Jane (Montgomery) St Lawrence (abt. 1598 - abt. 1678)

Born about 1598 in Norwich, Norfolk, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died about 1678 at about age 80 in Norwich, Norfolk, England

Jane (Montgomery) St Lawrence is a member of Clan Montgomery.

Jane Montgomery was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Jane was born about 1598 in Ireland or England ^{[citation needed]}

She was the daughter of George Montgomerie and his first wife, Susan, the elder daughter of Alice Fry and her husband, Philip Steynings of Holnicote manor, in Selworthy parish, co Somerset.^[1] George wrote to Susan's family on 16 February, 1614/5, to inform them of her death.^[1]

Jane's father then married Elizabeth Brabazon, daughter of Edward Brabazon, Lord Ardee and sister of the 1st Earl of Meath.^[2] After George's death, Elizabeth married twice more, her second husband was Sir John Brereton, and her third husband was Sir John Bramston, Knt, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench; Elizabeth's step-son, Sir John Bramston, KB states in his autobiography that prior to marrying his father in August, 1631, Elizabeth "had never any child."^[3]

Jane married Nicholas St. Lawrence, 23rd Lord of Howth.^[2] On 20 August, 1618, George wrote to his brother-in-law, John Willoughby, the husband of his wife's sister, Margaret, announcing the approaching marriage of his daughter.^[1] They had issue:

• Frances St. Lawrence. m. Sir James Montgomerie of Rosemont, her granddaughter Mary St. Lawrence m. Henry Montgomerie,3rd Earl of Mount Alexander.^[2]

Jane's father died on 15 Jan 1620/1, at Westminster.^[1] George's body was taken back to Ardbraccan, to be laid beside his first wife, Susan.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Frederick Hancock, The Parish of Selworthy in the County of Somerset, Some Notes on its History (Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1897), 129-46, e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/parishofselworth00hanc/page/n156/mode/1up : accessed 19 August, 2022).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Thomas Harrison Montgomery, A Genealogical History of the Family of Montgomery, Including the Montgomery Pedigree, Philadelphia: private, 1863, Archive.org, p. 124. Montgomerys of Skelmorlie.
3. ↑ Sir John Bramston, The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston, K.B., of Skreens, in the Hundred of Chelmsford; now first printed from the original ms. in the possession of his lineal descendant Thomas William Bramston, esq. (Camden Society, 1845. Johnson Reprint Corporation reprint, 1968), 34-5. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/trent_0116401962026/page/34/mode/1up : accessed 19 August, 2022).

• Source: A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Volume 42, Part 1, Henry Colburn, 1880, p 657