Anne (Conyers) Spelman

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Anne Spelman (Conyers)

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Daughter of Thomas Conyers
Wife of Thomas Spelman, Knight
Mother of Henry Spelman, Knight
Sister of Ela Conyers

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About Anne (Conyers) Spelman

  • Spelman genealogy; the English ancestry and American descendants of Richard Spelman of Middletown, Connecticut, 1700 .. (1910)
  • http://archive.org/details/spelmangenealogy00barb
  • http://archive.org/stream/spelmangenealogy00barb#page/n47/mode/1up
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  • Henry Spelman, the Recorder of Norwich, survived his first wife, Ela de Narburgh, and married, second, Katherine, or Christian, the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Manning of Great Elmingham, County Norfolk, and of the latter's wife, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Jenny. (Blomefield's Norfolk, Volume I, Pages 484-488.) By this marriage, Henry Spelman had a son, Thomas Spelman, Knight, Lord of Ellingham and Bechamwel by maternal inheritance, who married Anne, daughter of John, who was either the son or the son-in-law of Lord Robert Conyers. ....
  • http://archive.org/stream/spelmangenealogy00barb#page/n50/mode/1up
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  • It is stated in Blomefield's Norfolk, Volume I, on pages 84 and 451, that Henry Spelman, the Recorder of Norwich, had another son, Christopher, by his second marriage.
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  • The Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563 (1878) Vol.1
  • http://archive.org/details/visitationnorfo00dashgoog
  • http://archive.org/stream/visitationnorfo00dashgoog#page/n265/mode/1up
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    • 87. Spelman. Pg.249-260
  • http://archive.org/stream/visitationnorfo00dashgoog#page/n267/mode/1up
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  • THIS CHART LISTS WILLIAM SPELMAN WHO MAR. ANNE COO TWICE WITH DIFFERENT MOTHERS
  • Henry Spelman son of Catherine (Stuward) & John Spelman, m1. Christiana dau. of Thomas Manning by Elizabeth (Jenny) ch: Thomas (m. Anne Conyers) & William (m. Anna dau. of Christopher Coo); m2. Ela dau. of William Narborough ch: (Pg.252 Sir John (m. Elizabeth Frowick), Anne (m. Henry Mack Williams), Katherine (m. Rich' Sefoule & _ Drury), Elizabeth (m. John Goldingham), dau. (m. _ Drury), William (m. Anne Coo), John (a priest), Henry (d.1530-1533) Spelman
    • Thomas Spelman, Esq., Lord of Ellingham & of Bichamwell,, jure materno. Will dated 1499. m. Anne dau. of Thomas Conyers, She md. 2dly Richard Willoughby, Esq. Ob. 22 Oct. 1499. bur. Ellingham ch: Henry (m. Elizabeth Tyrell), John (d. a minor), Elizabeth
    • Henry Spelman Ob. s.p. 1525 bur. Great Ellingham m. Elizabeth Tyrell living 1540 she md. 2dly Anthony Gurney, Esq.
  • http://archive.org/stream/visitationnorfo00dashgoog#page/n274/mode/1up
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  • 18 Sept. 1496. I Henry Spelman of Narborough; -- To be buried in the chancell of Narborough church; -- To pray for the souls of Thomas Bockerton and Margaret his wife; -- the soul of my father John Spelman; -- the soul of "Magister" Robert Spelman, my uncle; -- I make Edmund Paston, Ralph Pulvertoft, and Thomas Wake, my executors; -- My lands of Rokeland and Bockhylls, &c., to be divided between John Spelman of London, and Henry Spelman my sons; -- To Thomas Spelman my son and heir; -- to William Spelman, of Stow Bedon, my son. -- Proved 3 Feb. 1496, P. C. C. (Horne 3.)
  • 20 Mar, 1498. -- Will of Thomas Spelman, gent., of Mekyll Elyngham. -- to be buried in the church of Mekyll Elingham, right against the chauncell dore; -- To the church of Stowe, where my modyr lyes, 2s. 4d. Item, to the church of Narburgh, where my Fadyr Lyeth 2. 4.; -- my wife Anne to have for her jointure the manor of Buryhall, in Elyngham; -- remainder to my son John; -- my wife Anne to have the manor of Chervelles in Bycham-Well till my son John attain the age of 21 years; -- my son Henry and my daughter Ela at age 21 years of age to have between them with benefit of survivorship 100 marcs; -- Anne my wife and Sir Richard Botrey to be executors; -- my brother Robert Lovell, Knyght, supervisor. -- Proved (Cur. Ep'i. Norl) 26 May, 1499.
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  • but having no issue, in 1472, he released it to Henry Spelman, in trust for Thomas is son, who had married Anne, one of the two daughters and coheirs of Tho. Conyers, Esq. his brother; he died in 1483; "And in 1499, Thomas Spelman, Gentylman, of "Mekyll Elyngham" held it of Shropham hundred, who died seized, and by his will dated this year, ordered to be buried in the church, to which he gave 20L. for a suit of vestments, "and to the gild of our Lady, in honowr and worschypp of her v. joyes, 5s. to St. James's gild 10s. and to St. Peter's 6s. 8d." to Anne his wife the manor of Chervells in Bichamwell, till John his son was 21 years old, to Henry his son, and Elizabeth his daughter 100 marks each, to Anne his wife, the manor of Berryhall in Elyngham, and after her decease to his son John in fee tale, who died under age, and Henry his brother inherited; he died without issue in 1525, and was buried here, by Anne his mother, upon which, this manor went to Anthony Gourney, Esq. of North Barsham, in right of Margaret his wife, one of the daughters and coheirs of Sir Robert Lovell, by Ela Conyers his wife, who was sister to Anne Coniers, mother to Henry Spelman; but Berryhall went to the heirs of William De-Grey of Merton, in right of Christian his wife, the daughter and coheir of Thomas Manning, as you may see under Buryhall manor.
  • http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:History_of_Norfolk_1.djvu/520
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  • John Conyers, their son, inherited; he married Eleanor, sister and coheir of William, son of Sir William Yelverton, Knight of the Bath, at King Edward the Fourth's coronation, and one of the justices of the King's Bench; but having no issue, in 1472, he released it to Henry Spelman, in trust for Thomas his son, who had married Anne, one of the two daughters and coheirs of Tho. Conyers, Esq. his brother; he died in 1483: "And in 1499, Thomas Spelman, Gentylman, of "Mekyll Elyngham" held it of Shropham hundred, who died seized, and by his will dated this year, ordered to be buried in the church, to which he gave 20l. for a suit of vestments, "and to the gild of our Lady, in honowr and worschypp of her v. joyes, 5s. to St. James's gild 10s. and to St. Peter's 6s. 8d." (fn. 4) to Anne his wife the manor of Chervells in Bichamwell, till John his son was 21 years old, to Henry his son, and Elizabeth his daughter 100 marks each, to Anne his wife, the manor of Berryhall in Elyngham, and after her decease to his son John in fee tale, who died under age, and Henry his brother inherited; he died without issue in 1525, and was buried here, by Anne his mother, upon which, this manor went to Anthony Gourney, Esq. of North Barsham, in right of Margaret his wife, one of the daughters and coheirs of Sir Robert Lovell, by Ela Conyers his wife,who was sister to Anne Coniers, mother to Henry Spelman; but Berryhall went to the heirs of William De-Grey of Merton, in right of Christian his wife, the daughter and coheir of Thomas Manning, as you may see under Buryhall manor.
  • From: 'Hundred of Shropham: Great Elingham', An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 1 (1805), pp. 482-490. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=77141 Date accessed: 13 October 2013.
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  • History and antiquities of the county of Norfolk (1781) Vol.5
  • http://archive.org/details/historyantiquiti05norwiala
  • http://archive.org/stream/historyantiquiti05norwiala#page/n114/mode...
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  • After a variety of poffeffors under different princes, the lordship of Bawfey was held by John Conyers, efq. (fon of fir Robert Conyers, and Maud his wife, daughter of fir John Fitz-Ralph) who married Elianor, fifter and coheir of William, fon of fir William Yelverton, (knight of the bath at king Edward IV's. coronation, and one of the juftices of the king's bench) but having no iffue, it defcended to Thomas Conyers, brother of John, who left two daughters and coheirs ; Ann married to Thomas Spelman, efq. of Ellingham Magna ; and Ela married to fir Robert Lovell, fecond fon of fir Ralph Lovell, of Barton Bendifh in Norfolk, and brother to fir Thomas Lovell, knight of the garter, which Robert was knighted at Blackheath field in 1497.
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