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PEDIGREE
William Shirley
married Ann Oglander
A. William Shirley -died 1701, m. Elizabeth Godman [of
OTE HALL] He was a merchant of London
1701 Will of William Shirley
of St Mary Bothaw London.
Fifteenth day of March 1699, William Shirley of St Mary Bothaw
London merchant. Give and bequeath unto my son William Shirley.
If sd William dies, to William, Phillip and Ann Dingley children
of my uncle and aunt William Dingley and Frances Dingley, then
to my wife Elizabeth Shirley. To my sister Elizabeth Needham
wife of Robert Needham esq. To my uncle Drewry Shirley. To my
father in law John Godman and friend Mr. Robert Diamond overseers.
Wife Elizabeth executrix. Wit: John Raymond, Gilbert Brandon
and Wm Cooke his servant. Proven 1701 by Elizabeth Shirley wife
(a). William Shirley - Governor of Massachusetts; b 2 December
1694. bap 4 Dec 1694.
William, who was born in 1694,
succeeded to his mother's estate, in Sussex, and resided at Otehall.
He received his academic education at Cambridge, and was designed
for the bar ; but his superior talents and address bringing him
under the notice of Sir Robert Walpole during his administration,
the Duke of Newcastle appointed him, in 1741, Captain and Governor-in-Chief
of the Province of Massa- chuset's Bay, in New England; and it
was under his direction and immediate inspection that the expedition
to Cape Breton in 1745 was fitted out. In 1750 (January 19th)
he was appointed one of His Majesty's Commissioners, at Paris,
for settling the limits of Nova Scotia, and other controverted
rights in America. In 1755, he obtained the rank of General and
Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's forces in North America;
and in 1759 he was made a Lieutenant-General in His Majesty's
army. It was during the time that Lieutenant-General Shirley
had the principal command of the Land Forces there in that same
year, and in the early part of the following year, that some
of the misfortunes which afterwards ensued to His Majesty's service,
but more particularly the loss of Fort Oswego, which he had built
at the mouth of the Onondaga River, on Lake Ontario, were, at
the time, unjustly attributed to him and his mismanagement; and
from which his conduct, on this occasion, was most triumphantly
vindicated in a pamphlet, published in 1758, entitled "
The conduct of Major-General Shirley, late General and Commander-in-Chief
of His Majesty's Forces in North America, briefly stated."
On the 16th of November, 1758, he received the appointment of
Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands.
While at Boston, General Shirley built a house for himself, with
bricks imported from England, at a vast expense, which he afterwards
covered, both within and without, with boards. The house, which
still remains, is called Shirley House.
The General died at Boston,
March 24th, his age at the time being 77 years;—and hewas
interred in the King's Chapel, adjoining that city. This Chapel
was- the first Protestant Episcopal place of worship built in
America; and when it became necessary to build it, which was
the case in 1749, he laid the foundation stone. At his death
the following testimony of the respect in which he was held by
the proprietors appears among its records, of the date of ] 771:—"
Whereas, the Honourable Lieutenant - General Shirley, formerly
Governor of this province, lately deceased, did for several years
attend public worship at King's Chapel, to which he was a warm
friend, and a very generous benefactor ; for his more honourable
interment, and to testify their gratitude for his many services,
the proprietors of the said chapel have this day voted, that
John Erving Esq. have liberty to deposit the corpse of the said
Lieutenant-General Shirley, or any other of his family or descendants
dying in America, in the tomb numbered 18, under the chapel."
The remains of his wife, who was Frances, the daughter of Francis
Barker, Esq., of London, had been previously deposited in a vault
under this chapel. She died in September 1746. A handsome tablet,
surmounted by her bust, was placed by the General to her memory
in this chapel. The inscription on this tablet commemorates also
the death of their second daughter, Frances, who married William
Bollan, Esq; and who died in 1741, upon the birth of their only
daughter and heiress, Frances Shirley Bollan, who married Charles
Western, Esq., of Rivenhall,; in Essex; and was the mother of
the first Lor d Western. - Sussex Archaeological Society
m Francis Barker
1. William Shirley 1721 d. 1755 in USA
2. John Shirley 1725, died 1755 in USA
3. Sir Thomas Shirley 1727, d. 1800 Bath, Somerset England,
m. Anna Maria Western of Essex. He was Leiutenant General and
Governor of the Leeward Islands and Dominica
A. Sir William Warden Shirley, baronet. Died unmarried and without
issue. The
male lineage of the Shirleys of Preston ended here
4. Ralph Shirley born 20 Jan 1734, bapt at the King's
Chapel by Haywood and died at Braintree the 13th Aug 1737. buried
on the 16th at Old Episcopal Cem. Quincy Mass.
5. Elizabeth Shirley - married Eliakim Hutchison, Esq by
Mr. Commissery Price at the King's Chapel at Boston on Monday
the 13th of November 1738. She died 1790
6. Frances Shirley 1720, died 1744, m. William Bollan,
Esq.
7. Judith Shirley 1723, d. 1754
8. Harriet Shirley 1724, d. 1802, m. Robert Temple, Esq.
9. Maria Catherine Shirley
1729, d. 1816, m. John
Erving, Esq.
(b). John Shirley - b 26 July 1698. bapt same day by Mr.
Clarke of St. Swithins Newgate. John Godman and Susannah French,
god parents died in infancy
(c). Katherine Shirley - b 29 July 1696. bapt. Aug 11 1696.
died on the 13th and buried on the 15th
B. Elizabeth Shirley
married Col. Robert Needham,
esq. of Jamaica
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Shirleys of Ote Hall