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Descendants of John (Sir) Horner
Generation No. 1
1. John (Sir)2 Horner (John Stewart1) was born November
30, 1530 in London, England, and died November 24, 1587. He married Meriel Malte, daughter of
John Malte. She was born 1530 in
England, and died 1587 in England.
Child of John Horner
and Meriel Malte is:
+ 2 i. Thomas (Sir)3 Horner, born 1547
in Colford & Mells, Somerset, England; died February 15, 1609/10 in Colford
& Mells, Somerset, England.
Generation No. 2
2. Thomas (Sir)3 Horner (John
(Sir)2, John Stewart1) was born 1547 in Colford &
Mells, Somerset, England, and died February 15, 1609/10 in Colford & Mells,
Somerset, England. He married Jane
Popham, daughter of John Popham and Amie Games. She was born Abt. 1553 in Huntsworth,
Somerset, England, and died 1587 in England.
Children of Thomas
Horner and Jane Popham are:
+ 3 i. Amy4 Horner, born 1585 in Mells,
Somersetshire, England; died Bef. 1658 in Frampton, Cotterell, Glouceter Co.,
England.
4 ii. Sir John Horner, born 1580.
Generation No. 3
3. Amy4 Horner (Thomas (Sir)3,
John (Sir)2, John Stewart1) was born 1585 in Mells,
Somersetshire, England, and died Bef. 1658 in Frampton, Cotterell, Glouceter
Co., England. She married John Clark
(Esquire) Symes 1600 in England, son of William Symes and Elizabeth
Hill. He was born March 04, 1571/72 in
Chard, Pitminister Parish, Somersetshire, England, and died October 21, 1661 in
Frampton, Cotterell, Gloucester Co., England.
Notes for Amy Horner:
Amy was from a very
illustrious family. Her grandfather, Sir
John Horner, was also a High Sheriff and a very powerful politician. He is also the man about whom the poem
"LIttle Jack Horner" was written about.
Notes for John Clark
(Esquire) Symes:
Esquire John Symes
wrote his will May 10, 1658 proved December 19, 1661. He was a Barrister,
Lincoln's Inn 1589, Country Gentleman andKnight of Shire, member of Parliament
for Somerset (1624 & 1625, Justice of the Peace 1612 - Civil War (40
years), High Sheriff for Somerset 1627, Knight of the Shire. He inherited his father's property in 1597.
A monument to the
memory of John Symes is in the Church of
Bishop Hull The monument indicates
"Here lyeth the body of John Symes of Poundisford, in the Parish of
Pityminister in the county of Somerset, Esquire, he was born on the 4th day of
March, 1572 (in the 12th year of Queen Elizabeth). He lived soberly, righteously and godly, and
died on the 21st day of October 1661." The engraving is on a brass plate
surmounted iwth the arms of Symes.
When ware broke out he
took the king's side and had to flee to Glouchester when Cromwell confiscated
his property. After Cromwell's death,
Charles II was crowned king in 1660 and the land was restored to the family. John was an old man by then and was probably
too weak to return.
He matriculated from
Exeter College, Oxord at the early age of 14 and received his BA September 7,
1591.
Children of Amy Horner
and John Symes are:
5 i. Thomas5 Symes, born Bet. 1605 -
1615 in Poundsfoot, Pittminister Parrish, Somersetshire, England; died January
22, 1668/69 in Poundsfoot, Pittminister Parrish, Somersetshire, England. He married Amy Bridges 1640 in Keynsham,
Somersetshire, England; born 1618 in Keynsham, Somersetshire, England; died
August 12, 1662 in Gloucester, England.
Notes for Thomas Symes:
Reference to William
Symes in the will of his aunt, Elizabeth langton, Sister of Amy Bridges,
Doynton County, Glouchester, Widow.
January 13, 1669,
"I give unto Wlm Symesm, Thomas Symes and Richard Symes, sons of my nephew
Wlm Symes the sum of 10 Pds apeace & I give unto my sisger Amy Symes the
like sum".
Notes for Amy Bridges:
Buried at the church in
Winterborne, Frampton, Cottrell, England.
6 ii. Jane Symes, born 1600.
7 iii. William Symes, born 1601.
8 iv. John Symes, born 1603.
9 v. Amy Symes, born 1603.
10 vi. Dulciblea Symes, born 1604.
11 vii. Christian Symes, born 1605.
12 viii. Gillispe Symes, born 1607.
13 ix. Dorothy Symes, born 1608.
14 x. Henry Symes, born 1609.
15 xi. Catherine Symes, born 1610.
16 xii. Elizabeth Symes, born 1610.
17 xiii. Edith Symes, born 1611.
18 xiv. Ann Symes, born 1612.
19 xv. Susan Symes, born 1614.
20 xvi. Penelope Symes, born 1616.
21 xvii. Grafton Symes, born 1618.
