Parents

Son of Robert LE STRANGE & Anne L'ESTRANGE.

Life History

Notes

• The family spells the name with a lower case l on le Strange.  I havefollowed the common pattern of capitalizing it.
  
  Sir Thomas Le Strange was "Esquire to the body of Henry VIII," according to the family website.
  
  A L'Estrange researcher in Australia contributed the following information about Thomas, indicating that his son Richard was the one who started the Irish line of L'Estranges:
  "My daughter-in-law's maiden name is L'Estrange, she is descendant from Sir Thomas le Strange (1493-1545) his second eldest son Richard, went to Ireland sometime between 1531 and 1545, and started the L'Estrange family there, living initially at Rosscommon and finally at Moystown and Kilcummin in Kings Co."
  -- Eric Winstone, Genealogy Website Guest Book Entry, April 2008
  
  One source had birth dates too late to match the marriage dates for this couple.  I have used dates from the family website of Le Strange of Hunstanton, of whom Thomas was one of the Lords.
  
  This line of Le Strange was established by Roland le Strange (died 1135) in Hunstanton, Norfolk.  My line connecting to the Gregorys and Stranges of Tennessee connects to North America through Devon, which hasa Hunstanton town also, probably named after the Le Strange estate inNorfolk.
  
  A descendant manages a family website, "The Le Strange Family Website," that includes some historical information and a sparse genealogy showing the line of descent from Roland.  In 1299 John le Strange was "summoned" as the first Baronet Lord Strange of Knockin.  The website does not provided dates for most persons, and places of birth for only afew.  I have compared and evaluated other sources to get birth dates for the children.
  
  The Le Stranges were Franco-Celts (or Norman-Celts) from Breton (Brittany) in France.  The name is the natural phonetic development in French Latin of the name Extraneus, the foreigner.  Members of the family later established themselves in Devon.  Devon is on the southwest peninsula of Britain, bordering Cornwall.  There is a long historic connection between this area and Wales with Brittany, from the pre-Roman times, but strengthened in in the time of the Saxon invasions when some from the Cornwall area emigrated across the channel to Brittany to escape military pressure.  This connection figures in the anachronistic Arthurian tales of the Middle Ages.
  
  The Celts of this area of Britain and the continent were of the grouplinguistically classified as Brythonic.  Families were related acrossthe British Channel into modern times.  The continental area became more and more Romanized, then Frankified, though the Breton language isstill spoken some today.  Cornish as a mother tongue was declared extinct in the 1950s, but has been revived as a studied language.

Sources

• 1. Le Strange Family Genealogy -- TudorPlace
  • Name: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STRANGE.htm;
• 2. Le Strange Website
  • Descent, http://www.ls.u-net.com/le_Strange/Seat-H2.htm
• 3. One World Tree (sm)
  • http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=41294257&st=1
• 4. Ancestry World Tree
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• 5. Ancestry World Tree
  • http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=*v34t0074&id=I08901
• 6. One World Tree (sm)
  • http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=4158331&st=1
• 7. One World Tree (sm)
  • http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=4152561