William Harbord

William Harbord
1535 - 1692

Relationship to me:	Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Uncle	Gen -9
Born	1635
Died	Belgrade 1692
Age	57
Father:	Sir Charles Harbord
Mother:	Maria (née van Aelst), da. of Jan van Aelst of Sandwich, Kent - m. 26 Oct 1626
Brothers:	Charles Harbord	???? - 1672
	John - m. Catherine Rous (plus 3 others d.v.p.)
	3 others (dvp)
Sisters:	Anne m. Richard Newman (d.1695)	1634 - 1690
	2 other sisters
Married:	(1) Mary Duck	c1638/9-<1678
	(2) Catherine Russell	d. 1702
Children:	(1) Grace married Thomas Hatcher of Careby (1660–1714)	d.1703
	(1) Mary married Sir Edward Ayscough (1650–1699)	c1662-1715
	(1) Margaret married Robert King, Baron Kingston of Ireland, (c1659–1693)	c1667-1698
	(2) Letitia Harbord married Sir Rowland Winn, 3rd Baronet (1675–1722)	d. 1722

Notes:

William Harbord:

A 1675 lease agreement with his brother-in-law Richard Newman refers to William as the Hon. William Harbord of Perry Park, Northampton.
An unrecorded source had it that in 1679, William (who was one of Charles's two younger surviving son) became Surveyor General "on reversion" following his father's death, and that he remained in that office until his own death in 1692, thus serving under Charles II, James II and William III.
In a indenture dated 1684 with Richard Newman, William is described as "Wm Harbord of Grafton Parks in the County of Northampton Esqr Surveyor General to his said Majesty (James II)". The indenture also names his eldest daughter as: "Mary Harbord eldest daughter of the said Wm Harbord on the body of Mary Harbord deceased late wife of the said Wm Harbord and one of the Coheirs of the said Mary deceased who was daughter and coheir of Arthur Duffe(?) late of Wells in the County of Somerset Dr of Laws".
See History of Parliament website for bibliography and other information about Sir William. Note: William's Wikipedia entry makes no mention of him being Surveyor General, instead recording him as a politician who sat in the House of Commons from time to time between 1661 and 1690, and being a staunch anti-Catholic, he accompanied William of Orange's 1688 invasion of England.
See also attached file from Harold Biggs summarizing the wills of William Harbord, his father Sir Charles and grandfather William Harvord.

Mary Duck: Harold Biggs' researches have discovered that Mary Harbord (née Duck) was heir of Arthur Duck who owned the estates of North and South Cadbury prior to his death in 1649 (see The Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's Proceedings, 1870 Vol. XVI. Pages 21,22,23). She inherited the estates from her father and, according to Frederic Weaver's Notes & Queries for Somerset ad Dorset (1893), she and her husband sold them her brother-in-law to Richard Newman in 1685.

Catherine Russell (d. 1702), the daughter of Hon. Edward Russell and niece of William Russell, 5th Earl of Bedford and 1st Duke of Bedford. Her brother was Edward Russell, Earl of Orford. (Thanks to Gay Brennan)

Page updated: 23rd Oct 2020 - information added about Mary Duck's chidren and Catherine Russell and her daughter - thanks to Gay Brennan
Page created: 10th Aug 2020 - thanks to Harold Biggs