William Cecil 
William was born on January 13th, 1565 in Burghley House, Lincolnshire, England.1 William's father was Thomas Cecil Sr. and his mother was *Dorothy Neville. His maternal grandparents were John Neville and *Lucy Somerset. He had five brothers and five sisters, named Richard, Honerable Sir Edward, Christopher, Sir Thomas Cecil, David, Lucy, Mildred, Mary, Elizabeth and Frances. He died at the age of 75 on July 6th, 1640 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.2 1 General Notes
He was the son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter and Dorothy Nevill , daughter of John Nevill, 4th Baron Latymer.
In 1589, William married Elizabeth Manners, the only child of the 3rd Earl of Rutland and they had one child, William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros.
Elizabeth died in 1591 and William married Elizabeth Drury and they had three children.
(Wikipedia)
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.05 May 1546 in Cambridge, England d.08 Feb 1623 in Burghley House, Lincolnshire, England
- b.13 Jan 1565 in Burghley House, Lincolnshire, England d.06 Jul 1640 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1437 in Latimer, Buckinghamshire, England d.26 Jul 1469 in Edgecote, Bandury, Oxfordshire, England
- b.1468 in Latimer, Buckinghamshire, England d.Dec 1530 in Snape Castle, Snape, North Yorkshire, England
- b.1442 in Halstead, Essex, England d.07 Oct 1470 in Warwickshire, England
- b.17 Nov 1493 in Snape Hall, Snape, North Yorkshire, England d.1543 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1472 in Grafton, Worcestershire, England d.1500
- b.1520 in Snape Hall, Snape, Yorkshire, England d.22 Apr 1577 in Snape, Yorkshire, England
- b.1497 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.07 Feb 1526 in Yorkshire, England
- b.1548 in Snape, Yorkshire, England d.23 Mar 1607 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1524 in Monmouthshire, Wales d.23 Feb 1583
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1 1Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2 The Cecil Family, by George Ravenscroft Dennis
Further sources/citations:
Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages, Cailli-Cutts @ 110, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I25867
2 The Cecil Family, by George Ravenscroft Dennis
Further sources/citations:
Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages, Cailli-Cutts @ 110, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I25867
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