Children of William Penn & Georgianna Chaplet Penn

William Penn (b. 1548 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England)

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His will said that he received a grant of land at Minety in 1547 from his father, John,(at the time of his marriage).

William Penn (d.1591), must have been quite an important figure for when he died in 1591it is believed that he was buried in front of the alter at Saint Leonards Church, Minety. A plaque commemorating his life was erected in the church. All evidence of this was destroyed during repairs and alterations in Victorian times.On the death of his father in 1557 he would have become warden of the Royal Braydon Forest This was a hereditory post.

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From Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 102, p. 1121:

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William ...enn, dyed the 12 of March in the Year of Our Lord 1591

This flat gravestone measures 5 feet 2 inches by 2 feet, and the size of the letters is 1 inch and 1/2 high. Its site is in the passage betwixt two pews in the chancel of the Church at Mintye in Gloucestershire. Mintye bordered on Braydon Forest, and was the burying place of many persons of the Forest. There is a sarin-house, probably built on an antient site, and hill called Penn's Lodge.

William Penn of Pennsylvania went thither in 1681, and died 1718; and if you give him the age of 25 at the period of his going to Pennsylvania, the age at which he died would be 62; and if you take 62 from 1718, his birth would be about 1656 (it appears by his Life in the Biographical Dictionary, that we born in 1644, Edit.); and his father, Vice-Admiral Penn, might have been the son of William Penn buried at Mintye, who is traditionally spoken of as the ancestor of the AMerican Penn; and it is not improbable but that the person buried at Mintye was the Penn, keeper of Penn's Lodge in the Forest, which was disforested in the time of Charles II.

The arms on one of the windows are Sickles (which are the arms of the Hungerfords, proprietors of all that neighborhood formerly), and in others Dog-couples and Escalop Shells. Also, there is in one window a small Escocheon thus: A. a chevron engrailed Sable, between the trefoils Sable; and a stone one of the same upon part of the truss. The only famailes of note in the parish now traceable are the Hungerfords and the Browns.

The above gravestone is copied exactly, and there was both before and after washing it, besides the two Ns, a faint appaearance of an E, but the P is quite defaced, though the space exactly allows the conjecture that the name is Penn. The stone is broken below the inscription.

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From "A Vision of Britain through Time" on Minety:

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=12016

MINETY, or MINTY, a village and a parish in Malmsbury district, Wilts. The village stands near the ancient forest of Bredon, and near the Swindon and Gloucester branch of the Great Western railway, 3¾ miles SW of the boundary with Gloucestershire, and 5½ ENE of Malmsbury; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post office under Malmsbury. The parish comprises 3,470 acres. Real property, £7,293. Pop., 182. Houses, 169. The property is much subdivided.

The manor belongs to Capt. Arthur Mullings. Minety House is a chief residence. There is a mineral spring.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £300. * Patron, the Archdeacon of Wilts. The church is later English, in fair condition, with a tower; and contains a piscina, and a brass and monuments of the Powletts, the Pleydells, and others. Charities, £40. Admiral Penn's father was a resident. -------------------- Source: "The Family of William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania, Ancestry and Descendants" by Howard M. Jenkins, 1899. ~ Penn's Lodge was on the edge of Bradon Forest, in the northwest corner of the county of Wilts, or rather in Gloucestershire, a small part of the latter being enclosed in the former county." These lands and "genteel ancient house" had been in the Penn family for many generations.

• Will dated May 1, 1590.