Stringer of Whiston Pedigree

Whiston Families

Stringer Pedigree

Thomas Stringer of Whiston was in 1584 one of the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury's servants. The archives hold letters which Stringer sent to the Earl including:
Thomas Stryngar (Stringer) to the Earl of Shrewsbury, Earl Marshal, at Chelsea, from Wingfield, 15 November 1584. He warns the Earl that Wingfield is short of provisions and complains that 'this house is a house of great waste divers ways, and especially of lights'. Mr. Secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Walter Mildmay, a temporary custodian of Mary, Queen of Scots while the Earl was at Court, to know how many attendants the Queen of Scots had and details of her diet. He has replied that the Queen of Scots has 16 dishes at the first and second courses; the Master of the Household, her chief officers and their servants, 10; her gentlewomen. 8; the rest of the women, 5. There are not under 100 gentlemen, yeomen and officers to guard her, besides 50 soldiers. She has no furniture of household. He understands that the courtiers are weary of the business already and advises Shrewsbury to insist on being delivered from his burden; only thus will he be free from those who spread lies about him. He has written to various officers of the Earl to prevent the election of Sir Charles Cavendish as a knight of the shire.

The Family deeds of Rogers of Netherthorpe Hall contain details of settlement of the estate on the marriage of Francis Rogers and Elizabeth, daughter of Mary Stringer of Whiston, 1667; deed securing £15 p.a. to Elizabeth out of Netherthorpe Hall, 1702; deeds conveying or mortgaging some of the property, including Smithies Farm, to Thomas Hewett, 1700-08.

Agreement.with the marriage settlement, by which Francis Stringer agrees to convey Newhall Grange to Thomas Stringer as security for a debt of £1500, by reason of 'these lait tymes' '. 31st March, 1650.

Deeds relating to Stringers Farm in Whiston, and fields belonging thereto:
Held by Cuthbert Browne clerk, of Stanton, Norfolk, and afterwards of Handsworth, Yorks., and others, in trust for sale, for the Duke of Norfolk. Sold to Richard Sterne for £4,600. 1678-89

Source:Arundel Manuscripts Reference: ACM/WD/780, 781, 784, 785, 788; 804-806, 812, 815, 827, 830, 834, 913, 934-936, 946

In 1581 Administration was granted of the goods of Thomas Beaumont of Whiston to Alice Stringer alias Beaumont his mother

John Stringer of Overthorpe and Thornhill m. Anne, dau. and heir of Robert Rishworth of Crofton. Their son Thomas Stringer, an agent of the Earl of Shrewsbury married twice: 1st to Gertrude or Elizabeth of Sheffield and 2nd to a Stansfield of Whiston.

George STRINGER (1557-1637), son Thomas & Gertrude (Nee Fenton) m. Frances ROUTHE. Children born Whiston:

The Will Of Francis Stringer of Whiston
July, 1656 Francis Stringer of Whiston, gent.
To be buried in Whiston church
I assign William Mitchell of Wingerworth, esq., George Taylor and Francis Mitchell, gents. my manor of Whiston, for the use of Mary my now wife during her life, and to raise 400 pounds each for portions of my 3 daughters Anne, Constance, and Elizabeth, they not to marry without the consent of my wife.
My son, George shall, after the death of my wife, have 10 pound a year paid him, or his board with meat.
The lands after her death and payments of portions to George, if he be living, but if dead to son William Stringer.
Sarah, youngest daughter
To Thomas Stringer of Sharlston, my eldest son, 5 pounds
To Alice, my daughter, now wife of George Westby, 5 pounds and to each of her children alive at my death 3 pound 6s 8d.
To Thomas son of Gervis Bosvile and Mary my daughter, deceased 3pounds 6s 8d.
To the poor of Whiston 4 pounds.
Mary, wife, executrix

Katherine, daughter and heir of Thomas Stringer of Sharleston and Catherine (Nee Norton), married in 1699 to Richard Beaumont of Whitley Hall who died 1704. In 1708 she married Thomas Fane, 6th Earl of Westmoreland. The Countess died without heirs on 14 February, 1730, and was buried at Apthorpe in Northamptonshire thus the end of the Stringer line.