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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):

1. 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.

   
   

2. William Lynne,
   born 1597.
   He went to Ireland for a time. He was there in 1619.
   He later returned to England.

   
   

3. 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 father died 1606.
   Like her brother William, she went to Ireland. She married a Munster Plantation settler, John Blennerhassett, and stayed in Ireland.
   She mar John Blennerhassett [of near Tralee, Co.Kerry, Ireland] and had issue.

   Timeline of how Lynne came to Ireland

   1. Sir Edward Denny of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, was granted Tralee, Co.Kerry, Ireland, in 1586. He helped implement the Munster Plantation, bringing English settlers to Ireland. Tralee was burnt in an insurrection in 1598. Sir Edward died in 1600.
   2. Sir Edward was succeeded by Sir Arthur Denny, who lived at first in England.
   3. Sir Arthur Denny married in 1604 in Huntingdonshire to Elizabeth Forrest of Huntingdonshire.
   4. After 1605, Sir Arthur Denny and Elizabeth Forrest moved to Tralee and stayed there.
   5. With these contacts, Elizabeth Forrest's nephew William Lynne went to Co.Kerry. He purchased lands near Tralee in 1619.
   6. His sister Martha Lynne also went to Ireland. She married a Munster Plantation settler, John Blennerhassett.
   7. William later returned to England. Martha stayed in Ireland.

4. Cordelia Lynne.
   She mar Rev. William Hardwick.

   
   

5. Anne Lynne.
   She mar Rev. George Kirkham.
   He might be a relation of her brother's wife.
   He was vicar of Bicker, Lincolnshire, in 1631.
   He died 1636.

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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.

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Controversy about Lynne pedigree, Kerry Evening Post, 1893

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