Straunge, Robert 1a

Birth Name Straunge, Robert
Gender male
Age at Death 43 years, 10 months
Birth date 1587 (Somerford Keynes, Wiltshire, England)
Death date 1630-11 (Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England)

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        Robert Straunge MP for Cirencester
        Also known as: Robert Strange
        Gender: Male
        Birth: 1587 - Somerford Keynes, Wiltshire, England
        Marriage: Spouse: Jane Hungerford - Apr 22 1617 - Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England
        Death: Nov 1630 - Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England
        Burial: 1630 - Somerford Keynes, Wiltshire, England
        Occupation: MP for Cirencester - 1614 - Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England
        Parents: Michael Straunge, Anne Straunge (born Hungerford)
        Wife: Jane Straunge (born Hungerford)
        Children: Lucye Straunge, Elizabeth Straunge, Margaret Foyle (born Strange), Anne Straunge, Katherine Southby (born Straunge), Jane Jocelyn (born Straunge), Robert Straunge
        Siblings: Bridget Straunge, John Straunge, Nicholas Straunge, Henry Straunge, Arthur Straunge, Michaell Straunge, Anthony Straunge, Marye Coxwell (born Straunge)
          Additional information:

        LifeSketch: Source of the following is website for History of Parliament: one, nr. Great Bedwyn, Wilts.,3 1s. (posth.) 5da. (1 d.v.p.).4 suc. fa. 1613.5 d. 26 Dec. 1630.6 sig. Robert Straunge.mily.7 His grandfather (Robert Strange), the last bailiff appointed by the abbot of Cirencester before the Dissolution, purchased the nearby manor of Somerford Keynes in 1554,8 and a cousin sat for the borough in 1572. Straunge trained as a lawyer and was called to the bar while representing Cirencester in the Addled Parliament, upon whose records he left no mark. He did not sit again, but in 1620 headed the list of signatories to the Cirencester return,9 and in 1624 testified that (Sir) Maurice Berkeley*, an unsuccessful candidate in that years’s contested election there, had ‘to his seeming the greater number of the generality’.10r, where he owned ‘a great house’ and other property. He had made a settlement of lands on his daughters, but ordered that if he should yet have a son, ‘my wife Jane now being with child as I believe’, they should have portions of £800 each. He named his wife as executrix and Sir Edward Hungerford* and his cousin Robert Oldisworth (son of William†) as overseers.11 His lands were subsequently valued at £500 a year by the time his death in December 1630.12 His only son, born five months later,13 died unmarried at the age of 23 and never sat in Parliament.14 However, a son-in-law, Richard Southby, who inherited Somerford Keynes, sat for Cirencester in 1659.