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I'm
Rob Salzman of
4130 SW 117th Ave # 415 Beaverton, OR,
97005 USA.
Welcome to e-familytree.net. E-familytree.net is my personal genealogy hobby site.
The data contained here has been gathered through 20 years of genealogy. Some small
part of it is my original research, but most of it has been shared with me.
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This website updated on April 28, 2010.
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Family Sheet
HUSBAND
Father: Henry Shirley Sir Bart
Mother: Dorothy Devereux Lady
WIFE
Born:
Died: 1672
Other Spouses: Henry Ffarrington Sir
Father: Humphrey Okeover
Mother: Unknown
CHILDREN
Name: Seymour Shirley
Born: 1647
Died:
Born: Oct 1651 at East Sheen, Surrey
Died: 25 Dec 1717
Wife: Elizabeth Washington
NOTES
1). He was about 3 years old when his father died In 1645, Robert was admitted a fellow commoner of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The following year upon the premature death of his brother, Sir Charles Shirley, succeeded him in the baronetcy and estates, being at that time about fifteen years old, and a war, as also his brother had been to his uncle Lord Essex. Upon the death of Lord Essex, Sir Robert Shirley succeeded in the right of his mother Lady Dorothy to a moiety of the estates of the Devereux family. About 1653 a division was effected by which it was agreed that the Marquis of Hertford, afterwards Duke of Somerset, who had married the Lady Frances Devereux, eldest sister of Lord Essex, should have his share of the property, Drayton Basset, in the county of Stafford with the estate in county of Hereford and Brecon, Essex House, in London and a moiety of the barony of Farney Shirley estate , in county of Monaghan in Ireland which had been granted to Walter Earl of Essex, by Queen Elizabeth, in the year 1576. To Robert Shirley s share fell the Chartley estate in the county of Stafford, with property at Newcastle under Lyne, the tenements adjoining Essex House, in London, a rent charge of 300 pounds going out of Havodwyn, Blanarion or Blagnaron, and Penarth in the county of Cardigan, and the other moiey of the barony of Farney, Shirley estates in Ireland . On his uncle s death, Sir Robert Shirley retired into the country and from that time exerted himself as a zealous adherent to the sacred cause of his sovereign and the Church of England, in whose holy communion he was educated by his mother, Lady Dorothy for the Devereux family had early renounced the errors of the Church of Rome, to which Sir Roberts father, Sir Henry, was so sincerely attached. During the year 1647 48 Sir Robert appears to have been with other Royalists at Oxford, and appears to be the one who was resident with his young wife in St. John s college in that university. Sir Robert Shirley built a church at Staunton Harold during the time Cromwell made it penal for any persons to keep in their houses any of the sequestered or ejected ministers in the capacity of chaplains or tutors,which forbade them likewise to preach to any others than the members of their own families, to perform of the offices of religion, or to use the book of Common Prayer. Staunton Harold continued to be during Sir Robert s life, an asylum to many of the distressed divines. So upseting was this that an order was issued to Sir Robert saying, He that could afford to build a church, could no doubt afford also to equip a shipSir Robert Shirley refused, and was sent to the Tower of London, dying at age 23, suspicioned of poisoning. The following letter of condolence was written by Charles the II to Lady Shirley about a year after her husbands death. IT HATH BEEN MY PARTICULAR CARE OF YOU THAT I HAVE THIS LONG DEFERRED TO LAMENT WITH YOU THE GREATE LOSSE THAT YOU AND I HAVE SUSTAINED, LEAST INSTEEDE OF COMFORTING I MIGHT FARTHER EXPOSE YOU TO THE WILL OF THOSE WHO WILL BE GLAD OF ANY OCCASION TO DO YOU FURTHER REJUDICE BUT I AM PROMISED THAT THIS SHALL BE PUT SAFELY INTO YOUR HANDS, THOUGH IT MAY NOT SO SOONE AS I WISH AND I AM VERY WILLING YOU SHOULD KNOW, WHICH I SUPPOSE YOU CANNOT DOUBTE, THAT I BEARE A GREATE PARTE WITH YOU OF YOUR AFFLLICTION, AND WHENEVER IT SHALL BE IN MY POWER TO MAKE IT LIGHTER, YOU SHALL SEE I RETAYNE A VERY KINDE MEMORY OF YOUR FRINDE BY THE CARE I SHALL HAVE OF YOU AND ALL HIS RELATIONS AND OF THIS YOU MAY DEPENDE UPON THE WORD OF YOUR VERY AFFECTIONE FRINDE... CHARLES R. Notes for Sir Robert Shirley Sir Robert Shirley, fourth baronet, was the second son of Sir Henry Shirley, of Ettington in Warwickshire, and of Staunton Harold in Leicestershire. In 1646, on the death of his brother, Sir Charles, he succeeded to the baronetcy and estates under the wardship of his uncle, the Earl of Essex. Almost immediately, contrary to the advice of his guardian and family he married Katherine, daughter of Humphrey Okeover, of Okeover, Staffordshire. Sir Robert was a zealous Royalist and was committed several times to the tower for engaging in conspiracies against the Commonwealth. There he died on November 28, 1656, not, however, without suspicion of poison. Sir Robert had at least two sons and two daughters. Burke s Peerage, 1963 page 938 Ancestor of the Earls Ferrers of the Lady Selina Bathurst, and of Mrs Mary Butt.
2). 1 NAME Katherine 2nd wife
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