Whittington families » Christopher (Gent) HEVENINGHAM (1658-1737)

Données personnelles Christopher (Gent) HEVENINGHAM 

• Il est né en l'an 1658 dans Lichfield, Staffordshire, England.
• Il est décédé en l'an 1737 dans Cheadle, Greater Manchester, UK, il avait 79 ans.

  Age:78-79

• Il est enterré le 28 novembre 1737 dans Stone, Staffordshire, England.
• Un enfant de Symon HEVENINGHAM et Katherine ALPORT (HEVENINGHAM)
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 30 juillet 2015.

Famille de Christopher (Gent) HEVENINGHAM

Il est marié avec Mary BROOKE (HEVENINGHAM).

Ils se sont mariés le 28 novembre 1692 à Meryvale Church, Nr Atherstone, il avait 34 ans.

CHAN: NOTE 13:25

Enfant(s):

1. Ann (Infant) HEVENINGHAM  1692-1692
2. Henry HEVENINGHAM  < 1693-1748 
3. Walter HEVENINGHAM  1695-1734
4. Christopher HEVENINGHAM  1698-1748 
5. Brooke (Child) HEVENINGHAM  ± 1700-± 1703
6. Henrietta Mary HEVENINGHAM (RUMBOLA)(PICKEN)  ± 1701-????

Notes par Christopher (Gent) HEVENINGHAM

THE CASE of CHRISTOPHER HEVENINGHAM OF THE CITY OF LICHFIELD, GENT.

gham, Esq., who was son of Walter Heveningham, of Pipe, in the county of Stafford. The said Nicholas had 3 sons, vizt. Walter, Symon and Christopher. Xtopher dyed unmarried. Walter had no issue male,but had two daughters, one married to Walter Fowler, Esq., the other to Sir James Simeon.

n and Henry were both educated Papists beyond the seas, and when grown up returned to England, when Sir James Simeon found means to have them both put into Bethlem (to prevent them claiming the estate belonging to the Heveninghams) where John died in a few weeks, & Henry not of 10 or 12 years. Sir James also contrived to send this claimant Xtopher into the Indies, where he remained many years(and was sid to be dead, to Sir James, his great satisfaction) but has returned and embraced the Protestant Religion of the established church of England - married and hath issue now living 4 sons and one daughter." He made a claim to the estate in Chancery, and Sir James Simeon told Mr. Lee (who was the claimant's Lawyer) that he had no right to the estate, while his aunt Heveningham was living,but when she died, it was his. Proceeding in Chancery, he obtained a decree of 50l. per Annum to be paid out of Pipe Estate. In the beginning of Queen Anne's reign (*1702 - 1714) he brought an Ejectment against Sir James. Issue was joined, council feed, an Evidence ready for a trial, when Mr. Gatticre, Sir James his attorney, came to Mr. Porter, the claimant's attorney, and said he had a fine andrecovery upon the estate, and produced a parchment, which Mr. Porter scarcely perused when he said he would acquiesce in the matter, and he would not try the case.

search made in the proper offices.. .. & no recovery to be found, only a common fine, and search has been since made but no recovery found.

s ago, and left issue a son, now Sir Edward Simeon, and a daughter married to ---- Wylde (sic Humphrey Weld), Esq.

n the Popish religion, and came into England about 10 years ago, and about 4 or 5 years ago went to France again & did not return to England of near two years lame of a knee, which he pretends came by leaping over a fountaine, but it was commonly reported he was killed in the Franch service, and he himself has declared that he was in the camp in Flanders, and saw both the french & confederate armies, and his 2 servants Robert Brent & Francis Danielli have often owned the same. When Sir Edward & the claimant (Christopher Heveningham) have been serious in discourse concerning the estate, Sir Edward has no ways denied the claimant's title, but said the reason he did not enjoy it was because he was cut off for being a heretick. (Source: Notes on Staffordshire Families)

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(Query) Whether the Laws against Papists did not disqualify any proceedings to cut off a Protestant heir -- & transfer an estate from the family of the Heveninghams to the Simeons --- the Heveninghams by a lineal descent having succeeded to their patrimony long before William the Conqueror, & the last settlement made to continue the name in the Blood & Kindred in the reign of King James the first.

now reduced to 50L. p. Annum for the father and 4 sons and one daughter to subsist upon.

on the Parliament, or in Equity, or at common Law.

in right of his wife - and tho' Sir James in his life-time did know & Sir Edward now does know the claiment to be right... he is reduced for want of money & friends to assist him."

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act of it:-

Aston, co. Stafford. He mentions Edward and Thomas elder and younger sons of his nephew Edward Weld; his niece Elizabeth Bridget Weld.

;20; to James son of Walter Heveningham £10; to Brooke Heveningham £10; to Mrs Mary Remington £20; to her sister Mrs Arabella Heveningham £20; to the two daughters of Henry Heveningham by his first wife £10, and to the six children of Henry Heveningham by his second wife £....

Whereas in 1736 he made an indenture as to the Manor of Pipe, subject to the interest of Christopher Heveningham, Senior, of Twyneforth, co. Stafford, Gent., who is since deceased as is his son Henry.

Now in accordance therewith, he charges it with a yearly rent of Threescore Pounds in favour of -

Edward Heveningham son and heir of Edward Heveningham deceased who was eldest son of the said late Henry Heveningham deceased, by his first wife:

Remainder toEdward Heveningham's sons and their sons in tail male;

Remainder to John Heveningham second son of the said Henry Heveningham deceased by his first wife, and to his sons and his sons' sons in tail male;

Like remainders in tail male to James Heveningham, Charles Heveningham and Thomas Heveningham the first, second and third sons of the said Henry Heveningham by his second wife;

>Remainder to the heirs male of the said Christopher Heveningham, Senior.

Remainder to the same Christopher's right heirs.

But the said Annuity is charged with an annual payment of £10 for life to Mary widow of the said Henry Heveningham.

Executors:- James Howse, and my niece Elizabeth Bridget Weld.

 

of Charles Heveningham of Lichfield (Died 1782) und the the Will of John Heveningham of Virginia who died in 1819-10. This claim, which apparently was not made until about 1840, was carried to a successful issue by Mr. Parry in 1852. The evidence on which he relied ws largely the personal testimony of old people including no doubt that of his mother's aunt who was a Heveningham and first-cousin to the Virginian. Mr. Parry was able to inform me that the Virginian's father was also named John but that as it was not necessary for the purpose of the claim, he had not troubled to procure evidenceas to the father of the elder John. He therefore affiliated the latter incorrectly in the family pedigree he drew up, and I have only lately discovered the true descent. In his pedigree, Mr. Parry not knowing of Sir Edward Simeon's Will, repeated Harwood's mistake in stating that Henry Heveningham (son of Christopher) died without issue.

abular form, without additions from any other source, the Heveningham Pedigree proved by the 'Case' and by Sir Edward Simeon's Will

p>p>1. John H. 2. Henry H. 3. Christopher H.

Died s.p. Died s.p. Evidently 'Christopher H., Senior,

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sons and one daughter. Was living

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son and heir living

15 June 1764

idently under age in 1658. He made what seems to have been an advantageous marriage, his wife being Mary, only daughter and heir of William Brooke of Elford in the County of Stafford, but as he states in the 'Case,' he dissipated her fortune in the attempt to wrest the Heveningham estates from the Simeon family. He settled at Lichfield and was certainly the 'Mr. Christopher Heveningha, Heveningham, Henningham, whose name occurs in the poll-books of that City down to 1718. But the Christopher Haveningham, Heveningham, who appears in 1721 and 1727 may be his son.

es of original deeds in my possession, I learn that on the 11th and 12th November, 1692, Mary Brooke, described as 'of Tamworth, co. Warwick, spinster,' mortgaged The Holms and other lands appurtenant to Elford Mills, to Samuel White of Middleton, co. Warwick, Yeoman, as security for the repayment of sixty-three Pounds on the 13th November, 1694. The documents are accompanied by an affidavit thatshe was unmarried and at her own disposal, and at the foot of this is wirtten :- The abovesaid, Mary bruks was maried to one. Mr. Henignham by parson bowyer at meryuale church nouember the 28th, 1692.

l White's interest was transferred to William Lovelace of Clifton Campvile, Gent. In this, Christopher Heveningham is described as late of Elford, now of Burton upon Trent, Gent., and Mary his wife as daughter ad heir of William Brooke late of Haslour in the said County of Stafford, gent., deceased. The last deed of the series, dated 10 May, 1700 is an assignment by Isaac Hawkins of Burton upon Trent, Esquire and William Lovelace, of their interest in the property mortgaged by Christopher and Mary Heveningham. But what they now assign is not merely the Holms and other lands appurtenant to Elford Mills, but the Mills themselves with all the 'lands appertaining to them, and also all the lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever of Christopher and Mary in the parish of Elford. The Assignees were John Goldsmith of the city and county of Lichfield, milliner, and Ellinor his wife. Christopher Heveningham is described in this document as late of Burton upon Trent, now of the city of Lichfield, gent. It may also be added that in a previous document dated 12th October, 1699, to which Isaac Hawkins was a party. Mary Heveningham's father William Brooke was described as 'nephew and heir ofJohn Brooke heretofore of Harleston in the said county of Stafford.' This description was no doubt, inserted because some of the Elford property was derived from this John, who by his Will dated 1670, and proved (in P.C.C.), 1673, bequeathed his mill and lands in Elford to his nephew William Brooke Esquire for life, remainder to William's son if any, or to a 'daughter if there was no son.'

 

Christopher Heveningham towards the end fo his life removed to Tenford in the parish of Cheadle. He was evidently a rolling stone, and wasted his substance in improfitable ligitation, the consequence being that probably some of his children, and certainly many of his remoter descendants, were and are in quite humble circumstances. There can be little doubt that from him have descended all subsequent Heveninghams and Henninghams of the South Staffordshire and Birmingham district.

out much further research to pronounce an opinion. Many expectant heirs have had their hopes overthrown by a Fine and Recovery, and Christopher's claim that the last Settlement of he estates had beenmade in the reign of James the first seems to overlook the fact that there had been a settlement on the marriage of Walter Heveningham and Mary Middlemore in 1642 and a subsequent revocation of Uses in 1652.

Heveningham of Tennford in the parish of Cheadle, Gentleman.

(The religious phrases of the opening sentence are undoubtedly those of a Protestant).

The Testator leaves to his son BrookeHeveningham all personal estate, and the messuage at Tenford which Testator now inhabits and which he purchased from Edward Hale of Cranidge, Cheshire, Gent., with all its appurtenances.

He leaves one shilling to his son Henry Heveningham of Spade Green, Staffordshire, to his son Christopher Heveningham, and to his daugher Henrietta Maria Picken wife of William Picken of Eccleshale.

He makes his loving son Brooke Heveningham Executor.

Witnesses: - Edward Smith, Arthur Browne.

He seals with A wheatsheaf fesswide, thereon a bird.

The Inventory amounts to £25 6 11.

The Testator's signature is very feeble and sprawling, and suspisciously unlike his signatures to various deeds which are extant, not only in the form of the initial C but even in the spelling of the name. It may be represented thus: -

Christ o pher Heavingham.

it may be assumed that Christopher and Mary Heveningham left only the surviving issue given below, but there had been another son also named Brooke, who was Baptized at St. Mary's, Lichfield on 11 Jan., 1700, and buried in June, 1703. Christopher's wife evidently the 'Mary wife of Christo Heningham' buried at St. Mary's Lichfield on the 4th April, 1721. The notes supplied by Grazebook to the 1663-4 Visitation of Staffordshire seem to show that the correct surname of her family was 'Brookes.' The pedigree entered does not attempt to prove any connection with the Brookes of Norton, Cheshire, yet the Arms of that well-known family (Argent a cross engrailed per pale sable and gules) were allowed to the ******** Brookes, differenced merely by an annulet gules in the dexter quarter.

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Christopher and Mary Heveningham had issue : -

ord 11th and baptized there 22nd January, 1695. He was evidently the father of that 'James son of Walter Heveningham to whom Sir Edward Simeon left £10.

n the Lichfield Parliamentary elections of 1718 and 1727 being a freeman of the city.

full abstract of it, but unfortunately the Testator does not mention the names of his children.

eorge II (1734).

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The Testator seals with the Armorial Seal of the winess Theophilus Levett, namely : - A lion rampant crowned, within an orle of cross-corsslets fitchy. Cres, - A demi-lion holding a corss-crosslet fitchy.

e assigned to Mary the widow of Henry, but the mention of landed property in St. Michael's parish, and the date of probatle (1770), confirm to some extent the opinion I have formed.

3.«tab»Christopher Heveningham, of whom hereafter, in Section III

ne 1703.

ward Simeon left him £10.

ust have died young, for the 'Case' only mentions one daughter.

ningham' 11 January 1700-1. Her father in his Will dated 1737 leaves her one shilling and speaks of her as wife of William Picken of Ecclesale. Pesumably this means Eccleshall near Stafford.

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Notes for CHRISTOPHER HEVENINGHAM, GENT.:

olic) but later returned and embraced the Protestant religion and then was 'cut off' for being a heretick! Poor Christopher, he just could not win either way so, enevitably, he lost almost everything- especially the Heveningham lands and fortune (and also his wife's).

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