Genealogy & Family History

Fane of Aston

Sir Thomas Fane(D1588) , married Mary Neville, Baroness le Despenser on 12 December, 1574, at Birling, Kent.

Mary Neville was the daughter of Lord Henry Neville, Lord Abergavenny(b 1483) and Frances Manners

Thomas Fane and Mary had one child: Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland born February, 1579.

Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland(1579-1628) married Mary Mildmay on 15th February, 1598. Their children:

Mildmay, Earl of Westmorland 2nd, born 24 January 1601. Married in 1626 to Grace Thornhurst
Francis(about 1628-1681), Poet & Dramatist. Married Elizabeth daughter of William West of Firbeck. Their son was Sir Francis who married Hannah Rushworth.
George
Lady Grace, born 1604. Married James Home, Earl of Home 2nd
Catherine who married to Conyers Darcy,2nd Earl of Holderness

Sir Francis Fane, aceded Henbury, Gloucestershire and died 1691 had two children:

Francis Fane: Acceded: Fulbeck, Lincolnshire Interred: 7 May 1709, Fulbeck, Lincolnshire
Henry Fane:Acceded: Redland, Westbury, Gloucester Died: December 1726. He was married to Anne Scrope

This tree begins with West of Aston

In 1664, the Manor or lordship of Firbeck , and manor house or capital messuage called Firbeck Hall and one dovecote and water corne mill, and all messuages, cottages, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, closes, woods etc. (late the inheritance of John West esq. deceased in Firbeck) and in Maltby, Yorks; and all messuages, lands, grounds, meadows, pastures etc. late the inheritance of John West in Thwaytes, Letwell, Gidingwells, Tropham, Laughton and Ewes, Yorks.; and tenement or farmhold in Firbeck,( late in the tenure of John Sanderson) . It was passed to the Hon. Sir Francis Fane the younger, K.B., son and heir apparent on his marriage to Hannah Rushworth, the eldest daughter of John Rushworth of Lincoln's Inn.

In 1708 Thomas Fane, 6th Earl of Westmoreland married Katherine Stringer, daughter and heir of Thomas Stringer of Sharleston.

On 7th October, 1856, the wife of Cecil Fane, gave birth to a son at Firbeck Hall.