Lynne of Southwick Hall, Northamptonshire

• References:
  • "Pedigree of the family of Lynne of Southwick", Everard Green, The Genealogist, 1st series, vol.1, pp.345-54, Apr 1877.
    • Follow-on notes in vol.2 (1877-8), pp.71-2 and p.333.

  • Foster's Royal Descents
    • BLENNERHASSETT [The descent of Sir Rowland Blennerhassett from the Blood Royal of England] in [Foster's Royal Descents, 1883]
    • BLENNERHASSETT [The descent of Arthur Blennerhassett, Esq. of Ballyseedy, Co.Kerry from the Blood Royal of England] in [Foster's Royal Descents, 1887]

  • LYNNE in [Blen. Pedigrees]

  • Exchange of letters in Kerry Evening Post, Jan-Apr 1893, [Nash].
  • Heraldic Visitations of Co.Northampton, 1681 and 1682, Herald's College.
  • "Some Notable English Ancestors of Kerry Families", W.T.J. Gun, in the [Co.Kerry Soc. annual report 1924]

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • There is a Lynne pedigree at the College of Arms.
  • Lynne papers, Northamptonshire Record Office.
  • Lynne papers, Cambridgeshire Archives.

  • KNYVETT in [Burkes Extinct]
  • CAPRON OF SOUTHWICK HALL in [Burkes LG]

William Lynne,
merchant, of parish of St Dunstan-in-the-East, London,
mar Alice Stokes [of Kent],
his will dated 6 Aug 1421,
he died 1421, will pr in Prerogative Court of Canterbury 4 Dec 1421,
had issue:

John Lynne,
of parish of St Dunstan-in-the-East, London,
later of Southwick Hall, Northamptonshire,
mar Joane Knyvet [or Knyvett, dau of Sir John Knyvet, of Buckenham Castle, Norfolk, by his wife Elizabeth Clifton, dau of Sir Constantine Clifton],
inherited Southwick Hall, Northamptonshire 1442 through mar,
the Knyvetts moved to Buckenham Castle from their original seat at Southwick, they let Southwick be inherited by female-line descendants,
his will dated 1486,
he died 1486-87, will pr in Prerogative Court of Canterbury 9 Aug 1487,
had issue:

1. Richard Lynne,
   of Bassingbourn (or Bassingbourne), Cambridgeshire (see John O'Gaunts Castle),
   died 1509,
   had issue:
   1. Thomas Lynne, of Bassingbourn, died 1549, had issue:
      1. John Lynne, of Bassingbourn, died 1613, had issue:
         1. William Lynne, born 1562,
            barrister, of Gray's Inn,
            mar Elizabeth Steward [bapt 1565],
            died 1589, age 27 yrs.
            Elizabeth mar 2ndly to Robert Cromwell and had issue (parents of Oliver Cromwell).

   
   

2. William Lynne,
   of Southwick Hall, Northamptonshire.

   
   

The moat, Buckenham Castle.
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Photo 2007 from Tommy Johansson. Used with permission.

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