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Note for: Richard Champneys, ABT 1600 - 26 NOV 1669 Index

TENTH GENERATION pedigree chart

Elder Richard Champney emigrated on 10 Aug 1635 from England aboard the "D efence", arriving on 3 Oct 1635 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusett s. He took the oath of freeman on 25 May 1636. He died on 26 Nov 1669.

The surname Champney is derived from the ancient district of Champagn e, is listed in the Roll of Battell Abbey and seen in Domesday as Chemarnk ee, Other spellings are Champness, Chamneis, Champneis and Chaumpenay. Joh annes Chaumpenay lived in Yorkshire in 1379; and in 1581, William Champn ey and Emma Crocksall obtained a marriage license in London, England. T he 1623 Visitation of Somerset lists Peter, John, William, George, Margar et and Thomasine as the youngest generation descended from Henry Champney s.

He was married to Jane in England.

Jane. Children were:

i. Esther Champney was born in 1629 in England. "Clark and Worth..." sa ys she was born about 1633. She died on 5 Apr 1713 in Billerica, Middles ex Co., Massachusetts. She married first, Deacon Josiah Converse on 26 M ar 1651, and, second, Capt. Jonathan Danforth Sr. on 17 Nov 1690 in Biller ica, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.
ii. Mary Champney was born in Oct 1634.
iii. Samuel Champney was born in Sep 1635.
iv. Sarah Champney was born in May 1638. She died on 19 Aug 1656.
v. Mary Champney.
vi. John Champney was born on 28 May 1641. "Clark and Worth..." says 23 M ay 1641.
vii. Lydia Champney was born about 1643. She died on 23 Jan 1691.
viii. Capt. Daniel Champney was born on 9 Mar 1644/45. He died on 19 N ov 1691.

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Note for: John Champneys, 1495 - 3 OCT 1566 Index

Occupation:
     Date:   1534
     Place:   Lord Mayor of London

Individual note:
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Built for Lord Mayor of London Sir John Champneys during the reign of Ki ng Henry VIII in 1537, Hall Place and its award winning gardens now play h ost to exhibitions and events throughout the year.

Sir John Champneys, a former Lord Mayor of London, began the house c1537 u sing stones that may have been quarried from the ruins of a local abbey. H is son completed the stone section of the building, and the Champneys rema ined at Hall Place for more than a century. It was then sold to a London m erchant, who extended the house with a brick structure, thereby giving t he house its distinct 'split' appearance

Skinner of London. Sheriff in 1522 Lord Mayor 1534

Sir John was an archetypal member of the new Gentry that emerged under Hen ry VIII. A wealthy leather merchant and four times Master of the Skinne rs Company, he became Lord Mayor of London in 1534 and was knighted by t he King, a custom instituted twelve years previously and continued ever si nce. This was a time when large numbers of so-called 'new men' were enteri ng the Gentry, buying land and building houses; especially in counties imm ediately surrounding London. Many were royal officials taking advanta ge of the flood of ecclesiastical lands coming onto the market following t he dissolution of the monasteries and continuing thereafter as the crown f orced a series of disadvantageous land deals on the church. It was by ju st such an arrangement that on 30 November, 1537 Henry VIII obliged Thom as Cramner, the Archbishop of Canterbury to exchange the Manor of Bexley t ogether with other lands, tithes and advowsons for less desirable monast ic properties, thus making himself Sir John's immediate feudal overlord. W hether there was any deeper significance in the coincidental change of bo th landlord and tenant we cannot tell; yet it points to the idea that S ir John was, if not close to Henry, at least the King's man. These King 's men were an increasingly important power in the land.
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Note for: Justinian Champneys, ABT 1522 - BET 1590 AND 1596 Index

Only surviving s/o Sir John Champneys (1480-1556 Lord Mayor of London 15 34 and wealthy Skinner who built Hall Place, Bexley) & Meriel Barret. Enla rged the house. Sheriff for Kent 1583, served against the Armada 1588. M ( 1) Helen Hale (d.11 Nov 1565) Issue: #Justinian, #Henry, #Alice, #Elizabe th M.(2)c.1560 Theodora Blundell (d.1582) (issue: #Richard, #Meriel, #Eliz abeth, #Theodora) M.(3) Sarah somebody. Will (38 Saville) proved May 16 22 by widow Sarah, son John (who he?) and Thomas Comfort. His 3rd son Rich ard inherited Hall Place.

In 1537 the Shelleys sold the estate to Sir John Champneys, a merchant a nd former Mayor of London. He built the northern half of the building, usi ng stone from monasteries, which had been closed by King Henry VIII short ly before this time. Stonework from the 13th to the 15th centuries is fou nd in the walls of Hall Place, much of it medieval mouldings. Sir John Cha mpneys died in 1556, and his son, Justinian, altered and enlarged the hous e, bringing the stone-built part of the structure to its present form. Jus tinian Champneys was Sheriff of Kent in 1583 and a captain in the forces a ssembled to repel the expected Spanish invasion in 1588. After his death H all Place passed to his second son, Richard, who toward the end of his li fe sold it in 1649 to Robert Austen, a London merchant like his predecess or a century before
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