Isabella (Smythe) Cheyne
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Laetitia Isabella (Smythe) Cheyne (abt. 1630 - 1714)

Laetitia Isabella (Isabella) "Countess of Radnor" Cheyne formerly Smythe aka Robartes
Born about in Kent, Englandmap [uncertain]
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married about 1647 [location unknown]
Wife of — married 1688 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 84 in Kensington, Middlesex, Englandmap
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Biography

Laetitia Isabella Smythe was a daughter of John Smythe and Isabella Rich.[1][2]

Her year of birth is unknown and is estimated as c 1630.

She married first John Robartes (1st Earl of Radnor) at some point between 11 May 1646 and 21 Apr 1647.[3]

She was mentioned in the Diary of Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick:[4]

"A week or two after the Diary begins, the household at Lees was invaded by sickness. A number of the servants fell ill at once, and Mistress Grace, maid to Isabella Robartes, died. Lucy Robartes, Charles Rich's sister, was dead, and her husband, Lord Robartes, had married Isabella Smyth, who through her mother, Isabella Rich, was a first cousin of both Lucy and Charles. The morning after Mistress Grace's death, as Mary was meditating as usual in the Wilderness, the funeral procession passed, winding up the hill to Little Leighs church. The occasion gives rise, of course, to some lugubrious reflections upon death and mortality, which the reader shall be spared."
"By the beginning of August, the invalid was well enough to go down to the Durdans, to stay with Lord Berkeley upon the breezy downs of Epsom. Thither his wife and the Robartes followed on the 5th, to spend a long day. Isabella Robartes was now one of Mary's chief friends. Every other day, while at Chelsea, she dined either with her or 'sister Ranelagh.' The former was Isabella Rich's daughter by her marriage with Sir John Smyth, of Sutton, Kent, and had, according to all contemporary accounts, inherited a large share of the beauty of her notorious grandmother, Penelope."[5]

Children of Laetitia Isabella Smythe and John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor:

  • Richard Robartes (born 19 Feb 1649 and baptised 24 Feb 1649 at Lanhydrock, Cornwall; died May 1649)[6]
  • Francis Robartes (born 1650; died 03 Feb 1718)[7]
  • Letitia Isabella Robartes (born 10 Feb 1652 and baptised 17 Feb 1652 at Lanhydrock, Cornwall; married first Charles Moore, 2nd Earl of Drogheda, in 1669, then married second William Wycherley Esq. in 1679)[8][9]
  • Charles Robartes (born 09 Sep 1653 and baptised 20 Sep 1653 at Lanhydrock, Cornwall)[10]
  • Diana Robartes (born 07 Oct 1654 and baptised 19 Oct 1654 at Lanhydrock, Cornwall)[11]
  • Aramintha Robartes (born 07 Oct 1655 and baptised 18 Oct 1655 at Lanhydrock, Cornwall)[12]
  • John Robartes (born 25 Nov 1656 and baptised 02 Dec 1656 at Lanhydrock, Cornwall; died 21 Feb 1658)[13]
  • Olympia Robartes (born 03 Dec 1657 and baptised 10 Dec 1657 at Lanhydrock, Cornwall; buried 24 Feb 1732/1733 at St Luke, Chelsea)[14][15]
  • Henry Robartes (born 17 Feb 1659 and baptised 22 Feb 1659 at Lanhydrock, Cornwall)[16]
  • Mary Robartes (born 31 May 1661; baptised 16 Jun 1661 at St Luke, Chelsea; died 1670)[15][17]
  • John Robartes (born 12 Oct 1662; baptised 14 Oct 1662 at St Luke, Chelsea; buried 17 Nov 1663 at St Luke, Chelsea)[15][18]
  • Warwick Robartes (a son born 21 Apr 1667; baptised 27 Apr 1667 at St Luke, Chelsea; buried 25 Mar 1680/1681 at St Luke, Chelsea)[15][19]
  • Essex Robartes (a daughter born 4 Apr 1669; baptised 7 Apr 1669 at St Luke, Chelsea; married John Speccot 1689; died 1689)[15][20][21]

Her husband John Robartes died on 17 Jul 1685.[3]

She married second Charles, Lord Cheyne (Viscount Newhaven), by Licence dated 08 Jun 1688.[3][22]

She was the Executrix of the will of her brother Charles Smythe of Sutton at Hone, Kent, Gent, the will dated 18 Oct 1682 and proved 06 Mar 1682/1683.[23]

She died on 09 Jul 1714 at Kensington[3][22] and was buried on 15 Jul 1714 at St Luke, Chelsea.[3][15][24]

Sources

  1. Smythe, Sir John III (c.1599-1640), of Sutton-at-Hone, Kent. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010 HOP.
  2. Stocker, J J. Pedigrees of Smythes of Ostenhangar; Kent; of Smythes of Bidborough and Sutton-at-Hone; and of the Smythes of Viscount Strangford, of Dromore, Ireland. Archæologia Cantiana, being Transactions of the Kent Archæological Society. Vol. XX, 1893, pp 76-81 pdf.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Cokayne, George Edward and H.A. Doubleday et. al eds. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Vol. X: Oakham to Richmond, 2nd edition. (London, 1945), pp 713-714 Family Search.
  4. Fell-Smith, C. Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick (1625-1678): her family and friends. London, 1901, p 175 Internet Archive.
  5. Fell-Smith, C. Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick (1625-1678): her family and friends. London, 1901, p 195 Internet Archive.
  6. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5S5-8XR : 20 September 2020), Richard Roberte, 1649.
  7. Robartes, Hon. Francis (1650-1718), of Truro, Cornw. and Twickenham, Mdx. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 2002 HOP.
  8. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J79Z-XBD : 20 September 2020), Letitia Isabella Roberte, 1652.
  9. Sharpe's Peerage of the British Empire. Vol. I, 1830 Google Books.
  10. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5S5-ZD3 : 20 September 2020), Charles Robartes, 1653.
  11. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5S5-CPN : 20 September 2020), Diana Robartes, 1654.
  12. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NBS8-S88 : 20 September 2020), Aramintha Robartes, 1655.
  13. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5S5-C6R : 20 September 2020), John Robartes, 1656.
  14. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JMPT-WLJ : 20 September 2020), Olympia Robartes, 1657.
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 Davies R. Chelsea Old Church. London. 1904, pp 147-148 Internet Archive.
  16. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5S5-HWR : 20 September 2020), Henry Robartes, 1659.
  17. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5S5-CQN : 20 September 2020), Mary Robartes, 1661.
  18. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWXN-KHP : 20 September 2020), John Robartes, 1662.
  19. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5S5-8M7 : 20 September 2020), Warwick Robartes, 1667.
  20. Speccot, John (1665-1705), of Penheale, Cornw. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 2002 HOP.
  21. The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster. The Publications of the Harleian Society. Vol X, 1876, p 28 Internet Archive.
  22. 22.0 22.1 Cheyne, Charles, 1st Visct. Newhaven [S] (1625-98), of Chesham Bois, Bucks. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 2002 HOP.
  23. Will of Charles Smith or Smythe, Gentleman of Sutton-at-Hone, Kent. 06 March 1683. PROB 11/372/306. The National Archives, Kew.
  24. Davies R. Chelsea Old Church. London. 1904, p 76 Internet Archive.




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