Paternal Family Tree: Burrell
Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Lewis
In or before 1428 Duncan Campbell 1st Lord Campbell and Margery Stewart (age 48) were married. He by marriage Lord Campbell. She the daughter of Robert Stewart 1st Duke Albany and Margaret Graham 3rd Countess Menteith.
On 27th February 1748 [his father] Peter Burrell (age 23) and [his mother] Elizabeth Lewis were married.
On 16th June 1754 Peter Burrell Baron Willoughby, 1st Baron Gwydyr was born to [his father] Peter Burrell (age 29) and [his mother] Elizabeth Lewis.
Around 1768 Peter Burrell Baron Willoughby, 1st Baron Gwydyr (age 13) educated at Eton College [Map].
Around 1772 Peter Burrell Baron Willoughby, 1st Baron Gwydyr (age 17) educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map].
On 8th June 1775 [his brother-in-law] Algernon Percy 1st Earl Beverley (age 25) and [his sister] Isabella Susan Burrell Countess Beverley (age 24) were married at Syon House [Map]. He the son of Hugh Percy 1st Duke Northumberland (age 59) and Elizabeth Seymour Duchess Northumberland (age 58).
On 6th November 1775 [his father] Peter Burrell (age 51) died.
In 1776 Peter Burrell Baron Willoughby, 1st Baron Gwydyr (age 21) was elected at MP Haslemere.
Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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Around 1777 [his brother-in-law] Douglas Hamilton 8th Duke Hamilton 5th Duke Brandon (age 20) and [his sister] Elizabeth Anne Burrell Duchess Hamilton Duchess Brandon (age 19) were married. She by marriage Duchess Hamilton, Duchess Brandon of Suffolk. He the son of James Hamilton 6th Duke Hamilton 3rd Duke Brandon and Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll (age 43).
In 1779 Peter Burrell Baron Willoughby, 1st Baron Gwydyr (age 24) and Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth Bertie 21st Baroness Willoughby of Eresby (age 17) were married. He by marriage Baron Willoughby de Eresby. She the daughter of Peregrine Bertie 3rd Duke Ancaster and Kesteven and Mary Panton Duchess Ancaster and Kesteven.
On 12th February 1779 [his brother-in-law] Robert Bertie 4th Duke Ancaster and Kesteven (age 22) was appointed to the Privy Council and as Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.
On 23rd May 1779 [his brother-in-law] Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland (age 36) and [his sister] Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland (age 26) were married. He the son of Hugh Percy 1st Duke Northumberland (age 63) and Elizabeth Seymour Duchess Northumberland.
On 8th July 1779 [his brother-in-law] Robert Bertie 4th Duke Ancaster and Kesteven (age 22) died of scarlet fever unmarried at Grimsthorpe, South Kesteven. His uncle Brownlow (age 50) succeeded 5th Duke Ancaster and Kesteven, 5th Marquess Lindsay, 8th Earl Lindsey. His sister [his wife] Priscilla (age 18) succeeded 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.
In 1781 Peter Burrell Baron Willoughby, 1st Baron Gwydyr (age 26) was knighted.
On 19th March 1782 [his son] Peter Drummond Burrell 2nd Baron Gwydyr 22nd Baron Willoughby was born to Peter Burrell Baron Willoughby, 1st Baron Gwydyr (age 27) and [his wife] Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth Bertie 21st Baroness Willoughby of Eresby (age 21). He married 19th October 1807 Clementina Sarah Drummond Baroness Gwydyr and Willoughby, daughter of James Drummond 11th Earl Perth and Clementia Elphinstone Countess Perth, and had issue.
On 6th June 1786 Hugh Percy 1st Duke Northumberland (age 70) died. His son [his brother-in-law] Hugh (age 43) succeeded 2nd Duke Northumberland, 2nd Baron Lovain, 5th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. [his sister] Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland (age 33) by marriage Duchess Northumberland.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 20th June 1786 [his son] Lindsey Burrell was born to Peter Burrell Baron Willoughby, 1st Baron Gwydyr (age 32) and [his wife] Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth Bertie 21st Baroness Willoughby of Eresby (age 25).
In 1790 [his brother-in-law] Algernon Percy 1st Earl Beverley (age 39) was created 1st Earl Beverley. [his sister] Isabella Susan Burrell Countess Beverley (age 39) by marriage Countess Beverley.
On 20th December 1790 Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll (age 57) died in Argyll House 211 King's Road King's Road. Her son [his brother-in-law] Douglas (age 34) succeeded 2nd Baron Hamilton of Hameldon in Leicestershire. [his sister] Elizabeth Anne Burrell Duchess Hamilton Duchess Brandon (age 33) by marriage Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon in Leicestershire.
On 25th April 1791 George Cholmondeley 1st Marquess Cholmondeley (age 41) and [his sister-in-law] Georgina Charlotte Bertie Marchioness Cholmondeley (age 29) were married. She by marriage Countess Cholmondeley in Cheshire. She the daughter of Peregrine Bertie 3rd Duke Ancaster and Kesteven and [his mother-in-law] Mary Panton Duchess Ancaster and Kesteven.
On 16th June 1796 Peter Burrell Baron Willoughby, 1st Baron Gwydyr (age 42) was created 1st Baron Gwydyr of Cwydyr in Carnarfonshire. [his wife] Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth Bertie 21st Baroness Willoughby of Eresby (age 35) by marriage Baroness Gwydyr of Cwydyr in Carnarfonshire.
In 1800 [his brother-in-law] Henry Cecil 1st Marquess Exeter (age 45) and [his sister] Elizabeth Anne Burrell Duchess Hamilton Duchess Brandon (age 42) were married. She by marriage Countess Exeter.
In February 1801 [his brother-in-law] Henry Cecil 1st Marquess Exeter (age 46) was created 1st Marquess Exeter. [his sister] Elizabeth Anne Burrell Duchess Hamilton Duchess Brandon (age 43) by marriage Marchioness Exeter.
On 19th October 1807 [his son] Peter Drummond Burrell 2nd Baron Gwydyr 22nd Baron Willoughby (age 25) and [his daughter-in-law] Clementina Sarah Drummond Baroness Gwydyr and Willoughby (age 21) were married. She the daughter of James Drummond 11th Earl Perth and Clementia Elphinstone Countess Perth (age 58).
On 24th January 1812 [his sister] Isabella Susan Burrell Countess Beverley (age 61) died. She was buried in the Northumberland Vault, Crypt, Westminster Abbey.
On 28th April 1820 [his sister] Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland (age 67) died at Syon House [Map]. She was buried in the Northumberland Vault, Crypt, Westminster Abbey.
On 29th June 1820 Peter Burrell Baron Willoughby, 1st Baron Gwydyr (age 66) died. His son Peter (age 38) succeeded 2nd Baron Gwydyr of Cwydyr in Carnarfonshire. [his daughter-in-law] Clementina Sarah Drummond Baroness Gwydyr and Willoughby (age 34) by marriage Baroness Gwydyr of Cwydyr in Carnarfonshire.
After 29th June 1820. Church of St Michael and All Angels, Edenham [Map]. Monument to Peter Burrell Baron Willoughby, 1st Baron Gwydyr (deceased) sculpted by Joseph Nollekens (age 82). Freestanding square marble shaft bears a bust.
On 29th December 1828 [his former wife] Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth Bertie 21st Baroness Willoughby of Eresby (age 67) died. Her son [his son] Peter (age 46) succeeded 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby. [his daughter-in-law] Clementina Sarah Drummond Baroness Gwydyr and Willoughby (age 42) by marriage Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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The Times. 26th December 1910. We regret to state that [his great grandson] Lord Ancaster (deceased) died on Saturday night at his Grimsthorpe, Bourne, Lincolnshire seat, in his 81st year.
Gilbert Henry Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, created first Earl of Ancaster in 1892, was Joint Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England. This dignity is held jointly by Lord Cholmondeley (age 27), Lord Ancastor, and [his great grandson] Lord Carrington (age 67). The late peer filled it during the reign of Queen Victoria, Lord Cholmondeley during that of King Edward, and Lord Carrington fills it during the present reign.
He was born on October 1, 1830, and succeeded his [his grandson-in-law] father (age 12) as second Lord Aveland on September 6, 1807, and his [his granddaughter] mother as 24th Lord Willoughby de Eresby on November 13, 1888.
Few noblemen possessed a longer lineage, for the lordship of Erresby in Lincolnshire was acquired by the family of Bee or Belec bv the marriage of Walter dc Bec with Agnes, daughter and heiress of Hugh Fitz Pincheon, a 12th century magnate of Lincolnshire. A John Beeke received permission from Edward I to make a castle of his manor house at Eresby and was summoned to Parliament as one of the barons of the realm. By his wife, Sarah, daughter of Thomas, Lord Furnival, be had, among other children, Alice, who was married to Sir William de Willoughby, one of those who went with Prince Edward to the Holy Land. His son Peter Robert, 21st Baron Willoughby de Eresby, married the [his former daughter-in-law] daughter of the first Lord Perth, and one of their daughters became in 1840 the [his granddaughter] wife of the second Lord Carrington. [his grandson] Almeric, the 22nd Lord Willoughby do Eresby and third Baron Gwydyr of Gwydyr, County Carnarvon, Joint Hereditary Great Chamberlain of England, died in August, 1870. The barony of Willoughby do Eresby again fell into abeyance between his lordship's surviving sisters, and it was terminated in favour of the elder, the Dowager Baroness Aveland, who married in 1827 Sir Gilbert John Heathcote, created Baron Aveland in 1856. Their eldest son was the late Lord Ancaster, whose sister, [his great granddaughter] Clementina Charlotte (age 78), married in 1869 Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon, who died in her Majesty's ship Victoria in June 1893.
The late Lord Ancaster married in 1863 Lady Evelyn Elizabeth Gordon (age 64), second daughter of the tenth Marquis of Huntly, by whom be had four sons and six daughters. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and sat as Member of Parliament for Rutland from 1856 to 1867. He was a magistrate for Kesteven and chairman of Quarter Sessions, lord of the manor of Thurlbv Baston and Langtoft, as well as chairman of the Stamford Division Conservative and Unionist Association; and was Lord Chamberlain during Queen Victoria's reign and contested the right to continue on King Edward's succession.
He is succeeded in the title by Lord Willoughby de Eresby (age 43),??? for the Hornecastle Division of Lincolnshire, who is a major and hon. lieutenant-colonel of the Lincolnshire Yeomanry and was formerly an officer of the Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry. He married in 1905 Eloise Laurence (age 28), eldest daughter of the late Mr. W. L. Breese, of New York, and has a son, Gilbert James (age 3), born in 1907, and two daughters.
The late earl's other children include Major Charles S. Heathcote-Drunmond-Willoughby (age 40), who married Lady Muriel Erskine, daughter of Lord Buchan (age 60); Major Claud Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (age 38), who married Lady Florence Astley (age 43), youngest daughter of the third Marquis Ponyngham; Lady Evelyn Clementina (age 46), wife of Major-General Sir Henry Peter Ewart; the Hon. Margaret Mary (age 44), who was married to the late Mr. Gideon Macpherson Rutherford; the Hon. Cecilie (age 36), wife of Mr. T. C. E. Goff; and Lady Dalhousie (age 32). The late peer assumed by Royal licence in 1872 the additional surnames of Willoughby and Drummond. He was a large landowner, owning Drummond Castle Crieff, and extensive deer forests in Perthshire and land in Lincolnshire and Rutland. Recently, however, he sold considerable portion of his estates, in many instances to the tenants who had the option of purchase. He was a very generous landlord, and was highly respected. He used Normanton Castle as his chief country house till Lord Willoughby de Eresby was married; then Normanton became the latter's home, and Lord Ancester lived at Grimsthorpe. He was president of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
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GrandFather: Peter Burrell
Father: Peter Burrell
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Raymond
Great x 1 Grandfather: Hugh Raymond
GrandMother: Amy Raymond
Peter Burrell Baron Willoughby, 1st Baron Gwydyr
GrandFather: John Lewis 
Mother: Elizabeth Lewis