Sir Humphrey Monnoux, Baronet Monnoux of Wotton

Additional curator note -- I have found this family's name spelled as Monnoux and Monoux. The family seat is found to be spelled as Watton, Wotton, Wootten and Wooten. Maria Edmonds-Zediker, curator, 2/12/2011.

http://www.thepeerage.com/p34269.htm#i342688

Sir Humphrey Monnoux, Bt. married Mary Wodehouse, daughter of Sir Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Bt. and Blanche Hunsdon.1 Sir Humphrey Monnoux, Bt. gained the title of Baronet Monnoux, of Watton.1

Citations

• [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2163. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecord...

History of Wooten House, built by Sir Humphrey Monnoux, Baronet Wotton. The house remained in the family until 1927.

Reference: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/beds/vol3/pp328-335

...Bosoms Manor, for in 1514 it was in the possession of Edward Langley, from whom it was purchased in that year by George Monoux, citizen and alderman of London, (fn. 21) in whose family it remained for many generations. In 1527 George settled the manor on his daughter Ann and her husband Nicholas Taylor for ninety-nine years, (fn. 22) and in 1531 he settled the reversion on Thomas, grandson of his brother and heir Humphrey. (fn. 23) George Monoux died in 1544, when the manor was inherited by George the son of Thomas, who had died in 1537. (fn. 24) In 1564 the manor was settled on George and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Lord Mordaunt, (fn. 25) and passed on his death in 1593 to Lewis son of his son Humphrey, who had died in 1585. (fn. 26) On his death in 1628 Lewis was succeeded by his son Humphrey, created a baronet in 1660, (fn. 27) and the manor then descended as in Sandy (q.v.) to the fifth baronet, Sir Philip Monoux, who succeeded to the title in 1757 (fn. 28); but there is no mention of the manor after 1770, and it did not by name form part of the property divided among Sir Philip's four sisters and co-heirs in 1809.