John Done (1552 - 1601)

Born 1552 in Eaton, Tarporley, Eddisbury, Cheshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Eleanor Done — married 1574 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England

Descendants

Died 24 Mar 1601 at about age 49 in Bath, Somerset, England

Biography

John Done aka Donne^[1] of Utkinton and Flaxyards^[2]

John Donne was born in 1552,^[3] (aged 40 at his father's death in 1592^[4]). He was probably born at Flaxyards, a house and the seat of the Dones of Flaxyards,^[5] in Eaton, a township in Tarporley parish, Eddisbury Hundred, Cheshire, England.^[6]

John Done was the oldest son and heir of Rafe (Ralph^[3]) Done of Flaxyards and his wife, Ellin, the daughter of William Damport of Bromhall^[2] (Eleanor, the daughter of William Davenport of Bramhall^[3]). After his mother's death, his father Ralph, married Christiana, the daughter of John Carew of Haccombe co Devon, widow of Richard Brooke of Norton.^[7]

John was the brother of:^[2]

1. WIlliam Done, younger son;^[7]
2. Phillip Done, second son;
3. Thomas Done, third son,^[2] (second son) married to Jane, the daughter of Edward Minshull of Nantwich;^[7]
4. Hugh Done, fourth son, a captain in the army;^[7]
5. Jane Done who was married to Thomas Cuny of Cuny Weston (Couney of Weston Couney^[7]) in co Stafford;
6. Anne Done;
7. Dorothy Done, the wife of William Chauntrell of Bache, Cheshire;^[7]
8. Amy (Amicia^[7]) Done;

John married twice:

1. Ellen, the daughter and sole heir of James Donne of Utkinton and his wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Edmund Trafford of Trafford, co Lancaster, aged 4 years in 4 Elizabeth (1561-2),^[7] and cousin and next heir to Sir John Donne, they were married at the time of the 1580 Visitation of Cheshire and had two sons and one daughter^[2] of their four sons and four daughters:^[1]
   1. John Donne of Utkington & Flaxyards, born 1577 (aged 3 years in 1580^[2]), knighted 1617, died 13 April 1629, married Dorothy, died 1636, the daughter of Thomas Wilbraham of Woodhey;
   2. Thomas Donne, 2nd son, living in 1580,^[2] aged 40 in 7 Charles I, unmarried, buried at Tarporley on 7 April 1652;^[7] Thomas Done, esq, is called "the last heire male of the lyne of the Dones of Utkinton" in the Tarporley Register.^[8]
   3. Mary Donne, oldest daughter, living in 1580,^[2] married Jarvis, the son of sir Brian Lascelles, kt;^[7]
   4. James Donne, 3rd son;
   5. Savage Donne, 4th son;
   6. Julyan (Juliana^[7]) Donne, who died in infancy;
   7. Elizabeth Donne;
   8. Elianor Donne;
2. Jane, the daughter and coheir of John (George^[3]) Massey of Podington (Puddington), and widow of John Hurleston of Pickton (Picton),^{[1] [3]} died 7 December 1618, without having children with John Done, and was buried at Plemondstall.

John's first wife, Eleanor, died on 23 August 1590.

Ralph, Bailiff of the Forest or office of Master Forester of Mara and Mondrem, died on 2 January 34 Elizabeth (1592), and John, aged 40 years, his son and heir, succeeded him to Utkinton and Flaxyards and the .^[4] John represented Cheshire in Parliament in 1593, was JP for Cheshire from circa 1593, and Sheriff of Cheshire in 1595-6.^[3]

The Dones of Utkinton were the senior branch of the Done family which ended with no male heir on 6 November 4 Elizabeth (1562)^[4] when Sir John Done died and he had previously settled Utkinton on Ralph Done of Flaxyards, the head of the junior branch..^[3] Ellen Done, the daughter of Sir John's brother, James, contested the settlement, and her marriage to this John united both branches of the family.^[3] Utkinton was a township in Tarporley parish, Eddisbury Hundred, Cheshire.^[9]

John Donne of Utkinton and Flaxyards died on 24 March 1600/1.^[1] at Bath, Somerset, and was buried at Tarporley, Cheshire,^[3] on 7 April 1601.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Sir George J Armytage, Bart, and J Paul Rylands, Esq, eds. "Pedigrees made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613, taken by Richard St George, esq, Norroy King of Arms, and Henry St George, Gen, Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms, and some other contemporary pedigrees". The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire LVIII. (London: The Record Society, 1909) 86, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/recordsociety58recouoft#page/86/mode/2up : accessed 8 April 2016).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} John Paul Rylands, ed., "The visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy king of arms, with numerous additions and continuations, including those from the visitation of Cheshire made in the year 1566, by the same herald. With an appendix, containing the Visitation of a part of Cheshire in the year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux king of arms. And a fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the year 1591, made by Thomas Chaloner, deputy to the Office of arms", The Publications of the Harleian Society, XVIII, (London: Harleian Society, 1882), 86, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/visitationofches00glov#page/86/mode/2up : accessed 8 April 2016).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8} Patricia Hyde, "DONE, John (1552-1601), of Utkinton, Cheshire." The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, (Crown copyright and The History of Parliament Trust 1964-2016), (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/done-john-1552-1601: accessed 8 April 2016).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} George Ormerod, Esq, LLD, FRS & FSA, "Containing the Hundreds of Edisbury, Wirral, and Broxton", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, Esq, Vol. II, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), 246.
5. ↑ The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, Esq, Vol. II, 239.
6. ↑ GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Eaton by Tarporley, in Vale Royal and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21405 : accessed 8 April 2016.
7. ↑ ^{7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10} The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, Esq, Vol. II, 249.
8. ↑ George Ormerod, Esq, LLD, FRS & FSA, "Containing the Hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, Esq, Vol. III, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), 898.
9. ↑ GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Utkinton, in Vale Royal and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3731 : accessed 8 April 2016.

See also:

• DONE, John (1552-1601), of Utkinton, Cheshire. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148489494/john-done, accessed 24 May 2021