Thermuthes (Smith) Chamberlayne (bef. 1723 - abt. 1789)

Born before 10 Apr 1723 in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire

Ancestors

Wife of Stanes Chamberlayne Esq — married 22 Aug 1745 in Saint Stephen Walbrook and Saint Benet Sherehog London, England

Descendants

Died about Jul 1789 after about age 66 in Essex, England

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Thermuthes (Smith) Chamberlayne was born in Hertfordshire, England.

Biography

Birth and Parentage

Thermuthes Smith was born before 1723, one of the two daughters ^[1]of Thomas Smith, of West Kennet, Wilts, Esq, and his wife, Hannah née Plomer, ^[2] daughter of William Plomer. The Family Bible entry says that William Plomer was of Blakesware Manor, Hertfordshire, England,

Stanes and Thermuthes Marriage Record in Family Bible[3]

If the Plomer family, sometimes called Plumer, was connected to the Byde family, who in turn had married into the Villiers family, ^[4] a connection has not been proven. Thermuthes' mother Hannah could not have been William Plomer's daughter, as he was born in 1736 and Hannah was born before that, in 1694. The probable reason for this mistake is that John Chamberlayne, Thermuthes and Stanes' third grandson became rector of Eastwick in 1825, and his patroness was Jane Plumer, widow of William Plumer of Blakesware. The family probably assumed the connection, because of the proximity of Hoddesdon to Blakesware.

Thermuthes was baptised on 10 April 1722 in the church of St. Magnus the Martyr, in London. She was named after her step-grandmother, Thermuthes Plomer. The unusual first name Thermuthes has its origin in ancient mythology

...the idea of health ... intimately associated with the serpent is shown by the crown form of the asp, or sacred Thermuthes, having been given particularly to Isis, a goddess of life and healing.^[5] It was also, according to Josephus, the name of the princess of Egypt, the foster mother of Moses.^[6]Her younger sister was named Hannah, after their mother. ^[7]

Rawdon House, pre-1875

She was left five hundred pounds, the equivalent of £58,896.30 in 2017 in her grandfather William Plomer's will, proved on 4 October 1728, which would be hers on her 21st birthday, or on the day of her marriage. ^[8]She was also the heiress of her uncle Robert Plomer, High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, in 1740, which meant that his house, Rawdon House, Hoddesdon, became hers.^[9] Her granddaughter Emma Chamberlayne drew a sketch of Rawdon House (before it was extended in 1875 by Henry Ricardo).^[10][11]

Marriage and Family

Two days before her wedding, she leased property to her future husband:

a messuage or tenement and brewhouse called the Thatch House in Hoddesdon and adjoining land; and land in Broxbourne, Hoddesdon, Great Amwell, Little Amwell and Stanstead Abbotts comprising the trust estate of the late Robert Plomer, deceased.^[1]

Tregelles records that Isaak Walton’s thatched house (described in the 1737 Vestry Book as Mr Plomer’s brewhouse) (Robert Plomer who died in 1740), was next to The Four Feathers, and next to the thatched house were 5 almshouses (domos elimosinaris according to the rolls) provided by Richard Rich in 1440. In 1737 it was proposed to rent a house in Jno Street for 7 years, and Mr Plomer was to have the use of the almshouses. In 1834 the Commission reported they were in good repair and occupied by 5 poor families, some of whom were also in receipt of poor relief.^[12]

On 22 Aug 1745 in the church of Saint Stephen Walbrook and Saint Benet Sherehog, London, Thermuthes married Stanes Chamberlayne, son of Richard Chamberlayne of Princethorpe, Warwickshire.^[13][14][15]

A marriage settlement was made for the young couple on 21st-22nd August 1734, recorded in the Archive Catalogue of The Princethorpe Foundation.^[16]

Their eldest child, a daughter, whom they named Thermuthes, married Francis Fauquier, second son of Francis Fauquier, (1703-1768) Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. Their eldest son, named after his father; Stanes (II) was born on Friday, 30th March 1750, (according to the old calendar) at 5.15pm.^[17][18]

Stanes Chamberlayne Family Bible Birth Record

Children of Stanes I Chamberlayne and Thermuthes Smith

Death

She passed away and was buried in Hatfield Peverel church, Essex on 18th July 1789 .

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies. Lease by Thermunthes (sic) Smith, spinster of Hoddesdon one of the two daughters of Thomas Smith, gentleman of West Bennett, Avebury, Wiltshire and his wife Hannah, sister of Robert Plomer of Hoddesdon, deceased to Stanes Chamberlayne, Esquire of Ryes, Essex. Document Reference: DE/B715/F2/2. Retrieved from HALS (Here;) Accessed 14 May 2023.
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008. Original data: Genealogical Society of Utah. British Isles Vital Records Index, 2nd Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, copyright 2002. Used by permission. Retrieved from Ancestry Sharing (Here;) Accessed 28 May 2021.
3. ↑ Courtesy Ed Chamberlayne
4. ↑ The National Archived. Settlement on the marriage of Skinner Byde and Mary Villiers. Retrieved from (Here;) Accessed 17 Dec 2020.
5. ↑ Wilson Jr, R., (1922). The Caduceus and its Symbolism. Retrieved from (Here;) Accessed 23 Aug 2021.
6. ↑ Josephus; Jewish Antiquities. (Vol 1-4). with an English translation by H. St. J. Thackeray, in nine volumes. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 23 Aug 2021.
7. ↑ Hannah Smith, 1726 in England, Wiltshire, Church Records, 1518-1990. FamilySearch Online Database. Retrieved from FamilySearch (Here;) Accessed 14 May 2023.
8. ↑ Will of William Plomer, Gentleman of Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. PROB-11-625-46. Retrieved from The National Archives (Here;) Accessed 21 Oct 2022.
9. ↑ Will of Robert Plomer of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. 5 February 1741. PROB -11-708-34. Retrieved from the National Archives (Here;) Accessed 22 Oct 2022.
10. ↑ Herts Memories. Blatchley, Nicholas., RAWDON HOUSE: A seventeenth-century house. Retrieved from Herts Memories (Here;) Accessed 22 Oct 2022.
11. ↑ Of Tharmuthes, wife of Staines Chamberlayne of The Ryes [Little Henny], Essex, esq, to various lands under the will of Robert Plomer, late of Hoddesdon, esq, her uncle. Will recited. Ref: DE/Z120/44779. Retrieved from Discovery: National Archives (Here;) Accessed 23 Oct 2022.
12. ↑ Wilson, Colin., Hoddesdon. Richard Rich Almshouses. Retrieved from Hertsmemories. (Here;) Accessed 14 May 2023.
13. ↑ Thermuthes Smith in entry for Stanes Chamberlayne, 1745 in England Marriages, 1538–1973. FamilySearch Online Database, FamilySearch Retrieved from FamilySearch : 12 March 2020), (Here;) Accessed 14 May 2023.
14. ↑ London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P69/STE2/A/001/MS08319/002, Source Information: Ancestry.com. London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010., Original data: Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives. Retrieved from Ancestry Sharing (Here;) Accessed 28 May 2021.
15. ↑ Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies. Stanes Chamberlayne of the Ryes, Hatfield Broad Oak and Thermuthes Smith of Hoddesdon. Document Reference: DE/B1992. Retrieved from HALS (Here;) Accessed 14 May 2023.
16. ↑ The Princethorpe Foundation. Retrieved from (Here;) Accessed on 20 Nov 2020.
17. ↑ Poole, Robert. ""Give Us Our Eleven Days!": Calendar Reform in Eighteenth-Century England." Past & Present, no. 149 (1995): 95-139. Accessed December 16, 2020. Here
18. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Calendar (New Style) Act 1750," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Here (accessed December 16, 2020).
19. ↑ Courtesy Ed Chamberlayne
20. ↑ "England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963. FamilySearch Online Database with images. From parish registers of the Church of England. Database and images. Warwick County Record Office, England. Retrieved from FamilySearch (Here;) Accessed 17 Dec 2020.
21. ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine. (1834). Retrieved from (Here;) Accessed 19 June 2021.
22. ↑ Ed. Cave, E. (1767)., The Gentleman's Magazine, (Vol. 37, p.96) Lists of Deaths, Promotions, Etc. Retrieved from Google Books (Here;) Accessed 9 Sept 2021.
23. ↑ Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies. Copy of Admission. Of Stanes Chamberlayne Esq on the death of his father and mother. Gyns with 7 acres called Devises ...ose Davises, several closes of land, all purchased from Langthorne. Also Lottsford Mill Head, piece in Mole Hill, piece in Morley, Parkleys, piece in Shanfield. Field names - Howes, Ham Mead, Piece in Mill Field, Piece in Nash Field, Hop Mead, Orchard Mead (Latchford). Other personal names. Document Reference: A/762. Retrieved from HALS (Here;) Accessed 14 May 2023.

• Plumer of Blakesware - https://books.google.de/books?id=DiQJAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA424&lpg=PA424&dq=20+ounces+gilt+plate&source=bl&ots=gRb94bWqev&sig=ACfU3U26WCgktxK-FzjQSMMML1qXe8IlSg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjyx7rAh93xAhXuhf0HHY_3B9gQ6AEwD3oECBIQAw#v=snippet&q=Ambassador&f=false

• Thomas Smith, of Gray's Inn - https://books.google.de/books?id=dpcjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA752&lpg=PA752&dq=Bruses+Pembrokes+Mockings+Daubeneys+Thomas+Smith&source=bl&ots=VV4ZSjWA2a&sig=ACfU3U0ZWFRFM8llcVRAVy304DVEgdZmMw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXhoXWjd3xAhWzwAIHHUHSCRwQ6AEwB3oECAgQAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

• Inherited Rawdon House: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol3/pp430-440#highlight-first
• https://www.hertsmemories.org.uk/content/herts-history/towns-and-villages/hoddesdon/rawdon_house-2

• Notes and Queries: https://www.google.de/books/edition/Wiltshire_Notes_and_Queries/UW07AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Warwickshire+Notes+and+Queries+Chamberlayne&pg=PA367&printsec=frontcover