The following is a portion of the table of contents from "Timperley of Hintlesham a study of a Suffolk family", Ryan, (London 1931), a complete list of chapters and some selected informatioin from the book. The book also includes an Appendices, maps and illustrations.
CHAPTER I: THE TIMPERLEYS AND THE HOUSE OF NORFOLK
The Mowbrays, Howards and Timperleys; John Timperley I, of Sutton, brings prisoners from
Norwich, 1443; his origin; his service with the Mowbrays; his purchase of Hintlesham,
1454, and associations with Ipswich; his sale of the Sutton Estate; John Timperley II
supports the Yorkist cause, and represents Yorkist interests in Parliament with John
Timperley III, their connexion with the Mowbrays; they transfer their service to the
Howards; John Timperley III marries a Howard; he goes to Scotland with his father-in-law,
Lord Howard; the Timperleys share the Howards' rise in fortune at the accession of Richard
III, deaths of John Timperley II and his wife; knighthood of John Timperley III, (Sir)
John Timperley II at Hintlesham; his nephew, William Timperley, marries Margaret Howard,
and succeeds at Hintlesham; Thomas Timperley I as ward to his grandfather, the third Duke
of Norfolk; he claims privileges at Hintlesham, and supports Queen Mary at Framlingham; he
builds Hintlesham Hall, and marries Audrey Hare; Queen Elizabeth's visit to the
neighbourhood in 1579; marriage and recusancy of Thomas Timperley's son, Nicholas
Timperley IV; death of Thomas Timperley I in 1594.
CHAPETER II: THE RECUSANT TIMPERLEYS
CHAPETER III: SOME ASPECTS OF RECUSANCY
CHAPETER IV: THE HOME OF THE TIMPERLEYS
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Origin of the Timperley Family
The following information is from this book which itself is attributed to "Visitation of Cheshire", 1581 (College of Arms), p. 161.
Sir John Timperley,
lord of Timperley and of
Barfoot and Longendale in
com. Cestr. (circa 1270).
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Sir William Timperley,
knight, son and heire.
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Johane, daughter and heire,
married to Sir Hammond
Massy, knight.
The "Visitation of Cheshire", 1581 also list another son of Sir John Timperley, as John Timperley, but unfortunately assigns his death to the year 1400, which, assuming his father lived in 1270, is highly unlikely. Therefore, whether there was a cadet branch of the family of Sir John Timperley is still open to speculation.
The Timperleys of Hintlesham
The Massey / Timperley connection
The following "coat of arms" for Sir Hamond Massy (below), comes from Folio 28, Addendum to "Glover's Visitation of Cheshire", 1581. Note that the Timperley coat of arms (Gules, a lion rampant ermines) is impaled on the Massy coat of arms (Quarterly argent and gules, a bend azure) as was customary when two families were joined by marriage.
It is possible that some families having the Timperley name are descended from the family of Massey (Massy, Massie) of Cheshire. The book entitled "Timperley of Hintlesham a study of a Suffolk family", Ryan, London 1931, suggests that some descendants of the Massey family, who acquired the manor of Timperley in Cheshire by marriage to a Johane Timperley (daughter and heir to the manor of Timperley), may have used the Timperley name in place of their own surname. The author sites a deed from Cheshire, 1363 signed "Thomas de Massi of Timperley" and also notes the similarity of the Massey and Timperley coat of arms.