Joan Browne

2. Edmund Browne m. Joan, dau. by his 2nd wife, of David Cecil, of Stamford, the grandfather of Sir William Cecil (Lord Burleigh), the famous minister of Queen Elizabeth...

Notes

http://www.wargs.com/essays/welsh/seisyll.html

David Seisyll, a Welshman who died ca. 1537 [WG2 Cecil], was the paternal grandfather of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley [NCP II:428], lord high treasurer and principal minister to Queen Elizabeth, and ancestor of the Earls of Exeter and the Earls and Marquesses of Salisbury. Selected descendants of David Seisyll include:

David Seisyll m. Alice Dickons [LAPC P58401]

A. Joan Cecil m. Edmund Browne of Stamford. Robert Browne, founder of the Brownists (later called Congregationalists), and recognized by Burghley as a kinsman, is said to have been a descendant of Edmund and Joan.

Origins

http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-92-316.pdf

The draft and final versions of David Cecil’s will establish that he married secondly a wife named Jane or Joan [Roos?]. The provisions by which he bequeaths her the plate and household stuff which was hers before their marriage suggest that she was a widow when he married her, perhaps the widow of the Stamford glover and alderman, John Dyccons whose will David Cecil was charged with administering.

For the draft and final versions of David Cecil’s will, in which he mentions his wife, Jane or Joan, his two sons, Richard Cecil and David Cecil, and his daughter, Joan Cecil, see TNA PROB 11/29/71, and ‘Sir David Cecil’s Will’, supra.

In the two versions of his will, David Cecil leaves bequests to his unmarried daughter, Joan Cecil, and states that his current wife is her ‘natural mother’. He does not make the same statement with respect to either of his sons, Richard Cecil and David Cecil, and it seems likely they were his sons by his first wife, Agnes, and that therefore the testator’s grandmother was David Cecil’s first wife, Agnes.

Joan Cecil married Edmund Browne of Stamford. See the Browne pedigree in Corner, George R., ‘Robert Browne’, in Tymms, Samuel, ed., The East Anglian, Vol. I, (Lowestoft: Samuel Tymms, 1864), pp. 180-2 at: GoogleBooks

Through his aunt, Joan Cecil Browne, Lord Burghley was distantly related to the playwright, John Lyly.

• http://dgmweb.net/FGS/Brown/BrowneEdmund-JoanCecil.html
• Sir John Bernard Burke. 1996. "Burke's American Families with British Ancestry." Pages 2529-3022 from Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry (1939, Burke's Peerage, London). Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD: p. 2586 BROWNE formerly OF TOLETHORPE MANOR and STAMFORD
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jul 6 2016, 2:57:20 UTC
• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/t/i/Andrea-R-Stivers/WEBSITE-0001/U...
• Browne pedigree in Corner, George R., ‘Robert Browne’, in Tymms, Samuel, ed., The East Anglian, Vol. I, (Lowestoft: Samuel Tymms, 1864), pp. 180-2 GoogleBooks