Pope, His Descent and Family Connections: Facts and ConjecturesHunter, Joseph
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Pope, His Descent and Family Connections: Facts and Conjectures
Hunter, Joseph
Poets, English -- 18th century -- Family relationships; Pope family; Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Family; Turner family
Maltus, an English crown; to Mrs. Wood,
of Kilnwick, a gold ring, or two old angels; to Agnes Walker, of Saint
Nicholas, 3_s._ 4_d._ The residue to my wife, and Lancelot Turner,
Margaret Willowbie, and Elizabeth Martin, my children, whom I make
executors; my very good friend, Mr. Thomas Wood of Kilnwicke,[15] Robert
Man, Thomas Blenkharne, John Stephenson, and Thomas Smithson,
supervisors."
It does not appear that the testator's wife, who survived him, had borne
him any children. By the aid of his will the issue of his previous
marriage may be placed in the following order:--
1. LANCELOT, the eldest son. For copious information respecting him,
we are indebted to your researches.
2. PHILIP, the grandfather of Edith Pope.
3. THOMAS. In the year 1580, "Thomas Turner, goldsmith, son of Edward
Turner, gentleman," was admitted to the city franchise.
4. MARGARET, married, in her father's lifetime, to a person of the
name of Willowbie. After his death she married John Stephenson,[16]
one of the supervisors of her father's will.
5. ELIZABETH, married to Lancelot Martin at the Church of Saint Helen
Stonegate, on the 17th of July, 1580. Thomas Martin, the London
apprentice, to whom Lancelot Turner gives a legacy of £200, was their
son. It appears from the will of Lancelot Turner, that she was
afterwards the wife of a person named Hustler.
6. KATHARINE, a minor at the time of her father's death. She
afterwards married Thomas Blenkarne, another of the supervisors of
his will.
7. LUCY, baptized 24th of February, 1569. As she is not named in her
father's will, she most probably died young.
8. EDWARD, baptized 12th of August, 1570.
9. MARTIN, the youngest child, about nine years old when his father
died.
Mrs. Jane Turner lived several years after she became the widow of Edward
Turner. Her last will is dated the 11th of December, 1588. The bequests it
contains, are very numerous, and I will mention only such of them as seem
to be pertinent to our present inquiry.
"To my god-daughter, Jane Newton, the wife of Miles Newton,[17]
gentleman, one angel." Jane Newton was one of the daughters of Ambrose
Beckwith of Stillingfleet, the brother of Sir Leonard Beckwith, whose
widow, Lady Beckwith, was the neighbour and tenant of Edward Turner. You
have shown us that Thomasine Newton, Edith Pope's mother, was the
grand-daughter of Miles Newton and Jane Beckwith.[18]
"To my son-in-law, Martin Turner," 5_s._, and a tablet of gold which was
his father's. "To Phillip Turner and Edward Turner, my sons-in-law,"
20_s._ each. "To my daughters-in-law, Elizabeth Martin, wife of Lancelot
Martin, and Katherine Blenkarne, wife of Thomas Blenkarne," gold rings.
"To John Stephenson, my son-in-law, and Margaret Stephenson, my
daughter-in-law," small legacies; and "to my sister, Alice Hall, an angel
and my black gown furred with cunny."
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