The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameSir John Stanhope 
Birth1559
Death1611
FatherSir Thomas Stanhope (1540-1596)
MotherMargaret Porte (1542-1597)
Misc. Notes
Information from Cynthia Glover (nee Coleman), whose great-great-grandfather was William Samuel Allen b.1843. (William's sister, Martha Allen, married Charles Oliver, youngest son of James and Ruth Oliver).
Sir John married twice, to:
1. Cordelia Alington
2. Catherine Trentham
In Michael Stanhope's 2007 "The History of the Stanhope Family", Sir John and Cordelia had one child:
1. Sir Philip Stanhope
Sir John and Catherine had seven children:
1. Cordelia Stanhope
2. Anne Stanhope
3. Lady Catherine Stanhope
4. Dorothy Stanhope
5. Jane Stanhope
6. William Stanhope
7. Sir John Stanhope
From Wikipedia, Sir John Stanhope (1559 – 1611) was an English knight and landowner, and father of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield. John Stanhope was the son of Sir Thomas Stanhope (d.1596) of Shelford Manor, Nottinghamshire, by Margaret Port, the daughter of Sir John Port of Etwall, Derbyshire, and Elizabeth Gifford. He was appointed Postmaster General to Queen Elizabeth on 20 June 1590.
Sir John married twice, to:
1. Cordelia Alington
2. Catherine Trentham
In Michael Stanhope's 2007 "The History of the Stanhope Family", Sir John and Cordelia had one child:
1. Sir Philip Stanhope
Sir John and Catherine had seven children:
1. Cordelia Stanhope
2. Anne Stanhope
3. Lady Catherine Stanhope
4. Dorothy Stanhope
5. Jane Stanhope
6. William Stanhope
7. Sir John Stanhope
From Wikipedia, Sir John Stanhope (1559 – 1611) was an English knight and landowner, and father of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield. John Stanhope was the son of Sir Thomas Stanhope (d.1596) of Shelford Manor, Nottinghamshire, by Margaret Port, the daughter of Sir John Port of Etwall, Derbyshire, and Elizabeth Gifford. He was appointed Postmaster General to Queen Elizabeth on 20 June 1590.