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The Baron Audley Families ZA; ZC; ZT & ZW
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The Z series of Audley Family Trees contains the details of the various branched of the Audley Family with individuals who have the title of ‘Baron Audley’ or ‘Lord Audley ’ |
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Audley Family ZA The Audley Family ZA family tree contains the Family History of those individuals with the Audley surname, including many variant spellings, that became Barons, Lords, Audley of Heleigh in County Staffordshire. Other members of this family became Barons of Stratton Audley; and Earl of Gloucester. One member of this family Sir James Audley was the hero of the Battle of Poitiers, France (on the 19th September 1356) and was a founder member of the Order of the Garter. The line of Audleys holding the title of Baron Audley of Heleigh ceased on 23rd July 1391 with the Death of {ZA16} Nicholas de Aldithley. His Sister {ZA14} Joan de Aldithley had married {ZT18} Sir John Touchet and their Grandson {ZC2} Sir John Touchet became Baron Audley of Heleigh on 21st December 1404. The line of the Barons Audley of Stratton - Audley only survived for a single generation from 1321 to 1326. Similarly the line of an Audley being Earl of Gloucestershire only survived for a single generation from 1337 to 1347. This document contains the details of approcximately 61 individuals
File last updated 29th October 2019 |
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There have been several documents published that contain family trees of the early Barons Audley, i.e prior to 1391, When one reads these document there are significant differences between them. The file below compares the information in these various publications, to highlight the variations.
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| The seal of Sir James Audley who fought at the battle of Poitiers |  to published information about the Barons Audley |
| Audley Family ZC The Audley Family ZC family tree contains the family tree of those people holding the title Baron Lord Audley from 1405 to 1997, when the 25th Lord Audley of Heleigh died and the title went into ‘Abeyance’ Within this Family Tree the surname of the person holding the title changes from Touchet to Thickness, to Jesson and finally Souter. The file commences with the marriage of {ZT18} Sir John Touchet to {ZA14} Joan de Aldithley. and terminated with the Death of {ZC97} Richard Michael Thomas Souter in 1997. During the period 1616 to 1777 the Lord Audley also held the titles of Earl of Castlehaven and Baron Orier. This document contains the details of approximately 120 individuals.
last updated 31st October 2019 |
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| Audley Family ZT The Audley Family ZT family tree contains the Family Tree of those people with the Touchet surname, including many variant spellings, prior to the Touchet family becoming Baron Lord Audley of Heleigh in 1405. The file stops with the marriage of {ZT18} Sir John Touchet to {ZA14} Joan de Aldithley. The combined Touchet/ Audley family Tree is continued in Audley Family ZC. This document contains the details of approximately 43 individuals.
last updated 10th November 2019 |
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| There have been several documents published that contain family trees of the early Touchets, prior to 1391. When one reads these documents there are significant differences between them. The file right compares the information in these various publications, to highlight the variations |
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| Audley Family ZW
The Audley Family ZW family tree contains the family to the Baron Audley of County Essex, England. This Barony was only in existence for one generation and limited to the period 1538 to 1544. Whilst the title was held by one person he was Lord Chancellor of England for the 11 years prior to his death and was elected a member of the Knights of the Garter. Despite only one person holding the title the Audley ZW document contains details of 49 individuals last updated 31st October 2019 |
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Audley Families A, AA, AB, AC, AD, AH & AK
| The Audley Families described on this page are all related to each other. This family has first been identified in the Parishes of Neston and Shotwick in Cheshire and then around 1800, four brothers moved from Shotwick to Liverpool |
Members of Audley Family AA |
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Audley Family ‘A’ is the family when they lived in in Shotwick, Cheshire. Within the parish registers of Shotwick and Neston this family is recorded with the surname ‘Allday’
(file last updated 11th January 2019) |
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Audley Family ‘AA’ is the family history of the descendants of Samuel Audley, one of the four brothers of Family ‘A’ that moved to Liverpool
(file last updated 11th January 2019) |
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Audley Family ‘AB’ is the family history of the descendants of John Audley, one of the four brothers of Family ‘A’ that moved to Liverpool
(file last updated 3rd June 2020) |
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Audley Family ‘AC’ is the family history of the descendants of William Audley, one of the four brothers of Family ‘A’ that moved to Liverpool
(file last updated 21st May 2020) |
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Audley Family ‘AD’ is the family history of the descendants of Charles Audley, one of the four brothers of Family ‘A’ that moved to Liverpool
(file last updated 11th January 2019) |
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Audley Family ‘AH’ the earliest member of this family is {AH1} John Winstanley alias Audley. His parents were John and Ann Winstanley formerly Hughes. Ann the mother of {AH1} subsequently married {AB20} William Audley. Whilst {AH1} is strictly not an Audley he and his family regularily used the Audley surname before changing it back to Winstanley.
(file last updated 16th January 2020) |
Member of Audley Family AC |
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Audley Family ‘AK’. This family is in someway related to Audley Family ‘AB’ in that according to the 1851 census {AK2} Peter Audley was living at the same address as {AB31} George Audley in Portsea Hampshire
(file last updated 16th January 2020) |
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Newspaper Articles about Other Audley Family
This page contains a number of articles from Newspapers and Magazines that contain information about or makes reference to people who are part of other Audley Families
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The Guardian (England) 2nd January 1926 |
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Poisoned in a Police Cell Police Constable John Audley describes the arrest of a man detained following a raid on a Post Office in London. The arrested man appears to have committed suicide whilst detained in a Police cell. It has not as yet been identified to which branch of the Audley Family Police Constable John Audley belongs. |
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Explorer Magazine (Kentucky) June 2009 (originally published 1909) |
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Mysterious Woman(Mrs Jean Audley) Arrives In Caldwell County. I have no idea how Mrs Jean Audley fits in with any Audley Family. Can you help?
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Audley Family Trees; Families YA, YB, YC, YD & YK
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Family YA 'Audley of America' This file contains information about 2 Audley families in America that have not as yet been linked to an Audley Family in Great Britain. One family lived in Massachusetts, America. (for more information select the link below)
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Family YC ‘Audley Family of Missouri, USA
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Family YD ' Audley Family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, America This branch of the Audley Family originated in Ireland (probably County Galway) but has not, as yet, been linked been linked to one of the families detailed under 'Audley Family M'
(last updated 25th June 2019) |
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Family YK Audsley 'Family that became Audley Family' The Family detailed in the file below is an AUDSLEY Family originally from Crayford in Kent, England. One branch of this family emigrated to Australia and one branch of that family in Australia changed its surname AUDSLEY to AUDLEY
(file last updated 18th November 2018) |
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