Henry Huddleston Sr (abt. 1574 - abt. 1657)

Born about 1574 in Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Dorothy Dormer — married 11 Jun 1593 in Buckinghamshire, England

Descendants

Died about 18 Aug 1657 at about age 83 in England

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Biography

Henry Huddleston (or Hodelston) of Sawston (Salston) was the son of Edmund Huddleston of Sawston ^[1] and Dorothy Beconsall, daughter and heir of Henry Beconsall, esq. of Beaconsall in Lancashire. ^[2]

He was a Catholic and had been involved in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot. He accumulated large debts, and forfeited estates in other parts of the country, but was able to retain the Sawston manors.^[1]

He married Dorothy Dormer, daughter of Robert Dormer 1st Lord Dormer by his wife the Honorable Elizabeth Brown daughter of Sir Anthony Brown, Viscount Montague.^[2]

They had 4 sons and 2 daughters :

1. Sir Robert, his heir ^[1][2]
2. John, d.s.p. ^[2]
3. Henry, heir to his brother ^[1][2]
4. Edmund ^[2]
5. Mary ^[2]
6. Elizabeth ^[2]

He died at Sawston in 1657, in the same year as his older son Robert, and was succeeded by his younger son Henry.^{[1][2] [3]}

Research Notes

Burke's Landed Gentry is not a reliable source for pre-1700 profiles (see Wikitree notes on Burke's Landed Gentry, and is known to include errors in its account of this family after the later 17th century.^[1] Burke's date of death for Henry (1617) is in error.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Adrienne B Rosen, Susan M Keeling and C A F Meekings, 'Parishes: Sawston', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely : Volume 6, ed. A P M Wright (London, 1978), pp. 246-263. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol6/pp246-263 [accessed 19 November 2023].
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} Burke, John. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Or, Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Etc. United Kingdom: Henry Colburn, 1837 [585] https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Genealogical_and_Heraldic_History_of_t/KxdVAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Huddleston+sawston&pg=PA586&printsec=frontcover accessed 6 April 2023
3. ↑ Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society, Cambridgeshire Burials, viewed at https://www.findmypast.com.au/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FD%2F403184536%2F1 : Burial on 18 Aug 1657 at Sawston of Henry Huddleston Sr Esq