MENHEIRE OF LANIVET
As William Menheire’s son John had a son called Hammond Menheire, it seems likely that William was a son of an earlier Hammond Menheire of Lanivet, yeoman, who married Jane Richowe.[1]
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MENHEIRE
WILLIAM MENHEIRE of Lanivet, Cornwall, yeoman, was buried on 21 March 1676/77 at Lanivet.[2] He married on 24 February 1622/23 at Lanivet, THOMASINE BURNE,[3] daughter of Thomas and Mary Burne (see here). Thomasine was buried ca 1687 at Lanivet.
Children of William and
Thomasine (Burne) Menheire:
i JOHN MENHEIRE of Kingston upon
Thames and of the Inner Temple, London, gentleman,[4]
bur 5 Sep 1657, Kingston upon Thames;[5] m
MARY.[6]
ii WILLIAM MENHEIRE of Ashtead,
gentleman, bur 20 Apr 1671, Kingston upon Thames;[7] m
MARY.[8]
iii THOMAS MENHEIRE.[9]
iv FLORENCE MENHEIRE, bap 2 Mar
1636/37, Lanivet,[10]
bur 14 Nov 1718, Lanivet;[11] m
RICHARD BULLOCK[12]
(see here).
v JANE MENHEIRE, bap 17 Oct 1641, Lanivet.[13]
[1] Kresen Kernow, AP/M/189; Kresen Kernow, catalogue entries for AR/4/1485 and AR/4/1486. Jane was a daughter of John and Joan Richowe. John appears to have been one of two namesake sons of Elizabeth, wife of Henry Luky, presumably by an earlier husband (Kresen Kernow, catalogue entry for AR/4/1475). Another likely son of Hammond is Thomas Menheire of Lanivet who married Constance (Kresen Kernow, catalogue entry for AR/4/1547).
[2] Lanivet parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/M/1110.
[3] Lanivet bishop's transcripts; National Archives, C 10/21/98.
[4] John Menheire of “Launcevett” (Lanivet), Cornwall, was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1653: Students Admitted to the Inner Temple, 1547-1660 (London, 1877), 349. The will of John Menheire of the Inner Temple mentions, among others, his brothers William and Thomas, sister “Florentia” and son Hammond (National Archives, PROB 11/271/294). The 1674 will of William Menheire of Lanivet left a gold ring to “Hamond Menheire my Grand-childe” (Kresen Kernow, AP/M/1110).
[5] Kingston upon Thames parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); National Archives, PROB 11/271/294.
[6] National Archives, PROB 11/271/294. Mary later married Robert Chelsham: National Archives, PROB 11/377/83; Robert Battle and Henry B. Hoff, “The English Ancestry of Rodolphus1 Elmes of Scituate, Massachusetts, and his Cousins John and Samuel Sellon of Massachusetts and Lydia M. (Latrobe) Roosevelt of New York”, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 176(2002):233-48, 409-17, at 416.
[7] Kingston upon Thames parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); Surrey Burials (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); Prerogative Court of Canterbury Administrations 1660-1700 (online at www.findmypast.co.uk). William is mentioned as a brother in the will of John Menheire (National Archives, PROB 11/271/294).
[8] Prerogative Court of Canterbury Administrations 1660-1700 (online at www.findmypast.co.uk). They may be either the William “Menhare” and Mary Webb married in 1651 at St Mary le Strand, Westminster (Boyd's Marriage Index, online at www.findmypast.co.uk) or the William “Moneir” and Mary Hosee married the same year at St Martin in the Fields, Westminster (St Martin in the Fields parish registers, online at www.ancestry.com). Mary, widow of William Menheire of Ashtead, married William Howard of Great Bookham, a great-grandson of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham (son of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk): J. Cyril M. Weale, ed., Registers of the Catholic Chapels Royal and of the Portuguese Embassy Chapel, 1662-1829, vol 1 (London, 1941), 15; National Archives, PROB 11/380/331; National Archives, PROB 11/384/116; Gerald Brenan and Edward Phillips Statham, The House of Howard, 2 vols (London, 1907), 2:facing 372.
[9] Thomas is named as a son in the will of William Menheire (Kresen Kernow, AP/M/1110). The will of John Menheire mentions “the debt contracted for the use of my brother Thomas when he went to the East Indies” (National Archives, PROB 11/271/294).
[10] Lanivet bishop's transcripts; England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JMTD-Y5Q).
[11] Lanivet parish registers.
[13] Lanivet bishop's transcripts.