{91} Edward III Descents for Dorothy (née Shafto), Countess of Lisburne (1734-1805)

Dorothy (née Shafto), Countess of Lisburne (1734-1805)

Having explored the ancestry of Elizabeth Nightingale, the first wife of the first earl of Lisburne, it's now time to turn to the ancestry of his second wife, Dorothy Shafto, who is an ancestress of the present earl of Lisburne, of Hon. Annette Maria (née Palk) Baird, and of Diana, Princess of Wales.

The Shaftos can be traced back to the 15th-century, when William Shafto married the heiress of Bavington Hall in Northumberland and acquired that estate. A younger branch of the family established themselves as merchant adventurers in Newcastle-on-Tyne in the following century, intermarried with leading gentry families of that city, including Riddell, Brandling, and Eden, and served terms there as mayor and sheriff. Mark Shafto (1602-1660) was a second son who pursued a career in law, and served as Recorder of Newcastle. Since the family seat Benwell Tower, in the west end of the city, was the inheritance of his elder brother, Mark needed his own seat for his family and purchased Whitworth Park, on the river Wear in county Durham, in 1652. He had married Mary Legard, the daughter of a Newcastle merchant who was, in turn, descended from the Yorkshire gentry family seated at Anlaby Hall, and their elder surviving son Robert followed in his father Mark's footsteps and pursued a legal career. Robert Shafto was a Royalist during the Civil War, and this served him well at the Restoration, when he was reinstated as Recorder of Newcastle, eventually knighted, and became the first member of the family to marry into the Edward I bloodline, taking to wife Katherine, one of the four surviving daughters and co-heirs of a former Speaker of the House of the Commons, Sir Thomas Widdrington of Cheeseburn Grange Hall in Northumberland, and a granddaughter of the 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron. Sir Robert Shafto's only son and heir Mark Shafto (1662-1723) served a term as High Sheriff of county Durham, and maintained a London residence, but otherwise lived quietly and held no other public office. This was not the case for his elder son Robert Shafto (1690-1729), who was first returned to Parliament by the city of Durham in 1712 at age 21. When Robert died childless in 1729, six years after his father, his younger brother John Shafto not only inherited Whitworth Park, but the seat in Parliament as well, being returned by the city of Durham the following year in a close election.

Whitworth Park, co. Durham

JOHN SHAFTO of Whitworth Park, co Durham, M.P. Durham City 1730-42, bap. 16 Mar. 1692 St Anne Soho, London; d. 3 Apr. 1742 London, bur. 19 Apr. 1742 Whitworth Church, Durham, yr son of Mark Shafto of Whitworth Park (1662-1723, descended from Edward III - see Generation A13 below) and Margaret Ingleby (1663-1715, descended from Edward III - see Generation B12 below); m. 20 May 1731 St Michael Bassishaw, London, as her 1st husband, DOROTHY JACKSON[*1], b. c.1708/9 ("aged upwards of twenty two years" in her marriage bond 8 May 1731); d. Jan. 1768 Pendley, Hertfordshire, bur. 14 Jan. 1768 Whitworth Church, only dau. of Thomas Jackson, town clerk of London (1675-1737) and his 2nd wife Mary White, and had issue, three sons and three daughters.

Issue of John and Dorothy (Jackson) Shafto:

Robert Shafto (1732-1797)

1) ROBERT SHAFTO of Whitworth Park, 'Bonny Bobby Shafto,' M.P. Co. Durham 1760-88, Downton 1780-90, b. 17 May 1732 Bedford Row, London, bap. 5 June 1732 St Andrew Holborn, London; d. 24 Nov. 1797, bur. 30 Nov. 1797 Whitworth Church; m. 18 Apr. 1774 Grosvenor Square, London, ANNE DUNCOMBE, b. 28 Sept. 1750 London, bap. 19 Oct. 1750 St George Hanover Square, London; d. 16 Mar. 1783, only dau. of Thomas Duncombe of Duncombe Park (1724-1779, descended from Edward III) and his 1st wife Lady Diana Howard (1724-1770, descended from Edward III), and had issue, three sons.

2) DOROTHY SHAFTO, bap. 2 Apr. 1734 St Andrew Holborn, London; d. 12 Sept. 1805 Mamhead House, Devon, bur. 20 Sept. 1805 St Thomas Church, Mamhead; m. 19 Apr. 1763 St Andrew Holborn, as his 2nd wife, WILMOT VAUGHAN, 1st Earl of Lisburne, bap. 9 Jan. 1728 Holy Trinity Church, Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland; d. 6 Jan. 1800 Mamhead House, bur. 14 Jan. 1800 St Thomas Church, Mamhead, er son of Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne (c.1700-1766, descended from Edward III) and Elizabeth Watson (c.1705-1764), and had issue, one son and three daughters.

Issue of Dorothy (Shafto) and 1st Earl of Lisburne:

2A) Lady DOROTHY ELIZABETH VAUGHAN, b. 13 May 1764 Mamhead House, Devon, bap. 6 Jan. 1765 St Thomas Church, Mamhead; d. 15 Feb. 1849 Mayfair, London, bur. 23 Feb. 1849 St Andrew Church, Enfield, Middlesex; m. 15 May 1792 Harley Street, Marylebone, London, as his 2nd wife, Sir LAWRENCE PALK, 2nd Baronet of Haldon House, bap. 6 Mar. 1766 Fort St George, Madras, India; d. 20 June 1813 Mayfair, London, bur. 3 July 1813 St George Church, Shillingford, Devon, son of Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet of Haldon House (1717-1798) and Anne Vansittart (1738-1788, descended from Henry IV), and had issue, six sons and two daughters.

Earl of Lisburne heraldic achievement

2B) JOHN VAUGHAN, 3rd Earl of Lisburne, M.P. Cardigan Boroughs 1796-1818, b. 3 Mar. 1769; d. 18 May 1831, bur. 24 May 1831 St Andrew Church, Enfield; m. 2 Aug. 1798 St Clement Church, Powderham, Devon, Hon. LUCY COURTENAY, b. 13 June 1770 Powderham Castle, Devon, bap. 16 July 1770 St Clement Church, Powderham; d. 17 Dec. 1821 Château de L'Épine, Auvergne, France, bur. 3 Jan. 1822 St Andrew Church, Enfield, dau. of William, 2nd Viscount Courtenay of Powderham (1742-1788, descended from Edward III) and Frances Clack (d. 1782), and had issue, five sons and one daughter.

2C) Lady MALLET VAUGHAN, b. 30 July 1770 Mamhead House, bap. 5 Aug. 1770 St Thomas Church, Mamhead; d. unm. 9 Jan. 1858 Dawlish, Devon, bur. 16 Jan. 1858 St Thomas Church, Mamhead.

Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

2D) Hon. THEODOSIA CHARLOTTE VAUGHAN, b. 27 Feb. 1773 London, bap. 8 Apr. 1773 St Martin in the Fields; d. in infancy, bur. 30 Apr. 1773 St Andrew Church, Enfield.

3) MARGARET SHAFTO, bap. 19 Feb. 1735 St Andrew Holborn; d. unm. 13 Mar. 1818 Bromley, Kent, bur. 24 Mar. 1818 St Peter & St Paul Church, Bromley.

4) Rev Dr. THOMAS GOODFELLOW SHAFTO, Canon of Christ Church Oxford 1783-99, b. Whitworth Park, bap. 30 Aug. 1736 Whitworth Church; d. unm. 17 Oct. 1799 Christ Church, Oxford, bur. Christ Church Cathedral.

5) MARY SHAFTO, bap. 6 Feb. 1738 St Andrew Holborn; d. young (presumably).

6) JOHN SHAFTO, b. 29 Jan. 1740 Bedford Row, London, bap. 23 Feb. 1740 St Andrew Holborn; d. in infancy, bur. there 18 Apr. 1740.

Marriage bond of John Shafto and Dorothy Jackson, 8 May 1731

[*1] There is confusion in the Shafto of Whitworth accounts regarding the Jackson wife of John Shafto (and mother of Dorothy, countess of Lisburne), starting with her first name. Robert Surtees, in his 1823 Pedigree of Shafto of Whitworth, says she was "Mary, dau. and heir of Thomas Jackson Esq. Town-clerk of the City of London and of Nunnington co. York," and this is followed by Burke's Landed Gentry, Complete Peerage, History of Parliament and ODNB. It is clear, however, from her marriage and burial entries, that her first name was not 'Mary' but 'Dorothy.' Surtees was correct in his identification of her father. Nineteenth-century historian Charles Jackson, in an appendix to The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton, of East Newton, Co. York (1873), provides further information on the Jacksons of Nunnington, including a transcription of a M.I. in Stonegrave Church, Yorkshire. When combined with the parish register of St Lawrence Jewry in London, and Boyd's Inhabitants of London, a clear picture emerges of the father of Dorothy Jackson, wife of John Shafto. Thomas Jackson, Town Clerk of London 1724-37, bap. 10 Jan. 1675 St Nicholas Church, Stonegrave; d. 6 July 1737, bur. 12 July 1737 St Lawrence Jewry, London, yst son of Thomas Jackson of Nunnington in Stonegrave (c.1631-1702) and his wife Mary --- (c.1636-1679); m. 5 Jan. 1703 St James Church, Westminster, Bridget Goodfellow, bur. 7 Nov. 1705 St Lawrence Jewry. What also is clear is that Thomas Jackson and his wife Bridget had two children only, sons, both named Thomas, who died in infancy: Thomas Jackson, bap. 28 Sept. 1703 St Lawrence Jewry, and Thomas Jackson, bap. 24 Apr. 1705 St Lawrence Jewry, bur. there 10 Sept. 1705. We know from her marriage bond that Dorothy Jackson was aged upwards of 22 years in May 1731, so born in 1708-09, and was of the parish of St Michael Bassishaw in London. If she was legitimate, her father Thomas Jackson the Town Clerk must then have taken a second wife after the death of Bridget in 1705.

Marriage entry for Thomas Jackson and Mary White
All Hallows Lombard Street register

Thomas Jackson of the parish of St Michael Bassishaw and Mary White of the parish of St Giles Cripplegate were married 22 Oct. 1706 All Hallows Lombard Street, London. John and Dorothy (née Jackson) Shafto named their three daughters Dorothy, Margaret and Mary. Since 'Margaret' was the name of John's mother, it makes sense that 'Mary' may be the name of Dorothy's mother (which could also explain Surtees's error in 1823). So her first name, and the parish of St Michael Bassishaw, is strong evidence that Mary White was the second wife of Thomas Jackson the Town Clerk, and mother of his only surviving child, Dorothy Jackson, wife of John Shafto. Unfortunately, I was unable to locate a baptism entry for Dorothy Jackson in the various London parish register databases, so I cannot prove that Mary White was her mother, but there is enough evidence that I'm comfortable in making her so in my database. Following the 1742 death of John Shafto of Whitworth Park, Dorothy (Jackson) Shafto m. 2nd (lic. 12 June) 1746, William Wynne, whom I am unable to further identify. As there are no evident Edward I lines of descent behind the Jacksons of Nunnington, they fall outside the scope of my project. But as ancestors of Prince William through his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, the family is undoubtedly of interest and hopefully other genealogists will be able to shed further light.

Through her father, Dorothy (née Shafto), countess of Lisburne, has several lines of descent from Edward III. The seven through that monarch's granddaughter Joan (née Beaufort), countess of Westmorland, follow.

Edward III had a 3rd surviving son

Eleanor (née Neville),
Countess of Northumberland
- see Generation A3

A1) John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399) m. 3) Katherine Roet (c.1350-1403), and had
A2) Lady Joan Beaufort (c.1377-1440) m. twice, and had a son G3 and three daus A3, E3 and F3 (see below)
A3) Lady Eleanor Neville, by 2nd husband (1403-1472) m. 2) Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1394-1455, descended from Edward III), and had
A4) Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421-1461) m. Eleanor Poynings (1428-1484, descended from Edward I), and had
A5) Lady Margaret Percy (b. c.1447) m. Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe Hall (see E6 below), and had four daus A6, B6, C6 and D6 (see below)
A6) Margaret Gascoigne (b. c.1470) m. Ralph, 3rd Lord Ogle (1468-1513, descended from Edward I), and had
A7) Dorothy Ogle (c.1498-bef.1570) m. 1) Sir Thomas Forster of Adderstone (d. 1527), and had
A8) Sir John Forster of Bamburgh Castle (d. 1602) = --- Mawclaine, and had
A9) Dorothy Mawclaine, illegit. (d. 1625) m. Thomas Widdrington of Ashington (d. 1590, descended from Edward I), and had
A10) Lewis Widdrington of Cheeseburn Grange Hall (d. 1630) m. Katherine Lawson (b. c.1580), and had
A11) Sir Thomas Widdrington of Cheeseburn Grange Hall (c.1600-1664) m. Hon. Frances Fairfax (see D11 below), and had

Shafto of Whitworth coat of arms

A12) KATHERINE WIDDRINGTON, b. c.1642; d. 31 Aug. 1676 Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, bur. 2 Sept. 1676 St John Church, Newcastle-on-Tyne; m. 18 July 1661 St Pancras Old Church, London, Sir ROBERT SHAFTO of Whitworth Park, co. Durham, bap. 13 May 1634 St Nicholas Church, Newcastle-on-Tyne; d. there 21 May 1705, bur. 25 May 1705 St Nicholas Church, Newcastle-on-Tyne, er son of Mark Shafto of Whitworth Park (1601-1659) and Mary Legard, and had
A13) MARK SHAFTO of Whitworth Park, b. 8 Apr. 1662 Newcastle-on-Tyne, bap. 11 Apr. 1662 St John Church, Newcastle; d. 28 Dec. 1723, bur. 4 Jan. 1724 Whitworth Church; m. 23 Oct. 1683 All Saints Church, Ripley, Yorkshire, MARGARET INGLEBY (see B12 below), and had
A14) John Shafto of Whitworth Park (1692-1742-see details above) m. Dorothy Jackson (c.1709-1768), and had
A15) Dorothy Shafto (1734-1805-see details above) m. Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne

B6) Elizabeth Gascoigne (c.1480-1559) m. Sir George Tailboys of South Kyme (1467-1538, descended from Edward I), and had
B7) Cecily Tailboys (b. c.1500) m. 1) Sir William Ingleby of Ripley Castle (1494-1528, descended from Edward I), and had

Ingleby of Ripley coat of arms

B8) Sir William Ingleby of Ripley Castle (1518-1578) m. Anne Mallory (c.1520-1588), and had
B9) Sampson Ingleby of Spofforth Castle (c.1560-1604) m. Jane Lambert (c.1570-1628), and had
B10) Sir William Ingleby, 1st Baronet of Ripley Castle (1594-1653) m. Anne Bellingham (see C10 below), and had
B11) Sir William Ingleby, 2nd Baronet of Ripley Castle (1621-1682) m. Margaret Savile (c.1638-1697, descended from Edward I), and had
B12) MARGARET INGLEBY, b. Ripley Castle, bap. 21 Mar. 1663 All Saints Church, Ripley; d. 12 Sept. 1715 Whitworth Park, bur. 16 Sept. 1715 Whitworth Church; m. 23 Oct. 1683 All Saints Church, Ripley, MARK SHAFTO (see A13 above)

C6) Anne Gascoigne (b. c.1482) m. Sir Thomas Fairfax of Gilling Castle (c.1476-1520), and had
C7) Sir Nicholas Fairfax of Gilling Castle (1498-1571) m. 1) Jane Palmes, and had
C8) Mary Fairfax (b. c.1530) m. Sir Henry Curwen of Workington Hall (1528-1596), and had
C9) Agnes Curwen m. Sir James Bellingham of Helsington (d. 1642), and had
C10) Anne Bellingham (d. 1640) m. Sir William Ingleby, 1st Baronet of Ripley Castle (see B10 above)

D6) Dorothy Gascoigne (c.1485-c.1520) m. Sir Ninian Markenfield of Markenfield Hall (c.1482-1528, descended from Edward I), and had

2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron -
see Generation D10

D7) Eleanor Markenfield (c.1510-c.1533) m. Robert Aske, Heir of Aughton Hall (see F8 below), and had
D8) Robert Aske of Aughton Hall (c.1533-1590) m. 1) Elizabeth Dawnay (see G7 below), and had
D9) Eleanor Aske (c.1566-1620) m. Thomas, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1560-1640, descended from Edward I), and had
D10) Ferdinando, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1584-1648) m. 1) Lady Mary Sheffield (c.1592-1619, descended from Edward I), and had
D11) Hon. Frances Fairfax (1612-1649) m. Sir Thomas Widdrington of Cheeseburn Grange Hall (see A11 above)

E3) Mary Ferrers, by 1st husband (1394-1458) m. Sir Ralph Neville of Oversley (1395-1458, descended from Edward I), and had
E4) John Neville of Oversley (c.1415-1482) m. Elizabeth Newmarch (b. 1415), and had
E5) Joan Neville (c.1434-bef.1482) m. 1) Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe Hall (c.1428-1463), and had a son K6 & a dau L6 (see below)
E6) Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe Hall (c.1450-1487) m. Lady Margaret Percy (see A5 above)

Aske of Aughton coat of arms

F3) Elizabeth Ferrers, by 1st husband (1393-1434) m. John, 4th Lord Greystoke (c.1390-1436), and had
F4) Anne Greystoke (c.1417-1477) m. Sir Ralph Bigod of Settrington (1410-1461), and had
F5) Elizabeth Bigod (c.1443-aft.1507) m. Sir John Aske of Aughton Hall (1443-1497), and had
F6) Sir Robert Aske of Aughton Hall (c.1463-1531) m. Elizabeth Clifford (c.1460-bef.1529, descended from Edward III), and had
F7) John Aske of Aughton Hall (c.1486-1544) m. Eleanor Ryther, and had
F8) Robert Aske, Heir of Aughton Hall (c.1510-1542) m. 1) Eleanor Markenfield (see D7 above)

1st Lord Latimer - see
Generation G3

G3) George Neville, 1st Lord Latimer, by 2nd husband (c.1411-1469) m. Lady Elizabeth Beauchamp (c.1411-1480, descended from Edward I), and had
G4) Sir Henry Neville (c.1435-1469) m. Joan Bourchier (c.1448-1470, descended from Edward III), and had
G5) Richard Neville, 2nd Lord Latimer (1468-1530) m. 1) Anne Stafford (d. by 1521), and had
G6) Dorothy Neville (1496-1532) m. Sir John Dawnay of Sessay (d. 1553), and had
G7) Elizabeth Dawnay (b. c.1530) m. Robert Aske of Aughton Hall (see D8 above)

This completes the Edward III lines for Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon (1818-1883). The next blogpost will look at a line of descent from Edward III for his wife Maria Harriet Hesketh that is an addition to Ruvigny's Mortimer-Percy volume.

Cheers,                            -------Brad