Anne Killigrew

(7 September 1607 - 6 July 1641)
Anne Killligrew (Kirke) c. 1637
     Anne Killigrew was christened on 7 September 1607 in Hanworth, Middlesex. She was aged 14 in 1622. She was the daughter of Sir Robert Killigrew and Mary Woodhouse.
     Anne Killigrew was mentioned in the will of Margaret or Margery Saunders (Leigh) dated 22 May 1623.
Anne Killigrew married George Kirke on 4 January 1627. She was the daughter of Sir Robert killigrew of Kempton, Mdx. They had 2 sons and 2 daughter, one of each dying in his lifetime. He married secondly Mary, daughter of Aurelian Townsend in 1646.
Kirke’s first marriage involved him in an unpopular Lincolnshire drainage project, which led to rioting on the outbreak of the Civil War, when he accompanied the Court to Oxford. Following the end of hostilities he paid £985 to compound for his delinquency.
Copy Letters patent 11 Dec. 1627 confirming an indenture of lease 1 Aug. 1627 by Walter, Fullerton and Trevor to George Kirke a Groom of the Bedchamber, of the lordship of Sheriff Hulton and lands in Offringham and Cottinghams, for 80 years on the lives of George Kirke and Anne Killigrew of Lothbury London daughter of Sir Robert Killigrew, at £24.5. -, except lands surrendered by George Kirke by indenture 17 Nov. 1627.
Certified copy. Oath as to correctness of copy and to the effect that George Kirke was alive and in the rules of the Upper Bach Prison on that day, 23 May 1653, Sworn by Thomas Rudd, cit. & haberdasher
. A picture of Anne Killigrew by Isaac Beckett, after Sir Anthony van Dyck circa 1637. Thee copies circa 1680-4 are held in the National Portrait Gallery.
She was appointed dresser to Queen Henrietta Maria in 1637, and first wife of George Kirke, the notorious groom of the chambers. In Robert Heath's "Clarastella" is an "Epicedium on the beautiful lady".
     Anne died by drowning from London Bridge when the Royal barge collapsed on 6 July 1641 in All Saints Franciscan church, London, England, aged 33. She was buried on 9 July 1641 in Westminster Abbey, London.

Children of Anne Killigrew and George Kirke

Anne Killigrew

(1568 - )
     Anne Killigrew was born in 1568 in Lothbury, London. She was the daughter of Sir Henry Killigrew and Katherine Cooke.
Anne Killigrew married Henry Neville on 22 December 1584 in St Margaret, Lothbury, London. |He was an English politician, diplomat, courtier and distant relative of William Shakespeare and considered by some, the real author of Shakespeare's works.
Anne Killigrew married Rev George Carlton as her second husband, after 1610..

Children of Anne Killigrew and Henry Neville

Anne Killigrew

(1660 - 16 June 1685)
     Anne Killigrew was born in 1660 in St Martin's Lane, Westminster, Middlesex. She was the daughter of Henry Killigrew DD.
A self portrait of Anne Killigrew (1660-1685) is available via "The Oxford Dicitonary of National Biography". Killigrew, Anne (poet and painter, was born in St Martin's Lane, London, the daughter of Dr Henry Killigrew (1613-1700), chaplain and almoner to the duke of York, master of the Savoy, and prebendary of Westminster, and his wife, Judith (d. 1683). Her uncles Thomas Killigrew (1612–1683) and Sir William Killigrew (1606–1695) were prominent figures in the Restoration theatre. Her brothers Admiral Henry Killigrew (d. 1712) and Captain James Killigrew (c.1664-1695) were both naval officers. Her sister Elizabeth (d. 1701) was married to Dr John Lambe, a clergyman. Anne was born shortly before the Restoration ‘and christened in a private chamber, when the offices in the common-prayer were not publicly allowed’ (Wood, Ath. Oxon., 4.623). She was ‘tenderly educated’ and soon ‘became most admirable in the arts of poetry and painting’ (ibid.)
In 1683 Anne is listed as one of the six maids of honour to Mary of Modena. She never married. Her beauty, piety, and exemplary virtue are stressed in all the early records. In 1685 she succumbed to smallpox ‘to the unspeakable reluctancy of her relations, and all others who were acquainted with her great virtues’ (Wood, Ath. Oxon., 4.623). The date of her death (which occurred in her father's lodgings in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey) is given as 16 June in Henry Killigrew's epitaph, but according to the Savoy chapel register she was buried there on 15 June. Her monument was destroyed by fire in 1864.
Poems by Mrs Anne Killigrew, a collection of twenty-nine items, with three further poems ‘found among Mrs Killigrews Papers … though none of hers’ (Poems, 84), was licensed on 30 September 1685 (title-page dated 1686). The volume encompasses a variety of genres and metres: pastoral, epigram, an unfinished epic, occasional verse, and poetry of general (and often austerely moral) reflection on the joys and pains of human life. The collection is prefaced by three commendatory poems, most notably John Dryden's celebrated pindaric ode ‘To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesie and Painting’, which affirms Anne Killigrew's saintly character and displays substantial first-hand knowledge of her achievements in both poetry and painting.
Only a handful of Anne Killigrew's paintings (which included portraits, biblical and historical paintings, mythological scenes, and landscapes) appears to have survived. A full-length self-portrait, in an allegorical setting, is housed at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire. A smaller self-portrait survives in several engraved copies, one forming the frontispiece to her Poems. A portrait of James II (formerly attributed to Lely) is in the Royal Collection at Windsor. In 1915–16 a Venus Attired by the Graces was reproduced in the Burlington Magazine from an original then in private hands. Titles of further paintings are known from Anne Killigrew's poems and from the notebooks of George Vertue. The archives of the National Portrait Gallery contain a photograph of what is possibly the painting of Mary of Modena referred to in lines 134–41 of Dryden's ‘To the Pious Memory of … Anne Killigrew’,

Tregellas quotes her at length in Some Cornish worthies. Anne Killigrew was buried on 16 June 1685 in Savoy chapel, Westminster. Epitaph in chancel of St John the Baptist now destroyed.
     Anne died of smallpox on 16 June 1685 in the Cloister House, Westminster Abbey, London. 16th?, at her father's Prebendary house, aged 25.

Anne or Agnes Killigrew

     Anne or Agnes Killigrew was born in Cornwall, England. She was the daughter of John Killigrew and Jane or Joan or Maude Petit.
Anne or Agnes Killigrew married John Penrose before 1567. She was named in the will of her brother James in 1567..
     In James Killigrew's will dated 12 January 1566/67 in St Budock, Cornwall, England, Anne or Agnes Killigrew was named as heir.

Barbara Killigrew

(October 1667 - after 1711)
     Barbara Killigrew was christened in October 1667 in St Martin in the Fields, Westminster. She was the daughter of Sir Robert Killigrew and Barbara Unknown (Killigrew).
     Barbara died after 1711. Along with her mother, she renounced administration to her brother in 1711..

Bennet Killigrew

(before 1500 - circa June 1545)
      Thomas Tomyowe, parson of Mawgan. v. Benet Tregoos, clerk, and John Kyllygrewe, executors of Benet Kyllygrewe, late parson.: Dilapidations: Cornwall.
John Penros, clerk, William Penros, Thomas and John Bercle. v. Benet Tregoos, clerk, and John Killygrewe, executors of Benet Killygrewe, parson of St. Maugan beside Lanhern.: Action of debt upon a bond relating to a lease of the parsonage of St Maugan.. Bennet Killigrew was born before 1500 in Cornwall, England. He was the third son and had no issue.
John Penros clerk, William Penrose, Thomas & John Bercle v. Benet Tregoos, clerk, and John Killygrew, executors of Benet Killygrewe, parson of St Maugan beside Lanhern: Action of debt upon a bond relating to a lease of the parsonage of St Maugan, Cornwall. He was the son of John Killigrew and Jane or Joan or Maude Petit.
He had been a servant to Arthur Plantagenet, the step-father of John Dudley, Viscount Lisle and later Duke of Northumberland. He probably arranged for the employment of his nephew Henry by Lisle in 1545.
He was a page in 1542 when he incurred the wrath of the Privy Council for rescuing a knight from being arrested for debt, and was given a punishment which fitted the crime by being made to ride to York using post horses at his own expense to collect the debt.
     Bennet Killigrew made a will dated 2 July 1543.
Bennet Killigrew married Anna Johns? after 16 May 1544. On 16 May 1544 Benedict Killigreew, one of the King's pages was the intended husband of Ann Johns, grand daughter of Sir Edawrd Don. They were granted the reversion of her grandfather's estate of Risborough Park.
     Bennet died circa June 1545 in St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, Middlesex, England.
     His will was proved on 13 May 1554 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Benet Killyngar or Killingrew, of St Martin Ludgate; bro. cited.l.

Blanch Killigrew (Wrey)

(circa 1531 - 14 December 1595)
     Blanch Killigrew (Wrey) was born circa 1531. Daughter & co-heir of Henry K of Wolston, aged 3 years & 6 days at inq at her grand-father's death; married John Wrey of North Russell. Blanch Wrey widow died 14 Dec 38 Elizabeth, John Wrey, son & heir aged 40 or more.. She was the daughter of Henry Killigrew and Elizabeth Bond.
     Blanch died on 14 December 1595.

Blanche Killigrew

     Blanche Killigrew was the daughter of Robert Killigrew and Elizabeth Morys (of Wolstane).

Bokenham Hesse Killigrew

(10 May 1698 - )
     Bokenham Hesse Killigrew was christened on 10 May 1698 in St Clement Danes, Westminster, Middlesex, England. He was the son of Charles Killigrew and Jemima Bockenham.

Cecilia Killigrew

(24 August 1635 - before 19 October 1635)
     Cecilia Killigrew was christened on 24 August 1635 in Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex. She was the daughter of Sir William Killigrew and Mary Hill.
     Cecilia died before 19 October 1635 in Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex. She was buried on 19 October 1635 in Sunbury on Thames, London, Middlesex.

Charles Killigrew

(29 December 1655 - before 4 January 1724/25)
      Charles Killigrew was born on 29 December 1655 in Maestricht, The Netherlands. He was aged 26 at marriage but Tregellas says born 1650.. He was the son of Thomas Killigrew and Charlotte de Hesse. They was listed as Charlotte de Hesse's child at naturalization on 3 June 1664.
Master of the revels. Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles II, 1670, James II 1685, and William & Mary 1689, master of the revels in 1680, patentee of Drury Lane theatre in 1682 and commissioner of prizes in 1707. [Dictionary of National Biography p.106-7].
Of Somerset House and Thornham Hall Sfk, 2nd son. Exec of will of his brother Robert and admon to his mother 1716. Succeeded his father in the post of Master of the Revels in 1680, also to ownership of the playhouse in Drury Lane.
     Charles Killigrew and Jemima Bockenham obtained a marriage licence on 19 May 1687 in London. Charles Killigrew, esq. of St Martin in the Fields, bachelor 26 & Jemima Bokenham, spinster, 16, her parents dead, with consent of her uncle & guardian Richard Bokenham, of Christ Church London, mercer at St Olave's Jewry, London.
Charles Killigrew married Jemima Bockenham on 21 May 1687 in St Olave, Jewry, London.
     Administration of the estate of Charlotte de Hesse was granted to Charles Killigrew, on 5 May 1716.
     Charles Killigrew made a will dated 30 May 1723.
     Charles died before 4 January 1724/25. See Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for further information: www.oxforddnb.com/.
     His will was proved on 4 January 1724/25 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. He was buried on 8 January 1724/25 in Savoy, London.

Children of Charles Killigrew and Jemima Bockenham

Charles Killigrew

(circa 1695 - 9 March 1756)
     Charles Killigrew was born circa 1695. He was the son of Charles Killigrew and Jemima Bockenham.
He was of Thornham Hall, Suffolk. He inherited the "Play house in Drury Lane" from his father. Named in the will of his uncle Robert Killigrew. He left all his property to his kinsman Charles, only son of Edmond Tyrell of Stowmarket.
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Advertisement: A Cock Match will be fought on Monday and Tuesday th 8th and 9th day of May next, between Charles Killigrew, Esq., of Stoke Ash? in the county of Suffolk, and Tho. Bransby, Esq., of Shottyham in the county of Norfolk; to throw thiry one cocks on a side, for five guineas a batttle, and fifty guimeas the odd battle, at the house of Mr John Mason, at the Queen's Head in Thwaite, near Stoke-Ash aforesaid, where all gentlemen will meet with good accommodation and a hearty welcome. Ipswich Journal 22 April 1727.
Killegrew v Killegrew. Bill and answer. Plaintiffs: Charles Killigrew, esq of Thornham Hall, Suffolk (eldest son of Charles Killigrew, esq deceased, late of Somerset House, Middlesex). Defendants: Guildford Killigrew, esq. Date of bill ....
     Charles Killigrew made a will dated 29 December 1755 in 'Thornham Hall', Thornham.
     Charles died on 9 March 1756 in 'Thornham Hall', Thornham, Suffolk. Charles Killkigrew,of Thornham Hll, Suffolk, Esq., grandson to the famous Killigrew of Charles II's reign. However the Suffolk FHS burial index gives 1755. He was buried on 18 March 1756 in Thornham Magna, Suffolk. Charles Killligrew, Esquire.
     His will was proved on 8 November 1756 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

Child of Charles Killigrew

Charles Killigrew

(circa 1609 - before 1 June 1689)
     Charles Killigrew was born circa 1609 in England. He was the second son and had no issue. He was aged 13 in 1622.. He was the son of Sir Robert Killigrew and Mary Woodhouse.
     Charles Killigrew was mentioned in the will of Margaret or Margery Saunders (Leigh) dated 22 May 1623.
     Charles Killigrew made a will dated 9 August 1686. Gent of St Margaret Westminster (ship "Dragon") bachelor, 1689/81.
     Charles died before 1 June 1689. He was named in the will of his gr-mother in 1623 but not in his father's.
     His will was proved on 1 June 1689 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Will of Charles Killigrew, gentleman of Saint Margaret, Westminster.

Charles Killigrew

(10 April 1745 - 13 February 1746/47)
     Charles Killigrew was born on 10 April 1745 in St Anne, Soho, Westminster, London. He was the son of Captain George Augustus Killigrew. Charles Killigrew was christened on 19 April 1745 in St Anne, Soho.
     Charles was buried on 13 February 1746/47 in St Anne, Soho, Westminster, Middlesex. Charles Killigrew, Church St, child.

Charles Killigrew

(circa 1632 - )
     Charles Killigrew was born circa 1632.
     Charles Killigrew and Frances Willoughby obtained a marriage licence on 26 October 1672.
Charles Killigrew married Frances Willoughby after 26 October 1672 in St Martin in the Fields, Westminster.

Children of Charles Killigrew and Frances Willoughby

Charles Killigrew

(28 January 1654 - )
     Charles Killigrew was christened on 28 January 1654 in St Gluvias, Cornwall. He was the son of Simon Killigrew and Elizabeth Orell (Ross or Roose).

Charles Killigrew

(28 March 1664 - before 1671)
     Charles Killigrew was born on 28 March 1664 in St Martin in the Fields, Westminster. He was the son of Charles Killigrew and Frances Willoughby. Charles Killigrew was christened on 2 April 1664 in St Martin in the Fields.
     Charles died before 1671.

Charles Killigrew

(18 September 1671 - )
     Charles Killigrew was christened on 18 September 1671 in St Martin in the Fields. He was born on 18 September 1671 in St Martin in the Fields, Westminster. He was the son of Charles Killigrew and Frances Willoughby.

Charles Killigrew

(circa 1692 - 24 November 1727)
     Charles Killigrew was born circa 1692.
Charles Killigrew married Elizabeth Vaughan on 19 May 1722 in St Antholin, Budge Row, London. The marriage licence was granted 18 May by the Bishop of London, he was a bachelor aged 30 and she was a spinster aged 26.
She may have married secondly Joseph Mahoon, a widower of 40 of St Martin in the Fields, when she claimed to be a widow aged 48 by licence dated 26 April 1737..
     Charles died on 24 November 1727 in Barbados, West Indies. Charles Killigrew, late of Covent Garden RN Commander?. Wife Eliza (relict E Smith, MSS V4 p121, 190, SoG index). The only link for these men is Covent Garden. An Elizabeth Killigrew, widow of St Giles Cripplegate, married Joseph Smith, glover on 28 Feb 1730 in a clandestine marriage.
     His will was proved circa December 1727. Charles Killigrew of St Pauls, Covent Garden, Middlesex (who died abroad on HMS Lynn, Barbados, West Indies). Probate inventory, or declaration, of the estate of the same, deceased.

Child of Charles Killigrew and Elizabeth Vaughan

Charles Killigrew

(10 September 1727 - )
     Charles Killigrew was christened on 10 September 1727 in St Botolph Aldgate, London. He was the son of Edward Killigrew and Mary Weston.

Charles Killigrew

(10 July 1662 - )
     Charles Killigrew was christened on 10 July 1662 in St Mary, Hampton, Middlesex. He was the son of Sir Robert Killigrew and Barbara Unknown (Killigrew).

Christopher Killigrew

     Christopher Killigrew married Mary Casavill on 27 May 1686 in St Petrox, Dartmouth, Devon.

Constance Killigrew

(8 November 1658 - 15 December 1664)
     Constance Killigrew was christened on 8 November 1658 in St Gluvias, Cornwall. Daughter of Simon. She was the daughter of Simon Killigrew and Elizabeth Orell (Ross or Roose).
     Constance was buried on 15 December 1664 in St Gluvias, Cornwall. Constance, daughter of Simon Killigrew.

daughter Killigrew (Treffry)

      Simon's daughter and heir was married to John Treffry.. Daughter Killigrew (Treffry) was the daughter of Simon Killigrew.

Dorothy Killigrew

(24 April 1743 - )
     Dorothy Killigrew was christened on 24 April 1743 in St Andrew, Holborn, London. Dorothy daughter of George Augustus & Isabella Killigrew, Hatton Gardens. She was the daughter of Captain George Augustus Killigrew and Isabella Orgill.

Dorothy Killigrew

(circa 1580 - before 30 June 1643)
     Dorothy Killigrew was born circa 1580 in England. She was the daughter of Sir Henry Killigrew and Katherine Cooke.
Dorothy Killigrew married Sir Edward Seymour 2nd Bart on 15 December 1600 in St Margaret, Lothbury, London.
She was named in the will of Dame Jael Killigrew 1617 and her aunt Dame Margaret Kiligrew 1623.
     Dorothy died before 30 June 1643 in Berry Pomeroy, Devon. She was buried on 30 June 1643 in Berry Pomeroy.

Dorothy Killigrew (Hooker)

(say 1598 - )
     Dorothy Killigrew (Hooker) was born say 1598 in Cornwall. She was the daughter of John Killigrew and Dorothy Monk.
Her husband was a goldsmith of London..

Edward Killigrew

(7 October 1693 - )
     Edward Killigrew was christened on 7 October 1693 in St Bride Fleet St, London. He was the son of Edward Killigrew and Frances Unknown.
Edward Killigrew married Mary Weston on 25 March 1716 in London. Edward Killigrew, bach?, silk weaver of Cripplegate and Mary Weston Spr, ditto. They were both of St Giles,Criplegate.

Children of Edward Killigrew and Mary Weston

Edward Killigrew

(say 1680 - )
     Edward Killigrew was also known as Kelligrew in records. He was born say 1680.
Edward Killigrew married Jane Unknown before 1705.

Child of Edward Killigrew and Jane Unknown

Edward Killigrew

     Edward Killigrew was also known as Kelligroe in records.

Child of Edward Killigrew