Later pedigree of Annesley of Notts
Rosie Bevan
Commoners under Annesley of Bletchingdon being one of them. However I have
come across the text of a charter dated 1548 which outlines a 11 generation
descent from John Annesley and Annora Pierpont his wife, down to John
Chaworth. Unfortunately the scribe may have got confused with the number of
Johns because an extra one seems to slip in where I have marked the text
with an asterisk and gets carried on. The mistake does not, however, get
translated into the corresponding drop down pedigree. I don't know whether
the charter has been published elsewhere but it was copied onto a manuscript
pedigree by William Flower in 1581 amongst the Chaworth-Musters papers held
at the University of Nottingham, England.
From it the descent of the Annesleys of Annesley goes thus [the dates have
been added]
Sir John I (granted free warren of lands in Annesley and Rawmarsh in 1285)
d.1316 =Annora Pierpont d.1336
Sir John II d.1357
Sir John III d. 1410
John IV d.v.p.
Thomas I d.1416
Thomas II d.v.p.
John V d.1437
Alicia=George Chaworth d.1466
Thomas Chaworth d.1483
George Chaworth d.1521
Sir John Chaworth d.1558
Praecipe Gabrili Banwyke generoso Johi Stanley & Hco Bykerstaff quod juste &
sine dilecoe reddant Johi Chaworth mil 20 messuagea molendium 30 bov tre, 50
acras prati 2 acras pasturae 12 acras bosci 33 sol reddius tretiam partem
unius molendini 7 redditu unius libri cumini cu plinentus in Burton,
Bulcote, Loudzam & Kneveton quae Ricus de Kymeshall dedit Johi Annesley &
Annora uxoris ejus & heridibus de Corporibus ipsori Johannis & Annorae
exuentibus Et quae post mortem Praedicti Johis Annesley & Annorae et Johis
Annesley mil filii & haeris ipsorum Johis & Annorae & Johis Annesley mil
filii & haeredis ipsius Johis filii Johis* filii Johis & Annorae / Johannis
Annesley mil filius & haeredes ipsius Johannis filii Johannis filii Johannis
filii Johannis & Annorae / Thoae Annesley armigeri filii et heredis etc/
Thoae Annesley filii & heredis etc/ John Annesley Armi filii et heredis
Thomae filii Thomae / Alicia uxoris Geo Chaworth militis filiae & haeridis
ipsius Johis Annesley filii Thomae / Thomae Chaworth armi filii & haeredis
ipsius Geo & Aliciae/ Geo Chaworth arm filii & heredis ipsius Thoae filii
Geo & Aliciae praefato Johanni Chaworth militi filio & haeridi ipsius
Georgii filii Thoae ac consanguineo & heredi de corporibus praedicta
Johannis Annesley & Annorae legitime procreato descenderedebent prae formam
donationis praedictere ut dicit. etnisi fecerunt & preadictus Johes Chaworth
fecerit te secur de clam suo proseg tunc sum p bonos sum predictos Gabrielem
Johem Stanley Hcum quod sunt coram justic : nris : apud Westmon in Octab
Sci Hillary ostens quare non fecerint Et habeas ibi sum & hoc breve. Testi
..
1548 38 Hen VIII
(Apologies for any mistakes in transcription)
Some more corroborating details of the family are presented on the
foundation of a chantry in the church of Annesley in 1363 for a secular
priest to pray for the souls of William de Wakebrugge and Robert de
Annesley, parson of Rodyngton, and John de Annesley, [III] in his Mass while
they should live and for their souls when dead, and also for the souls of
John de Annesley, knight, and Annora his wife, and of their father and
mother [presumably John II d. 1357]. The presentation was to remain with
William de Wakebrugge and Robert de Annesley and devolve to John de Annesley
[III] and heirs male, brother Thomas and heirs male, brother Geoffrey and
heirs male.[Thoroton's Nottinghamshire, v.2 p.268]
This descent also indicates that the marriage between Sir John Annesley III
and Isabel, niece and heir of Sir John Chandos, must have been a later one
for him, because Isabel is known to have died without issue. The dates show
that this is quite possible assuming his grandfather was born about 1260 and
in his majority when granted free warren of his lands in 1285. John III was
certainly alive in 1263 at the foundation of the chantry.
That John V was grandson and heir of Thomas Annesley is borne out by a grant
of 14 H 6 by John to "John Makworth, Dean of Lincolne, John Curson, Thomas
Makworth, esq, and others in his mannors of Annesley, Bulcote, and
Gippesmere, and all his lands and tenements in Crophill and Cossale in this
county, and in Rawmershe and Bolton upon Dearne in the County of Yorke,
which descended to him after the death of Thomas de Annesley his
grandfather. The jury 18 H 6 found Alice Annesley to be daughter and heir of
the said John" [Thoroton's Nottinghamshire, v.2 p.268.] This means that John
V's father was not Hugh of Ruddington and that Hugh was not heir of Thomas
as shown in the Burke pedigree.
The Chaworth part of the pedigree is correct.
Comments anyone?
Cheers
Rosie