Biography of Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew 1602-1675
Paternal Family Tree: Waldegrave
Maternal Family Tree: Amy Fermor 1509-1580
On 11 Jan 1588 Richard Bingham (age 60) and [her mother] Sarah Higham (age 28) were married. The difference in their ages was 32 years.
After 19 Jan 1599 [her father] Edward Waldegrave (age 33) and [her mother] Sarah Higham (age 39) were married.
Around 1602 Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew was born to Edward Waldegrave (age 36) and Sarah Higham (age 42).
In 1620 Cornelius Johnson (age 26). Portrait of Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew (age 18).
Autobiography Simon D'Ewes. I must now come to speak a little largely of a particular business that concerns my first love; which, because it broke off abruptly and abortively, before the end of the ensuing summer, I will a little anticipate the after passages of it, and finish it here at once. This match was propounded first unto me upon Saturday, the 20th day of October, in the year 1620; to which being of itself very worthy of entertainment, 1 was the rather induced to hearken by reason of my small stipend and inconvinient lodging at the Six Clerks' Office in Chancery Lane, whereby my precious time was misspent for want of a private chamber and study wherein to reside. From that day, for above half a year after, I had many discourses with one Mr. Boldero a gentleman that first proposed it, how to effect it, and misspent many an hour in the care and thought of it, till the 8th day of the instant May, being Tuesday, when [her father] Mr. Waldegrave (age 54), of Lawford Hall, in the county of Essex, father of the gentlewoman named Jemima (age 18), being his younger daughter and co-heir apparent, come to London purposely to treat with my father about it; with whom after thrice meeting and some difierences composed, he made a full agreement, so as there seemed nothing to be wanting to make up a full and due consummation but our mutual likings, who were to have matched; so now, had I not feared my father's inconstancy, I should have assured myself of a seasonable accomplishing my present expectation.
Autobiography Simon D'Ewes. 03 May 1621. All things being provided for my journey thither, and Easter Term being ended, the same day the Parliament was again adjourned till after Whitsuntide, being Saturday the 19th day of this instant May, I went with my father and the rest of his family to Newplace, in Upminster, in the county of Essex, where my Aunt Lathum dwelt, being little out of the way to Lawford Hall aforesaid; whither I set forward alone upon Thmsday morning, lying at Maiden that night, May 24. The next day, being Friday, May 25, I arrived at Colchester between twelve and one, and that afternoon saw Miss Jemima (age 19) with the [her mother] Lady Bingham (age 61) her mother, (whom, having been the widow of Sir Richard Bingham, Knt., Mr. Waldegrave had married to his second wife,) and had some discourse with the old lady, and some short view of the gentlewoman, whom I did not take to be so handsome at this first view as I thought her afterwards. I went not home at this time with the old lady, but lay at a town called Langham, near to Lawford, at one Mr. Littlebury's house; from whence, the next day, I went with him to Mr. Waldegrave's in the afternoon, and had full access in private discourse afforded me with the young gentlewoman. That night I returned again with Mr. Littlebury (who had used a great deal of faithful care to make up this match) to his house; where having staid till Monday, May 28th, in the forenoon we went again to Mr. Waldegrave's, and dined there. After which ended, I had several discourses with the young gentlewoman, and received from her so many remonstrances of acceptation and affection, as her own father acknowledged she never had done before, and we all thought the business in fair forwardness for the consummation thereof. But I, fearing my father's inconstancy, by reason he was to settle above £1100 per annum upon me, and to receive no portion, had all my expectations even at this present mixed with doubts, which were the more increased upon my return to him next day to Newplace, (for, his coach-horses going cheerfully, I went the whole thirty-eight miles from Lawford thither in a day,) where, having related to him my unexpected success, I found him in some atrtut, as if he knew not well now how to break it off, or go back.
Autobiography Simon D'Ewes. 03 May 1621. The gentlewoman (age 19), after the decease of her father, was at last married to [her future husband] John Crew (age 23), Esq., son and heir of [her future father-in-law] Sir Thomas Crew (age 57), Knt., for whom, to say truly she was a much fitter match than for myself, who, being younger than herself, (although I knew it not at first,) it would doubtless in process of time have bred much nauseating and inconvenience. Yet I cannot deny that in respect of her fair extraction, comeliness, and good education; of my own wants, loss of time, and discontent; of my fear of my father's match with a young widow with whom he was now in treaty, and to get an estate settled upon me, I did omit no care, pains, or endeavour to have accomplished this match, which God of his infinite goodness did frustrate, not only for my temporal, but for my spiritual good. For he afterwards provided for me not only a much younger gentlewoman (age 9), but more nobly extracted, and the heir of her family. My cousin Crew herself, (for my wife was her near kinswoman,) whom I went to visit awhile after I had been married, told me I had gotten a far greater fortune than she would have been; and the old [her mother] Lady Bingham (age 61) her mother, being then a widow, upon my coming to Lawford Hall, to her in her sickness to comfort her, told me, I dealt with her as Joseph had done with his brethren; for she only had been the cause of the breaking off my intended match with her daughter, and yet I would vouchsafe to visit her. "Why, Madam," answered I, "should enmity between Christians be perpetual - especially seeing what you intended against me is turned by God's Providence, to greater good?"
Autobiography Simon D'Ewes. 12 Feb 1622. The latter part of this January I spent reasonably well in the study of the common law, which had like to have been interrupted again the ensuing February with the renovation of my old cares, which had hindered it in my former wooing-time; for [her father] Mr. Waldegrave (age 56), of Lawford in Essex, between whose younger daughter (age 20) and coheir and myself there had been a treaty of marriage, as is before set down, deceasing on Tuesday, the 12th day of this February, and leaving the [her mother] Lady Bingham (age 62), his second wife, a widow, on Monday the 18th day of the same month next ensuing my father (age 55) sent for me early in the morning, to give me notice of it, and told me that he should not only be willing that the treaty for myself might again be renewed with the daughter, but that he should be willing himself also to match with the mother. This new overture took up my thoughts and time for some few days, but it proving abortive soon afterj I had free liberty again to settle to my studies.
In or before 1624 John Crew 1st Baron Crew (age 25) and Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew (age 21) were married.
In 1624 [her son] Thomas Crew 2nd Baron Crew was born to [her husband] John Crew 1st Baron Crew (age 26) and Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew (age 22).
In 1625 [her daughter] Jemima Crew Countess Sandwich was born to [her husband] John Crew 1st Baron Crew (age 27) and Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew (age 23).
In 1628 [her son] John Crew was born to [her husband] John Crew 1st Baron Crew (age 30) and Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew (age 26).
On 31 Jan 1633 [her son] Bishop Nathaniel Crew 3rd Baron Crew was born to [her husband] John Crew 1st Baron Crew (age 35) and Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew (age 31).
On 07 Nov 1642 [her son-in-law] Edward Montagu 1st Earl Sandwich (age 17) and [her daughter] Jemima Crew Countess Sandwich (age 17) were married.
Around 1650 [her son] Thomas Crew 2nd Baron Crew (age 26) and [her daughter-in-law] Mary Townshend were married. She the daughter of Roger Townshend 1st Baronet and Mary Vere Countess of Westmoreland (age 42).
On 23 Mar 1658 [her son-in-law] Henry Wright 1st Baronet (age 21) and [her daughter] Ann Crew Lady Wright were married at the St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map].
Pepy's Diary. 04 Feb 1660. Saturday. In the morning at my lute an hour, and so to my office, where I staid expecting to have Mr. Squib come to me, but he did not. At noon walking in the Hall I found Mr. Swan and got him and Captain Stone together, and there advised about Mr Downing's (age 35) business. So to Will's, and sat there till three o'clock and then to Mr. Swan's, where I found his wife in very genteel mourning for her father, and took him out by water to the Counsellor at the Temple [Map], Mr. Stephens, and from thence to Gray's Inn, thinking to speak with Sotherton Ellis [Note. Probably Solicitor Ellis], but found him not, so we met with an acquaintance of his in the walks, and went and drank, where I ate some bread and butter, having ate nothing all day, while they were by chance discoursing of Marriot, the great eater, so that I was, I remember, ashamed to eat what I would have done. Here Swan shewed us a ballad to the tune of Mardike which was most incomparably wrote in a printed hand, which I borrowed of him, but the song proved but silly, and so I did not write it out. Thence we went and leaving Swan at his master's, my Lord Widdrington (age 60), I met with Spicer, Washington, and D. Vines in Lincoln's Inn Court, and they were buying of a hanging jack to roast birds on of a fellow that was there selling of some. I was fain to slip from there and went to Mrs. Crew's (age 58) to her and advised about a maid to come and be with [her granddaughter] Mrs. Jem while her maid is sick, but she could spare none. Thence to [her son-in-law] Sir Harry Wright's (age 23), but my lady not being within I spoke to Mrs. Carter about it, who will get one against Monday. So with a link boy [Note. Links were torches of tow or pitch to light the way. Ed.] to Scott's, where Mrs. Ann was in a heat, but I spoke not to her, but told Mrs. Jem what I had done, and after that went home and wrote letters into the country by the post, and then played awhile on my lute, and so done, to supper and then to bed.
Pepy's Diary. 15 Feb 1660. Wednesday. Called up in the morning by Captain Holland and Captain Cuttance, and with them to Harper's, thence to my office, thence with Mr. Hill of Worcestershire to Will's, where I gave him a letter to Nan Pepys, and some merry pamphlets against the Rump to carry to her into the country. So to [her husband] Mr. Crew's (age 62), where the dining room being full, Mr. Walgrave [Note. Believed to be a son of John Crew 1st Baron Crew and Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew (age 58) although there is no record of such person] and I dined below in the buttery by ourselves upon a good dish of buttered Salmon. Thence to Hering' the merchant about my [her son-in-law] Lord's (age 34) Worcester money and back to Paul's Churchyard, where I staid reading in Fuller's (age 51) History of the Church of England an hour or two, and so to my father's (age 59), where Mr. Hill came to me and I gave him direction what to do at Worcester about the money. Thence to my [her daughter] Lady Wright's and gave her a letter from my Lord privily. So to [her granddaughter] Mrs. Jem and sat with her, who dined at Mr. Crew's to-day, and told me that there was at her coming away at least forty gentlemen (I suppose members that were secluded, for Mr. Walgrave told me that there were about thirty met there the last night) came dropping in one after another thither. Thence home and wrote into the country against to-morrow by the carrier and so to bed. At my father's I heard how my cousin Kate Joyce had a fall yesterday from her horse and had some hurt thereby. No news to-day, but all quiet to see what the Parliament will do about the issuing of the writs to-morrow for filling up of the House, according to Monk's (age 51) desire.
On 20 Apr 1661 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 30) created a number of new Baronets and Peers:
William Morice 1st Baronet (age 33) was created 1st Baronet Morice of Werrington in Devon. Gertrude Bampfylde Lady Morice by marriage Lady Morice of Werrington in Devon.
[her husband] John Crew 1st Baron Crew (age 63) was created 1st Baron Crew of Stene in Northamptonshire. Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew (age 59) by marriage Baroness Crew of Stene in Northamptonshire.
Edward Hyde 1st Earl Clarendon (age 52) was created 1st Earl Clarendon at Westminster Abbey [Map] on the occasion of the Coronation Charles II. Frances Aylesbury Countess Clarendon (age 43) by marriage Countess Clarendon.
Oliver Fitzwilliam 1st Earl Tyrconnel (age 51) was created 1st Earl Tyrconnel. Eleanore Holles Countess Tyrconnel by marriage Countess Tyrconnel.
Pepy's Diary. 17 Jan 1666. By and by to supper, my [her daughter] Lady Wright very kind. After supper up to wait on my Baroness Crew (age 64), who is the same weake silly lady as ever, asking such saintly questions. Down to my Lord again and sat talking an houre or two, and anon to prayers the whole family, and then all to bed, I handsomely used, lying in the chamber Mr. Carteret formerly did, but sat up an houre talking sillily with Mr. Carteret and Mr. Marre, and so to bed.
In 1674 [her son] Thomas Crew 2nd Baron Crew (age 50) and [her daughter-in-law] Anne Armine (age 22) were married. The difference in their ages was 28 years.
On 12 Dec 1679 [her former husband] John Crew 1st Baron Crew (age 81) died. His son [her son] Thomas Crew 2nd Baron Crew (age 55) succeeded 2nd Baron Crew of Stene in Northamptonshire.
[her daughter] Samuel Crew was born to John Crew 1st Baron Crew and Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew.
[her daughter] Ann Crew Lady Wright was born to John Crew 1st Baron Crew and Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew.
Kings Wessex: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King France
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Waldegrave
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Waldegrave
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Waldegrave
Great x 1 Grandfather: George Waldegrave
GrandFather: Edward Waldegrave 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Drury
Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger Drury of Hawstead in Suffolk
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Drury
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Drury 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Calthorpe 8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Calthorpe 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Calthorpe 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Miles Stapleton of Ightham in Norfolk
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stapleton 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine de la Pole 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Father: Edward Waldegrave 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
GrandFather: John Higham
Mother: Sarah Higham
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Yelverton
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Yelverton
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Yelverton
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Yelverton
GrandMother: Martha Yelverton