• General Notes

  II. Catharine D'Oyly, who joined her sisters in suing out their livery, 43d Eliz. and was married in Feb. 1602, to Sir William Dyer of Great Stoughton in Huntingdonshire, Knt. son and heir of Sir Richard Dyer, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to James I. who was grand nephew and heir of Sir James Dyer, Knt. Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.[585] Sir William Dyer died however, in 1621, æt. 39, and was buried in Colmworth church, co. Bedford, where Katharine his widow (for she survived him) erected in 1641 a monument at the south side of the altar, with effigies of himself, herself, and their children. Their issue were,[586]
  1. Sir Ludowick Dyer, Bart. so created in June 1627. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Yelverton, Knt., but dying s.p. in 1670, his title expired.
  2. Richard Dyer.
  3. D'Oyly Dyer.
  4. James Dyer.
  1. Anne Dyer, who was married to William Gery, Esq. of Bushmead Priory, and died in 1684, leaving issue. Her present representative is William Hugh Wade-Gery, Esq. of Bushmead Priory. (See Burke's Commoners.)
  2. Mary Dyer.
  3. Catharine Dyer, the wife of Si Edward Coke of Longford, co. Derby, created a Baronet in 1641 (grandson of the great Sir Edward Coke, the lawyer,) by whom she had several children. The Dyer arms, granted to the family in 1575, were, " Sable, three goats passant argent, attired or."

Details of Catherine's family with Sir Richard Dyer