'Plumbe1'
Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Plumbe of Aughton, Plumbe of Wavertree

Commoners reports that this family were originally of Norfolk and later of Leicestershire.
John Plumbe (a temp Charles I who r. 1625-1649, moved to neighbourhood of Prescot, Lancashire)
1. ?? Plumbe presumed intermediary generation, father or grandfather of ...
  A. John Plumbe of Whiston, near Prescot (d 1727)
  m. Elizabeth Lyme (dau of William Lyme)
  i. William Plumbe of Stepney
  m. Anne Lyme (dau of Thomas Lyme of London)
a. William Plumbe (d in East Indies)
  (1)+ 2 daughters
  ii. Thomas Plumbe of Madras (dvpsp 1712)
  m. Violante (Mrs. Rogers)
  iii. John Plumbe of Wavertree Hall (near Liverpool) and Aughton (near Ormskirk) (d 1763)
  m. Sarah Marsh (d 1741, niece/coheir of James Vernon of Vernon's Hall)
  a. William Plumbe 'of Wavertree' (dvp 1761)
  m. Sarah Townley (dau of Thomas Townley of Royle by Anne, dau of Thomas Legh of Adlington by Joanna, dau of Sir John Maynard)
  (1) Thomas Plumbe of Aughton
  m. Elizabeth Tempest of Tong Hall (d 09.1823)
  (A) John Plumbe of Aughton, later Plumbe-Tempest of Tong Hall (d 06.04.1859, Colonel, 2nd son)
  m. Sarah Plumbe (dau of Rev. William Plumbe of Aughton) below
  (i)

Frances Penelope Plumbe-Tempest (d 04.05.1825)

  m. (26.07.1824) Thomas Rawson (son of Benjamin of Darley Hall)
(a) Frances Penelope Rawson
  (ii)+ other issue - Thomas Richard (Major), Catharine Elizabeth, Tempest (d 1811), Sarah Anne, Henrietta Townley (d 1808), Henrietta
  (B) Catherina Townley Plumbe (d 1819)
  m. Henry Dixon of Liverpool (son of Jeremiah of Gledhow)
(i)+ issue - Henry, Thomas, William, George, Edward, Frances Elizabeth, Georgianna Charlotte, Henriana Annabella
  (C)+ other issue - Thomas (dvp unm), Elizabeth Sarah, Frances, Henrietta Mildred, Tempest (d unm)
  (2) William Plumbe (d 1786, rector of Aughton)
  m. Catherine Kirk (dau of Samuel Kirk by Anne, dau of William Tatton of Withenshaw)
  (A) Anne Plumbe
  m. William Thomlinson (d 1810, Colonel)
  (B) Sarah Plumbe
  m. (John) Tempest (Colonel) above
  (3) Sarah Plumbe (d 1792)
  m. (19.04.1748) Sir Robert Hesketh, Bart (b 23.04.1729, d 30.12.1796)
  (4) Frances Plumbe (d unm)
  b. Thomas Plumbe (rector of Aughton)
  m. Ann Wath of Windsor
  iv.+ other issue - Edward (dsp), Abraham of Stepney

Main source(s): Commoners (vol I, Plumbe-Tempest of Tong)
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