EIGHTH and NINTH GENERATIONS |
Henry Winchcombe, the second Baronet (1659-1703) was the son of Sir Henry Winchcombe and Frances Howard. He was blind from an early age but, despite this, was a Member of Parliament in 1688.His first wife was Elizabeth Hungerford of Shinfield (1675/6-1684) and they had five children - Frances (1679), Elizabeth (1682), Henry(who died young so that the Baronetcy ceased with his father and the Winchcombe family name at Bucklebury also ceased), Mary(1683) and Flower (1684). Sir Henry's second wife following the death of Elizabeth Hungerford in 1684 was Elizabeth Rolle. This second marriage produced another daughter, Henrietta in 1689. Lady Frances Winchcombe(1679-1718) the eldest daughter, married Henry St John Viscount Bolingbroke(1678-1751). Bolingbroke (a statesman and politician) was plotting a Jacobite Restoration and found it necessary to flee to France and exile on the death of Queen Anne. His wife had settled Thatcham on him and it was forfeited to the Crown on his attainder in 1715 who sold it to the Duke of Chandos. Frances had inherited Bucklebury from her father and this too she conveyed to Bolingbroke but it was re-conveyed to her when he was forced to go into exile. Elizabeth Winchcombe died of smallpox in 1705 Mary Winchcombe(1683-1719/20) the joint heiress of her father with her sister Francis married Robert Packer(1677/78 - 1731) the son of John Packer and Elizabeth Stephens. Her eldest son, (Winchcombe Howard Packer) inherited the Bucklebury Estate following the death of his Aunt Frances. Flower Winchcombe probably died early as she is not mentioned further. As her mother died in the year of Flower's birth it looks rather as though both died during the birth or shortly after. Henrietta Winchcombe is shown as having died in 1705 in one source but it seems that her mother (who, after her husband's death married Thomas Skerrett) brought a case for a share in the Bolingbroke estates on behalf of herself and Henrietta. Thomas Skerrett had been attainted for High Treason following a Rebellion in Ireland which probably didn't help Elizabeth's case Henry Winchcombe, the son of John Winchcombe and Martha (see 7th Generation) looks to be the Henry who managed to carry on the name in Frampton-on-Severn in Gloucestershire where he married Sarah. This is dealt with more fully on the Gloucestershire page. |