GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Archives

Archiver > GEN-MEDIEVAL > 2007-05 > 1178753939


From: "John Higgins" <>
Subject: Re: Descents From Edward III For Sir Francis TrappesBirnand(1570-1642)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 16:38:59 -0700
References: <1178085318.162304.184130@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com><003201c79040$09e83cb0$b5888d47@labs.agilent.com>


A couple of notes on the family of Birnand or Byrnand:

The will of Richard Birnand (d. 1591) is available on-line, transcribed from
vol. 104 of the Publications of the Surtees Society, together with an
extensive note on his family. See
http://www.knaresborough.co.uk/history/wills/rbirnand.htm. The same will is
also available via Google Books but with a less extensive note.

And a warning: There is a Birnand pedigree in the "Yorkshire Pedigrees"
series of the Harleian Society (HSP v. 94 p. 90), but it is very garbled, at
least inc omparison to the information posted by Brad and the info in the
will of Richard Birnand. The Robert who is identified by Brad as having
mar. (1) Anne Norton and (2) Anne Slingsby is split into two Roberts, father
and so, with Anne Slingsby the second wife said to be the mother of the
Robert who mar. Anne Norton. And William Birnand the brother of Robert, who
mar. Grace Ingleby, is said here to be the father of the "elder" Robert, not
a brother. What a mess!! Caveat lector....


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Verity" <>
> Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:55 PM
> Subject: Descents From Edward III For Sir Francis Trappes Birnand
> (1570-1642)
>
>
> > The Birnands are an interesting Yorkshire gentry family in that rather
> > than having any number of country manors for landed holdings, they
> > were town-based. As early as the 1330s, the Birnands can be found in
> > the Court Rolls of Knaresborough, and by the mid-15th century, the
> > family held substantial properties in and around that West Riding
> > town, including burgages and land in the town fields. Their chief
> > property was Birnand (aka Byrnand) Hall in the heart of the town. The
> > honour of Knaresborough was held by the Nevill family for most of the
> > 15th century, and the Birnands were active supporters of Richard
> > Nevill, earl of Salisbury. Robert Birnand (d. 1502) was an esquire of
> > the body to Richard III, and his son John Birnand (d. by 1545) was
> > appointed in 1526 receiver of Knaresborough and Pontefract, for life.
> > He and his son John Birnand (d. 1565) were active in local
> > administration, and worked often with John Norton of Norton Conyers
> > (d. 1557), so it was a natural match when the younger John Birnand's
> > son and heir Robert Birnand married by 1550, Anne Norton,
> > granddaughter of John Norton and a descendant of Edward III. Robert
> > and Anne had four children before she died, by 1560. Robert then took
> > a second wife, on 30 September 1561, Anne Slingsby (descended from
> > Edward I), daughter of Thomas Slingsby of Scriven, and had two more
> > sons with her. He died before his father, in about 1564, making
> > provision for his second wife and their two sons on his deathbed.
> > Robert's younger brother, William Birnand of Knaresborough, survived
> > their father and achieved a good career, holding the office of
> > Recorder of York from 1573 until his death in 1582. William also
> > married into the Edward III bloodline, taking Grace Ingleby, daughter
> > of Sir William Ingleby of Ripley, as a wife. Their only child was a
> > daughter, Grace Birnand, who married Ralph Babthorpe of Babthorpe in
> > 1578.
> >
> > As for the children of Robert Birnand and Anne Norton, the two sons,
> > Francis Birnand and Richard Birnand (d. 1591) inherited, in turn,
> > Birnand Hall and the other family properties, but died without issue.
> > One daughter, Susan Birnand, married attorney Richard Hudson, and the
> > other daughter Anne Birnand married, in the late 1560s, Francis
> > Trappes of Nidd (3.5 miles from Knaresborough). Trappes was a younger
> > son of London merchant Robert Trappes, and his half-sister Philippa
> > Trappes had married by 1567, for her third husband, Richard Norton of
> > Norton Conyers, grandfather of Trappes's wife. After Francis
> > Trappes's death in 1574, Anne Birnand took one William Blount as her
> > second husband. She eventually inherited most of the Birnand
> > properties, and died on 11 December 1619. Her son and heir by her
> > first husband added Birnand to his surname. Francis Trappes Birnand
> > (born 1 April 1570, died 15 February 1642) was knighted in 1603, and
> > founded a line of Catholic gentry that continued well into the 19th
> > century, and possibly to the present. The fate of Robert Birnand's
> > sons, William and Edmund, by his second wife Anne Slingsby is more
> > difficult to work out. They were dependent on their uncle Francis
> > Slingsby of Scriven, and may have quarreled with their half-siblings,
> > as Richard Slingsby re-did his will in 1591 to make William Ingleby
> > supervisor and executor instead of half-brother William Birnand. It
> > was probably this William Birnand who died in Bristol in 1630, with
> > administration of his estate granted to his widow Anne in
> > Knaresborough. Edmund Birnand was living as late as 1636, but whether
> > either brother left issue, and for how many generations male-line
> > Birnand descendants of Edward I survived, is difficult to determine at
> > present.

This thread: