SOUTHWELL FAMILY

Simon SOUTHWELL

Married: ¿?

John SOUTHWELL

Notes: Sir John de Southwell had a patent dated at Rennes in Britany, Jun 7 1285, to be seneschal of the dutchy of Gascoign in France; and on Jun 2, in the 17th of Edward I, had a grant of the castle of Burdeaur, for life, for his great services, and for rendering himself an hostage, for the liberty of Charles King of Sicily, then a prisoner in Aragon. In the 20th of that King, he was sent with Nicholas de Segrave and Osbert de Spalding, as judges, to hear and adjust complaints in the isle of Man, and was wrote to by the King, in his 22d year, to attend and assist him in the recovery of Gascoign, which had revolted.

Father: Simon SOUTHWELL

John SOUTHWELL

Born: 1280, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England

Father: John SOUTHWELL

Mother: Matilda HECHERTON

Married: Alice De MARESCHAL 1310, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England

Children:

1. John SOUTHWELL

John SOUTHWELL

Born: 1311, Felixhall, Essex, England

Notes: John Southwell, in 1349, the 22d of Edward III, was made chief officer for the King, in the country of Cork in Ireland, for life, on the attainder of Thomas Earl of Desmond, with power to make a deputy, for as much as he was always attendant on the King's person. In the 34th of the said King, John de Southwell, was D'ni. Regis clericus, probably clerk of the King, and had a pension of 10 marks per ann. His son, Richard Southwell, was high sheriff of Kent in the 48th of Edward III, and Nicholas Southwell was groom of the bedchamber to King Richard II and sent by him in 1388, to the King of France, with credentials.

Father: John SOUTHWELL

Mother: Alice De MARESCHAL

Married: Joan FUDELL 1334, Kildenhall Manor, Essex, England

Children:

1. John SOUTHWELL

2. Richard SOUTHWELL

3. Joan SOUTHWELL

4. Nicholas SOUTHWELL

John SOUTHWELL

Born: ABT 1335, Felixhall, Essex, England

Father: John SOUTHWELL

Mother: Joan FUDELL

Married: ¿?

Children:

1. John SOUTHWELL (Esq.)

Died: 1393, Annersleywoodhouse, Nottinghamshire, England

Father: John SOUTHWELL

Mother: ¿?

Children:

1. John SOUTHWELL

2. Robert SOUTHWELL

John SOUTHWELL

Notes: In the 33d of Henry VI, it appears that William Bonds, etc. conveyed to John Southwell, and Alice his wife, the manors of Elgh and Pakefield, in Suffolk, and was (as is said) his 2d wife, probably daughter and coheir of Sir Edmund Berry, and relict of Sir Thomas Bardolf. In the 3d of Edward IV, Edmund Bardolf, and Alice Gryce, daughter of William Gryce, had lands conveyed to them is East Todenham, by John Southwell, and Alice his wife, for life; remainder to John and Alice, and the heirs of Alice. In the 29th of Henry VI he was Member of Parliament for Lewes in Sussex, and lived at Barham Hall in Suffolk.

Father: John SOUTHWELL (Esq.)

Mother: Agnes PRYDE

Married 1: Joan CURZON 1475, Brightwell, Suffolk, England

Children:

1. Robert SOUTHWELL (High Sheriff of Barnham)

Robert SOUTHWELL (High Sheriff of Barham)

Father: John SOUTHWELL

Mother: Joan CURZON

Married: ¿?

Children:

1. John SOUTHWELL of Barham

John SOUTHWELL of Barham

Father: Robert SOUTHWELL (High Sheriff of Barnham)

Mother: ¿?

Married: Elizabeth FOSTER

Children:

1. John SOUTHWELL of Barham

2. Son SOUTHWELL

3. Son SOUTHWELL

4. Dau. SOUTHWELL

5. Dau. SOUTHWELL

6. Dau. SOUTHWELL

7. Dau. SOUTHWELL

8. Dau. SOUTHWELL

9. Dau. SOUTHWELL

John SOUTHWELL of Barham

Father: John SOUTHWELL of Barham

Mother: Elizabeth FOSTER

Married: ¿?

Children:

1. Robert SOUTHWELL of Barnham (Esq.)

2. Richard SOUTHWELL

3. John SOUTHWELL

4. Edmund SOUTHWELL of Castle Mattress

Robert SOUTHWELL of Barham (Esq.)

Father: John SOUTHWELL of Barham

Mother: ¿?

Married: ¿?

Children:

1. Ursula SOUTHWELL

Ursula SOUTHWELL

Born: ABT 1560

Father: Robert SOUTHWELL of Barnham (Esq.)

Mother: ¿?

Married: Thomas RICHARDSON (Sir Knight)

Children:

1. Ursula RICHARDSON (d. 20 Mar 1656/57) (m. William Yelverton, 2º Bt.)

Edmund SOUTHWELL of Castle Mattress

Father: John SOUTHWELL of Barham

Mother: ¿?

Married: Catherine HERBERT

Children:

1. Thomas SOUTHWELL (Sir)

Thomas SOUTHWELL (Sir)

Died: 1680

Father: Edmund SOUTHWELL of Castle Mattress

Mother: Catherine HERBERT

Married: Elizabeth STARKEY (dau. of William Starkey of Dromoland)

Children:

1. Richard SOUTHWELL (m. Elizabeth O'Brien)

2. Gertrude SOUTHWELL

3. Joan SOUTHWELL

Robert SOUTHWELL

Born: ABT 1394

Father: John SOUTHWELL (Esq.)

Mother: Agnes PRYDE

Married 1: Cecilia SHARINGTON (da. of Thomas Sharington of Cranworth, Esq. and Catherine Pyrton)

Married 2: Isabel BOYS 1448

Children:

1. Richard SOUTHWELL (Sir Knight)

Richard SOUTHWELL (Sir Knight)

Born: ABT 1449, Wood Rising, Norfolk, England

Married 1: Amy WITCHINGHAM 1476, Coningsby, Lincolnshire, England

Children:

1. Alice SOUTHWELL

2. Robert SOUTHWELL

3. Amy SOUTHWELL

4. Elizabeth SOUTHWELL

5. Francis SOUTHWELL

Married 2: Catherine WILLIAMS 1488, Norfolk, England

Children:

6. Elizabeth SOUTHWELL

Alice SOUTHWELL

Born: ABT 1476, Wood Rising, Norfolk, England

Father: Richard SOUTHWELL (Sir Knight)

Mother: Amy WITCHINGHAM

Married: John BERNEY Wood Rising, Norfolk, England

Amy SOUTHWELL

Notes: was made seneschal of all the honours and manors forfeited to the King, by Edmund de la Pole, in Norfolk and Suffolk or by the Duchess of Suffolk, his mother, ao. 19th Henry VII, and in the following year, by patent, chief butler of England. In the 4th of Henry VIII he was made supervisor of the King's lands, and castles, by act of parliament, and receiver general of them; died s. p. on the last day of Mar, in the 6th of Henry VIII seized of this manor, held of the duchy of Lancaster, and left Richard son of his brother Francis, his heir, aged 10 years.

Father: Richard SOUTHWELL (Sir Knight)

Mother: Amy WITCHINGHAM

Married 1: Ursula CALTHORPE 1511, Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England

Married 2: Ursula BOHUN ABT 1524, Midhurst, Sussex, England

Francis SOUTHWELL

Died: 1512

Father: Richard SOUTHWELL (Sir Knight)

Mother: Amy WITCHINGHAM

Married: Dorothy TENDRING (dau. of William Tendring, Esq., and Thomasine Sidney) 1518/9, Stoke By Nayland, Suffolk, England

Children:

1. Richard SOUTHWELL (Sir Knight)

2. Robert SOUTHWELL (Sir)

3. Francis SOUTHWELL (Sir)

4. Anthony SOUTHWELL

5. Catherine SOUTHWELL

Anthony SOUTHWELL

Born: ABT 1526, Windham Manor, Norfolk, England

Father: Francis SOUTHWELL

Mother: Dorothy TENDRING

Married: Anne Le STRANGE 1547, Hunstanton, Norfolk, England

Catherine SOUTHWELL

Born: ABT 1528, Windham Manor, Norfolk, England

Father: Francis SOUTHWELL

Mother: Dorothy TENDRING

Married: Anthony HANSARD Windham Manor, Norfolk, England

Francis SOUTHWELL (Sir)

5. Anthony St. LEGER

Robert SOUTHWELL (Sir)

Died: 26 Oct 1559

Buried: Mereworth, Kent, England

Notes: See his Biography.

Father: Francis SOUTHWELL

Mother: Dorothy TENDRING

Married: Margaret NEVILLE 1 May 1536, Mereworth, Kent, England

Children:

1. Thomas SOUTHWELL

2. Francis SOUTHWELL (b. 14 Dec 1538)

3. Robert SOUTHWELL

4. Anne SOUTHWELL

5. Dorothy SOUTHWELL

6. Henry SOUTHWELL (b. 4 Sep 1543)

Children:

Born: 1567

Died: AFT 1602

Notes: was at court as a maid of honor by 1588/9 and in 1591 suffered from “lameness in her leg” —she was pregnant. Thomas Vavasour took the blame for her condition and was imprisoned for misconduct. What happened to Elizabeth is unclear, other than that she gave birth to a boy named Walter (b. 1591 - d.1641) who was given to Lettice, Countess of Essex and Leicester, to be raised at Drayton Bassett. She may have returned to court, but more likely she was simply still referred to as a maid of honor. In May 1595, Queen Elizabeth learned that the father of young Walter was not Thomas Vavasour but rather Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. The Queen was furious, not only because the child had been fathered by Essex, her on and off again favorite, but because she had been deceived. By 22 Mar 1598, when Sir Barentyne Moleyns (or Molyns, Mullens, Mullins), visited Simon Forman the astrologer, Elizabeth Southwell had agreed to marriage with Moleyns. Moleyns was almost blind, weakened by wounds he’d received in service to the Queen, and “notorious for his ugliness”. Forman’s records indicate disgusting health problems as well, and yet, in Apr, he was considering abandoning the match with Elizabeth if he could persuade another woman, Mary Hampden, to marry him. Then, in Jun, he had a license to marry Elizabeth Southwell, but she had apparently changed her mind. In notes made later, in 1600, Forman noted that Elizabeth Southwell had three suitors and that she was thirty years old. She was already married to Moleyns by that time, since she attended the christening of Robert Sidney’s daughter Barbara in Dec 1599 as Lady Moleyns. In 1602 she gave birth to their only child, a son.

Father: Thomas SOUTHWELL

Mother: Nazareth NEWTON (B. Paget of Beaudasert)

Children:

Children:

Robert SOUTHWELL (Sir)

Born: ABT 1563

Died: 12 Oct 1599

Father: Thomas SOUTHWELL

Mother: Mary MANSELL

Children:

1. Elizabeth SOUTHWELL

2. Catherine SOUTHWELL

3. Thomas SOUTHWELL (Sir)

Elizabeth SOUTHWELL

Born: ABT 1586

Died: 13 Sep 1631, Italy

Notes: god-daughter of Queen Elizabeth and became maid of honour in 1599. On 5 Jan 1599, Rowland Whyte wrote to Sir Robert Sidney that “the young faire Mrs. Southwell shall this Day be sworn Mayde of Honor”.  As the daughter of Elizabeth Howard and the granddaughter of Catherine Carey, she was the third generation to serve in Queen Elizabeth's Privy Chamber. She was still there when Elizabeth died in 1603. On 26 Oct 1604, Elizabeth’s mother remarried, taking as her second husband John Stewart, Earl of Carrick (d. 1644). Elizabeth Southwell must have had many opportunities to make a good marriage under James I and she is known to have been courted by Sir Clement Heigham, but instead of marrying, she became the mistress of Sir Robert Dudley, a married man who had seven daughters, four of whom lived to adulthood. In 1605, disguised as a page, she eloped with Robert Dudley to the continent. They were married by special Papal dispensation and she spent the rest of her life in exile in Italy. They had thirteen children. She died on the day following her youngest son’s birth.

Father: Robert SOUTHWELL (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth HOWARD (C. Carrick)

Catherine SOUTHWELL

Born: ABT 1600, Woodrising, Norfolk, England

Father: Robert SOUTHWELL (Sir)

Married: Greville VERNEY 13 May 1618, St. Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex, England

Children:

1. Greville VERNEY

2. John VERNEY

3. Elizabeth VERNEY

4. Son VERNEY

5. George VERNEY

6. Son VERNEY

7. Anne VERNEY

8. Margaret VERNEY

9. Mary VERNEY

10. Richard VERNEY

Thomas SOUTHWELL (Sir)

Born: ABT 1599

Died: 1643

Notes: on the death of his father, was about 5 months old. Died having wasted most of estate, and sold this lordship to Sir Francis Crane.

Father: Robert SOUTHWELL (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth HOWARD (C. Carrick)

Died: 1564

Children:

1. Edward PASTON (b. ABT 1577)

Father: Richard SOUTHWELL (Sir Knight)

Mother: Mary DARCY

1. Elizabeth SOUTHWELL

9. Henry SOUTHWELL

10. Denzany SOUTHWELL

Elizabeth SOUTHWELL

Mother: Bridget COPLEY

Born: ABT 1553, Horsham St Faith, Norfolk, England

Mother: Bridget COPLEY

Married: Alice CORNWALLIS (dau. of Thomas Cornwallis and Anne Jerningham) 1574, Brome, Suffolk, England

Children:

1. Thomas SOUTHWELL

2. Henry SOUTHWELL (b. ABT 14 Dec 1576)

3. Elizabeth SOUTHWELL (b. ABT 8 Feb 1576/7)

4. Anthony SOUTHWELL

5. Robert SOUTHWELL (b. ABT 17 Aug 1580)

Born: 1575, Wood Rising, Norfolk, England

Died: 12 Jun 1626

Mother: Alice CORNWALLIS

Children:

1. Elizabeth SOUTHWELL (b. 1599) (m. Edward Dowdal)

2. Frances SOUTHWELL (b. 1601 - d. 1643) (m. William Lenthall)

Anthony SOUTHWELL

Born: 3 May 1567, Windham Manor, Woodrising, Norfolk, England

Died: 1623, Cork, Ireland

Father: Richard SOUTHWELL

Mother: Alice CORNWALLIS

Married 1: Margaret SHELTON ABT 1576, England

Children:

1. Robert SOUTHWELL of Kinsdale (Vice-Admiral)

Dorothy SOUTHWELL (B. Cobham)

Born: ABT 1465 / 1467