The Cardinall Family

The Cardinall family came from Suffolk down to Essex during the 1500s. They have connections with witchfinders and lord mayors of London; admirals and authors. I’ve been writing these pieces up one by one over the past few years and updating them as I find out more. Most can be read in chronological order but some, like “A swirl of families”, covers a lot of ground and refers to various other pieces here.

• General
• Cardinalls in Suffolk
• Cardinalls in Essex: the Tendring Hundred
• Cardinalls in Essex: Halstead

General

• Cardinall heraldry

Cardinalls in Suffolk

• William Cardinall of Great Wenham (?-1551)
• The Cardinall family in Suffolk

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Cardinalls in Essex: the Tendring Hundred

1500s

• A swirl of families: Cardinall, Gosnold, Vesey, Knightley, Wingfield, Vere, Berriffe and Pyrton, and how they fit together
• William Cardinall (1509-1568) 
  • The Veseys of Wix Abbey
• William Cardinall (1535-1598)

1600s

• Charles Cardinall of Great Bromley (?-1624)
  • The Travails of Matchmaking: William Cardinall and Sir Thomas Bowes
  • The Tendring family of Boreham (to follow)
• James Cardinall of London & Langham (1603-1664)
  • The ancestors of Dorothy Welby (1606-1651)
  • The Drury family of Tendring (with added Welbys and Joscelyns)
• Who was Esther Cardinall? (d.1686) With Sigismund Trafford and the Smyth baronets
• The sons of James Cardinall: John, James, Charles, William and Thomas
  • Who was Susan Latham? (1636-1714) with clues from the D’Ewes and Pyrton families
• John Cardinall of Tendring (1665-1725) and the Clarkson family
• James Cardinall (1672-1707) and Elizabeth Gilbert (1674-?)
  • The many relatives of Henry Gilbert

1700s

• William Cardinall of Alresford (1706-1749) and the Layer-de-la-Haye connection
  • Theobald in Great Clacton and Whittaker in St Osyth
  • Kenerley connection in Cheshire, plus more Whittakers and Theobalds
  • Was Sarah Whittaker a Nunn?
  • The Davall family of Ramsey: enter Jane Austen and a duke
• Charles Cardinall of Beaumont (1709-1747) and Isabella Kent
  • Mary Cardinall (1742-1822) and John Mash (1737-1805)
• John Cardinall of Wivenhoe & Tendring (1696-1760?) (to follow)
  • The will of James Clarkson of Tendring and other documents
• Clarkson Cardinall (1730-1825) the eccentric lord of New Hall (to follow)

1800s

• Tendring Manor House destroyed by fire, 1897

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Cardinalls in Halstead, Essex

• An Afflicted Family: Thomas Cardinall of Halstead and his wife Hannah Durrant
• Unteasing the Halstead Cardinalls: the mystery
• Unteasing the Halstead Cardinalls: William and his family
• Unteasing the Halstead Cardinalls: Christopher Cardinall (1742-c1807), Anne Challis, and their children

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