Elizabeth Pudsey Lynch

Elizabeth Pudsey Jesson m. Thomas Groesbeck Lynch at Saint Martin in the Fields, Westminster, on the 2nd September 1784.

Langley, Langley Gorse, Langley Heath, Sutton Coldfield
B75 - Grid reference SP149960

Le Lonkeley: first record 1253

In the middle of the 13th century Walter de Bereford held 50 acres in Langley, 'Blackmore', and Brockhurst, all in Sutton, which he gave to his son Walter. The younger Walter's son William de Bereford died in 1326 seised of the manor of LANGLEY, with a park, pond, and fishery, held of the Earl of Warwick by service of 42s. 2d. a year. His son Edmund, described as a king's clerk, in 1327 had licence to crenellate his house at Langley. The manor then passed with that of Wishaw, coming through the family of Hore to that of Pudsey. When Robert Pudsey died in 1558 he was holding it of the Warden and Fellowship of Sutton Coldfield, having settled it in 1555 on his son George, then a minor. It descended in the Pudsey family until the death of Henry Pudsey in 1677 when it appears to have been divided between two of his daughters, Anne wife of William Jesson and Elizabeth wife of Henry, 3rd Baron Folliott of Ballyshannon.

William Jesson and Anne were dealing with half the manor in 1695 and both sisters and their husbands with the whole manor in 1697, after which it appears to have passed entirely to Anne, the younger sister. Anne Jesson is said to have died in 1718 leaving a son Pudsey Jesson who died in 1748 and was succeeded by his son William Jesson. On William's death in 1786 the property was divided between his two daughters, Hannah Freeman and ELIZABETH PUDSEY, who with their respective husbands, William Pearson and Thomas Groesbeck LYNCH, were dealing with the manor in 1788. William Jesson Pearson son of Hannah and William was dealing with half the manor in 1808, (fn. 203) and on his death bequeathed his property to his 'cousin' Mary Holte Bracebridge. The other moiety was in the hands of Henry Gratien Lynch in 1816 when he conveyed it to John Stone.

It seems probable that William Jesson leased the Langley estate, on the death of his two sons, to Andrew Hacket of Moxhull and William Hacket was in 1794 paying a rent of £1 for the Hall and lands in Sutton. Andrew Hacket is said to have bequeathed the estate in 1815 to George Bowyer Adderley, who sold it in 1817 to the first Sir Robert Peel.


Deeds of the Thornton Estate, Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Record Service ref: X825/1 date: 18 February 1801

ELIZABETH LYNCH now residing at Altena in the Empire of Germany, widow of Groesbreck Lynch late of Carmarthen Wales. Elizabeth is a daughter and coheiress of William Jesson and Hannah his wife. She is niece and Coheiress of Ann Ash, she is grandaughter of Hannah late wife of William Ash.


Records of Henry Eyres Landor of Warwick, (1780-1866) land agent and solicitor [Warwickshire County Record Office CR 237/690/2 1845]

Notes in the hand of Henry Eyres Landor entitled "Notes as to Chetwode estate": this contains a short pedigree showing that William Jesson (d. 1786) had a son who died young and two daughters, Hannah Freeman who married William Pearson (d. 1806) and had a son, William Jesson Pearson (d. 1810), and ELIZABETH PUDSEY who married Thomas G. LYNCH (d. 1798). William J. Pearson gave by will his property to Mary Holte Bracebridge, "the Chetwode District"; Mrs Pudsey Lynch's property went to Mr Lane. HEL also refers to Davidson's History of the Holtes of Aston which states that Sir Charles Holte married in 1755 Anne, daughter of Pudsey Jesson esq. of Langley, Warks, who died in March 1799, aged 65; she was the mother of Mary Elizabeth, who married Abraham Bracebridge esq. HEL did not know the relationship between Pudsey Jesson and William Jesson (d. 1786); this note is undated but post 1845.