Thomazine Browne

Alternate Names

     Her married name was Glanville.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Thomazine Browne was born circa 1540.
     She married John Glanville, son of Nicholas Glanville and Katherine Preston, before 1541 at ENG dated so as to be prior to birth of son Nicholas, who in turn had a birth predating that of John's third son Sir John Glanville.
     She died in 1594 at Tavistock, DEV, ENG.
     She was buried in 1594 at Tavistock, DEV, ENG, Named Thomasine Glanvile, widow in the Calendar of the Tavistock Parish Records RN Worth 1887 [Noting some sources attribute her burial to 1579, which predates her being named in her husbands will of 1580].

Other information

     Notes on the Glanville & Browne Pedigrees.
The following article was written by W U S Glanville-Richards and published in an 1884 edition of the Western Antiquary under the above title - At the head of the Pedigree of Glanville of Tavistock, in the Visitation of Devon in the year 1620, stands John Glanville, father of Sir John Glanville, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1598, but the Heralds have not mentioned the name or parentage of his wife. In the will of John Glanville of Tavistock, "the elder" - to distinguish him from his son Judge Glanville - which was proved in London, the 1st February,1580, the first clue to the identification of this lady is found; for, amongst other names mentioned is that of "Thomazine" his wife, to whom he bequeaths certain property. Her surname is not alluded to, and it is highly probable that her name and family would still have remained buried in oblivion had not a bundle of old deeds, in the possessionof a collateral descendant, been fortunately unearthed. Amongst these deeds was a conveyance of a parcel of land in the Parish of Tavistock from John, the son of William Browne, to his son-in-law, John Glanville of Tavistock, the husband of his daughter Thomazine. This is dated in the year 1548. The said parcel of land appears by another deed to have passed to Nicholas, the eldest son of John and Thomazine Glanville, and brother to Judge Glanville. The Brownes were a family of consideration and repute. Sir Thomas Browne - son of Sir Stephen Browne, Lord Mayor of London in 1439 - was treasurer of the Household to Henry VI, and also Sheriff of Kent in 1440 and 1460. He married Eleanor Fitz-Alan, daughter and heiress of Thomas Fitz-Alan and Joan his wife (PM 21 Henry 6th) which said Thomas Fitz-Alan was brother to John 14th Earl of Arundel. Sir Thomas and Lady Eleanor Browne had several children born to them, amongst whom were Sir Anthony Browne, Constable of Calais, ancestor to the Lords Montague; Sir George Browne of Bleechwood Castle, Surrey, beheaded in 1483; and William Browne whose son finally settled at Tavistock (Sir B Burke?s LG). The name of his son as it appeared by Har. MSS. and Rawlinson's MSS.6164.287, and also by another MS. in Queen's Coll. Oxon, was John Browne of Tavistock, who had William and Thomazine, and probably another daughter who married William (?) Grylls of Tavistock. Thomazine was, as before stated, the wife of John Glanville of Tavistock, and mother of Sir John Glanville, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, whose fine monument is still to be seen in Tavistock Church.
     On 12 August 1580 she was named in the will of her husband.
     In 1588 the parish records of Tavistock record Thomaysn Glanvill, widow, tenement, garden, close and two meadows at Bannawell (Calendar of the Tavistock Parish records RN Worth 1887.)