Whittington families » John SKEFFINGTON (1535-1604)

Persoonlijke gegevens John SKEFFINGTON 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1535.
• Hij is overleden op 7 november 1604, hij was toen 69 jaar oud.

  Age:68-69

• Hij is begraven in St Michaels, Lichfield.
• Een kind van William (Baronet) SKEFFINGTON en Joan LEVESON (SKEFFINGTON)(FOWKE) (GIFFARD)
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 30 juli 2015.

Gezin van John SKEFFINGTON

Hij is getrouwd met Alice CAVE (SKEFFINGTON).

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 1562.

CHAN: NOTE 13:25

Kind(eren):

1. William (1St Baronet) SKEFFINGTON  1562-1635 
2. Elizabeth SKEFFINGTON (GRIFFITH)  

Notities over John SKEFFINGTON

Sir John Skeffington died in 1525 with a son William, a minor, as his heir. Fisherwick passed for life to his widow Elizabeth, and in 1527 she and her new husband Sir John Dauncey made a lease of the manor for so long as Dauncey should hold it in right of his wife. He still held it in 1537, but by 1539 he and Elizabeth were divorced and she was taking the profits. (fn. 89) She died in 1549, followed by William Skeffington in 1551; his heir was his son«b» John,«/b» who came of age in 1556. (fn. 90) «b»John«/b» gave possession of his estates to his son and heir William in 1587 and died at Fisherwick in 1604. (fn. 91) William, who was created a baronet in 1627, died at Fisherwick in 1635 with a son John as his heir. (fn. 92) John, who had been knighted in 1624, had his estates sequestrated in 1643 for raising money for Charles I; he compounded in 1650. (fn. 93) On his death in 1651 he was succeeded by his son William, who died in 1652. (fn. 94) The heir was William's cousin John Skeffington. In 1654 he married Mary, daughter and heir of Sir John Clotworthy, created Viscount Massereene in 1660. Sir John Skeffington succeeded to the viscountcy and a large Irish estate by special remainder on the death of his father-in-law in 1665. He was elected M.P. for Antrim in 1661 and remained active in the affairs of Ulster. He died in 1695. (fn. 95)

From: 'Townships: Fisherwick with Tamhorn', A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 14: Lichfield (1990), pp. 237-252. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42360. Date accessed: 14 May 2008.

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