43.3.2.6.d The Ancestors of Victoria Devon - The Churchill Family Connection

The Churchill Family Connection

Sir Winston Churchill, MP FRS (18 April 1620 – 26 March 1688), known as the Cavalier Colonel, was an English soldier, nobleman, historian, and politician. He was the father of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, as well as an ancestor of the 20th-century prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill.

Their children included

1    1.      Winston Churchill                    1646 - 1647
2.      Arabella Churchill                    1648 – 1730      mistress of King James I m Col Godfrey
3.      John Churchill                          1650 -1722       m  Sarah Jeynes
4.      George Churchill                      1654 – 1710
5.      Charles Churchill                      1656 – 1714      m Mary Gould and mistress Elizabeth Dodd.
6.      Mountjoy Churchill                  1658 – 1659
7.      Jasper Churchill                                    1660 – 1679
8.      Theobald Churchill                   1663 - 1684
9.      Mary Churchill                         1664

On 26 May 1648, Churchill married Elizabeth Drake, daughter of Sir John Drake (d. 25 August 1636) and his wife, Eleanor Boteler, daughter of John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield, and maternal niece of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. 

From his son  3. John Churchill the lineage of Sir Winston Churchill is confirmed.

His daughter was Lady Anna Churchill, who married Earl Charles Spencer 1675 – 1722

It is through her marriage to Earl Charles Spencer, that they are the direct ancestors of Sir Winston Churchill.

Their son was Charles Spencer who Married Elizabeth Trevor

Their daughter was Elizabeth Spencer who married Henry Herbert, and their son George Spence married Caroline Russell.

Their son George Charles Spencer Churchill married Lady Susan Stewart, sister of Admiral George Stewart Earl of Galloway.  His daughter was Lady Jane Stewart, who married her cousin George Spencer Churchill, the son of Lady Susan Stewart.

Their son was John Winston Spencer Churchill who married Lady Francis Emily Vane

Their son was Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill who married Jennie Jerome

Their son was Sir William Churchill

Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill was the sister of Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer Churchill,  who married Ivor Bertie Guest.  She was the mother in law of Frederick John Napier Thesiger, the son of Lord Chelmsford.

 

From his son 5. Charles Churchill the lineage to Victoria Devon is confirmed

General Charles Churchill (2 February 1656 – 29 December 1714) was 

a British Army officer who served during the War of the Spanish Succession and an English politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1701 to 1710. He was a younger brother of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and both his military and political careers were closely connected with his brother's. Along with Marlborough's Irish Chief of Staff William Cadogan, he was one of Churchill's closest advisors. He was a Tory, in contrast to his Whig brother who tolerated and possibly used Churchill's Tory connections.

Churchill was the son of Winston Churchill (1620-1688) and his wife Elizabeth Drake, daughter of Sir John Drake, 1st Baronet of Ashe, Devon. He became a page and, from 1672 to 1708, a gentlemen in the household of Prince George of Denmark. He became Lieutenant of the Tower of London in 1702

Churchill married Mary Gould, daughter of James Gould on 9 February 1702.^[1] She later married to Montagu Venables-Bertie, 2nd Earl of Abingdon). 

He was the father of Lieutenant-General Charles Churchill, by his mistress Elizabeth Dodd.   His son through his mistress Anne Oldfield, was the father of Col Charles Churchill  

Col Charles Churchill married Lady Maria Walpole, illegitimate daughter of Robert Walpole, and had issue including Mary Churchill (2nd wife of the Earl Cadogan and ancestor of later earls). 

Their children were

Charles Churchill                                 1746

Elizabeth Ann Churchill                      1745                             m  Joseph Pitcher

Robert Churchill                                  1748

Major General George Churchill         1751   - 1808

Sarah Churchill                                    1752  - 1812

Henry Churchill Sophia Churchill       1753 – 1821                  m Marianna Birch

Sophia Churchill                                  1756 – 1797                  m Horatio Walpole, 2^nd Earl Orford

Mary Churchill                                    1758 – 1807                  m Charles Sloane Cadogan

Major Horatio Churchill                      1759 – 1817                  m  Harriet Ann Modingham

(These children in the Isaacson lineage are my 14^th cousins, 6 times removed..  They were subsequently the distant cousins of Arthur George Durnford, through Elizabeth Drake.)

The Walpole Connection 

There were so many intermarriages between cousins in this era, that the relationships are rather convoluted.  How anyone could unravel the connections without modern day technology is a wonder, but they did.

Of interest  Henry Lawes Long married Catherine Walpole.  Victoria Devon was her niece

Sophia Churchill 1756 – 1797  was the daughter of Col Charles Churchill 1720 – 1812 and his wife Maria Walpole  1725 – 1801

Col Charles Churchill was the son of Lieut General Charles Churchill and Anne Oldfield

She married Horatio Walpole 1752 - 1822 and their daughter was Catherine Walpole 1797 – 1867

Horatio Walpole was the son of Horatio Walpole 1^st Earl of Orford and Lady Rachel Cavendish

Horatio was the son of Horatio Walpole and Mary Lombard. 

His cousins were:

 Robert Walpole, the first PM of England, Maria Walpole who married Col Charles Churchill, and Horace Walpole, who built Strawberry Hill.

 He did not marry and left it to his cousin Lady Ann Seymour-Conway, who was his second cousin on his mother’s side. (Charlotte Shorter was his aunt, Anne was her granddaughter).

Sophia Churchill, married her cousin Horatio Walpole and they were the parents of Catherine Walpole. 

Sophia and Horatio, were the cousins of Maria Walpole 1739 – 1807 who married James Waldegrave and Prince William Duke of Gloucester.  

Their daughter Catherine Walpole the niece of Maria Walpole, and Victoria Devon was her grand niece.

Victoria was the second cousin of Lord Carnarvon, and Sir Redvers Buller.