'Lamb2'
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Families covered: Lambe of Coulston (Colston), Lamb of Ely, Lambe of Trimley
| Visitation identifies the coat of arms of the following family as "Sable, on a fess or between three cinquefoils ermine, two mullets of the field pierced" and adds that "Sr Jo. Lambe claimeth from Lamb of Kent". This supports the view that the following family was connected with the families shown on Lamb1. | |||||||||||||||
| John Lambe of Coulston, Wilshire (d before 14.12.1501) | |||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | John Lambe of Colston (Coulston) (d before 02.06.1514) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Ellen | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Adam Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Button | |||||||||||||||
| i. | John Lambe of Colston (Coulston) (d before 17.03.1614/5) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Cicely Browne (dau of Robert Browne of Walcot) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Sir John Lambe of Colston (Coulston) (a 1623) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (03.01.1596/7) Anne Lambert (dau of Edmund Lambert of Boyton) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | John Lambe (b c1611) probably the John who married ... | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Baskerville (dau of Thomas Baskerville of Richardston) | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Elizabeth Lambe (bpt 06.10.1603) probably the Elizabeth who married ... | ||||||||||||||
| m. Francis Jones of Penrose (a 1623) | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Ruth Lambe (b c1611) probably the Ruth who married ... | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir William Godolphin (b c1605, d 26.11.1663) | |||||||||||||||
| (4)+ | other issue (a 1623) - William, Anne | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Praxed Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Ernle | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Jane Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m1. William Button of Alton Priors | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Sir Ralph Coningsby of North Mimms | |||||||||||||||
| d. | Cicely Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Young | |||||||||||||||
| e.+ | other issue - William, Francis (d before 20.058.1613) | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | daughter | ||||||||||||||
| m. Roger White | |||||||||||||||
| 3.+ | other issue - Amery, Aldem, Roger, Andrew, Isabel, Christian, Joan, Alice | ||||||||||||||
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| BLG1952 does not show any coat of arms for the following family which does not appear in BLG1886. | |||||||||||||||
| William Lamb of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire (d 16.05.1721) | |||||||||||||||
| m. (23.11.1701) Catherine Thorowgood (bur 30.01.1722) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Joseph Lamb (bpt 04.08.1706, bur 09.03.1709-10) | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | William Lamb of Bungay, Suffolk (bpt 02.05.1709) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth | |||||||||||||||
| 3. | John Lamb of Ely, Cambridgeshire (bpt 30.12.1711, d 31.08.1779) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary | |||||||||||||||
| 4. | Joseph Lamb of Ely & Stowmarket, Cambridgeshire (bpt 12.07.1715, d 24.01.1782) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (16.12.1754) Margaret Holden (d 14.06.1784, dau of _ Holden of The College, Ely) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | John Lamb of Thurston & Ixworth (Suffolk), Haxey (Lincolnshire) & Stretton (Rutlandshire) (b 07.03.1757-8, d 14.05.1842) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (22.05.1782) Maria Hovell (d 20.12.1840, dau of William Hovell of Bury St. Edmunds & Badwell Ash) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | John Lamb (b 28.02.1789, d 19.04.1850, Dean of Bristol, 3rd son) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (19.03.1822) Ann Hutchinson (dau of Rev. Benjamin Hutchinson of Cranford) | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Henry Wortley Lamb of Kettering, Northamptonshire (b 25.01.1791, d 26.08.1852) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (26.11.1817) Sophia Hutchinson (d 06.05.1882, dau of Rev. Benjamin Hutchinson of Cranford) | |||||||||||||||
| iii. | Maria Lamb (b 25.09.1786, d 20.11.1865) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Rev. Zachariah Shrapnel Warren of Beverley & Ancaster | |||||||||||||||
| iv. | Elizabeth Lamb (b 05.04.1792, d 1851) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1831) John Dudding of Howell | |||||||||||||||
| v.+ | other issue - John (b 23.04.1783, bur 21.08.1787), William (b 19.10.1784, bur 11.1784), William Burrell (b 01.01.1795, bur 08.02.1795), Harriet (b 02.03.1788, bur 27.05.1788), Emma (b 21.11.1796, bur 17.02.1797) | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Sarah Lamb (bpt 21.03.1755, d 04.05.1791) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (02.11.1779) William Ransom of London | |||||||||||||||
| 5. | Elizabeth Lamb (bpt 11.01.1702-3, d 29.01.1778) | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Watson of Ely | |||||||||||||||
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| Visitation identifies the coat of arms of the following family as "Sable on a fess Or between three cinquefoils Ermine a lion passant Gules between two mullets Sable." | |||||||||||||||
| John Lambe of Trimley, Suffolk d by 1549) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | John Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | Richard Lambe of Trimley | ||||||||||||||
| m. Agnes Forder (dau of Thomas Forde of Trimley St. Mary) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Thomas Lambe of Trimley St. Mary (d 15.05.1570) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Winifred Grisling (dau of William Grisling of London) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Thomas (probably not John) Lambe of Trimley St. Mary (d 01.03.1617) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Poley (bur 16.02.1602, dau of John Poley or Pooley of Badley) | |||||||||||||||
| The following comes from Visitation (Suffolk, 1664-8, 'Lambe of Barham'). | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Jogn Lambe of Ipswich, Suffolk | ||||||||||||||
| m. Bridget Keene (dau of John Keene of Norfolk) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | John Lambe of Barham, Suffolk (a 1664) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Susan Acton (dau of John Acton of Bramford) | |||||||||||||||
| (A)+ | issue (a 1664) - John (b c1658), William, Elizabeth, Anne, Susanna | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Ann Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir William Glover (Ambassador to Turkey) | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Mary Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Bull of Floton | |||||||||||||||
| d.+ | other issue - William, Edmond, Winifred, others (dvpsp) | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | Edward Lambe of Burgholt (d unm 11.1617) | ||||||||||||||
| iii. | Henry Lambe of Barnham, Norfolk | ||||||||||||||
| The following comes from Visitation (Suffolk, 1664-8, 'Lambe of Throston'). | |||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Nun (dau/heir of John Nun of Tostock) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Henry Lambe of Barnham | ||||||||||||||
| m. Susan Bacon (dau/coheir of Edmund Bacon of Hessett) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | FitzNoone Lambe of Throston, Suffolk (a 1664) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Crofts (dau of Francis Crofts of Saxham) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Fitz (sb FitzNoone?) Lambe (b c1639, a 1664) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Susan Adams (dau of Lionell Adams) | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Mary Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m. Charles Gawdy | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | Anne Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Pells | |||||||||||||||
| (D) | Elizabeth Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| Not mentioned by Visitation (Suffolk), but possibly of this generation, was Elizabeth, dau of Fitznunn Lambe of Troston, who is shown by Visitation (Arthur Campling (1939), East Anglian Pedigrees, 'Kedington of Reed. co. Suffolk') as married to ... | |||||||||||||||
| m. Giles Keddington of Great Hockham (d 1678) | |||||||||||||||
| (E)+ | other issue - Lionell, Edmund, Susan, Frances, Margaret, Penelope | ||||||||||||||
| iv. | Elizabeth Lambe (b 19.02.1558, d 04.11.1634) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anthony Bull of Sproughton | |||||||||||||||
| v. | Frances Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edmund Colman (of Furnival's Inn) | |||||||||||||||
| vi. | Winifred Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Sayer (clerk) | |||||||||||||||
| B. | Cecily Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m1. _ Conington | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (1541?) William Markant | |||||||||||||||
| C. | Elizabeth Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Symond | |||||||||||||||
| D. | Cecily Lambe (2nd) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edmund Kempe | |||||||||||||||
| E.+ | other issue - Thomas (2nd), Edmund | ||||||||||||||
| 3. | Cecily Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Hart of Falkenham | |||||||||||||||
| 4. | Alice Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m. Roger Hungate of Trimley St. Mary | |||||||||||||||
| 5. | Frances Lambe | ||||||||||||||
| m1. _ Walden (possibly John Walden of Trimley) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. William Bamburgh of Rendlesham | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s):
(1) For upper section : Visitation (Wiltshire, 1619, 'Lambe')
(2) For middle section : BLG1952 ('Lamb of Warkton')
(3) For lower section : Visitation (Suffolk, 1561, 'Lambe of Trimley St. Mary') with some input/support from Visitation (Metcalfe, Suffolk, 1612, 'Lambe of Trimley')
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