The Family of Margaret Gamage


by William Addams Reitwiesner
wargs@wargs.com


Margaret Gamage (d. 18 May 1581, dau. of Sir Thomas Gamage by his first wife Margaret St. John) [WG2 Gamage 2], married, as his second wife, William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham (b. ca. 1510, d. 11 Jan. 1572/3) [NCP V:9]. Their issue includes:

A.	Douglas Howard m. John Sheffield 2 B Sheffield
	AA.	Edmund Sheffield 1 E Mulgrave m. Ursula Tyrwhitt
		AAA.	Frances Sheffield m. Sir Philip Fairfax
			AAAA.	William Fairfax m. Frances Chaloner
				AAAAA.	Isabel Fairfax m. Nathaniel Bladen
					AAAAAA.	William Bladen, colonial emigrant to Maryland [RPA 112; RMC 91]
		AAB.	John Sheffield m. Grizel Anderson
			AABA.	Edmund Sheffield 2 E Mulgrave m. Elizabeth Cranfield
				AABAA.	John Sheffield 1 D Buckingham, author
		AAC.	Mary Sheffield m. Ferdinando Fairfax 2 B Fairfax [Evans 4583]
	AB.	Elizabeth Sheffield m. Thomas Butler 10 E Ormonde
		ABA.	Elizabeth Butler m. Richard Preston Ld Dingwall
			ABAA.	Elizabeth Preston, Bss Dingwall, m. James Butler, 1 D Ormonde [Evans 5075; LAPC K1544]
B.	Sir William Howard m. Frances Gouldwell
	BA.	Sir Francis Howard m. Jane Monson
		BAA.	Sir Charles Howard m. Frances Courthope
			BAAA.	Francis Howard, 5 B Howard of Effingham (1643-1695), colonial governor of Virginia

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SOURCE ABBREVIATIONS



Evans -- Richard K. Evans, The ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales for twelve generations [Boston: NEHGS, 2007].

LAPC -- Gerald Paget, The Lineage and ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales [Edinburgh & London: Charles Skilton, 1977]

RMC -- Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry [Baltimore: Genealogical, 2005].

RPA -- Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry [Baltimore: Genealogical, 2004].

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William Addams Reitwiesner

wargs@wargs.com