Edward Broughton

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Broughton-1804

Everardus[1]/Everard[2]/Edward[3] Broughton Esq was born around 1510 (estimated based on sister marrying 1535).

He was the son of John Broughton Esq of Broughton[1][4] in Bridekirk[3].

He was the brother of Jane Broughton who married Richard Osborne. [2][1]

He was the brother of Lancelyn Broughton. [5]

He resided Westmorland, now called Cumbria. [1]

Everardus had no (surviving) children, based on his sister Jane being described as his heir[1]. To be mentioned at all in entries for the Osborne family suggests that his estate was significant. It makes sense that there are few records for him if he didn't marry or have children and died young.

Research Notes

Cousin to Broughtons of Seaton

Everardus seems to have been a cousin of Marcus Broughton of Seaton (born around 1535) based on:

Marcus and Everardus having the same blazon, except Everardus's included a crescent to indicate a second son[3].
Marcus having a son and grandson named Everardus Broughton.
Marcus having a grand uncle named Launcelott Broughton. [6]

Name Everardus

The name Everardus "was brought to England by the Normans"[7]. The first Broughton of this line was a Norman, Ailward de Broughton, who arrived in Broughton with the 1066 Conquest of England. See notes here.

Note that Everardus is not a fancy way of writing Edward, because that was written "Edwardi" in Seaton.

Lancelyn

Could Lancelyn be a feminine version of Lancelot? There are records of:

• Lancelot Broughton, alive Cumberland around 1530. [8]
• Lancelot/Launcelon Broughton, alive 1540. [9]
• Lancelot Lancaster of Broughton born around 1520. [10]
• Lancelot Broughton born Wales 1600.

However, the name Lancelyn has also been described as derived from the last name Lancelin of Cheshire[11], which would indicate a male.

Lancelyn didn't have any children, based on Jane being his heir.

Sources

1. Arthur Collins, The Peerage of England, 1756, page 249, https://books.google.fr/books?id=yZhcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA249
2. Richard Osborne married Elizabeth, daughter of ____ Fyldene, by whom he was father of Richard, who married Jane, daughter of John Broughton, of Broughton, Esq; and sister and heir to Everard Broughton, of the county of Westmoreland, Esq;
3. Francis Nichols, The British Compendium, 1719, page 35, https://books.google.fr/books?id=OXti913h4PsC&pg=PA35
4. But we return to Richard [Osborne], he marry'd Jane, Sister and Heir to Everard Broughton, Esq; an ancient Family in Westmoreland
5. Robert Edmond Chester Waters, Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley, 1878, volume 1, page 225, https://books.google.fr/books?id=JeoJAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA225
6. [Edward Osborne] was the son of Richard Osborne of Ashford in Kent by Jane, daughter of John Broughton of Broughton in Bridekirk, and heiress to her brothers Edward & Lancelyn Broughton; but nothing is really known about his parents beyond their names. His descent, however, from the Broughtons of Cumberland is confirmed by his bearing their arms (Argent two bars gules, on a canton of the last, a cross of the first in chief, a crescent for difference)
7. "Jane Brotherton (born c 1610), accessed in 2016 (no longer online)", http://www.winslett.org/g0/p254.htm#i7593
8. William Glover Stanard, The Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, volume 12, page 202, https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Osborne-2620
9. Sir Edward Osborne was the son of Richard Osborne, of Ashford county, Kent, and his wife Jane, daughter of John Broughton, of Broughton, and sister and heiress to Edward and Lancelyn Broughton, of Broughton County, Westmoreland.
10. William Camden, The Visitation of the county of Rutland in the year 1618-19, 1870, page 29, https://archive.org/details/visitationofcoun00camd/page/28/mode/2up
11. https://www.name-doctor.com/name-everardus-meaning-of-everardus-221...
12. https://books.google.fr/books?id=E-0MAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=l...
13. https://waalt.uh.edu/index.php/STAC_Broughton
14. http://users.skynet.be/lancaster/Lancasters%20of%20Sockbridge.html
15. https://www.houseofnames.com/lancelyn-family-crest