Wheeler/Ethridge/Zeller/Dunkin Family Tree » Hugh Fenne (1418-± 1476)

Personal data Hugh Fenne 

• He was born in the year 1418 in Sculton Bordeleys Norfolkshire, Bordesley, West Midlands, England.
• He died about June 28, 1476 in Wayland, Griston, Norfolk, England.
• A child of Henry Fenne and Isabel Pershale

Household of Hugh Fenne

Child(ren):

1. Margaret Fenne  ± 1444-1485 

Notes about Hugh Fenne

transcription from "Norwich, Norfolk Record Society, Edited By Roger Virgoe, ISBN: 0951160060, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah FHL Book 942.61 B4rs" (following from a fuller transcription posted by John Newport):[5] Or

Hugh atte Fenne so styled himself in his will and the family normally used that form of the name, but he was quite frequently called simply 'Fenne' .... The Fennes were a quite prolific Yarmouth and East Norfolk family, with, as was normal in the fifteenth century, a restricted number of Christian names and Hugh is not, therefore, easy to place precisely in the family pedigree:

it seems probable, however, that he was the Hugh, son of Thomas atte Fenne, who was appointed her executor by his grandmother, Christian Savage, in 1442. Christian's first husband had been Hugh atte Fenne, many times bailiff and three times parliamentary burgess of Great Yarmouth, who in his will, made in 1409, appointed as one of his executors Edmund Wyth, thus providing a link between the two wills printed in this volume. Hugh refers in the will to three sons, Thomas, Hugh and Miles. Miles disappears without trace and Hugh may have been the London fishmonger who made his will (with references to Yarmouth and to his mother, Christian, in 1420, but Thomas atte Fenne was a man of importance in Yarmouth, serving as troner and peser there from 1427 and as bailiff of the town in 1432 and 1440. Either he or a son and namesake was bailiff again in 1447, 1453 and 1457 and collector of customs there between 1451 and 1460. The will of Christian, who had remarried Peter Savage, refers to Hugh as the son of Thomas, and the identity of this Hugh with the exchequer official and the testator of 1476 is confirmed by the grant made by Thomas in 1438 of lands in Herringby and elsewhere, formerly of his father, Hugh, to Sir John Fastolf and others: these lands came to Hugh Fenne after Fastolf's death and formed part of the endowment of his alms-house. ...

OR

Hugh Fenne of Braintree

"Ancestry of Sir Hugh FENNE, Treasurer of the Household" (2003) [6] "... Fenne's wife was named Eleanor, [who] was buried in St Bartholomew's Priory, in West Smithfield. The following source also states this: John Venn, _Annals of A Clerical Family_ (London, 1904), chart opposite p. 213 [citing "Anthony Norris, Herald's College (I. 9, 89; 6 D. 14; Vincent, 119, p. 463), etc."]

"1. Hugh Fenne, of Yorkshire, slain in the Civil Contest in the reign of Richard II., and lost his lands in Yorkshire. = ....
"2. Hugh Fenne, came to Bocking, Essex, and had lands in Braintree, as by his will appears. = ....
"3. Hugh Fenne, of Braintree = ....
"4. Sir Hugh Fenne, Knt. Treasure of the Household to Henry VI. = Eleanor ..., buried in St Bartholomew's Priory.
"5. Margaret Fenne, da. and h. d. 1483. = Sir Geo. Neville, Lord Abergavenny, killed at Tewkesbury."[7]

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