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Cromwell

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • Oliver Cromwell's Stuart Descent, The Genealogists' Magazine, 3(1), Mar 1927.

Walter Cromwell, had issue:

1. Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, statesman under Henry VIII.

2. Catherine Cromwell, mar Morgan Williams and had issue:
   1. Sir Richard Williams (later Cromwell),
      of Hinchingbrooke, W side of Huntingdon (see map),
      had issue:
      1. Sir Henry Cromwell, of Hinchingbrooke, had issue:

         
         

         1. Robert Cromwell, of Huntingdon,
            mar Elizabeth Steward and had issue:
            1. Oliver Cromwell, republican revolutionary,
               born Huntingdon, 25 April 1599,
               Lord Protector of England 1653–58,
               died 1658.

            
            

         2. Joan Cromwell,
            mar Sir Francis Barrington, 1st Baronet [descendant of Edward III] and had issue.

            
            

         3. Frances Cromwell,
            mar Richard Whalley and had issue,
            ancestors of:
            1. Richard Chapell Whaley (or Chappell),
               Protestant magistrate, violently anti-Catholic, known as "Burn-Chapel" Whaley,
               it was said that in pursuit of Catholic priests during the Penal Times he burned at least one Catholic place of worship,
               built town house at 86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin (now UCD),
               had issue:
               1. Thomas "Buck" Whaley, born 1766, notorious rake.

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• Cromwell genealogy by Peter Barns-Graham

• Cromwell family
• Whaley family tree