The Ancestry of One Particular New York FULKERSON Branch: Brothers Joseph FULKERSON [b. 1755] and Caleb FULKERSON [b. 1762] Philip FULKERSON [b. 1733] and Margrita FARLEY [b. 1738] Caleb FARLEY [b. 1717] and Phoebe _____ Caleb FARLEY [b. 1689] and Margarietje WILTSEE Caleb FARLEY [b. 1667] and Sarah GODFREY [b. 1664] Caleb FARLEY [b. 1645] and Rebecca HILL George FARLEY [b. ca. 1615] and Christian BIRTHS Thomas FARLEY [b. ca. 1565] and Jane HUNGERFORD [b. 1578]

Farleigh Hungerford Castle Somerset, England

The HUNGERFORDS, Barons of England

This page is a continuation of the FARLEY ancestry of one FULKERSON branch.


Sir Thomas HUNGERFORD....-died in 1398. Sir Thomas HUNGERFORD was Jane HUNGERFORD's 6th great grandfather, and brothers Caleb and Joseph FULKERSON's 13th great grandfather. He was the son of Thomas Hungerford and Elizabeth Fitzjohn [20] and was born in Farleigh in Somerset.

Stained glass image of Sir Thomas HUNGERFORD
Shield of Sir Walter HUNGERFORD

(An earlier Lord HUNGERFORD was one of the original signers of the Magna Carta.) In 1355, he became sheriff and escheator for Wiltshire. He also served as steward of the household of John of Gaunt and bailiff (Bishop's Bailiff of New Sarum) for the Bishop of Salisbury. Thomas bought the Farliegh Monford house in Somerset in 1369 and transformed it into Farleigh Hungerford Castle. He was knighted in 1377 and became speaker of the House of Commons, a position which he owed to his friend John of Gaunt (1st Duke of Lancaster, Duke of Aquitaine, a member of the House of Plantagenet, the third surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault.) Thomas was the first person formally mentioned in the rolls of parliament as holding the office. He married (2nd?) in 1376 to Joan HUSSEY, with whom he had seven children. [19]

• Sir Walter HUNGERFORD....22 Jun 1378- 9 Aug 1449, born at Farleigh-Hungerford Castle, Somersetshire, England, buried at Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, he was the first Baron Hungerford of Farleigh. Walter m. (1st) Catherine PEVERELL (ca. 1382-after 14 Jun 1426, dau. of Sir Thomas PEVERELL and Margaret COURTENAY) before 18 Sep 1402, at Penhale, Cornwall, England. He m. (2nd) to Eleanor BERKELEY (Countess Arundel) before 8 May 1439 at Beverston, Gloucestershire, England. [18]
  
  The Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1911 tells us that "Like his father, Walter Hungerford also served as speaker, but he is more celebrated as a warrior and diplomat, serving in the former capacity at Agincourt and in the latter at the council of Constance and the congress of Arras. An executor of Henry V.'s will and a member of the council under Henry VI., Hungerford became a baron in 1426, and he was lord treasurer from 1426 to 1431...Baron Walter was close to King Henry V, serving as a foreign envoy and accompanying him at the Battle of Agincourt (25 Oct 1415, an English victory against a much larger French army in the Hundred Years' War)." Walter made a comment to the king before the battle, rueing that England did not have 10,000 more archers, for which Henry rebuked him. Both the comment and the rebuke appeared two centuries later in William SHAKESPEARE's play, "Henry V."
  
  In 1417 he was made Admiral of the fleet under John, Duke of Bedford, and was with Henry V in 1418 at the siege of Rouen. In Nov of the latter year he is designated the steward of the king's household (ib. vol. iv. pt. iii. p. 76), and was granted the Barony of Homet in Normandy. He took part in the peace negotiations of 1419, and on 3 May 1421 was installed as a Knight of the Garter.
  • Sir Thomas HUNGERFORD....executed in 1469 after being charged with treason for attempting the restoration of King Henry VI.
    • Mary HUNGERFORD....died ca. 1534. She was a victim and benefactor of royal politics. After her father's trial and execution, his titles were bound up in attainders, "the extinction of a person's civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felony." When the attainders were reversed in 1485 she became Baroness Hungerford and Baroness de Moleyns. She married into the HASTINGS family and was the mother of George HASTINGS, 1st Earl of Huntingdon.
  • Elizabeth HUNGERFORD
  • Sir Walter HUNGERFORD....died in 1516. He fought for Henry VII at Bosworth.
  • Sir Edmund HUNGERFORD.....ca. 1409-26 Mar 1484, born and died at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England. He m. Margaret BURNELL in 1416 (as children, in a contract marriage). She was the 11th great granddaughter of King William I of England (William the Conqueror). She also had another 32 kings, 4 saints and a host of princes and princesses in her ancestry. [17]
    • Thomas HUNGERFORD.....b. ca. 1440 at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, his title was "Sir Knight." He m. Christina HALLE (died before 19 Sep 1504, dau. of John HALLE). [16]
      • John HUNGERFORD....ca. 1460-before 27 Aug 1524, born and died at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, was buried at Abbey Cirencester, England. He m. Margaret BLOUNT. [15]
        • Anthony HUNGERFORD....ca. 1485-1559, born and died at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England. He m. Jane DARRELL (dau. of Edward DARRELL and Jane CROFT) about 1513 at Littlecote, Wiltshire, England. [14]
          • Sir John HUNGERFORD....before 1516-9 Mar 1582, born at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, d. at Stokke. He m. Bridget FETTIPLACE. His will was proved on 10 Apr 1583. Like his predecessors, he carried the title of "Sir Knight." Bridget was the daughter of Sir John FETTIPLACE (ca. 1484-6 Oct 1524) of East Shefford, Berkshire, England, and Dorothy DANVERS. Sir John's great grandmother was Beatriz PINTO of Portugal, daughter of King John I of Portugal. Her great grandmother was princess Beatrice of Castile, daughter of King Sancho IV of Castile. Thus, through the FETTIPLACE line, we have an ancestry that extends back through the early kings of Portugal and Spain. [13]
            • Sir Anthony HUNGERFORD....1540-25 May 1594, born at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, and died in Gloucestershire, England. He m. on 29 Jul 1569 to Bridget SHELLEY (b. ca. 1536, dau. of John SHELLEY of Michellgrove [son of William SHELLEY and Alice BELKNAP] and Mary FITZWILLIAM [b. ca. 1515 at Milton, Kent, England, dau. of Sir William FITZWILLIAM of Gainspark and Mildred SACKVILLE]). Another family history site alleges he was a 10th great grandfather of Winston Churchill. [12]
              • Sir John HUNGERFORD......carried the title of Sir Knight, m. Mary BARKLEY (dau of Sir Richard BARKLEY of Stoake).
                • Sir Anthony HUNGERFORD...... of Down Ampney m1. Elizabeth Lucy (dau of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecott), m2. Jane Erneley
                  • Bridget HUNGERFORD....only heir, m. (before 1639) Edmund DUNCH, Lord Burnell (b. 1602, buried 8 Apr 1678)
                  • Elizabeth HUNGERFORD...... , m. John Richards of the Isle of Wight
                  • Barbara HUNGERFORD......, m. Thomas Sackvile of Toots
                  • (Bridget) HUNGERFORD......, m. (Sir William) Lisley of the Isle of Wight
                  • Anne HUNGERFORD......
                  • Sir Anthony HUNGERFORD......1564-1627, served in the English House of Lords from 1604 to 1611, representing the ancient borough of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire (a county that includes the Salisbury Plain and Stonehenge). He carried the title of Sir Knight.
                    • Sir Edward HUNGERFORD.....1596-1648, inherited the estates of his kinsman Sir Edward HUNGERFORD in 1607. He was a member of both the Short and Long Parliaments in 1640. During the Civil War he attached himself to the parliamentary party, fighting at Lansdowne and at Roundway Down.
                    • Anthony HUNGERFORD.....d. 1657, he was also a member of both the Short and the Long Parliaments, but was on the royalist side during the war.
                      • Sir Edward HUNGERFORD.....1632-1711, the founder of Hungerford market at Charing Cross, London. He was a member of parliament for over forty years, but was very extravagant and was obliged to sell much of his property; and little is known of the family after his death. [SIDE NOTE: In 1824, at the age of 12, Dickens was sent to work for some months at a blacking factory, Hungerford Market, London, while his father John was in Marshalea debtor's prison. "My father and mother were quite satisfied," Dickens later recalled bitterly. "They could hardly have been more so, if I had been twenty years of age, distinguished at a grammar-school, and going to Cambridge." Later this episode found its way into the novel LITTLE DORRITT (1855-57). (Angus Wilson in The New York Times, March 1, 1981) ]
                • Jane HUNGERFORD....1578-1627, m. Thomas FARLEY of Towthorpe (b. 1565) [11]
                  • George FARLEY....ca. 1615-27 Dec 1693, b. in England, d. at Billerica, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts [10]
                  • Thomas FARLEY....
                  • Roger FARLEY....
                  • Samuel FARLEY....
                  • John FARLEY....
                  • Susan FARLEY....
                  • Jane FARLEY....
                  • Michael FARLEY....
                • Edward HUNGERFORD....
                • Bridget HUNGERFORD....
                • Elizabeth HUNGERFORD....
                • Joan HUNGERFORD....
                • Thomas HUNGERFORD....
              • Richard HUNGERFORD....
              • Henry HUNGERFORD....
              • Anne HUNGERFORD....
              • Bridget HUNGERFORD....
              • Dorothy HUNGERFORD....
              • Mary HUNGERFORD....
              • Susan HUNGERFORD....
            • Edmund HUNGERFORD....
            • Elizabeth HUNGERFORD....known as Dorothy
            • Jane HUNGERFORD....
            • Edward HUNGERFORD....
            • Thomas HUNGERFORD....
            • George HUNGERFORD....
            • Henry HUNGERFORD....
            • Jane HUNGERFORD....
            • Anne HUNGERFORD....
          • Edward HUNGERFORD....
          • Elizabeth HUNGERFORD....
          • Frideswide HUNGERFORD....
          • Christian HUNGERFORD....
          • Frances HUNGERFORD....
          • John HUNGERFFORD....
        • Anthony HUNGERFORD....
        • Elizabeth HUNGERFORD....
        • Anne HUNGERFORD....
      • Philippa HUNGERFORD....
      • Edward HUNGERFORD....
      • Bridget HUNGERFORD....
      • Anne HUNGERFORD....
      • Margaret HUNGERFORD....
      • Walter HUNGERFORD....Lord Hungerford of Heytesbury (1503-1540), who was created a baron in 1536, but was charged with treason for his alleged sympathy with the Pilgrimage of Grace; he was beheaded on the 28th of July 1540, the same day as his patron Thomas CROMWELL. The charges against him also included witchcraft and "unnatural vices" (he was the first person in England executed under the Buggery Act of 1533).
        • Sir Walter HUNGERFORD....1532-1596, died without male heirs
        • Sir Edward HUNGERFORD....d. 1607, died without male heirs. Because both brothers died without male heirs, their estates passed to another branch of the family.
      • Jane HUNGERFORD....
      • Letticce HUNGERFORD....
      • John HUNGERFORD....
    • Robert HUNGERFORD....ca. 1400-1459, he was the 2nd Baron Hungerford of Farleigh. He was very wealthy, both his mother and his wife being heiresses. Like several other members of the family, Robert was buried in the cathedral at Salisbury.
      • Robert HUNGERFORD.....ca. 1420-May 1464, Lord Moleyns and Hungerford. He m. Eleanor, daughter of Sir William DE MOLEYNS, and was called to parliament as Lord de Moleyns in 1445. He is chiefly remembered through his dispute with John Paston over the possession of the Norfolk manor of Gresham. After losing this case he was taken prisoner in France in 1452, not securing his release until 1459. During the Wars of the Roses he fought for Henry VI., with whom he fled to Scotland. This brought against him a charge of treason. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Hexham, and was executed at Newcastle in May 1464.
    • Margaret HUNGERFORD.....