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I checked a few dozen of these names but didn't find them already in my
database. For the most part, I chart descendents of Richard Cecil, plus
all the families interconnected with them, but only covering the Tudor
and Jacobean period.
Then I also *try* to chart all the ancestors of all those people. So
that's a full-time job right there.
I don't really get into the Colonists unless they are somehow related to
the above. With sources.
Will Johnson
This Richard Cecil?
Did you write this?
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
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Richard Cecil (courtier)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Cecil (d. 1552) was a resident of Burghley (Burleigh) in the parish
of Stamford Baron, Northamptonshire. His father David, rose in favour under
King Henry VIII of England, becoming high sheriff of Northamptonshire in
1529 and 1530, and died in 1541.
Richard too was a courtier. In 1517 he was a royal page; in 1520 he was
present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold; he rose to be groom of the robes
and constable of Warwick Castle.
He was high sheriff of Rutland in 1539, and was one of those who received no
inconsiderable share of the plunder of the monasteries.
<G> -- DSH
He married Jane Heckington, daughter and heiress of William Heckington of
Bourne, Lincolnshire. He had only one son, William Cecil, Lord Burghley
(1520-1598), but three daughters.
He sent his son William to the grammar schools of Stamford and Grantham, and
in 1535 William entered St. John's College, Cambridge.
Academically a success, William ran foul of his father, when his heart was
lost to Mary Cheke, daughter of a local widow, with only a fortune of 40
pounds to recommend her.
William was immediately removed before he could take his degree, and was
entered as a student at Gray's Inn in 1541. If the motive was to prevent a
marriage, it failed.
Two months after he came up to London, William married Mary, probably
secretly. Thomas, the future Earl of Exeter and only fruit of this union was
born at Cambridge on 5 May 1542, therefore presumably at his grandmother's
house.
The marriage was so distasteful to Richard, that he is said to have altered
his will, or at any rate, to have intended to do so. But the young wife did
not live long, dying on 22 Feb 1544.
When Richard died 19 May 1552, he left an ample estate behind him in the
counties of Rutland, Northamptonshire and elsewhere. He died at his house in
Cannon Row and was buried at St Margaret's, Westminster.
Of his daughters, Anne (also called Agnes) married Thomas White of Tuxford,
Notts.; Margaret married Roger Cave and secondly Ambrose Smith; and
Elizabeth married Robert Wingfield secondly Hugh Allington.