Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameJohn Barrington 
[19, His burial at Hitchin Parish Church, ref D/P 53 1/3], [107, Vol 2, p.47], [67, Barrington entry]
[19, His burial at Hitchin Parish Church, ref D/P 53 1/3], [107, Vol 2, p.47], [67, Barrington entry]DeathMay 1694
Burial26 May 1694, Hitchin parish church
General3rd son. Of Dunmow Park, Essex & Hitchin, Herts
FatherSir John Barrington Bart (1614-1683)
MotherDorothy Lytton (-1703)
Spouses
Notes for John Barrington
No record found, yet, for his birth.
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In Dunchurch, Suffolk (the town that was washed into the sea and later became a very rotten borough) they have a record that a John Barrington esq was one of their MPs for 1658 to 1660. This, as “John Barrington of Westminster”, is confirmed in the 1877 Return of Members of parliament from Antiquty to 1876.
Might this John be that MP? Or his nephew Sir John, 4th Bart, who died in 1691?
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The Hants Visitation of 1686, p. 180 has a record of a Beatrice Zouche who m. "John Barrington de Com. Essex". I wonder if there was any connection?
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In an Act of Parliament of 1715, dated for 24th June 1714, to divide the manor of Cottingham Sarum between his son John and his brother William’s now remarried wife, Sarah Young, it was stated that John died before his brother William and that William had died and his wife married Richard Wynne.
It states that in Dec 1691 William was the survivor and made some deeds relating to this land. This gives John’s death as in or before 1691. William subsequently died sp. in or before May 1696 when his widow made a deed about the same land.
So it sounds as if John had died long before 1715, the date of the Act and William significantly before same.
The text of the Act was found on Gale Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
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Jan 2007: I have a found a record in the burial register for Hitchin parish church that says that “1694, May the 26th was buried John Barrington”.
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February 2022, TFPL: Not to be forgotten is that fact that his son inherited the baronetcy. No-one, to my knowledge, has ever contested this. His son John was the sixth baronet. He was succeeded by the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth baronets. None of these successions were disputed nor the transfer of estates between generations. The College of Arms accepted the descent of the Barrington arms and all their quarterings. All this implies that the succession was solid, even though the documents for this John are a trifle thin, though adequate.
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In Dunchurch, Suffolk (the town that was washed into the sea and later became a very rotten borough) they have a record that a John Barrington esq was one of their MPs for 1658 to 1660. This, as “John Barrington of Westminster”, is confirmed in the 1877 Return of Members of parliament from Antiquty to 1876.
Might this John be that MP? Or his nephew Sir John, 4th Bart, who died in 1691?
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The Hants Visitation of 1686, p. 180 has a record of a Beatrice Zouche who m. "John Barrington de Com. Essex". I wonder if there was any connection?
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In an Act of Parliament of 1715, dated for 24th June 1714, to divide the manor of Cottingham Sarum between his son John and his brother William’s now remarried wife, Sarah Young, it was stated that John died before his brother William and that William had died and his wife married Richard Wynne.
It states that in Dec 1691 William was the survivor and made some deeds relating to this land. This gives John’s death as in or before 1691. William subsequently died sp. in or before May 1696 when his widow made a deed about the same land.
So it sounds as if John had died long before 1715, the date of the Act and William significantly before same.
The text of the Act was found on Gale Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
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Jan 2007: I have a found a record in the burial register for Hitchin parish church that says that “1694, May the 26th was buried John Barrington”.
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February 2022, TFPL: Not to be forgotten is that fact that his son inherited the baronetcy. No-one, to my knowledge, has ever contested this. His son John was the sixth baronet. He was succeeded by the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth baronets. None of these successions were disputed nor the transfer of estates between generations. The College of Arms accepted the descent of the Barrington arms and all their quarterings. All this implies that the succession was solid, even though the documents for this John are a trifle thin, though adequate.
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