Henry was the son of Edward Baynton and his second wife Isabel Leigh.[1] He was said to be 9 in 1545, pointing to a birth date of about 1536.[2][3]
Henry married Anne Cavendish, daughter of William Cavendish and his first wife Margaret Bostock.[2][3][4] The marriage settlement left his wife controlling the family home and in charge of their children, with Henry being provided with "sufficient meat and drink" for himself and six friends.[5] They had three children:
The third son. Ferdinando, was baptised in 1566,[7] suggesting that Henry and Anne may have married soon after 1561.
Lands
In 1573 Henry inherited the property of the former monastery at Edington, Wiltshire from his mother.[8] He held other lands in Wiltshire and also had property at Chelsea, Middlesex.[2][3]
Life
Henry was elected to Parliament at least four times, representing:[5]
Malmesbury in 1572
Devizes in 1584 and 1586
Old Sarum in 1589
possibly Devizes again in 1593, though the Henry Baynton who was elected then may have been his nephew of the same name
In 1586 Henry was a Captain of the light-horsemen and demi-lances of Wiltshire.[5][9]
In 1589 judgement was given against Henry and in favour of Henry Cavendish and William Cavendish over a debt of 400 marks included by 1574.[2][3] Henry and William Cavendish were likely to have been the Henry and William who were half-brothers of his wife.
Death
Henry's death date is not known, but must have been 1589 or later, given that he was elected 1589 to represent Old Sarum in Parliament - and 1593 or later if he was the Henry Baynton elected as Member of Parliament for Devizes that year.[5]
Research Notes
Wife
The Wikipedia entry for Henry's father-in-law William Cavendish states that his daughter Anne married a "Sir Henry Boynton".[10]
Henry's entry in the History of Parliament Online suggests that Anne's father was either William Cavendish, as stated by Douglas Richardson, or Richard Cavendish of Nottinghamshire.[5]
Augustine Vincent's Baronagium of 1625 states that Anne, daughter of William Cavendish and Margaret Bostock, married Henry Baynton of Wiltshire.[4]
Sources
↑ Walter C Metcalfe (ed.). The Visitation of Wiltshire 1565 by William Harvey together with Additional Wiltshire Pedigrees, William Pollard, 1897, p. 4, Internet Archive
↑ 2.02.12.22.32.42.52.6 Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. I, p. 133, BAYNTON 14, Google Books
↑ 3.03.13.23.33.43.53.6 Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. I, pp. 275-276, BAYNTON 19
↑ 4.04.1 Walter Goodwin Davis. The Ancestry of Abel Lunt 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts, The Anthoensen Press, 1963, p. 245, Familysearch, citing Baronagium by Augustine Vincent (1625): refers to William Cavendish and his first wife Margaret having a daughter "Anna uxor Hen Baynton de Com. Wilts."
↑ A P Baggs, Elizabeth Crittall, Jane Freeman and Janet H Stevenson, 'Parishes: Bishopstone', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 11, Downton Hundred; Elstub and Everleigh Hundred, ed. D A Crowley (London, 1980), pp. 3-19, British History Online, accessed 26 June 2021
↑ 'Queen Elizabeth - Volume 193: September 1586', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1581-90, ed. Robert Lemon (London, 1865), pp. 349-358, British History Online, accessed 26 June 2021
Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree’s source page for Royal Ancestry.
Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree’s source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
History of Parliament Online, entry for Henry Baynton
Weiss, Frederick Lewis, "Ancestral Roots of Certain Colonists Who Came to America before 1700", Eighth Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, Line 248:39
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Source: Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume I, page 275-6 BAYNTON 19.
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Henry Baynton, elder son by his father's 2nd marriage, born about 1536. He married Anne Cavendish, daughter of William Cavendish, by his 1st wife, Margaret, daughter of Edmund Bostock. They had three sons, James, Edward, and Ferdinando.
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