Paternal Family Tree: Williams aka Cromwell
Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Bourchier 1598-1665
On 23rd February 1589 Oliver St George 1st Baronet was knighted at Dublin Castle by Henry Cromwell.
On 22nd August 1620 [his father] Oliver Cromwell (age 21) and [his mother] Elizabeth Bourchier (age 22) were married.
On 20th January 1628 Henry Cromwell was born to [his father] Oliver Cromwell (age 28) and [his mother] Elizabeth Bourchier (age 30) at Huntingdon [Map].
On 28th July 1643 the Parliamentary arms commanded by [his father] Oliver Cromwell (age 44) and the Royalist army commanded by Charles Cavendish (age 23) fought at the Battle of Gainsborough at North Scarle.
Charles Cavendish was killed by James Berry. He was buried at Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire [Map].
On 4th August 1643 the Royalist Newdigate Poyntz (age 34) died probably from wounds received at the battle.
Between 3rd September 1649 and 11th September 1649, Drogheda [Map], under the command of the Royalist Arthur Aston (age 59), was besieged by the Parliamentary army commanded by [his father] Oliver Cromwell (age 50).
On 11th September 1649 Oliver Cromwell had a letter delivered to Sir Arthur Aston, which proposed his Aston's surrender; Aston refused.
At 5:00 PM Cromwell ordered simultaneous assaults on the southern and eastern breaches in the walls of Drogheda.
At the southern breach, the defenders counterattacked. The death of their commander, Colonel Wall, caused them to fall back, allowing further Parliamentary reinforcements to be funnelled into the breach. In the fighting at the walls some 150 Parliamentarian troops, including Colonel Castle, were killed.
After the death of Colonel Wall with more and more Parliamentary soldiers streaming into the breaches, the Royalist resistance at the walls collapsed.
In Cromwell's words, "In the heat of the action, I forbade them [his soldiers] to spare any that were in arms in the town...and, that night they put to the sword about two thousand men".
The execution of Royalists constinued as and when they were discovered.
Around one hundred Royalists were discovered in St Peter's Church - Cromwell ordered the church and those inside to be burned.
Arthur Aston was killed.
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On 10th May 1653 Henry Cromwell (age 25) and Elizabeth Russell were married. He the son of Oliver Cromwell (age 54) and Elizabeth Bourchier (age 55).
On 16th December 1653 [his father] Oliver Cromwell (age 54) was appointed Lord Protector.
In 1654 William Lockhart of Lee (age 33) and Robina Sewster (age 24) were married. She being a niece of [his father] Oliver Cromwell (age 54).
In 1654 William Temple 1st Baronet (age 26) and Dorothy Osborn (age 27) were married. Her suitors had included Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds (age 21), Henry Cromwell (age 25) and Justinian Isham 2nd Baronet (age 44). Before their marriage they had conducted a clandestine epistolary relationship; her seventy-nine letters survive: British Library (ADD. MSS. 33975) - see Letters of Dorothy Osborn.
On 30th May 1654 Hugh Wyndham Baron of the Exchequer (age 52) was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas by [his father] Oliver Cromwell (age 55).
After 1657 Colonel Silius Titus (age 34) was appointed Groom of the Bedchamber by King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 26) for having published a pamphlet "Killing No Murder" advocating the assassination of [his father] Oliver Cromwell (age 57).
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On 18th November 1657 [his brother-in-law] Thomas Belasyse 1st Earl Fauconberg (age 30) and [his sister] Mary Cromwell Countess Fauconberg (age 20) were married. She by marriage Viscountess Faunconberg. She the daughter of [his father] Oliver Cromwell (age 58) and [his mother] Elizabeth Bourchier (age 59).
On 3rd May 1658 [his son] Henry Williams Cromwell was born to Henry Cromwell (age 30). And [his wife] Elizabeth Russell.
On 7th June 1658 John King 1st Baron Kingston was knighted by Henry Cromwell (age 30).
On 3rd September 1658 [his father] Oliver Cromwell (age 59) died at Whitehall Palace [Map]. His son [his brother] Richard (age 31) succeeded Lord Protector.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 22nd March 1663. Thence with Mr. Creed to Captain Ferrers, where many fine ladies; the house well and prettily furnished. She [Mrs. Ferrers] lies in, in great state, Mr. G. Montagu (age 40), Collonel Williams (age 35)1, Cromwell that was, and Mrs. Wright as proxy for my Lady Jemimah, were witnesses. Very pretty and plentiful entertainment, could not get away till nine at night, and so home. My coach cost me 7s.
Note 1. Colonel Williams-"Cromwell that was"-appears to have been Henry Cromwell, grandson of Sir Oliver Cromwell, and first cousin, once removed, to the Protector. He was seated at Bodsey House, in the parish of Ramsey, which had been his father's residence, and held the commission of a colonel. He served in several Parliaments for Huntingdon [Map]shire, voting, in 1660, for the restoration of the monarchy; and as he knew the name of Cromwell would not be grateful to the Court, he disused it, and assumed that of Williams, which had belonged to his ancestors; and he is so styled in a list of knights of the proposed Order of the Royal Oak. He died at Huntingdon [Map], 3rd August, 1673. (Abridged from Noble's "Memoirs of the Cromwells", vol. i., p. 70.) B.
Note 2. The date 3rd August, 1673 quoted in Note 1 appears to be incorrect. He died on 23 Mar 1674.
In 1665 [his mother] Elizabeth Bourchier (age 67) died.
On 23rd March 1674 Henry Cromwell (age 46) died. He was buried at St Laurence's Church, Wicken [Map].
On 7th April 1687 [his former wife] Elizabeth Russell died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 24 Grand Son of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Kings England: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Kings Franks: Great x 26 Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King of the Franks
Kings France: Great x 21 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 26 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 3 Grandfather: Morgan Williams
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Cromwell aka Williams 
14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Cromwell 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Cromwell 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Glossop
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Cromwell aka Williams 15 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Murfyn
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Mirfyn
GrandFather: Robert Cromwell 16 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Warren of Feering in Essex
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ralph Warren
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Warren
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Lake alias Davy of Cornwall 
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Trelake
Father: Oliver Cromwell 17 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Steward
GrandMother: Elizabeth Steward
Henry Cromwell 18 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
GrandFather: John Bourchier 
Mother: Elizabeth Bourchier