Agnes Crowne

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mackworth-76

Agnes Mackworth was the daughter of Richard Mackworth, Esq. and Dorothy Cranage.[1][2][3] Her date of birth is unknown, but she was likely born by 1607, based on her age at her first marriage.[1] She may have been born in Shropshire, where her father held lands in Sutton, Betton Grange and Colneham.

Agnes married first to Richard Watts, son of Sir John Watts, Mayor of London, and Margaret Hawes.[1][2] A parish record gives the following: "Richard Watts and Annis Mackworth" were married by licence dated 9 May 1926 at St Dunstan in the West, London.[4] They had one daughter and three sons:

1. Dorothy,[5] baptized at Waltham Abbey, Essex, 29 January 1628/9, buried 9 May 1660, married first to Edward Cludd, with whom she had children; she married second to Richard Bagott (no issue)[1]
2. Richard, eldest son,[5] baptized at Epping, Essex 3 June 1630,[6] buried 14 December 1666, married Katherine Werden and had issue[1]
3. George,[5] baptized at Epping 1 October 1631,[6] apprenticed to Thomas Jevon of the Fishmongers; Company, London, 28 January 1647/8[1]
4. Humphrey,[2] baptized at Epping 28 November 1632,[6] no further information[1]

Agnes' husband, Richard Watts, was buried 15 May 1635 at St. Bartholomew the Less, London.[1][2]

Agnes married second Col. William Crowne, Esq.,[2][7] on 16 November 1637 at St. Savior, Southwark, Surrey.[1][8] They had three sons and two daughters:

1. John,[2][7] baptized at St Martin in the Fields, London, 6 April 1641, buried 27 April 1712 in London, never married; he was in America from 1657-1660 attending Harvard College and returne to London as a leading playwright[1]
2. Agnes, buried at St. Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex, 6 January 1642/3[1]
3. William,[2] baptized at St Giles in the Fields, London, 11 March 1643/4, burial not found, not named in his father's will[1]
4. Henry,[2] was living at New Castle, New Hampshire, 1678/9.[2] Henry was born about 1647/8 in England,[7] died a resident of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, before 24 June 1698 (administration bond); married Alice Rogers and had issue[1]
5. Agnes,[2] again, was named in her father's 1682 will[1][7].

William Crowne is said to have immigrated to Nova Scotia in 1657, where he built a house. He removed to Boston, Massachusetts by 1659 and was made freeman in 1660. He briefly returned to England in 1661 and, on his return to New England in 1662, he was granted 500 acres in Mendon, Massachusetts. He lived in Mendon for many years, but likely spent the last years of his life in Boston, where he was living 15 August 1679.[2] No proof has been found about whether Agnes immigrated to America with her husband. However, a 2015 blog asserts that "Agnes never set foot in the New World. Though William Crowne was ordered by the General Court of Massachusetts in 1674 to return to his wife in England or pay a £20 fine,[9] he must have chosen the fine. This is the last time Agnes appears in records, and her date and place of death has not been uncovered."[4][10]

Agnes' date of death is unknown, but it can be narrowed down to before 24 December 1682 (date of her husband's will),[2] and after 1673 when she was living in England.[1] William died as a resident of Boston, before 24 February 1682/3, when one of his legatees accepted a bequest paid by Henry Crowne.[1]

Notes

http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/crowne_william_1E.html

CROWNE (Crown), WILLIAM, colonizer, independent minister in the Parliament of Cromwell, colonel in the British militia, Rouge-Dragon; b. 1617 (nothing is known of his place of birth or of his education); d. 1682 in Boston, North America.

William Crowne married, between the years 1635–40, Agnes (Mackworth) Watts, widow of Richard Watts and daughter-in-law of John Watts, an alderman and lord mayor of London, 1606. Mrs. Crowne was the sister of Humphrey Mackworth of Breton Grange, county of Shrewsbury. Three children were born to Agnes and William Crowne; the eldest, John, became a well-known English dramatist.

Agnes Crowne did not accompany her husband to America. That she was alive in 1674 is known because at that date Crowne was ordered to return to her in England. John Crowne also stayed in England and was forced by the loss of his patrimony to earn his living as a playwright.

https://royaldescent.blogspot.com/2015/11/edward-iii-descent-for-ka...

Agnes Mackworth, the wife of Richard Watts of Garnons in Great Munden (d. 1635), appears in most of the genealogy works specializing in royal descents of New World immigrants, including Plantagenet Ancestry, in all of its editions. This is because her second husband, William Crowne (d. 1683), a herald (Rouge Dragon) at the College of Arms, and officer for the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War, immigrated to Massachusetts in 1657. Though he returned to England after the Restoration in 1660, he only stayed a couple years, going back to Massachusetts in 1662 and remaining in New England until his death in Boston in 1682/3 (will dated 24 December 1682, proved 28 February 1683). Agnes never set foot in the New World. Though William Crowne was ordered by the General Court of Massachusetts in 1674 to return to his wife in England or pay a £20 fine, he must have chosen the fine. This is the last Agnes (Mackworth) (Watts) Crowne appears in record, and her date and place of death has not been uncovered. One of her three sons by her second husband was the playwright John Crowne (1641-1712), who has a ODNB bio. In the 2011 Edition of Plantagenet Ancestry, Agnes is on pp. 488-489, where it's stated that she "married (1st) before 1632 RICHARD WATTS, of Epping, Essex, younger son of John Watts, Knt., Clothworker, Mayor of London, 1606-7, by Margaret, daughter of James Hawes, Knt. They had one son, Humphrey." This isn't complete.

Through her paternal grandmother Agnes Mackworth, Katherine (née Watts), Countess of Dunmore, has a 14-generation descent from Edward III,

References

• https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2475.htm...
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 92-93.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 686-687.
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 484-485.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 92.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 686.
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 484.
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 485.
• “Colonel William Crowne, and his Family”. By William H. Davis, MD, of Boston, Volume Name 57, Page 406-410. (1903) The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) < AmericanAncestors >; (document attached)
• https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3005.htm...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mackworth-76 cites

1. Nathaniel Lane Taylor, "The Mackworths of Shropshire: Royal Ancestry and Colonial Descendants," in The Genealogist, 2021. Vol. 35, No. 2, 177-182: profile of Agnes Mackworth, person 11.
2. Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), vol. III, pages 687-688, MACKWORTH 14.
3. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), vol. III, pages 92-93 MACKWORTH 14.
4. Brad Verity. Royal Descent Blogspot, dated 8 Nov 2015.
5. Joseph J. Howard, ed. The Visitation of London, anno domine 1633, 1634, and 1635. Vol. 17. (London: 1883). Online at Google Books, page 332.
6. John Brandon. 2008 post "Possible clues to the birthplace of Col. William Crowne" on soc.genealogy.medieval.
7. William H. Davis. "William Crowne and His Family" in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 57, Oct 1903, pages 406-410. (Boston, MA: NEHGS 1847-). Online database at AmericanAncestors.org($).
8. ↑ Ancestry.com. London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database on-line]; citing St. Savior, Southwark, parish register, from London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P92/SAV/3002. Ancestry Sharing Link; Ancestry Record 1624 #250761466 ($). Agnes Watts marriage to William Crowne on 16 Nov 1637 in Saint Saviour, Southwark, Southwark.
9. Records of the Suffolk County Court, 1671–1680 vol. 1 from Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts vol. 29 (Boston, Mass.: The Society, 1933) page 425.
10. Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Crowne (Crown), William.