Nicholas Martin, of Athelhampton

Nicholas Martin

• Birth: 1550 - Athelhampton House, Dorset, England
• Death: 1595 - England
• parents: Robert MARTYN b: ABT 1524, Elizabeth KELWAY

Marriage

1. abt 1585 to 1 Margaret WADHAM b: in Edge, Branscombe, Devon.

Nicholas and Margaret had three sons, and seven daughters, who are pictured on their tomb brasses in St. Mary's church, Puddleton, Dorset.

Children include

1. Anne MARTYN b: in Athelhampton, Dorsetshire
2. Elizabeth MARTYN
3. Frances MARTYN
4. Jane MARTYN

notes

The house of Martin; being chapters in the history of the West of England branch of that family by Watson, William George Willis, 1863- https://archive.org/stream/houseofmartinbei00wats#page/19/mode/2up

From http://www.life.clara.net/index.htm

The Memorial Brass to Nicholas Martyn dated 1595 at St Mary's Church, Puddletown, Dorset. This 16th Century brass depicts Nicholas Martyn, bare-headed, in armour, kneeling before an altar on which is an open book. Behind him are his three sons, who all predeceased him. On the right is his wife, Margaret (daughter of John Wadham), whose brother Nicholas Wadham, in 1613, founded Wadham College, Oxford. Behind her are their seven daughters. Above them are the arms* of Martyn (Arg. two bars gules) impaling Wadham (Gules a chevron between three roses arg.): above is the Martyn crest (a Martyn (ape) proper, chained to a stump of a tree or, sejant, holding in his paw a mirror azure).

Nicholas was the last of the Martyns and died without SURVIVING male issue in 1595 (he had three sons depicted kneeling behind him on the chantry brasses at St. Mary's Church, Puddleton, Dorset). His estate was divided amongst his four surviving daughters, of whom Elizabeth, the eldest, married Henry Brune; and their son, as heir to his mother, lived at Athelhampton Hall. His great niece, Marie Brune, married Sir Ralph Bankes, son of Sir John Bankes and 'Brave Dame Mary' of Corfe Castle.

• A tablet in memory of a member of the Martyn family with the same crest is on the East Wall of the South transept at Crewkerne.

Links

• http://www.dorsetweb.co.uk/dorset/Dorset%20Life/dlapr/dscene1.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Martyn
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sandberg&...

Sources

1. Visitation of the County of Devon, 1620. Vivian, John Lambrick.  Henry S. Eland, Exeter, 1895.  Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620. With additions by Lieutenant-Colonel J.L. Vivian. cont. by John Young.  Page 553.  "Martyn of Oxton"

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GEDCOM Source

Description: ...only 4 inherited a share in the Athelhampton estate, so the other 6 may have died in infancy. One daughter, Elizabeth, was married to Henry Brune. Two other daughters, (unknown) and Frances, married to Mr Tichborne and Mr White respectively, sold their interest to Brune. The fourth daughter, Anne, married to Anthony Floyer of Floyers Hayes, Devon, kept her interest in the estate and it remained in the Floyer family until 1848.

GEDCOM Source

S9TB-WYX UK, Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975 https://search.ancestry.com/collections/1610/records/1376786