Individual Details
James Whitney
(Abt 1466 - 31 Jul 1500)
== Biography ==James Whitney is the son of Robert Whitney and his second wife Elizabeth Vaughan.See the [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Whitney_Family_Tree Whitney Family Tree] (with sources) WRG (the Whitney Research Group website) estimates his birth to be about 1466 at Whitney, Herefordshire and has a source for his death of 31 July 1500, probably at Whitney, Herefordshire.[http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_James_(s1466-1500)#endnote_3 WRG], citing: Inquisition Post Mortem for James Whitney, 22 Henry VII (1507), document "E 150 411 4", The National Archives. Note that another source lists the date of his death as 30 June 1500, Whitney, Herefordshire (Gerald Paget, The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles of Wales (Edinburgh and London: 1977), vol. 2, #O 28869)
James married Blanche, fourth daughter and co-heir of Simon Milbourne,Melville, Henry, ''The Ancestry of John Whitney''. New York: De Vinne Press, 1896. Accessed online at [https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/27289/dvm_GenMono007425-00082-1/140?backurl= Ancestry.com], p.117-8, Appendix III. about 1490. A 2006 article by Robert Leigh Ward and Tim Doyle concludes that James and Blanche had the following children (estimated DOB's are from WRG):Ward, Robert Leigh and Tim Doyle, ''The Whitney Lineage of John Whitney of Watertown, Massachusetts'', published in "The American Genealogist". New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database - New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Access online at [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/13264/251/24794664 AmericanAncestors.org]. Vol. 81 (Oct 2006) pages 259-262. * Robert, b. c. 1491, m. Margaret Wye (other sources say he m. Sybil Baskerville, but that is his son Robert);
* Sir James, b. c. 1493, d. s.p.;
* Watkin, b. c. 1495, m. Margaret Reese;
* Robert, b. c. 1497 [d. young?];
* A daughter. Elizabeth b. c. 1499, m. Thomas Morgan per WRG.
Melville has the following as a daughter of James, however the Ward-Doyle article does not include her:
*Anne, m. Henry Cary.
From Whitney Research Group website:
Transcription of the Inquisition Post Mortem of James Whitney, Esq., by Michael A. Faraday April 9, 2007:
:"Note that this was probably the property in Boughrood that had been purchased by his great great great grandfather, Robert Whitney, in 1358".
==Research Notes==Mother changed from Robert Whitney's first wife [[Tuchet-29|Constance]] to his second wife Elizabeth Vaughan. See [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Whitney_Family_Tree Whitney Family Tree] for sources. (done 30 May 2015)
== Sources ==
See also:* Ancestry Family Trees ([http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=225892&pid=4850 Family Tree file]s submitted by Ancestry members). Gedcom source S572556085.
== Acknowledgements ==* WikiTree profile Whitney-470 created through the import of FISCUS Family Tree.ged on Jun 6, 2011 by [[Fairbanks-92 | Liisa Small]].* WikiTree profile Whitney-577 created through the import of Elice Tree.GED on Aug 19, 2011 by [[Green-2778 | Elice Green]].
James married Blanche, fourth daughter and co-heir of Simon Milbourne,Melville, Henry, ''The Ancestry of John Whitney''. New York: De Vinne Press, 1896. Accessed online at [https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/27289/dvm_GenMono007425-00082-1/140?backurl= Ancestry.com], p.117-8, Appendix III. about 1490. A 2006 article by Robert Leigh Ward and Tim Doyle concludes that James and Blanche had the following children (estimated DOB's are from WRG):Ward, Robert Leigh and Tim Doyle, ''The Whitney Lineage of John Whitney of Watertown, Massachusetts'', published in "The American Genealogist". New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database - New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Access online at [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/13264/251/24794664 AmericanAncestors.org]. Vol. 81 (Oct 2006) pages 259-262. * Robert, b. c. 1491, m. Margaret Wye (other sources say he m. Sybil Baskerville, but that is his son Robert);
* Sir James, b. c. 1493, d. s.p.;
* Watkin, b. c. 1495, m. Margaret Reese;
* Robert, b. c. 1497 [d. young?];
* A daughter. Elizabeth b. c. 1499, m. Thomas Morgan per WRG.
Melville has the following as a daughter of James, however the Ward-Doyle article does not include her:
*Anne, m. Henry Cary.
From Whitney Research Group website:
Transcription of the Inquisition Post Mortem of James Whitney, Esq., by Michael A. Faraday April 9, 2007:
Indented ( = duplicated) Inquisition taken at Hereford in the county of Hereford on 2 October in the 22nd year of the reign of King Henry VII after / the Conquest (=1506) before Rowland Blakeston the escheator of the lord King in the aforesaid county and in the March of Wales adjacent to the said county / by virtue of his office after the death of James Whitney esquire by the oath of John Crompe, Thomas Shipman, John Steade, / Richard Parlour, Thomas Lone, John Harte, Richard West, John Lone, William Storre, Edmund Deen, Henry Crowen and (?) Edward / Brastede: Who say on their oath that the said James Whitney esquire was seised of the manor of Boghred (= Boughrood) with its appurtenances / (words in the margin too faint to read) / in the March of Wales adjacent to the said county of Hereford in his demesne as of fee (= ‘freehold’) and being so seised thereof of the same manor with its appurtenances died seised of the title of the estate And the same jurors say that the said manor with its appurtenances is held of the lord King in chief by the service / of a twentieth of one knight’s fee and is worth yearly in all issues beyond deductions 6 marks (= £4) ; And they say that the aforesaid James / Whitney died on the last day of July in the 15th year of the reign of the aforesaid lord King ( = 1500) ; And that Robert Whitney is his son and next / heir and of the age of 13 years and more ; in witness of which matter the aforesaid escheator and the aforesaid jurors have affixed their seal to this duplicated Inquisition; given the day and year and place abovesaid.
:"Note that this was probably the property in Boughrood that had been purchased by his great great great grandfather, Robert Whitney, in 1358".
==Research Notes==Mother changed from Robert Whitney's first wife [[Tuchet-29|Constance]] to his second wife Elizabeth Vaughan. See [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Whitney_Family_Tree Whitney Family Tree] for sources. (done 30 May 2015)
== Sources ==
See also:* Ancestry Family Trees ([http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=225892&pid=4850 Family Tree file]s submitted by Ancestry members). Gedcom source S572556085.
== Acknowledgements ==* WikiTree profile Whitney-470 created through the import of FISCUS Family Tree.ged on Jun 6, 2011 by [[Fairbanks-92 | Liisa Small]].* WikiTree profile Whitney-577 created through the import of Elice Tree.GED on Aug 19, 2011 by [[Green-2778 | Elice Green]].
Events
| Birth | Abt 1466 | Whitney, Herefordshire, , England | |||
| Death | 31 Jul 1500 | Whitney, Herefordshire, England | |||
| Reference No | 1978367 | ||||
| Reference No | 2005971 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Robert Whitney (1440 - 1494) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Vaughan (1452 - ) |
| Sibling | Ellen Whitney (1470 - ) |
| Sibling | Robert Whitney (1474 - ) |