A Long Time Ago/10 Osborne / Hewett
Osborne
This page is part of A Long Time Ago: A History of the Atkins-Paynter and Allied Families, the chunked book edition on the Wally Atkins Family Wiki.
- Book section: Osborne / Hewett
- Page range in the book: 78-79
- Chunk order: 10 of 36
This section has been lightly cleaned and reconstructed from the transcript seam where the Osborne and Hewett material begins clearly. It preserves the strongest readable material relevant to the Offley, Lawson, and later Atkins branch.
Source note
- Book: A Long Time Ago: A History of the Atkins-Paynter and Allied Families
- Recovered transcript source used: Osborne / Hewett material visible in `010-yeardley.md`
- Editorial note: the local transcript filenames are misaligned, so this page is built from the recovered Osborne/Hewett section where it actually appears
Cleaned import
The Osborne and Hewett branches are treated together in the book because they converge in the marriage of Ann Hewett and Sir Edward Osborne, and from there run forward into the Offley branch and ultimately the later Atkins line.
Osborne
The chapter identifies Sir Edward Osborne as a London civic figure who was knighted at Westminster on February 2, 1591. He had served as Sheriff of London in 1578 and as Lord Mayor of London in 1585. He was buried at St. Dionis Backchurch in London in 1591/2.
The book says Sir Edward Osborne was the son of Richard Osborne of Ashford, Kent, and Jane Broughton, with earlier Osborne residence in Kent. It notes that the Osborne family was early seated at Ashford and that John Osborne of Canterbury appears among the Kentish gentry.
The family-relevant point is that Ann Osborne, daughter of Sir Edward Osborne, married Robert Offley. They were the parents of Sarah Offley, who married Captain Adam Thorowgood. Through that marriage, the Osborne line passes into the branch already followed in the Offley and Thorowgood chapters.
Hewett
The chapter then turns to the Hewett line, which is joined to Osborne through Ann Hewett, wife of Sir Edward Osborne.
It identifies Sir William Hewett as Lord Mayor of London in 1559, and states that arms were awarded to him. The book also names Sir Thomas Hewett, born in the parish of Old Jewry, who married Ann Curwin. His will, made in 1623, requested burial in the church of Old Jewry in London.
The chapter's lineal importance is that Ann Hewett, daughter and sole heiress of Sir William Hewett, married Sir Edward Osborne. That marriage forms the bridge by which the Hewett line enters the Osborne branch and then continues into Offley and beyond.
Why Osborne / Hewett matters
This chapter matters because it helps document the London mercantile and civic ancestry behind the later Virginia-connected family lines. In this book, Osborne and Hewett are not end points by themselves, but important support branches that feed directly into the Offley line.
Context notes
- Osborne / Hewett works best when read together with A Long Time Ago/09 Offley and A Long Time Ago/08 Thorowgood.
- The key bridge here is Ann Hewett marrying Sir Edward Osborne, followed by Ann Osborne marrying Robert Offley.
- This is one of the cleaner London civic-ancestry chapters in the early part of the book.
Related pages
- A Long Time Ago/09 Offley
- A Long Time Ago/08 Thorowgood
- A Long Time Ago/05 Lawson
- Joseph Henry Atkins
- A Long Time Ago: A History of the Atkins-Paynter and Allied Families
