Bagenal of Newry

JOHN BAGNALL, Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme, wedded Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Whittingham, of Middlewich, Cheshire, and had issue,

NICHOLAS;

Ralph (Sir);

Richard.

Mr Bagnall died in 1558, and was succeeded by his eldest son,

THE RT HON SIR NICHOLAS BAGNALL or BAGENAL (c1510-91), of London, Penrhyn, Newry, and Carlingford, Marshal-General of the Army in Ireland, 1550-3, Privy Counsellor (Ireland), MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1555-59, MP for Down, 1585, married, ca 1555, Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of  Sir Edward Griffith, of Penrhyn, Caernarvonshire, and had issue, including

HENRY;

Dudley;

Ambrose;

Mary; Frances; Margaret; Isabel; Anne; Mabel.

Sir Nicholas was succeeded by his son,

THE RT HON SIR HENRY BAGNALL or BAGENAL (1556-98), of Newry, County Down, Norley Castle, and Stoke, Staffordshire, MP for Anglesey, 1586, who espoused, in 1577, Eleanor, daughter of Sir John Savage, of Clifton and Rock Savage, Cheshire, by his wife, the Lady Elizabeth Manners, daughter of Thomas, 1st Earl of Rutland, and had issue,

ARTHUR;

Gryffyth;

John;

Roger;

Anne; Anne; Eleanor; Mary; Elizabeth; Jane.

Sir Henry was succeeded by his eldest son,

ARTHUR BAGENAL, of Plâs Newydd and Newry, who married Magdalen, daughter of Sir Richard Trevor, and had issue, an only child,

NICHOLAS BAGENAL or BAGENALL (1629-1712), of Plâs Newydd, Anglesey, and Newry, County Down, MP for Anglesey, 1661, who wedded firstly, in 1671, Sidney (d 1684), daughter of ROGER GROSVENOR, of Eaton Hall, Cheshire; and secondly, in 1686, the Lady Anne Bruce, daughter of Robert, 1st Earl of Ailesbury, and had issue, an only daughter, Elizabeth.

Mr Bagenal bequeathed the family estates to his cousins, Edward Bayly and Robert Needham, ancestors of the Marquess of Anglesey and the EARL OF KILMOREY respectively.