Craig Gauger (US7801) posted the following on 14 Jun 2022:
From the FB page: Descended From British People? See their page for photos and the whole story. HUNGERFORDS LOVE TO MARRY COUSINS.
THE HUNGERFORD FAMILY...... Truly managed to be accepted as marital partners to so many noble folk. However, they also obviously retained their own wealth by marrying into cousins in the same Hungerford Line.
I am not going to muddy the waters by giving other clever examples of how they would repeatedly marry into another family generation after generation.
I will commence with more recent times
The Irish Side ....
BIFR1976 reports that "This family traditionally claims descent from the Hungerfords of Farley, Somerset" and that the following Thomas "accompanied his kinsman Col Sir Edward Hungerford, of Farley Castle, in his expedition to Ireland which started from Chester 27 May 1647". =
BIFR1976 reports that "This family traditionally claims descent from the Hungerfords of Farley, Somerset" and that the following Thomas "accompanied his kinsman Col Sir Edward Hungerford, of Farley Castle, in his expedition to Ireland which started from Chester 27 May 1647. = Thomas Hungerford of Rathbarry or Little Island (alive in 1680 - One of his sons being..
Colonel Richard Hungerford of Inchodony or Little Island (d c1729) - He had a grandson Thomas Hungerford of The Island & Fox Hall who had a son Richard b 1771 and he had several sons - one of whom was
Dr. George Hungerford of Clonakilty, co Cork (d 15.09.1832) who mar. (1802) Eliza Hungerford (d 1828, dau. of John Hungerford of Burren) and one of his daughters Jane Hungerford married (1803) Richard Hungerford of Cappeen (son of John of Burren)
BACK to Thomas Hungerford of The Island & Fox Hall above, also had a son John Hungerford of Burren (d 1803) and one of his sons, Richard Hungerford of Cappeen, co Cork mar. Jane Hungerford (dau. of Thomas Hungerford of The Island, cousin) [repetition by my inevitable] and this son had a sister Eliza Hungerford (d 1828) who
mar. (1802) George Hungerford of Clonakilty (d 15.09.1832, son of Thomas of The Island & Fox Hall)
BACK TO Richard Hungerford of The Island & Fox Hall, Co. Cork (d c1784) - HE HAD A SECOND MARRIAGE to Mary Hungerford (dau. of Rev. Emanuel Hungerford) and from this union, they had dau's. but also had a son named Rev. Richard Hungerford who mar (1775) Mary Hungeford ( who later mar 2ndly. Michael French)!
BACK to Colonel Richard Hungerford of Inchodony or Little Island (d c1729) who had son Thomas Hungerford already mentioned but another son bro. of Thomas was The Rev, Emanuel Hungerford. Emanuel had a dau., Mary Hungerford (previously mentioned) mar. Richard Hungerford of The Island & Fox Hall (d c1784).
Above from sources = BIFR1976 (Hungerford) & BLGI1912 (Hungerford of Inchodony), BLGI1912 (Hungerford of Cahirmore)
THE BLACK BOURTON LINE - Black Bourton is a village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) south of Carterton, Oxfordshire. & DOWN AMPNEY - Down Ampney (pronounced Amney) is a medium-sized village located in Cotswold district in Gloucestershire, in England
Sir Anthony Hungerford of Down Ampney FIRST mar Jane Darell (dau. of Sir Edward Darell) They had a son Sir John Hungerford of Downe Ampney who first mar Ellenor Hungerford (dsp, dau. of Lord Walter Hungerford).
Then by his second wife to Margaret or Bridget Fettiplace (dau. of John Fettiplace of Lyfford) he had a son Sir Anthony Hungerford of Blackbourton or Black Bourton, later also of Farley Castle (d 1627)
whose first mar Lucy (not Susan) Hungerford (dau. of Sir Walter (not Henry) Hungerford of Farley Castle)
BACK TO Sir Anthony Hungerford of Down Ampney and first wife Jane Darell (dau. of Sir Edward Darell) had a daughter Jane whose second marriage was to Sir Edward Hungerford (dsp 1608)
[brain going round the bend?]
Sources - Visitation (Gloucestershire, 1623, Hungerford) & 'Le Neve's Pedigrees of the Knights' (1873, edited by George W. Marshall)
FINALLY
Sir Walter Hungerford of Farley Castle and his second wife, Anne Dormer (dau. of Sir William Dormer) or maybe his first wife Ann Basset had a daughter Lucy whose second husband was Sir Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton.
Sir Walter's brother Sir Edward Hungerford (dsp 1608) first mar. Jane Hungerford (dau. of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Down Ampney).
Sources BE1883 (Hungerford), TCP (Hungerford), BE1883 (Hungerford of Heytesbury), TCP (Hungerford of Heytesbury), Visitation (Gloucestershire, 1623, Hungerford)
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Hungerford is derived from a Anglo-Saxon name meaning "ford leading to poor land". The town's symbol is the estoile and crescent moon.
The place does not occur in the Domesday Book of 1086 but by 1241, it called itself a borough. In the late 14th century, John of Gaunt was lord of the manor and he granted the people the lucrative fishing rights on the River Kennet.
The family of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford originated in the town (c. 1450), although after three generations the title passed to Baroness Hungerford who married Sir Edward Hastings who became a Baron, and the family seat moved to Heytesbury, Wiltshire.
During the English Civil War, the Earl of Essex and his army spent the night here in June 1644. In October of the same year, the Earl of Manchester’s cavalry were quartered in the town.
Then, in the November, Charles I’s forces arrived in Hungerford on their way to Abingdon. During the Glorious Revolution of 1688, William of Orange was offered the Crown of England while staying at the Bear Inn in Hungerford.
The Hungerford land south of the river Kennet was for centuries, until a widespread growth in cultivation in the area in the 18th century, in Savernake Forest.
Fellow THFFI Board member Richard W. Hungerford Jr. (US26), in another submission on 15 Jun 2022, added to the topic by sharing the following:
Submitted by Richard Hungerford at 7:10 AM on June 16, 2022.