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More Tyrrells, this time in Oxfordshire. One family or two?
“Princes”, Capel St. Mary, David Starkey, Edmund Earl of Suffolk, Elizabeth of York, executions, genealogy, Gipping Chapel, Gipping Hall, Great Wenham, Guisnes, Henry Stuart, Henry VII, James VI/I, John Locke, London Guildhall, Master of Horse, Master of the Buckhounds, Richard III, Robert Catesby, Shotover House, Shotover Park, Sir James Tyrrell, Stowmarket, television, Tower of London, Tyrrell “confession”, Tyrrell family, William CatesbyThis (below) is Shotover Park in Oxfordshire, formerly part of the Wychwood royal hunting forest. It became the property of one Timothy Tyrrell in 1613, the year after the death of Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales, whom Tyrrell had served as Master of the Royal Buckhounds. Tyrrell was further honoured with a knighthood in 1624…
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Uncle Richard?
“Princes”, art, Battle of Bosworth, Cecily Neville, Charles II, Civil War, Danny Dyer, David Garrick, Earl of Northumberland, Elizabeth Tyrrell, Elizabeth Wydeville, Frances Wray, genealogy, George Neville, Gipping Chapel, Henry of Buckingham, Joan Haute, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, John of Gaunt, Katherine Haute, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Margaret of Salisbury, Percies, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Richard Woodville, Robert Cecil, Shakespeare, Sir Henry Vane, Sir James Tyrrell, Stowmarket, Thomas Snellgrove, William Brandon, William Cecil
A long time ago, I posted a short article about one of my ancestors, Thomas Snellgrove, who was a portrait artist and painted an actor portraying Richard III. Here is the link. I have been researching my family history for over thirty years and it used to be a very slow and painstaking process. The…
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