Re: A London web: Brown, Shelton & Comberford

On Jan 24, 10:57 am, mj...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

(C) The Browns

The Visitation assigns Sir Humphrey two wives:

(i) Anne Vere, daughter and coheir of Henry Vere of Addington [this is
confirmed by PRO C 1/340/43, which states that George Brown was the
son of Humphrey Brown by Anne, daughter of Henry Vere of Great
Addington]

(ii) Anne Hussey, daughter of John, Lord Hussey

We have seen that he was married sometime after 1515 to Elizabeth nee
Rawlins, Nicholas Shelton's widow (PRO C 1/386/57, 392/11-14).  He
acted as administrator to William Rawlins, sometime provost of Wells,
who was the uncle of his stepsons William, Thomas and Jeremy Shelton
(PRO C 1/1199, 1160/30-32).

It is possible therefore that Sir Humphrey was married three times.

ODNB confirms this was the case (biography under 'Humphrey Browne').
However, it gets the order of his marriages wrong, stating his first
wife (married 1516) was Elizabeth Shelton (ff 1541), his second Anne
Vere, and his third Agnes Hussey.

Anne Vere must have been the first wife, as per Vis Essex. We know
that she was the mother of George Brown and was dead by 1515 (PRO C
1/340/43: 'Anne late the wife of Humphrey Brown'); George had married
Anne Shelton by 1518 (PRO C 1/383/24).

According to the Visitation of Essex, he had a son by the first
marriage, and left three daughters and coheirs by the second marriage:

4. Katherine Brown, married firstly to Richard Townshend of Raynham,
and secondly to William Roper of Eltham.

NB Katherine's first marriage appears in Genealogics, citing Burke's
Peerage (Richard Townshend, died 1551, was ancestral to the Marquesses
Townshend).

However, the Visitation of Devon, 1564, states that she was then the
wife of Peter Sainthill.  Perhaps she was thrice married as well.

In his will of 1535, Robert Shelton leaves a bequest to his sister
Katherine (the transcription in Vis. Norfolk 1564, p 397 calls her
"Katherine Shelton" but it is not clear whether this appears in the
original text or represents a gloss).  It is possible that this refers
to Katherine Brown - in which case both she and the testator are
likely to have been the children of Elizabeth Brown/Shelton/Rawlins.

This seems to have been the case. Katherine's son, Roger Townshend,
was born circa 1544 (ODNB biography), and Elizabeth Brown/Shelton/
Rawlins was still living in 1541 - thus she cannot have been the
daughter of Humphrey Brown's third marriage. ODNB calls her the
"sister" of Jeremy Shelton.

MA-R
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