George Lynne
George Lynne,
born est c.1570,
of
Southwick Hall, Northamptonshire.
See
Wikitree
and
thepeerage.
[Lynne papers] number him as "George Lynne III".
He mar (settlement 1595) to
Isabella Forrest [bapt 27 July 1575].
He died in lifetime of
his father.
He died 5 Nov 1606, age est c.36 yrs.
He was bur 6 Nov 1606, Southwick Church.
Will pr 11 Nov 1606 "by Isabell, his widow"
[Visitation of Northamptonshire].
Inquisition into his death,
26 August, 5th
James I (26 August 1607).
Isabella fl 1607.
A tree prepared for
[Lynne papers]
says she mar 2ndly to
--- Snow
and she died 1620.
George and Isabella had with other issue (total of 4 sons and 6 daughters):
- George Lynne,
of Southwick Hall,
born 10 May 1594.
Listed as age 13 yrs 3 months 16 days
at inquisition into his father's death, 26 August 1607.
He
succ his grandfather 1617.
- William Lynne,
born 1597.
Goes to Ireland for a time:
He went to Co.Kerry for some time, through the same contacts that brought his sister to Co.Kerry.
He returned to England.
- Martha Lynne.
See Wikitree.
She must be the Martha Lynne who was
bapt 17 July 1598 at
Haddon,
Huntingdonshire (now in Cambridgeshire).
See transcript.
Haddon is just N of her mother's family home of Morborne.
Both are close to Southwick, across the county border.
Her aunt married at Haddon in 1604.
She would be named after her grandmother
Martha Throckmorton.
Her aunt
Elizabeth Forrest
married in 1604 to
Sir Arthur Denny
of Tralee, Co.Kerry.
Her father died 1606.
Goes to Ireland:
She
mar
John Blennerhassett
[of near Tralee, Co.Kerry, Ireland] and had issue.
Her uncle Sir Arthur Denny died in 1619.
Her aunt re-married and stayed in Tralee.
It would be her aunt who brought Martha over to Ireland
to marry another Munster Plantation settler, John Blennerhassett.
Martha moved to near Tralee, Co.Kerry.
List of portraits
These portraits existed in 1877.
It would be wonderful to find they still exist.
List of Lynne portraits on
pp.62-63
of
[Green, 1877].
The above says the following portraits were in the possession of
Everard Green as at 1877.
- PORTRAIT of Isabella Forrest.
- PORTRAIT of 3 children of George Lynne and Isabella Forrest.
- PORTRAIT of William Lynne.
- PORTRAIT of Elizabeth Whetenhall.
- PORTRAIT of Mary Kirkham.
- PORTRAIT of John Lynne (born 1614).
- PORTRAIT of Grace Cade, painted 1640.
