'Spring01'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Spring of Lavenham, Spring of Packenham

                               
Thomas Spring of Lavenham (d 1440)
m. Agnes
1. Thomas Spring of Lavenham (d 07.09.1486)
  BEB1841 identifies Thomas's wife as Margaret. On 'Evidences of the Winthrops of Groton' (Robert C. Winthrop Jr., 1897, 'Risby of Thorpe Morieux', p73) she is identified as ...
  m. Margaret Parris (dau of _ Parris of Lynton, relict of Edward Bullin)
  A. Thomas Spring of Lavenham (d 1510/23, clothier) the first mentioned by Visitation
  We provisionally follow BEB1841 in showing Thomas as married first to Alice Appleton and then to Anne King. Visitation shows those marriages the other way round with Anne the mother of the first 4 children and Alice as mother of Bridget who is not mentioned by BEB1841.
  m1. Alice Appleton (dau of Thomas Appleton of Waldingfield by Margery Crane)
  i. Sir John Spring of Lavenham, Hitcham and Cockfield (d before 21.05.1549)
  m. Dorothy Waldegrave (d by 1564, dau of Sir William Waldegrave of Smallbridge)
a. Sir William Spring of Packenham (d 1599)
  m1. Anne Kitson (dau of Sir Thomas Kitson of Hengrave) had issue, presumed mother of all the children
  (1) John Spring of Packenham (d 1601)
  m. Mary Trelawny (dau of Sir John Trelawny of Trelawny, she m2. Sir Robert Gardiner)
  (A) Sir William Spring of Packenham (d 1637)
  m. (01.11.1610) Elizabeth Smith (dau of Sir William Smith of Mounthall or High Hall)
(i) Sir William Spring, 1st Bart of Packenham (d c1656)
  m. Elizabeth L'Estrange (dau of Sir Hammond L'Estrange)
  (a) Sir William Spring, 2nd Bart of Packenham (d c1684)
  m1. (sp) Mary North (dau of Sir (Lord) Dudley North)
  m2. Sarah Cordell (dau of Sir Robert Cordell, Bart of Melford Hall)
((1)) Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Bart of Packenham (d c1710)
  m. Merilina Jermyn (dau of Thomas, Lord Jermyn)
  ((A)) Sir William Spring, 4th Bart of Packenham (d unm 03.1736-7)
  ((B)) Merelina Spring
  m. Thomas Disciplence (Discipline) of Bury St. Edmunds ('son of Robert of Burnham Overy')
  ((i)) Merelina Discipline (b 1733-4, d 03.04.1792)
  m. (31.07.1755) Michael Le Heup (b 1731-2, d 09.04.1792)
((ii)) Delariviere Discipline
  m. John Godbold (son of a dau of Arundell Coke of Livermere)
  ((C)) Mary Spring
  m. John Symonds (rector of Horringeth)
  ((i)) Thomas Symonds (d 1792, Captain RN, 2nd son)
  m1. Mary Noble
  m2. Elizabeth Mallet
  ((a)) Mariana Symonds
  m. John Benjafield
  ((b)) Elizabeth Symonds (d 09.12.1832)
  m. (13.07.1790) Rev.(Henry) Higham
  ((c))+ other issue - Jermyn, Thomas
  ((ii)) Delariviere Symonds
  m. Rev. _ Casburn
  ((iii))+ other issue - John of St. Edmunds Hill (a 1802, recorder of Bury, professor at Cambridge), Anne Maria (dsp)
  ((D))+ other issue (d unm) - Henrietta (d 1733), Delariviere (d 1733)
  ((2)) Sir John Spring, 5th Bart of Packenham (b c1699, d 17.08.1769)
  m. Elizabeth Nightingale
((A)) John Spring (dvpsp)
  m. _ Cordell
  ((B))+ other issue (dvp) - Charles, James, Sarah, Mary
  ((3)) Sarah Spring
  m. John Macky
  (b) Catherine Spring
  m1. _ Laurence (Captain)
  m2. John Palgrave of Norfolk
  (c) Dorothy Spring (d 1716)
  m. Sir Christopher Culthorpe of East Barsham (d 07.02.1717-8)
(d)+ other issue (d unm) - Thomas, John (d young), Elizabeth
  (ii) Anne Spring
  m. Sir Thomas Gaudy of Gaudy
  (iii) Bridget Spring
  m. John Hobart of Langley
  (iv) Frances Spring (d young)
(v) Elizabeth Spring
  m. John Sidley of Morley
  (vi) Dorothy Spring
  m. Francis (not Thomas) Drake of London
  (2) Margaret Spring (d unm)
  (3) Anne Spring
  m. Thomas Hynson
(4) Dorothy Spring
  m. Edmond Jermyn
  m2. (after 12.1575) Susan Jermyn (dau of Sir Ambrose Jermyn of Rushbrooke)
  b. Frances Spring
  m. Edmund Wright of Little Buckenham
  c. Bridget Spring
  m1. Thomas Fleetwood (b c1518, d 01.11.1570)
  m2. Sir Robert Wingfield of Letheringham
  d. Margaret Spring probably of this generation
  m. Aubrey de Vere
  ii. Robert Spring of Lavenham
m. Anne Eden (dau of Thomas Eden of Lavenham, m2. Sir Philip Paris of Linton)
  a. Thomas Spring of Pakenham and Icklingham (d 1556)
  m. Julyan Fayre (dau of John Fayre of London)
  (1)+ issue - Thomas, William, Edward, Anne, Dorothy, Frances
  b. Nicholas Spring of Lavenham (bur 19.09.1585)
  m. Elizabeth Risby (dau of William Risby of Lavenham & Thorpe Morieux)
  (1) Margaret Spring
  m. (22.07.1571) William Johnson
(2) Margery Spring
  m. (23.05.1588) Thomas Hasillyppe
  (3)+ other issue - Thomas, William, Robert (bpt 20.07.1561), Jeremy (bpt 15.11.1562, bur 27.08.1577), Elizabeth, Dorothy, Anne, Frances, Mary, Julyan, Joan (bpt 14.07.1559), Judith (bpt 23.09.1564), Joan (bpt 16.07.1565, bur 16.07.1565)
  c. Jeremy Spring in Cambridgeshire
  m. Elizabeth Grey (d before 02.05.1605, dau of Foulk Grey of Norfolk)
d. Robert Spring
  m. Dyonyse Leveson (dau of Thomas Leveson of Hawlinge)
  e. Elizabeth Spring (d 17.02.1588)
  m1. John Jenney of Great Cressingham
  m2. Edward Flood
  f. Dorothy Spring (bur 02.12.1564)
  m. William Humberston of Dunwich
g. Mary Spring
  m. Charles Clere of Stokesby and Acle
  h. Bridget Spring
  m. Thomas Thwaites of Hardingham
  i. Frances Spring
  m. (1560) Robert Ashfield
  j.+ other issue - John, Stephen, Henry (rector of Icklingham)
  iii. Anne Spring
m. Sir Thomas Jermyn of Rushbrooks (d 1552)
  iv. Rose Spring
  m. Thomas Guybon or Gibbon of Lynn Regis
  m2. Anne (Alice) King (dau of _ King of Boxford, widow of _ May) ## see here ##
  v. Bridget Spring (d by 1557)
  m1. William Ernley of Cookham (d 1545)
  m2. Sir Henry Hussee of Slynford
  B. James Spring (d 1493)
  C. Cecilia Spring
  m. Robert Sexton of Lavenham

Main source(s): BEB1841 (Spring of Packenham), Visitation (Suffolk, 1561, Spring of Lavenham)
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