Person Sheet


Name Sir John Brocket [226, Section on Edward son of Edw. of Letchworth], 2C13R
Birth ca 1540
Death 2 Oct 1598
Burial 27 Oct 1598, prob Hatfield, Herts (Fun Cert.)
General Of Brocket Hall, Herts. MP. Sheriff of Herts. dspm.
Father Sir John Brocket (ca1512-1558)
Mother Margaret Bensted
Spouses
1 Ellen Lytton [226, Section on Edward son of Edw. of Letchworth], [25], 13G Aunt
General Co-heir.
Father Sir Robert Lytton (-ca1550)
Mother Frances Cavalery
Children Elizabeth (-<1598)
Notes for Sir John Brocket
m. (1) Ellen Lytton, (2) Elizabeth Moore, widow of Gabriel Fowler.

Ellen had:

1. Margaret married to Sir John CUTTES/CUTT of Childerleigh, Cambridgeshire (Visitation of Cambridgeshire 1575 and 1619, pp 30-1).
2. Anne married to Alexander CAVE Esq of Bagrave (later Knight).
3. Elizabeth d bef 1598 married to George CARLETON Esq.
4. Helene married to Richard SPENCER Esq of Offley (later Knight: Metcalfe 1886 p 165).5. Mary married to Thomas READE Esq (later Knight). Brockett Hall descended to this family (Metcalfe 1886 p 162).

Elizabeth had:

6. Fraunces b 1583 or 84, married to Sir Dudley NORTH, 3rd Lord of Kirtling (d 1666). The deference shown to parents by children in those days is described by their eldest son Sir Dudley 4th Lord North who well into middle age 'would never put on his hat or sit down before his father, unless enjoined to it' (L Stone 1977 p 122).
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