Person:Edward Browne (12)

Watchers
Sir Edward Browne
b.Est 1486
 
m.
  1. Isabel BrowneEst 1480 -
  2. Robert BrowneEst 1483 -
  3. Sir Edward BrowneEst 1486 -
  4. Olyve BrowneEst 1488 - Abt 1546
  5. John BrowneEst 1493 -
Facts and Events
Name Sir Edward Browne
Gender Male
Birth[4] Est 1486
Occupation[1][3] Swingfield, Kent, Englandpreceptor (commander)
References
  1. Hunt, John G. The Overton Family of Swineshead, Lincolnshire. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (1960)
    36:161.

    Guthlake Overton's wife, Olyve Browne 'was sister to Edward Browne, preceptor of the cell of [St. John of Jerusalem] order at Swingfield, Kent, ...'

  2.   Harvey, William; Augustine Vincent; and Walter C. (Walter Charles)(ed.) Metcalfe. The Visitations of Northamptonshire Made in 1564 and 1618-19: with Northamptonshire pedigrees from various Harleian mss. (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1887)
    p. 167.

    In the family of "Robert Browne, Esq., Chancellor of the Exchequer" and "Isabel, ... heir of Sir John Sharpe, Kt." is listed "Sir Edward Browne, Kt. of the Rhodes."

  3. Hunt, John G., Overton Family, Ancestral to Rev. Peter Bulkeley and Other New England Settlers, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
    35:184.

    '... Edward Browne, styled "knight of Rhodes" in this Visitation, was really a knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and preceptor or commander of its priory at Swingfield, Kent [L & P, Henry VIII].'

  4. based on estimated birth years of his sister Olyve and his mother