'Fownes02'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Fones of Suffolk, Fownes of Woodstock

                               
Thomas Fownes or Fones of Dedford (Dodford) in Bromsgrove in Worcestershire
1. Thomas Fones of London & Nusteed Hall in Polsted, Suffolk (d 15.04.1629)
  m1 . (25.02.1604/5) Anne Winthrop (b 16.01.1585, d 16.05.1619, dau of AdamWinthrop of Groton, sister of John (Governor of Massachussetts)
  A. Samuel Fones of East Bergholt, Suffolk (b c1618, d before 11.1703)
  m. Mary Dunkon (dau of Eleazar Dunkon of Harleston)
  i. Thomas Fones of Ipswich (dvp before 14.11.1678)
  m. Mary (d 1685)
  a.+ issue (a 1678) - Katherine of Ipswich (a 1680), Mary (a 1685), Sarah (a 1685)
  ii. Samuel Fones (d by 1703, 3rd son?)
  a. Alice Fones
m. (by 1703) Edward Haw
  b.+ other issue (a 1693) - Mary, Sarah
  iii.+ other issue - Barnaby (a 1673), John (a 1685), Mary (a 1693)
  B. Elizabeth Fones (b 21.01.1610, d c1673, to New England) dates found via Wikipedia ("The Winthrop Woman")
  m1. (25.04.1629) Henry Winthrop (bpt 20.01.1607/8, d 02.07.1630, to Barbados then London then New England)
  m2. Robert Feake of Watertown, Massachussetts
  3. William Hallet of Long Island, New York
  C. Martha Fones (dsp(s) 1634)
  m. (08.02.1630/1) John Winthrop of Groton Manor, later of Boston, Governor of Connecticut (b 12/15.02.1606, d 05.04.1676)
  D. Eleanor Fownes (b 1607-8, d 17.07.1681) possibly of this generation
  m. William Turton of Alrewas & Orgrave (b c1597, d 10.12.1683)
  m2. (28.08.1621) Priscilla Burgess (dau of Rev. John Burgess of Sutton Coldfield, widow of Bezaleel Sherman of Piswich, m3. Henry Painter of Exeter)
  E. Mary Fones (d 1631)

 

 

Sir William Fownes 'of Woodstock', Sheriff then Lord Mayor of Dublin, 1st Bart (d 03.04.1735)
1. Kendrick Fownes, Sheriff of Co. Wicklow (dvp 13.10.1717)
  m. Elizabeth Sweete (dau/heir of Stephen Sweete of Kilkenny, m2. Edward Cooke of Castletown)
  A. Sir William Fownes, Sheriff of Co. Wicklow, 2nd Bart of Woodstock (b 1709, d 05.04.1778)
  m. (23.12.1739) Elizabeth Ponsonby (bpt 26.09.1719, d 07.1778, dau of Brabazon Posonby, Earl of Bessborough)
  i. Sarah Fownes (b 08.1743)
  m. (23/28.05.1765) William Tighe of Rosanna
2. Elizabeth Fownes (d 04.12.1748)
  m. (06.03.1711) Robert Cope of Loughgall (d 17.03.1753)

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section : 'Evidences of the Winthrops of Groton' (Robert C. Winthrop Jr., 1897, 'Fones of Suffolk', p87)
(2) For lower section (first uploaded to FZmisc03 on 27.01.08) : BEB1841 ('Fownes', in section for Ireland), BEB1841 ('Tighe of Woodstoc'k), TCB (vol 5, 'Fownes of Dublin', p347+)
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