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    Machell, Matthew

    Male Abt 1545 - 1593  (~ 48 years)


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    • Name Machell, Matthew 
      Born Abt 1545  Of St Peters Westcheap, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Died 23 Aug 1593  Of Hackney, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I08521  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 14 Jan 2015 

      Father Machell, John,   b. Abt 1510, Of Kendall, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 12 Aug 1558, St Mary Magdalen Milk Street, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 48 years) 
      Mother Ludington, Joan,   b. Abt 1526, Of London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Apr 1565, Of Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 39 years) 
      Married Abt 1545  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F01082  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family Lewknor, Mary,   b. Abt 1550, Of Okeington, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Married 01 Jul 1568  London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
       1. Machell, Dorothy
       2. Machell, Jane
       3. Machell, Elizabeth
       4. Machell, Mary
       5. Machell, John,   b. Abt. 1580, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1648, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 68 years)
      Last Modified 1 Jun 2015 
      Family ID F02591  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Check 17 September 1542 for baptism at St Peter Westcheap?
        Text: 01 Jul 1568 Matthew Machell, of City of London, Gent., & Mary Lewckenare, of Broxborne, Spinster; General Licence. Book: Burials. Collection: London: - Marriage Licences, 1520-1610 (Marriage)

        Children according to Boyd:John, Dorothy, Jane and Elizabeth

        MARGARET COPLEY, married EDWARD LEWKNOR, Esq., of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea), Ham, Hamsey, and Parham, Sussex, son and heir of Edward Lewknor, Esq., of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea), Sussex, Gentleman Usher to Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, by his 1st wife, Margaret. They had two sons, Edward and Anthony, and three daughters, Eleanor (wife of Giles Saint Barbe), Mary (wife of John Michell), and Barbara (wife of John Dawtrey, Knt.). He was a legatee in the 1522 will of his father. In 1524 he was assessed for tax with his nine servants at half the total for Kingston and Southwick together. EDWARD LEWKNOR, Esq., died 7 July 1528. He left a will dated 1 Oct. 1527, proved 7 Nov. 1528 (P.C.C. 39 Porch). In 1537 the manor of Kingston Bowsey (in Kingston by Sea), Sussex was settled on his widow, Margaret, for life and an additional 20 years, with remainder in tail male on her younger son, Anthony Lewknor. In 1548 Margaret was the demesne lessee of the manor of King’s Barns (in Upper Beeding), Sussex.
        Gurney Rec. of the House of Gournay 2 (1848): 469-470 (Lewknor pedigree). Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850): 89-102. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor pedigree: “Edward Lewknor of Kingston Bewsey. = Margarett d. of …. Copley.”), 111 (Copley pedigree: “Margarett [Copley] ux. Edward Lewknor of Kingston Bowsey.”). Genealogist n.s. 33 (1917): 74, 79. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148-162. Copley Letters of Sir Thomas Copley (1970): xvi.VCH Sussex 6(1) (1980): 132-138; 6(3) (1987): 34-37; 7 (1940): 83-87.

        Daughter??
        MARY MACHELL, nurse to Prince Henry, eldest son of King James I of England. She married (1st) before 1612 [Rev.] RALPH CUDWORTH, D.D., Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. They had three sons, [Major] James, Gent., Ralph, D.D. [Fellow of Emmanuel College, Master of Clare College, Master of Christ’s College], and John, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, and Jane. He was born in 1572. He matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Lent, 1588-9, where he obtained the following degrees: B.A., 1592-3, M.A., 1596, B.D., 1603, and D. D., 1619. He served as Curate of Westley Waterless, Cambridgeshire c.1600, and was also a minister of St. Andrew’s, Cambridge. He was instituted Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex in 1604. He was appointed Rector of Aller,
        Somerset in 1609. [Rev.] RALPH CUDWORTH, D.D. was buried at Aller, Somerset 30 Aug. 1624. He left a will dated 17 Aug. 1624, proved 29 Oct. 1624 (P.C.C. 116 Byrde). His widow, Mary, married (2nd) [Rev.] JOHN STOUGHTON, D.D., fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, younger son of [Rev.] Thomas Stoughton, of Naughton, Suffolk and Coggeshall, Essex, by his 1st wife, Katherine. He was baptized at Naughton, Suffolk 23 Jan. 1592/3. He was admitted sizar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1607, where he obtained the following degrees: B.A., 1610- 11, M.A., 1614, B.D., 1621, and D.D., 1626. He was appointed Rector of Aller, Somerset 24 Aug. 1624. In 1632 he was appointed curate of St. Mary, Aldermanbury, London. His wife, Mary, was living in December 1634. He married (2nd) in 1635 JANE BROWNE, widow of [Rev.] Walter Newburgh (died 1632), of Symondsbury, Dorset, and daughter of John Browne, Esq., of Frampton, Dorset. They had two daughters, Jane and Mary. He was prosecuted in the high commission at the instigation of
        Archbishop Laud. [Rev.] JOHN STOUGHTON died 4 May 1639, and was buried 9 May 1639. He left a will dated 4 May 1639, proved 20 May 1639
        (P.C.C. 69 Harvey).