THORNHAGH, Francis (c.1617-48), of St Mary’s Hill, Nottingham, and Rushcliffe Hall, Gotham, Notts.

Family and Education

b. c.1617, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Francis Thornhaugh of Fenton, Sturton le Steeple, Notts., and Jane (d. Dec. 1660), da. of Sir John Jackson† of Edderthorpe, Darfield, Yorks.Vis. Notts. (Harl. Soc. n.s. v), 29. educ. Lincoln g.s. (Nathaniel Clarke);Hutchinson Mems. ed. Sutherland, 22, 24. Magdalen Oxf. 8 May 1635, aged 17;Al. Ox. I. Temple 13 Sept. 1637.I. Temple Admiss. Database. m. c. Dec. 1640, Elizabeth (d. 11 Jan. 1677), da. and coh. of John St. Andrew of Rushcliffe Hall, 1s. 3da. (1 d.v.p.).Gotham par. reg.; Notts. RO, DD/FJ/1/163/1; Vis. Notts. 29; Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lii), 971; C. G. S. Foljambe, ‘The Notts. fam. of Thornhagh’, The Reliquary, xvi. 201, 203. suc. fa. 28 Apr. 1643;Lincs. Peds. 970. d. 18 Aug. 1648.Lincs. Peds. 971.

Offices Held

Military: ?vol. ft. Dutch army, ?-bef. 1641. c. Nov. 1642 – Apr. 1643Foljambe, ‘The Notts. fam. of Thornhagh’, 202. Lt.-col. of horse (parlian.),; col. Apr. 1643–d.Hutchinson Mems. ed. Sutherland, 73. Gov. Welbeck House, Notts. 9 Nov. 1644–?d.CJ iii. 692b.

Local: j.p. Notts. 12 Mar. 1642–?d.C231/5, p. 513. Dep. lt. by 9 Aug. 1642–?d.LJ v. 275b. Commr. for associating midland cos. 15 Dec. 1642.A. and O. Member, Notts. co. cttee. 29 Dec. 1642–?d.CJ ii. 905a, 940b. Commr. assessment, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Lincs. (Lindsey) 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;A. and O. sequestration, Notts. 27 Mar., 4 Sept. 1643;A. and O.; CJ iii. 225a; LJ vi. 204a. levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643.A. and O. Sheriff, 19 Jan. 1644–5.LJ vi. 384a; List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 105. Commr. Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645;A. and O. sewers, Lincs., Lincoln and Newark hundred 25 June 1646.Lincs. RO, Spalding Sewers/449/7.

Parlimentarian

THORNHAGH, Francis (c.1617-48), of St Mary’s Hill, Nottingham, and Rushcliffe Hall, Gotham, Notts.

: of St Mary’s Hill, Nottingham and Rushcliffe Hall, Gotham, Notts.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, unknown.Wood, ‘Col. Francis Thornhaugh’, 87.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

THORNHAGH, Francis (c.1617-48), of St Mary’s Hill, Nottingham, and Rushcliffe Hall, Gotham, Notts.

Will

14 May 1648, pr. 26 May 1652.PROB11/221, f. 341v.

Estates

inherited lands in Fenton, Sturton le Steeple and the surrounding area.C142/344/86; C142/443/49; A.C. Wood, ‘Col. Francis Thornhaugh’, Trans. Thoroton Soc. xxxviii. 87. Purchased a house on St Mary’s Hill, Nottingham, by 1641.J.T. Godfrey, Notes on the Churches of Notts.: Hundred of Rushcliffe, 108. Through his wife, acquired Rushcliffe Hall, Notts.; a fourth part of the manor of Skeffington, Leics.; and lands and tenements in Gumley, Leics., in Ansley, Arley and Coleshill, Warws., and in Easton and Stoke Rochford, Lincs.; in all worth about £500 p.a. In 1648, mortgaged some of his lands in Fenton for £400.Foljambe, ‘The Notts. fam. of Thornhagh’, 202, 203. At his d. estate inc. a capital messuage and nine other messuages in Nottingham, with lands belonging, which he had ‘lately purchased’; and manors, lands and tenements in East Retford, Fenton, Littleborough, North and South Leverton, Sturton le Steeple and Welham, Notts.PROB11/221, f. 341v.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

The King’s Head, Strand, London (1645).Add. 34253, f. 39.

Religion

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