Jane Bromely

Personal and Family Information

Jane was born about 1590 in England, the daughter of Francis Bromely and Joice Leighton.

Her husband was William Yelverton Davenport. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was Henry (c1615-?).

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!StyleName: Bromely, Jane of Hawkeswood [~1590 - ] Note: Renting Hawkwswood from Hotchkiss family who were in London, but still owned the property.

!Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bromley

Francis Bromley

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Marriage and family

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Bromley married in 1581[1] Joyce Leighton, Latinised as Jocosa in the Heraldic Visitation[11] and elsewhere, although this is a misunderstanding of the name.[12] Joyce Leighton was the daughter of:

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Edward Leighton of Wattlesborough.

Anne Darrell, daughter of Paul Darrell of Lillingstone Dayrell, Buckinghamshire.

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This was a marriage of equals, with both partners coming from the dominant group of county gentry families. Edward Leighton was a powerful force politically in Shropshire during the 1580s.[13] He was a member of the Council in the Marches and became custos rotulorum of his county in 1587.

Francis Bromley and Joyce Leighton had two children:[2]

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Thomas Bromley, the heir, who married Eleanor Jenks[14] but died without issue in 1610, leaving the Bromley estates to Edward Bromley, Francis's younger brother. Edward died in 1626, also without issue, leaving them to Sir George's third son, also called George.[6]

Jane Bromley, who married William Davenport.[14] <<<<

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Hallon became the focus of a bitter legal wrangle, lasting over several decades, the origin of which is recounted by Randall, the historian of Worfield, with some apologies for straying into the "region of tradition, but tradition fortified by facts."[15] Joyce Leighton remarried after the death of Francis Bromley, becoming the second wife of Walter Wrottesley of Wrottesley Park, near Tettenhall: a remarriage mentioned by the Visitation of Shropshire[11] and Burke's Peerage.[16] >>> William Davenport and Jane Bromley allegedly eloped after a secret and forbidden courtship in the grounds of Wrottesley.[15] Subsequently, they put forward a claim to Hallon, which Edward Bromley had assumed was his. The family dispute was ultimately to be resolved in the Davenports' favour, with Hallon becoming Davenport House. <<<

!Note: This is 11 miles from Hawkswood House.

!Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bromley

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!Source: Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society [Great Britain]. Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society [Kindle Locations 3409-3442]. Shrewsbury [etc.], Ser. 4, Vol. 3, page 120. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/161179#page/301/mode/1up

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HAWKESWOOD.

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This is a small manor [or estimated as such] of 160 acres, extending over the Southern portion of the parish [Sidbury or Sudbury]. Gregory de Hokeswode and William de Hokeswode occur in the Lay Subsidy Roll of 1327; for Sidbury. The Priory of Wenlock had an interest here, for [as already recorded] Sir Humphrey Talbot had before his death [9 Hen. VII. [ 22 August 1485 - 21 August 1486]] enfeoffed John Rowdon and others of lands in Hokkyswoode, held of the Prior by fealty only.

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Blakeway writes as follows:—"I have seen no mention of this manor before 36 Elizabeth [17 November 1593 -16 November 1594], when Jane Bromley, widow, was lady of the manor of Hockeswood. She was relict of Sir George Bromley, Knight, Chief Justice of Chester — brother, and I conceive elder brother, of. Sir Thomas the Lord Chancellor- -and daughter and heir of John Wannerton, Esq., of Wannerton. In that year John Purslowe, Esq., is found to die seized of pasture in Hockeswood holden of the said Jane as of her manor of Hockeswood by the rent of 3s. Her grandson Thomas Bromley, Esq., called of Bridgnorth, in the inquisition after his death, is found to have died 7 Jac. [7 James I - 25 March 1609 - 24 March 1610] without issue, seized inter alia of the manor of Hockeswood, holden of the King as of his Earldom of March by the thirtieth part of a Knight's fee.

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Jane, his sister and heir, married William Davenport, Esq., of Chorley, co. Cest.. whose descendant, William Yelverton Davenport, Esq., is now lord of this manor." [Bodl. MS. 12].

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!Note: There is a slight problem with the above in that it failed to note that Hawkeswood had belonged to the Hotchkiss family for hundreds of years by that point and Jane Wannerton, mother of Francis Bromley, this Jane’s father, had remarried to Sir William Hotchkiss of Hawkeswood, from which the property came. The fact that it still belonged to the Hotckiss family when this was done, shows that this is not exactly correct. It seems to have gone to the son of William by his next wife Jane Northwood: Richard Hotchkiss . Since this says the state siezed the property, but this seems to be the rented property of Thomas Bromley, which totally sounds like we are dealing with rental issues. It appears that the Hotchkiss family, the real owners of the estate, were actually living in London at the time.