Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet 1661-1724

On 2nd December 1661 Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet was born to Nicholas L'Estrange 3rd Baronet [aged 29] and Mary Coke [aged 44].

Before 16th October 1662 [his father] Nicholas L'Estrange 3rd Baronet [aged 30] and [his mother] Mary Coke [aged 45] were married.

On 16th October 1662 [his father] Nicholas L'Estrange 3rd Baronet [aged 30] and [his step-mother] Elizabeth Isham Lady Strange [aged 9] were married. She by marriage Lady Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk. The difference in their ages was 20 years.

On 13th December 1669 [his father] Nicholas L'Estrange 3rd Baronet [aged 37] died. His son Nicholas [aged 8] succeeded 4th Baronet Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk.

In 1685 Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet [aged 23] was elected MP Castle Rising.

On 2nd December 1686 Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet [aged 25] and Ann Wodehouse Lady Strange were married. She by marriage Lady Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk.

In 1689 [his son] Thomas L'Estrange 5th Baronet was born to Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet [aged 27] and [his wife] Ann Wodehouse Lady Strange. He married 27th July 1721 his second cousin once removed Anne Calthorpe Lady Strange and had issue.

On 20th April 1695 Henry Grey 1st Duke Kent [aged 24] and [his sister-in-law] Jemima Crew Marchioness Kent [aged 19] were married. They had five sons and seven daughters of whom only three surviving her. He the son of Anthony Grey 11th Earl Kent [aged 49] and Mary Lucas Countess Kent [aged 51].

Around 1699 [his daughter] Lucy L'Estrange was born to Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet [aged 37] and [his wife] Ann Wodehouse Lady Strange. She married 21st February 1723 her second cousin Jacob Astley 3rd Baronet, son of Philip Astley 2nd Baronet, and had issue.

On 19th August 1702 Anthony Grey 11th Earl Kent [aged 57] died. His son Henry [aged 31] succeeded 12th Earl Kent. [his sister-in-law] Jemima Crew Marchioness Kent [aged 27] by marriage Countess Kent.

On 3rd June 1705 or 18th September 1721 Charles Butler 3rd Duke Ormond [aged 33] and [his sister-in-law] Elizabeth Crew Countess Arran [aged 26] were married. She by marriage Countess Arran. He the son of Thomas Butler 6th Earl Ossory and Emilia Nassau Beverweert Countess Ossory.

In 1710 Henry Grey 1st Duke Kent [aged 39] was created 1st Duke Kent, 1st Marquess Kent, 1st Viscount Gooderich. [his sister-in-law] Jemima Crew Marchioness Kent [aged 34] by marriage Marchioness Kent.

On 27th July 1721 [his son] Thomas L'Estrange 5th Baronet [aged 32] and [his daughter-in-law] Anne Calthorpe Lady Strange were married. They were second cousin once removed.

Around 21st February 1723 [his son-in-law] Jacob Astley 3rd Baronet [aged 31] and [his daughter] Lucy L'Estrange [aged 24] were married. They were second cousins.

On 18th December 1724 Nicholas L'Estrange 4th Baronet [aged 63] died. His son Thomas [aged 35] succeeded 5th Baronet Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk. Anne Calthorpe Lady Strange by marriage Lady Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk.

Blomefield's Norfolk Volume 9 Gressenhale. After 18th December 1724. St Mary's Church, Gressenall.

Sir Nicholas Lestrange [deceased], baronet, son of Sir Nicholas Lestrange and Dame Mary his wife, born on the 2d of December, 1661, married to Anna, daughter of Sir Thomas Woodhouse and Dame Ann his wife on the 2d day of December, 1686, died at Gressenhall on the 2dth day of December, 1724.

On a marble monument of white marble in the chancel, Lestrange impaling Woodhouse.

Dame Ann, relict of Sir Nicholas L'estrange, baronet, only daughter of Sir Thomas Woodhouse of Kimberley, knight, and of Dame Ann, 2d daughter and coheiress of Sir William Airmine, of Osgodby in Lincolnshire, born the 2d of February 1688, dy'd at Gressenhall the 10th of Apr. 1727, and lyes interr'd by her late husband; she was a lady of the most extensive charity, whose memory will long outlast this monument.

In 1727 [his former wife] Ann Wodehouse Lady Strange died.