The Lamplugh Family of
Cumberland
by the Rev Samuel Taylor (son of Gertrude Brooksbank, grandson of Walter
Brooksbank).
edited by
John Barker with added corrections and annotations by none other than Antony
Jabez-Smith
(Note: I stumbled upon this book via the internet – a mighty stroke of
serendipity).
Table of Contents
SECTION 4 THE FIRST LAMPLUGHS OF DOVENBY 1500-1660
ROBERT LAMPLUGH OF DOVENBY died 1512
THOMAS LAMPLUGH OF DOVENBY 1512 onwards
ROBERT LAMPLUGH OF DOVENBY, HIGH SHERIFF 1557_ 1
FRANCIS LAMPLUGH, OF DOVENBY, HIGH SHERIFF 1580.
SIR THOMAS LAMPLUGH OF DOVENBY 1577-1632, HIGH SHERIFF 1615.
THE REV GEORGE LAMPLUGH died 1633
ANTHONY LAMPLUGH, OF DOVENBY died before 1638_ 1
FRANCES BULLOCK (FRANCES MOLINE) OF DOVENBY died 1676
Pedigree chart 1 The first Lamplughs of Dovenby_ 1
SECTION 4
THE FIRST LAMPLUGHS OF DOVENBY 1500-1660
In investigating the history of this branch of the family we are fortunate in having had access to the Lamplugh-Dykes pedigree, compiled in 1856 for the grandfather of Lt-Col. F. H. Ballantine-Dykes by George William Cullen, Portcullis Poursuivant of Arms, whose statements have been carefully and accurately verified by references to contemporary documents, wills, etc. Concerning the origin of the Dovenby Lamplughs the Dykes pedigree says nothing. They seem to have been established there for some time before the 16th century and to have rivalled the parent branch at Lamplugh in wealth and importance. It is just possible that the first Lamplugh to hold the estates was the Ralph de Lamplugh, who was concerned in a case about the manor of Ireby (part of the Dovenby property in later years) in the year 1407, and who may have married the heiress of the Kirkbrides, who formerly held these lands. This Ralph was probably the son of Sir Thomas Lamplugh I of Lamplugh, who was signing charters in the St Bees Register from about 1370 to 139o. But we have no definite information until we come to the year 1512.
ROBERT LAMPLUGH of Dovenby, died 1512
1. A Robert Lamplugh of Dovenby is recorded as having died in 1512 and to have had two sons:
2. Thomas Lamplugh, of whom hereafter.
3. William Lamplugh, Clerk, living in 1512 (in 1525, Thomas Dalby, archdeacon of Richmond, speaks of a William Lamplugh as chaplain of Workington).
THOMAS LAMPLUGH of Dovenby, 1512 onwards
Thomas Lamplugh of Dovenby, son of the foregoing Robert of Dovenby, was aged 24 at his father's death. He was living also on 22 Oct 1520, and was then married to Alice, daughter of Christopher Curwen of Workington. He had three sons:
1. Robert Lamplugh, his heir, of whom hereafter
2. John Lamplugh, tenant of Papcastle in Bridekirk Parish, who was living in 1586, and from whose son (possibly illegitimate), Innocent Lamplugh, sprung a branch of the Lamplugh family who became in some measure the heirs of Dovenby. (See Section: “The Lamplughs of Papcastle"
3. Thomas Lamplugh, also living in 1586
There is no evidence for the existence of a Robert Lamplugh in the parent branch of the family at this date, so we may safely conclude that the Robert Lamplugh who was High Sheriff in 1557, was this Robert of Dovenby. He was probably at the Battle of Solway Moss along with John Lamplugh of Lamplugh.
On 19 Feb 1563, he presented William Robinson to the living of Bridekirk. He married Jane, third daughter of Thomas Preston, of Preston Patrick and Levens, who married, as her second husband, Tolson of Woodhall, Papcastle, before 1586 (see Appendix 24 - Will of Leonard Lamplugh)
The children of Robert Lamplugh and his wife Jane were:
1. Francis Lamplugh, of Dovenby, of whom following.
2. Leonard Lamplugh, of Barnard's Inn, who made a will dated 3 Nov 1586, proved 30 June 1587, “on behalf of Jane Tolson, mother of the deceased, and Joseph Thwaites, executors” In this will he speaks of his brother Francis, and of his two uncles, John and Thomas Lamplugh, of his sisters, Penruddock and Orpher, and of his cousin Thomas Preston (see Appendix 24. Will of Leonard Lamplugh, 1586)
3. Ann Lamplugh, who married William Orfeur of High Close, and had three sons, William Orfeur, of High Close, Cuthbert and Edward, and two daughters, Margaret Orfeur, who married Christopher Richmond of Feddon Well, and Jane, who married John Brisco, of Crofton.
4. A daughter, who married John Penruddock, and had children.
Francis Lamplugh, son of Robert Lamplugh and his wife Jane Preston, presented another William Robinson to the living of Bridekirk and on 22 Feb. 1581, John Wheelwright. In 1583, along with many other gentlemen of Cumberland and Westmorland, he signed articles agreed upon by the Earl of Huntington and Thomas, Lord Scrope of Bolton, which dealt with the conditions then prevailing on the Scottish Border. There is a contemporary portrait of him in the possession of Lt.-Col. Ballantyne-Dykes. His will is dated 13 June 1602, and he was buried at Bridekirk on 17 June, his will being proved at Carlisle in the September following. He married Jane, daughter of Thomas Salkeld of Whitehall, who was buried at Bridekirk on 22 Jan 16o6. Her will, dated 7 Jan 1606 was proved at Carlisle on 8 Feb. 1607 (see Appendix 25. Will of Jane Lamplugh).
They had a large family, no less than eight sons and two daughters, who present one of those not uncommon instances when a large family of sons die out in a surprisingly short time. It will be more convenient if these sons are taken in order, recording first those of them who in turn inherited Dovenby and leaving to the last the only one of them who left surviving children.
SIR THOMAS LAMPLUGH of Dovenby 1577-1632
Thomas Lamplugh, eldest son of Francis Lamplugh and Jane Salkeld, was 25 on 19 Jan 1602/3, the time of his father's death. He married Agnes, the daughter of Thomas Braithwaite of Warcop and sister of Sir Richard Braithwaite. He died childless and was buried at Bridekirk, on 26 Nov 1632. His will, dated 6 June 1631, was proved at Carlisle, 17 Feb 1634. Previous to that on 14 Feb 1732/3 an admonition of his effects was granted to his brother Anthony Lamplugh, which was afterwards revoked, possibly through the finding of this his will, which proved to be the source of great trouble to the Dovenby Lamplughs and to all those related to them. In this will (see Appendix 26 for full text of Sir Thomas Lamplugh's will), after making very generous provision for his wife for her lifetime, he leaves the greater part of his estates in turn to his only surviving brothers: the Rev George Lamplugh, Anthony Lamplugh, William Lamplugh and Cuthbert Lamplugh. Should they all die without male heirs, the estates are to go to “my kinsman and servant George Lamplugh and his lawful male heirs, then to my kinsman and servant John Lamplugh and his lawful male heirs”.
These two men, George and John Lamplugh, the “kinsmen and servants” referred to here, were the second and third sons of Innocent Lamplugh of Papcastle, who was presumably the son of the testator's great uncle, John Lamplugh, of Papcastle, and according to tradition, illegitimate. In any case, all Sir Thomas Lamplugh's brothers having died without male heirs the estates should have come by the terms of this will to this George Lamplugh of Papcastle and his male heirs.
Some of the property was certainly in the possession of this George Lamplugh of Papcastle at the time of his death in 1668 (see Section VI following: Will of George Lamplugh of Papcastle). But it seems equally clear that the descendants of the female heirs of William Lamplugh, the only brother of Sir Thomas who left surviving children, laid claim to the estates and, possibly by arrangement came into possession of some part of them. A further examination of the history of Sir Thomas' brothers may make the matter clearer. Dame Agnes Lamplugh, wife of Sir Thomas, was buried at Bridekirk on 24 Oct 1665, when family tradition says that she was 100 years old. Her will, dated 2 March 1658, was proved at Carlisle in 1665 (see Appendix 27 for the will of Agnes Lamplugh).
As we think of these years, 1638 to 1665, going by, with this old lady holding on tenaciously at Dovenby Hall, while claimants to the estates waited and died before she did, we can conjure up a picture as grim as it is dramatic. There are contemporary portraits of Dame Agnes and Sir Thomas Lamplugh in the possession of Col. Ballantine Dykes. He was succeeded as Lord of Dovenby by his next surviving brother, the Rev George Lamplugh.
The Rev. George Lamplugh, third son of Francis Lamplugh and Jane Salkeld and eldest surviving brother of Sir Thomas, was rector of Workington from 1595-1633, and also rector of Distington. He married at Lamplugh, on 27 Sept 1613, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Lamplugh and Alice Warde and sister of John Lamplugh IX of Lamplugh. Her will, dated 25 August 1645 (see Appendix 28), gives much information about both branches of the family. A lady who could leave “to my nephew, William Fairfax, those books of mine he hath and to his wife one jewel with a death's head in it“ must have been a character: or perhaps the humour is unconscious! The Rev George did not survive his brother long, being buried at Bridekirk on 9 Nov 1633. He having no surviving children, the manor passed to his brother Anthony Lamplugh.
ANTHONY LAMPLUGH of Dovenby, died before 1638
Anthony Lamplugh of Dovenby, the sixth son of Francis Lamplugh and Jane Salkeld, succeeded his brother the Rev George. On 22 Sept 1634, he presented Nicholas Beeby to the living of Bridekirk. He married first, Elizabeth Hudleston of Millom, the daughter of Sir William Hudleston of Millom Castle, Cumberland and Haseley Court, Oxfordshire and of Elizabeth Hartepoole.
After her death an admonition of her goods was granted to her husband, Anthony Lamplugh on 9 Sept 1633, and another admonition on 19 July 1638, to her mother, now Elizabeth Knipe, and her husband, by which last date Anthony Lamplugh must have been dead (see Appendix 29). Anthony Lamplugh married secondly Eleanor, who survived him and married Peter Wyarde MD, with whom she made a presentation of the living of Bridekirk to Samuel Grasty in March 166o.
By some arrangement, after the death in 1665 of her sister-in-law, Dame Agnes, wife of Sir Thomas, she must have continued to enjoy part of that lady's jointure. (See Section VI. Will of George Lamplugh, of Papcastle). It is obvious that Anthony Lamplugh made a will, by which presumably he disposed of the Dovenby estates, but this will was disputed by Dame Agnes and George Lamplugh of Papcastle, who doubtless claimed the estates under the will of Sir Thomas (see Appendix 3o). It may have been at this time that an arrangement was made between George Lamplugh of Papcastle on the one side, and Eleanor Wyarde, Anthony's widow and the descendants of William Lamplugh, Anthony's brother, on the other.
We must now record the remaining sons of Francis Lamplugh of Dovenby and Jane Salkeld, leaving William, the only one of them who had children, to the last.
1 John Lamplugh, presumably the second son of Francis Lamplugh and Jane Salkeld, was buried at Bridekirk on 7 Aug. 1597, before his father's death.
2 Francis Lamplugh, the fourth son, was a clothworker of London. His will, dated 27 March 1605, was proved on 5 April following. His wife's name was Ann and he had no surviving children (see Appendix 31, Will of Francis Lamplugh).
3 Nicholas Lamplugh, the fifth son, was alive on 12 June 1602, at the time of his father's death. He must have died childless before Sir Thomas.
4 Cuthbert Lamplugh, the eighth son, was baptised at Bridekirk on 4 Oct 1586. In 1631, when Sir Thomas made his will, he was still unmarried. He was buried at Bridekirk on 14 Jan 1637/8, and just too soon to inherit the Dovenby lordship by the terms of his brother's will.
5 Helen Lamplugh, daughter of Francis Lamplugh and Jane Salkeld, married Richard Tolson, of Woodhall, Papcastle and had with other children (see Bridekirk registers), Henry, Lancelot and Richard, Mary (who married on April 24, 1609, William Osmotherley, at Bridekirk) and Frances Tolson.
6
Anne Lamplugh, another daughter, was buried at
Bridekirk, 13 March 1585/6.
Note On Nov. 16, 1625, a wedding is recorded in the Bridekirk registers
between. “Jana Lamplugh relicta and William Fairfax clericus“ Sir Thomas in his
will of 1631 calls this Jane Fairfax ' niece' and she is also mentioned as
niece in the will of Elizabeth, widow of the Rev. George Lamplugh, in 1645. It
looks as if one of the eight brothers had married and had a son who died
leaving a childless widow.
7 William Lamplugh, the seventh son of Francis Lamplugh of Dovenby and Jane Salkeld, was the only one of the eight brothers to leave surviving children. He himself was dead before 21 Dec 163o, when an admonition of his goods was granted to his wife, with a second admonition after her death, on March II, 1631, and a third on March loth, 1638. He had three children (see Will of Sir Thomas Lamplugh, his brother, Appendix 26).
1. Anthony Lamplugh, his only son, was alive on 7 June 1631, when he was left land at Holm Cultram by his uncle Sir Thomas of Dovenby. If he had survived the death of his uncle Anthony in 1638, he would have come into final and undisturbed possession of the manor and. lands of Dovenby. According to Mr. G. W. Cullen he died beyond seas before 5 Oct 1636, when an admonition of his effects was granted to his sister, Frances Bullock als Lamplugh. There was a second admonition on 25 March 1638/39, granted to his second sister, Dorothy Winstanley als Lamplugh. If, as seems likely, there were disputes and litigation about the Dovenby inheritance after the death of his uncle Anthony Lamplugh, the descendants and advisers of his two sisters may have made a claim against George Lamplugh, of Papcastle on the ground of the uncertainty as to the exact date of their brother's death.
2. Dorothy
Lamplugh, second daughter of William Lamplugh, was unmarried in 1631. On 18
March 1638, she was the wife of Edmund Winstanley, to whom after her death an
admonition of her effects was granted. He was of the parish of St. Margaret,
Westminster and of St. Andrew, Holborn, presumably a merchant. His will, dated
11 Jan 1661, was proved on 7 June 1662, with a second grant on 1 Jan 1665. He
had one son Edmund Winstanley, alive in 1666; but nothing further is heard of
this family in connection with the Dovenby inheritance, except for one
significant reference to the name Winstanley (not a common one), which occurs
in James Jackson's diary:
"Sept. 19, 1665, did Mr. Richard Lamplugh, of Ribton come to Abbey Holme and had possession given to the demesne by ffra Threlkeld and James Jackson,
by virtue of a letter of attorney from Mr. James Winstanley, authorising the
fore-sd. ffra and James upon the purchase of the sd.
Richard Lamplugh”
It is difficult to believe that the name Winstanley can be a coincidence.
Richard Lamplugh had married a descendant of Dorothy Winstanley's sister,
Frances Lamplugh, and from this note in Jackson's diary it would appear that he
bought out from the Winstanley family the property which they held in
Cumberland. It will be observed that in 1631 Sir Thomas Lamplugh left some land
in Holm Cultram to Anthony Lamplugh son of Sir Thomas' brother William. (See
Appendix 26. Will of Sir Thomas Lamplugh)
3. Frances
Lamplugh, the elder daughter of William Lamplugh, was sister and coheir of her
brother Anthony Lamplugh. She was unmarried in 1631, but on 5 Oct 1636 she was
styled Frances Bullock als Lamplugh. She married
William Bullock, son of Hugh Bullock of the parish of All Hallows', Barking. Her husband was living on 22 Oct 1649, when she
herself had died (before 25 March 1638/39).
Frances Lamplugh and William Bullock had
one daughter Frances Bullock.
FRANCES BULLOCK (Frances Moline) of Dovenby, died 1676
Frances Bullock, the only daughter of Frances Lamplugh and William Bullock, was living unmarried on 22 Oct 1649. She married Abraham Moline, merchant of London, and was buried at Bridekirk Church on 13 April 1676, where she is entered as “Doia Francisca, uxor Abrahami Moline gen” which suggests that by that time, after the death of Dame Agnes Lamplugh and George Lamplugh of Papcastle, she had come into some of the Dovenby property either by purchase or by virtue of her descent from her grandfather, William Lamplugh, of Dovenby. She and Abraham Moline left three children:
1. Abraham Moline, of the City of London, styled an apprentice in an indenture dated 18 Sept 1678, “son and heir of Abraham Moline“. He probably died childless not long afterwards.
2. Frances Moline, daughter of Frances Bullock and. Abraham Moline, great-granddaughter of William Lamplugh of Dovenby, married Thomas Lamplugh III, of Lamplugh the last representative of the direct line, (see Section II). She was buried at Lamplugh on Jan. 1o, 1745, aged 80. Her will, dated May 12th 1742, was proved at Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1745. Of her large family (see Section 2), only two grew up:
a. Margaret Lamplugh, who married Richard Brisco, of Crofton and died, a week after the wedding, in 1731.
b. Elizabeth Lamplugh, who married George Irton, of Irton, and who died a widow without surviving children in 1775, leaving Dovenby Hall and her estates, first to Rev. Thomas Lamplugh, of Copgrove, descendant of Archbishop Lamplugh, and then to Peter Brougham. (See Sections 2, Section 5 and will of Elizabeth Lamplugh Appendix 13).
3. Maria Moline, the other sister, granddaughter of Frances Lamplugh, heiress, it would seem, in some part to the estates of Dovenby, was living unmarried at Bridekirk on 7 Dec 1676, when she stands sponsor to a child of the rector of Bridekirk.
She became the second wife of Richard Lamplugh of Ribton (see Section 5 following) and presumably in some degree by virtue of this marriage, part of the Dovenby property came to that branch of the family.
She married secondly, by a license granted at Carlisle, Richard Goodman of Carlisle, on 6 Sep 1706. Richard Goodman was living on 8 Jan 1721, when he is styled “of Dovenby, gent”
Thomas Lamplugh III, of Lamplugh, in his will dated 27 June 1734, bequest to his “sister, Maria Good-man” £2o for life. On 19 July 1736, “Mrs. Good-man, of Dovenby” was buried at Bridekirk. By her first husband, Richard Lamplugh, of Ribton, she had four children (see Section 5):
a. Thomas Lamplugh, born 1682, died 1694.
b. Robert Lamplugh, born 1686 and had issue (see Section V following) .
c. Elizabeth Lamplugh, born 1685, died 1728, who married John Woodhall, of Papcastle. Her grandchildren were Peter Brougham and Mary Brougham, who were ultimately the heirs of all the Dovenby property (see Section 5).
d. Mary Lamplugh, born 1686, died 1702.
This is a grim story of the plague years, when a whole family suffered eclipse in a surprisingly short time. When Dame Agnes, wife of Sir Thomas, of Dovenby, died in 1665, there were none left to carry on the main line of the Lamplughs, of Dovenby. By the will of her husband, a kinsman, George Lamplugh, of Papcastle, came into some of the property after the death of Anthony Lamplugh in 1638. Other parts of it must have come, either by purchase or by virtue of their marriages with the two Moline heiresses, to the Lamplugh families of Lamplugh and Ribton. It was not long before these two branches had also disappeared.
