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Name: John SHIRLEY
Sex: M
Birth: Abt 1426 ^b
Death: 18 May 1485 in Staunton-Harrold, Leicestershire ^d
Burial: Gerrondon Abbey, Leicestershire ^u

Parents:

Father:
Ralph SHIRLEY Birth: Abt 1408 Death: 26 Dec 1466

Mother:

Margaret STAUNTON Birth: Abt 1405 Death: Before 1426

Family:
Marriage:

Eleanor WILLOUGHBY on Abt 1456 .^m1
Eleanor WILLOUGHBY Death: After 1487

Children:

Sir Ralph SHIRLEY Birth: Abt 1460 Death: 6 Jan 1517
Thomas SHIRLEY
Robert SHIRLEY Birth: Abt 1465 Death: After 1513
Hugh SHIRLEY Birth: Abt 1467
Richard SHIRLEY
Henry SHIRLEY
Baldwin SHIRLEY
Nichols SHIRLEY
Alice SHIRLEY
Anne SHIRLEY
Eleanor SHIRLEY
Margaret SHIRLEY
Jane SHIRLEY

Bibliography

Acheson, Eric, Gentry Community: Leicestershire in fifteenth century. Cambridge: Univ Press, 1993. NYPL JFD 92-12870. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Acheson Leicester p[0-9]*].
Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
Farnham, George F, Leicestershire Medieval Pedigrees. Leicester: Thornley, 1925. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007941560 images 458-633. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Farnham Pedigrees p[0-9]*].
Harleian Society, Visitation of Nottinghamshire 1569 and 1614, H.S.P. vol 4, 1871. Available at https://archive.org/details/visitationscoun01britgoog. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Nottinghamshire p[0-9]*].
Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Baltimore, MD: Genelogical Publishing Co, 2005. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson MCA p[0-9]*].
Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Baltimore, MD: Genelogical Publishing Co, 2004. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson PA p[0-9]*].
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 v1[pc][0-9]*].
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 v3p[0-9]*].
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 v4p[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]*].
Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weis AR7 #[0-9][0-9]*[A-Z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: abt 1426 (age 40 in 1466) [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p630]; abt 1426 [Ref: Richardson MCA p749, Weis AR7 #230A]; before 1426 [Ref: Acheson Leicester p248],
parents:: [Ref: Acheson Leicester p214, Acheson Leicester p248, Burke Peerage p753, Richardson MCA p749, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p629, Roberts RD600 p422],
father:: [Ref: Weis AR7 #230A]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: Richardson MCA p749, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p630, Weis AR7 #230A]; 1485 [Ref: Burke Peerage p753]; will dated 26 Mar 1485 [Ref: Acheson Leicester p249],
place:: [Ref: Richardson MCA p749, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p630]

Sources for burial Information

place:: [Ref: Richardson MCA p749, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p630]

Sources with Information about marriage to Eleanor WILLOUGHBY

date:: before 1456 [Ref: Acheson Leicester p249]; prob in 1456/7 [Ref: Richardson MCA p749, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p630],
names:: [Ref: Nottinghamshire p147, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p40],
child:: [Ref: Acheson Leicester p249, Burke Peerage p753, Richardson PA p156, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p566, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p630, Roberts RD600 p422, Weis AR7 #230A, Weis AR7 #230B]