• General Notes

  of Greenland House,
  afterwards of Chislehampton
  
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  John D'Oyly, Esq. of Greenland House, co. Bucks, afterwards of Chislehampton, co. Oxon., eldest son and heir of Sir Cope, was bapt. at Stadhampton, 3 March, 1601, and married, v.p., 1 July, 1628, Marah, youngest of the six daughter-coheiresses of Sir John Shirley. of Isfield, co. Sussex, Knt., by Jane his first wife, the dau. of Sir Thomas Shirley, Knt. of Wiston, in the same county, grandson of Ralph Shirley of Wiston, esquire of the body to Henry VII. by Jane his wife, dau. of Thomas Bellingham of that county; which Ralph was grandson, maternally, of Sir Thomas Blount, father of the first Lord Mountjoy; and paternally closely related to the great house of Shirley, of Stanton Harold, co, Leicester, afterwards raised to the peerage as Lord Ferrers. The Shirley family, from which Mrs. D'Oyly was paternally descended, derived from the Shirleys of Longfield near Halifax, co. York. Her father was elder brother of Sir George Shirley, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland; nephew of Sir John Shirley, serjeant at law; and grandson maternally of Sir Nicholas Pelham of Laughton, co. Sussex, and paternally of Edward Shirley, who and his father both held the office of Cofferer to King Henry VIII.; and were descended from a coheiress of Staveley of Yorkshire.[337]—Mrs. D'Oyly's sisters, the other five coheirs, were, 1. Jane, wife successively of Sir Walter Covert, and Denzil Lord Holles, of Isfield, co. Sussex.[338] 2. Cecily, wife of Sir William Somerville. 3. Elizabeth, married to Sir Thomas Palmer, Bart.[339] of Wingham. 4. Charity, mother of Sir Thomas and Sir John Rivers, Barts.[340] 5. Anne, wife of Sir Giles Overbury, and mother of Sir Thomas Overbury, of Bourton on the Hill, co. Glouc, who became more intimate with the D'Oylys than were any of the other coheirs. Their father, Sir John Shirley, died April 1631; his inquis. post mort. was made the following January, when his daughters were found his coheirs.
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Details of John's family with Mary Shirley