Person:Bassingborne Throckmorton (1)

Will of Bassingbourne Throkmerton, esq., citizen and Alderman of Norwich, dated 10 Sept. 1638, with codicil dated 15 Sept.1638: My body to be buried in the Trinity church or chancell of Bungay co. Suffolk, near my father and mother there buried. To the reperation of St. Powles church in Norwich. To the poor of St. James parish in Norwich. To my cousin Chapman of Bungay 20s. To Mr. Gamon, minister of St. Lawrence parish in Norwich. To the poor of East Wymer in Norwich. To the children of my daughter Layer £5 each at 21 years. To my son Thomas Throckmorton £100 for the use of my daughter Layer and her children. Her husband John Layer to have no part thereof. To my son-in-law William Railey £100 for his three daughters Margery, Anne, and Susan. To Edward Curtis 40s. To Mary Senior 40s and to the rest of servants 5s. To Hester Throkmorton my wife, household stuff given by my mother Dowinge. To my sons Lyonell, Thomas, John, Miles, and Robert, all my household stuff not before given or bequeathed; and the lease in Norwich which I purchased this 15 Sept. 1638 of Sir Edward Blenerhassett equally divided between them. To Lyonell all my lands etc., in Norwich, Bungay, and elsewhere. To John Linnicke and Hester Gleane £5 each.

Witnesses: Henry Rose, Christofer Giles, Edmond Smith, and John Mathews. .Proved 5 Nov 1638...

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Richardson, Douglas. Plantagenet ancestry : a study in colonial and medieval families. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co Inc, c2004)
   p. 341 [1].

   Bassingbourne Throckmorton, Esq., Grocer, Citizen, and Alderman of Norwich, Norfolk, 2nd son by his father's 2nd marriage, born in 1564... died 21 Sept. 1638. He left a will dated Sept. 1638, proved 5 Nov. 1638.

2.   John Throckmorton (settler), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

   "John Throckmorton was almost certainly the one of that name who was baptized in Norwich, county Norfolk, England, on 9 May 1601, the son of the grocer and Alderman, Bassingburn Throckmorton." (citing Moriarty, G. Andrews (October 1943). "Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island". The American Genealogist 20: 116–8.)

3.   Roberts, Gary Boyd. English origins of New England families: from The New England historical and genealogical register, first series. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1984)
   Vol. III, p. 492.

   Marriage Licenses, Bury St. Edwards.
   Bassingbourn Throgmorton of Norwich and Mary Hill of Bury St. Edmunds. To be
   married at Rattlesden. 7 Dec 1591."
   "Throckmorton Entries 1567--1660
   1601. May 9. John the sonne of Bassingboorne Throgmarton baptized.
   1603. June 18. Myles the sonne of Mr. Frogmorton baptized.
   1617. William Raylie & Marie Throckmorton marryed the 12 of October.
   Records of Norwich in Norwich Castle.
   Freeman Tolls.
   Bassingborne Throkmorton, grocer, apprenticed, admitted freeman 3 May 1589
   (fol.86d)
   Robert Throkmorton, hosier, son of Bassingbourne Throkmorton, admitted
   freeman 20 Oct. 1632. (fol.86d)
   Norwich Rate Book 1633
   St.Pauls. Mr. Throkmerton, alderman, Xd. (Nearly 2000 households named;
   only 5 taxed more than Throckmorton.)
   
   p.483
   "Bassingburn Throckmorton of Norwich belonged in the Throckmorton family of
   South Elmham and Bungay in Suffolk on the Norfolk border. It was a family of
   minor gentry founded by John Throckmorton, a younger son of Sir Thomas
   Throckmorton of Coughton, co. Warw., the head of the house in the latter half
   of the fifteenth century."
   p.493
   
   
   (quoted at [2]

4.   A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Throckmorton and Allied Families 1066-1926 by C. Wickliffe throckmorton.

   Source: pgs. 199, 202, 205, 207, 209, 225
   pg 205 F-10 Bassingbourne Throckmorton (sir Lyonel, Simon, John, Thomas of Coughton) of City of Norwich; born 1564; will dated 10th September, 1638; proved London, 5th November, 1638; Reg. P.P.C. 152 Lee; died Sep 21, 1638; alderman of Norwich. Married (1st) 7th Dec, 1591, Mary, daughter of William Hill of Bury, St. Edmonds, and Jane, daughter of John Annable of Bury, St. Edmonds.
   Arms (Harl. Soc. Pub., Vis, Norfolk, p. 244) of Hill of Bury, St. Edmonds; Quarterly 1 & 4. Gu. two bars ermine on a chief a lion passant or. 2 & 3. Vert a bull passant or. Crest: A boar's head sa., in the mouth an oak bow vert fructed or (Riddlem..)
   Pg. 206 Married (2nd) Hester Pye (will 1642), daughter of Henry Pye of Norwich (will 1587), and Susanna Sotheron (will 1624).