General Notes

Waters, Henry F., "Genealogical Gleanings in England: Manning Family," NEHGR 51:3 (Jul 1897), p. 403, citing Hasted's "History of Kent" vol. 1, p. 141, states, "Hugh Manning, who was of St. Mary Cray, married the daughter of Sir William Brandon, Knight,[ b: 1425 d: 1491 ref #: BxP:71] kinswoman to Charles, Duke of Suffolk, by whom he had two sons... John and Richard."  See Harl. Mss. Number 1432.

The Brandon line is accounted for in Plantagenet Ancestry (2nd Ed.), p. 265, as descended from the Edward I through the Wingfields. Moriarty, G. Andrews, "The Brandons," NEHGR, 103:2 (Apr 1949), p. 106, names Sir William Brandon's daughters: Elizabeth m. (1) John Cavendish and (2) John Leventhorpe,  Anna m. John Sydney , Margaret (the elder) m. Sir Thomas Lovel,  Eleanor m. John Glemham Katherine m. John Gourney Mary m. John Riding ,  Margaret (the younger)  Since all of the daughters are accounted for save Margaret (the younger), We have concluded that Margaret (the younger) is the unnamed wife of Hugh Manning of St. Mary Cray. Margaret was the aunt of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, Henry Water's article.

Sir William Brandon's will was composed in 1475, before the marriage of his youngest daughters. He mentions Mary, Anne, Margaret the elder, Margaret the younger, and Katherine. Daughters Eleanor and Elizabeth are not mentioned as they were already married.

The will of Elizabeth (Wingfield) Brandon mentions daughters Elizabeth Leventhorp, Anne Sydney, Eleanor Glemham, Margaret Lovel, Katherine Gourney. The younger Margaret is not mentioned, possibly because she was already deceased. Hugh Manning and his wife only had two sons and no other children, possibly indicating that she died shortly after the birth of her second son, c. 1480. (cf. NEHGR 51:3, p. 404).


The marriage of Hugo Manning and "filie" Brandon is recorded in a Visitation of co. Kent, England, 1619.
In Geoffrey B. Barrow's article, Further Notes on the Family of Manning, in North West co. Kent Quarterly
Journal, Vol. I, No.3, 1979, he mentions" ...the puzzling marriage of Hugh Manning (d. 1491) who is said to
have married Elizabeth (I will write the only daughter of Sir Knight William Brandon who I can NOT place
with a husband as yet is Margaret "The Younger" Brandon. I do not know how Barrow confirms her name to
be Elizabeth), daughter of Sir William BRANDON, a connection to the Dukes of Suffolk, of that name. This. .
.is unconfirmed by the authoritative account of the Brandons in the New England Historical & Genealogical
Register for April 1949. It would be interesting to link with the Downe Mannings, another family of the same
name, of which Thomas Manning of Westerham, Kent, is recorded in 1663. The arms of this family differ from
those of Downe, in that they have a chevron in place of the cross patonce. Pedigrees of them were entered in
the Visitations of London and Kent."

Fred Whyler's article, The Mannings of Cudham, Downe, St. Mary Cray and Greenwich, Vol. I, No.2,
1979, p.41, he does NOT mention a wife for Hugh or Hugo Manning. He writes, "One of Hugh or Hugo's sons
married Thomasina Trady and they had three sons, ..." His references include those from documents from
Bromley Central Library, the Local History Library at "Woodlands", Greenwich, and Howarths', History of
Downe.

Roscoe Conkling Fitch published a Genealogy Chart in his book, History of the Fitch Family from 1400-
1930 . This pedigree was prepared on Apr. 22, 1903 by Henry F. Waters, AM., or as Waters" writes, "This Pedigree of Whitfield and connecting families has been drawn from Herald's Visitations, Gleanings from Early English Records and Genealogical Authorities in Europe and America, mainly by Henry F. Waters, AM. and compiled by Charles L. N. Camp, New Haven, Connecticut."
He revealed on the pedigree a Hugo Manning de Cray (the print on this chart is very small, and I will try to
spell the words as best as I can); again, Hugo Manning de Cray Ob. apud Cray anno 17. Henry VII = ...filie .
..BRANDON Amida Caroli Ducis Suff. (dau. of Wm. Brandon Knt. Kinswoman of Charles, Duke of Suffolk).

John B. (John Brooks) Threlfall's, The ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-
1657) and his wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut.

A Genealogy Chart presenting the ancestors of Fortuna Mildreda (Manning) ox. Thom. Whitfeild de
Mortlake

Descendants of the Reverend James Fitch 1622-1702, Vol.
I, The First Five Generations, 1996, John T. Fitch documents the Fitch line back to Rev. James and Abigail
[Whitfield] Fitch) by Henry F. Waters, AM. is located in New England Historical and Genealogical Register
(NEHGR) Vol. LI, 1897: "Hugo Manning de Cray Ob. Anno 14 Henry 6 = ...filia ...Brandon Amita Caroli
Ducis Suff." Henry F. Waters, AM. presented his research in this 1897 Volume of TheNEHGR under the title,
"Genealogical Gleanings in England". Pages concerning the Mannings are 389-406. On page 403, Waters'
writes, "In his account of St. Mary Cray, Hasted (Vol. I., p. 141) describes Kevington as a manor and seat in
that parish, 'now (he says) vulgarly called Kevingtown.' This estate was for some generations the residence of
the Mannings. Here also the reader may find some account of this family. He speaks of John Manning as
settled in the parish ofCowdham in the reign ofK. Henry IV., 'his son, of the same name, was also of that
parish and died anno 14 K. Henry VI. leaving Juliana, his wife, daughter and heir of Richard Brockhill relict of
William Wallys, one son, Hugh Manning, who was of St. Mary Cray and married the daughter of Sir William
Brandon, knt. kinswoman to Charles, Duke of Suffolk, by whom he had two sons, John, who settled at Downe,
from whom descended the Mannings ofDowne, Halsted and Westerham--and Richard, who continued at St.
Mary Cray, and had three sons." The Whitfield family and their information is located in the same volume in
The NEHGR;  comments and wills are located on pages 410-421. The Whitfields' Genealogy
Chart on p. 419 mentions Thomas Whitfield of Mortlake in Surrey 1606 = Mildred, dau. of Henry Manning of
Greenwich.

The American Genealogist, Vol. XXV, a person's pedigree only reveals Eleanor Brandon, daughter of
Elizabeth Wingfield and Sir William Brandon, who married John Glemham. No other daughter is mentioned.

Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, Who Came to America before 1700, by Frederick Lewis
Weis, he, too, reveals Eleanor Brandon, daughter of Elizabeth Wingfield and Sir William Brandon, who
married John Glemham.

The Brandons, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1949, Vol. Cill,
ps. 102-107, communicated by the Committee on English and Foreign Research, G. Andrews Moriarty, AM.,
LL.B., F.AS.G., F.S.A, gives "an account of the immediate descendants of Sir William Brandon". I include an
entry on page 104, "He (Sir William Brandon) married, prior to January 1462, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert
Wingfield of Lethringham, co. Suffolk, and died in 1491 (WedgwoodHist. of the ParI. Biog. 1439-1509, pp.
102-103). Evidently, Sir William Brandon had recorded two wills in the P.C.C. (I don't know what is the
P.C.C., or P.P.C.) The first, located in P.P.C. 46 Milles, was dated 10 June 1475, was proved 13 July 1491. On
page 104, Moriarty writes, "Sir William Brandon. ..Wishes my place in Southwark to be sold and the money
divided among my daughters, Mary, Anne, Margaret the elder, Margaret the younger and Katherine, if they do
marry." The executors were wife Elizabeth and Sir Robert Wingfield The second will, located in P. C. C. 7
Dogett, was dated 09 April 1491 and proved 17 Nov. 1491. In Sir William Brandon's second will, he speaks to
where he wanted to be buried, to the High Altar of St. George the Martyr at Southwark, personalty to wife
Elizabeth, to nuns at Bungay, to church of St. Thomas at Bungay, to pray for the souls of his father and mother,
and to land and manor rights. The executors were Elizabeth and Robert Mosley. Named in the probate are:
John Ryding; John Gurney; John Leventhorpe; John Hardy; and Hugh John. Could this Hugh John be Hugh,
or Hugo Manning who was supposed to have married a daughter of Sir Knight William and Elizabeth
(Wingfield) Brandon? Hugh or Hugo's father was supposed to be John. Maybe Hugh John is this person?

The will of Dame Elizabeth Brandon was proved 08 May 1497, and located in Testa. Vetusta, vol. n, p. 432. In it, Elizabeth speaks to where she wants to be buried, land and manor rights; and,
names her children: son, Sir Robert Brandon; son, Sir Thomas Brandon; daughter, Elizabeth Leventhorp;
daughter, Eleanor Glemham; daughter, Anne Sydney; daughter, Dame Margaret Lovell; daughter, Katherine
Gourney; remainder to the right heirs of Sir William Brandon." The two youngest daughters, Mary and
Margaret, as mentioned in Sir Knight William Brandon's first will, are not specifically mentioned. On page
106, the author further reports, "Dugdale in the Baronage (vol. n, p.300) gives inq. p.m. taken 2 Elizabeth (1559/1560) after the failure of the issue male, by his third wife, Katherine Willoughby, of Charles Brandon,
Duke of Suffolk It was found that his heirs were the descendants of his grandfather, Sir William Brandon, as,
by doctrine of possessio fratris, his daughters by his other wives were excluded. Sir William Brandon and
Elizabeth Wingfield, his wife, had issue: i. Sir William; ii. Sir Robert; iii. Sir Thomas; iv. Elizabeth; v.
Anna; vi. Margaret; vii. Eleanor; viii. Katherine; ix. Mary; x. Margaret; and? xi. Anne."

In David Faris's book, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, he mentions only Eleanor
Brandon as wife of John Glemham, and daughter of William and Elizabeth (Wingfield) Brandon, ps. 213-4.

History of St. Mary, Downe  "The Manning family was also numerous and important, and a brass in the nave records the death of John in 1543. Another brass in the chancel shows the family arms and motto and records that Edward, the son of the last Manning buried in Downe, died in 1622 at the age of 20, having been page to Prince Charles, later King Charles I." I found no information about Hugo Manning or his supposed wife, "filie" Brandon.


G. Andrews Moriarty, A.M., LL.B., F.S.A, F.AS.G., presented information, communicated by Committee
on English and Foreign Research, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1949, Vol. CIII,
pp. 287-295. Mr. Moriarty refers to the Glemhams. He does not mention any other children of Sir Knight
William and Elizabeth (Wingfield) Brandon. He does give references for John and Eleanor (Brandon)
Glemham. They are: Vis. of Suffolk 1561, edMetcalf, p. 34; Davy's Suffolk Pedigrees, Add. MSS. 19, 132,
B.M.; and, Dugdale's Baronage, vol. III, pp. 299-300. Maybe one of these references gives a clue to another
daughter of Sir Knight William and Elizabeth (Wingfield) Brandon, who may have married Hugo or Hugh
Manning. I guess the Glemhams and Brandon(s) had brasses, arms and/or memorials located at Northwood
Berningham, co. Norfolk church. He mentions the issue of Sir Robert and Elizabeth (Gousell) Wingfield as
several children, including Elizabeth, wife of Sir William Brandon, Marshal of the Marchelsea (ancestors of Dr.
Richard Palgrave of Charlestown, Mass.) His references to Elizabeth (Wingfield] and her husband, Sir William
Brandon are: Powerscourt, op. cit., Visitation of Suffolk 1561, op. crt. I don't know anything about these
references, or whether they have anything to do with a daughter of Sir Knight William and Elizabeth
(Wingfield) Brandon.

Descendants: Had three children.

Residence: Lived at Saint Mary's Cray, co. Kent, England.