Sidney Montagu 1581-1644

In 1557 [his father] Edward Montagu [aged 27] and [his mother] Elizabeth Harrington [aged 12] were married.

In 1581 Sidney Montagu was born to Edward Montagu [aged 51] and Elizabeth Harrington [aged 36].

On 21st September 1585 [his brother] Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu [aged 22] and [his sister-in-law] Elizabeth Jeffrey [aged 17] were married at Weekley, Northamptonshire.

On 1st June 1601 [his brother] Henry Montagu 1st Earl Manchester [aged 38] and [his sister-in-law] Catherine Spencer [aged 15] were married. The difference in their ages was 23 years.

On 26th January 1602 [his father] Edward Montagu [aged 72] died at Brigstock, Boughton.

On 29th March 1608 [his brother] Bishop James Montagu [aged 40] was elected Bishop of Bath and Wells.

On 24th February 1612 [his brother] Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu [aged 49] and [his sister-in-law] Frances Cotton [aged 34] were married at Weekley, Northamptonshire.

On 9th November 1613 [his brother] Henry Montagu 1st Earl Manchester [aged 50] and [his sister-in-law] Anne Wincot [aged 60] were married.

On 19th May 1618 [his mother] Elizabeth Harrington [aged 73] died.

On 20th July 1618 [his brother] Bishop James Montagu [aged 50] died. He was buried at Bath Abbey [Map].

In 1619 Sidney Montagu [aged 38] and Paulina Pepys [aged 37] were married.

In 1620 [his brother] Henry Montagu 1st Earl Manchester [aged 57] was created 1st Viscount Mandeville, 1st Baron Montagu of Kimbolton.

On 26th April 1620 [his brother] Henry Montagu 1st Earl Manchester [aged 57] and [his sister-in-law] Margaret Crouch Countess Manchester [aged 15] were married. She by marriage Viscountess Mandeville. The difference in their ages was 42 years.

On 16th May 1622 [his son] Henry Montagu was born to Sidney Montagu [aged 41] and [his wife] Paulina Pepys [aged 40]. He died aged two in 1625.

On 16th February 1625 [his brother] Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu [aged 62] and [his sister-in-law] Anne Crouch Baroness Montagu [aged 52] were married. She by marriage Baroness Montagu of Boughton in Northamptonshire.

On 28th April 1625 [his son] Henry Montagu [aged 2] drowned after having fallen into a pond swelled by heavy rain. Some sources, including the local guidebook, say he was chasing an orange. He was buried at All Saints Church, Barnwell [Map].

On 27th July 1625 [his son] Edward Montagu 1st Earl Sandwich was born to Sidney Montagu [aged 44] and [his wife] Paulina Pepys [aged 43]. He married 7th November 1642 Jemima Crew Countess Sandwich, daughter of John Crew 1st Baron Crew and Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew, and had issue.

Around 1626 [his daughter] Elizabeth Montagu was born to Sidney Montagu [aged 45] and [his wife] Paulina Pepys [aged 44]. She married before 1642 Gilbert Pickering 1st Baronet and had issue.

In 1626 [his brother] Henry Montagu 1st Earl Manchester [aged 63] was created 1st Earl Manchester. [his sister-in-law] Margaret Crouch Countess Manchester [aged 21] by marriage Countess Manchester.

On 16th November 1641 [his wife] Paulina Pepys [aged 60] died. She was buried at All Saints Church, Barnwell [Map].

Before 1642 [his son-in-law] Gilbert Pickering 1st Baronet [aged 30] and [his daughter] Elizabeth Montagu [aged 15] were married.

On 7th November 1642 [his brother] Henry Montagu 1st Earl Manchester [aged 79] died. His succeeded son [his nephew] Edward [aged 40] succeeded 2nd Earl Manchester, 2nd Viscount Mandeville, 2nd Baron Montagu of Kimbolton.

On 7th November 1642 [his son] Edward Montagu 1st Earl Sandwich [aged 17] and [his daughter-in-law] Jemima Crew Countess Sandwich [aged 17] were married.

On 17th January 1644 Sidney Montagu [aged 63] and Anne Isham were married. He died a month later.

On 25th February 1644 Sidney Montagu [aged 63] died. He was buried at All Saints Church, Barnwell [Map].

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 22nd September 1665. Among other discourse concerning long life, Sir J. Minnes [aged 66] saying that his great-grandfather was alive in Edward the Vth's time; my Lord Sandwich [aged 40] did tell us how few there have been of his family since King Harry the VIIIth; that is to say, the then Chiefe Justice, and his son the Lord Montagu, who was father to Sir Sidney¹, who was his father. And yet, what is more wonderfull, he did assure us from the mouth of my Lord Montagu himself, that in King James's time ([when he] had a mind to get the King [aged 35] to cut off the entayle of some land which was given in Harry the VIIIth's time to the family, with the remainder in the Crowne); he did answer the King in showing how unlikely it was that ever it could revert to the Crown, but that it would be a present convenience to him; and did show that at that time there were 4,000 persons derived from the very body of the Chiefe Justice. It seems the number of daughters in the family having been very great, and they too had most of them many children, and grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. This he tells as a most known and certain truth.

Note 1. These are the words in the MS., and not "his son and the Lord Montagu", as in some former editions. Pepys seems to have written Lord Montagu by mistake for Sir Edward Montagu.

In 1671 or 1676 [his former wife] Anne Isham died. She was buried at All Saints Church, Barnwell [Map].