Robert Shirley Sir
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1 UPDA 2 PLAC Lord of the Manor of Eatington
Robert Shirley Sir
Husband Robert Shirley Sir 1
Born: 1745
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Robert Shirley Sir Bart and Elizabeth Washington
Husband Robert Shirley Sir Bart 1 2
Born: Oct 1651 - East Sheen, Surrey
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Father: Robert Shirley Sir Bart (1629-1656) 1 2
Mother: Dorothy Okeover ( -1672) 1 2
Marriage: 28 Dec 1671
Other Spouse: Selina Finch ( -1762) 1 2 - 1699
Wife Elizabeth Washington 1 2
Born: 1655
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Father: Laurence Washington ( -1661) 1
Mother: Elinore Guise ( - ) 1
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1 M Robert Shirley 1 2
Born: 4 Sep 1673
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Spouse: Anne Ferrers ( - ) 1 2
2 F Elizabeth Shirley 1 2
Born: 23 Nov 1674
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3 F Katherine Shirley 1 2
Born: 31 May 1676
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4 M Washington Shirley 1 2
Born: 22 Jun 1677
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5 F Elizabeth Shirley 1 2
Born: 20 Jun 1678
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6 F Anna Elianor Shirley 1 2
Born: 12 Nov 1679
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7 M Charles Shirley 1 2
Born: 9 Apr 1682
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8 F Dorothy Shirley 1 2
Born: 25 May 1683
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9 F Katherine Shirley 1 2
Born: 17 Feb 1680
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10 M Charles Shirley 1 2
Born: 21 Jun 1684
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11 M Lewis Shirley 1 2
Born: 13 Jul 1685
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12 M George Shirley 1 2
Born: 21 Oct 1686
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13 M Ferrers Shirley 1 2
Born: 23 Apr 1689
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14 M Walter Shirley 1 2
Born: 1690 - Stauton Harold
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Died: 1755 - Frederick County, Virginia
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15 F Barbara Shirley 1 2
Born: 5 Feb 1687
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16 M Henry Shirley 1 2
Born: 14 Nov 1691
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17 M Laurence Shirley Hon 1 2
Born: 26 Sep 1693
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Died: 1760 - Executed For Murder
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Spouse: Anne Clarges ( - ) 1 2
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1 UPDA 2 DATE 1711 2 PLAC Created Earl Ferrers
Robert had several illegitimate children making him the father of 57 children
In 1677, he was created a Baronet. In 1682 his Lordship was appointed Master of the Horse to Catharine Queen Dowager and in 1685 Steward of her Household and one of the Privy Council to King James II. In 1692 he was sworn of the Privy Council to King Willam, and in 1708 to Queen Anne, who in 1711 advanced him to the dignity of a Viscount and Earl by the style and title Earl Ferrers and Viscount Tamworth.
The title has continued to the present day and Robert Washington Shirley is the 13th Earl Ferrers serving in Parliament in the House of Lords.
Notes for Robert Shirley (first Earl Ferrers):
Sir Robert Shirley, seventh baronet, first Earl Ferrers, previously a Knight, second son of Sir Robert Shirley (fourth baronet). This gentleman being grandson and heir of Lady Dorothy Devereux, the younger of the two sisters and heirs of Robert Devereux, last Earl of Essex of that family, and the issue of the elder sister becoming extinct, Charles II was graciously pleased, Dec. 14, 1677, to terminate the abeyance of the ancient barony of Ferrers of Chartley in his favor, which, with other baronies, had been in abeyance since the death of the above mentioned last Earl of Essex. Lord Ferrers (Robert) was of the privy councils of King William and Queen Anne, and was created by the latter sovereign, September 3, 1711, Viscount Tamworth of Co. Stafford and earl Ferrers. (Taken from Burke's Peerage 1963 page 938) **************************************************************************
The following is taken from "Stemmata Shirleiana"
This monument is erected to the Memory of the Right Hon. Robert Earl Ferrers and to his second wife, Selina, daughter of George Finch, of the city of London, Esq.
He was called to the House of Lords by King Charles the Second, by the title of Baron Ferrers of Chartley, with the precedency thereto belonging, by writ under the Great Seal of England, dated the 14th of December. Anno 1677. And by the same right Baron Bovchier and Baron Lovain.
He was Master of the Horse to Catherine Queen Dowager in 1682, and High Steward of her household, and in 1699 sworn of the Privy Council to King William the III, and in 1711 was one of the Lords of Council to Her Majesty Queen Ann who by patent dated the 3rd day of Sept. 1711 advanced him to the dignity of Earl Ferrers and Viscount Tamworth.
He was born at the time his father, Sir Robert Shirley was imprisoned in the Tower by the Vsurper Oliver Cromwell and died there not without suspicion of poison.
He married to his first wife Elizabeth, daughter and heir to Laurence Washington, of Garesdon, in the county of Wilts, Esq. by whom he had issue ten sons and seven daughters.
To his second wife he married Selina, daughter of George Finch, of the city of London, Esq. by whom he had issue five sons and five daughters.
He was born in October, 1651 and died the 25th of December, 1717, aged sixty-seven years, and lies in the family vault of this church.
This family is descended by an heir female from the Ancient Family of Devereaux. Earls of Essex and Ev, Viscount Hereford, and Lord Ferrers of Chartley, by the intermarriage with the second sister of the Earl of Essex (the favorite of Queen Elizabeth who was beheaded about the year 1600), which intermarriage entitles this noble family to quarter the Kings Arms.
On the north side of this monument is a small tablet, which explains why it was not erected at Staunton Harold, but in the south aisle of the church of Lower Ettington in Warwickshire, the ancient burial-place of the family: --
The monument to the memory of Robert Earl Ferrers, and his Countess, Selina, was intended and prepared to be erected in the church of Staunton Harold, in the county of Leicester, where he is buried, by the consent of Washington Earl Ferrers, but (after being finished) was refused to be placed there. It is erected in this church at the expense of the Hon. George Shirley, the Centre Figure in the monument.
ASTWELL MANOR HOUSE
In 1453 Arthur Brook, of a Warwickshire family, was in possession, and in 1471 his son William exchanged the manors of Astwell and Falcutt with one Thomas Lovett for the manors of Rushton and Great Oakley near Kettering. Thomas Lovett's daughter, Margaret, married John, son of William Brooke.
Soon after Thomas Lovett came to Astwell - this was Edward IV's reign - he set to work to build the manor house anew, and the surviving gate-house is part of his work. The rest of the house was built round a courtyard; there was a moat, and, said the Ministry of Works in 1958, "it must have been an imposing place." Four generations of Lovetts lived here and the family was of some standing in the County, for three different Thomas Lovetts served as High Sheriff in the reigns respectively of Edward IV, Henry VII, and Elizabeth I.
The last Thomas Lovett of Astwell, who died in 1586, married Elizabeth Fermor of Easton Neston, and their only child, Jane, by her marriage with John, younger of Francis Shirley of Ragsdale and Staunton Harold in Leicestershire, carried Astwell into the Shirley family.
The Shirleys
John Shirley, the husband of Jane Lovett, died in 1570 leaving a son, George, who, born in 1559, inherited Stanton Harold in 1571, and Astwell (on the death of his Lovett grandfather) in 1586.
The Shirleys were by far the most interesting of the owners of Astwell, and, in fact, managed to produce contemporaneously a murderer and founder of a religious sect.
With George Shirley the light at last begins to shine brightly on Astwell. He was a man highly typical of his age. Educated at Hart Hall, Oxford, he received some training at one of the Inns of Court and later served for a while with the Earl of Leicester in Holland. On succeeding to Astwell, with which he immediately feel in love, he became henceforth a Northamptonshire rather than a Leicestershire man and was sheriff of the County in the year that Queen Elizabeth died.
Early in the next reign he demolished the greater part of the manor house, and, smitten with building fever then raging among Northamptonshire squires, built himself a large and beautiful mansion alongside the old Thomas Lovett's tower. The new house, which had gables and mullioned windows in the prevailing style, was completed in about 1606. There were over forty rooms, including a hall, a chapel, a great and a little parlour, and a gallery hung with twenty-four pictures, as we know from an inventory of 1622 which gives the names of all the rooms. These and also the tower were luxuriously furnished with court cupboards, four-poster beds, chairs and stools covered with velvet, needle-work or leather, green and red rugs, hangings and "carpets" of arras, velvet cushions, coloured window curtains, chests, cabinets, long oak tables with benches and joint stools, tow pair of virginals, a "harpiscall", a bell to ring to prayers, etc., etc., etc. With a small army of servants inside and out, a stable full of horses, at least three coaches, those were surely the greatest days of Astwell, when for beauty and importance it must have ranked with such places as Gawsley, Deene, or Great Oakley Hall. George signed the work of his period with his initials and coat of arms in several rooms, the example on the stone mantel-piece in the sitting room of the present house being the only one now surviving.
George Shirley "with many gallant gentlemen" conducted James I across Northamptonshire on his way south at his accession, and was one of the first batch of baronets created by that monarch. An open-handed man, "relieving during the great dearth 500 a day at his gates", he reminds us of his contemporary the first Lord Montagu of Boughton on the other side of the County. The year of the "great dearth" was 1608.
Shirley's religious position was ambiguous, unless, which we doubt, he was an arrant hypocrite. He was an avowed Roman Catholic, and therefore placed on the list of suspected Papists in Northamptonshire. All his armour and weapons were removed from Astwell House in his absence over-seas in 1618 on the plea that his servants were recusants. Lord Exeter, then Lord Lieutenant, thereupon wrote to the Privy Council on his behalf that "he had always been loyal and forward in service and declared himself no recusant". Three years later his arms were restored to him. He was certainly an outward conformer to the Church of England, and the following letter to Dr. Lambe, Chancellor of the Diocese of Peterborourgh, from four of the local clergy, suggests very strongly that his attendance at their services was more than a mere formality. He was perhaps one of those who had "true unity, which is most glorious."
"May it please you, Sir, Whereas we whose names are hereunder written are intreated by Sir George Shirley of Astwell in your Countie of Northampton Baronet, to certifie our knowledge to your worship of his conformities in coming to the church and hearing devine service and sermons there, upon Sundays and Holldayes, according to the lawe in that case; we do hereby certifie you that the said Sir George Shirley (being an old gent. and his house farr from the parish churche) and having an auntient privileged chappell in his house, hathe, according to the booke of Common prayer, service red in the same chappell by Mr. Jones. a Batchelor in Divinitie and Chaplen in his house, who hathe of him a yearely stipend for reading prayer and preaching there, to which service and sermons himselfe, his Ladie and his familie doe come verie orderly, and we doe further certifie your worship that we ourselves doe verifie often every yeare in the absence of his said chaplen, or when we are thereunto entreated by the said Sir George Shirley, come thither and read service and preache in his his said chappell to him, his Ladie and his familie; and this with remembrance of our humble dutie we committ you to God, and rest.
Your worhip's always to command, Richard Lewis (S.T.P.) (Vicar of Brakley). William Jonnes (Clerk) [Rector of Syreham]. Chr. Middleton (Clerk) [Rector of Aston-le-Walls]. Edward Wade (Clerk) [Rector of Holdenby and Church Brampton]. Dated the 23 of January 1618 [1619].
Sir George Shirley, in the words of his son, Thomas, died on 27th of April 1622, aged 63, "in the bosom of his mother, the Roman Catholick Church".
On the death of Sir George, his descendants did not entirely desert Astwell. Sir Robert, the 4th baronet, lived there as a boy during the early years of the Civil War, and his widow make it her home for many years. The house was kept up and the family probably came for a part of each year, buy they took little or no part in the affairs of the County and inclined more and more to Staunton Harold and their other residences.
Sir Robert Shirley the 7th baronet, became Lord Ferrers of Chartley when this ancient barony was called out of abeyance by Charles II in 1677. In 1711 he was created Earl Ferrers by Queen Anne. His chief claim to distinction, however was the number of his children. By his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Lawrence Washington of Garsden (Wiltshire Co.) he had 17 children and by his second wife 10, "besides some 30 natural children".
During the life-time of his son Washing, the second Earl Ferrers, John Bridges was at work on his history of Northamptonshire, and has preserved for us a glimpse of what "Astwell, an old seat of Earl Ferrers" as he called it, looked like 240 years ago.
"Behind the gate-house is a little court and entry into the hall. The hall windows project n ronde and have battlements over them. The wainscot and chimney pieces in several rooms are adorned with the arms of the family with other carved work: and the window, which are of chrystal, are stained with flowers, birds, horses and other ornaments. At the east end of the great parlour was formerly a chapel, where Dr. Sheldon, afterwards, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Dr. Dolben, afterwards Archbishop of York, are said to have successively officiated as chaplains of the family".
Of this Lord Ferrers a contemporary wrote: "He keeps as hospitable an house and entertains as nobly as any peer of the realm", buy on the whole the second and third earls were quite unremarkable people. Not so the fourth, -- Laurence Shirley (1720-1760) -- who succeeded his uncle, the third earl, in 1745. Of him Burke writes in his Peerage:--
"Although not bereaved of intellect, this nobleman frequently evinced strong symptoms of a constitutional violence of temper; and in one of the paroxisms of rage habitual with his lordship put to his own confidential land-steward, and aged gentleman of the name of Johnson".
Lord Ferrers wished to evict Johnson from his farm, and failing to do so, got him into his room at Staunton Harold, locked the door, pulled a pistol out of his pocket and shot him. He was tried by his peers in Westminster hall, found guilty of murder, and sentenced to death. During his imprisonment in the Tower of London before his execution, he was several times visited by his cousin Selina, Countess of Huntingdon.
Ferres decided to die in the grand manner even though it was the death of a felon. When the fatal day arrived he put on a suit embroidered with silver and was driven from the Tower to Tyburn in his own landau drawn by six horses, and, according to tradition, was hanged with the silken cord which was the privilege of a peer instead of the hempen rope used for common murderers. A vast multitude of people assembled to watch the execution for which the "new drop" (just introduced instead of the cart, ladder and medieval gibbet) was used for the first time. Tyburn gallows stood close to the site of the marble Arch on the boundary of the parishes of St. Marylebone and Westminster.
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She was the daughter of 6 At the time of Elizabeth's marriage to Robert she was 16 and he was 20. After giving birth to seventeen children she died at the age of 38.
General Notes for Child Ferrers Shirley
According to "Stemmata Shirleiana", Ferrers is buried in the vault at Staunton Harrold
General Notes for Child Walter Shirley
Sir Walter moved from England and settled in New Jersey in 1729. In 1745 he moved to the Shenandoah Valley with his wife and family and they settled in Frederick County, Virginia which is now Jefferson County, West Virginia. Family genealogists believe Walter was the eighth son of Sir Robert Shirley and Elizabeth Washington. As of 1999 this has not been proved or disproved. It was said that he died at a young age; however he apparently died in Frederick County, Virginia in the latter part of 1755. His will dated July 10, 1755 mentions a his children, Walter, Jarvis, James, Robert, Sarah and Dorcas by name. A codicil dated August 11, 1755 mentions his wife Dorcas and his friend and brother Francis Avis. Each of his four sons has a daughter named Elizabeth.
General Notes for Child Laurence Shirley Hon
4th son.
Of this Lord Ferrers a contemporary wrote: "He keeps as hospitable an house and entertains as nobly as any peer of the realm", buy on the whole the second and third earls were quite unremarkable people. Not so the fourth, -- Laurence Shirley (1720-1760) -- who succeeded his uncle, the third earl, in 1745. Of him Burke writes in his Peerage:--
"Although not bereaved of intellect, this nobleman frequently evinced strong symptoms of a constitutional violence of temper; and in one of the paroxisms of rage habitual with his lordship put to his own confidential land-steward, and aged gentleman of the name of Johnson".
Lord Ferrers wished to evict Johnson from his farm, and failing to do so, got him into his room at Staunton Harold, locked the door, pulled a pistol out of his pocket and shot him. He was tried by his peers in Westminster hall, found guilty of murder, and sentenced to death. During his imprisonment in the Tower of London before his execution, he was several times visited by his cousin Selina, Countess of Huntingdon.
Ferres decided to die in the grand manner even though it was the death of a felon. When the fatal day arrived he put on a suit embroidered with silver and was driven from the Tower to Tyburn in his own landau drawn by six horses, and, according to tradition, was hanged with the silken cord which was the privilege of a peer instead of the hempen rope used for common murderers. A vast multitude of people assembled to watch the execution for which the "new drop" (just introduced instead of the cart, ladder and medieval gibbet) was used for the first time. Tyburn gallows stood close to the site of the marble Arch on the boundary of the parishes of St. Marylebone and Westminster.
Robert Shirley
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Robert Shirley
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1 UPDA 2 PLAC Viscount Tamworth
Robert Shirley
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1 F Elizabeth Shirley (details suppressed for this person)
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Robert Cary Shirley
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Robert William Shirley Viscount and Anne Weston
Husband Robert William Shirley Viscount 1 2
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Father: Washington Shirley 8th Earl (1760-1842) 1 2 3
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1 M Washington Sewallis Shirley 9th Earl 1 2 3
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Marr: 23 Jul 1844 3
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Only son.
General Notes for Child Washington Sewallis Shirley 9th Earl
12th in a direct descent from Henry V11 and one of the corepresentatives, through the family of Devereux, of the Lady Anne Plantagenet, daughter & coheir of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, being entitled as such to quarter the Royal Arms. 18th in a direct descent from Edward 111, and entitled, as one of the co-representatives of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, to quarter the Plantagenet Arms.
Rodney K Shirley
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Roy Melvin Shirley and Frances Ann Stewart
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Rubin N Shirley
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Ruby Lee Shirley
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Mother: Annie Mae Strickland (1889- ) 4
Rulon Shirley
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Ruth Shirley
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S O Shirley
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Sackville Shirley
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Born: 22 Feb 1629 - St.Bride Fleet Street, London
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Samuel Shirley
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Sara Myra Shirley
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Sarah Shirley
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Joseph N. Wilson and Sarah C. Shirley
Husband Joseph N. Wilson 4
Born: 23 Mar 1855 - Anderson Co., SC
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Mother: Amanda Catherine Eaton (1835-1918) 4
Marriage: After 1870 - Anderson Co., SC
Wife Sarah C. Shirley 4
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Seymour Shirley
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He was Knighted at Whitehall in 1622. He was an antiquian and the creator of the large Shirley pedigree. His M.S. collections are preserved in the British Museum and the library at Queens College, Oxford. He was a Roman Catholic and says he suffered consequence "losses, dishonors, disgraces which were very great, and imprisonment for the love of God". Stemmata says it is more than likely that his estates passed from his name and family before the Restoration. Little has been preserved about his children. Their fates have merged into oblivion which attends the ruined fortunes of this branch of the house of Shirley.
Thomas is buried in the hallowed ground of St. Peter's church, Paul's Wharf, close to the College of Arms. The church was burnt in the fire of London and not rebuilt.
In 1650 Dame Mary (Harper) wife of Sir Thomas and 7 of her children were living. Sir Thomas petitioned the Commissioners, asking that a third of the Manor of South Newton in Oxford County may be allowed them to subsist on. In 1654 and 1655 other communications among the Royal Composition Papers set forth the necessity and distress of the children. The Commissioners for Oxfordshire directed the payment of a sum of money for their relief.
The following manors were settled upon Sir Thomas Shirley by his father, Sir George Shirley, by a deed dated May 20,1615:
. Bottle Bridge (or St. Botolphs Bridge), Huntington Co.,
. South Newington, Oxford Co.
. Dorsington, Gloucester Co.
. moriety of manor of Kings Newton, Warwick Co.
It appears by several papers that Sir Thomas Shirley mortgaged the manor of Bottle-bridge, in 1637 for 500 pounds to the Lady Penelope Gage, who afterwards married Sir William Harvey, Knight. Sir Thomas, described as a "Popish Recusant", paid neither principal or interest on this mortgage, "being beyond the sea." Sir Thomas Shirley was at this time in France, as we learn from Dugdale's diary.
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Stanley Blane Shirley
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Stephen Eric Shirley and Angela Denise Young
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Stephen Tyler Shirley
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Steven Shirley
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Steven Frank Shirley and Bessie Roddey Stewart
Husband Steven Frank Shirley (details suppressed for this person)
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Wife Bessie Roddey Stewart (details suppressed for this person)
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Mother: Elizabeth Hamilton (1879-1969) 4
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1 M James Hiram Shirley (details suppressed for this person)
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Stuarta Shirley
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Wife Stuarta Shirley 1 2
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Father: Robert Shirley Sir Bart (1651-1717) 1 2
Mother: Selina Finch ( -1762) 1 2
Sybil Shirley
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Wife Sybil Shirley (details suppressed for this person)
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Thomas Shirley and Margaret Wroth
Husband Thomas Shirley (details suppressed for this person)
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1 F Joyce Shirley (details suppressed for this person)
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