Through the ages we look and wonder about where we came from and what secrets the past may hold.
Above: My 14th great grandfather Sir William Petre.
Above: My paternal grandmother was Rhoda Regan (formerly Howard). She lived in Birkdale, Southport, and went on to marry my grandfather, Patrick.
Above: my grandad, Patrick (Parky) Regan. He died of wounds in the First World War.
Deeper into the mists of time...
Thanks to my pal, Jess, and her sterling ancestry work I have managed to discover family links connected to Rhoda's line, that stretch back centuries.
Sir William Petre (c. 1505 – 1572) was Secretary of State to three consecutive Tudor monarchs, namely Kings Henry VIII, Edward VI and Queen Mary I.
Sir William also deputised for the Secretary of State to Elizabeth I. He rose quickly in the royal service and was knighted in 1543.
Thanks to my pal, Jess, and her sterling ancestry work I have managed to discover family links connected to Rhoda's line, that stretch back centuries.
Sir William Petre (c. 1505 – 1572) was Secretary of State to three consecutive Tudor monarchs, namely Kings Henry VIII, Edward VI and Queen Mary I.
Sir William also deputised for the Secretary of State to Elizabeth I. He rose quickly in the royal service and was knighted in 1543.
William was the eldest son of John Petre of Tor Newton in the parish of Torbryan, Devon, by his wife Alice Colling, daughter of John Colling of Woodland, Devon.
The family had been established at Tor Newton from at least the reign of King Richard II (1377–1399).
Above: Arms of Clifton of Clifton, Nottinghamshire.
The following concerns my 11th great grandfather.
Gervase Clifton, 1st Baron Clifton (c. 1579–14 October 1618) was an English nobleman.
Clifton was a son of Sir John Clifton of Barrington Court, Somerset and was educated at St Alban's Hall, Oxford.
In 1591, he became a Knight of the Shire of Huntingdonshire, settled in Leighton Bromswold and married Katherine, a daughter of Sir Henry Darcy (a previous Knight of the Shire) that year and was knighted by 1597. From 1597-98 and also in 1601, Clifton was MP for Huntingdonshire and was raised to the Peerage by writ of summons in 1608 as Baron Clifton, of Leighton Bromswold, County Huntingdon.
Above: Arms of Clifton of Clifton, Nottinghamshire.
Gervase was a descendant of the Nottinghamshire family and shared a common ancestor with the Clifton baronets Sir Gervase Clifton (d.1508), Knight of the Bath (1494), of Clifton Hall, Nottingham, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests in 1502.
From the latter's eldest son Robert Clifton were descended the Clifton baronets whilst from one of his younger sons, Gervase Clifton of the Customs House, London, was descended in the third generation the 1st Baron Clifton.
Norman links
Gervase Clifton, 1st Baron Clifton, had no direct link to William the Conqueror, However, his family's lineage apparently can be tracked back to the Norman Conquest.
The 1st Baron Clifton was part of a branch of the Clifton family, whose origins were in fact historically linked to Alvaredus de Clifton, a Norman knight who served under William the Conqueror.
The family assumed the name of 'Clifton' from the village when they purchased the lands in 1272 from the de Rhodes family.
One branch of the family likewise assumed the name 'Wilford'. The family home became Clifton Hall on the summit of the Clifton heights overlooking the a large bend in the River Trent.
More reseach in needed here...
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