The baronetcy of Wilbraham of Woodhey, Cheshire, was created by
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on 5 May 1621 in the Baronetcy of England for Richard Wilbraham. He was a descendant of the ancient Cheshire family of Radnor who acquired Woodhey by marriage in the 14th century. A junior branch of the family settled at
Nantwich
Nantwich ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It has among the highest concentrations of listed buildings in England, with notably good examples of Tudor and Georgian architecture. ...
, and there was some intermarriage between the two.
Richard Wilbraham died as a royalist prisoner at Shrewsbury in 1643 and was buried at Nantwich. An oak armchair painted with his coat of arms survives, and was probably decorated to commemorate his baronetcy.
[Edward Town & Angela McShane, ''Marking Time: Objects, People, and Their Lives, 1500-1800'' (Yale, 2020), p. 196.]
His grandson, the third Baronet, was
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in 1654 and
Member of Parliament
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for
Stafford 1679–81. He married
Elizabeth Mytton, heiress of
Weston under Lizard, Staffordshire, and he and Lady Elizabeth built a new house at
Weston Park
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in 1671. The baronetcy was extinct on his death. The estate passed to his daughter Mary who married
Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford
Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford PC (3 September 1644 – 14 June 1723), styled The Honourable from 1651 to 1694 and subsequently Viscount Newport until 1708, was an English peer and Whig politician.
Background
He was the oldest son of ...
, and later also by marriage to
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Baronet.
For other branches of the family see
Baker Wilbraham baronets
The Baker, later Rhodes, later Baker Wilbraham Baronetcy, of Loventor in the County of Devon, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 19 September 1776 for George Baker, Physician to George III and President of the Roy ...
and
Baron Skelmersdale.
Wilbraham of Woodhey, Cheshire (1621)
* Sir Richard Wilbraham, 1st Baronet (1579–1643)
* Sir Thomas Wilbraham, 2nd Baronet (1601–1660)
* Sir Thomas Wilbraham, 3rd Baronet (1630–1692)
References
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* ''Debrett's Peerage of England Scotland and Ireland'' John Debrett (1836), p. 287, Google Books.
Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England
1621 establishments in England