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  Thomas Cheney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Cheney was born around 1485 at Shurland House, Eastchurch, on the isle of Sheppey in Kent, England, the son of William Cheney by his second wife, Agnes (Margaret) (nee Young).
Sir Thomas Cheney died at Minster in Sheppey, and was buried at the Trinity Church on Sheppey.
Cheney was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520, and served three times as an ambassador to France, under the authority of Henry VIII and Charles V of France, between 1549 and 1553).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Cheney   (766 words)

  
 Sir Thomas CHENEY Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
Sir Thomas Cheney was an astute soldier, diplomat and royal servant whose urge to please those in authority so curbed the proud and overbearing manner of his youth that in his old age he was dismissed as ‘a timid man, much addicted to worldly possessions’.
As a youth Thomas Cheney is said to have been among Henry VII’s henchmen; he was a squire of the body at the King’s funeral and as the step son of Isabella, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn he would become a distant relative of Henry VIII.
Cheney seems to have been high steward of the Archbishop's lands from 1535 to 1540, at a fee of £40 a year, but relations between the two remained bad and in 1546 they were in dispute over a matter of wreck.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/ThomasCheney.htm   (4212 words)

  
 CHENEY in ENGLAND
Pinhoe, a suburb of Exeter, was the home of William Cheney and family for a few years in the opening of the seventeenth century, but investigation shows that he received the lease of the manor through his wife, whose family were its owners, and his former residence and later home alike evaded our search.
Thomas Cheyney was an alderman of Boston in 1685.
Sir John Cheney of Sherland in the isle of Sheppey, in the north of the county of Kent, off whose shore "Cheney Rock" is a land-mark, adopted the arms of the family of his wife, the heiress of the Russells.
www.geocities.com /wells789/earlycheneys.htm   (2565 words)

  
 Mark Hosenball, Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas, "Cheney's Long Path to War," Newsweek, 17 November 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A Cheney aide took strong exception to the notion that the vice president was at the receiving end of some kind of private pipeline for half-baked or fraudulent intelligence, or that he was somehow carrying water for the neocons or anyone else's self-serving agendas.
Cheney declined an interview request from NEWSWEEK, but interviews with his aides and a wide variety of sources in the intelligence and national-security community paint the portrait of a vice president who may be too powerful for his own good.
Cheney believes that America’s military and intelligence establishments were weakened by defeat in Vietnam and the wave of scandals that followed in Watergate in the ’70s and Iran-contra in the ’80s.
www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/bush/path.htm   (3280 words)

  
 Sir Thomas Wiatt the Elder
Thomas was a playmate and friend of Anne Boleyn and had an early love affair with her and long after his marriage was regarded as her lover.
Thomas was embarrassed financially that, in spite of his inheritance of his father's large fortune, his own lavish expenditures had consumed a large portion of the inheritance.
Thomas was seen as highly intelligent, witty, fearless of speech to the point of indiscretion, impulsive and unsteady and spoiled by an admiring father and friends.
genealogical-gleanings.com /wyatt-elder.htm   (2358 words)

  
 §2. Sir Thomas Wyatt. VIII. The New English Poetry. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of ...
A sketch of their lives, especially of that of the former, may be of interest as helping to show the extent to which England was brought into touch with European influences.
Thomas Wyatt was born in or about 1503, and was educated at Cambridge, possibly, also, at Oxford.
In 1511, his father was joint constable with Sir Thomas Boleyn of Norwich Castle, and, as a boy, he made the acquaintance of a lady—Sir Thomas’s daughter Anne—with whose name report was to link his own very closely.
www.bartleby.com /213/0802.html   (810 words)

  
 Roy - Boudreau - Whelpley Genealogy - Person Page 35   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Thomas Cheney served on 29 January 1654/55 at Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, as a member of a committee to inspect the bounds between Roxbury and Dorchester.
Mehitabel Cheney was baptized on 4 June 1643 at Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts,, Her baptism was recorded as 4 (4) 1643.
Or Joanna Cheney was born on 16 November 1728 at Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
www.delvee.org /Delvey/p35.htm   (5019 words)

  
 Falls Church News-Press
Cheney has accused Democratic war critics of being "dishonest and reprehensible" in saying the administration misled the nation into war.
But Cheney did not explain how Saddam was a threat to the United States, given that Iraq was the target of stringent economic sanctions and regular satellite surveillance, not to mention that American airpower had chopped the northern and southern sectors of Iraq into no-fly zones for years.
Cheney also contended that pre-war intelligence showed that "the dictator of Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
www.fcnp.com /539/thomas.htm   (598 words)

  
 t r u t h o u t - Thomas Oliphant | Cheney's Fading Credibility
The great, planned moment for Cheney turned out to be on a par with weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein's nonrole in the 9/11 attacks, Iraq's nonties to Al Qaeda, and the millions of Iraqis waiting to welcome the invading Americans.
Cheney's falsehood was in total contrast to the counter-attack Edwards used after the vice president's defining moment had passed.
Cheney fudged the issue by "explaining" that his opposition was to unilateral sanctions, not the current, international penalties Iran faces that may even be increased.
www.truthout.org /docs_04/100904K.shtml   (1513 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Cheney Joins the Social Security Campaign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Thomas, who two months ago said that because of Democratic resistance Bush's proposal was a "dead horse" and would only be a starting point for Congress, said Monday he wants "to not only take a look at Social Security, but frankly the whole question of aging" and its effect on the government.
Both Thomas and Cheney indicated they were opposed to lifting the cap on income subject to the payroll taxes, currently $90,000.
Cheney said the country is headed toward a "financial train wreck" that will leave Americans with smaller benefits in the future if it is not dealt with.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A54272-2005Mar21?language=printer   (1001 words)

  
 Cheney should check his own 'facts'
Cheney is miffed over a raft of stories about his ties to Halliburton Co., a Houston-based energy conglomerate, which is a major recipient of U.S. contracts to rebuild Iraqi.
Maybe Cheney has forgotten that he no longer works for a private corporation and that, instead, he is a public servant, doing the public's business that should be conducted in the daylight.
But when it comes to Cheney's advice to the media, the vice president would be well advised to follow his own recommendations.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/153589_thomas23.html   (990 words)

  
 Martin's Genealogical Website
Sarah CHENEY was born on 30 Sep 1704 in Newberry, Essex, Massachusets.
Thomas CHENEY was born in 1633 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachuesetts.
Thomas CHENEY was born on 25 Dec 1658 in Cambridge, Suffolk, MA.
www.martin.fenimore.com /b68.htm   (787 words)

  
 University of New Hampshire Library - Milne Special Collections and Archives - Thomas Cheney letters (MC 175)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Thomas C. Cheney was born in Derry, New Hampshire on September 11, 1831 to Sally and Lyman King Cheney.
Cheney's unit was in virtually every major battle of the Army of the Potomac - Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and the Virginia Campaign of 1864.
From Emily Gilchrist to Rachel Cheney with enclosed from Freddie, undated.
www.izaak.unh.edu /specoll/mancoll/cheney2.htm   (690 words)

  
 The Cheney Genealogy by C.H. Pope (pages 5-25)
Joel Cheney, of Southbridge, Henry Allen Chaney, Esq., of Detroit, Mich., Rev. Russell Lea Cheney, of Janesville, Wis., and Mr.
William Cheney's homestead lay in a bend of the old highway which is still a well trodden thoroughfare -- Dudley street -- on the southeast side, near its junction with Warren st. The other tracts of land were widely scattered.
Cheney, in the depth of their tenderness and the sagacity and prudence of the plans made for her.
www.hannahdustin.com /cheney5_25.htm   (5991 words)

  
 UNION COUNTY, OHIO - 1883 HISTORY - CHAPTER X - JACKSON TOWNSHIP
Thomas Cheney was born in Harrison County, Va., in 1804.
Cheney, Thomas J. Mather and David Wynegar, the latter of Claibourne Township.
Thomas Cheney (deceased), a pioneer and the father of the subject of this sketch, was born May 3, 1804.
www.heritagepursuit.com /Union/Untp10.htm   (15903 words)

  
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William Cheney was an early resident of Roxbury, in the colony of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
William Cheney is the fortieth name, with 24 1/2 acres, showing that he was above average in wealth.
It shows William Cheney not only a a subscriber to the fund, but as one of the few leading men who specially guaranteed to the town the payment of yearly contributions.
www.jcsisle.com /cheney.html   (733 words)

  
 Cheney Takes the Low Road
The Bush re-election campaign is playing national security as its strong suit, and Cheney is out on the road defending the administration's unprecedented policy of "pre-emption." That is, you should attack before you are attacked.
This simple reality has not stopped Bush or Cheney or a host of other speakers at the Republican National Convention from continuing to depict the invasion and occupation of Iraq as part of the "war" against terrorism.
Cheney launched his salvos at Kerry on the same day that American deaths in Iraq reached the 1,003 mark with 7,000 more wounded soldiers.
www.commondreams.org /views04/0914-05.htm   (939 words)

  
 William Cheney page 2
Thomas Cheney "became surety to the town of Boston that his mother Margaret Burge and her family would not become chargeable to the town," April 24, 1682.
This wrighting testifieth a mutual agreement betwen Thomas Cheney and Deacon Giles Payson with the helpe and concurence of the select men and feoffese of the schoole of Roxbury concerning a highway leading throw the land of Giles Payson and so leading into the Land of the said Thomas Cheney at the Great lot.
Witnes hereunto William Park Giles Payson Isaac Johnson Thomas Cheney Griffin Crafts Tobias Davis Ensigne Davis Giles Payson and Thomas Cheney hath acknowledged this agreement to be thare Act and Deed 21 :6.
www.angelfire.com /la2/gen/willcheneyroxbury2.htm   (2736 words)

  
 The Autobiography of Talitha Cumi Garlick Avery Cheney, Mormon Pioneer
February 13, 1854, I was married to Elam Cheney at Springfield, Utah.
Cheney thought it would be best for some of his family to live on a farm, so we did.
David and Thomas Cheney built a one room cabin for their mother at Victor, Idaho, near the town of Thomas Cheney.
www.jefflindsay.com /talitha-cheney.shtml   (2953 words)

  
 Thomas Cheney & Jane Atkinson
In November 1659, Thomas was a constable for the Town of Cambridge.
Thomas rendered very efficient service in December of 1675 when Captain Johnson was killed.
Thomas Cheiny of Roxbury was made a Freeman on April 18, 1690 (From the New England Historic Genealogical Register, Volume 3, 1849, page 348)
pages.prodigy.com /QJNT72A/grpf0128.htm   (285 words)

  
 Our Family Forest
Thomas HASTINGS and Margaret CHENEY were married on Apr 10, 1651 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
Thomas CHENEY were married about 1541 in Boston,, England.
Thomas CHIPMAN and (Dau) DERBY were married in 1618 in Bryan's Piddle, England.
www.family2remember.com /famtree/b21.htm   (2426 words)

  
 John Baker's Genealogy - Person Page 57   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She was the daughter of Thomas John Brannan and Electa Phelps.
He was the son of Thomas Masteller and Matilda Brannan.
Jane Masteller was the daughter of Thomas Masteller and Matilda Brannan.
home.comcast.net /~jbaker1516/jmb-p/p57.htm   (1067 words)

  
 The Life of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
Thomas Wyatt was born to Henry and Anne Wyatt at Allington Castle, near Maidstone, Kent, in 1503.
Around 1525, Wyatt separated from his wife, charging her with adultery; it is also the year from which his interest in Anne Boleyn probably dates.
Sir John Russell to Venice and the papal court in Rome in 1527.
www.luminarium.org /renlit/wyattbio.htm   (679 words)

  
 Helen Thomas: "Cheney seems quite content to be the power behind the throne"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The super-secret Bush administration provides scant clues about Cheney's exact roles, though we know that he is the chief hawk in the White House flock and was one of the masterminds of the U.S. attack on Iraq.
Although he has a heart ailment, health-wise, Cheney says he is ready for the 2004 election campaign and hopes for another four years in the vice presidency.
The difference between Cheney and other VP's is that, unlike nearly all others, Cheney's presence on the ticket was not a matter of electoral votes.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/971401/posts   (2627 words)

  
 Benjamin Cheney Jr. and Nancy Snow
Julia Etta Cheney born in July 31,1844 in Kirtland, died May 24, 1881 in Otho, Webster, IA, married on April 20, 1864 in Otho to Charles Hudson.
Thomas Cheney born July 13, 1842 in Kirtland, probably married Sarah Van Horn and had son Bennie born Jan 1 1882, died August 5, 1883 and buried in Otho Cemetery and daughter Olive Pearl born January 6, 1884 in Ft. Dodge.
Mary Jane’s first (Cheney) husband died or divorced and she married secondly about 1860 to George Coomber (born about 1837 England, died November 14, 1900 and buried in Otho Cemetery) and had Henry M. (born abt 1861) and Mary M. (born abt 1868).
www.hannahdustin.com /benjamin_cheney_II.htm   (1443 words)

  
 Cheney Hypocritical In Telling Media To Check Facts - Helen Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cheney is miffed over a raft of stories about his ties to Halliburton Co., a Houston-based energy conglomerate, which is a major recipient of U.S. contracts to rebuild Iraq.
While he's lecturing about accuracy, Cheney should do some fact-checking of his own statements about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction weapons.
Cheney could have been explaining his repetitious line to the American public about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
www.wlwt.com /helenthomas/2717758/detail.html   (910 words)

  
 Hastings-Cheney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Children of William and Deborah CHENEY: an infant; Deborah died as infant; William died as infant; Deborah; William; John; Benjamin; and a child born after William's execution.
Thomas was a signer of The Covenant of Dedham, MA in 1636 and "laid down" a home lot, but probably never resided there.
Children of Thomas and Anna HASTINGS: Margaret married Nathaniel EVARTS (or EVERTS, son of John EVARTS and Submit STONE); Hannah married Samuel GILLETT; Thomas married Mary FIELD; Hepzibah married Jonathan CURTIS; Mehitable married John BURKE; and John married first Lydia, and second Hannah WHITE.
kinnexions.com /smlawson/hastings.htm   (980 words)

  
 Scott Ancestors
Thomas Hale was born in Chelsea, Vt January 18, 1813.
Thomas was born in Watton-at-stone, England November 18, 1633.
Thomas was born in Codicote, Hertfordshire, England 1504.
www.mindspring.com /~henrymc/Scott.htm   (6312 words)

  
 MUGGER
Lynne Cheney, a tough tomato, will know when it's no longer safe for her husband to work.
The Wall Street Journal's house cardiologist, Albert Hunt, insists that Cheney's medical records be available to the press-never mind that Clinton, for quite obvious reasons, never released portions of his file-and upbraids Bush and the administration for not being more forthcoming about every twinge Cheney might feel during the day.
Cheney has explicitly said he serves at Bush's pleasure and if the President wants to keep him on, despite a medical condition that today isn't all that uncommon, he's eager to perform the job he's so far handled so ably.
www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/mugger031601.asp   (1606 words)

  
 Martin Lord & Osman PA - a Wolfeboro, New Hampshire (NH) Family Law Law Firm
In 1925 Oscar Young was appointed to the New Hampshire Superior Court and eventually he became its Chief Justice in 1941.
Thomas Cheney was appointed by the Governor to be the New Hampshire Attorney General.
In 1936 Arthur H. Nighswander and William S. Lord became partners and the firm's name became Cheney, Nighswander and Lord and then Nighswander and Lord in 1946, after the death of Thomas Cheney.
pview.findlaw.com /view/1201634_1   (813 words)

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