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| Husband: | Ralph Bourchier (1535-1598) | |
| Wife: | Elizabeth Hall ( - ) | |
| Children: | William Bourchier (1559- ) | |
| John Bourchier (c. 1560-1625) | ||
| Name: | Ralph Bourchier | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | James Bourchier (c. 1510-1554) | |
| Mother: | Mary Bannister ( - ) | |
| Note: | He was born in Beningbrough, Yorkshire. He built all or part of the Elizabethan Beningbrough on a site near the present house. Ralph was 25 years of age when he inherited the estate in 1556 from his uncle John Banester, who purchases it from the crown in 1544. Before this Ralph had inherited estates in Staffordshire from his father and in 1571 was first elected to Parliament as MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme. His Elizabethan house lay approximately 300 yards south-east of the present hall. In 1580-1 he was High Sheriff of Yorkshire, and was knighted in 1584. In 1589 he was an MP for the county. When he died most of his property went to his grandsons, as his eldest son William was declared insane. The eldest was Robert who died unmarried at the age of 18 in 1606, so John inherited Beningbrough. Note: Faris (1999, page 45) "Ralph Bourchier, Knight, of Haughton, co. Stafford, and Beninbrough in Newton-upon-Ouse, North Riding, co. York, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire, Sheriff of Yorkshire, Keeper of Rochester Castle, Kent, son and heir, was married for the first time to Elizabeth Hall, daughter of Francis Hall, of Grantham, co. Lincoln (descendant of King EdwardI), by Ursula, daughter of Thomas Sherington. They had two sons and four daughters. In 1556 he was heir to his uncle, John Bannaster, Esq., by which he inherited the Manor of Beninbrough. He was married for the second time to Christian Shakerley, widow of John Harding, Esq., Alderman of London, and daughter of Rowland Shakerley, of London. He was married for the third time to Anne Coote, widow. Sir Ralph Bourchier died on 11 June 1598, and was buried at Barking, Essex. His widow died the following August. His grandson and heir, John Bourchier, Knt., subscribed as an adventurer for Virginia in 1620." In 1575, Sir Ralph Bourchier bought the manor at Hanging Grimston and other lands in Kirby Underdale, Painsthorpe and Uncleby. He probably bought it for his son John Bourchier, who was knighted in 1609 quoted from The National Trust. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~# from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beningbrough_Hall Beningbrough Hall is a large Georgian mansion near the village of Beningbrough, North Yorkshire, England, and overlooks the River Ouse. It has baroque interiors, cantilevered stairs, wood carving and central corridors which run the length of the house. Externally the house is a red-brick Georgian mansion with a grand drive running to the main frontage and a walled garden, The house is home to over 100 portraits on loan from the National Portrait Gallery. It has a restaurant, shop and garden shop, and was shortlisted in 2010 for the Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award. The Hall is set in extensive grounds and is separated from them by an example of a ha-ha (a sunken wall) to prevent sheep and cattle entering the Hall's gardens or the Hall itself. History Beningbrough Hall, situated 8 miles north of York, was built in 1716 by a York landowner, John Bourchier III to replace his family's modest Elizabethan manor, which had been built in 1556 by Sir Ralph Bourchier on his inheritance to the estate. Local builder William Thornton oversaw the construction, but Beningbrough's designer remains a mystery; possibly it was Thomas Archer. Bourchier was High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1719-1721 and died in 1736 at the age of 52. John Bourchier (1710-1759) followed his father as owner of Beningbrough Hall and was High Sheriff in 1749. It then passed to Dr. Ralph Bourchier, a 71 year old physician and from him to his daughter, Margaret, who lived there for 70 years. Today a Bourchier knot is cut into a lawn adjoining the house. After over 100 years in the Bourchiers' possession, the estate passed in 1827 to the Rev. William Henry Dawnay, the future 6th Viscount Downe, a distant relative. He died in 1846 and left the house to his second son, Payan, who was High Sheriff for 1851. The house was neglected, prompting fears that it might have to be demolished. In 1916 however, a wealthy heiress, Enid Scudamore-Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield, bought it and immediately set about its restoration, filling it with furnishings and paintings from her ancestral home, Holme Lacy. During the Second World War the hall was occupied by the Royal Air Force. Lady Chesterfield died in 1957 and in June 1958 the estate was acquired by the National Trust after it had been accepted by the government in lieu of death duties at a cost of £29,250. In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery the hall exhibits more than 100 18th-century portraits and has seven new interpretation galleries called 'Making Faces: 18th century Style'. Outside the main building there is a Victorian laundry and a walled garden with vegetable planting, the produce from which is used by the walled garden restaurant. |
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| Birth | 1535 | Benningborough, Yorkshire, England1 |
| Death | 11 Jun 1598 (age 62-63) | Barking, Essex, England1 |
| Name: | Elizabeth Hall1 | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Francis Hall ( - ) | |
| Mother: | Ursula Sherington ( - ) | |
| Name: | William Bourchier1 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Katherine Barrington (1565-1630) | |
| Children: | Robert Bourchier ( -1606) | |
| Thomas Bourchier ( - ) | ||
| Anne Bourchier ( - ) | ||
| Winifred Bourchier ( - ) | ||
| Elizabeth Bourchier ( - ) | ||
| John Bourchier - the regicide (c. 1595-1660) | ||
| Note: | Eventually mentally deranged. Eldest son. ~~~~~~~~~ Tim Powys-Lybbe writes: I have a copy of the National Trust guide to Beningbrough Hall, nr York, England. The Bourchiers used to own the Hall and the guide has a family tree at the end. This tree shows: (a) That William Bourchier (1559-1584) married Katherine Barrington, daughter of Sir Thomas Barrington. (b) They had a son Sir John Bourchier (d.1659) who was a parliamentarian and regicide. (c) That the ownership of the estate passed through Sir John's son Barrington Bourchier and continued in the Bourchier family until the mid 1750s when the male Bourchier line died out. The regicide Bourchier would have escaped any punishment because he died just before the Restoration. There is absolutely no sign or possibility of the Bourchiers changing their name. It may be worth adding that the Barringtons were also a strong Parliamentarian family. Sir Thomas' great-grandson, Sir John Barrington, was undoubtedly invited to join in the trial of Charles I but retired from politics rather than do this. But Sir Thomas' son Francis married Joan Cromwell, aunt of the Protector who very definitely did sign the execution warrant. And is it worth mentioning that politics apart, the first of these Sir Thomas Barringtons married Winifred Pole, an unfortunate lady who had had her father, her grandmother, her great-uncle, her great-grandfather all executed in the Tower by the order of various sovereigns. And her only brother was undoubtedly imprisoned in the Tower as a boy of around 10 and either died or was also executed there. Might not she have harboured some bitterness that was passed on to her descendants and relatives? -- Tim Powys-Lybbe For a patchwork of bygones: www.powys.org |
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| Birth | 1559 | Benningborough, Yorkshire, England |
| Death | ||
| Name: | John Bourchier1 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse 1: | Elizabeth Verney ( - ) | |
| Spouse 2: | Elizabeth Wentworth ( - ) | |
| Children: | Mary Bourchier (c. 1598- ) | |
| Birth | c. 1560 | Benningborough, Yorkshire, England1 |
| Death | Apr 1625 (age 64-65) | Lambeth Parish, Surrey, England1 |
| 1 | "Tudor Place Website" (http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BOURCHIER1.htm). |
| 2 | Tin Powys-Lybbe, "Powys Website" (www.powys.org). http://powys.org/pl_tree/ps08/ps08_246.html. |