John Browne, of Okeham

Children

1. Sir John Browne Knight Born: 1435, Swineshead, Leicestershire, England Marriage: Alice Swineshead in 1459 in Swineshead, Leicestershire, England 679 [Buried: Mylkestreet Church 678 Another name for John was John de Werkes] sic: that’s the burial information for Sir John Browne, Lord Mayor of London, not for Sir John Browne, of Swineshead

From http://cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/people/dobson/genealogy/ff/mainwaring/B...

"The earlier Browne pedigrees in some of the heralds’ visitations, namely those of 1568 and 1574,[1] each begin with the man who sits at the head of the lineage below, stating nothing of his ancestry; likewise the later one of 1613 and one of those in that of 1619-21.[2] The chronologically impossible statement in another Browne pedigree given in the last of these visitations, p. 218, that he was a son of “Sir Thomas Browne, Knight, Master of the List in the reign of K. E[dward] IV,” by “Mary, daughter of ____ Metcalfe, of Nappa, in com. Yorkshire,” was perhaps concocted in the seventeenth century to suggest an affiliation with the by-then much more prestigious family of Browne, Viscounts Montague.[3] Yeatman is however inclined to accept the statement in a pedigree of the Brownes of Walcot, Northamptonshire, in the Visitation of Rutland (which we have not seen), that he came from “Werke” (i.e. Wark on Tweed, co. Northumberland), and was a son of John Browne, of “Okeham” (i.e. Oakham, Rutland).[4]"
"The Browne pedigree in Berry, County genealogies: Pedigrees of the families of the County of Kent (1830), 377, is a very weak effort. It confuses Anne Belwood, wife of Sir John Browne, with her daughter-in-law Alice Keble, stating that Anne Belwood married secondly Lord Mountjoy when it was really Alice Keble who did so. It also misses William Browne’s daughter Julian (no. 3 below)."
"The best account of this family in print still seems to be the brief article by James Roberts Brown published in Notes and Queries in 1888.[5]"

Citations

• 678Thomas Hawley, William Harvey, Robert Cooke, George Owen, Henry Lilly, William Berry, College of Arms, The Visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634, Published 1879, Mitchell and Hughes, Essex, found on Google Books .
• 679 Justin Simpson, Extracts From the Parish Registers of St. Michael's, Stamford, The Reliquary , v.17:(year)1876-1877, page 202, Published 1877, found at Google Books .

Links

• http://cybergata.com/roots/8073.htm

Sources

1. The Ancestry of Oliver Mainwaring: Browne. "Sir John Browne, of London, Mayor of London in 1481-82, apparently of unknown parentage, b. say 1440, d. 1 Jan. 1497/8 (13 Hen. VII), his inquisition post mortem being dated 8 Feb. following, and buried in the parish church of St. Mary Mary Magdalene, Milkstreet, London.[6] ...."
2. Related to John Browne, lll, of Stamford & Rutland?
3. AMONG THE ROYAL SERVANTS: WELBY, BROWNE, QUARLES AND RELATED FAMILIES by David H Kelley, FASG, Don C Stone1 and David C Dearborn, FASG. < PDF >