Ancestral Trails 2016 » William FANSHAWE (1583-????)

Personal data William FANSHAWE 

• He was born in the year 1583 in Ware Park, Hertfordshire.
• He died on March 4, 1633/34, he was 50 years old.
• A child of Thomas FANSHAWE and Johanna SMYTHE

Household of William FANSHAWE

Notes about William FANSHAWE

William Fanshawe (1583 - 4 March 1634) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1625.

Fanshawe was the second son of Thomas Fanshawe, of Ware Park, Hertfordshire and his second wife Joan Smyth, the daughter of Thomas "Customer" Smythe, of Ostenhanger.

In 1619, Fanshawe purchased Parsloes Manor and 91 acres attached to it in what is now known as Parsloes Park in Dagenham £1150 from Edward Osborne.

Fanshawe was Auditor for the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1614 he was elected Member of Parliament for Lancaster and entered the East India Company. In 1619, he acquired the manor of Parsloes, Essex, which was held by his descendants until 1917. He was elected MP for Clitheroe in 1621 and was re-elected MP for Clitheroe in 1624 and 1625.

Fanshawe died at the age of 51.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

1591 A beneficiary in the will of grandfather, Thomas Smythe, to Thomas, Katherine, and William, the children of his daughter Joan, wife of Thomas Fanshaw, and of his late wife Mary, the sum of £500 to be equally divide

1598 Was left £10 in the will of his grandmother, Dame Alice Smythe.

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