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Washington was born in 1602. He was the fifth son of Lawrence Washington (1565–1616) of Sulgrave Manor, Northamptonshire, son and heir of Robert Washington (1544–1619), of Sulgrave by his first wife Elizabeth Lyte, daughter and heiress of Walter Lyte of Radway, Warwickshire.
Sulgrave Manor is a mid-16th century Tudor hall house in Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, UK, built by Lawrence Washington, the 3rd great-grandfather of George Washington, first President of the United States. The manor passed out of the hands of the Washington family in the 17th century and by the 19th had descended to the status of a farmhouse.
In 1539 or 1540 the Crown sold three manors, including Sulgrave, to Lawrence Washington, a wool merchant who in 1532 had been Mayor of Northampton. [8] [14] Washington's descendants retained the manor until 1659, when one of them sold it. [8] [14] In 1656 a descendant, John Washington of Purleigh, Essex, emigrated to the Colony of Virginia. [14]
1532: Lawrence Washington (ancestor of George Washington) [7] 1536-37: Lawrence Manley; 1545: Lawrence Washington [7] 1547-48: Lawrence Manley; 1550: Ralph Freeman (MP for Northampton, 1554) [9] 1557: Lawrence Manley; 1558: Thomas Chipsey [7] 1559-60: Edward Manley (MP for Northampton, 1558) [10] 1566-67: Edward Manley; 1574-75: Edward Manley ...
The Washington coat of arms is placed prominently above the entrance door at Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire, the home built in 1560 by Lawrence Washington (d. 1584) George Washington's direct ancestor. The family coat of arms can also be seen in stained glass panels in the Great Hall which show marriage arms of several families that married ...
Lawrence Washington's great-grandson, Lawrence Washington (1602–1652), was a rector. [10] His brother Sir William Washington married the half-sister of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. [1] [14] The Washington family supported the Royalists during the English Civil War and were dispossessed of their lands following their defeat. [13]
[5] (reference link needs updating; his son, also called Lawrence Washington, is buried in the graveyard at All Saints’ Church, Maldon, Essex) Betsy Baker (1842–1955), a supercentenarian who was born in Great Brington and recognized as the world's oldest living person until she died aged 113, on 24 October 1955.
Lawrence Washington (1602–1653), rector and an ancestor of the first US President George Washington, was born at Sulgrave Manor, 12 miles south-west of Northampton. Lawrence's great-grandfather, Lawrence Washington (c. 1500–1583), who purchased Sulgrave Manor from Henry VIII, was Mayor of Northampton in 1532 and 1545.