Anne Sneyd

Sir William Sneyde, Knt. of Bradwell, who m. 1st, Ann, dau. and heiress of Thomas Barrowe, Esq. of Flookersbrooke, near Chester, and had issue,

I. Ralph, his heir

II. George, of Madeley, Gent.

I. Mary, m. to John Delves, Esq. of Doddington, co. Chester

II. Elizabeth, m. to Henry, 12th Lord Audley, who d. 1564

III. Ann, m. to William Young, Esq. of Kainton, co. Salop

IV. Jane, m. to Thomas Trentham, Esq. of Rocester

V. Margaret, m. 1st to John Somerford, Esq. of Somerford, co. Chester, who d. 11 Aug. 1577; and 2ndly, to Gilbert Domville, Esq. of Lymme, co. Chester, and dying 2 Oct. 1592, was interred at Astbury.

Source: Burke, Landed Gentry

There is considerable confusion as to the Christian name and identity of her father. The inscription on the monument in Wolstanton church describes Anne as the daughter of Thomas Barrow of Flookersbrook: Here lie the bodies of Sir William Sneyd of Bradwell, knight, and Dame Anne, his wife, one of the daughters and heirs of Thomas Barrow of Flookersbrook in the county of Chester, esquire, who had 5 sons and 10 daughters, which Sir William died the 6 of June 1571. On the monument are the arms of Sneyd impaling Barrow, for which see Ward, John, The Borough of Stoke-Upon-Trent, (London: W. Lewis & Son, 1843), pp. 118-19 at: https://books.google.ca/books?id=M6QLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA118 For the testator’s alleged father-in-law, Thomas Barrow, son of Thomas Barrow of Chester, see The Cheshire Sheaf, supra, pp. 176, 397 at: https://books.google.ca/books?id=iG8uAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA397

The Chester family of Barrow, springing originally from the neighbouring township and parish of Barrow, near Tarvin, first appear as merchants and tradesmen in Chester city towards the middle of the 15th century. Fifty years afterwards [=1500] we find Thomas Barrow, of Chester, investing his merchant savings in the purchase of the estate of Flookersbrook, and taking, along with William Sneyd, another prosperous citizen, a leading part in the municipal management of Chester, and sharing with him in its highest honours. In process of time Sir William Sneyd, grandson of the above, married Anne Barrow, daughter and heiress to Thomas, son of the above-named Thomas Barrow, of Flookersbrook, and so acquired that Cheshire property. . . . [inscription on monument is then quoted]. The authority of the inscription on the monument is called into question by two sources which state that Anne was the daughter of Robert (not Thomas) Barrow. A document dating from 1544/5 states that William Sneyd, esquire, and Anne, his wife, ‘one of the heirs of Robert Barrow, esquire, deceased’, have sold certain lands to James Hurleton of Chester. See CHES 11/53: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C764176

Another document, dated 1543/4, states that John Crosby, clerk, has recovered certain lands against William Sneyd and Anne, his wife, ‘one of the daughters and heirs of Robert Barrow’. See The Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1867), p. 160 at: https://books.google.ca/books?id=b3ZIN-Lh4fIC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160 Grazebrook agrees that the testator’s first wife was the daughter of Robert Barrow, but adds to the confusion by stating that the testator married ‘Alice’ (rather than Anne), ‘da. and h. to Robert Barrow of Chester’. ‘Alice’ may be Grazebrook’s own interpolation, as the original pedigree in italics appears to read merely ‘. . . filia . . . . Barrow de Flokersbrooke juxta Chester’. Moreover in a note Grazebrook adds that another pedigree found in Harleian MS. 6128 records that Roger Barrow of “Flowkersbrooke” had issue three daughters and coheirs, viz., Anne, wife of Henry Port of Chester (father by her of Sir John Port); Jane, wife of Sir William Sneyd; and Margaret, wife of Hamon Dickfield of Ditton. See Grazebrook, H. Sydney, ed., The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire, (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1885), pp. 273-4 at: https://books.google.ca/books?id=gfwcAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA273

The ODNB agrees that Sir John Port was, in fact, the son of Henry Port (d.1512) and Anne Barrow, daughter of Roger Barrow: Port, Sir John (c.1472–1540), judge, was one of the sons of Henry Port (d. 1512) and his first wife, Anne, daughter of Roger Barrow of Chester. Henry was a mercer in Chester who served as mayor of that city in 1486. . . . However according to Hughes, citing Cheshire manuscript pedigrees, Anne Barrow, wife of Henry Port, Mayor of Chester in 1486, was the daughter of Robert (not Roger) Barrow. See Hughes, T., ‘Mr. Justice Port’, Notes and Queries, 2nd Series, Vol. IV, (London: Bell & Daldy, 1857), p. 137 at: https://books.google.ca/books?id=bEhR-4dkd_gC&pg=RA1-PA137

On balance, then, it seems probable that the testator’s first wife, Anne Barrow, was the daughter of Robert Barrow, despite the inscription on the testator’s tomb. For the mother of Sir John Port (d.1540), said to have been Anne Barrow, daughter of Roger Barrow, see the will of Sir John Port, TNA PROB 11/28/58.

Children:

• Ralph Sneyd (d. 15 August 1620), esquire, of Keele, who married firstly Mary Chetwynd, the daughter of Thomas Chetwynd (d. 30 September 1555) of Ingestre, Staffordshire (see below), and secondly Mary Newport, the daughter of Sir Richard Newport (d.1570/1) of High Ercall, Shropshire (see below). For Mary Chetwynd, see Chetwynd-Stapylton, H.E., The Chetwynds of Ingrestre, (London: Longmans, Green, 1892), pp. 140-2 at: https://books.google.ca/books?id=DpBDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA223 For Ralph Sneyd’s children by Mary Chetwynd, see Armytage, supra, p. 216 at: https://archive.org/stream/recordsociety58recouoft#page/216/mode/2up
• George Sneyd of Newcastle-under-Lyme. For his will, see TNA PROB 11/89/396.
• Mary Sneyd, who married John Delves (d. 13 June 1571), esquire, of Doddington, Chester. See Armytage, supra, p. 216, and the Delves pedigree in Rylands, John Paul, ed., The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, Vol. XVIII, (London: Harleian Society, 1882), p. 78 at: https://archive.org/stream/visitationofches00glov#page/78/mode/2up For the will of John Delves, see ‘Remains Historical and Literary’ on this website. Their daughter, Margaret Delves, married Edward Bushell. See the will of William Sheldon (d. 24 December 1570) of Beoley, TNA PROB 11/53/79; the pedigree of Bushell in Hotson, Leslie, I, William Shakespeare, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1937), p. 144; and the pedigree of Delves in Ormerod, George, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, (London: Lackington, Hughes, 1819), Vol. III, p. 268 at: http://archive.org/stream/historyofcountyp03orme#page/268/mode/2up See also Fetherston, John, ed., The Visitation of the County of Warwick in the Year 1619, Vol. XII, (London: Harleian Society, 1877), pp. 137-8 at: https://archive.org/stream/visitationcount01britgoog#page/n164/mode... See also Burke, John and John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetages of England, (London: Scott, Webster and Geary, 1838), p. 157 at: https://books.google.ca/books?id=K1kBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA157
• Elizabeth Sneyd, who married Henry Tuchet (d. 30 December 1563), 10th Baron Audley, whose great-grandfather, James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley, was beheaded on Tower Hill on 28 June 1497 for his part in the Cornwall Rebellion, and posthumously attainted in 1504. His son, John Tuchet, was restored in blood in 1512, although at a ruinous price which eventually resulted in the sale of the Audley lands. See the ODNB entry, and Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd ed., 2011, Vol. IV, p. 218. John Tuchet, 8th Baron Audley (died c.1559) was succeeded by his son, George Tuchet (d.1560), 9th Baron Audley (d.1560), succeeded in turn by his son, Henry Tuchet (d. 30 December 1563), 10th Baron Audley, succeeded in turn by his son, George Tuchet (d.1617), Earl of Castlehaven, Ireland. In the period 1556-1558, the testator was steward to George Touchet (d.1560), 9th Baron Audley, and in 1560 to Henry Touchet (d.1564), 10th Baron Audley. See TNA C 1/1479/46 and Derbyshire Record Office D3155/WH 76. Elizabeth Sneyd’s husband, Henry Tuchet, 10th Baron Audley, was buried 5 January 1564 at Betley, Staffordshire. See Adams, Percy W.L., ed., Betley Parish Register, p. 19 at: https://archive.org/stream/betleyparishregi00pari#page/18/mode/2up See also the Sneyd pedigree in Armytage, supra, p. 216 at: https://archive.org/stream/pedigreesmadeatv00stge#page/216/mode/2up See also Burke, John, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, 8th ed., (London: Henry Colburn, 1845), p. 50 at: https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZfdRAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA50
• Anne Sneyd, who married William Yonge, esquire, of Caynton, Shropshire. For William Yonge, see Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd ed., 2011, Vol. III, p. 546: 16. William Yonge (or Young), Gent., of Caynton (in Edgmond), Tibberton, etc., Shropshire, son and heir. He married (1st) Anne Sneyd, daughter of William Snead, Knt., of Bradwell, Staffordshire. They had five sons, William, Giles, Thomas, John, and John (again), and six daughters, Elizabeth (wife of Walter Cotton), Margaret (wife of William Cotton), Anne (wife of (blank) Evans), Mary (wife of (blank) Comley), Frances (wife of William Bolton), and Hester. He married (2nd) before 1 Nov. 1579 Mary Bonner, daughter of Anthony Bonner, Gent., of Camden, Gloucestershire, by Bridget (descendant of King Edward I, daughter of Christopher Savage, Esq. (descendant of King Edward I) [see Savage 14 for her ancestry]. They had one daughter, Bridget. William Yonge, Gent, died in Dec. 1583. His widow, Mary, married (2nd) 10 Jan. 1586 Thomas Combe, Gent., of Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire. His will was dated 22 Dec. 1608, proved 10 Feb. 1608/. She died at Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire 5 April 1617. For the will of Thomas Combe of Stratford on Avon, see TNA PROB 11/113/130. Giles Yonge, the second son of Anne Sneyd and William Yonge (see above) appears to have been the Giles Yonge who was a co-purchaser, together with Ralph Sneyd and Oxford’s wife, Elizabeth Trentham (d.1612), of King’s Place in Hackney in 1597 (see TNA C 66/1476), where Oxford lived from 1597 until his death in 1604.
• Jane Sneyd, who married Thomas Trentham (d.1587), esquire, of Rocester, Staffordshire, by whom she was the mother of Oxford’s second wife, Elizabeth Trentham. For the will of Thomas Trentham, see TNA PROB 11/72/372.
• Margaret Sneyd (d. 2 October 1592), who married firstly, John Somerford (d. 11 August 1577), esquire, of Somerford, Cheshire. For the pedigree of Somerford, see Armytage, supra, pp. 216-17. Margaret Sneyd married secondly Gilbert Domville (d. 1 December 1607), esquire, of Lymm, Cheshire. For a lawsuit brought by Gilbert Domville against Sir Edward Fitton (d. 17 February 1548) of Gawsworth concerning the manors of Astbury and Somerford, Cheshire, ‘sometime the estate of John Somerforde, esquire, the former husband of plaintiff’s wife’, see TNA C 2/Eliz/D10/41. For the relationship between the Domville and Fitton families, see the will of Mary Harbottle Fitton, TNA PROB 11/39/471. See also the Domville pedigree in Ormerod, George, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 2nd ed., Vol. I, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), p. 582 at: https://books.google.ca/books?id=DYY1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA5382 For Margaret Sneyd see also Burke, Landed Gentry, Vol. II, supra, p. 1259.

Source: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/54/430