The baronetcy of Wilbraham of Woodhey, Cheshire, was created by

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on 5 May 1621 in the Baronetcy of England for Richard Wilbraham. He was a descendant of the ancient Cheshire family of Radnor who acquired Woodhey by marriage in the 14th century. A junior branch of the family settled at

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, and there was some intermarriage between the two. Richard Wilbraham died as a royalist prisoner at Shrewsbury in 1643 and was buried at Nantwich. An oak armchair painted with his coat of arms survives, and was probably decorated to commemorate his baronetcy.Edward Town & Angela McShane, ''Marking Time: Objects, People, and Their Lives, 1500-1800'' (Yale, 2020), p. 196. His grandson, the third Baronet, was

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in 1654 and Member of Parliament for

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1679–81. He married Elizabeth Mytton, heiress of

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, Staffordshire, and he and Lady Elizabeth built a new house at

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in 1671. The baronetcy was extinct on his death. The estate passed to his daughter Mary who married

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, and later passed to

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because of marriage to his granddaughter Ann Newport. For other branches of the family see

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and Baron Skelmersdale.

Wilbraham of Woodhey, Cheshire (1621)

* Sir Richard Wilbraham, 1st Baronet (1579–1643) * Sir Thomas Wilbraham, 2nd Baronet (1601–1660) * Sir Thomas Wilbraham, 3rd Baronet (1630–1692)

References

{{Reflist * ''Debrett's Peerage of England Scotland and Ireland'' John Debrett (1836), p. 287, Google Books. Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England 1621 establishments in England