Deane was descended from a family who for many generations lived at Saltonstall, a hamlet in Warley in the parish of Halifax, and whose history appears to have been quite uneventful.[3] Owing to the frequency with which the same Christian names occur in the Parish Registers, it is by no means easy to identify the several families of the name of Deane, but in 1612 the family from which the author of "Spadacrene Anglica" was descended, recorded in the College of Arms a short entry of pedigree, of which a copy is appended. His parents were Gilbert Deane of Saltonstall and Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Jennings of Seilsden in Craven, and their family consisted of four sons, viz. Gilbert, Richard, Edmund and Symon (twins). The date of birth of Edmund is not known, but the entry of baptism is on 23rd of March 1572.[4] The mother seems to have died at their birth, for the date of her funeral is but two days' later.[5] Gilbert Deane of Saltonstall,-+-..... dau. of ..... Co. York | Horsfold under the | bank, near Heptonstall | +---------------+------------+-------------------------+--+ | | | | Richard Deane Gilbert Deane of-+-Elizabeth dau. William 3 s.p. Saltonstall | of Edm. Jennings Roger 4 | of Seilsden in Craven | +-----------------------+------+----+-----------------------+--+ | | | | | Gilbert Richard Edmund Deane--Anne Michaell Deane -+-Susan Deane, of the City dau of Symon s.p. | dau of Bishop of of York, ... Faurie | ... Bentley Ossory in Doctor of of Leicester, | Ireland Phisick & Widow of | Marmaduke | Haddesley of | Hull, Alderman +------------------+ | John Deane, son & heir. Of the brothers of Edmund, Gilbert, the eldest, apparently lived at Saltonstall, and it was his son, John Deane, who eventually became the chief beneficiary under the Will of Edmund. Symon (or Michaell Symon), the twin brother, died at the age of seven years. His remaining brother, Richard, born in 1570, entered Merton College, Oxford, in 1589, and in 1609 succeeded Dr. Horsfall as Bishop of Ossory. He died in 1614.