley (211 111 112 121), who died in 1644 and sister of Sir Richard Tancred (knighted by Charles I for his services and sufferings during the Civil War). His pedigree is well documented elsewhere.

8. Sir John Coghill LLD  d. 1699

The only documented child from the union of John and Lucy was Sir John Coghill LL.D. (211 111 112 1), who qualified in law was patronised by Bramall, Archbishop of Armagh (also a Yorkshireman) and became Master in the High Court of Chancery in Ireland.  He was knighted in Dublin Castle on 5th June 1686 by Henry, Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.  Sir John lived at Belvedere House in North Dublin[3] and married Hester Cramer (211 111 112 2).

m. Hester Cramer  d.1722

Hester Cramer (211 111 112 2) was the daughter of Colonel Tobias Cramer (211 111 112 21) (died 1680) who had been awarded lands at Ballyfoyle (Co. Kilkenny) following the Civil War in Ireland and (by some accounts) was Sheriff of Dublin in 1653.  His father Balthazer Cramer (211 111 112 211) died in 1650 and was the son of Tobias (von) Cramer (211 111 112 211 1) who originated from Lower Germany (or possibly Strasbourg) and was made a Free Denizen of Ireland on 28th May 1639 and died in 1649.

9. Hester Coghill

Hester (211 111 112 2) and John (211 111 112 1) had nine children of whom five sons died young, a daughter, Mary Coghill died unmarried, Dr. Sir Marmaduke Coghill, born 28th December 1673, died unmarried (1739) but had a long and distinguished career as a lawyer, a judge and an MP, living at Drumcondra House in North Dublin; Dr James Coghill lived at Belvedere House adjacent to Drumcondra and married Anne Pierson and Hester Coghill (211 111 112) who married her first cousin Oliver Cramer (211 111 111).

m. Oliver Cramer 15/11/1700

Oliver (211 111 111) was the son of Balthazer Cramer (211 111 111 1), Hester Cramer’s (211 111 112 2) eldest brother, who inherited Ballyfoyle Castle and lands from his father.

10. Balthazer John Cramer

Amongst other issue, Balthazer John  Cramer (211 111 11) was Hester and Oliver’s eldest son (the last of the family to inhabit Ballyfoyle); Oliver Cramer was the younger (married a Miss Rudkin and had two children, Hester Cramer and Marmaduke Cramer.  Marmaduke had several children. [4]

m.    Judith Butler

Balthazer John Cramer (211 111 11) married Judith Butler (211 111 12) the daughter of Viscount Brinsley Butler (The First Viscount Lanesborough) (211 111 121), two sons of whom were alive when Dr Sir Marmaduke Coghill died and inherited under the terms of Dr Sir Marmaduke Coghill’s will, [5] both changing their surnames in the process; the eldest John Balthazer Coghill (né Cramer) (211 111 1), and Oliver Coghill (né Cramer) who, under the terms of Marmaduke’s will, inherited the Yorkshire Estates and is later found living at Coghill Hall having married Anne Hucks, a descendant of the (London Branch of the) Coghill family.[6]

11. Sir John Balthazer Coghill, bt.

John Balthazer (211 111 1) assumed the name of Coghill under the terms of Dr Sir Marmaduke Coghill’s will and was an MP and was made a baronet in 1788 [7].  He married Mary Hort (211 111 2).  John Balthazar (now Sir John Coghill) died in Bath, Somerset in 1790.

m. Mary Hort

Mary Hort (211 111 2) was the sister of Sir John Hort who received his baronetcy in 1787 and daughter of Rev. Josiah Hort (Archbishop of Tuam) (211 111 21) and his wife Lady Elizabeth Fitzmaurice (211 111 22), daughter of the (22nd) Lord Kerry (211 111 221). [8]  Sir John (211 111 1) and Lady Mary (211 1112 2) had nine children, the eldest of whom was Sir John Thomas Coghill, 2nd bt, who travelled greatly around Europe and assembled a collection of art and artefacts (including a collection of Greek and Etruscan vases known as ‘The Coghill Vases’);  Sir John Thomas Coghill sold Coghill Hall to Lady Conyngham in 1796 and with the proceeds bought Randalls Park in Leatherhead. 

James Coghill in his book of Coghill notes from communications with Sir John Joscelyn (211 11) that: “while detained in France during the war with the first Napoleon, [Sir John Thomas Coghill 2nd Bt.] became acquainted with Lafayette, and through him was induced to purchase a large amount of land at New Orleans. I believe a large part of that city is now built over this very land, and had my father kept possession of it, I have no doubt that it would now be of immense value, and have added largely to our estate ; but he did not foresee what was to happen, and sold it in the full belief that his brother had been very well swindled by Lafayette, as in taking possession it was found that at a few spades’ depth there was nothing but water.”

Sir John Thomas Coghill 2nd Bt. died at Caen in Normandy in 1817 and his eldest brother Josiah Coghill Cramer (211 111) inherited the Coghill estates and title and changed his name to Coghill, becoming Admiral Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill, 3rd bt. (211 111)

12. Adm. Sir Josiah Coghill, bt

Shortly after his brother’s death, Adm. Sir Josiah Coghill (211 111) purchased and settled at Ballyduff (Co. Kilkenny).   He married twice, firstly (in 1803) Sophia Dodson and had three daughters, Caroline, Josephine and Emmeline; and secondly, (in 1819) Anna Maria Kendal Bushe (211 112).

Anna Maria Kendal Bushe

Anna Maria Kendal Bushe (211 112) was the daughter of Lord Chief Justice Charles Kendal Bushe (211 112 1 and 211 122 1) “The Incorruptible” (son of Rev. Thomas Bushe (211 112 11) and Katherine Doyle (211 112 12)) and Anne Crampton (211 112 2) (daughter of John Fiennes Twistleton Crampton (211 112 21).  Josiah (211 111) and Anna Maria (211 112) had nine children including Sir John Joscelyn Coghill, 4th bt. (211 11) (1826 to 1905).

13. Sir John Joscelyn Coghill bt

Sir John Joscelyn (211 11) married the Hon. Katherine Plunket (d. 1881) (211 12), daughter of John Span Plunket (211 121) (son of William Conyngham Plunket (211 121 1) and Catherine McCausland (211 121 2)) and Charlotte Bushe (211 122) (sister of Anna Maria Bushe).

m.  Katherine Plunket   d. 1881

Sir John Joscelyn (211 11) and Katherine (211 12) had seven children of whom the first two sons, Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill, VC died at Isandula in the Zulu Wars and Sir Egerton Bushe Coghill, 5th bt inherited the baronetcy.  Their third son was Claude (‘Joe’) Plunket Coghill (211 1).

14.  Claude Plunket Coghill

Claude (211 1) became Lord Darnley’s land agent for his estates in Athboy, Co. Meath,  and, with the position came a house, ‘Frankville’.  Close to Athboy at ‘Drewstown House’ lived the McVeagh family and Claude married Maude Mary McVeagh (211 2), daughter of Ferdinand McVeagh (211 21).

m.  Maude Mary McVeagh

Claude (211 1) and Maude (211 2), before inhabiting Frankville, lived at ‘Johnsbrook’, next door to Drewstown House where their son Joscelyn Kendal Bushe Coghill (211) was born.  Joscelyn had two sisters, Elfrida Hester Brooke (‘Hebe’) Coghill and Ethel Maude Wynch Coghill.

15.  Joscelyn Kendal Bushe Coghill

Joscelyn Kendal Bushe Coghill (211) went to school at Repton, left Ireland and travelled to Canada and then to Borneo (Sarawak) where he was foreman of a rubber plantation.  He married Maud Evelyn Filder (212), daughter of Leslie Philips Filder (212 1) and Ada Trigg (212 2) in 1925 at Booterstown, Dublin, having met her on a trip to Eastbourne, Sussex.

m.  Maud Evelyn Filder

Joscelyn (211) and Evelyn (212) had three children – two  daughters Sheila and Muara and a son Lt. Col. John Kendal Plunket Coghill OBE (21).  Joscelyn was captured by the Japanese in World War II and imprisoned until after VJ day.

16.  John Kendal Plunket Coghill

John (21) married Diana Mary Callen (22), daughter of Frederick Callen (221) and Winifred ‘Betty’ Barson (222) on 6th October 1951 in Asmara, Eritrea.


[1] (from Bertram Windle’s paper) It is thought this a mistranscription from the original (poss. Knaresborough?)

[2] Knaresborough and its Rulers by William Wheater, 1907, published by Richard Jackson, Leeds

[3] Now St Patrick’s Training College for Teachers

[4] Thomas Cramer (the letter-writer) is descended from this Marmaduke Cramer.

[5] Dr Sir Marmaduke Coghill, in his will, provided that the descendants of his brother James’ daughter (also Hester Coghill, who married firstly Lord Tullamore, Earl of Charleville; and secondly Major Sir John Mayne) should inherit the Coghill fortune (including Coghill Hall, Drumcondra, Belvedere etc.,).  To this end, her second husband changed his name to Coghill as provided in the will.  Hester died without issue.  The will provided further, in this event, that the descendants of  Marmaduke’s sister, Hester, would be his heirs on changing their names to Coghill, and treated with those offspring alive at the time of his will.

[6] Thomas Cramer’s letter (See Bertram Windle’s paper) refers to Oliver Coghill and Anne Hucks having no issue and the estate reverting to Oliver’s elder brother.

[7] According to Burke’s Peerage this was 21st August 1778 (Windle’s paper cites 1788)

[8] Fitzmaurice is an important historic Irish family

Transcription of part of a book written in 1879 by James Henry Coghill of the American branch of Coghills (my copy is one of 250 copies privately printed for presentation – in this case, inscribed to “Field Marshal His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge with the Author’s Compliments, September 1880“)

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Coghill, Cogshull, Cogghill, etc in the Close Roles of the fourteenth century

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Further research into the Coghills and Cramers was written and privately published by BERTRAM COGHILL ALAN WINDLE, LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A. which I have transcribed below:

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