Wives of Sir Hampden Paulet of Nether Wallop, Hampshire
Bevan Shortridge
In an attempt to not reinvent the wheel, as someone may already have this information, or to add to what others may have,
I am interested in the following.
I have been attempting to sort out the wives of Sir Hampden Paulet of Nether Wallop, Hampshire.
To date I have seen four women credited as being his two apparent wives, depending upon the reference.
(If nothing else from this a death date may be narrowed down for Sir Hampden Paulet. His biographical entry in History of Parliament states nothing more was heard of him after 1602. However, he was alive about 2 September 1625 when he was the subject of a letter of complaint by Sir William Sandys concerning his attempts to assist "his grandchild, Mr Dowce" (Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series, of the reign of Charles I, Addenda March 1625-January 1649, p. 49).
Anyway, two of the proposed wives seem to have been aunt and niece, and two had the same initials.
Various references seem to agree that he had two wives, but not who they were, nor their order, nor which was the mother of his daughter and heiress Elizabeth.
The wives attributed to him (and at least one reference that gives them as such) are
Anne Hadnoll (History of Parliament)
Anne Palmes (VCH Hants)
Margaret More (History of Parliament)
Mary Mitchell (Baronagium Genealogicum)
Following are notes/references I have found for each:
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Anne Hadnoll
Daughter of Stephen Hadnall and Margaret Atkyns. Margaret was the daughter of Thomas Atkyns, Under-Sheriff of London by his wife Margaret daughter of John Porter. Margaret Atkyns (d. 1619) married (1) Dr. Thomas Huys/Hewes (d. 1558) (2) Stephen Hadnall (d. 1589/1590), and (3) Sir Richard Lewknor, Chief Justice of Chester (d. 1616).
Credited in History of Parliament House of Commons 1558-1603 Members N-Z (sub Hampden Paulet) as first wife.
For Hadnall and Atkyns families see especially Notes and Queries articles on "Dr. Thomas Wendy"(1955, two part article), and "Sir Thomas Wendy"(1951)
Baronagium Genealogicum (1764-84) has a tree pedigree that credits Anne Hadnoll as the second wife and as daughter of Sir John Hadnoll, of co. Cornwall. Other pedigree books of the period (e.g. Collins) have the exact same information in the same order but transcribed instead of in tree form (in a manner which leads me to think that all were copying from the same source). Baronagium gives Anne as mother of Elizabeth Paulet wife of Francis Dowse.
An online transcription of Hampshire marriages would seem to give a date for the marriage:
http://www.familyresearcher.net/SHERFIELDUPONLODDON.html
PAWLETT Hamlyn HADNOLL Anne.Mrs. 01 Nov 1581/2
The will for Stephen Hadnoll of Sherfield Upon Loddon, Hampshire, dated 06 April 1590, includes bequests to "my lovinge daughter Mary wife of Francis Palmes" and to "my lovinge daughter Anne wife of Hamden Paulet".
Incidentally the online Hampshire marriage transcriptions referred to above also has:
PAUMES Frauncys HADNOLL Mary.Mrs. 20 Feb 1579
Notes and Queries has an article (Vol. CC, August 1955, "Dr Thomas Wendy", pp. 327-331) that provides great (sourced) detail on the Atkyns family (usually wills) and mentions (p. 329) the marriage of Paulet and Hadnall taking place in Sherfield-on-Loddon in 1580 (and for that matter the Palmes-Hadnall marriage in 1579), although this information is unsourced in the article.
In any event it seems Anne Hadnall was still married to Hampden Paulet in 1616. A poster to a Paulet family forum in 2005 noted that the will of Margaret Atkyn's third husband Richard Lewknor (i.e. Anne's stepfather) in 1616 apparently referred to his wife's daughter as "Lady Pawlett".
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Anne Palmes
Daughter of Sir Francis Palmes and Mary Hadnall (sister of Anne Hadnall above)
VCH Hants, iv, 104:
"The estate, which is sometimes called a 'manor', belonged during the 17th century to the family of Palmes[7a], and the house once occupied by Sir Francis Palmes whose daughter Anne married Sir Hampden Paulet. Sir Francis married Mary the eldest daughter of Stephen Hadnoll[8]..."
Footnotes:
[7a] Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin, 5 Jas I; Mich. 4 Chas. I; Recov. R. Hill. 1654, rot. 50.
[8] Information by the Rev. J. G. Crowdy; Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 32 Eliz.
The marriage date referred to above for Mary Hadnall (1579) would make this seem unlikely? Also the evidence from Stephen Hadnoll's 1590 will states that Paulet was married to Stephen Hadnoll's daughter, not granddaughter.
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Margaret More
Daughter of Sir William More of Loseley, Sussex.
Credited in History of Parliament House of Commons 1558-1603 Members N-Z (sub Hampden Paulet) as second wife and mother of child.
Interestingly, the biography in History of Parliament of her father states he had two daughters, but both are named in the biography, and neither was Margaret.
a2a suggests that the relationship between George More and Hampden Paulet as brothers-in-law was due to both having been married to Michells (see below).
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Mary Mitchell
Daughter of John Michell of Stammerham, Sussex. He seems to have been the Michell who was the subject of a biography in History of Parliament and was the husband of Mary Lewknor, daughter of Edward Lewknor of Kingston Buci, Sussex.
Credited in Baronagium Genealogicum as first wife.
The website tudorplace.com gives her as second wife and as mother of Elizabeth Paulet wife of Francis Dowse.
There appears to be some contemporary evidence that she was married to Hampden Paulet prior to Anne Hadnoll with leases available via www.a2a.org.uk
The leases /letter and bracketed notes below are from the a2a site.
Reference: LM/348/74
Lease for 21 years 1) Hampden Powlett, esq, and Mary his wife (one of the daughters and heirs of John Mychell of Stamerham), Bridget Mychell and Constance Mychell (Mary's sisters) 2) Richard Thornden of Slynfold [Slinfold, Sussex], yeoman. Messuage and lands called Wellers and 6a in Southwater, Horsham (quarrying rights reserved) for £10 pa Creation dates: 10 Jul 1571
Reference: LM/348/95
Lease for 21 years 1) Hampden Powlett of Nether Wallop, Hants, esq, and Mary his wife, Edward Rycharde of Yaverland, Isle of Wight, and Bridget his wife, and Richard Knight of Highclere, Hants, esq, and Constance his wife 2) Thomas Sarys of Horsham, Sussex, gent. Lands called Grygges and Gulches, and profit and crops of 3a called the Lagges in Horsham. Rent: £11 pa Creation dates: 10 Oct 1574
Reference: 6729/3/162
Letter from Hampden Paulet, Wallop, to his 'brother-in-law' George More. He asks for £16 13s 4d, part of the money due to him for sale of his woods (the other part stayed by a claim from Mr Michell), which he needs for a payment to the Court of Wards. With memorandum of receipt by the bearer, Thomas Wheateland, 8 Oct. [HMC p.655a. Probably relating to estates of George More's wife Constance, nee Michell] Creation dates: 6 Oct 1595 -8 Oct 1595
From:
Surrey History Centre: The Loseley Manuscripts: Records of the More and More Molyneux Family of Loseley Park [LM/Section A] ESTATES OF THE MICHELL FAMILY OF SUSSEX
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So, to sum up, there would seem to be some contemporary evidence for Hampden Paulett married to Mary Michell by 1571 and still married to her in 1574. However, by 1590 he had married Anne Hadnoll who he was still married to in 1616. I am less sure of marriages to Anne Palmes and Margaret More.
The name of Hampden's granddaughter Anne Dowse (daughter of Elizabeth Paulet and Sir Francis Dowse) would suggest that Anne Hadnoll was mother of Elizabeth (i.e. Anne Dowse being named for her maternal grandmother - unless it was to signify that Anne Hadnall/Paulet stood as godmother perhaps?).
Anne is not a name used in the Dowse family that I can judge from the wills of Thomas Dowse (father of Francis) or of John Dowse (father of Thomas) or the Dowse pedigrees in the Visitations of Berkshire, Hampshire or Armorial of Jersey - all admittedly truncated, with one omitting a generation).
Chronology may or may not help. Elizabeth Paulet was apparently married to Francis Dowse by 1596.
VCH Hants (Vol. iv, p. 494) states that estates had been transferred to Francis Dowse on his marriage to Elizabeth Paulet (the footnote references "Notes of Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 38 & 39 Eliz". The same footnote also references Thomas Dowse's will but I assume this is to provide a reference for the death of Thomas mentioned in the text immediately preceding the mention of the estate).
Elizabeth had two sons by 1601 (In his 1601 will Thomas Dowse mentions his grandsons, Hampden and Thomas, and states they are the sons of Francis). Daughter Anne was born by then as well one presumes, although the date of her marriage to Sir Philip de Carteret seems variable. In the biography of Sir Philip in the Oxford DNB it is stated that it had taken place "by 1605". A monument naming Anne Dowse and her mother-in-law, Rachel Paulet, was dated to "around 1600" in the Jersey heritage collections).
I do not know when Anne Dowse's eldest child was born, so cannot begin to guess her birthdate. If she was married by 1605 would that help tie chronology? I wonder how long before 1596 her parents were married?
So it is difficult to determine which of Hampden Paulet's wives was mother to Elizabeth the wife of Francis Dowse.
Can anyone shed any more light on this?
Thank you and my apologies for this long missive.
Regards,
Bevan Shortridge