Robert Penrose IV (1698 - 1774)

Born 11 Jan 1698 in Ballycane, County Wicklow, Ireland [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Heacock) Penrose — married 13 Jul 1733 in Springfield, Chester County, Delaware

Descendants

Died 6 May 1774 at age 76 in Richland Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Robert and Mary settled in the Great Swamp, later Richland, Bucks County. They joined Richland Monthly Meeting at its organization in 1742.
occupation: tanner

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Robert Penrose, IV, was born on 11 Jan 1698 in Ballycane, County Wicklow, Ireland to Robert Penrose, III penrose-371 and Mary (Chaytor) chaytor-38 Penrose.

Robert Penrose, IV married Mary (Heacock) Penrose heacock-1277 on 13 Sept 1733 in Leinster, Wicklow Ireland

Robert Penrose, IV and Mary (Heacock Penrose heacock-1277 had 7 Children

Jomathon Penrose

Joseph Penrose

John Penrose

William Penrose

Robert Penrose, V

Samuel Penrose

Benjamin Penrose

Mary Penrose

Jesse Penrose

Some Family History

Robert PENROSE, son of Robert and Mary (CLAYTON/CHAYTOR) PENROSE, born in Ireland, as before stated, followed his parents to Pennsylvania and located near them in Chester county. On September 13, 1733, he married at Springfield Meeting, Mary HEACOCK, and in 1734 obtained a certificate to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting. He located in the Great Swamp, later Richland township, becoming a member of Richland Monthly Meeting at its organization in 1742. Their children, all born in Richland, were: Jonathan, born March 1, 1736; Joseph, born August 10, 1737; John, born January 19, 1740, married Ann ROBERTS; William, born April 15, 1742, married Mary ROBERTS; Robert Jr., born May 6, 1744; Samuel, born August 21, 1748, see forward: Benjamin, born December 30, 1749; Mary, born June 5, 1753; and Jesse, born May 2, 1755. Of the above named children of Robert and Mary Penrose Jonathan, Joseph, John and William remained in Richland and reared families. Jesse, the youngest son, removed to Warrington, York county, by way of Exeter, 1776.

Research Notes

Penrose Family History Source of Below: http://news.rootsweb.com/th/read/PENROSE/2000-05/0959742668

The present study begins with an Elizabethan yeoman, Thomas Penrose, who died at Wheldrake, Yorkshire, in the year 1572, of whom an unusually large number of descendants have been traced to the twentieth century in both the British Isles and the United States. It is also remarkable for international collaboration, since the British cousins have shared their knowledge with the compiler, so that it is hardly too much to say that without this collaboration, the present study could not have been produced at all. The American branch stems entirely from a Robert Penrose of the seventh generation, born in 1673 in County Wicklowm, Ireland, who migrated to Pennsylvania in the year 1717. There was, however, also in Pennsylvania from about 1700 onward another Penrose family which begins with the shipwright Bartholomew Penrose(1674-1711), a native of Bristol in Gloucestershire, son of another Bartholomew Penrose of Bristol, who was in turn the son of a Captain Thomas Penrose, originally of Foey, Cornwall, who served as a commander in the navies of both Oliver Cromwell and Charles II. While the immediate descendants of Bartholomew Penrose were not so numerous as those of Robert Penrose, they ultimately made a deep impression on the life of the Commonwealth even to the twentieth century. There can be no doubt that both Robert Penrose and Bartholomew Penrose derive their name, if not also their blood, from the well-known Penrose family of Cornwall, but it is certain that their relationship, if any, was very distant and has not been discovered, nor is it likely that it will be discovered in the future, given the present state of the records. In compiling the present account the Bartholomew Penrose family has been investigated only for the purpose of making certain that descendants of the two immigrant ancestors can be correctly distinguished. That in the following pages the two lines have been kept separate is quite certain. How Thomas Penrose, bearer of a Cornish name, came to be living in Yorkshire is a mystery not yet solved. The name was, however, not unknown in Yorkshire from 1569 onward to 1700, and records of various Penroses in Yorkshire during this period have been gathered and studied. In a large number of instances, however, it has been impossible to show a proved connection between Thomas Penrose of Wheldrake and these people. Some or even all of these Penroses may have been related to our Thomas, but in view of the circumstances it is better to be cautious. In most American genealogies it is customary to begin the generation indicators with the immigrant ancestor and to show the English generations by alphabetical symbols in reverse, but in this case, since so large a number of the persons shown never came to America at all, we begin with the earliest known generation in England. There remains to be mentioned a precious document, a copy of which was made available by Mr. Denis Penrose. In the mid-eighteenth century one of the Irish Penroses made a contact with Penrose kinsmen then living in Yorkshire, specifically with one Richard Savage of Wheldrake whose mother had been a Penrose, and who wrote to his Irish cousin a letter which has been preserved, at least in a copy, to this day. The letter contains a transcript of the Penrose christenings found in the Wheldrake registers by Savage, and these have been utilized throughout the study. As the copy now reads, there is also an interpolation inserted after 1764 by some Irish Penrose which provides information not available to Savage in 1742. In the transcript below, we have omitted both the christenings and the interploation, as the information contained in them is taken into account in the narrative. Friend. This is a true copy of the Register belonging to the parish of Wheldrake, from the year 1603 to the year 1666. [Here follow the christenings of 41 Penroses, including three sets of twins, and also the interpolation.] Friend please to observe that John son of John born in the year 1605, was father to one[our?] mother mentioned in the last 3 Lives. I am Richard Savage now living in Wheldrake, Son of Catherine, daughter of John Penrose. William Hotham now living in Storpeate two miles from Wheldrake is son of Elizabeth daughter of John Penrose. Grace is now living in Gainsborough 30 miles from York and hath one daughter called Anne Clarke. As for the place you call Wolverton we know nothing of, but there is a place called Alverton[now Elvington] on the other side of the River Derwent whither I sent to examine the register, but there is no such name as Penrose present, for John son of John, having been an extravagant man, would have spent all if he could, but his wife's friends prevented him by getting it made fast to his children, which in some of them is since improved. Wheldrake, 5 miles from York July 9th 1742 I am your friend Richard Savage An attempt has been made to see whether this Richard Savage could have been the man of that name who was a well-known poet then living, but is seems highly improbable that the two Richard Savages were identical. I HAVE OMITTED ELEVEN PAGES OF GENEALOGIES AND START WITH A ROBERT PENROSE DUE TO THE FACT THESE ARE THE ONES I HOPE TO FIND A CONNECTION TO. I WILL BE COPYING THE REST WHEN I GO TO PA IN JUNE. 107 Robert Penrose second child and second son, tanner, born in Ireland, probably at Clanmaning, 11 March 1697/8, died in Richland Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 25 May 1774, founder of the Richland Penroses. he did not come to America in 1717 with his parents but brought a Dublin certificate calling him Robert Penrose Jr. dated 10 May 1721, which he deposited at Philadelphia, 25 May 1724. he was probably the second of the two Robert Penroses who took certificates from Philadelphia to Darby as stated above in his father's sketch. As a wife is mentioned in this connection, he must have had one unknown to his descendants. What became of her and whether she had children is unknown, but at Springfield Meeting in what is now Delaware County, he marries 13 Sept. 1733, when he was age 33, secondly, a young woman fourteen years his junior, Mary Heacock, born 26 May 1712, died 2 March 1795, daughter of Jonathan Heacock by his wife Ann Till, whose ancestors on both sides are well described by Clarence Vernon Roberts, Warly Friends Families of Upper Bucks (Phila. 1925), pp. 396-415, which also contains an excellent, though not complete, account of the descendants of this couple. He signed at Maiden Creek on 21 May 1735 the marriage certificate of his brother Joseph and so did his wife. 113 Joseph Penrose was born in Ireland, according to James Ronald Penrose's chart at Munnef, according to the Memorial cited hereafter, at Munduff, 21 Aug. 1709, died at Maiden Creek, Berks County, Pa., 2 March 1791 in his 82nd year. He married at Maiden Creek, at a public meeting in the Meeting House there, 21 May 1735, Sarah Wily or Wiley, daughter of Joseph Wiley. The marriage certificate is signed by both Joseph and Sarah Penrose[the couple], and then in the customary form from right to left and from top to bottom by the following witnesses: Robert Penrose[groom's father], Jos. Wily[brides father], Mary Penrose [grooms mother], Abigail Wily [brides mother?], Robert PenroseJr. [grooms brother], William Penrose[grooms brother], Richard Penrose [brooms brother], Mary Penrose [wife of Robert Jr.], Phebe Penrose [grooms sister], Ann Wily [grooms sister?], John Wily [husband of Ann and possibly bride's brother?], and by Thos Ellis, Sismore Wright, Jacob Holco[m]be, Frances Parvin, Thomas Parvin, the last five not clearly related. Joseph Penrose left a will dated 22 Aug. 1784, probated 6 May 1791 (BerksWills 3:171), mentioning son Isaac Penrose; beloved wife Sarah Penrose( 6 pounds yearly); daughter in law Elizabeth Penrose, widow of son Joseph Penrose deceased, and his children; land on the south side of the great road from Reading to Easton [athwart which lies Maiden Creek Township]; daughter Abigail and husband George Rush, property for six years from 24 Jan. 1784; daughter Sarah Reed and heirs 5 pounds [sic]; daughter Phebe 50 pounds [sic]; daughter Mary 50 pounds[sic], both obviously unmarried; beloved wife executrix and son Isaac Penrose executor; signed, not by mark; witnesses: John Hutten, Owen Hughes, Penrose Wiley [a grandson?]. See Morton L. Montgomery, History of Berks County (Phila. 1886) 1022. Exeter Monthly Meeting Minutes (d19, p. 364) contain a Memorial for Joseph Penrose dated 24 Sept. 1794 which was to be forwarded to the Quarterly Meeting, as follows: "He was born at Munduff in Ireland the 21st day of the 6th Month, 1709 and when young came to Pennsylvania with his parents, Robert and Mary Penrose. And after some years, having settled at Maiden Creek, a branch of this Monthly Meeting, where through the early Extendings of Devine Love and a concern to improve the talent committed to his Trust, he became qualified for weighty services in the Church; filling up the stations of Overseer and Elder with circumspection and Christian gravity. He was often successful in his Endeavors to compose Differences (among Friends) being of an affectionate and winning Disposition, cheerful and loving in Deportment, plain and pertinent in Expression.... Few have been more generally beloved than he was by all ranks of People with in the circles of his Acquaintance, so that we believe he in good degree experienced the saying of David 'When a man's ways please the Lord he maketh even his Enemies t be at peace with him.' He was afflicted with a paralytic Disorder some years before his decease which nearly disabled him... which circumstances (though trying) he bore with patience and resignation, and seemed to be waiting for his Dissolution ... which was on the Second day of the Third Month, 1791, in the eightysecond year of his age. He was attended by many Friends and Neighbors to our Burying Ground at Maiden Creek.

END

Robert PENROSE, son of Robert and Mary (CLAYTON/CHAYTOR) PENROSE, born in Ireland, as before stated, followed his parents to Pennsylvania and located near them in Chester county. On September 13, 1733, he married at Springfield Meeting, Mary HEACOCK, and in 1734 obtained a certificate to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting. He located in the Great Swamp, later Richland township, becoming a member of Richland Monthly Meeting at its organization in 1742. Their children, all born in Richland, were: Jonathan, born March 1, 1736; Joseph, born August 10, 1737; John, born January 19, 1740, married Ann ROBERTS; William, born April 15, 1742, married Mary ROBERTS; Robert Jr., born May 6, 1744; Samuel, born August 21, 1748, see forward: Benjamin, born December 30, 1749; Mary, born June 5, 1753; and Jesse, born May 2, 1755. Of the above named children of Robert and Mary Penrose Jonathan, Joseph, John and William remained in Richland and reared families. Jesse, the youngest son, removed to Warrington, York county, by way of Exeter, 1776.

Source: http://pagenweb.org/~bucks/BIOS_DAVIS/penrose.html

Sources

See also:

• “Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births,” database with images, FindMyPast (https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FBIRTH%2F37909 : accessed 24 May 2021), birth of Robert Penrose in Ballycane co Wicklow on 11d 11mo (Jan) 1697 (1698), father: Robert, mother: Mary; citing Register of births & deaths, WICKLOW, 1859, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
• History of Bucks County, PA Volume 3 by William H. Davis. http://pagenweb.org/~bucks/BIOS_DAVIS/penrose.html