Another Trenley Query

[vita]

I've been doing some more work on my Trenleys of Denham, Bucks,& hope

to either eliminate this man from my enquiries or claim him as one of mine.

I haven't been able to discover much about him (his son & grandson are

better documented) but this is what I've discovered so far:-

John Trenley m Christian(e) Brown(e) 1712 & d 1742.

He was a proctor in Doctors Commons, and referred to as John Trenley Snr.

Christian(e) was the sister of Daniel Brown, bookseller, of London whose

father was also named Daniel Brown. Last night I found a letter dated

1756 which refers to Mr Proctor Trenley of Sunbury having an uncle named

Brown who was a bookseller, so that would seem to fit.

There is also a 1760 will of John Hone, gentleman, of the Excise Office, London

leaving estates, including some in Denham, to John Trenley of Doctors

Commons.(There are posts on various ancestry sites concerning a Hone/

Trenley/Rance connection which doesn't seem to have been satisfactorily

resolved - unless I've missed something! Basics are - James Rance m Alice

Hone 1808,Denham, & their youngest son changed his name to John Trenley

Rance. He d Australia, 1877)

John Trenley Jnr m Mary Smith & d 1763 Dorset. His unmarried sister

Christian Trenley lived in Childe's Okeford, Dorset.

Son Fynboe John Trenley - who Merry discovered last year & alerted me to -

m Hester Hawkins & appears to have been the last of the line to be involved

with the law.

Any advice on discovering more about John Trenley Snr would be gratefully

received.

[kiterunner]

Have you already looked at John Trenley's will, written in 1737 and proved at the PCC in 1742, Vita?

[vita]

No Kite - I couldn't see one for him, only for son John Jnr.

[kiterunner]

It's here:
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/5111/40611_311207-00480/662285?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk% 2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fgst%3d-6&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults

Leaves everything to his wife for her lifetime and then his son. He didn't get it witnessed, so Daniel Browne and John Trenley the son gave evidence that it was his handwriting etc.

[vita]

Sorry, Kite - I'm not very good,am I? A proctor & he failed to get it witnessed? What's

he like?

[Merry]

John Trenley m Christian(e) Brown(e) 1712 & d 1742.


Was this the family that had some tie to St Gregory by St Paul's church in London?

Just wondered if this is John who married Christian Brown?

John Trenley Baptism 11 Apr 1675 St Gregory by St Paul, London parents John and Elizabeth

[Merry]

There's a possible burial for that John Trenley in 1709 at St Gregory/StPaul and Elizabeth in 1720.

FMP has a entry in Boyds Inhabitants of London:

John Trenley of St Giles Cripplegate b 1645, m 1 Oct 1673 (Vicar General marriage licence) to Elizabeth Salter of St Gregory b 1653 at ? dau of ? Salter.

Profession etc Citizen and leatherseller

[vita]

Was this the family that had some tie to St Gregory by St Paul's church in London?

Just wondered if this is John who married Christian Brown?

John Trenley Baptism 11 Apr 1675 St Gregory by St Paul, London parents John and Elizabeth

Merry - my 4xg/grandfather John Trenley b 1728 & his sister Ann both married

at St Gregory by St Paul although they came from Denham.

[vita]

There's a possible burial for that John Trenley in 1709 at St Gregory/StPaul and Elizabeth in 1720.

FMP has a entry in Boyds Inhabitants of London:

John Trenley of St Giles Cripplegate b 1645, m 1 Oct 1673 (Vicar General marriage licence) to Elizabeth Salter of St Gregory b 1653 at ? dau of ? Salter.

Profession etc Citizen and leatherseller

Thanks Merry - I had noticed the leatherseller's details & wondered about a

possible link.

[kiterunner]

I found mention of the 1760 John Hone will in a book on Google Book search and it looks as though John Trendley was to be left the estates as a trustee, rather than them actually being left to him for his own use. But I assume that this was the same John Hone Esquire of Bisley, Surrey, whose will was written and proved at the PCC in 1768, so the 1760 draft must have been superseded.

[Merry]

From Ancestry's Extracted Parish and Court Records

England: Canterbury - The Harleian Society. Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued by the Vicar: General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1669 to 1679. Volume 34.

01 Oct 1673 John Trenley, of St Giles, Cripplegate, Lond., Cit. & Leatherseller, Bachr, abt 28, & Elizabeth Salter, of St Gregory's, Lond., Spr, abt 20, with consent of her father; at St Botolph's, Aldgate, or Whitechapel, Midd., or St Michael's, Cornhill, Lond.

[vita]

Thanks Kite & Merry. I had seen your some time ago Merry, but it was before I knew

about John Trenley Snr. I think it could well be the same family but where they might fit

into mine is proving a bit of a challenge.