8/6 HISTORY AMD ANTIQUITIES OF LEICESTERSHIRE.
PEDIGREE of CROFT, WIGHTMAN, and JEE, of PECKLETON. (Extracted from Family Writings, the Registers of Peckleton, and Monumental Inscriptions, 1810.) I Armms of Croft: Quarterly: 1. Lozengy" Argent and Sable; Croft of Pecklelon. 2. Or, a chevron between three leopards' face* CrlllesH; Harveii of Elmesthorpe. 3. Azure, on two bars Or, three martlets Gules ; Burdett. 4. Or, on two bars Gules, three water- bougets Or, in chief an annulet Gules; U'illoughby of Rands. Pig. 39. Arms of Wightman.- Per fess Or and Sable, a maunch counterehanged, Crest, on the stump of a tree, a buck; fig.40 . Amis of Jee of Leicester.- G4J*s, a sword, in bend Argent, pomeled Or, a crescent for difference. Crest, a gauntlet Azure, garnished at the wrist Or, holding a sword Azure, hilt and pomel Or. Motto, Deus fortitudo mea; fig. 41. William Croft, 1530.=pDorothy, daughter and coheir of Thomas Harvey of Elmesthorpe (see p. 608). Thomas Croft, of Barwell.=pAnne, daughter of John Ducket.
1. William: :Mai>y, daughter of 2. John C'roft,=j=Anne, daugh- 3. Esaias Croft,=j=Catharine, dau. of William Elkabeth, wife of Croft, of sir Geo. Chaworth, rector of ter of John of Thornton. Stone, of Lindridge. John BarnwelL Peckleton, kt. afterwards the Peckleton; Tilsonjdied 1—. , ^ died June right hon. George buried Feb. March 14, William Croft, æt. 9, 1619. Mary. Katharine. Elizabeth. 18, 1613 ; viscount Chaworth 20, IC'20. 1G20; bur. buried at of Hamach, baron atEarlShil- i Peckleton. of Trim in Ireland. ton. I —I" I I '~l— 1—I—I 1. John Croft,= =Mary, daughter of 2. Thomas Croft, married 3. William. 1. Mary. 4. Elizabeth, rector of .... Rosse, of Lex- Susanna, widow of Thos. 4. Anthony. 2. Dorothy. marr. Hugh Mcasham, 1619. ton, c. Nottingham. Croft, of Peckleton; d. 5. James. 3. Catha- Goodall, of Feb. 14, 1651; buried 6. Barnabas. rine. EarlShilton. at Peckfeton. 1 j , 1. William 2.Thomas Croft, ofc=Susanna, daugh-=pThomas Croft, 3. George, I. Doro-=p Thomas 2. Grace, wife of 4.Mary,mar- Croft, born Peckleton, born ter of Thomas second son of 4. George, thy; bu- Wight- Tho. Averey, ried Richard in 1590; 1591; owner of Wright.ofSnel- the Rev. John 5. Henry; ried at man, of of Fleckney, Burdett of died before thismanor,March son, co. Derby; Croft, rector all died Peckle- Hinckley, bom 1580. Mowsley. his father, 11, 1624; died died Mar. 14, of Peckleton; young. ton bo. 1578; 3. Anne, wife of Seep.228. Nov. 14, s. p. j buried at 1649. second husb. 1644. buried at Henry Mead, of 1590, s. p. Peckleton. [See above.] Peckle- Narborough, ton 1657. born 1588. i i Thomas Croft, of Leicester Forest, John. Christopher. 5. Katherine, d. young, son and heir, born 1626. Laurence. John Wightman, born in 1614 ;=j=Sarah. Thomas. Benjamin, buried at Peckleton 1666. r 1. John Wight-=p\nn, daugh- 2. William. 3. Joseph ^Elizabeth. 4. Benjamin Wightman; m man; married ter of Tho- Wightman. j buried at Peckleton 1655. 1. Dorothy, married William Ro- kt Peckleton mas Cutler, binson, 1674. 1654; buried of Peckle- .... =JohnWightman,rector=p;Anne Atterton, of New- Sarah. 2. Anna, born 1642 ; mar. Cad- there 1691. ton, gent. first of Desford; died in bold Verdon; married wallader Vaughan, clerk, rec- wife. 1735; buried there, there 1704; died and tor of Osgathorpe, whose æt. 66. buried at Desford 1734; grandson was George-Harley second wife. See under Vaughan, esq. serjeant at law, Newbold Verdon, p. who long resided at Leicester 824. 3. Sarah, married in 1659, to Samuel Martin, of Leicester. 1. Humphrey Wightman; 2. John, buried at 1. Isabella; buried=William Blick, of Walcote, 2. Anne, died died 1736, æt. 34; bu- Desford 1707. at St. Martin's, in the parish of Misterton, 1713. ried at Desford, s. p. 3. Thomas, d. 1706. Leicester, 17S3, gent.1; died June 6, 1781, 3. Mary, bu- 4. Thomas, buried aged 74, s, p. aged 81. ried at Des- at Desford 1710. ford. Joice, daughter of Samuel Harwai, of Stoke, in=l. John Wightman ;^=Mary; se- 2. Francis Wightman.=pElizabeth. the county of the city of Coventry, esq. 1683 j buried at Peckle- | cond wife. died s. p.; first wife. ton 1709. Mary. r i r 1 1 ' I II 1. John, born 1687; 5. Williams :Mary, dau. of George 7. John, born 10.BartholomewWight-=j=Dorolhy 1. Mary, born 168S; died 1691. Wightman, Bent, esq. mayor of 1G99. man, born 1705; bu- Linth- died 1689. 2. Thomas, born in born 1696; Leicester. She was 8. Thomas, ried at Peckleton waite,of 2. Mary, born 1692 j 1690. buried at afterwards marr. to bo. 1701; re- 1746, in the South Leices- died 1712. 3. John, born 1691. Peckleton Gabriel Newton, esq. sided in Lon- aile, the burial place ter; died 3. Grace, born and 4. Andrew, born in 1J24; died by whom she had one don. of his ancestors. 1773; died in 1695. 1693; died 1697. " s. p. son; she was buried 9. Richard, buried at 4. Sarah, born 1706. 6. Joseph,born 1697. in St. Martin's chan- born 1702. Peckle- cel, Leicester. ton. John Wightman, born 1735; Mai-y, born 1731; bu-=pjohl J n Jee, of Leicester, gent.; buried at St. Martin's in that town 1767; buried at Peekleton 1761; s. p. ried at Peckleton 1766T. lineally descended from Alexander Gee, of Rothley, temp. Henry Thomas-Wightman Jee, esq. married 1792; living, at Peckleton, 181O.^=Sarah Richards, of Leicester j living 1810. Thomas, born 1795; Maria, born 1792; Sarah, born 1795; Mary, born 1798; Lois, born 1801; living IS 10. living 1810. living 1810. living 1810. living 1810.
PEDIGREE of BANKES, of PECK£ETON. (From the Visitation of 1619.) William Bankes2, one of the king's \ibrel-=pAlice, daughter of John Scott, lators in the Tower of London, 1542. of CaTleton, co. York. 771 1. William. 3. ThomasTh . 5. Edward Bankes, of Finchley,=pMargaret, daughter of 6. Lupus. 1. Margaret, Elizabeth. $. Christopher. 4. Richard. co. Middlesex, and of Peckle- John Starkey, of Sut- 7- Villectims. wife of cap- ton ;1iving 1619. ton, co. Derby. tain Han-is. Thomas Bankes, of Meckley, co. Derby, æt. 52, 1619.=FElteabeth, daughter of Richard Foster, of London. I. Edward Bankes, of the parish of St. Augus-==Mary, daughter of.... Hall, 2. William Bankes, tine Old Change, London, draper, 1619. of Ashby de la Zouch, of London. Edward, æt. 1, 1619. 1 Brother of Mr. John Blick, who died in 1740; maternal grandfather of John Ward, of Hinckley, esq. See Pedigrees of Bacon and Ward, pp. 710, 711- ' Henricus Octavus, Dei gratia, Anglic, Francie, & Hibernie rex, &c. Omnibus, &c. Sciatis quod dedimus & concessimus dilecto eervienti nostro Willielmo Bankes locum sive offleium unius vibrellatorum nostrorum infra Turrim nostrum Londonie; & ulteriuS dedimus prefato Willielmo, pro exercitu offieii predicti vacia & feodum sex denariorum sterlingorum predicta, &c. habend' pro vita, 4c- Teste meipso, apud Westmonasterium, nono die Febniarii, anno regni nostii tricesuno quarto. , RATBY.