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Eleanor Ellen Leyborne (Curwen)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Kendal, Westmorland, , England
Death: 1531 (28-29)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir Thomas Curwen, of Workington and Anne Curwen
Wife of Sir James Leyburn, MP
Mother of Catherine Duckett; Nicholas Leyborne; James Leyborne; Elizabeth Leyborne and Margaret Leyborne
Sister of Sir Christopher Curwen; Lady Lucy Lowther; Giles Curwen; Roger Curwen; Anthony Curwen and 2 others
Half sister of Jane Curwen

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About Eleanor Ellen Leyborne

  • Eleanor Curwen1
  • F, #62800, b. circa 1506
  • Father Sir Christopher Curwen, Sheriff of Cumberland b. c 1470
  • Mother Margaret Bellingham b. c 1475
  • Eleanor Curwen was born circa 1506 at of Workington, Cumberland, England.1 She married Sir James Leybourne, son of Judge Thomas Leybourne, Esq. and Margaret Pennington, circa 1525; His 1st marriage.1
  • Family Sir James Leybourne b. c 1504
  • Citations
  • 1.[S8264] Unknown author, Visitations of Westmoreland, 1615, p. 26., p. 19.
  • From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2090.htm#... __________________________
  • Ellen CURWEN
  • Born: ABT 1502
  • Notes: some sources shows her as dau. of Thomas and Agnes Strickland.
  • Father: Christopher CURWEN (Sir)
  • Mother: Margaret BELLINGHAM
  • Married: James LEYBOURNE (Sir Knight) (son of Thomas Leybourne and Margaret Pennington) ABT 1525, Cunswick Park, Kendal, Westmorland, England
  • Children:
    • 1. Nicholas LAYBOURNE (m. Elizabeth Warcop)
    • 2. Catherine LAYBOURNE (m. Richard Duckett)
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CURWEN.htm#Ellen CURWEN1 ________________________
  • LEYBURN, Sir James (by 1490-1548), of Cunswick, Westmld.
  • b. by 1490, 1st s. of Thomas Leyburn of Cunswick by Margaret, da. of Sir John Pennington of Muncaster, Cumb. m. (1) by 1516, Eleanor, da. of Sir Thomas Curwen of Workington, Cumb., 2s. 2da.; (2) Helen, da. of Thomas Preston of Preston Patrick, Westmld. 3da. suc. fa. 5 Aug. 1510. Kntd. by Apr. 1532.2
  • Offices Held
    • Escheator, Cumb. and Westmld. Feb. 1518-19, Feb.-Nov. 1522; j.p. Westmld. 1524, 1525, liberty of Furness Lancs. 1538, northern circuit 1540; dep. steward, Kendal, Westmld. by Apr. 1532; commr. for survey of monasteries, Lancs. 1536.3
  • Seemingly of Kentish origin, the Leyburn family had been settled since the 13th century in Westmorland, whence it had furnished a line of men prominent in the west march, a number of knights in medieval Parliaments, and in Roger Leyburn, bishop of Carlisle under Henry VII, an important figure in Church and State.4
  • Succeeding to his patrimony at about the same time as he came of age, James Leyburn made steady progress as a local administrator and, from 1526, fee’d servant of the crown. Although then styled knight, he was probably not knighted until after November 1529; the honour may have come to him at the time he was made deputy steward of the barony of Kendal, which he had become by April 1532. Described in a Star Chamber suit of 1534 as ‘of great power, blood and ally’, Leyburn was linked with leading families in neighbouring shires and beyond. His mother was a Pennington and his first wife a Curwen, and he was related to the Caruses of Lancashire and the Lees of Cumberland; he was godfather to Thomas Carus and Thomas Lee I. It was, however, his kinsmen the Parrs of Kendal who were to be his chief patrons. He was an executor of the will of Sir Thomas Parr’s widow Maud and his tenure of the deputy stewardship of Kendal brought him into close association with her son William Parr, the Parrs having held the stewardship for several generations. It also involved him in a clash with the 1st Earl of Cumberland who, as hereditary sheriff of Westmorland, claimed authority in the barony despite its status as a liberty and the King’s order to him not to interfere in its affairs.5 .... etc.
  • From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/le... ____________________________________
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Eleanor Ellen Leyborne's Timeline

1502
1502
Kendal, Westmorland, , England
1531
1531
Age 29
1537
1537
Cunswick, Westmorland, England (United Kingdom)
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