Narborough Norfolk

"Here lyeth John Spelman, esquyer, son & heyer apparant to Syr John Spelman, kniyght, one of the justices of plees xxx the kyng, to beholden, and Dame Elizabeth his wyfe,which John maryed Margaret one of the daughters of Sir Thomas Blenhassett, knyght, & Dame Margaret his wyfe, and had issue by the said Margaret too sonnes & too daughters lyving at the tyme of his deth, and decessed the 27th daye of December in the yere of ye Lorde God 1545 and in the 37th yere of the rayne of Kyng Henry Vlll, on whose soule Jesu have mercy"

 

John Spelman was the only son of Sir John Spelman and Elizabeth Frowyke www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9Rj86X co-heiress daughter of Henry Frowyke of Gunnersby / Gunnersbury, Middlesex & 2nd wife Margaret daughter of Ralph Leigh by Elizabeth Langley

He m Margaret 1558 daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett of Frenze 1531 flic.kr/p/rp8dxz & Margaret d1561 flic.kr/p/qsrvxx daughter of John Braham of Wetheringsett and Joan Reyden 1519 flic.kr/p/rmRqsL

Children - 2 sons & 2 daughters

1. Thomas dsp

2. John Spelman of Narburgh 1581 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/H69W16 m1 Judith 1570 daughter of Sir Clement Higham of Barrow Suffolk flic.kr/p/ag3hJy by 2nd wife Anne Waldegrave Bures m2 Catherine, daughter of William Saunders of Ewell in Surrey

 

 

Margaret m2 John Eyre dsp 1561 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/j379T8 of Lyn, Receiver General to Queen Elizabeth for the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgshire & Huntingdon

 

www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol6... - Church of All Saints, Narborough Norfolk

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