Peerage Record – 40755

     Martha Coningsby was born in 1689 at Pencombe, Herefordshire, England^G.^3,2 She was the daughter of Thomas Coningsby and Chrysogen Emes.²
     Reference: 349.²

     Elizabeth Coningsby was born circa 1685.^3,2 She was the daughter of Thomas Coningsby and Chrysogen Emes.² She died on 19 January 1784.^3,2 She was buried at St. Michaels Church, Felton.²

     Chrysogen Emes was born circa 1666 at Pershore, Worcestershire, England^G.² She married Thomas Watson, son of William Watson and Cecilia Coningsby, on 23 October 1705 at Leigh with Bransford, Worcestershire, England^G.^3,2 She died on 1 April 1753 at Pershore Church^G.^4,2 She was buried at Pershore Church^G.²
     From 23 October 1705, her married name became Watson.²

     unknown Carr was born at Etal, Northumberland, England^G.²

     Richard Coningsby was the son of Thomas Coningsby and unknown Carr.² He died on 18 December 1729 at Hampton Court, Herefordshire, England^G.^1,2 He was buried at Hope^G.²
     Reference: 354.² Lord Coningsby of Clanbrazil
Was allowed £600 a year by his Aunt, Margaret, Countess of Coningsby, provided he asserted no rights as heir at law to the estates;

died 18 Dec 1729 and was buried at Hope under Dinmore, when his peerage became extinct.

Will dated 17 Oct 1729
proved 12 Feb 1729/30.

his widow married Joseph Butler, of the Temple, London, Barrister, who died at Pump Court , Temple 3 Sept 1737
Died without issue

Was this the Richard Coningsby who was ‘Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter’ to the Household of Prince Frederick (1729-51) in the year 1729? (RJCW ref 204.)²

     Bill Travers was born on 3 January 1922 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England^G.¹ He married Virginia McKenna, daughter of Terence Morell McKenna and Anne Maria de Nys, in 1957.¹ He died on 29 March 1994 at age 72 at Dorkey, England^G.¹

     Hester Cambell married Sir Henry Coningsby, son of Thomas Coningsby and Martha Button, on 12 February 1639/40 at St. Margaret, Westminster, London, England^G.²
     Reference: 358.² Her married name became Coningsby.²

     Elizabeth Coningsby is the daughter of Ralph Coningsby and Margery Whetehill.²
     Reference: 359.²

     Margaret Coningsby was born in 1520 at Wallington cum Thorpland, Norfolk, England^G.³ She was the daughter of Sir William Coningsby and unknown Heath.³ She married, firstly, Sir Robert Alyngton. She married, secondly, Thomas Pledgard in 1564.³ She died on 16 May 1598 at Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England^G.^4,3 She was buried on 17 May 1598 at Holy Trinty Church, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England^G.³
     Her married name became Alyngton. Monument on the Nth wall, Bottisham Church, Cambridge
Here lyeth Margaret Conningesbye of Kings Lynn, one of the Justices of the Common Plees at Westminster, who married Robert Allington ……..by whom she has five sons and six daughters that is to say; William, John, Gyles, James, George, Alice, Margaret, Elizabeth, Fraunces and Beatrix. after she married with thomas Pledger, Gentleman, with whom she lived thirtie and fower yeres, and died the 16th day of Maye, ano domini 1598. and sayde Thomas Pledger dyed the 13th daye of March 1599 in the three score and tenth year of his age
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References:-
1Clay, John William, The Visitation of Cambridge Made in 1575 (London: Harleian Society, 1897.), pp. 15, 99, Family History Library, 942 B4h v. 41.

2’Extracts Relating to the Church of Horseheath, co. Cambridge…,’ Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica (London: John Bowyers Nichols and Son, 1834-1843.), 4:36, Family History Library, 942 B2ct.

3Stephen, Sir Leslie & Sir Sidney Lee (Editors), The Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900 (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1993.), 4:938, Family History Library, 920.042 D561n 1993.

4Crisp, Frederick Arthur, Visitation of England and Wales, Notes (London: Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1896-1921.), 7:16, Family History Library, 942 D23hn.

5Blomefield, Francis, An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1805-10.), 7:413, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 942.61 B653 folio.

6Crisp, F., Visitation of England and Wales, Notes, 7:16.³ From 1564, her married name became Pledgard.³

     Walter Coningsby was born in 1592.² He was the son of Ralph Coningsby and Margery Whetehill.²
     Reference: 361.² Walter Coningsby D.D.
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Walter Coningsby of Herts. son of Sir Ralph of North Mimms
Mat. from Exeter l6O7 aged 15 .B.A. 1610 M.A. 1613 Div. and D. of Divinity 1626
(I think he may have taken the Doctorate at Oxford for there is a Walter Coningsbie sic listed as taking his D.Div. at Exeter CoIl. 1626)
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Barry Watson in August 2000 said:-

‘I then came across the enclosed pedigree of the Button family and noticed that Walter was listed as having married Jane Button, the sister of Martha who had married Thomas Coningsby of North Mimms. I then realized that the mother of these two girls was the lady who, as a widow, had married Sir Ralph Coningsby, the father of Thomas of North Mimms and (if the details listed above are correct? ) also of Walter. In other words, these two brothers married their step sisters. To make this legal, both Thomas and Walter would have had to be the sons of Sir Ralph, by his first wife (Margery Whethill) and the girls the daughters of Jane, by her first husband (William Button)

This means that Walter is missing from the 1634 Hertfordshire visitation ? Dead? (It is interesting to note another Walter Conisby at Cambridge University at Clare College 24th May 1636 who matriculated 1637)

You will also note that the Button pedigree seems to list a brother for Walter it. James? do you think that this James could have been the son of the marriage of Sir Ralph and the widow Button (making him the full brother of Robert Coningsby of the Weld) I only say this because you will notice the 2 sic on the pedigree against Robert i.e. possibly 2nd son of second marriage?

Walter was said to be the rector of Sutton Veney in Wiltshire, When I looked this up in Vict Hist of Wilts I found that the Button Family held this land also!’
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