Cassandra (ap Rheese) ferch William (abt. 1530 - 1590)

Born about 1530 in Lutton and Washingley, Huntingdonshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Carr — married 10 May 1574 in Gedney, Lincolnshire

Descendants

Died 22 Feb 1590 at about age 60 in Gedney, Lincolnshire, England

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Cassandra ferch William [ap Rhese (or Apreece, etc)].

Biography

Cassandra (b. c. 1530 - d. 1590, age 60) is the daughter of:^[1][2]

• William ap Reece (Rhys), esq. of Washingleys in Lutton, co. Hunts. (c.1505-74), MP for co. Hunts.^[3]
• and Joanna (or Elizabeth), dau. of Robert Latymer or Latimer of North Crawley, Bucks. and Duntish, Dorset.

Marriage

She married four times and had ten (10) biological children. Her husbands were:

1. John Roberts of Wollaston, Northamptonshire.
2. Peter Ashton
3. Adlard Welby of Gedney, Lincolnshire.
4. and Robert Carr of Aswarby, (dsp. 1606).^[4]

Roberts

Cassandra's first husband was John Roberts of Wollaston, Northamptonshire.^[5][6]

children

• (d. & h.) Jane, Dame Skipwith (bur. 4 Apr. 1630; will 20 Oct 1630, proved 02 Dec 1630).^[7]

m.1 (19 Dec 1569 Gedney, Lincs) John Walpole of Whaplode, Lincs. (dsp. 1590; bur. Sleaford, Lincs).^[8]

m.2 (aft. 1590 as 3rd wife) John Markham of Sedgebrooke, Lincs., previously married to Jane Welby (dsp) and Mary Thorold.

m.3 (06 Nov 1695 as 2nd wife) Sir William Skipwith of Cotes & Leicester, Leics. (d. 1610)

Ashton

Cassandra's second husband Peter Ashton, was a descendant of the Ashtons (also Assheton or Asheton) of Chadderton, Lancashire. He was the second son of:^[9]

• James Ashton of Chadderton (b. c. 1491 - d. 1549, age abt. 58), son of Edmond or Edward Ashton & Anne, dau. of Ralph Prestwich of Hulme, Lancashire;
• and Agnes (living 17 Jun 1558), dau. of Charles Manwaring of Croxton, Cheshire, King's Atty. for Chester & Katherine, dau. of Robert Dokenfield of Dukinfield, Chester.^[10]

Peter was a gentleman of Halmear Grange in Spalding, Lincolnshire & Wollaston, Northamptonshire. He was born at Bikeswith, and buried at Wollostan, Northamptonshire. His will, dated 17 Jun 1588, was proved 08 October 1588 PCC.

children

Cassandra and Peter are the parents of:

• Walter Ashton of Spalding & Long Sutton, co. Lincs. (minor in 1558; bur. 10 Aug 1587 Whaplode; adm 07 Nov 1587 PCC).^[7]

m. (14 Sep 1581 Gedney, co. Lincs.) Etheldreda (bur. Dowsby, co. Lincs; will 25 Oct 1610, codicil 27 Oct 1610, proved 20 Nov 1610 PCC), d. & h. of George Partridge of Long Sutton; remarried to Sir William Rigden of Dowsby, co. Lincs. on 19 Feb 1587/8 at Spalding, co. Lincs.

• Christopher Ashton (bur. 16 Dec 1548 Spalding)
• Mary Ashton

m. (17 Aug 1571 Gedney) Hawes ap Rhese

• Isabella Ashton (b. aft. 17 Jun 1558)

m. John Bradshaw of Bradshaw, co. Derby.

Welby

Cassandra's third husband was Adlard Welby (bur. 1570/1 Gedney, Lincolnshire). She was his second wife. He was previously married to Ellen Hall. Adlard was named after his father ... another Adlard Welby.

children

Cassandra and Adlard are the parents of:

• Sir William Welby, K.B. (b. by 1561 - bur. 31 Dec 1629 Gedney, Lincs), sheriff in 1607.^[7]

m.1 Frances, dau. of John Man of Bolingbroke, Lincs.

m.2 (1594) Susan FitzWilliam (d. 1606? or aft. 1609) , dau. of William FitzWilliam of Mablethorpe.

• Robert Welby (dsp. France; will proved 1596), unmarried.
• Richard Welby (bp. 1563 Gedney - d. 1634).^[7]

m. Susan, dau. of Sir William Rowe (d. 23 Oct 1593), sheriff of London in 1583 & mayor of London in 1592.^[11]

• John Welby (bp. 1570 Gedney; living 20 Oct 1630).^[7]

m. (1604 Moulton) Elizabeth (bur. 22 Nov 1633 Moulton), d. & h. of Thomas Welby of Moulton (b. 1562 - bur. 1623 Moulton) and Anne (d. Aug 1623; bur. Moulton), d. & h. of Thomas Tyrrell of Collumbyne Hall, co. Suffolk.

• Susan Welby (bp. 24 Jun 1567; living 20 Oct 1630).^[7]

m. John Blewet of Harlaxton, Lincs. (living 20 Oct 1630).^[7]

step-children

Cassandra was the step-mother of Adlard's children by his first wife, Ellen Hall:

• Henry Welby "the hermit of Grub Street" of Gox (b. 1552 - d. 29 Oct 1636, age 84; bur. Church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, London),^[12]

m. Alice, dau. of Thomas White of Tuxford, co. Notts.

• Adlard Welby of Woodhead in Casterton, co. Rutland (living 1618)

m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas White of Tuxford, co. Notts.

• Ellen Welby

m. (1570) John Callow of Holbeach.

• Mary Welby (bur. 13 Feb 1588/9 Tydd St. Mary).

m. (09 Sep 1569 Gedney) Henry Adams of Tydd St. Mary (living 22 Nov 1589), son of William Adams of Tydd St. Mary & Mary, dau. of Henry Topp (Toft) of Tydd St. Mary.^[13]

• Jane Welby (d. 02 Sep 1574)

m. Thomas Ogle of Pinchbeck (b. 1526 - d. 03 May 1574), son of Richard Ogle and Beatrix Cooke.

• Ann Welby

m. [...] Smith of Hadleigh, co. Suffolk.

Carr

Cassandra had no children with her last husband, Robert Carr of Aswarby, Lincolnshire (dsp. 1606).^[4] They wed at Gedney, Lincolnshire on 10 may 1574. She was his second wife. He was previously married to Mary Somerset (d. 1571/2), dau. of Charles Somerset, Earl Worcester, whose first husband was William, Lord Grey of Wilton.^[14]

Robert was the second son of:^[4]

• Robert Carr of Sleaford, etc. (b. c. 1511 - dsp. 11 Sep 1590; bur. 16 Sep 1590 Sleaford),^[4]
• and Elizabeth (will 28 Sep 1556, proved 02 Dec 1556), dau. of William Cawdron or Cawthorne, King’s bailiff at Heckington.^[4]

Sources

• "Ap Rhese," in The Visitation of the County of Huntingdon 1613, pp. 31. Google Books.
• Betham, W. (1805). The Baronetage of England, 5, pp. 20. Google Books.
• "Genealogical table of the family of Welby," in Notices of the Family of Welby, pp. 4. Google Books.
• Pedigree of the family of Ashton, pp. 329. Google Books.
• Welby of Gedney, Moulten and Stirwould, MS C 23 Heralds' College. (see pedigree A).[2]
• Visitation of Lincolnshire Page 29: Carr
• Benolte, Thomas; Philipot, John; & Owen, George. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. London: The Harleian Society, 1905. Vol LIII, p 190.

Notes

1. ↑ Kingsley, (2015, February 11). Apreece of Washingley Hall, Honington Hall and Effingham House, baronets. Landed Families of Britain and Ireland. Blogspot.com. Weblog.
2. ↑ jmc4 - Church Explorer, (2018, July 28). much married - Gedney Lincolnshire. Flickr.com. © Digital image of memorial built by Sir Wm. Welby for parents Adlard Welby, esq. of Gedney (d. 11 Aug 1570, age 63) & Cassandra (d. 22 Feb 1590, age 60), dau. of Wm. Apryce of Washingleys in Lutton.
3. ↑ "Lutton is a parish of 580 hectares, lying on Oxford Clay which is here largely overlain by Boulder Clay. The manor was owned by non-residents except for the years between 1561 and 1657 when the Loftus family owned it and built the manor house
   In 1673 there were 22 families, and 30 in 1801. The small population of the village was given in 1447 as a reason for uniting the parish with Washingley in Huntingdonshire, which seems to have been even smaller, having only four or five houses in 1719. Because of this union, Lutton church contains a series of 17th-century monuments to the Apreece family of Washingley and a miscellaneous collection of 13th-century features."

   'Lutton', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 6, Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire (London, 1984), pp. 116-119. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northants/vol6/pp116-119 [accessed 2 December 2020].

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4} Maddison, A.R. (1902). "Carr of Sleaford," in Lincolnshire Pedigrees I. Publications of the Harleian Society, L, pp. 228. London. Google Books.Maddison, A.R. (1888).
   see also: "Will of Elizabeth Cawdron of Heckington, 28 Sep 1556," in Lincolnshire Wills: First Series A.D. 1500 - 1600, pp. 51. Lincolns. Google Books.
5. ↑ see also: Wollaston, Northamptonshire Genealogy. FamilySearch.org. Wiki; "Before 1858," in Northamptonshire Probate Records. FamilySearch.org. Wiki.
   father of Jane Roberts (bur. 4 Apr. 1630), d. &h. of John Roberts of Wollaston, Northants., widow. of John Walpole of Whaplode, Lincs. and John Markham of Sedgebrook, Lincs. s.p., HOP.
6. ↑ Beryl Meehan at 21:02, 1 Dec 2018: John Roberts (1526-bef 1546) -- This John Roberts [her husband] would have been of the generation before the Visitation (1613), therefore perhaps not the father but grandfather of the Thomas Roberts who became Governor of Dover, New Hampshire, if this is the right Woolaston, (see robertsofwoolaston.blogspot.com).
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6} "Dame Skipwith of Cotes, co. Leic, widow, will dated 20 Oct. 1659," in Virginia Gleanings in England. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 29(4), pp. 431-6. Google Books. (mirror @ JSTOR).
8. ↑ for John Walpole's burial inscription see: Sketches, illustrative of the topography and history of New and Old Sleaford. Google Books.
9. ↑ Ashton of Chadderton, (Vis of Lancs., 1567)
10. ↑ m.2) Peter Ashton (1525-08 OCT 1558 Spalding, Lincs) m. by 1547 as their son Walter Ashton born 1546 Lincs, he d. 10 AUG 1587 Spalding m. Ethelreda Partridge.^{[citation needed]}
11. ↑ Wikipedia:William Rowe (Lord Mayor of London)
12. ↑ d. 29 Oct 1636; bur. Church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, (Williams, 1884, p. 155).[1]
13. ↑ Maddison, A.R. (1902). "Adams of Tydd St. Mary MS C 23 Heralds' College," in Lincolnshire Pedigrees I. Publications of the Harleian Society, L, pp. 1 - 2. Google Books.
14. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NF4S-1ZY : 13 March 2020), Cassandra Welby in entry for Robt. Carre, 1574.

Profile & Merge History

• [Aprhese-1]? Apr 6, 2013.
• Ap Rheese-1 Aug 30, 2014
• 1 Dec 2018: Merged Apreece-12 into ap Rheese-1 -