Commons 1558-1603

b. 1564, 1st s. of Thomas Shirley I of Wiston by Ann, da. of Sir Thomas Kempe of Olantigh, Kent. educ. Hart Hall, Oxf. 1579; I. Temple 1581. m. (1) 1591, Frances, da. of Henry Vavasour of Copmanthorpe and Hazlewood, Yorks., 3s. 4da.; (2) Dec. 1617, Judith, da. of William Bennett of London, wid. of one Taylor, 6s. 6da. Kntd. 1589; suc. fa. 1612.DNB; W. Berry, Co. Genealogies, Suss. (Comber’s annotated copy at Chichester), 172.

b. c. 1556, 1st s. of Francis Shirley of West Grinstead by Barbara, da. of Sir Richard Blount of Mapledurham, Oxon. m. (1) Elizabeth, s.p.; (2) Philippa, da. of Sir Edward Caryll of Harting, 2da. suc. fa. 1578.

b. c.1518, 3rd s. of Thomas Sharington of Sharrington, Norf. by Katherine (or Elizabeth), da. of William Pyrton of Little Bentley, Essex. Bro. and h. of Sir William Sharington, of Lacock. m. Ann (d.1607), da. of Robert Paget, alderman of London, 1s. d.v.p. 3da. suc. bro. 1553. Kntd. 1574.C142/101/121; Genealogist, n.s. xii. 241; CPR, 1554-5, p. 309.

2nd s. of Edmund, 3rd Baron Sheffield of Butterwick, by his 1st w. Ursula, da. of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt of Kettleby. m. c.1610, Grizel, da. of Sir Edmund Anderson, c.j. of common pleas, 1s. Edmund who; suc. gd.-fa. as 2nd Earl of Mulgrave 1646. Kntd. 1605.

bap. 17 Jan. 1557, s. of Thomas Shelbery (d. 7 Aug. 1563), grocer, of St. Michael Bassishaw, London by Mary, afterwards (14 June 1565) w. of Thomas Lodge of Lincoln’s Inn. m. (1) 26 Aug. 1579, Mary Poste, spinster, of St. Andrew-in-the-Wardrobe, London; (2) 1600, Joan Pites, wid. of George Millet of Perivale; issue.Lond. Mar. Lic. (Harl. Soc. xxv), 90; Hist. Mon. Comm. Mdx. 101. Unused here is the marriage, undated, of John son of Thomas to the widow of one Carew of Navestock, Essex, in Lond. Vis. Peds. (Harl. Soc. xcii), 121, and also the cause of contract of marriage by Anne Hewitt against John Shelbury of London, in CSP Dom. 1595-7, p. 349.