William Tyrrell of Bruyn (1552 - 1595)

Born 1552 in Thornton Hall, Buckinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Maria (Richmond) Terrell — married about 1580 in Reading, Berkshire, England

Descendants

Died 28 Aug 1595 at about age 43 in St. Giles, Reading, Berkshire, England

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Biography

William Tyrrell (aka Tyrell, Terrill, Terrell) was born in 1552 at Thornton Hall, Buckinghamshire, England. He was the 2nd son of Sir George Tyrrell, b: ca. 1530 - d: 1571, and his 1st wife: Eleanor (Montague) Tyrrell, b: ca. 1530 - d: 1560. She was the daughter of Sir Edward Montagu, Chief Justice of England under King Henry VIII. She passed away in 1560 when William was still a child. This was an old Anglo-Saxon aristocratic family whose historic seat was in County Essex but which had expanded into Buckinghamshire early in the 16th Century.^[1]

In keeping with the laws of primogeniture, William Tyrell's older brother, Sir Edward Tyrrell, b: 1551, inherited most of their father's estates and titles on his death in May 1571. William became Lord of the Manor of Bruyn in Berkshire, and also possessed land in Reading, Berkshire, from his mother's 1560 inheritance. In the 1570s, he alienated the Manor of Bruyn and settled in the city of Reading, England. Some years later, around 1587, he married Margaret Richmond (aka Webb), b: ca. 1560 in Stewly, Buckinghamshire. The couple lived at St. Giles, Reading, Berkshire, England, and had 3 sons:^[2]

1. David Tyrrell, b: 1588 - d: 1632 in England
2. Francis Tyrrell, b: 1592 - d: 1638 in Berkshire, England
3. Robert Tyrrell, b: 1594 - d: 12 Jun 1643 in Reading, Berkshire, England. He became the "Councilor, Guardian of Reading".

Both William and Margaret (Richmond) Tyrrell / Tyrell died in August 1595, possibly of plague ?, leaving their 3 young sons to be raised by relatives.^[3] Their youngest son is said to have had a son named Richmond Tyrrell (later changed to "Terrill"), who emigrated to the English colony of Virginia, thereby founding the large and prominent colonial Virginia Terrell / Terrill family.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ The Tyrells of Thornton
2. ↑ Harris, Malcolm Hart. Old New Kent County: some account of the planters, plantations, and places in ..., (West Point, Virginia: M.H. Harris, c. 1977), pg. 52.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Harvey Powers, Terrell Family History: pedigree

• Barnhill, Celeste Jane Terrell. Richmond, William and Timothy Terrell, Colonial Virginians. Greenfield, Indiana: The Mitchell Company, 1934.

• Dicken, Emma. Terrell Genealogy. San Antonio, TX: Naylor Co., 1952.

• Ancestry Family Trees

• http://www.harveypowers.com/genealogy/terrell/index.html - on the Terrell family. Indicates some question link of Robert Terrell, d: 1643 in Reading, England, to William Tyrrell of Bruyn

• The visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634 : to which are added miscellaneous Essex pedigrees from various Harleian manuscripts, and an appendix containing Berry's Essex pedigrees v.13 by Metcalfe, Walter C. (Walter Charles) Page 114: Tirell

Acknowledgments

• Travis Wagner, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Travis and others.

• WikiTree profile Terrell-191 created through the import of MOORMAN FAMILY.GED on May 31, 2011 by Mary Elizabeth Stewart.

• Thank you to Heath Vogel for creating WikiTree profile Tyrell-80 through the import of Vogel Wiki Upload.ged on Jan 22, 2013.

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