Jane Empson
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Jane Empson, whose ancestry is unknown (or not traced here), died before 14 February 1587/88, when her will was proved.1
Jane married (1), as his 2nd wife, John Pynchon, son of William Pynchon;2 she married (2) Thomas Wilson, Esq., whose ancestry is unknown (or not traced here), at Terling, Essex, England, 15 July 1576.1
Hale/House errs in making Jane a daughter of Richard Empson, Knt., executed in 1509. Jane was having children in the 1560's; simply not possible if she were born in 1509 or before. Jacobus certainly missed this chronology issue!
The bibliography of Hale/House gives W.F. Adams, 1898, Pynchon Family in England and America as a source. That book cites the Heraldic Journal, vol 2 (Apr 1866), copying the Pynchon account virtually verbatim. It's worth noting that those two sources call Jane an heiress, not daughter and heiress.1,3
Jane married (1), as his 2nd wife, John Pynchon, son of William Pynchon;2 she married (2) Thomas Wilson, Esq., whose ancestry is unknown (or not traced here), at Terling, Essex, England, 15 July 1576.1
Hale/House errs in making Jane a daughter of Richard Empson, Knt., executed in 1509. Jane was having children in the 1560's; simply not possible if she were born in 1509 or before. Jacobus certainly missed this chronology issue!
The bibliography of Hale/House gives W.F. Adams, 1898, Pynchon Family in England and America as a source. That book cites the Heraldic Journal, vol 2 (Apr 1866), copying the Pynchon account virtually verbatim. It's worth noting that those two sources call Jane an heiress, not daughter and heiress.1,3
Family 1 | John Pynchon d. 29 Nov 1573 |
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Family 2 | Thomas Wilson, Esq. d. bef. 19 May 1581 |
| This person was last edited on | 11 Sep 2019 |
Citations
- [S119] Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (1952; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1978), 722, further cited as Jacobus and Waterman, Hale/House Families.
- [S119] Jacobus and Waterman, Hale/House Families, 723.
- [S2054] George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage: Or a History of the House of Lords and All Its Members From the Earliest Times: Revised and Much Enlarged (13 in 14 vols., London, England: The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1940), 12B:218 (Vaux), further cited as CP.