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Ralph de Burun Died 1107 Given lands in Midlands by William the Conqueror Lord of Horestan Castle and given lands in Derbyshire, Nottingham and Lancaster

Erneis de Buron Held lands in York and Lincoln

Hugh de Burun (Byron) 1112 to 1166

Hugh Byron 1130 to 1166

Sir Robert de Byron About 1196 to 1221

John de Byron About 1217 to 1279 The Byron Family were granted lands in Rochdale, Lancashire in the reign of Edward I

Sir John Byron About 1253 to 1339

Joan Byron 1268 to 1285 Married John Longford

Sir Richard de Byron, Lord of Clayton 1274 to 28 June 1346

Sir James Byron 1300 to 1351

John Byron 1328

Richard Byron About 1329 to 27 June 1397

John Byron 1371 to 1465

Margaret Byron 1412 to 25 May 1486 Married Robert Harcourt, William Atherton, Maurice Berkeley

Helena Byron, Baroness Mountjoy 1416 to 1468 Married Walter Blount, 1^st Baron Mountjoy

Nicholas Byron 1418 to 1459

Ralph Byron

Richard Byron

Jane Byron

Mary Byron

Catherine Byron

Elizabeth Byron Married Thomas “The Alchemist” Ashton

John Byron of Colwick 1441 to 3 January 1489 Married Margery Fouleshurst

Nicholas Byron 1458 to 13 January 1504 Married Joan Buchier

John Byron 1488 to 5 May 1567 Married Elizabeth Costerdine

Charles Byron 1520 or 1530 to 1570 or 1610

Sir John Byron (“Little John with the Great Beard”) 1522 or 1517 to 24 February 1604 Married Lady Alice Strelley (1526 to 1599) Buys Newstead, an Augustinian Priory founded by Henry II in 1540 from Henry VIII’s agents during dissolution of the monasteries Let the Abbey fall into decay but build a house there. In time, admired by the Romantics Colwick, Nottinghamshire

Ales Byron 1530 to 11 December 1610 Married William Atherton

Sir John Byron of Clayton 1556 to 7 March 1623 Married Margaret FitzWilliam High Sheriff of Lancashire

Margaret Byron 1593 to 19 September 1619 Married Thomas Hutchinson

John Byron 1577 or 1583 to 28 September 1625 Married Anne Molyneux

Alice Byron 1594 to 1657 Lady Margaret Byron 1598 to 1619 Married Thomas Hutchinson

John Byron, 1^st Baron Byron “Lord of Newstead, Knight of Bath” 1599 to 23 August 1652 Created the First Lord Byron in 1643, peerage for valour at Battle of Newbury and then commands the royal army in its defeat at Marston Moor An English nobleman, Royalist, politician, peer, knight, and supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War Married Cecily West, Eleanor Needham Died in Paris, in exile

Mary Byron 1603

Richard Byron, 2^nd Baron Byron (Lord Byron von Rochdale) 1606 to 4 October 1679 English nobleman, Royalist, politician, peer, knight, and supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War. Married Elizabeth Rossell and Elizabeth Booth

Nicholas Byron 1607 to 1625?? Married Sophie Charles Lambert Ernest Byron 1635 Married Isabella Stanley Isabella Bryon Sophia Byron Susanna Byron Edward Byron 1661 to 1698

William Byron 1609 to 5 February 1643

Colonel Sir Robert Byron 1611 to 1673 Royalist Soldier Married Lucy West Cecily Byron 1634 to 1713 Married Charles Balfour Marie Byron 1636 Lucy Byron 1638 Frances Byron 1640 Mary Byron 1642 Rosamund Byron 1644

Thomas Byron 1611 to 1644 Married Lady Catharine Braine (1610 to 1676)

Anne Finch Byron 1612 to 1650

Gilbert Byron 1613 to 1656 Married Dorothy Alice Byron 13 April 1652 Luce Byron 30 October 1654

Colonel Sir Philip Byron 1615 to 16 June 1644 Died at the Siege of York Married Unknown Hasketh Anne Byron 1644

Margery Byron 1615 to 1619

George Byron 1619 to 28 September 1625

Charles Byron 1621 to 5 February 1681

Francis Byron 1623 to 1676

Richard Byron 23 April 1634 to 25 March 1635

Cicely Byron 1637 to 1645

Anne Byron 1637 to 1640

William Byron, 3^rd Baron Byron 1636 to 13 November 1695 Married Hon Elizabeth Chaworth

Thomas Byron 1632 to 1730 John Byron 1643 to 1672

Hon William Byron 1669 Died in infancy

William Byron, the 4^th Baron Byron 4 January 1670 to 8 August 1736 Married Lady Mary Egerton, Lady Frances Wilhelmina Bentick, Lady Frances Berkeley, daughter of William, 4^th Baron Berkeley,

Catherine Byron, Baroness Ranelagh Died 1746 Married Arthur Cole, 1^st Baron Ranelegh

Hon Richard Byron Died in infancy

Hon John Byron Died in infancy

Hon Ernestus Byron Died in infancy

George Byron 1 October 1707 to 6 July 1719 Mother Frances Bentick, died in infancy

William Byron 6 July 1709 to 19 July 1719 Mother Frances Bentick, died in infancy

William Henry Byron 23 October 1710 to November 1710 Mother Frances Bentick, died in infancy

Frances Byron Mother Frances Bentick, died in infancy

Isabella Byron 10 November 1721 to 22 January 1795 Married Henry Howard, 4^th Earl of Carlisle

William Byron, 5^th Baron Byron, “the Wicked Lord” 5 November 1722 to 19 May 1798 Married Elizabeth Shaw Went to sea until he became the 5^th Lord Byron Newstead Abbey Ran out of funds. Sold timber around Newstead Abbey; leased 209,000 acres of coal mines in Rochdale

Vice Admiral John Byron “Foul Weather Jack” 8 November 1723 to 1 April 1786 Married his cousin via his mother Sophia Trevanion Joined navy in 1740. Shipwrecked off Patagonia in 1741, days on lifeboat Service during Seven Years War Commanded naval forces in American War of Independence

Reverend Richard Byron 28 October 1724 to 15 November 1811 Married Mary Farmer in 1768 at St James Piccadilly

Charles Byron 1726 to 1731 Died young

George Anson Byron 22 April 1730 to 1789 May have married Frances Levett in Nottingham in 1754 See inset below

Hon William Byron 7 June 1748 to March/May 1749 Died in infancy

Hon William Byron MP 27 October 1749 to 22 June 1776 He died in 1776 before his father British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1775 to 1776 His father was in serious financial difficulties which the Baron hoped to resolve by obtaining a wealthy bride for William. However William eloped to Gretna Green with his cousin Juliana Elizabeth Byron, daughter of Admiral John Byron

Hon Henrietta Diana Byron June/August 1751 to May/June 1760

Hon Caroline Byron B 17 January 1755

Frances Barbara Charlotte Byron 1749 to 1823 Married Charles Leigh

Sophia Byron 1750 to 1751 Died in infancy

Isabella Byron 1751 to 1752 Died in infancy

Juliana Elizabeth Byron 1754 to 1788 Married her cousin Hon William Byron, son of 5^th Baron

Sophia Maria Byron 1755 to 1821 Unmarried The Poet’s ‘maiden aunt’

John Byron “Mad Jack Byron” 7 February 1757 to 2 August 1791 British Army Officer Married Amelia Osborne (eloped and settled in France, Amelia died in 1784), Marchioness of Carmarthen and Catherine Gordon, 13^th of Gight Gordon (Scottish heiress, Aberdeenshire) Debts from gambling etc

George Anson Byron 7 February 1756 to 1793 Married Henrietta Dallas Noted Navy Officer

Charlotte Byron Died in infancy

Augusta Barbara Charlotte Byron 1762 to 1824 Married the later Admiral Christopher Parker

William Byron 1772 to 1794 Killed by cannon fire in 1794 while fighting in Corsica (Siege of Calvi) and the barony ultimately went to the poet Lord Byron

Richard Byron 1769 to 2 September 1837 Navy Captain Married Sarah Sykes Buried at Portsmouth

Rev Henry Byron Vicar of Granby, Nottinghamshire 1770 to 1821 Married Margaret Powditch

Two Children die in infancy

Augusta Maria Byron (later Leigh) 26 January 1783 to 12 October 1851 Married George Leigh

George Gordon Byron, 6^th Baron Byron, the Poet 22 January 1788 to 19 April 1824 Born in Marylebone Married Anne Isabella Milbank (10 December 1815 to 27 November 1852)

Augustus Byron Julia M C Byron 1782 to 1858 Married Rev Robert Heath

George Anson Byron Junior 1789 to 1868 Admiral and Explorer Married Elizabeth Mary Pole Later the 7^th Baron Byron

John James Byron 1792 to 1793

John Byron 1804 to 1878 Married Mary Richardson

Henry Byron 17 April 1804 to 4 May 1884 Married Elizabeth Josephine Bradley at Covent Garden

George Byron 10 August 1805 to 23 May 1834 Married Georgina Caroline Meiselbach

Elizabeth Byron 1806

Augusta Ada Byron, Countess Lovelace 10 December 1815 to 27 November 1852 Later Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (only child with Anna) Married William King Noel

Clara Allegra Byron (with Claire Clairmont) 12 January 1817 to 20 April 1822

Sacheverilli Mary Anne Byron 1817 to 1885 Born Marylebone, later Devon

George Anson Byron 30 June 1818 to 28 November 1870 Married Lucy E J Wescomb

Francis Byron 1820

Frederick Byron 3 February 1822 to 4 April 1861 Married Mary Jane Wescomb

Georgina P Byron 1825 to 3 January 1893 Married Charles Roland Palmer Morewood

Harriet Byron 1826 to 1828

Augustus Byron 1828 to 1907 Married Frederica McMahon

William Byron 1831 to 1907 Married Mary E Kindesley

Mabel C Byron 1843 to 1929

Mabel Charlotte Byron 1853 to 1926 Married Charles H T Moore

Leila Frederica Dora Byron 1854 to 1875

Augustus W Byron 1856 to 1939 Married Constance Caroline Clough Taylor

Ethel M E Byron 1858 to 1940

Mary B Byron 1860 to 1911

Claude Gordon Augustus Byron 1861 to 1863

Cecil George Gordon Byron 1867 to 1867

George A Byron 1858 to 1941

Eleanor Mary Byron 1866 to 1917

Edith Mary Byron 1866 to 1917

Katherine M Byron 1868 to 1951

Wilfred Byron 1871 to 1952 Married Sylvia Mary Moore

John Byron 1833 to 1895 Served in South Africa Married Susan A G Chiapinni Guildford

Mary Byron 1845

Colonel William Gerard Byron 10 March 1837 to 5 June 1885

Fanny Lucy Byron 1840

Janez Byron 1840

Emily Byron 1842

Ada B Byron 1839

Henry James Byron 1835 to 1884 Married Eleanor Mary Joy and Martha Foulkes

George Rochfort Byron 9 November 1832 to 19 November 1911 India

Richard Byron 19 February 1870 to 1 August 1939 Married Mabel Mackenzie

Margaret Ada Byron 1878 to 1963

May Byron 1881 to 1945

Alfred Byron 1859 to 1891

Henry C Byron 1860

John Byron 1860 to 1931

Elizabeth Harriette Byron 1861 to 1897

George Frederick Byron 1863 to 1939

Frances T Byron 1872

Frederick Rochfort Byron 1867

Richard Byron 1899 to 1989

Sheila Byron 1904

Eva Lucy Mary Byron 1853

George F W Byron 1855 to 1917

Alice Byron 1859

Margaret A Byron 1859

Frederick E Byron 1861 to 1949 Married Anna I E Fitzroy

George Anson Byron 1730 to 1789 May have married Frances Levett in Nottingham in 1754

Isabella Byron 1754 to 23 August 1834

William Byron 1756

George Byron 1756 to 1846 Married Frances and possibly Mary Nottinghamshire

Major John Byron 14 September 1758 to 1824

Frederick George Byron 1764 to 1782 Mary Byron 1782

John Byron 1790 to 1878