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Sue J

Temple Family

Legg inn av Sue J » 27 aug 2004 00:43:41

Hi List,

While working on my husband's family, I came across this info some
time ago and thought it would be a good time to put some feelers out
on this genealogy and see what you all think. I ordered a couple of
Wills, just in case this information is correct.

Sue in Florida macduff@infionline.net

(Taken from the family book, "Remnants of Former Glory", copywrite
1937, Wallace Alexander Jones pgs. 9-12)

"It is stated in "Burke's Peerage" that this ancient family, Temple,
derives its surname from the manor of Temple, County Leicester, and
has its pedigree recorded in "Visitation of Leicestershire" in 1619
A.D.

1.) Leofern, or Leoferin, Earl of Mercia had:

2.)Leofric, King of Leicester. He married the famous Lady Godiva who
rode naked through Coventrytown, "like an angel of light on a mission
of mercy" by day to regain for its citizens the privileges taken from
them; and she died August 31, 1027. They had:

3.) Algar, King of East Saxons, 1053 who had:

4.) Edwin, King of East Saxons, deposed by the Conqueror and killed in
battle with the Normans in 1071. His sister married first, the Welsh
King Gruffydd. "Her name was Ealdgyth and her brother was named
Eadwine and the other brother Morkere." She married secondly, Harold,
King of England. Edwin was the father of:

5.) Edwin, Earl of Leicestershire and Coventry who assumed the surname
Temple from the manor of Temple in the Hundred of Sparkenhor in
Willsgoro, Leicestershire, whose descendants were:

1. Henry de Temple, Baron of Temple and Little Shepey had:

2. Geoffrey de Temple, Leicester, whose son:

3. John De Temple, Leicester, had:

4. Henry De Temple who married Lady Maud, daughter of Sir John
Ribbesford, Knight, and had:

5. Henry De Temple, Baron of Temple Manor and Little Shepey who had:

6. Richard De Temple, Baron of Temple Manor who married Catharine,
daughter of Thomas De Langley and had:

7. Nicholas De Temple who married Lady Margery, daughter of Sir Roger
Corbet, Knight of Lebton and had:

8. Richard De Temple of Shepey who married Lady Agnes, daughter of Sir
Ralph Stanley, Knight, and had:

9. Nicholas De Temple who married Maud, daughter of John Burguillon of
Newton in Leicester and had:

10. Richard De Temple who married John, daughter of William Shepey of
Great Shepey, Leicester and had:

11. Thomas de Temple of Whitney, Oxfordshire, third son who married
Mary, daughter of Thomas Gedney, Esq., and had:

12. William Temple of Whitney who married Isabel, daughter and
heiress of Henry Everton, Esq., and had:

13. Thomas Temple of Whitney who married Alice, daughter and heiress
of John Heritage of Burton Dorset in Coventry Warwick and had:

14. Peter Temple of Stowe, second son who in later years of Edward VI
obtained a grant of the Manor of Marston, Boteler County, Warwick, and
married Millicent, daughter of William Jecklye, Esq., of Nemington in
Middlesex and had:

15. John Temple of Stowe, eldest son born 1542 and died in 1603,
married Susan, daughter and heiress of Thomas Spencer of Everton,
Northampton and had:

16. Sir Thomas Temple of Stowe, Knight, created Baronet June 29, 1611
and died in 1637. He married Esther, daughter of Miles Sandy, Esq.,
of Latimers Ducks, by whom he had thirteen children. Of the numerous
progeny:

17. John received the honor of Knighthood and married Dorothy,
daughter and co-heiress of Edward Lee, Esq., of Stantonbury, and had
at his decease in 1632 seven children:

(1) Peter (Sir) who married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Timothy
Tyrnell of O'Keley and died in January
1660 leaving five sons and the four elder died without issue
while the youngest died in 1706
leaving William and Peter the fifth and sixth baronets.

(2) Sir Thomas, a Nova Scotia Baronet and Knight. He was
Governor of Nova Scotia.

(3) Edmund of Sulby County, Northampton married Eleanor, daughter
and co-heiress of Sir Stephen
Harveys of Hardenston and left Stephen of Sulby who died
without issue and John of Sibbertoft
who died in 1702 leaving three daughters and two sons:
Edmund of Leicester (left by wife Ellen)
and an elder son Purbech.

(4) Sir Purbech of Edgcombe Place, County Surrey, Governor of
Henley married Sarah, daughter of
Robert Baker and died without issue.

(5) Dorothy married John Alston, Esq., of the Inner Temple.

(6) Hester married Edward Pascal, Esq., of County Essex of Gray's
Inn and had a son John who went
to America and married Elizabeth, daughter of William
Taylor., Esq., of Dorchester near Boston
and died in 1734 leaving a daughter Mehitable who married
Robert Temple of Boston on August
11, 1734 and was the mother of Sir John Temple, eight
Baronet.

(7) Mary married Robert Nelson, Esq., of Gray's Inn."

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