Jane (Empson) Wilson

Descendants

Died 10 Nov 1587 in Writtle, Essex, England

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Research Notes

Updates - Reading the G2G and the inaction on the part of the PM I've removed her birth place and parents. I think it's clear she's connected somehow to Sir Richard Empson but its not possible for her to be his daughter.

Probably not born in Writtle, that was her husband's place, and the date of birth may be a bad guess, though it's not unfeasible.

But even disregarding that, we know her children were under age when her 1st husband wrote his will in 1573, so it's unlikely she was the daughter of a man who died in 1510 and already had grandchildren, unless he acquired a young second wife.

An editorial note by "T.R.P." in the NEHGS publication of Waters's Genealogical Gleanings in England identifies her father, but does not cite a primary source. However, Sir Richard Empsone was documented in the Visitations of Essex, 1612.[1]

Other sources (eg Tudor Place) will have got it from Waters.

Biography

Jane Empson, the second wife of John Pinchon, was the daughter of Sir Richard Empson (Empsone), Knight,[2] and his wife Jane. John Pinchon and Jane Empson married sometime after 1551, when John's father William names Helen ___, and her daugher, in his will. Jane and John had three sons, William, John and Edward before John's death November 29, 1573.

Jane married, second, July 15, 1576, Secretary Thomas Wilson (died 1582).[3] Jane's will, made November 10, 1587, was proved February 14, 1587/8. In it she names her three sons, William, John and Edward.

Notes on Sources

The data for Jane Empson is extrapolated from Genealogical Gleanings in England by Henry F. Waters, in both Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Jacobus and Waterman, and The First Century of the History of Springfield: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736 by Henry M. Burt. The two later books summarize the book by Waters, which is difficult in format to extrapolate specific data.

Sources

• Genealogical gleanings in England, database, InternetArchive, extracted from Henry F. Waters, book of the same name, (Boston, Massachusetts, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1901), Vol II, 845-867.
• Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, database, FamilySearch.org: (accessed 13 Nov 2013), entry for Jane Empson, extracted from Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, book of the same name (Baltimore, Massachusetts: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978), 722
• The First Century of the History of Springfield: The Official Records from 1636 to 1736, database, FamilySearch.org, (accessed 13 Nov 2013), entry for John Pynchon, extracted from Henry M. Burt, book of the same name, (Springfield, Massachusetts, self-published, 1902), Vol 2, page 624.
• Metcalfe, W.C. (1878). "Pinchon." The Visitations of Essex, 1612. London.[4]
• Weever, John. Ancient Funerall Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent (Thomas Harper, London, 1631)

• Page 656: "Here lieth Iohn Pinchon Esquire, who died:....with Ione his wyff, daughter to Sir Richard Empson beheaded. Of whom I haue spoken before."