Anne Jennchen Armstrong

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“Landed families of Britain and Ireland - Heaton-Armstrong family of Farney Castle and Mount Heaton” < link >

Armstrong, Col. Sir Thomas (1603?-62), kt. Perhaps the son of William Armstrong (1565-1649) of Gilnockie and his wife Margaret, daughter of Humphrey Elliot, born about 1603. He served in The Netherlands, 1633-38; Governor of Culmore Fort in Ireland, 1639; Quartermaster-General of Horse in Ireland, 1639-40, 1660; Col. of Horse, 1649-50, 1660-62; knighted in Ireland by the Duke of Ormonde, 1644; MP for County Dublin in Irish Parliament, 1647; a tireless Royalist conspirator during the Commonwealth, he was twice imprisoned in the Tower of London by Cromwell and was released on bail in 1659; granted a patent for coining copper token farthings, 1660.

He married, c.1632 in Holland, Anne Jennchen Anderson (1614-58), a Dutch lady, and had issue:

• (1) Sir Thomas Armstrong (1633-84), kt. (q.v.);
• (2) Capt. William Armstrong (c.1635-90?) (q.v.);
• (3) Susannah Armstrong (b. 1638), baptised 31 January 1638.

He received a grant of land at Corvellis (Co. Dublin), 1642, and had a pele tower at Wolivia, Lanercost (Cumbld) and a house in London.

He died in November 1662. His wife died in 1658.