Edmund Paine

Edmund PAINE was born about 1484 in Bosworth, England.

He was married to Elizabeth WALTON.

Edmund PAINE and Elizabeth WALTON had the following children:

• William PAINE.

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From: Paine family records: a journal of genealogical and biographical information rewpecting the American families of Payne, Paine, Payn &c. by Henry D Paine, editor; publication date: 1878; New York (publisher not identified). Digitizing sponsor & Contributor: Boston Public Library; Vol 1.

• Paine Genealogy, IPSWICH BRANCH, By Albert W. Paine, Esq, of Bangor, Me. (Continued from page 140.), pp 149-154

Generation I

• 1. Beginning with the history of the family as presented in ‘‘the Visitation,” we have first in the list, the name of Sir Thomas Payne, Knight, of Market Bosworth, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Pultney, Knight, the ancestor of William Pultney, Earl of Bath, the celebrated statesman, who acted so important a part, first as Minister of War, and afterwards as Premier of England in the early part of the last century. As before remarked. Sir Thomas used the same Coat of Arms as the original American ancestors of the line, thus showing identity of lineage between those on the one side and on the other of the Atlantic. The dates of his birth, or death, are neither of them given, but the dates, at which his descendants came upon the stage of active life, snow that he must have been born in the early part of the fifteenth century. He had three sons:
  • 2. Robert.
  • 3. William.
  • 4. Edmund
• The dates of their births are neither of them given, but the record shows the younger of the three alive in the 32d year of Henry VIII, or A. D., 1540, at which time he had a grandson, then a rich and active man, as will be more apparent in what follows. This fact would seem to establish the birth of Sir Thomas, thus the great-grand- father of a wealthy business man, according to the usual average of life and birth, at, or very nearly as early as, the year 1400.
• What became of the two elder sons of Sir Thomas is not recorded, which shows conclusivelv that neither of them removed to Suffolk County, and as no mention is made of them in the “Visitation of Leicestershire,” it is equally clear that they did not remain there and have progeny. In the “Visitation of Huntingdonshire,” an adjoining county, the genealogy of a “Robert Paine” is given, the particulars of which would seem to establish identity with Robert, the son of 'Thomas, except that his Coat of Arms was altogether different. As different sons often did adopt divers coats from their father, this fact does not disprove the identity. This family was generally settled at St. Neot’s, a place but little remote from the place where Edmund’s family resided in and about St. Edmundsbury and Nowten in the County of Suffolk.
• Just here it may be appropriate to call attention to tne peculiar naming of these three sons, as the names used often afford a most im- portant clew to the family genealogy. The frequent recurrence of the names of William and Robert in the line, and the reason of it, have already been spoken of. The name of Edmund thus found in the first family of which we have mention, most naturally carries us back to Edmund, the son of Pagen. whom we have ventured to credit as the elder brotlier of Hugh. The proof is not conclusive, but for those days it was a coincidence of no small force as evidence.

Generation II.

• (4.) Edmund Paine the youngest son of Sir Thomas Paine (i), was alive in 32 Henry VIII, or A.D., 1540, married Elizabeth the daughter of Robert Walton, of Leicester County, and had several sons. His place of residence was undoubtedly that of his birth, at Bosworth. Among his sons were :
  • 5. William Paine, the eldest of them all and his heir.