Anthony Irby

Abt 1550 - Bef 1625  (~ 75 years)

• Name	Anthony Irby
  Birth	Abt 1550  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 6 Oct 1625  [1]
  Burial	6 Oct 1625	Whaplode, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England   [1]
  Person ID	I12294	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	9 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Thomas Irby,   b. Bef 1515, Whaplode, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England d. Bef 30 Apr 1561 (Age < 46 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Serjeant
  Family ID	F8006	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice Welby   d. Bef 21 Apr 1602
  Marriage	22 Dec 1575	Whaplode, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England   [1, 2]
  Children	> 1. Anthony Irby,   b. Bef 9 Jan 1578   d. 1632 (Age > 53 years) > 2. Thomas Irby,   b. Bef 5 Mar 1580   3. Leonard Irby,   b. Bef 27 Jun 1582   4. Kenelm Irby,   b. Bef 1 Sep 1583   d. Bef 29 Dec 1585 (Age < 2 years) > 5. Anne Irby,   b. Bef 3 Jan 1585 > 6. Alice Irby,   b. Bef 4 Jan 1585
  Family ID	F8021	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2020

  
  

• Notes

  From Jacobus, The Bulkeley Genealogy: "Mr. Anthony Irby was first cousin of Olive Irby, the wife of Rev. Edward Bulkeley, and mother of Rev. Peter Bulkeley. Mr. Irby's wife, Alice Welby, was sister of Richard Welby who was married at Whaplode in 1595 to Frances Bulkeley, daughter of Edward and Olive and sister of Peter. Hence, Peter Bulkeley not only was cousin of the Irbys of Whaplode, but his brother—in-law (Richard Welby) was brother of Mrs. Anthony Irby, the wife of the head of that house. "Mr. Irby studied law, was a member of Lincoln's Inn, and was admitted to the bar, 10 Feb. 1577/8. He represented Boston, co. Lincoln, in Parliament three times during Elizabeth's reign, and in 1603 (1 James I), and was one of the Masters in Chancery in the reign of King James I. "It has been foolishly asserted in Thompson's History of Boston, in Collins' Peerage, and other works, that he purchased the manors of Moulton, Fitzwalter and Medietas Dominorum from Robert Radcliffe (Lord Fitzwalter and Earl of Sussex) on 13 Oct. 1538. This date was at least several years before he was born. The purchase could apply to his grandfather Anthony Irby (died 1552), but it seems quite evident that the Moulton lordship came by inheri­tance through the later Anthony's mother from the Serjeant family." [Note that in fact Alice Welby was Richard Welby's half-sister, not sister, a fact unavailable to Jacobus when The Bulkeley Genealogy was written.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S317] The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Haven, Connecticut: 1933. [S1250] The History and Antiquities of Boston, and the Villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle: Comprising the Hundred of Skirbeck, in the County of Lincoln by Pishey Thompson. Boston: John Noble Jr; London: Longman and Co., 1856.