RALEGH, Walter (1504/5-81), of Hayes Barton in the parish of East Budleigh, Devon.

b. 1504 /5, s. of Wymond Ralegh of Fardel by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Richard Edgecombe of Cotehele, Cornw. m. (1) by 1528, Joan, da. of John Drake of Exmouth, Devon, 2s.; (2) da. of one Darrell of London, 1da., (3) Catherine, da. of Sir Philip Champernon of Modbury, Devon, wid. of Otes or Otho Gilbert (d. 10 Feb. 1547) of Compton and Greenway, Devon, 2s. Carew and Walter 1da. suc. fa. 7 July 1512.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s second i.p.m., C142/30/45. Vis. Devon , ed. Vivian, 639; M. J. G. Stanford, ‘A hist. of the Ralegh fam. of Fardel and Burleigh in the early Tudor period’ (London Univ. M.A. thesis, 1955), 140-1.