MAUGHAN OF HAYDON BRIDGE

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MAUGHAN

1 NICHOLAS MAUGHAN of Morralee, Haydon Bridge, Northumberland, yeoman, died in 1638.[1] He married ALICE.[2]

Children of Nicholas and Alice Maughan:

2 i JOHN MAUGHAN (d ca 1670); m BARBARA.

ii NICHOLAS MAUGHAN of the Lough, bur 8 Mar 1686/87, Haydon Bridge;[3] m JANE.[4]

iii THOMAS MAUGHAN.[5]

iv HENRY MAUGHAN of the Lough, d ca 1665.[6]

v ALEXANDER MAUGHAN.

2 JOHN MAUGHAN of Morralee, Haydon Bridge, yeoman, died ca 1670.[7] He married BARBARA.[8]

Children of John and Barbara Maughan:[9]

3 i NICHOLAS MAUGHAN (bur 1700); m ELIZABETH.

ii MARGARET MAUGHAN.[10]

3 NICHOLAS MAUGHAN of Whinnetley, Haydon Bridge, yeoman, was buried on 18 July 1700 at Haydon Bridge.[11] He married ELIZABETH who was buried on 22 January 1686/87 at Haydon Bridge.[12]

Children of Nicholas Maughan:

4 i JOHN MAUGHAN (bur 1729/30); m SUSAN LOWES.

ii JOSEPH MAUGHAN.

iii BARBARA MAUGHAN, bur 6 Jan 1706/07, Hexham;[13] m 16 Jun 1697, Haydon Bridge, LANCELOT HODGSON.[14]

iv ISABEL MAUGHAN, bur 8 May 1700, Allendale;[15] m ROBERT PEARSON.[16]

v ANN MAUGHAN.

vi NICHOLAS MAUGHAN, bap 4 Jul 1684, Haydon Bridge.[17]

vii HENRY MAUGHAN, bap 20 Jan 1686/87, Haydon Bridge.[18]

4 JOHN MAUGHAN of Whinnetley, Haydon Bridge, was buried on 19 March 1729/30 at Haydon Bridge.[19] He married on 12 July 1696 at Haydon Bridge, SUSAN LOWES,[20] daughter of John Lowes (see here). Susan was buried on 3 May 1728 at Haydon Bridge.

Children of John and Susan (Lowes) Maughan:

i SUSANNA MAUGHAN, bap 20 Oct 1697, Haydon Bridge,[21] d 12 Nov 1741, bur 14 Nov 1741, Simonburn;[22] m(1) 7 Jun 1718, Haydon Bridge, PHILIP GIBSON;[23] m(2) ca 1734, JOHN RIDLEY.[24]

ii NICHOLAS MAUGHAN of Whinnetley, bap 18 Jan 1699/1700, Haydon Bridge,[25] bur 7 Nov 1771, Haydon Bridge;[26] m 21 Oct 1733, Stanwix, MARY BLACKLOCK.[27]

iii JOHN MAUGHAN, bap 28 May 1702, Haydon Bridge,[28] bur 7 May 1728, Haydon Bridge.[29]

iv JOSEPH MAUGHAN, bap 10 Feb 1704/05, Haydon Bridge,[30] bur 20 May 1705, Haydon Bridge.[31]

v ELIZABETH MAUGHAN, bap 5 May 1706, Haydon Bridge;[32] m BLACKBURN.[33]

vi ANN MAUGHAN, bap 11 Dec 1708, Haydon Bridge;[34] m 1 Jan 1733/34, Corbridge, FRANCIS STOKOE.[35]

vii JOSEPH MAUGHAN of Elrington, bap 11 Oct 1711, Haydon Bridge.[36]

viii HENRY MAUGHAN of Whinnetley, bap 11 Apr 1714, Haydon Bridge,[37] bur 2 Apr 1775, Haydon Bridge.[38]

ix ISABEL MAUGHAN, bap 21 Jul 1717, Haydon Bridge,[39] bur 16 Jan 1793, Lanercost;[40] m 8 Jun 1748, Lanercost, JOHN STEPHENSON[41] (see here).

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[1] Will dated 28 Aug 1638, proved 1639, inventory dated 26 Sep 1638.

[2] The will of Nicholas Maughan names his wife “Ales” and leaves property to “my Eldest Sonne John Maughan... if his mother & hee can agree”. The will of Thomas Parker of Haydon Bridge, written in 1623, includes a bequest to Alice Maughan of Morralee and was witnessed by Nicholas Maughan of Morralee, Thomas Maughan his son, and Nicholas Maughan the younger of Morralee.

[3] Haydon Bridge parish register abstracts; will dated 19 Aug 1686, proved 1688.

[4] Will of Nicholas Maughan.

[5] He may be the Thomas Maughan who married Mabel Farlam on 19 Feb 1627/28 at Whitfield. The inventory of a Mabel Maughan of Morralee, widow, was taken in 1683/84 by Nicholas Maughan of Whinnetley and others.

[6] Nuncupative will made ca 2 Feb 1659, proved 6 Mar 1668/69.

[7] Will dated 18 May 1666, acknowledged by the testator 21 Aug 1670, proved 1671.

[8] The will of John Maughan states that his son Nicholas was to give “unto his mother meat drink and Cloaths... dureing the said barbary life”. It is possible that Barbara was the Barbara Maughan who married Thomas Lee at St John Lee in 1674. However, she may be the Barbara Maughan of Morralee, care of John Maughan, who was buried at Haydon Bridge on 10 Jan 1701/02.

[9] Nicholas and Margaret are both named in the will of John Maughan. It is possible that there was also a son John as a John Maughan of Morralee was one of the men who took the inventory of John Maughan’s estate in 1670/71, and the appraisers of the inventory for Henry Maughan in 1668/69 included both John Maughan of Morralee the elder and John Maughan of Morralee the younger.

[10] She may have married Simon Smith in 1680. The inventory of Nicholas Maughan, taken in 1686/87, includes a debt to “Margaret Smith wife of Symond Smith”. However, there was more than one Margaret Maughan who could have married Simon Smith.

[11] Haydon Bridge parish register abstracts; will dated 5 Jul 1700, proved 24 Aug 1700.

[12] Haydon Bridge parish register abstracts.

[13] Hexham parish register abstracts.

[14] Haydon Bridge parish register abstracts.

[15] Allendale parish register abstracts.

[16] The will of Nicholas Maughan leaves to his grandchild Robert Pearson property “which is all at Bishopfild”. Robert, son of Robert Pearson of Bishopfield, was baptised at Allendale on 4 May 1700 and Isabel, wife of Robert Pearson of Bishopfield was buried on 8 May 1700. The Prerogative & Exchequer Courts of York Probate Index, 1688-1858 (online at www.findmypast.co.uk) shows that administration of the estate of Isabel “Manhan Alias Pierson” of Bishopfield was granted in 1701. See also A History of Northumberland, 15 vols (Newcastle and London, 1893-1940), 3:313.

[17] Northumberland Baptisms (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[18] Haydon Bridge parish register abstracts.

[19] Haydon Bridge parish register abstracts; will dated 30 Jan 1729/30, proved 2 Feb 1730/31.

[20] Haydon Bridge parish register abstracts.

[21] Northumberland Baptisms (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[22] W. Percy Hedley, “Manor of Simonburn and Warks Park”, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4th ser., 30(1952):80-105; National Burial Index (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[23] Haydon Bridge parish register abstracts.

[24] Archbishop of York Marriage Licences Index, 1613-1839 (online at www.findmypast.co.uk). The will of Henry Maughan names both husbands of his deceased sister Susanna.

[25] Haydon Bridge parish register abstracts.

[26] Haydon Bridge parish register abstracts; will dated 29 Oct 1771, proved 2 Apr 1773 (Borthwick Institute).

[27] W.P.W. Phillimore and C.W. Ruston-Harrison, eds, Cumberland Parish Registers: Marriages, vol. 2 (London, 1912), 18; R. Morris Richardson, Edwin Dodds and Clement Singleton, Diocese of Carlisle Marriage Licence/Bonds, vol. 1 (1994), 173.

[28] Northumberland Baptisms (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[29] Haydon Bridge parish register abstracts.

[30] Haydon Bridge parish register abstracts.

[31] Haydon Bridge parish register abstracts.

[32] Northumberland Baptisms (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[33] The will of Henry Maughan mentions his sister Elizabeth Blackburn.

[34] Northumberland Baptisms (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[35] Corbridge parish register abstracts; marriage bond abstract. The will of Henry Maughan names his sister Ann Stokoe.

[36] Northumberland Baptisms (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[37] Northumberland Baptisms (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[38] Haydon Bridge parish register abstracts; will dated 23 Mar 1775, proved 13 Nov 1775 (Borthwick Institute).

[39] Northumberland Baptisms (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[40] T. W. Willis, ed., The Register of the Parish of Lanercost, 2 vols (Brampton and Beverley, 1908-12), 2:225.

[41] T. W. Willis, ed., The Register of the Parish of Lanercost, 2 vols (Brampton and Beverley, 1908-12), 2:139, transcribes the bridegroom’s name as “John Smith”, but R. Morris Richardson, Edwin Dodds and Clement Singleton, Diocese of Carlisle Marriage Licence/Bonds, vol. 2 (1998), 110, gives him as John Stephenson of “Thwaites” in Lanercost and the intended bride as Isabel Maughan of Langlands in Lanercost, single woman, her parents being dead. The 1775 will of Henry Maughan of Whinnetley mentions his sister Isabel Stephenson, wife of John Stephenson.