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Name: Sir John LEIGH
Sex: M
Birth: Abt 1575 ^b
Death: 6 Jan 1611/2 ^d

Parents:

Father:
John LEIGH Death: Abt 19 Jan 1575/6

Mother:

Margaret SAUNDERS Death: Abt 22 May 1623

Family:
Marriage:

Elizabeth WEST on 19 Feb 1600/1 at Eling, Hampshire .^m1
Elizabeth WEST Death: 12 Jun 1614

Children:

Thomas LEIGH Birth: 28 Nov 1605 Death: 10 Mar 1639/40

Bibliography

Faris, David, Plantagenet ancestry of seventeenth century colonists: the descent from the later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of emigrants from England and Wales to the North American colonies before 1701, second edition. Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1999. NYPL APR (New England) 01-1513. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Faris PA2 p[0-9ivxc]*].
Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p[0-9]*].
Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States: who were themselves notable or left descendants notable in American history, with a 2008 Addendum, Coda, and Final Additions. Baltimore, MD: Gen Pub Co, 2008. NYPL APK 08-4216. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Roberts RD600 p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: abt 1575 (age 1 in 1576) [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p48],
parents:: [Ref: Faris PA2 p345, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p47, Roberts RD600 p283]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p48]

Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth WEST

date:: [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p48],
place:: [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p48],
names:: [Ref: Faris PA2 p190, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p352],
child:: [Ref: Faris PA2 p345, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p48, Roberts RD600 p283]

Research Notes:
Knt, of Coldrey (in Froyle), Alresford, Bishops Sutton, Chauntsinger near Alton, Medsted, and Morestead, Hampshire, Ash Priors and Lyng, Somerset, etc [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p48]
Knt, of Coldrey (in Froyle), Hampshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p352]
Knt, of Couldray, co Hants [Ref: Faris PA2 p345]

heir of his father [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p48]

c1592: Justice of the Peace for Hampshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p48]

1596: knighted by Earl of Essex at Cadiz [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p48]

1597: Burgess (Member of Parliament) for Grampround [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p48]

1601: Burgess (Member of Parliament) for Newport iuxta Launceston [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p48]

1604: Burgess (Member of Parliament) for Helston [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p48]

Pedigree of Sir John LEIGH
                            /-----Ralph LEIGH
                   /-----Ralph LEIGH
                  |        |         /-----Henry LANGLEY
                  |         \-----Elizabeth LANGLEY
          /-----Ralph LEIGH
         |        |                           /-----Sir John CULPEPPER
         |        |                  /-----William CULPEPPER
         |        |                 |        |         /-----Richard CHARLES
         |        |                 |         \-----Catherine CHARLES
         |        |         /-----Richard CULPEPPER
         |        |        |        |                           /-----Sir William De FERRERS, Lord Ferrers Of Groby
         |        |        |        |                  /-----Henry De FERRERS, Lord Ferrers Of Groby
         |        |        |        |                 |         \-----Margaret De UFFORD
         |        |        |        |         /-----William De FERRERS, Lord Ferrers Of Groby
         |        |        |        |        |        |         /-----Sir Luke De POYNINGS, Lord Poynings
         |        |        |        |        |         \-----Joan De POYNINGS
         |        |        |        |        |                  \-----Isabel De St JOHN, Baroness St John
         |        |        |         \-----Elizabeth FERRERS
         |        |        |                 |                  /-----Robert De CLIFFORD, Lord Clifford
         |        |        |                 |         /-----Sir Roger CLIFFORD, Lord Clifford
         |        |        |                 |        |         \-----Isabel BERKELEY
         |        |        |                  \-----Philippa De CLIFFORD
         |        |        |                          |         /-----Thomas BEAUCHAMP, Orig K.G., Earl Of Warwick
         |        |        |                           \-----Maud De BEAUCHAMP
         |        |        |                                    \-----Katherine MORTIMER
         |         \-----Joyce CULPEPPER
         |                 |                  /-----Richard WORSLEY
         |                 |         /-----Sir Otewell WORSLEY
         |                 |        |        |         /-----John CLERK
         |                 |        |         \-----Catherine CLERK
         |                 |        |                 |         /-----Roger De STOKEPORT
         |                 |        |                  \-----Sara De STOKEPORT
         |                  \-----Elizabeth WORSLEY
         |                          |                  /-----Daffyd AP EDNYFED GAM
         |                          |         /-----Edwart Trevor AP DAFFYD
         |                           \-----Rose TREVOR FERCY EDWART
         |                                   |         /-----Robert PULESTON
         |                                    \-----Angharad PULESTON
         |                                            |         /-----Gruffyd FYCHAN, Lord Of Glyndyfrdwy
         |                                             \-----Lowri FERCH GRUFFYD FYCHAN
         |                                                      \-----Elen Ferch Thomas
/-----John LEIGH
|        |         /-----William IRELAND
|         \-----Margaret IRELAND
Sir John LEIGH
|         /-----Thomas SAUNDERS
\-----Margaret SAUNDERS
          \-----Elizabeth WOLMAN

Descendants of Sir John LEIGH

1. Sir John LEIGH m. Elizabeth WEST

m. Elizabeth WEST father: Sir Thomas WEST mother: Elizabeth HOTOFTE

2+ Thomas LEIGH m. Mary FLEMING

2nd generation

2. Thomas LEIGH m. Mary FLEMING

m. Mary FLEMING father: Sir Thomas FLEMING mother: Dorothy CROMWELL

3 Thomas LEIGH

4 Philip LEIGH

5 John LEIGH

6 Thomas LEIGH

7 John LEIGH

8 Paul LEIGH