John Washburn1,2,3

M, b. circa 1357
FatherPeter Washburn b. c 1331
MotherIsolde de Hanley b. c 1338
     John was born circa 1357 in Worchestershire, England. He and Jane were blessed with 1 child. John was a distinguished man. He held various offices of trust & honor. He was on the comissior of Peace for Worchestershire in 1404-1405, Vice-Comez, described as being of Washbourne in Overbury, Knight of the Shire 1404 & Encheater. He became the heir of his great uncle John the elder, receiving both Washbourne [either called Little or Knight's Washbourne] & Stanford. John married Jane Mussard, daughter of Sir John Mussard and Catherine Thromin, circa 1382 in England. John's wife, Jane, died, leaving him a widower. He may not have gotten married until after his daughter, Isolde, married. At the time of her marriage , he confirmed his land at Stanford to them. This was an unsual occurance since the oldest male was the usual heir. So it is quite possible that he did not remarry and was not born until after 1402. John married 2nd Margery Poher, daughter of John le Poher, circa 1397 in Worchestershire, England. He and Margery were blessed with 3 children. He was buried at Wicherford, Worchestershire, England, in the Wichenford Church. His tomb is the oldest of four in the chancel. Accouding to Thomas Habington, an ancient historian - "In the north of the Chauncell is an ancient Tomb of Alabaster on the ground a man armed all savings his head, under which Leythe hys helmet with a wreath, and there on a flame of a flyer within a band mantled and doubled at hys feet, a ly ryght hand his wyfe with a little dog at her feet. Between them Washburn arms empelling a Cheueron."4

Family 1

Jane Mussard
Child

Family 2

Margery Poher b. c 1379
Children

Citations

  1. [S690] John Burke, History of the Landed Gentry
    , ]Volume III: page 621 - JOHN WASHBOURNE, of Washbourne, (the grandson of Sir Roger Washbourne, who was himself the grandson of another Sir Roger Washbourne, with whom the pedigree§ in the visitations commences) married two wives: by the first,. Joan, daughter and heir of Sir John Musard, knt. he had an only daughter, Isolde, who became the wife of. John Salwey, of Kanke, (see vol. i p. 152) and by the second, Margaret, daughter and heir of John Poher, or Power, a son, NORMAN WASHBOURNE, who retired to his mother's estate in Wichenford, where his descendants continued to reside for several generations, enjoying the highest respectability, and intermarrying with the houses of Kynaston Mytton, Stapysse, Tracy, Lygon, etc. The direct male line of the family eventually expired with WILLIAM WASHBORNE esq. of Wichenford,in Worcestershire, and of Pytchley, in the county of Northampton, the lineal descendant of Norman Washbourne, of Wichenford, and consequently the full male representative of the Washbournes, of Washbourne. He married HESTER daughter of Sir John ERNLE, knt. of Whetham, and his only child, who left issue, married Francis Money, esq. The Washbournes are consequently (as already shown) now represented by the MONEYs.
  2. [S864] James Davenport, The Washborurne Family of Little Washbourne & Wichenford in the County of Worchester, Chapter II The Family of Little Washbourne & Wickenford: page 8 - John Washborne married Joan Mussard;.
  3. [S868] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, page 89 - John Washbourne was comissior of Peace for Worchestershire in 1404-1405, Vice-Comez, described as being of Washbourne in Overbury, Knight of the Shire 1404 & Encheater.
  4. [S864] James Davenport, The Washborurne Family of Little Washbourne & Wichenford in the County of Worchester, pages 22-23 - His tomb is the oldest of four which were formerly in the chancel of the Wichenford Church & is discribed by Thomas Habington to whom much of the knowledge of the Washbourne Family is due, was written before the date of 1633. Habington's death - "In the north of the Chauncell is an ancient Tomb of Alabaster on the ground a man armed all savings his head, under which Leythe hys helmet with a wreath, and there on a flame of a flyer within a band mantled and doubled at hys feet, a ly ryght hand his wyfe with a little dog at her feet. Between them Washburn arms empelling a Cheueron."