Genealogy
Pedigree of Birkbeck of Sheffield & Castleford
Edward Birkbeck, of Orton, B.D., co. Westmoreland, was domestic chaplain to Lord Darcy, of Aston, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Rector of Staveley, co. Derby, married at Staveley, July 14, 1609, Anne, daughter and heiress of William Kay, of Woodsome. She was buried there on 2nd August, 1616. He married at Birstall, Leeds on 2 September, 1617, as his second wife, Barbara Kay. By his first wife he had Thomas Birkbeck, Vicar of Sheffield, and Peter Birkbeck, Rector of Castleford.