Anthony Hungerford (abt. 1608 - 1657)

Born about 1608 in Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, England

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Died Aug 1657 at about age 49 in Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England

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Anthony Hungerford was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Anthony Hungerford was the eldest surviving son of Sir Anthony Hungerford (1567-1627) of Black Bourton, Oxfordshire and his second wife Sarah Crouch and half-brother of Sir Edward Hungerford, MP. He married Rachel (died January 1679-80), daughter of Rice Jones of Asthall, Oxfordshire, by whom he had 3 sons and 9 daughters.

He succeeded his half-brother, Sir Edward Hungerford in the estates of Farleigh, Down Ampney and Black Bourton, when he died, childless, in 1648.

a royalist who died at Farleigh in 1657. after a term spent in The Tower of London

The will of Anthony Hungerford, of Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, is dated 21 August 1657. ^[1] Anthony Hungerford, Esq., was buried at Black Bourton on 16 September 1657. The parish register records that he died at "Farley Castle" in Somerset on 17 August 1657. (That is not consistent with the dating of the will; whether one ought to prefer the date of the will, as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography does, is not completely clear.) ^{[2] [3]}

Children of Anthony Hungerford and Rachel Jones

1. Margaret Hungerford (1631-1637) died unmarried, d.s.p. ^[4]
2. Edward (1632–1711)
3. Frances (Hungerford) Wyndham (bapt 23 Dec 1635-1697) m. Sir W. Wyndham
4. Colonel Anthony Hungerford (1634-1703), entered the King's forces under Sir Nicholas Armorer's as a secret agent in England, in 1655.
5. Rachel (Hungerford) Cary bapt. Mar 8 1637 m. Henry Cary, 4th Viscount Falkland, at Black Bourton on 14 April 1653. ^[4]
6. Giles Hungerford (bapt 29 Sep 1639) dsp^[4]
7. Mary Hungerford (b. 10 March 1646) m. Sir Samuel G. Hele^[4]
8. Sarah (Hungerford) Carew (bapt 30 March 1641 - 1671) m. Sir John Carew^[4]
9. Catherine m. Sir Robert Henley
10. Elizabeth m. Sir Edward Stradling, Bt.
11. Diana Hungerford (b. 19 November 1648) m. James Montagu on May 30, 1671 at Black Bourton.^[4]
12. Lucy (Hungerford) Lechmere (b. 1 Jan 1649-d. 1729) m. Edmund Lechmere of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, England on Aug 9 1673. ^[4]

Research Notes

Deleted the birthplace - he was the son of, by his second marriage to Sarah Crouch( daughter of John Crouch), Sir Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton (1564–1627), and half-brother of Sir Edward Hungerford (1596–1648). He married Rachel (died January 1679-80), daughter of Rice Jones of Astall, Oxfordshire, by whom he had twelve children.

The DNB specifically points out the confusion of a second contemporary Anthony Hungerford (1614/5?-9 June 1657) a parliamentarian army officer, who may have been the son of Thomas Hungerford, gentleman of Garsdon, Wiltshire. He married a wife named Chrysagon/Cryzigon and baptised a dau. Chrysagon at Pershore, Worcestershire on 13 Feb 1641. ^[3]

For Black Bourton:^[5] A London merchant, Simon Lowe, sold Black Bourton in 1557 to Sir Anthony Hungerford (d. 1559) of Down Ampney (Glos.); he bought a second Black Bourton manor the same year.

Both manors passed to Sir Anthony's son Sir John Hungerford (d. 1582), to John's 2nd wife and widow Dame Eleanor (d. 1591), and to their grandson Sir Anthony Hungerford (d. 1627), succeeded by his younger son Anthony (d. 1657). Under a settlement of 1652 the manors passed to the younger Anthony's son Col. Anthony Hungerford, who seems for a time to have held jointly with his elder brother Sir Edward (d. 1711), the manor house and farm being settled on their mother Rachel (d. 1680). He was succeeded in 1703 by his nephew Edward Hungerford (d. 1748), Sir Edward's son.

In 1737 Edward settled the manor on his heir Mary (d. 1775) and her husband Paul Elers (d. 1781), a lawyer. Elers, long in financial difficulty, sold all but the manor house and some 50 a. in 1768 to the duke of Marlborough, who bought other small parcels, and whose successor, in 1812, acquired the remaining land from Elers's grandson George (d. 1842).

Sources

1. ↑ Will proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury 3 February 1657/8: The National Archives of the UK: reference PROB 11/273 folio 37: Ancestry Record 5111 #711069
2. ↑ Black Bourton parish register: Oxfordshire History Centre: reference PAR34/1/R1/1: Ancestry Record OxfordshireEarlyParish #1708322
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Wright, Stephen (January 2009) [2004]. "Hungerford, Anthony (1607/8–1657)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14171
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6} History of the Parish of Black Bourton v.21 p. 63
5. ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol15/pp80-85

• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54646792
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Hungerford_(Royalist)
• Hoare, Hungerfordiana p. 31
• https://www.myheritage.nl/research/collection-1/myheritage-stambomen?itemId=331211271-9-23600&action=showRecord