Richard Brayne, of Westminster

Cannot have been the son of Barnaby “Bryan MacGill” Fitzpatrick, 5th Baron of Upper Ossory who died in 1641. Perhaps his grandson or great grandson,

Edward Bryan of Westminster London, second son, brother of Bryan, Sixth Lord of Upper Ossory. Edward discarded the family Mcgill Patrick or Fitz-Patrick and assumed the name of Bryan.

[His son Richard] married Ann Bignold? and had Ann Butler Bryan who married in 1724, Major General Alexander Spotwood, birth 1676 at Annapolis Married June 7, 1740, Governer of the Colony of Virginia, 1752 and Depudy Postmaster General of the Colonies, they had Ann Catherine Spotwood, birth 1726, death 1802, Married Colonal Bernard Moore of Chelsea, King Wiilam County.

Richard Brayne was born 1674 in Spotsylvania, Virginia [SIC] and died 8 September 1762 in St Margarets Parish, Wesminster, London, England.

Parents: [SIC] Bryan Fitz-Patrick (son of Teigh or Thady Fitzpatrick, 4th Baron of Upper Ossory +1627 (1) & Joan Butler, daughter of Sir Edmund Butler of Cloughgrenan (2)) and Margaret Butler (daughter of Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormond *1569 & Helen(a) Butler)

Married:

1. Anne Begnold b: 1650 and died 8 September 1762 in St Margarets, Westminster, London, England. She was the daughter of James Begnold.

Children include:

1. Anne Butler Brayne was born in 1700 in Spotsylvania, Virginia and died 7 June 1740 in Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland. She married 1st to Alexander Spotswood (b 1676) and 2nd to John Thompson (b 1722).
2. Dorothea Brayne + 1759 fl 1756 Spotsylvania, Virginia married 1733 to Elliot Benger

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SPOTSWOOD, JOHN, Spotsylvania Co., d. May 6, 1756, p. Dec. 5, 1758. Wit. Jane Somerville; Dorothea Benger; Lucy Dixon; John Taylor, Junr; Jno. Carter; Joseph Steward, James Taylor. Ex. wife, Mary Spotswood, John Robinson, Esq., Col. Bernard Moore; Col. John Champe; Mr. Edmund Pendleton; Mr. Roger Dixon; Mr. Nicholas Seward. Leg. wife, Mary, use of mansion house, and my coach and six, with coachman and postilion and household goods, etc.; to my daughter Ann, £l,000 sterling; to my daughter Mary £1,000 sterling, in compliance with the authority given me in the will of my deced. father, Alexander Spotswood, Esq. Whereas my father, by his last will, did give to his son, Robert Spotswood £3,000 sterling,—to his daughter Anna Catherina £2,000 sterling, and to his daughter Dorothea £2,000 sterling, to be raised by the sale or mortgage of his lands, and I finding it necessary, in order to raise the said fortunes, to sell divers parcels of land, among the rest I sold and conveyed to Col. John Thornton, 7 tracts containing in the whole 9,048 acres, and afterwards I purchased the said 7 tracts of land of the said Col. John Thornton, I give the said 9,048 acres of land to my son, John Spotswood, also to him that tract of land which I bought of Ambrose Grayson, also all my part of the estate in England which will descend to me and my cousin, John Benger after the death of my mother and her three sisters. To my son, Alexander Spotswood to inherit the property left to Mary Spotswood at her death, or second marriage. Codicil to the aforegoing, dated May 6, 1756, with the same witnesses as to the will, directs that all his children be maintained and educated out of the growing rents and profits of his estate, until they arrive at the age of twenty-one years, or day of marriage. To his goddaughter, Mildred Dixon, daughter of Roger Dixon, £100 sterling. (Page 389)

Notes

A letter written by Judge Edmond Pendleton for his client John Benger, the son of Dorothea (Col. Byrd's Miss Thecky) Brayne, sister of Lady Spotswood. The letter is dated Virginia, Sept. 8th, 1762, and is addressed to Capt. Wm. Fox, and is signed by John Benger and Edmond Pendleton, and in it is the following paragraph:--":

"Richard Brayne and his wife are dead, and Mrs. Brayne's issue was four daughters, Anne, Diana, Dorothy,and Butler. Dorothy intermarried with Elliot Benger, gentleman, and, with her husband, is since dead, and I am her son and heir. Butler intermarried with Major-General Alexander Spotswood, and afterwards married John Thompson (Clerk). She is dead, and Alexander Spotswood, infant, is her grandson and heir, and is now in England. Anne and Diana remained in England and never married."

Green, Realeigh Travers, Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, VA, (Southern Book Company, Baltimore. 1958), 1-2.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94993441/butler-thompson

Notes for Butler Brayne: Daughter of Richard Bryan of Westminster, Sister to the Duke of Ormond. Ref: 15]

In his 16] "Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpepper County, Virginia", Dr. Phillip Slaughter, Culpepper, Virginia, Pages 2, &3, writes that her name was Jane Butler, sister to the Duke of Ormond. Charles Campbell says her name was Butler Bryan [pronounced Brain], daughter of Richard Bryan of Westminster, and her Christian name was after James Butler, Duke of Ormond, her Godfather.

References

• ”Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families ...” By Charles Henry Browning. Pedigree CIX. Page 429. GoogleBooks
• ”The Mansions of England: Or, Picturesque Delineations of the Seats ...,“ Volume 1- . “The Ladies Anne and Gertrude Fitz-Patrick.” Page 3c1. GoogleBooks
• https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/bryan/3616/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_dynasty
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=whleopard...
• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=13725290&pid...
• http://poslfit.homeip.net/cgi-bin/genea.pl?10093
• http://thepeerage.com/p36152.htm#i361512 cites

1. [S47] Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, editor, Burke's Irish Family Records (London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976), page 192. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Irish Family Records.
2. [S47] Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Irish Family Records
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Butler_of_Cloughgrenan

• John Chew's Genealogical Page