Timperley Family History and Genealogy
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This is a collection of miscellaneous information, discovered in the process of research. Hopefully it will be of help to someone.
CP 40/1154, m 610 (Common Pleas roll for Easter term 1553). Thomas Tymperley Esq. v. Walter Clarke of Hadleigh, gent; an action of tresspass to his land in Hadleigh and Hintlesham. Four and half acres in Backhersfield in Hintlesham between the land of John Goslyn on south and north at west end a grove of Goslyn's on east; and a piece of land in Hadleigh called Southanre next to late John Doyle's (and now Sir Henry Doyle's) on the south, and with the road from Hintlesham to 'ladysslowghe' and a close called Kempstonclose in the north. Clarke pleads that the Hintlesham land belonged to him, and the piece of land in Hadleigh belonged to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury and he entered by their command. The plaintiff denied these assertions and the case was tried at Bury Assizes in lent 1554 (before Morgan Chief Justice), where the Jury found for the plaintif with £3.11s.8d. damages and 5 marks costs (to which the court added 70s.)
Information provided by Kenneth Baker kenvin.baker(at)virgin.net
I think I recall you saying you were aware of the existence of the Temperleys in Suffolk, and you maybe interested in the following information I received in November 1991, from the Revd. R.N. Temperley, 18 Withernsea Grove, Ryhope, Sunderland, SR2 OBU. Tel. Wearside 091 5211813, in answer to a letter I sent to him:-
"I cannot claim to have undertaken 'considerable' research' merely to have followed in a very amateurish and sporadic fashion an interest which began many years ago when I fell heir to some family papers. I beleive that I am the last of one line of Temperleys, being the only son of an only son, but the question of relatives is obscured by the fact that my grandfather (who died in his early thirties) was one of a family which broke up for reasons I do not really know, when he was about 17 years old. He remained in contact with two sisters with his brother(s?) and any other family. One sister, my Great Aunt Georgina, about the turn of the century, employed a researcher who discovered some information and some interesting speculations about origins: one was that the Temperley family were originally deTimperley of Timperley in Cheshire, attachments of the Percy barons in 1485 who were causing retainers etc. to seek a future with the Lords Percy of Alnwick... hence, one assumes the Northumberland connection. In the 17th and 18th century Temperleys were tenant farmers or yeoman in the parishes of Allendale and Langley near Hexham. Near Corbridge is 'Temperley Grange', a late 18th-early 19th century former farmhouse, about the history of which the present owners know nothing.."
There were at least two reasons why I made some enquiries about the "Temperley" connection
1. In "Who was Who" 1929-1940, there are two entries regarding this family. One was a Major General, born 31 August 1877, at Cambridge, son of an Ernest Temperley, Fellow and Tutor of Queen's College, Cambridge and many other things, but one of the most interesting facts is that his home address was HINTLESHAM, in Penn Road, Beaconsfield. The house is still there but the name of the house has been changed. The General's wife remarried and became the Baroness von Hirsh. There was a daughter and a son. The son moved to the United States, but his where abouts now are not known,
2. An Ernest Temperli, CH-8703 Erlenbach, Lerchenbergst 63, Teleton 019104773., visited Hintlesham in 1991. He claims to be descended from a Nicholas Timperley, farmer, born 1715. His great grandson, Joseph, was the first (he says) to live at Temperley Grange. I am sure he would be delighted to hear from you, if you ever thought it nesessary, and I am also sure you would get a reply!
Information provided by Kenneth Baker kenvin.baker(at)virgin.net
The arms of Pettistree are from an "Ordinary of Arms" edited by a Richard Elmshirst, of Ipswich, who said on the cover of the collection, "I believe this was written between 1591 and 1598. The latest written date was for the Scambler Arms which were granted in 1591. Sir William Cecil, E.of Essex, said in the 40th year of Elizabeth,1598. When I purchased the collection the pages were torn and separated and much charred at the edges and the order in which I have re~arranged them is not as good as it might have been because many pages had to be turned around to give sufficient width of paper to allow for subsequent binding." The original owners of this collection was a Richard Maddocks, but they are at present in the private collection of a Miss Corder, of Ipswich.
In support of the references I have made regarding Margaret Pettistree, I think you would be interested in the following information contained on page 857 of the a "History of Parliament" by Colonel the Right Honourable Josiah C. Wedgwood, 1936:-
Timperley, (John 1425-1491); of Hintlesham, Suffolk., Esq. Norfolk's servant; customer of Ipswich. M.P. Yarmouth 1467-8; Gatton 1472-5; Ipswich, 1483 (Jan). Son and Heir of same, M.P. (1400-63) by Margaret (PETTISTREE) .....
Nicholas Tymperley, Esq, lies buried in the church of Buxhall, in Suffolk, where it is said he died May 20, 1489,
In the south isle of St. Stephen's church is buried, sum tyme (sic) the wife of John Timperley, Knight, late the wife of Andrew Sulyard Esq. who died January 13, 1546. This information from page 474, Bloomfield's Norfolk.
I visited Buxhall church this morning. There are at least two grave tablets in the church which could be the ones concerned, but although one has some unreadable writing on it the other has no identification on it at all. I am a little puzzled though, as a small church guide says the church is dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary, but that it stands on the site of an earlier edifice. If I find the answer I'll let you know if it was ever called St.Stephen's. However, this Mary appears to be the one referred in Sir John Timperley's will.
The following extract from Copinger's Manors of Suffolk, Vol.1V p,54, should be of interest, "As Sir John Timperley (died 18 Dec1491) left only one daughter, Elizabeth, the manor (Hintlesham) now seems to have passed to Sir John's nephew William Timperley, (of Hintlesham Hall and married Margaret, daughter of Thomas, 3rd Duke of Norfolk) son and heir of Nicholas Timperley. (His son and namesake died 20th May 1489, and is buried in Buxhall church. Nicholas Timperley was the second son of John Timperley,second son of John Timperley, and brother of Sir John.
Information provided by Kenneth Baker kenvin.baker(at)virgin.net
Joseph Timperley is listed on the Burgess Roll of the Borough of Bradford 1880-81 Division 1 Manningham Ward Polling District No. 2
5-Feb-1999 My gggf was William Yarwood who's wife was Elizabeth Timperley, b. abt 1806 Altrincham. 1851 living parish Dunham Massey, hamlet Woodhouses No street given. I believe they mar. 6/9/1826 at Wesleyan Methodist, Bank St. Warrington, but I have still to confirm this. Brian Critchley critch(at)rivernet.com.au