Jane Warburton

Female 1527 - Bef 1590  (~ 63 years)


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  • Name Jane Warburton 
    Alt Birth ~ 1525  (Cheshire) England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Birth ~ 1527  Warburton, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • (est: her marriage settlement dated 20 January 1539, says Jane was 12)
    Gender Female 
    Will 6 Aug 1590  Brereton, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Death Bef 6 Sep 1590  Brereton, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Person ID I37079  The Hennessee Family
    Last Modified 23 Dec 2015 

    Family Sir William Brereton, VIII,   b. 1520-1521, Brereton, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Aug 1559, Brereton, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years) 
    Marriage Bef 20 Jan 1539  Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Brereton,   b. ~ 1540, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 May 1591, Middlewich, Chesire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 51 years)
     2. Sir William Brereton, Knight, 1st Lord Brereton of Leigfalin,   b. 0___ 1550, Brereton, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Oct 1631, Brereton, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 81 years)
    Family ID F13664  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2023 

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  • Notes 
    • Biography

      Birth dates for this profile have been estimated based on participation in known historical events and/or information regarding other family members. See the Biography for details.
      Use with caution.
      Jane Warburton was born circa 1527 (est: her marriage settlement dated 20 January 1539, says Jane was 12).[1]

      Jane was the daughter of Sir Peter Warburton[1] aka Sir Piers Werburton of Werburton and Arley, and his wife, Elizabeth Wynnington, the daughter and finally sole heir of Richard Winington of Winington, esq.[2]

      Jane was the sister of:

      Anne, born 1 May 1527, buried at St Patrick's, Dublin, on 18 January 1573, married 1539 at London, sir Edward Fitton of Gawsworth, kt;[2]
      a sister;[2]
      a sister;[2]
      Sir John Warberton of Warburton and Arley, kt, died 31 August 1575, aged 52, married Mary, the daughter of Sir William Brereton of Brereton, kt;[2]
      Peter Warburton of Hefferston in Weaverham, esq, married Kartherine, the daughter and heir of John Coupe co Stafford;[2]
      Richard Warburton, gent;
      Jane married twice:

      Sir William Brereton of Brereton,[3] their marriage settlement dated 20 January 1539 states he was aged 18, with whom she had one son and five daughters:[1]
      Sir William Brereton,[3] baptised 6 February 1550, died 1 October 1631, created Baron Brereton in 1624, married Margaret, the daughter of Sir John Savage of Rocksavage, Cheshire;[4]
      Elizabeth, married to Thomas Venables, esq,[3] of Kinderston;[5]
      Anne Smyth/Smithe/Smythe, married to Thomas Smith, esq,[3] mayor of Chester and sheriff of Cheshire;[5]
      Jane, married to John Leighe esq,[3] of Boothes;[5]
      Mary, baptised 4 December 1552 at Brereton;[5]
      Susanna;[5]

      Sir Laurence Smith of Hough,[3] [1] widower of Agnes, the daughter of Sir Thomas Foulshurst of Crewe,[6] aka Anne Fulleshurst, married on 20 January 1561,[2] at Wybunbury St Chad, Cheshire,[7] (Jane, daughter of Sir Peter Warburton of Arley, widow of Sir William Brereton);[6]

      Jane outlived both her husbands as Sir William Brereton died, under 40 years of age, on 26 August 1559,[1] and Sir Lawrence Smith died on 23 August 1582, and was buried at St Bride’s, Chester.[6]

      "Dame Jane Smythe widow late wief of Sr Lawrence Smyth in the countie of Chester Knight deceased", as she styled herself in her will dated 6 August 1590, was somewhat disseased in bodye but whole in mynde and left bequests to family members:[3]

      Sir William Brereton's children:
      her son William, created Lord Brereton of Leigfalin in Ireland, gets beddings and napery and linens from Brereton, and her plain velvet gown, etc, and first choice of one of her rings with stones in them with exceptions, and her prayer book covered with massye gold to be an heirelowme unto his howse and to be worne by the ladye or Mistress of the hall of Brereton ... and first to be enjoyed and possessed by that shall happen to be the wief of him that my saide sonne shall make; and in 1590, her son William had no sons and two daughters:
      Elenor and
      Mary
      her daughter,
      Elizabeth Venables, married to Thomas Venables, esq, and their daughters:
      Elizabeth Edgerton and
      Mary Venables
      her daughter Anne Smyth, married to Thomas Smith, esq,
      Laurence Smithe, Ann's son, is to inherit a chain as heirlooms.
      Anne Smythe's daughter, Jane Smyth
      her daughter, Jane Leigh, married to John Leighe esq, a ring with a stone in it, and a silk gown,
      Jane and John Leigh's unnamed children, a gift to every of them one
      the children of her husband Sir Laurence Smithe knight:
      Thomas Smithe married to her daughter Anne;
      Edwarde Smithe, younger son;
      Other People in Dame Jane's Will

      cosin Bridget Davemport of Davemporte the elder, and her three daughters, Elenor, Jane and Bridget;
      cosin Mary Bressye of the Cliff
      Ellen Perpoynte the wief of Henrye Perpoint of Breerton
      Elizabeth Edge the curate his wief of Brereton
      Anne ffradsham my sonnes nurse
      Margret Leighe, waytinge woman at this present
      Johan Heiward my fryze peticoate and desire that my sonne Brereton be good unto her at her mariage for an offeringe amongeste his tennants
      William Perren, Richard Ellison, Henrye Ellison witness the will.
      Jane's daughters, Mary and Susanna, and her step-daughters, Mary and Eleanor,[8] aren't mentioned in the will.

      Lady Jane Smyth was buried on 6 September, 1590, at Wybunbury St Chad,[7] and her will proved 27 September 1597.[3]

      Sources

      ? 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 N M Fudge, BRERETON, Sir William I (c.1520-59), of Brereton, Cheshire., The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, Crown copyright and The History of Parliament Trust 1964-2015, ( 1964-2015), accessed 5 December 2015, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/brereton-sir-william-i-1520-59 .
      ? 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 George Ormerod, Esq, LLD, FRS & FSA, "Containing the Introduction and Prolegomena, the county of the city of Chester and Bucklow Hundred", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, Esq, Vol. I, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), accessed 5 December 2015, pp.574.
      ? 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Rev G J Piccope, MA, ed., "Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court, Chester, the Third Portion", Remains Historical and Literary connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, LIV, (Manchester: The Chetham Society, 1861), accessed 5 December 205, https://archive.org/stream/lancashireandch04piccgoog#page/n39/mode/2up pp.21-3.
      ? Patricia Hodge, BRERETON, Sir William II (1550-1631), of Brereton, Cheshire., The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, Crown copyright and The History of Parliament Trust 1964-2015, ( 1964-2015), accessed 5 December 2015, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/brereton-sir-william-ii-1550-1631 .
      ? 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Ormerod, Helsby ed, 1882 p 89.
      ? 6.0 6.1 6.2 Patricia Hodge, "SMITH, Sir Lawrence (c.1516-82), of Chester and Hough, Cheshire.", The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, Crown copyright and The History of Parliament Trust 1964-2015, ( 1964-2015), accessed 5 December 2015, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/smith-sir-lawrence-1516-82 .
      ? 7.0 7.1 Cheshire Parish Register Database, Cheshire Parish Register Project, ( 2011), accessed 30 May 2014, http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~cprdb/ .
      ? Ormerod, Helsby ed, 1882 p 503.

      See also:

      George Ormerod, Esq, LLD, FRS & FSA, "Containing the Hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, Esq, Vol. III, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), accessed 5 December 2015, .
      Craig Thornber "Brereton", A Scrapbook of Cheshire, 2015;
      Ralph Churton, The Lives of William Smyth Bishop of Lincoln and Sir Richard Sutton Knight, Founders of Brasen Nose College;: Chiefly Compiled from Registers and Other Authentic Evidences: with an Appendix of Letters and Papers Never Before Printed, (Oxford: the author, 1800), accessed 5

      end of biography [2]

  • Sources 
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