Anne Killigrew

Anne Killigrew (baptised 7 September 1607, died 6 July 1641) was a Lady in Waiting to Queen Henrietta Maria, and the first wife of George Kirke (d. 1675) who was Groom of the Chamber to Charles I of England. Early life Anne Killigrew was the eldest daughter of Sir Robert Killigrew and Mary Woodhouse. Her parents had twelve children, seven of them girls. Anne Killigrew was baptized on 7 September 1607 at Hanworth, in what was then Middlesex. Marriage and life at court Charles I of England may have helped to arrange her marriage to George Kirke, his Groom of the Chamber. The king attended their wedding, on 4 January 1627, and gave the couple an 80-year lease on the royal manor of Sheriff Hutton, Yorkshire. George Kirke retained the tenancy until 1650. Anne's children include: Charles Kirke (1633–74), christened on 4 September 1633 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. George Kirke (b. 27 January 1635) at Sunbury, near Hampton Court, died in infancy. Baby daughter, buried 23 May 1640, Westminster Abbey.