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Anne (Thomas HEPBURN / HEBBORN) METCALF

Anne (Thomas HEPBURN / HEBBORN) METCALF

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  • Name Anne (Thomas HEPBURN / HEBBORN) METCALF 
    Gender Female 
    Personal Information From Joseph Foster ("Pedigrees" 1874): "Anne, married to Thomas Hepburn of _____."  
    Person ID I275  Lewis Cousins
    Last Modified 6 May 2022 

    Father Sir James METCALF,   b. Abt 1460,   d. 10 Sept 1539  (Age ~ 79 years) 
    Mother Margaret PIGOT,   b. Abt 1492,   d. Abt 1531  (Age ~ 39 years) 
    Married Abt 1512  Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Fact From Harry Speight's "Romantic Richmondshire," 1897: "Sir James married late in life--when he was 52--a daughter of Thomas Pigot, Esq., of Clotherham, near Ripon, a lady then in her 20th year, and by her acquired a large territorial fortune."

    From the Visitation record by Sir William Dugdale ("Richmund, 21 Aug 1665") on the "Metcalfe of Nappa" pedigree (Hangwest Wapentake): "Sr James Metcalfe of Nappa, Knt. = Margaret, daughter & coheire of Thomas Pigot of Clotherham in com. Ebor. 22 H. 7." Dugdale (citing Robert Glover's work from the Visitation of 1584) numbers five sons (Christopher, Humphry, Edmund, Oswald and Robert) and then lists, unnumbered, daughters Ann, Alice, Elizabeth and Margaret. Joseph Foster ("Pedigrees" 1874) follows the same birth order (with "Edward" instead of "Edmund") for the sons, and then lists Margaret, ______ (an unknown daughter who marries Sir Robert Bowes), Anna, Elizabeth, Anne, Alice and _______ (an unknown daughter who marries a Widdrington). Charles Best Nordcliffe (1881, editor of William Flower's 1563 Visitation) states that "Agnes" was the daughter of "Sir James Metcalfe of Wensdale, knt.," and then several other sources, including John Hodgson, connect Agnes with John Widdrington. As for the first unknown daughter, William Flower (1563) has the name "Alice" in the Bowes family tree, which is supported by his Parliament bio (see link at his record). However, according to the 1584 and 1612 Visitations (edited by Joseph Foster in 1875), Alice married Leonard Franke of Knighton.

    Fortunately, there is some indication that James may have been married first to an Elizabeth Scrope, which, if true, would resolve a number of issues, including duplicate children's names, some of their apparent ages compared to Margaret Pigot's, and the sheer number of them when considering the lifespan of Margaret Pigot.

    Information supporting another wife is from the Scrope section of Tudor Place at http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/ . This is the site of Jorge H. Castelli, and the information on Elizabeth Scrope (1469-1507) is well-documented and largely independently verifiable. It looks as if Agnes Widdrington, Alice Bowes, Elizabeth Constable, and Anna Fenwick could be Scrope's children; and then Pigot's line (m. 1512) begins with Christopher (b. 1513). The Metcalfe Society's "Metcalfe: History of the Clan" allows for this possibility, citing the reference in John Scrope's 1494 will to "my brother Thomas Metcalfe" (they would be the fathers-in-law) and also the admittance to the Guild of Corpus Christi in 1490 of James and Elizabeth Metcalfe, while cautioning that an earlier union could not have produced any sons. Since we're looking to reassign four daughters, this is still a promising lead; however, before we go dividing up the children, we need to research this further.

    According to the Metcalfe Society's "Metcalfe: History of the Clan" (1998, 2002), the documented birth order of the sons is 1) Christopher and 2) Oswald. Edmund is mentioned as attending a muster in 1534, along with Christopher and Oswald, and also as being listed in the 1584 Visitation, so he would have to come before Humphrey, who is said to be the youngest. As for Robert, this work says only that he's in Dugdale's Visitation of 1665, where he is #5 on that list. There is no other information about him.
     
    Family ID F90  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Thomas HEPBURN 
    Last Modified 25 Apr 2022 
    Family ID F102  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart