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Note for: John Champneys, 1612 - 13 DEC 1677 Index

5/5/31672 1] John Champneys the elder of Orchardleigh and John his son
by wife Deborah Hippisley decd
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Note for: Dorothy Champneys, ABT 1652 - 15 DEC 1721 Index

1 F: Dorothy CHAMPNEYS

Birth: abt 1652 Aged 70 at death

Death: 15 Dec 1721 Foxcote? [ 1] Dorothy [w/o Robert SMITH otp] d/o John CHAMPNEYS Es q. of Orchardly who died 15 Dec 1721 in the 70th year of her Age

Burial: 19 Dec 1721 Foxcote St James [ 2] Dorothy SMITH widow

Spouse: Robert SMITH

Marriage: bef 1682

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Note for: Richard Champneys, 1702 - 1761 Index

FILE - ORCHARDLEIGH, FROME AND PRISTON deeds - ref. DD\DU/1 - date: 1670 -1798
\_ [from Scope and Content] Settlements previous to marriages of Richa rd Champneys of Orchardleigh, firstly with Sarah, dau. of Sir Wm. Dain es of Bristol, 1722, and secondly with Jane Langley Swymmer, dau. of Antho ny S. of Jamaica, 1739.
\_ [from Scope and Content] Deed of 1778 is security prior to departu re of Sir Thos. Champneys to Jamaica to settle his affairs there and relat es also to the former Swymmer manor of Mold(co.Flint)

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Note for: Roger Mostyn, 13 NOV 1734 - 26 JUL 1796 Index

Occupation:
Place: Member Of Parliament For Flintshire, Wales Abt 1758-1796

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Note for: Caroline Champneys, ABT 1772 - 1793 Index

Lewis Vaslet of Bath, A double portrait of Thomas Swymmer Champneys (1769- 1839) and his sister Caroline Chamnpneys (c.1772-93); she, seated in an up holstered chair, wearing white dress with blue bodice trimmed with white l ace and blue hat trimmed with white lace, flowers and black feathers, s he holds a parrot on her left hand, a spaniel begging at her lap and embro idery tucked in by her side; he stands to her left, wearing red coat, matc hing waistcoat and white chemise, his hand on his black hat which si ts on a table covered with mauve cloth

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Note for: Thomas Swymmer Mostyn Champneys, 31 MAY 1769 - 21 NOV 1839 Index

Added the name Mostyn to his name when his wife's brother died

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Note for: John Champneys, ABT 1598 - 1642 Index

Champney
The surname Champney is from the French chap(field) and ey (water); the w et Country. The surname Champney is derived from the ancient district of C hampagne. Sir Henry Champney was in the train of William the Conquero r. It is on the list of the Conquerors of England as derived from a Chart er in Battle Abbey. The Sieurde Champney is mentioned by Playfair as a you nger son of the noble family of de Champnes in Normandy. From him descend ed the eminent Somersetshire house of Champneys of Orchardleigh, the la st male representative of which the late Sir Thomas S. Mostyn Champneys Ba rt was the last. A branch of this line fixed its residence at Ostenhang er in Kent. The 1623 Visitation of Somerset lists Peter, John, William, Ge orge, Margaret, and Thomasine as the youngest generation descended from He nry Champneys.

John Champney is said to be a descendant of Sir Henry Champney. John m ay have been from Lincolnshire, as his brother Richard is said to have co me from there. He married a woman named Joanna, last name unknown . Togeth er they had the following children; Mary (abt 1635-1704) who married Theop hilus Richardson, Sarah (-1696) who married Rev. John Russell Jr. of Wobu rn, a Baptist minister, and John who died on Feb. 20, 1665, and was unmarr ied. His estate was left to his mother and sisters.

John and his family emigrated to the New World in 1635. They were membe rs of the Cambridge Church. Mary, Sarah, and John were all baptized in Cam bridge. In the 1635 Cambridge inventory, Champney was shown to have own ed a house in the "west end". In 1638 he was granted five acres "on the no rth side of the path to Charlestown". He also owned two other grants of se ven acres each. In 1639 the Cambridge inventory showed that John owned f our parcels of land. One of the parcels was purchased from Edmond Frost wh ile two others from Richard Champnes.

John died before 1642. He died without making a will for on October 1 6, 1650 the General Court authorized "upon the request of Richard Champny es & Goulden Moore, & Joane, his wife, the relict of John Champnyes, decea sed, for power to dispose, by way of sale, of a certain house & lands, le ft her by her late husband, it is ordered, that power be hereby given to R ichard Champnyes & John Bridge, of Cambridge, to make sale of the said hou se & lands mentioned in their petition, provided that they give cautiu on to the County Court of that shire to dispose of it to use & behoof of t he woman and her children, according to the intent of John Champnyes, dece ased."

Joanna, his widow married Golden Moore. She died Feb. 18, 1675 at Billeric a.

Mary married Theophilus Richardson on May 2, 1654 in Woburn, Mass.

John Chapney had a brother Richard Champney who in 1634 about the beginni ng of winter, together with the Rev. Thomas Shepherd, Nicholas Danforth, E dmund Frost and others embarked at Harwich, England, for America but we re driven back by bad weather. They took sail again about August 10, 163 5, arriving October 3, 1635, at Boston, on the ship Defence. Richard Champ ney brought his wife Jane and daughter Esther, and in 1636 was a reside nt of Cambridge.

Sources; Samuel Richardson and Josiah Ellsworth by Ruth Richardson, privat ely printed, 1974. A Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Famili es and Other Settlers in the Mass. Bay Colony, by Carol Johnson (private ly printed, 1970). The Champney Family by Julius Champney, 1867. The Gre at Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634-1635 vol. II. Robert Anderso n, NEHGS, Boston, 2001.