 Abt 1595 - 1658 (~ 63 years)
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| Name |
St. John, Lucy |
| Born |
Abt 1595 |
Of Wiltshire, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
1658 |
Owthorpe, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Person ID |
I01861 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
16 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
St. John, Sir John, b. Abt 1560, Of Wiltshire, England , bur. 20 Sep 1594, Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, England (Age ~ 34 years) |
| Mother |
Hungerford, Lucy, b. Abt 1560, Of Farley, Wiltshire, England , bur. 4 Jun 1598, Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, England (Age ~ 38 years) |
| Married |
14 Oct 1582 |
England |
| Family ID |
F00541 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Apsley, Sir Allen, b. Abt 1568, Of Pulborough, Sussex, England , bur. 24 May 1630, Tower Chapel, London, England (Age ~ 62 years) |
| Married |
23 Oct 1615 |
St Ann Blackfrairs, London, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Apsley, Allen, c. 06 Sept 1616, All Hallows, Barking, London, England , d. 15 Oct 1683, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England (Age ~ 67 years) |
| | 2. Apsley, William, b. Abt 1618, Of St Sepulchre, Holborn, London, England |
| + | 3. Apsley, Lady Lucy, c. 29 Jan 1620, Tower of London, London, England , bur. Oct 1681, Owthorpe, Nottinghamshire, England (Age ~ 61 years) |
| | 4. Apsley, James, b. Abt 1622, Of St Sepulchre, Holborn, London, England |
| | 5. Apsley, Barbara, b. Abt 1624, Of St Sepulchre, Holborn, London, England |
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| Last Modified |
19 May 2015 |
| Family ID |
F00755 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Franke, Leventhorpe, b. Abt 1584, Of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England , bur. 28 Feb 1656/57, Albury, Hertfordshire, England (Age ~ 73 years) |
| Married |
Between 1630 and 1637 |
England |
| Family ID |
F00754 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Reference pages 97-98 of "Calendar of State Papers--Domestic, Charles I, 1634-5." An entry dated 29 Jun 1634 states the following: "49. Petition of Sir John St. John and Sir Edward Hungerford, brothers of Dame Lucy, wife of Sir Allen Apsley, deceased, on behalf of Allen, William, James, Lucy, and Barbara, children of the said Sir Allen by the said Dame Lucy, to the King...in trust for Sir Allen Apsley, who dying the 20th of the same month, before the grant passed, his Majesty directed that the reversion should be granted to William Alston .... and without a surrender and new grant no present benefit for the children can be raised thereby. Pray a declaration how his Majesty intended the benefit of the grant, and to refer the care of seeing the same performed to some of the Council. (The King ruled for the children.)
Written by Lucy Apsley nee St John in her Memoirs:
... he chanc'd to see my mother at the house of Sir William St. John, who had married her eldest sister; and Apsley though he went on his journey, yett something in her person and behaviour he carried allong with him, which would not let him accomplish it, but brought him back to my mother. She was of a noble famely, being the youngest daughter of Sr. John St. John, of Lidiard Tregoz, in the county of Wilts; her father and mother died when she was not above five yeares of age, and yet at her nurse's, from whence she was carried to be brought up in the house of Lord Grandison, her father's younger brother; an honorable and excellent person, ... The rest of my aunts, my mother's sisters, were disperst to several places, where they grew up till my uncle Sr. John St. John, being married to the daughter of Sr. Thomas Laten, they were all brought home to their brother's house. .... My uncle's wife, who had a mother's kindnesse for her, perswaded her to remove herself from her sisters' envie, by going along with her to the Isle of Jernsey where her father was governor, which she did, and there went into the towne, and boarded in a French minister's house, to learn the language, ...But at her returne she met with many afflictions ; the gentleman who had professt so much love to her, in her absence had bene by most vile practises and treacheries, .... While she was deliberating, and had fixt upon it in her owne thoughts, resolving it to impart it to none, she was with Sr William St. John, who had married my aunt, when my father accidentally came in there, and fell so heartily in love with her, that he perswaded her to marry him, which she -did [1616], and her melancholly made her conforme chearfully to that gravity of habitt and conversation which was becoming the 'wife of such a person, who was then forty-eight yeares of age, and she not above 16. The first yeare of their marriage was crown'd with a sonne, called after my father's name, and borne at East Smithfield in that house of the king's which belong'd to my father's employment in the navie. The next yeare [1617] they removed to the Tower of London, whereof my father was made lieftenant, and there had two sonns more before me, and 4 daughters and 2 sonns after ; of all which only 3 sons and 2 daughters surviv'd him att the time of his death, which was in the 63rd yeare of his age, after he had 3 yeares before languish of a consumption that succeeded a feaver which he gott in the unfortunate voyage to the Isle of Rhee.... All the time she dwelt in the Tower, if any were sick, she made them broths and restoratives with her owne hands, visited and tooke care of them, and provided them all necessaries; if any were aflicted she comforted them, so that they felt not the inconvenience of a prison who were in that place. She was not lesse bountifull to many poore widdowes and orphans. . . . She was a constant frequenter of weekeday lectures, and a greate lover and encourager of good ministers. When my father was sick, she was not satisfied with the attendance of all that were about him, but made herselfe his nurse and cook and phisitian She died at my house at Owthorpe, in the county of Nottingham, in the year 1659."
Lady Apsley certainly did not neglect her daughter's education, for Mrs. Hutchinson says that when she was about seven years of age she had at one time eight tutors in several qualities, languages, music, dancing, writing, and needlework. Amongst other things, she learnt Latin, and was so apt that she outstripped her brothers, who were at school,.... Mrs. Hutchinson makes no mention of her mother's second marriage, yet there is reason to believe there was such a marriage, .... It appears that she was living at Richmond with her two Courtship daughters, Lucy and Barbara, about the year 1637; and it was here that the courtship of Lucy Apsley by Colonel John Hutchinson took place.
In Vol.2 Index to Acts of administration in the Perogative Court of Canterbury is the following: (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Administrations Vol. II 1655-1660 British Record Society volumes 72, 74, 75) : Franke als Apsley, Dame Lucy, widow, Bpps, Burton, Yorkshire, 1658. Folio 28.
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series, of the reign of Charles I
DOMESTIC- CHARLES I. 121 -^ggw Vol. CCCLVI. May 17. 119. Petition of Sir John St. John to the Council. Petitioner's name being used in trust for purchase of an annuity of 1001. from Peter Apsley, for the maintenance of the 5 younger children of Sir Allen Apsley, deceased, the care of which children was committed to Dame Lucy, sister of petitioner, who is since married to Sir Leventhorpe Frank, your Lordships, by order dated 10th February last, directed that thenceforward petitioner should receive said annuity and pay it over to the use of the said children. Dame Lucy, who has the custody of the younger children, de'sires petitioner to pay the money to Allen Apsley, one of her sons, ....
Sir Leventhorpe Franke and Dame Lucy his wife, late wife of Sir Allen Apsley, to the Council. According to the Lords' order of the 17th May (see calendar of 17th May, No. 119. 1.), we certify that desire is that the annuity paid to Sir John St. John for the use ot the children may be hereafter paid over by Sir John St. John to Allen Apsley, eldest son of Sir Allen, by the respondent, Dame Lucy, he being assisting in the oversight and education of the younger children...
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