Saunderson Pedigree
In 1635 John Mellish of London purchased the Blyth estate from the Saundersons, but he did not move there.
A George Saunderson of Midhope, yeoman, by his will of 1649 gave his third son Francis, New Hall. New Hall was later bought by Thomas Hollis of London, and converted it into alms houses for his charity.
Source:Title: The antiquities of Nottinghamshire by Robert Thoroton 1623-1678.
John Saunderson - Grimesthorpe was the residence of John Saunderson who was a tanner. In his will of June 1602, he gives:
- Robert Saunderson son to Robert Saunderson of Guilthwaite, his brother, the sum of £16 10s.
- To Elizabeth a daughter, forty shillings.
- To Margaret and Elizabeth, daughters of Richard Allen of Liversedge, each forty shillings.
- To Christopher Capper, his servant, £10.
- To James, son of Roger Hooton, twenty nobles,
- To Margaret and Elizabeth, daughters of Roger Hooton, forty shillings each.
- To the poor man's box for the parish of Sheffield, ten shillings
- To his aunt Dorothy Mirfyn an annuity of thirteen shillings
The residue of his property he bequeaths to Jennet, his wife, and Edward Saunderson of Sheffield, tanner, executor. Robert Saunderson and Richard Allen, supervisors of the will.
Robert Saunderson - later Bishop of Lincoln, was the son of Robert of Guilthwaite, Mentioned in the Will of John, above, at the date of the will, he was 14 years old.
It is often written that Bishop Saunderson was born at Guilthwaite (Gilfit), but in fact entries in the Sheffield Parish Register show :
1586. Sept 21 Willmus Sanderson fil. et haeres Rob'ti Sanderson
1587 Set. 20 Rob'tus Saunderson fil. Rob'ti Saund'son
1588 Dec. 9 Elizabetha Saunderson fil. Rob'ti Saunderson
It was soon after this that their father settled at Guilthwaite.
Hunter (Hunter's Hallamshire), thinks that his move here was connected with his guardianship of Thomas, son of Thomas Stringer of Whiston, to which he was appointed on 9th March, 1587-8. Thomas Stringer, the elder, was employed by The Earl of Shrewsbury in the management of their estates. Robert, the Bishop's father along with Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury was a sponsor at the baptism of Gilbert Sheldon, son to a retainer of the Earl, afterwards Archbishop o Canterbury; favours the supposition that he might succeed Stringer in his appointment.
Margaret Rawson, daughter of John Rawson of Upperthorpe married Nicholas Saunderson (d.1580) at Sheffield in 1575.
Nicholas Saunderson(b. 1600) He had several children, among whom were Mary, the second wife of John Cart, Rector of Handsworth, and Martha, wife of Gilbert Morewood.
Gilbert Morewood (baptised 1586) ,
Edward Saunderson - the brother of Nicholas, also had numerous children, most of whom lived in the Sheffield area.
There were five Saundersons, Lords, Viscounts Castleton of the kingdom of Ireland, the last of whom was created Baron Saunderson of Saxby of Lincoln, by King George 1 before his Coronation; in the next year Viscount Castleton of Sandbeck, and in 1720 Earl of Castleton. All the honours became extinct on his death without issue in 1723. He left Sandbeck and other property to Sir Thomas Lumley K.B., a younger son of Richard the first Earl of Scarborough - he took the name of Sanderson. On the death of his elder brother Richard, in 1739, Sir Thomas Lumley Saunderson, became Earl of Scarborough.
Extract from Notes and Querys, Oxford Journals:
"FURNISS - AND SANDERSON FAMILIES.- In recording the death of Lord
Sanderson some of the London newspapers of 27 March mentioned that he was a direct
descendant of Robert Sanderson, Bishop of
Lincoln in Charles II's reign. Can any
reader say how this comes about? Lord Sanderson
was son of Thomas Sanderson Furniss
by his cousin Mary, second daughter of
Edward Fisher Sanderson, of New York, and
Endcliffe Grange, Sheffield. The last-named
was of the same family as Messrs. Sanderson,
of Sanderson Bros, and Newbould Ltd.,
whose steel works are at Newhall and Darnall.
The firm was formerly known as Sanderson
Brothers, steel converters, of West Street,
Sheffield, and of Attercliffe Forge. The two
brothers were John Sanderson of New Hall
and James Sanderson of Endcliffe Grange.
I was under the impression that the last male descendant of the Bishop, died early in the
eighteenth century. Details would be very
acceptable.
CHAS. HALL CROUCH.
London E.18.
Notes:Sanderson Brothers and Newbould was established in 1776. It merged with Kayser Ellison and Co Ltd (established 1825) to form Sanderson Kayser
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Extracts from Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Nicholas Saunderson or SANDERSON, (1682–1739), mathematician, the eldest son of an exciseman, was born in January 1682 at Thurlston, near Penistone, Yorkshire. At the age of twelve months he lost by smallpox not only his sight, but his eyes. He first learnt classics at the free school of Penistone, and became a competent Latin and Greek and French scholar. Saunderson died of scurvy on 19 April 1739 and was buried in the chancel of the parish church at Boxworth Cambridge, where there was placed a monument to his memory.
Elizabeth Hanbury (1793–1901), philanthropist and centenarian, was born in Leadenhall Street, London on 9 June 1793. She was the younger daughter of John Sanderson (1750–1816), a tea merchant, formerly of Armthorpe, Doncaster, Yorkshire, and his second wife, Margaret, née Shillitoe (c.1749–1795).
Edgar Sanderson, (1838–1907), historian, born at Nottingham on 25 January 1838, the son of Edgar Sanderson and his wife, Eliza Rumsey. His father, a direct descendant of Bishop Robert Sanderson, was a lace manufacturer at Nottingham, who later kept private schools in London at Stockwell and Streatham. He married in 1864 Laetitia Jane (d. Oct 1894), elder daughter of Matthew Denycloe, a surgeon of Bridport; they had two sons and four daughters. He died at his home, 23 Barrow Road, Streatham Common, on 31 December 1907.
Thomas Henry Sanderson, Baron Sanderson (1841–1923), civil servant, was born on 11 January 1841 at Gunton Park, Norfolk. He was the second son of Richard Sanderson (1783/4–1857), Conservative MP for Colchester from 1832 until his defeat in 1847, and his wife, the Hon. Charlotte Matilda (d. 1898), elder daughter of Charles Manners-Sutton, first Viscount Canterbury, speaker of the House of Commons from 1817 to 1835. The Sandersons were a Yorkshire farming family from Armthorpe, near Doncaster. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Sanderson of Armthorpe on 20 December 1905. He died in London 21 March 1923, when the barony became extinct.
Henry Sanderson Furniss, Baron Sanderson (1868–1939), college head, was born in London on 1 October 1868, the elder son of Thomas Sanderson Furniss (1833–1912), JP and barrister, of Stratford St Mary, Suffolk, and his wife and second cousin, Mary (d. 1899), daughter of Edward Fisher Sanderson, of New York. His great-grandfather Thomas Sanderson went into partnership with a Sheffield steel maker, Naylor, thus founding the firm which eventually became Sanderson Brothers and Newbould. One of the earliest partners was Lord Sanderson's paternal grandfather, Henry Furniss, who had married a daughter of Thomas Sanderson. Furniss died at the Lansdowne Club, Berkeley Square, London, on 25 March 1939; he was buried on 28 March at Headington cemetery, Oxford. He was survived by his wife, and there were no children of the marriage.
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