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Denny of Tralee Castle, Co.Kerry

• References:
  • DENNY in [Burkes Peerage]
  • DENNY [The descent of Sir Edward Denny, Bart. of Tralee Castle, Co.Kerry, from the Blood Royal of England] in [Foster's Royal Descents, 1887]
  • DENNY in [Blen. Pedigrees]
  • "The Notable Connections of the first Sir Edward Denny", W.T.J. Gun and Sir Henry Denny, 7th Baronet, in the [Co.Kerry Soc. annual report 1927]

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • A Brief Account of the Denny family, A. Denny, 1883.
  • "Notes on the families of ... Denny of Tralee", Journal of Association for Preservation of Memorials of the Dead 7:373, 1907-09.
  • DENNY in [King, 1910]
  • History of the Denny Family of Tralee, Sir Henry Denny, 7th Baronet, 1911.
  • "Dennys of Cork", Sir Henry Denny, 7th Baronet, [Journal of CHAS], 28:45-46, 1922.
  • Denny Genealogy, Margaret C. Denny Dixon and Elizabeth C. Denny Hann (or Vann), New York, 1944. Copy in Univ. Exeter Library.
  • "A Problem Pedigree", brochure by Sir Henry Denny, 7th Baronet, pre-1947.

Claimed to be Sir Anthony Denny.
Though some say it is Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
From Tudor Place.

Sir Edmund Denny,
of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire,
mar Mary Troutbeck [descendant of Edward I],
had issue:

1. Sir Anthony Denny, Knt., of Cheshunt,
   born 1500 [think NOT 1501],
   mar Joan Champernowne [born est c.1520, descendant of Edward I],
   appears in the play Henry VIII by Shakespeare,
   died 1549, age 49 yrs [think NOT 1559], see [DNB],
   had issue:

   
   

   1. Sir Edward Denny, Knt., born 1547,
      of Bishop's Stortford Manor, Hertfordshire.

   
   

2. Joice Denny, mar William Walsingham and had issue:
   1. Sir Francis Walsingham (see biography), born c.1532,
      Elizabeth's spymaster,
      had issue:
      1. Frances Walsingham,
         mar 1stly, 1583, to Sir Philip Sidney and had issue,
         mar 2ndly to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and had issue.

Sir Anthony Denny.
From Tudor Place.

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