Fenwick family of Wallington, Northumberland and its cadet branches

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I know how the cadet branches of Fenwick of Bitchfield and Fenwick of Walker
are related to the senior male line of Fenwick of Wallington, but am
uncertain how the families of Fenwick of Kirkharle, Fenwick of Brenkley, and Fenwick
of Blagdon connect. It is obvious from the content of extant wills that
these five cadet lines are closer in relation to the Wallington Fenwicks than
the other Fenwick lines in Northumberland during the Tudor period. Can anyone
make that connection for me?

A line that I am currently working on contains the following lineage:

Thomas de Clifford, Lord Clifford of Appleby, Sheriff of Westmorland
b. 25 Mar. 1414
d. 22 May 1455 at the first battle of St. Albans
m. ca. 1424 Joan Dacre, daughter of Thomas Dacre, Lord Dacre of Gilsland,
and Philippa de Neville.

Joan de Clifford
m. Richard Musgrave (d. 1491), Knt., of Hartley Castle [Harcla],
Westmorland, and Edenhall, Cumberland, son of Thomas Musgrave, Knt., and Joan Stapilton.

Margaret Musgrave
m. John Heron, Knt., of Chipchase Castle, Northumberland, son of John Heron,
Esq., of Chipchase Castle, and Isabel Ogle.

John Heron, Knt., of Chipchase Castle and Seven Shields Castle
[Sewyngshields], Northumberland, Keeper of Tynedale and Redesdale.
b.
d. [alive 1542]
m. [with dispensation dated 15 Sept. 1491] Joan Ridley, daughter of Nicholas
Ridley, Knt., of Willimontswick, Northumberland, and Mary Musgrave.

George Heron, Knt., of Chipchase Castle, Northumberland, Keeper of Tynedale
and Redesdale.
b.
d. 7 July 1575 in a skirmish known as the Redeswire Fray [At the time of
his death he maintained residence at Harbottle Castle.]
m. Marian Swynburne, daughter of George Swynburne, Gent., of Nafferton and
Edlingham Castle, Northumberland, and Marian Fenwick.

Isabell Heron
b.
d. [alive 1580]
m. John Fenwick (d. 1580-81), Gent., of Walker, Northumberland, second son
of John Fenwick, Esq., of Wallington, Northumberland, and Joan Clavering.

Does anyone know all the offspring of this last couple? In his will dated
10 Oct. 1580 "John Fenwik, of Wyallker, in the county of Northumberland,
gentellman" left all his leases of property to his wife Isabell and made her his
executrix [Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham. Part II.
(1860) (Surtees Society Pub. 38) pp. 34-35]. Two of their children can be found
in William Flower's Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564 (1881)
(Harleian Society Pub. 16) pp. 209 & 349. Their eldest son Valentine Fenwick
was married by 1564 to Constance Widdrington, and a daughter Anne Fenwick
was married by the same year to Lancelot Middelton.
The residence of this John Fenwick, the township of Walker, lies in an area
between the villages of Brenkley, Dinnington, Hazlerigg, and Seaton Burn. I
believe this John Fenwick may have been the father of John Fenwick, Gent., of
Brenkley, who was a witness to the will of "Randall Fenyke ge'tilma'" of
Kirkharle on 7 Feb. 1571 [Wills and Inventories Illustrative of the History,
Manners, Language, Statistics, &c. of the Northern Counties of England from the
Eleventh Century Downwards. Part I. (1835) (Surtees Society Pub. 2) pp.
366-367]. John Fenwick, Gent., of Brenkley was deceased by 1590, when the
following bequest was made in the 26 May 1590 will of "Marmaduck Fenwick, of
Kirkharle, in the countie of Northumberland, gentleman:" "To the children of my
cosen Johne Fenwick, laite of Brenkleye, deceassed, everie one 10s." [Wills
and Inventories from the Registry of Durham. Part II. (1860) (Surtees
Society Pub. 38) pp. 246-248]. The widow of this John Fenwick of Brenkley was
buried on 6 June 1613 in Ponteland Parish as per the parish register: ". . . . .
. . Fenwick vidua quonda uxa Johannes Fenwick, genr. de Brinkle."
John Fenwick (d. by 1590) seems to have had at least three sons: John
Fenwick, Gent., of Brenkley, Martin Fenwick, Gent., of Brenkley, and Robert
Fenwick, Gent., of Brenkley. The younger John Fenwick married in Ponteland Parish
on 10 Nov. 1612 to Jennet Pye [Jeneta Pie], likely of the Dinnington Pye
family. He was alive still in 1624/5 when his servant Nicholas Midforth was
buried in Ponteland Parish on 13 Mar. 1624/5. Two of the children of John
Fenwick and Jennet Pye were immigrants to North America:

1. Cuthbert Fenwick, Gent., lord of St. Inigoe's Manor (in St. George's
Hundred), St. Mary's County, Maryland, and lord of Fenwick Manor (in Resurrection
Hundred), [then] Calvert County, Maryland.
b. (chr.) 29 Dec. 1614 Ponteland Parish, Northumberland, England
d. testate in 1655 with will dated 6 Mar. 1654/5 [Archives of Maryland 41,
pp. 262-263]
m. as his second wife Jane (Eltonhead) Moryson with jointure dated 1 Aug.
1649 in St. Mary's County, Maryland [Archives of Maryland 41, pp. 261-262].
She died testate in 1660 in Calvert County with will dated 24 Nov. 1660 and
recorded 12 Dec. 1660 [Maryland Prerogative Court Will Book 1, pp. 114-118]

2. Jane (Fenwick) Smyth-Taylor-Eltonhead, lady of Little Eltonhead Manor (in
Eltonhead Hundred), Calvert County, Maryland
b. (chr.) 29 Nov. 1618 Ponteland Parish, Northumberland, England
d. testate in 1659 with will recorded 28 Feb. 1659/60 [Maryland Prerogative
Court Will Book 1, pp. 94-95]
She obviously had a colorful life as her first and third husbands were both
executed, and her second narrowly avoided hanging.