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Before William succeeded to the peerage, in 1679, he and his wife lived at Bulwell Wood Hall, in the Parish of Hucknall Torkard. Several of their children were baptised in the Church.
Anno Dmni 1665.
Richard, the sonne of Mr. Wm. Byron, Esqre.,
was baptized the 17th of March.
1666.
John, the sonne of William Byron, of Bulwell
Wood, Esqre., and Dame Elizabeth, his
wife, was baptized July the eighteenth.
1667.
Henrietta et Maria, the daughter of the honble.
William Byron, Esqre., and Elizabeth, his wife,
was baptized the seventeenth day of March.
William, the sonne of William Byron, Esqre., and
Dame Elizabeth, his wife, was baptised
February the twenty-sixth, 1668.
1670.
Juliana, daughter of the honble. William Byron,
of Bulwell Wood, Esqre., and Elizabeth,
his wife, was baptized May the nineteenth day.
1673.
Anne, the daughter of William . . . . . of Bulwell
Wood, Esq., . . . . . his wife . . . . .
(This entry is almost illegible. Transcript
reads: “Anne, daughter of William Byron,
Esq., and Dame Elizabeth, his wife, was
baptized the 8th of July.”)
Of these children Richard died at the age of one.
1666.
Mr. Richard Byron, the sonne of Mr. Will
Byrion, was buried the 8th March.
Henrietta Maria died at the age of four years.
Henrietta Maria, ye daughter of ye honble.
William Byron, Esq., and Dame Elizabeth,
his wife, was buried August the tenth
day, 1671.
Anne died in 1675 at the age of two.
Anno 1675
Anne, the daughter of the Right honble.
William Byron, Esq., and Dame Elisabeth,
his wife, was buried Aprill the fifth day.
The baptism and death of one child, Ernest, are recorded together.
1671
Ernestus, the sonne of the Right honble.
William Byron and Dame Elizabeth, his
wife, was baptised March the fifth day.
The same year was buried March the ninth day.