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Families covered: Browne of Croft (Crofts), Browne of East Kirkby, Browne of Hospital, Browne of Kenmare, Browne of Molahife, Browne of Totteridge

                               
Sir Valentine Browne of Croft or Crofts (Lincolnshire) and Hoggsden (Middlesex) (d 08.02.1567-8)
1. Sir Valentine Browne of Totteridge (Herts), Croft(s) and Higgsden or Hoggesden (d 09.02.1588-9, Treasurer of Berwick, Auditor General of Ireland)
  m1. Elizabeth Alexander (dau of Robert Alexander of London)
  A. Sir Valentine Browne of Croft or Crofts, Sheriff of Lincolnshire (bur 09.04.1606)
  m. Elizabeth Monson (b 28.09.1563, bur 28.02.1634-5, dau of Sir John Monson of South Carlton)
  i. Sir Valentine Browne of Croft (dsp bur 29.04.1626)
  m. (19.02.1610-1) Amy Fulstow (bur 03.05.1632, dau of Richard Fulstow of Eresby)
  ii. Sir John Browne of East Kirkby (b c1586, d after 16.04.1639)
m1. (c03.1613-4, sp) Cicely Kirkman (b c1593, bur 19.07.1614, dau of William Kirkman of East Keal)
  m2. Frances Herbert (dau of Richard Herbert of Montgomery Castle, sister of Lord Chirbury & Rev. George)
  a. Valentine Browne (b c1618, bur 10.07.1649)
  m. Margaret
  b. Magdalen Browne
  m. Sir Thomas Estcourt (Master in Chancery)
  c. Frances Browne
  m. John Milner of Gray's Inn and Lillingston Green
  d. Lucy Browne
  m1. (25.06.1635) Hamon Upton (d before 11.06.1645)
  m2. George Dacres (son of (Sir Thomas son of) George of Cheshunt)
  e.+ other issue - Thomas of St. Giles-in-Fields (bpt 18.02.1633-4, a 1651), John (a 1661), William (a 1649)
iii. Thomas Browne
  Maddison reports that this was possibly the Thomas Browne of Addlethorpe who had lands in East Kirby in 1640. Maddison then refers to his article on 'Browne of Addlethorpe' which reports that that Thomas had the following family:
  m. Ann (bur 21.12.1659)
  a. Thomas Browne of Addlethorpe (bur 09.05.1688)
  m. Ellen Fell
  (1) Mary Browne (bpt 04.03.1622-3, d 04.11.1725)
  m1. Nicholas Newcomen of Theddlethorpe (bpt 05.08.1650, dsp 12.08.1712)
  m2. Hon. Charles Bertie
  iv. Jane Browne probably the Jane or Anne who married ...
  m. Sir Ralph Done of Duddon (d 01.1660)
v.+ other issue - William of East Kirby, Henry (d young), Edmond (bpt 05.08.1594), Anthony (bpt 16.11.1596), Robert of East Kirkby and Northolme (bur 19.01.1652-3), Elizabeth, Mary, Anne, Isabel (d 03.01.1680-1), Katherine, Margaret
  m2. Thomazine Bacon (dau of Robert Bacon, sister of Sir Nicholas the Lord Keeper)
  B. Sir Nicholas Browne of Molahiffe, Kerry (d 12.12.1606)
  m. Sichely Sheela or Julia Beare (dau of O'Sullivan Beare)
  i. Sir Valentine Browne 'of Castle Talbot', 1st Bart of Molahiffe (d 13.09.1633)
  m1. Ellis Fitzgerald (dau of Gerald Fitzgerald, Earl of Desmond)
  a. Sir Valentine Browne, 2nd Bart of Molahiffe (d 25.04.1640)
  m. Mary McCarty (dau of Charles McCarty, 1st Viscount Muskerry)
(1) Sir Valentine Browne of Killarney, 3rd Bart, '1st Viscount Kenmare' (b 1637/8, d before 23.06.1694)
  Valentine was created Viscount by King James II after his abdication so the title was not formally recognised.
  m. Jane Plunkett (dau by Catherine Turner of Sir Nicholas Plunkett of Balrath, son of Christopher, Lord Killeen)
  (A) Nicholas Browne, '2nd Viscount Kenmare' (d 04.1720)
  m. (1684) Ellen Browne (bur 16.07.1700, dau of Thomas Browne of Hospital) @1@ below
(i) Valentine Browne, '3rd Viscount Kenmare' (b 1695, d 30.06.1736)
  m1. (11.1720) Honoria Butler (d 1730, dau of Thomas Butler of Kilcash by Margaret Bourke)
  (a) Thomas Browne, '4th Viscount Kenmare' (b 1726, d 09.09.1795)
  m. (12.1750) Anne Cooke (dau of Thomas Cooke of Painstown)
  ((1)) Valentine Browne, 1st Earl of Kenmare (b 01.1754, d 03.10.1812)
  m1. (1777) Charlotte Dillon (b 1755, d 15.08.1782, dau of Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount)
  ((A)) Charlotte Browne (d 01.11.1852)
  m. (1802) Sir George Goold, Bart
m2. (1785) Mary Aylmer (d 16.10.1806, dau of Michael Aylmer of Lyons by Margaret, dau of George Mathew of Thomastown)
  ((B)) Valentine Browne, 2nd Earl of Kenmare (b 15.01.1788, dsp 31.10.1853)
  m. (01.07.1816) Augusta Wilmot (b c1799, d 26.08.1873, dau of Sir Robert Wilmot, 2nd Bart of Osmaston)
  ((C)) Thomas Browne, 3rd Earl of Kenmare (b 15.01.1789, d 26.12.1871) had issue
  m. (26.11.1822) Catherine O'Callaghan (d 02.11.1854, dau of Edmund O'Callaghan of Kilgory by Ellen, dau of Denis O'Brien)
((D)) William Browne (b 01.11.1791, d 04.08.1876)
  m. (20.04.1826) Anne Frances Segrave (d 1838, dau of Thomas Segrave)
  ((E)) Mary Ann Browne (d 13.06.1840)
  m1. (1802) Sir Thomas Gage, 7th Bart of Hengrave (d 27.12.1820)
  m2. (1835, sp) William Vaughan of Courtfield
  ((F))+ other issue - Michael (b 18.05.1793, d 1825), Frances (d unm 1817)
  ((2)) Catharine Browne
  m. Count Durfort Severac
  (b) Helen Browne
  m. John Wogan of Rathcoffy
  (c) daughter
  m2. (1735) Mary Fitzgerald (d 1742, dau of Maurice Fitzgerald of Castle Ishen)
(d) Mary Browne
  (ii) Jane Browne
  m. John Asgill
  (iii) Elizabeth Browne
  m. William Weldo
  (iv) Frances Browne
  m. Edward Herbert of Killcow
  (v)+ other issue - Thomas (d young), Margaret (nun)
  (B) Mary Browne
  m. (1685) George Aylmer of Lyons
  (C) Ellis Browne
  m. Nicholas Purcell, baron of Loughmoe (Colonel)
  (D) Thomasine Browne
  m. Nicholas Bourke of Cahirmoil
  (E) Katherine Browne
  m. Don Lois D'Acunha (Ambassador to England from Portugal)
  (F)+ other issue - Ossory (dsp 10.1666), Patrick (dsp 08.1675), James (dsp 10.1680), Valentine (dsp, took the name Plunkett)
  (2) John Browne of Ardagh (dsp 15.08.1706)
  m. (1672) Joan Butler (dau of Hon. Edmund Butler, sister of Pierce, 6th Lord Cahir)
  (3) Ellis Browne
m. John Tobin of Cumpshinagh
  (4) Eleanor Browne
  m. _ Power of Kilmeadon
  (5) Mabel Browne possibly of this generation
  m. Thomas FitzGerald of Ballyhane
  (A) Mary FitzGerald (bur 12.11.1726)
  m. Sir Stephen Rice of Mount Rice (b c1637, Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland)
  b. daughter possibly the Mary who married ...
  m. James Aylmer of Carrickbrien (d by 1668)
  c. Catherine Browne probably of this generation, probably of this marriage
  m. Sir Richard Blake of Strand (b 1613-4 or 1623-4?)
  d.+ other issue - James (Captain), Nicholas (dsp)
  m2. Sheely or Julia McCarty (d 21.01.1633, dau of Charles McCarty, 1st Viscount Muskerry)
f. Thomas Browne of Hospital (d 11.1685, Captain)
  m. Elizabeth Browne (dau of Sir John Browne of Hospital) @2@ below
  (1) Ellen Browne (bur 16.07.1700)
  m. (1684) Nicholas Browne, 2nd Viscount Kenmare (d 04.1720) @1@ above
  (2) Barbara Browne (d unm)
  (3) Elizabeth Browne
  m. Melchoir Lavallin
  (4) Colena (Celina) Browne
  m. John White (Colonel)
ii. Mabel Browne probably of this generation
  m. Sir Walter Crosbie, 1st Bart of Maryborough (d 04.08.1638)
  C. Valentine Browne
  m. Blanch Boundy
  D. Thomas Browne of Hospital (d 13.04.1640)
  m. Mary Apsley (dau of Capt. William Apsley of Pullborough by Annabella, dau of John Brown, "Master of Awney")
i. Sir John Browne of Hospital
  m. Barbara Boyle (dau (or granddau?) of John Boyle, Bishop of Cork and Ross)
  a. Elizabeth Browne (only daughter)
  m. Thomas Browne of Hospital (d 11.1685, Captain) @2@ above
  ii. Thomasine Browne (d 1630) apparently of this generation
  m. Edmund Bourke, 5th Lord of Castle Connell (b 1598/9, d 26.03.1637/8)
  ii. Margaret Browne possibly of this generation
  m. Toby Mathew of Thurles and Annefield
  E. Elizabeth Browne
  m1. Edward Terrett (sb Tirrell?) (Warden of the Fleet)
  m2. Sir George Parnell (sb Reynell) (judge)
  F. Anne Browne
  m. Roger Dalleson

Main source(s): Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees (1906, Browne of Croft), BP1934 (Kenmare), TCP (Kenmare)
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