'Mompesson2'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Mompesson of Eakring, Mompesson of Eyam

                               
John Mompesson
m. Alice Beilby (b 30.12.1617, dau of William Beilby of Micklethwaite Grange by Susan, dau of Richard Sunderland of Coley Hall)
1. William Mompesson (b 1638-9, d 1708, rector of Eyam & Bilshorpe, later of Eakrin in Nottinghamshire)
  (1) This was the William Mompesson who arranged for the isolation of the Derbyshire village of Eyam during the plague
(2) The pedigree referred to below identifies William's wife Catherine as dau of Ralph Carr of Cocken but Commoners (vol 2, 'Carr of Cocken Hall', p354) suggests that she was ...
  m1. (1661) Catherine Carr (b 1633, bur 23.08.1666, sister of Ralph Carr of Cocken)
A. George Mompesson (vicar of Eakring, rector of Barnborough in Yorkshire)
  m. (19.11.1689) Alice Bromhead (b c1670, d 16.10.1716, dau of John Bromhead of Laughton-en-le-Morthen)
  i. William Mompesson (vicar of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 2nd son)
  m. (19.11.1721) Elizabeth Chappell (dau of John Chappell of Mansfield Woodhouse, possible brother of the Bishop of Cloyne)
  a. Margaret Mompesson (b 1723, d 1792)
  m. (08.1750) Ralph Heathcote (b 1721, d 1795, vicar general of Southwell)
  b. Mary Mompesson (d 1802)
  m. William Woodhouse of Lichfield (probably not Leicester) (MD)
  c. Ann Mompesson (d unm 1789)
  ii. George Mompesson of Barnborough
  a.+ issue - Thomas (b 1720), John (b 1721), William (b 1723), George (b 1728), Richard (b 1733), Mary (b 1725), Anne (b 1730), Catharine (b 1731), Margaret (b 1734)
  iii. Anne Mompesson
  m. (12.08.1725) Gilbert Hall (recctor of Kettlethorpe, Lincolnshire)
  a. George Allen (b 1719, d 1801, vicar of Ilkeston)
  m. (1745) _ Wynne (dau of Watkins W. Wynne of Tegyd)
  (1) George Allen (dsp 1798, cleric & poet)
  (2) Mary Allen
  m. (1768-9) Charles Thompson of Arnold & Nottingham
  (A) Fanny Thompson
  m. (1799) Samuel Blake Norman of Ilkeston (surgeon)
  b.+ other issue - John (b 1729, d 1807, had issue in Manchester), Thomas of Ollerton (b 1731, d 1771, surgeon)
  iv.+ other issue including John (bpt 11.12.1690, d 01.1722, rector of Hassingham & Buckenham)
  B. Elizabeth Mompesson
  m. _ Raworth
  m2. (1670) Elizabeth Dand (widow of Charles Newby)
  C.+ issue - Mary, daughter

Main source(s): various web sites, one (since lost sight of!) including a formal 'Pedigree of Mompesson of Eyam and Eakring' which provided most of the above
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