Jane Seymour's Irish ancestry

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Jane Seymour's Irish ancestry

Legg inn av Gjest » 25 mai 2005 16:33:11

In his English Genealogy (3rd ed., Phillimore, Chichester, 1983),
Anthony Wagner mentions:

"...the Mackwilliam family of Stambourne, Essex, whose heiress married
Sir John Seymour (d. 1464). The Mackwilliams were in England by Richard
II's reign. According to John Leland (d. 1552) 'One MacWilliam being a
younger brother of a gentleman in Ireland came to Bristol and there so
increased in riches that in continuance he bought lands to the sum of 3
or 400 marks by the year'. Sir James Ware (d. 1666) deduced them from
the MacWilliam Eighter or MacWilliam Oughter branch of the Bourkes in
Connaught."

(Queen) Jane Seymour was a descendant of the above Sir John Seymour.
Genealogics.org cites Paget and lists this Sir John's only wife as
Isabel William, daughter of Mark (Spaynell) Williams, Mayor of Bristol
in 1422-23, by his wife Agnes. Mark (Spaynell) Williams is shown as son
of William Spaynell (d. 1391) and of Soneta his wife.

Is "Mark Williams" a corruption of Mackwilliam? If so, does the
Spaynell link still apply? Perhaps someone with an interest in the
Seymours or in Bristol's history could clarify?

Thanks,

Mark Bridge, London UK

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Re: Jane Seymour's Irish ancestry

Legg inn av Gjest » 25 mai 2005 19:26:42

Oops... Williams should read William through the above post.

Incidentally, the following line, taken from the 1561 Visitation of
Suffolk and Burke's Landed Gentry of 1894, brings the Mackwilliam blood
into the Anglo-Irish gene pool:

Henry Mackwilliam, of Stambourne, Essex, will pr. 1558, m. Ellen (IGI
says Ela Ley).

Elizabeth, m. Sir George Colt of Colt's Hall, Cavendish, Suffolk. Will
pr. 1579.

Henry Colt, of Cavendish, will pr. 1577, m., 1st, Elizabeth, dau. of
Sir John Conisby of North Mimms, Herts.

Jane, m. John Le Hunte, of Little Bradley, Suffolk.

Sir George Le Hunte, of Little Bradley, m., 2nd, Alice, dau. of Sir
John Peyton, Bt., of Isleham, Cambs.

Col. Richard Le Hunte, of Cashel, Captain of Cromwell's Bodyguard, b.
1620, MP for Cashel 1661, m. Mary, dau. and co-heir of David Lloyd of
Kilkiffith, Pembs.

Descendants - see Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, Le Hunte - include
Sir George Le Hunte KCMG, Governor of South Australia 1903-1909 and the
half-Afghan Col. Sir Robert Warburton KCIE (d. 1899), founder of the
Khyber Rifles.

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