 Abt 1664 - 1712 (~ 48 years)
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| Name |
Farrington, Thomas |
| Born |
Abt 1664 |
Of Chiselhurst, Kent, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
7 Oct 1712 |
Chiselhurst, Kent, England |
| Person ID |
I08773 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
16 May 2015 |
| Father |
Farrington, Thomas, b. 1631, England , d. Abt 1694, Chiselhurst, Kent, England (Age 63 years) |
| Mother |
Smith, Mary, c. 28 Feb 1647/48, St Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, London, England , d. Abt 1717, Of Chiselhurst, Kent, England (Age ~ 68 years) |
| Married |
04 Nov 1663 |
St James Clerkenwell, London, England |
| Family ID |
F02696 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Betenson, Theodosia, b. Abt 1667, Of Chiselhurst, Kent, England , d. 1749, England (Age ~ 82 years) |
| Married |
16 Aug 1687 |
Chiselhurst, Kent, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Farrington, Thomas, b. Abt 1688, Of Chiselhurst, Kent, England , d. 1758, Chiselhurst, Kent, England (Age ~ 70 years) |
| | 2. Farrington, Albinia, c. 17 Oct 1689, St James's Piccadilly, London, England , bur. 29 Jul 1745, Chiselhurst, Kent, England (Age ~ 55 years) |
| | 3. Farrington, Mary, b. Abt 1690, England , bur. 4 Nov 1777, Matson, Gloucestershire, England (Age ~ 87 years) |
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| Family ID |
F02697 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Will of Thomas Farrington of Chiselhurst, Kent 11 October 1712 PROB 11/529
Worcestershire Regiment: Major-General Farrington Documents (1694 to 1710)
...possibly unique, relating to the raising and equipment of the 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment on its first formation in 1694 and during the years immediately after that date. These documents were presented to the Regiment in 1935 by the direct descendant of the first Colonel of the Regiment, Major-General Thomas Farrington.
Major-General Farrington was himself the son of a Mr. Thomas Farrington, of Bertie Place, Chislehurst, Kent, who married in 1663 Mary, the sister of the Right Honourable John Smith of Tedworth (now known to the Army as Tidworth), Hampshire, afterwards Chancellor of the Exchequer to King William III and Speaker in the first two Parliaments of Queen Anne. They had one son Thomas, who entered the Army, serving in the Coldstream Guards, and in 1687 held the rank of Captain in that regiment. In those days, however, also long afterwards, officers of the Foot Guards enjoyed an honorary rank as compared with the rest of the Army; a Lieutenant in the Foot Guards ranked as a Major in the Army and a Captain as a Lieut.-Colonel, (the last remnant of this still surviving is that a subaltern of the Foot Guards wears on the peak of his cap a gold band like that of a Major of the Line) so that Thomas Farrington held the latter rank in the Army when in 1687 he married Miss Theodosia Bettenson. About the same period his sister married one of his brother officers in the Coldstream Guards, Captain and Lieut.-Colonel William Selwyn.
Albinia, Marchiness of Lindsey
Bargain and sale 1) Albinia Selwyn of Matson, Gloucs, widow of Willi...
Title Bargain and sale 1) Albinia Selwyn of Matson, Gloucs, widow of William Selwyn, Theodosia Farrington of Chislehurst, widow of Thomas Farrington, and Dame Frances Hewett of Shire Oaks, Notts, widow of Sir Thomas Hewett, sisters and coheiresses of Sir Edward Betenson bart, late of Scadbury, Chislehurst, Kent 2) Sir William Clayton bart of Marden. Manor of Willey, Chaldon and Caterham.
Reference 669/11
Unit Date 29 Aug 1734
Start Date 17340829
End Date 17340829
The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, Volume 2 By Edward Hasted
....At some distance westward from Frognall is an Old Seat, which was for some generations in the possession of the family of Farrington. Thomas Farrington, esq. resided at it, and dying in 1694, was succeeded by his son, Thomas Farrington, esq. who was a lieutenant general in the army, and married Theodosia, daughter of Richard Betenson, esq. and one of the sisters and coheirs of Sir Edward Betenson, bart. of Scadbury, by whom he had one son, Thomas, and two daughters; Albinia, married to the marquis of Lindfey, afterwards duke of Ancaster; and Mary, married to John Selwyn, esq. He died in 1712, leaving the possession of this feat to his son, Thomas Farrington, esq. who at his death, without issue, in 1758, bequeathed it by will to his sister's son, the honourable lord Robert Bertie, third son of Robert Bertie, first duke of Ancaster, by his second wife, Albinia, daughter of lieutenant general Farrington, as above mentioned. Lord Robert Bertie married, in 176X5 Mary, daughter and coheir of Montague, late lord viscount Blundell, in Ireland, and relict of Robert,, late lord Raymond, by whom he had no issue. He resided here, and much improved both the house and adjoining grounds; he died,/.p. in 1782, and was buried here; since which it has become, by entail, made by lieutenant general Farrington in his will, the property of Charles Townshend, esq. only surviving brother to sord viscount Sydney, who now resides in it,
Chesilhurst is within the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the diocese of Rochester, and deanry of Dartford. ...another for Tho. Farrington, ob. 1712, aet. 48; he left his wife, Theodosia, of the family of Rich. Betenson, esq. surviving, and three children, Thomas his heir, Albinia married to the marquis of Lindsey, and Mary to John Selwyn; another for Thomas Farrington, who left surviving one son, Thomas, and Mary his wife, ob. 1694, æt. 63; and another for Mary Farrington, ob. 1717, æt. 71.
...Near the above, a monument, shewing that in a vault, in this chancel, lies Sir Rich. Betenson, knt. and bait, he married Anne, eldest daughter of Sir Wm. Monyns of Walderfhare, knt. and bart. by whom he had eleven children; Die died at a great age in 1681, and lies buried here; his eldest son, Richard, married Albinia, daughter of Sir Christopher Wray of Lincolnshire, by whom he had nine children; Richard his son lies buried here; Sir Richard died 1679, æl. 76, being then she? riff of this county. On the north side is a monument with a pyramid and inscription, (hewing that in the vaidt underneath lies Sir Ed. Betensen of Scadbury, bart. son of Rich. Betenson, efq. of Surry, and grandson of Jjir Rich. Betenson, bart. of this county, obt. 1733, unmarried, æt. 58; the monument was erected by AU binia Selwyn Theodosia Farrington, and dame Francis Hewitt, his sifters and coheirs; several more of this family of Betenson, as well as the Farrington's, lie buried in a vault underneath. In this church, in the vault of the latter, lies lord Montague Bertie, second scn of Robert,, second duke of Ancaster, by his second wife; he died in 1753, and lord Rl Bertie, his next brother, who died in 1782.0
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