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Fortrey ancestors of Capt Mark Phillips

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wjhonson

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Sep 10, 2009, 1:53:56 AM9/10/09
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On Leo's great web site here
http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00551521&tree=LEO

we see that Catherine Fortrey, who by marrying (as his second wife)
Sir Peter Apsley of St James, Westminster; Cofferer to James II,
became the mother of that Catherine Apsley who Leo shows and who
descends, among others, to Capt Mark Phillips, the ex husband of
Princess Anne.

Leo however does not show when they married of any details of her
parents.

Sir Peter Apsley's first wife Anne Somebody was buried 7 Sep 1681 in
Westminster Abbey

Subsequently Peter and Catherine obtained a marriage license dated 24
Sep 1687 from Arch.Cant. "she 22, her parents dead"

Her father is identified as Samuel Fortrey, she is called on the
license "of St Martin in the Fields"

There is an extracted IGI entry for Catherine, daughter of Samuel
Fortrey and his wife Theodora, baptised 17 Nov 1663 at Witcham, co
Camb. (Batch C135337 wj)

I would say that this... is them.

Marriage Settlement. 148/2/118 16 & 17 Feb. 1646

Contents:
1. Theodora Joceline of Hollywell, Hunts.
Torrell Jocelyne of Hollywell, Hunts. Esq.
Edward Leigh of Chingford, Essex, gent.
Henry Tennant of London, Gent.
2. Samuell Fortrie of Kew, Richmonde Surrey, Esq.
3. Arthur Herris of Lincolns Inn, Mddx. Esq.
Benjamin Jocelyne of Hollywell, Gent.
1. To 3.
Manors of Bowton & Southoe & apps. to 3 for use of:-
2. (a) For his natural life.
(b) Theodora Joceline after his death for her natural life.
(c) Annual rent of £160 so 3. to be seized of above 2 Manors to use of
Torrell Joceline for his natural life.


Will Johnson


wjhonson

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Sep 10, 2009, 1:59:00 AM9/10/09
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And the proof that Theodora is the daughter of Torrell

Deed to lead uses on a recovery. 148/2/115 12 Apr. 1644

1 pendant seal.

Contents:
1. Torrell Jocelin of Hallywell (Holywell cum Needingworth) Hunts.
Esq. & Theodora his daughter.
2. George Evelinge of London, Esq.
Thomas Newcomen of Inner Temple, London, Esq.
Radcliffe Todd of Sturmer, Essex, gent.
Manors of Bowton, & Southoe, Hunts. & messuages etc. & appurtenances
in Bowton, Southoe, Diddington, Overton Waterfeild als. Cherry Orton,
Hallywell & Needingworth in Hunts.

Will Johnson

wjhonson

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Sep 10, 2009, 2:01:59 AM9/10/09
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Proof that Samuel Fortrey of Bial
is the same person as Samuel Fortrey of Kew
and is the same person as Samuel Fortrey of St James

Mortgage by Lease & Release. 148/2/122 19 & 20 Oct. 1668

5 pendant seals.

Contents:
1. Samuell Fortrey of Biall Fenne in Isle of Ely & Cambs. Esq. &
Theodora his wife.
2. Nicholas Strode of Inner Temple, London, Knight.
Sir Mathew Holworthy of London, Knight.
3. Thos. Blande of Inner Temple, gent.
John Sharpe of Inner Temple, gent.
£2,000 From 2. to 1.
Mannors of Bowton & Southoe & apps. & 10 messuages, 2 dovecotes, 10
gardens, 50a land, 40a meadow, 140a pasture, 10a wood, 20a & 15a
marsh. £8 rent, free fishing & apps. in Bowton, Southoe, Diddington,
Overton Waterfield als. Cherry Horton.
Bond & 2 copies fine annexed.


Will Johnson


wjhonson

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Sep 10, 2009, 2:23:04 AM9/10/09
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The marriage entry of Samuel Fortrey and Theodora Jocelyn has now been
located in Saint Bartholomew the Less, London (Batch M151081 wj)
dated 23 Feb 1646

Samuel was yet living in 1678 but had died by 1682 when Theodora first
appears as a widow in a document. Their son and heir was also named
Samuel, he was of London in 1682 at that time a Gent, and he married
Elizabeth Bigg their marriage settlment dated 13 Sep 1683.

He didn't live long, Elizabeth appearing as a widow, and his brother
William appearing as "heir of his brother Samuel" in 1690

In addition to these siblings there was a "Trevor Fortrey", female,
which odd name might lead to grandparents. And there was a Mary
Fortrey who married Philip Parker a Morley of Erwarton, Knt and Bnt

Will Johnson


wjhonson

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Sep 10, 2009, 2:33:31 AM9/10/09
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The wife of Torrell Jocelyn, is the subject of a booklet

http://books.google.com/books?id=1OLJOSoUIHsC&lpg=PA29&dq=torrell%20jocelyn&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Her name being Elizabeth and here it states that her maternal
grandfather was Bishop William Chadderton

Will Johnson

wjhonson

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Sep 10, 2009, 2:44:23 AM9/10/09
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I see, evidently the mother of Theodora (Jocelyn) Fortrey was
Elizabeth (Brooke) Jocelyn the only child of Sir Richard Brooke (d
1632) (of Norton?) by his first wife Joan Chaderton.

Since Sir Richard next married (in 1608) to Catherine Neville, a Cecil
5, this entire line of descent comes into my research project.
Catherine (Fortrey) Apsley, with whom I started, now becomes a Cecil
9. And Mark Phillips gains some royal descents from the Brooke/
Touchet families.

Will Johnson

wjhonson

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Sep 10, 2009, 2:58:25 AM9/10/09
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Proof that in 2000, the exact marriage date and place (which I've now
published) for Theodora Jocelyn to Samuel Fortrey was unknown.

http://books.google.com/books?id=1OLJOSoUIHsC&lpg=PA29&dq=torrell%20jocelyn&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q=&f=false


Will Johnson

wjhonson

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Sep 10, 2009, 4:52:05 AM9/10/09
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It turns out that there is another surprise in this Jocelyn family.

Thomas Jocelyn, the father of Torrell, after his first wife Dorothy
Frank died May 1602, married again to Theodora Cooke, the daughter of
Edmond Cooke of Mount Mascall, co Kent, esq by his wife Elizebeth
Nicolls coheiress of her father John Nicholls.

By this wife Theodora Cooke (widow of Clement Bere of Dartford, co
Kent), Thomas Jocelyn had four more children.

Among these four was that Henry Jocelyn who was deputy-governor of
Maine in 1645 !

Will Johnson


John

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Sep 10, 2009, 8:30:50 PM9/10/09
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There is a pretty extensive pedigree of the family of Josselyn {or
Jocelyn, Jocelin, Joseline, among other spellings) in vol. 71 of NEHGR
(1917), available on-line at:
http://books.google.com/books?id=1soUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false
[watch the line wrap]

Some delving into the pedigree could probably uncover some interesting
connections.

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