Anne (St John) Ayliffe (abt. 1592 - bef. 1634)

Born about 1592 in Wiltshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Descendants

Died before May 1634 before about age 42 in Wiltshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Anne St John was a daughter of John St John of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, and Lucy Hungerford.^[1][2][3]

Her year of birth is unknown and is estimated as c 1592.

Marriage

She married George Ayliffe (later Sir George Ayliffe) of Brinkworth, Wiltshire.^[1][2][3]

The Inquisition Post Mortem of her father in law John Ayliffe referred to an indenture of 02 Nov 1610 between John Ayliffe and his son George Ayliffe of the one part and John St John of Lydiard Tregoze and Anne St John his sister of the other part. John Ayliffe was to transfer 60 acres of meadow and 200 acres of pasture of the manor of Grittenham, Wiltshire, to his son George for his life, and after his decease to the use of Anne St John for her life, for her jointure.^[4]

Children

• John Ayliffe esq (born about 1610, died 1645)^[5]
• Anne Ayliffe (born 1611, died 1632)^[1][6] married Edward Hyde
• Lucy Ayliffe (born about 1614) married Robert Compton^[7]
• St John Ayliffe (baptised 14 Feb 1614/1615 at Corsham)^[6]
• George Ayliffe^[1]
• Elizabeth Ayliffe (born about 1618, died 1698)^[5] married (i) George Duke; then (ii) Hampton Jay
• Deborah Ayliffe^[5][8] married John St John
• Edward Ayliffe (born 1620/21, died 1620/21)^[1]
• Susanna Ayliffe^[5]
• Barbara Ayliffe^[5][9] married Edmund Long
• Frances Ayliffe (born about 1624, died about 1646 unmarried)^[5][10]
• Apsley Ayliffe (born about 1625, died 1643 unmarried)^[5]

Death

Anne had died by May 1634 as her husband George Ayliffe married second Martha Blount on 20 May 1634.^[11]

Anne was buried in the church of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire. In the will of Sir George Ayliffe of Rabson, WIltshire, the will made on 22 May 1640 and proved on 30 Mar 1647^[5] his will was "to be buried in the vault in Lydyard Church by the bodie of most deare wife there interred alredy which was one of her last requests to me." As his second wife was still living he was referring to his first wife, Anne.

Tryptich at St Mary's, Lydiard Tregoze

"The triptych was erected, although not exactly in the form it takes today, in 1615 by Sir John to commemorate his parents. The two central doors open to reveal the life-size painted figures of Sir John St. John (d. 1594) and his wife Lucy Hungerford (d. 1598) kneeling upon a tomb. To the left stands Sir John, the younger (d. 1648), the erecter of the monument, and his first wife Anne Leighton; to the right are his six sisters with shields of arms at their feet. When the central leaves are closed, their outer surfaces and the panels and leaves flanking them bear an elaborate display of painted heraldic genealogical tables of the St. John family. These tables were originally based upon the genealogical work of Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux King of Arms, and Sir John's uncle by marriage, but many additions were made subsequently".^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Visitation of Wiltshire 1623. Edited by George W Marshall, 1882. Aylyffe Pedigree pp 29-30 Internet Archive.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Wiltshire Visitation Pedigrees 1623. With additional pedigrees and arms collected by Thomas Lyte of Lyte's Cary, Co. Somerset 1628. The Publications of the Harleian Society. Vol LV and LVI. Edited by GD Squibb. 1954. Aileffe Pedigree pp 1-2.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Visitation of Wiltshire 1623. Edited by George W Marshall, 1882. St John Pedigree pp 36-37 Internet Archive.
4. ↑ Abstracts of Wiltshire Inquisitiones Post Mortem. Charles I. Fry G S and Fry E A (Editors). British Record Society, Limited. 1901, pp 175-176 Internet Archive.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7} Will of Sir George Ayliffe of Rabson, Wiltshire. 30 March 1647. PROB 11/199/790. The National Archives, Kew.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Corsham Parish Register. Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre.
7. ↑ London Marriage Licences 1521-1869. Foster J (Ed). 1887. Compton Ayliffe Marriage 1638 Internet Archive.
8. ↑ Visitation of Wiltshire 1623. Edited by Sir T Phillips, 1828. St John Pedigree Google Books.
9. ↑ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 3, 1838, p 215 Google Books.
10. ↑ Will of Frances Ayliffe. 30 March 1646. PROB 11/199/11. The National Archives, Kew.
11. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V52X-7QQ : 10 February 2018), George Ayliffe and Martha Blunt, 20 May 1634; citing Saint Margaret,Westminster,London,England, reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 942 B4HA V. 64, 942 B4HA V. 88, 942.1 W1 V26M PT 1, 942.1 W1 V26M PT 2.
12. ↑ R W Dunning, K H Rogers, P A Spalding, Colin Shrimpton, Janet H Stevenson and Margaret Tomlinson, 'Parishes: Lydiard Tregoze', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 9, ed. Elizabeth Crittall (London, 1970), pp. 75-90. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol9/pp75-90 [accessed 27 February 2020].