• Denys family of Siston, also spelled Dennis, originally came from Glamorgan in Wales and in the late 14th century acquired by marriage the manor of Siston...
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    and rural footpaths. Corbet family Alfred Davidson Denys family of Siston Billingsley family Maurice Denys Gilbert Denys John Clark Monks Robert Walerand...
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    Sir Maurice Denys (1516–1563) of Siston Court, near Bristol, Gloucestershire, and of St John's Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, was an English lawyer and...
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  • Manor of Siston is the ancient manor in Siston in South Gloucestershire, England. The Domesday Book of 1086 records Siston at an annual value of 8 marks...
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    Kemeys of Began, Monmouth, to Sir Gilbert Denys's widow, Margaret Russell. It was this latter marriage which forced the Denys family from Siston to reside...
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    Family. Siston, Gloucestershire, which branch died out in the late 14th century. The arms of Corbet of Siston continued to be quartered by the Denys family...
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    the Denys family of Siston, Gloucestershire. On the death of Thomas Russell in 1431, the 21-year-old son of Maurice Russell, knight (d.1416) of Dyrham...
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  • of this branch of the family became High Sheriff of Gloucestershire. The first was Sir Gilbert Denys (c. 1350 – 1422); others included Maurice Denys (c...
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  • Walter Denys (c. 1501–1571) of Dyrham, Gloucestershire was a Tudor landowner and member of Parliament. Denys was the son of Sir William Denys of Dyrham...
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    Maurice Denys (c. 1410–1466), Esquire, of Siston, Gloucestershire, was twice Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1460 and 1461. The Denys family were stated...
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  • of Sir Maurice Denys. Denys married, by 1557, Anne St John, a daughter of the MP Sir John St. John of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire. They had a large family....
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    the Denys family of Pucklechurch, lords of that manor until 1701. Russell: (of Kingston Russell, Dorset & Dyrham, Glos.) Sir Gilbert Denys of Siston had...
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    eldest son and heir of Sir Walter Denys (d. 1505) of Siston in Gloucestershire, by his 2nd wife Agnes Danvers, 2nd daughter & co-heiress of Sir Robert Danvers...
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    Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke from whom it was acquired by Sir Maurice Denys (d. 1561), Treasurer of Calais and builder of Siston Court. From him the...
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    Thomas Tenison (category Chancellors of the College of William & Mary)
    of the family of Denys of Siston, Gloucestershire, and may have been adopted by the Tenison family because its name signifies "Denys's or Denis's son"...
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  • up, the established Denys manors of Siston and Dyrham. The Denys family had long held the farm of this manor from the Bishops of Bath and Wells. It was...
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  • the Denys ancestral manor of Siston, appears to have been Sir William Denys(1470–1533), son of Sir Walter Denys(d.1505), who is depicted on the Denys monumental...
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  • Sir Gilbert Denys (died 1422) of Siston, Gloucestershire was probably born in about 1350 in Glamorgan, probably the son of John Denys of Waterton. In...
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  • Denys (c. 1350–1422) of Siston, Gloucestershire, was a soldier, and later an administrator. He was knighted by January 1385, and was twice knight of the...
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    Alveston (section Denys)
    of Alveston Corbet Augusta E. The Family of Corbet, 2 vols., vol.2, pp. 167–180, Corbet of Hope, Siston & Alveston Bush, Thomas S., The Denys Family and...
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    alive, William Gamage assisted by Sir Gilbert Denys (d. 1422) of Siston, Gloucestershire, and formerly of Waterton-by-Ewenny, in Coity lordship, besieged...
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    John Guillim (category Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford)
    Denys (1525-1593), MP, of Cold Ashton and Siston Court, Gloucestershire, by his wife Anne St John, daughter of Sir John St. John of Bletsoe. By Frances he...
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    Edmund Bartley-Denniss (category Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham)
    Gilbert Denys (d.1422), of Siston, Gloucestershire, probably via Thomas Dennis (d.post 1603) of the City of Gloucester, 2nd. son of Sir Walter Denys (1501–1571)...
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    Henry Dennis (sheriff) (category Denys family)
    manors of Siston, Alveston and Earthcott Green. The family name changed from its mediaeval spelling after about 1600 to Dennis. The earliest record of the...
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    identify the father of this "William Dennys" who may have been second son of Sir Gilbert Denys (died 1422) of Glamorgan and Siston in Gloucestershire....
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    Nicholas Poyntz (category Poyntz family)
    built at about the same time as nearby Siston Court was being built by Sir Maurice Denys (d.1563), first cousin of Poyntz's wife Jane Berkeley. He was elected...
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    her father's neighbour Sir Gilbert Denys of Siston and thus Kingston Russell and Dyrham passed to the Denys family. The Denyses appear never to have lived...
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    century to Hubard of Ipsley, Warwickshire, to John Woodforde of Brentingby (fl. 1316), Leicestershire and possibly to Denys of Siston, Gloucestershire...
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    built at about the same time as nearby Siston Court was being built by Sir Maurice Denys (d.1563), first cousin of Poyntz's wife Jane Berkeley. Poyntz's...
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    Maurice Russell, knight (category Russell of Dyrham family)
    Denys family until after 1600, Richard Denys (died 1593) having sold it to his younger brother Thomas Denys, son-in-law of Thomas Bell the Younger of...
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