CP correction? - Anne Morgan, wife of Henry Carey, Baron Hun

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John Higgins

CP correction? - Anne Morgan, wife of Henry Carey, Baron Hun

Legg inn av John Higgins » 17 jul 2007 03:13:22

The currrent thread on the recent Whitney article on the October 2006 isssue of TAG caused me to look again into another Whitney matter.

The wife of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (and perhaps son of King Henry VIII), was Anne Morgan, said by CP 6:629 to be "apparently da. of Sir Thomas Morgan, of Arkeston, co. Hereford, by Anne, dau. of Sir Robert Whitney, of Whitney, co. Gloucester". In a long footnote on the same page, CP gives more information on Lady Hunsdon's ancestry, as follows:

"In a vol. (marked with a star, pp. 137-8) among Philpot's MSS in the Coll. of Arms, Lady Hunsdon's parentage (as in the text) and her ancestry on both sides are fully set out, her father being s. and h. of William Morgan, of Arkeston, who was s. and h. of David Morgan, by Mary, da. and coh. of (---) Delahey, of Arkeston afsd., while her mother was da. and h. of Sir Robert Whitney (by Sibell, sister of Sir James Baskerville), which Robert was s. and h. of James Whitney, by Blanche, da. and coh. of Simon Milborne, of Tillington, Co. Hereford. This, probably, is her correct pedigree, and not that in the Visitation of Gloucester (as printed by the Harl. Soc.), where Lord Hunsdon's wife is made out to be da. of James Whitney, by Blanche, da. of Simon Milborne, both abovenamed." END OF QUOTE

The last point in the CP footnote is apparently correct, that Anne, Lady Hunsdon was not herself a Whitney and was not dau. of James Whitney and Blanche Milborne, as at least one visitation pedigree erroneously indicates. However, based on most published Whitney materials (some of which are cited in the TAG article and many of which are collected on the excellent website of the Whitney Research Group), Anne's Whitney mother was named Elizabeth, not Anne, and it was Elizabeth (not Anne) who was the dau. of James Whitney and Blanche MIlborne.

Chronologically, Anne Morgan could not have been the granddaughter of Sir Robert Whitney and Sibell Baskerville, as her license to marry Lord Hunsdon was dated 11 March 1545, while Sir Robert was himself still a minor at the time of his father's death in 1540/1. In addition, it's now accepted (as in the TAG article) that Sir Robert was the grandson, not son, of James Whitney and Blanche Milborne, being son of Robert and Margaret, dau. of Robert Wye of Gloucestershire. So Anne Morgan was a cousin, and not daughter, of the Sir Robert Whitney who mar. Sibell Baskerville.

It appears that the compilers of CP were confused by one or another of the conflicting and not always accurate pedigrees of the Whitney family. Comments are welcomed.

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