Marriage and issue
Sir Henry Williams, alias Cromwell, married twice. He married firstly, Joan (d. 1584), daughter of Sir Ralph Warren, twice Lord Mayor of London, by whom he had six sons and five daughters:
Sir Oliver Cromwell.
Robert Cromwell (c. 1567 - 1617), married Elizabeth Steward (c. 1560 - London, 1654), by whom he had two children:
Anne Cromwell, married John Sewster, and had Robina Sewster, wife of Sir William Lockhart, of Lee, Scotland, who held the office of Ambassador to France, and had Robina Lockhart (ca. 1662 - Bothwell Castle, Lanarkshire, 20 March 1740/41), married on 19 August 1679 at Lincoln's Inn Chapel, London, to Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Forfar (3 May 1653 – 11 December 1712, bur. Bothwell Church)
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658), Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland
Henry Cromwell
Richard Cromwell[15]
Philip Cromwell
Ralph Cromwell
Joan Cromwell (d. c. 1641, her will was probated on 14 December 1641), married Sir Francis Barrington, 1st Baronet (c. 1570 - 3 July 1628)
Elizabeth Cromwell (c. 1562 – 1664), married William Hampden of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire, son of Griffith Hampden and his second wife, Anne Cave. They had two sons, including:
John Hampden
Frances Cromwell
Mary Cromwell, married Sir William Dunch, of Little Wittenham, Berkshire (d. 22 January 1610/11), and had Edmund Dunch.
Dorothy Cromwell, married Thomas Fleming (c. 1572–1624)
Lady Joan died at Hinchinbrooke and was buried there in All Saints' church in 1584.
He married secondly, Susan Weeks (d. 1592), by whom he had no issue, who bore for her arms azure a lion rampant checky argent and gules. She was buried at All Saints', Huntingdon, 11 July 1592 but no monument remains of either Sir Henry or of his wives, or indeed any of the name of Cromwell in that place as Huntingdon was devastated during the Civil War and all the monuments and brass plates to the dead were either destroyed or looted. Lady Susan died of a lingering illness, which in that superstitious age was blamed on witchcraft. On 4 April 1593, in the court presided over by justice Fenner, John Samwell, his wife, and daughter were found guilty of causing the death of Lady Susan through witchcraft, and executed a few days later (see the Witches of Warboys case).
