Henry Townshend 1537-1621

Paternal Family Tree: Townshend

Before 1534 [his father] Robert Townshend and [his mother] Alice Poppy were married.

In 1537 Henry Townshend was born to Robert Townshend and Alice Poppy.

On 8th February 1556 [his father] Robert Townshend died.

In 1571 Henry Townshend [aged 34] was elected MP Bridgnorth.

In 1572 Henry Townshend [aged 35] was elected MP Bridgnorth.

Around 1575 [his mother] Alice Poppy died.

In 1588 Henry Townshend [aged 51] was appointed Recorder of Carmarthen [Map].

Around 1588 Henry Townshend [aged 51] was appointed Recorder of Leominster, Herefordshire.

Before 1592 Henry Townshend [aged 54] and Susanna Hayward were married.

In 1592 [his wife] Susanna Hayward died.

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Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.

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In 1593 Henry Townshend [aged 56] and Dorothy Heveningham [aged 43] were married. They were fourth cousin twice removed.

In 1614 Henry Townshend [aged 77] was elected MP Ludlow.

In 1621 Henry Townshend [aged 84] died.

In 1635 [his former wife] Dorothy Heveningham [aged 85] died.