SHAWBURY MARKET HALL

The following notice concerns a particular family of Kirby, of Shawbury, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and, later, of Goochland, Virginia. It places them within the context of a group of families (kinship circle) that had intermarried over successive generations, to a degree that the thread that ran through them was based on an intricate, and vast, network of various degrees of cousin. Put simply, this was the English kinship system, through which families arranged marriages to further mutual support and enhance their social and economic wellbeing.

HOPTON

Genealogy is not a scientific persuit, in that the records that underpin it are often not relaiable, and can be nothing more than repetition of accepted information, passed on without questioning its validity. This is as true for Norman genealogy (where Gilbert de Brionne, a member of the ducal family, is absurdly made synonomous with Gilbert Crispin, a commander of a border fort), as it is for records contained in the “Visitations” of county families of England in such as 1623. A person submitting a family pedigree at that date was often recounting ancestors of two hundred years ago, and often more. They would have relied on family memories/folklore, and, if fortunate, on armorial bearings displayed in churches, which did not discern members of the same generation. This is left to guess work, with various antiquarians being in disagreement. Such it is with the Hopton pedigree, and, in this regard the following account is a simplified one, which seems, at least, chronologically feasible. Chronology ia a challenging subject, itself, with a man who married at the age of, say, 25, and having issue, often marrying, secondly, at the age of 45-55, also having issue, thus creating the illusion of seperate generations. The oft repeated comment, he/she “seems” to be of “this generation” does not take into account the social context of earlier periods in which second and third marriages were common, and that the second/third wife may have been younger than her step-children, for it was also common for an older man to marry someone half his age.

Hopton of Hopton, and of Canon Frome, co. Hereford.

Harl. 1396, fo. 127. Harl. 1241, ff. 2, 43. S., ff. 119, 120.
ARMS: Harl. 1396.-Quarterly of eight: 1, Gules, semée of cross-crosslets fitchée and a lion rampant or (Hopton); 2, Azure, a bend argent cottised or between six cross-crosslets or, within a bordure gules charged with ten plates (Hopton); 3, Bendy of six or and gules (Eyton of Eyton, near Bishop’s Castle); 4, Azure, three boars’ heads couped close or between nine cross-crosslets fitchée argent or (Hevyn of Cleobury Motimer); 5, Argent, semée of cross-crosslets and two organ-pipes pileways gules (Downton); 6, Barry of six gules and or (St. Owen); 7, Azure, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed argent (Tirrell]); 8, Argent, a lion rampant gules charged on the shoulder with a trefoil or (Walker, alias Leigh of Stretton).

1. William Hopton, of Hopton (b. ca. 1415), m. … Eyton, dau. of … Eyton, of Eyton.
1.1. Nicholas Hopton, of Hopton, b. ca. 1440.
1.1.1. William Hopton, of Hopton (b. ca. 1465), m. Margaret, dau of John Hevyn, of Cleobury Mortimer. Hevyn – Az., three boars’ heads couped close or., nine crosses crosslet fitchée argent.* Arms of John Hevyn, of Cleobury, Sheriff 1476. (Shropshire Arms and Lineages, p. 31, 1869). Blakeway’s Shropshire Pedigrees: Hevyn in the parish of Dilwyn* belonged at an early date to a family of that name which remained in Dilwyn till the close of the XVII cent., although the eldest branch had terminated long before in two coheirs, Margaret wife of Wm. Hopton and Anne wife of Hugh Shirley (4th son of John S. of Eatington, co. Warw.). *Haven is 1 mile W. of Dilwyn, Herefords.

Harl. 1241 makes Margaret Hevyn the wife of Nicholas Hopton and the mother of William.

John Hevyn’s dau., Jane, m. Walter Broughton, having issue: Ann Broughton, who m. John de Doddington, having issue: Robert Detton (who m. Mary Kettleby); Alice Detton (who m. William Holland). Little is known of the ancestry of the Hevyns, but it is reasonable to suggest that the following Thomas de Hevyn was of this family: Debtor: Peter Hertelaunde of Catewall, in Glos., esquire, and Richard Mile, of Newent in Glos., esquire. Creditor: Thomas Bromwich,* of Sarnesfield, Herefords., the elder, and Thomas de Hevyn, of Herefords. Amount: £8 16s. 8d. Before whom: John May, Mayor of Hereford. 1416. (C 241/210/6). *He was the half-brother of Katherine Bromwich, wife of John Pembrugge, and mother of Walter, John, and Thomas Pembrugge (Pembridge); descendants of William Pembridge, and Eufemia, dau. of Sir Ralf Lingen.

Another reasonable proposition is that an ancestor of this family was Walter de Havyn: Grant by Richard de Anesey and Susanna his wife, daughter of Walter de Havyn, to the monks of Dore of the land in Benfild, lately belonging to Walter son of Walter Brun: (Herefordshire). April 1273. (E 326/372).

Inspeximus by Richard son of Thomas de Annesey, and by Susanna his wife, daughter of Walter de Havyn, of the grant by Philip son of Walter le White to the monks of Dore of land abutting upon the fee of Dorsinton (in Benfeld): (Herefordshire). April, 1273. (E 326/370). Warranty by Lucy, wife of Richard Brun of Bredeward,’ to the monks of Dore relative to the lands in Benefeud, which they held of the grant of her said husband. Witnesses: Hugh de Radnor,’ Hugh de Hulle, John Muschet. (Herefordshire). Early 14th cent. (E 326/371).

In 1205, the manor of Dilwyn was granted to William FizWarin, lord of Whittington, Shropshire. (Rot. litt. clause 1, 25). “The honour was next held in succession by Almaric de St. Armand, Godfrey and Walter de Burgh, Robert Wathamstide, Peter de Geneville. (Archaeologia Cambrensis, p. 131, 1886).

HOPTON cont.

1.1.1.1. Richard Hopton, of Hopton (b. ca 1490), m. Joane (b. ca. 1495), dau. of John Langford, ancestor of the Langfords of Ludlow*.
1.1.1.1.1. William Hopton, of Hopton and Dounton (b. ca. 1515), m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Fox of Ludlow.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Richard Hopton, of Hopton, m. (b. 1549), dau. of Thomas Walker, of Stretton.
1.1.1.1.2. Joane Hopton (b. ca. 1520), m. Ralph Marston, church warden of Stanton Lacy in 1567.
1.1.1.1.3. John Hopton, of Heyton (b. ca. 1520), m. Elizabeth, dau of Thomas Sharpe.

Depositions of these witnesses, viz., Sir Edward Strete, clk., parson of Holcot, co. Salop; Sir John Mondaye of Staunton, priest; Sir Richard Heynes, clk.; Sir Robert Martyn, clk. ; Thomas Shepard, of the parish of Staunton Lacy; Edward Jenks, of Staunton Lacy; John Hopton, of Heyton, in the parish of Staunton Lacy; Thomas Sharpe, of the same parish; Richard Palmer, of the same parish; Thomas Brampton; brought by William Heynes against Sir John Brome, vicar of Staunton, for omitting to erase the Pope’s name from the service books. “The manuel and the precessionall were unrased and uncorrected in every place, one old missal likewise, and another missal was covered with small pieces of paper set on with barm where the name of the bishop of Rome called Pope was, and when the paper was taken away the said name appeared as fair as ever it. was, and as legible.” Apud Beaudeley, xxii. die mensis Septembris, anno regni Regis Henrici octavi 27. (Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII., vol. 9, p. 134, 1886).

1.1.1.1.3.1. Thomas Hopton, of Heyton, (b. ca. 1545, fl. 1584), m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Baugh (brother-in-law of Andrew Kirby*), and brother of Rowland Baugh, grandfather of William Baugh, who had land adjacent that of Major William Harris.

BAUGH

(1. Edward Baugh, m. Margaret Stratford.
1.1. Rowland Baugh, of Twining, Gloustershire.
1.1.1. William Baugh, m. Mary, dau. of William Wakeman, of Glouc.
1.1.1.1. William Baugh, of Virginia, received a grant of 577 ac. for the transportation of 12 persons, including his son, William Baugh, Jr., on the N. side of the Appomattox River. William Baugh, as given herein, had land adjacent that of Major William Harris).

1.2. John Baugh, of Aldon Court, Shropshire, bur. Aug 1577, in Bromfield.
1.2.1. Thomas Baugh, m. Dorothy, dau. of George Parkes, of Bromfield, on Nov. 26, 1576.
1.2.1.1. Henry Baugh, bapt. Sept. 14, 1578, in Ludlow, m. Alice Holland, in 1602, dau. of Francis Holland, of Burwarton; brother of Thomas Holland, who m. (Dec. 27, 1573, in Wheathill), Alice Cocke (second-cousin of *Richard Cocke Sr. of Pickthorne (10 miles from Ludlow), Shropshire, and “Malvern Hills”, Virginia, having issue, (1) Michael Holland of Pickthorne, the probable great-grandfather of Michael Holland of Goochland; (2) William Holland*.
1.2.2. Elizabeth Baugh, m. Thomas Hopton).
1.1.1.1.3.2. Anne Hopton (b. ca. 1550), m. Andrew Kirby/Kerby.
1.1.1.1.3.3. Margaret Hopton m. William Gardner.
1.1.1.1.2. Agnes (Anne) Hopton, m. Edward Leighton., of Stretton, brother of Elizabeth Leighton, who m. (1) John Baldwyn, of Diddlebury; and Alice Leighton, who m. John Stapleton, as follows.

HOLLAND

1. “Willimus Holland”.
1.1. Thomas Holland, m. Elizabeth Wall, dau. of “Will. Wawll” (Wahull) of Wheathill. Shropshire.
1.1.1. William Holland, 1518-1590, m. Alice Ditton (Detton) of Doddington, b. 1523, dau. of John Ditton of Doddington and Anna Broughton, son of Robert Ditton of Doddington and Benedicta Morgan, dau. of William Morgan, of Shropshire (Vis. Shrop. 1623, p. 250).
1.1.1.1 Thomas Holland, m. Alicia, “fil. Thomas Cocke of Pickthorne”, second-cousin of Richard Cocke, of “Malvern Hills”, Henrico.
1.1.1.1.1. Michael Holland, of Pickthorne, b. ca. 1581, d. 1655, m. (1) Jane, d. 1632.
1.1.1.1.1.1. John Holland, m. Dorothy, dau. of Richard Hill, of Bickley, and Katherine (b. ca. 1582), dau. of John Purslowe, of Sudbury, and his second wife (m. Feb. 1576/7), Dorothy, dau. of George Blount, of Kinlet, and Constance Talbot, sister of Margaret Talbot, who m. (1) Sir Richard Ligon, of Arle, Madresfield, Worcestershire, son of William Ligon and Eleanor Dennis. Previous notes have illustrated the link between the Ligons and a Harris family of Ludlow, Shropshire, from which almost cetainly derived Major William Harris (bapt. bapt. Jan. 13, 1627/8, in Ludlow, Shropshire, and his sister, Mary Harris Ligon, bapt. April 3, 1625, in Ludlow, corresponding to her deposition of 1689, in which she stated her age to be 64. The grandmother of the said William and Mary was Jane Langford, of Ludlow; see previous notes, and, as follows.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Holland, bapt. May 15, 1648, bur. Dec. 29, 1694, in Nene Savage, m. Elizabeth Kettleby, in 1678.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Michael Holland, of Goochland, it is suggested.

The repeated intermarriages between families of this kinship association could be accounted for to an excessive amount; the following example being one of many.

1. Thomas Langford, gent., b. ca. 1535
1.1. Thomas Langford, b. ca. 1575; brother of Jane Langford, grandmother of Major William Harris, as hereto fore given.
1.1.1. William Langford, b. ca. 1610, m. Jane Jordan, of Stone Acton, Shropshire
1.1.1.1. Thomas Langford (b. ca. 1675), d. bef. 1720, in New Kent Co.
1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Langford (b. ca. 1615), “orphan”. The deliberators of his estate included William Harris, son of Major William Harris.
1.1.1.2. Alice Langford, m. Richard Duke, Sept. 17 1664, in Ludlow. Richard Duke, 400 ac. in New Kent Co., on the branches of Horocock Swamp on the Kings Road to Pascataway. April 23, 1679, p. 674. Richard Duke was almost certainly closely related to Elizabeth Duke, who m. Thomas Farmer, on Oct. 9, 1669, in Ludlow. Richard and Elizabeth Duke represent the only Duke entries in the Ludlow parish registers of this time, and very likely were the issue of Richard Duke of Didlesbury (10 miles N. of Ludlow), whose dau., Eleanor, was born there on April 21, 1663, representing the single Duke entry. Thomas Duke, bapt. Jan, 1539/40, and Elizabeth Duke, who m. Edward Crocket on June 3, 1552, represent the Duke entries in the Pontesbury registers. The ancestors of Rowland Harris, who m. Jane Langford, in Ludlow, as follows, was of Cruckton, a village in Pontesbury, 25 miles N. of Ludlow.
1.1.1.2.1. Thomas Duke, m. Elizabeth Marston.
1.1.1.2.1.1. Marston Duke.
1.1.1.3. Richard Langford (b. ca. 1652).
1.1.1.3.1. Richard Langford (b. ca. 1675), m. Lucy Kettelby, Dec. 26, 1700, Ludlow.

KIRBY

1. Andrew Kerby, m. Ann Hopton, Jan. 12, 1569, in Stanton Lacy, 3 miles from Ludlow. STAC 5/A52/6: Amyas v Kirby. Plaintiffs: John Almyas. Defendants: Andrew Kirkby and others. County: Shropshire. Subject not described. 18 Eliz. 1575-1576.

1.1. Andrew Kirby, b. ca. 1570. Plaintiffs: Philip Eyton esq. Defendants: Andrew Charlton esq., of Apley, JP, Francis Charlton his son, William Gest, Andrew Kirby, John Terington, Thomas Jesson, William Davie, William Hotchis, and others. Subject: Assaults on plaintiff Philip Eyton’s tenants and injury and driving of cattle in Horton Wood in said plaintiff’s manor of Eyton, destruction of fences, etc. Shropshire. Barnes category: officer’s misfeasance; assault; destruction of property; unlawful assembly. Jan. 1617. (STAC 8/135/7).

1.1.1. “William Kerby”, b. ca. 1595.

1.1.1.1. Mary Kirby, m. “William Juson”, June 9, 1636, brother of Elizabeth Juson, who m. Roger Browne, on Oct. 17, 1631; and Ann Juson, who m. Thomas Lakewood, on Aug. 25, 1642.

1.1.1.2. “Richard Kirbye”, bapt. March 11, 1620, Shawbury, Shrop., “son of William Kerby”.

1.1.1.3. Francis Kirby, m. Jane … Hanmer v Kirbye. Plaintiffs: Mary Hanmer widow. Defendants: William Kirbye, Francis Kirbye, Thomas Jewson and William Jewson. Subject: property in Withyford Magna, Shropshire; an estate in Shawbury. 1649. (C 6/117/70). Francis Charlton owned the manor of Withyford Magna and of several farms there, tenanted by William Jewson and Francis Kirby, whose tenancies were due for renewal, with Francis Charlton requesting a down payment (ibid).

(1. Robert Leighton of Wattlesborough, m. Anna, dau of Edward Devereux, of Castle Bromwich.
1.1. Edward Leighton of Wattlesborough (b, ca. 1620), m. Abigail, dau of William Stephens, of Shrewsbury.
1.1.1. Robert Leighton of Wattlesborough, Sheriff of Shrop. (d 1689), m. Gertrude, dau. of Edward Baldwyn, of Diddlebury.
1.1.1.1. Sir Edward Leighton, 1st Bart of Wattlesborough, Sheriff of Shrop. (d. 1711), m. (1679), Dorothy, dau. of Sir Job Charlton, and niece of Francis Charlton).

KIRBY cont.

1.1.1.3.1. Mary Kirby, bapt. Aug. 29, 1641, m. Roger Rider, April 12, 1664.

1.1.1.3.2. William Kirby, bapt. Nov. 23, 1642, Shawbury, Shrop.

1.1.1.3.3. “Andraw Kerby”, bapt. June 24 1650, Shawbury, Shrop.

1.1.1.3.3.1. Richard Kearby of Goochland, then Halifax (b. ca 1685), m. Elizabeth … First known record is a land grant 8 Sep 1730 for 400a Goochland, N side James R. on branches of Lickinghole Cr., adj. Henry Atkinson,* Philip Hoggatt & Joseph Scott. On 16 Feb 1742 Richard & Elizabeth sold this land in two parts, one to William Parrish and Philip Hoggat (Hockett), the other to Francis Kirby. Wit. both deeds: John Parrish, James Parrish & Samuel Davis. On July 25, 1741 Richard Kearby was granted another 400 ac. in Goochland on both sides of Cunningham’s Cr., on S. side Rivanna R, bounded by Michael Holland and Raccoon Cr. On Feb. 14, 1743, Richard Kirby, of St. James Parish in Goochland County, purchased from Abraham Whitworth of the same, 300 ac. on the N. side of James River on Rockfish River, south side. Witnesses: Abraham Whitworth, Francis Kearby, and Thomas Cauthon. R. Aug. 21, 1744.

1.1.1.3.3.2. Francis Kirby, on March 12, 1733 purchased from William Mills, and Mary his wife, 100 acres which was a part of Mills’ patent, witnessed by Richard Kearby, Edmond Hogges, and William Grimes. R. March 19, 1733.

1.1.1.3.3.3. John Kerby m. Joanna, dau. of William Owen (a descendant of Thomas Owen* of Shropshire and, later, Henrico), who lived adj. in Goochland to Michael Holland, Robert Adams, William Walker, etc. Processioning, Halifax Co: John Kerby and Francis Kerby and William Mullins returned here a report of Processioning by them performed since the first Monday in January last past, in the Words and Figures following, to wit, “In Obedience to an Order of Vestry bearing Date the 20th day of November 1755 we the Subscribers have Processioned the Lands of the several persons following, to wit, of Francis Kerby, present John Kerby Sr, of Samuel Davis, present the said Davis, of John Lucas, present the said Lucas, of Thomas Robertson, present the said Robertson and John Lucas, and of William Lynch, present the said Lynch and Henry Kerby which were all the Lands that were shown, or that we knew of within our Districts pr John Kearby, Francis Kearby (next district: Henry Chiles, William Atkins, Leonard Tarrant whose dau. m. David Kerby, son of John and Joanna (Owen-Langford).

(1. Eleanor Dymock, m. Thomas Sherer.
1.1. Ann Sherer (bapt. 1577), m. Edward Higgins
1.1.1. Judith Higgins, m. William Owen, in 1628.
1.1.1.1. Edward Owen, bapt. Feb. 5, 1629, perhaps named after Judith’s father, or William’s brother.
1.1.1.2. *Thomas Owen, of Henrico, bapt. July 16, 1635).

Returning to John Hevyn and his armorial bearings:

DEVEREUX. arg. a fesse gu. in chief 3 torteauxes. Crest, out of a ducal coronet or a talbot’s head arg. eared gu. Devereux, Elizabeth, dau. of Walter, Lord Ferrers, of Chartley & w. of Sir Richd. Corbet & Sir Thos. Leighton. ob. 1516. 1st, or a raven ppr. 2nd, az. 6 lions rampant 3 & 3 or. 3rd, a lion rampant. 4th, 5th, gu. crusuly, 3 lucies hauriant 2 & 1 or. 6th, arg. 3 chevronells sa. 7th, Barry of six or & vert, 18 fleursde-lis counterchanged. 8th, chequy inescutcheon erm. 2 bars. . . 1st, Quarterly per fesse indented or & gu. (Leighton) 2nd, az. a lion rampant or. (Stapleton) 3rd,… a chevron betw. 3 bulis’ heads. 4th, or 3 bendlets gu. 5th, or 3 boars’ heads couped close sa. (Cambray) 6th, az. an eagle displayed or. 7th, .a lion rampant. 8th, az. 3 escallop shells in pale or. (Mallet.) Impaling arg. a fesse gu. in chief 3 torteauxes. (Mon. at Burford to Elizabeth Devroke dau. of Walter Devroke Knt. Lord Ferrers of Charteley.) On wall above the mont is or. a raven ppr. impaling arg. a fesse gu. in chief 3 torteauxes. (Trans. Shrop. Arch., v. 6, p. 408, 1883).

1. John Leighton, m. (1383) Ellen, dau. of William Cambray, of Stretton-in-le Dale.
1.1. Edward Leighton of Stretton (d. 1455), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Stapleton, of Stapleton.
1.1.1. John Leighton, of Stretton, later of Wattlesborough, Sheriff of Shrop. (d. 1493), m. Ankeret, dau of Sir John Burgh, of Wattlesborough.
1.1.2. Edward Leighton, of Stretton, m. Anne (Agnes), dau. of Thomas Hopton.
1.1.3. Elizabeth Leighton, m. (1), John Baldwyn, of Diddlebury.
1.1.4. Alice Leighton, m. John Stapleton.

Harl. 1396, 1241:

1. John ap Rees, ap David ap Phillip ap Sisselt ap Llewelyn ap Cadgwan ap Elistan.
1.1. William or Watkin Cambray, of Stretton in-the-Dale, m. Cicely, dau. of Sir Walter Colling.
1.1.1. Ellen Cambray m. (1383), John Leighton, of Wattlesburgh.
1.1.2. … Cambray, m. Thomas de Hevyn. (It is suggested). Cambray: or 3 boars’ heads couped close sa.
1.1.2.1. John de Hevyn. Hevyn: az., three boars’ heads couped close or.
1.1.2.1.1. Margaret de Hevyn, m. William Hopton, of Hopton (b. ca. 1465).
1.1.2.1.2. Jane de Hevyn, m. Walter Broughton,
1.1.2.1.2.1. Ann Broughton, m. John de Doddington.
1.1.2.1.2.1.1. Robert Detton, m. Mary Kettleby.
1.1.2.1.2.1.2. Alice Detton, m. William Holland.
1.1.2.1.2.1.2.1. Thomas Holland, m. a second-cousin of Richard Cocke, of Pickthorne, Shropshire, and, later, of Malvern Hills”, Henrico.
1.1.2.1.2.1.2.1.1. Michael Holland, of Pickthorne.
1.1.2.1.2.1.2.1.1.1. John Holland.
1.1.2.1.2.1.2.1.1.1.1 Thomas Holland, m. Elizabeth Kettleby, in 1678.
1.1.2.1.2.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Michael Holland, of Goochland, almost certainly.

*Nine crosses crosslet fitchée argent, the armorial of the Moseley family which carried it to the Actons:
Edwin de Bilston married Julian, daughter of Thomas de Darlaston, and by this union had three daughters; the eldest of whom, being (in default of male issue) heiress, who married John Mollesley, who had a release from Robert, lord of Essington, of all manner of service due to him for his lands in Moseley. This John de Mollesley was one of the principal landowners in Bilston, and his name appears first in the list of those who surrendered their lands in 1458, situate in Windmill field, to Sir Thos. de Erdington. (George T. Lawley, History of Bilston, in the County of Stafford, p. 128. 1893).

ACTON, DOWNTON, HEVYN, LINGEN

1. William of Acton Burnell.
1.1. Edward Acton of Aldenham, Sheriff of Shrop., m. Elianor, dau of Fulk le Strange, 3rd Lord of Blackmere.
1.1.1. Walter Acton, of Longnor, Shrewsbury, m. … Stapleton.
1.1.1.1. William Acton, of Longnor.
1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Acton, of Longnor (d. Feb. 8, 1480, m. Joan, dau. Thomas Downton (and Margaret, dau. of Richard Lingen*), and sister of Isabel Downton (d. April 27, 1473), who m. John Hevyn, inquis p.m, 1481.
1.1.1.1.1.1. John Acton, of Aldenham, m. Bennet, dau. of Roger Knight, of Shrewsbury.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Acton, of Aldenham, m. Elizabeth Dryland.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. William Acton, of Aldenham, m. Cicely, dau. of Richard Cressett, of Upton Cressett.
Sir John Lingen died in 1522, and was buried at Amestry church, near Lingen, by the side of his wife, and their beautiful monumental brass yet remains on their tomb. The sisters of Sir John married well. Isolda espoused Brian Harley, an ancestor of the Earls of Oxford; Matilda married Thomas Devereux.The fortunes of the family still continued to rise: the son of Sir John and Isabel, the second Sir John Lingen, of Sutton, was sheriff in 1505, 1516, and 1520. He married Eleanor, dau. and heiress of Thomas Milewater, of Stoke Edith, and acquired thereby that beautiful and picturesque estate. A third John Lingen succeeded his father in 1530, and married Margaret the daughter of Sir Thomas Englefield, of Englefield, co. Berks, K.B., Speaker of the House of Commons and Chief Justice of Chester. (The Archaeological Journal, vol. 34, p. 381, 1877).

ST. OWEN

1. Sir Ralph St. Owen, of Burton Court (Herefordshire), m. Alice, dau. of Piers de Brewes {Braose).
1.1. John St. Owen of Burton Court, m. Joan, dau. of Sir Hugh Tirrell, of Tirrell’s Court.
1.1.1. John St. Owen, m. Elizabeth Barkley.
1.1.1.1. Joan St. Owen, m. Roger Downton, of Downton, Herefordshire
1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Downton (d. bef. 1456), m. Margaret, dau of Richard Lingen*.

LINGEN

1. Sir John de Lingen, of Lingen.
1.1. Ralph Lingen, of Lingen (fl.1377), m. Margery Pembrugge, as given heretofore.
1.1.1. Sir Ralph Lingen, of Sutton and Lingen, m. Jane, dau. of John Russell.
1.1.1.1. Sir John Lingen of Sutton and Lingen, Sheriff of Herefords. (d. 1506), m. Isabella (d. 1522), dau. of Sir John Burgh, and Jane, dau of Sir William Clopton, of Clopton.
1.2. *Richard Lingen.

In summary, genealogical enquiry concerning the English ancestry of American colonists is too often blinded by belief dressed as fact, by those who are unwilling or unable to challenge belief. A very sad fact. It is impossible to make this any more simple.

by m stanhope, copyright B.T. Shannon, 2023