Forrest of Morborne, Cambridgeshire
Or Forest.
Morborne is in Huntingdonshire, which is now part of Cambridgeshire.
All Saints Church, Morborne.
Photo 2007.
From
Geograph.
See
street view.
Sir Myles Forrest,
or Forest,
of
Morborne,
Huntingdonshire,
now in
Cambridgeshire
(SW of Peterborough,
see
map).
He
mar
Elizabeth Colly
[dau of Anthony Colly,
of
Glaston, Rutland].
They
had issue:
- Sir Anthony Forrest, MP,
or Forest,
of Morborne,
bapt 27 Sept 1573, apparently at his mother's home place of Glaston.
He was
educ Emmanuel College, Cambridge (entered 1591).
Knighted 20 Aug 1604.
He knew the Cromwell family.
He
was godparent to Oliver Cromwell's 1st cousin in 1608.
See [Hickson, 1893].
MP for Wallingford 1624-1626.
He
died 6 Mar 1631, age 57 yrs.
- Isabella Forrest,
or Isabel, NOT Mary,
bapt Morborne, 27 July 1575.
[O'Carroll, 2009, pp.44-45]
says she was a lady in waiting to
Elizabeth I.
She mar George Lynne and had issue.
- Elizabeth Forrest.
[O'Carroll, 2009, pp.37-38]
says she was a lady in waiting to
Elizabeth I.
She
mar 1stly, pre-1605, to Sir Arthur Denny and had issue.
[Hickson, 1893]
thought they married in 1606
but their son was bapt in July 1605.
Arthur's father had been granted Tralee town and castle, Co.Kerry, Ireland.
They settled in Tralee.
He died 1619.
She mar 2ndly to Sir Thomas Harris.
Morborne.
From
old map.
Surveyed: 1885 to 1887.
Published: 1887.
The Manor Farm was a Forest property.
The house was built around 1692 and there are remains of a moat.
Above the doorway are the arms of Forest of Morborne with the initials "P.F." and date 1692.
See modern
satellite view
and
street view
of entrance.
Sources yet to be consulted
