Sir Edmund Sawyer
Sir Edmund Sawyer,
born 1585.
See
wikipedia
and
wikitree.
In 1623 he purchased the manor of
Heywood, Berkshire.
MP for
New Windsor 1624.
He mar 1stly, 10 Aug 1624, to Elizabeth Parkhurst
[dau of Sir Robert Parkhurst, a wealthy London Clothworker].
She died within days of marriage. She was bur 19 Aug 1624.
Obviously no issue.
He mar 2ndly, probably soon after 1624, to
Anne Whitmore.
She was dau of Sir William Whitmore,
of
Apley, Shropshire,
by Margaret Moseley,
dau of Rowland Moseley, of
the Hough, Lancashire.
MP for
Harwich 1625.
Knighted 24 Feb 1625.
MP for
Berwick-upon-Tweed 1628.
He apparently had a London house in
St. Andrew Undershaft.
Anne died 1651.
Sir Edmund mar 3rdly to Florence Marsh [dau of Samuel Marsh of Finchampstead, Berkshire].
He died 14 June 1676, in his 91st year.
He was buried at White Waltham, Berkshire (near Heywood).
See findagrave.
He had issue by 2nd wife:
- George Sawyer.
He died in the lifetime of his father.
[Burkes LG]
says he died 1655.
However that does not fit with the memorial for his son George.
He
had issue:
- Edmund Sawyer,
of Heywood, Berkshire.
He succeeded his grandfather in 1676.
- George Sawyer,
born 1660 [going by his memorial].
He died 1724, age 64.
Memorial in
Highclere church.
[Burkes LG]
gives the 2nd son as John, died 1722,
but that seems to be inaccurate.
-
Sir Robert Sawyer,
4th or
6th son, born 1633.
Speaker of the House of Commons.
Attorney General for England and Wales.
Memorial to George Sawyer (died 1724).
Highclere church, Hampshire.
This says that
Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke,
who married
Margaret Sawyer,
was patron of the Sawyer family,
including Margaret's 1st cousin George Sawyer.
Photo 2025.
See
larger
and
full size.
Heywood, NE side of
White Waltham, Berkshire.
Purchased by Sir Edmund Sawyer in 1623.
Sawyer family later lived at Heywood Lodge.
Edmund Charles Sawyer (died 1920) owned Heywood Lodge, but did not live there.
See
modern map.
Heywood Farm still there.
But Heywood Lodge seems gone and replaced by a housing estate.
Heywood, White Waltham, Berkshire.
From
map. Surveyed: 1870 to 1875. Published: 1881.
Heywood Lodge, Berkshire.
Photo 1866.
See full size.
From Historic England.
Sources yet to be fully consulted
