r.1. Mary x 17/11/1606 met Francis BUNNY, geb. 09/11/1584, Ryton,
oorl. 24/02/1610, s.v. Frances Bunney of Durham en Jane
Priestley. Geen kinders.
Mary was die dogter van John Wortley en Bridgett Lynsey.
(Foster, Joseph ed.:. Pedigrees recorded at the visitations of the county palatine of Durham made by William Flower, Norroy king of arms in 1557 by Richard St. George, Norroy king of arms in 1615 and by William Dugdale, Norroy king of arms in 1666. 1887, London)
(Pedigrees
recorded at the visitations of the county Palatine of Durham made by William
Flower, Norroy King of Arms in 1575 by Richard St. George, Norroy King of Arms,
in 1815 and by William Dugdale, Norroy King of Arms in 1666 edited by Joseph
Foster Editor of the Yorkshire Visitations 1584-5 and 1612 and of the Middlesex
Visitation 1663-4 Illustrated with
upwards of 150 coats of arms privately printed for Joseph Foster, 21/boundary
road, Finchley road, London, N.W. 1887)
Arms: Bunny, with eight quarterings, as before, impaling, Argent, a bend Gules charged with three bezants inter six martlets of the second, Wortley.
The Wakefield and Newland Bunnys occupied a good position among the neighbouring gentry; their members married into the first local families and took rank with the best. They do not appear ever to have been rich; but they were possessed of a moderate competence. Unfortunately, however, through some causes, including perhaps want of good management, they sank in fortune and consequently in standing, so much so, that they had to sell their lands and live in a humble state. I think that about 1565 the Bunny-hall estate was sold to Thomas Greenwood of Learings. In 1694 Newland was sold to John Silvester. To the time of the last Bunny (but one) of Newland, the head of the family appeal's to have been a buyer of land in Normanton, and Warmfield, which adjoin the Newland estate, and he got money with his three wives — Theodosia Molyneux, Elizabeth Palmer, and Mary Bosvile — all ladies of good families; but he seems to have wasted his means rapidly and to have so diminished his estate, as to necessitate the mortgaging his property, and to compel his son and successor to sell Newland to John Silvester of the Tower of London, anchor smith, an Ecclesfield man, a great lender of money to persons hereabout. In their prosperity members of the family matched with the families of Haselden, Gargrave, Hamerton, Topcliff, Restwould, Wortley, Ingpen of Galaker, Eaye of Woodsome, Cartwright, and others, beside those before named. (https://archive.org/stream/yorkshirearchol00unkngoog/yorkshirearchol00unkngoog_djvu.txt)
Uptie 1606. Frauncis Bunny the sonne aforesaid of Newsame did
marrye Marye Wortley the daughter of John Wortley Gen. Sr Rich Wortley brother
the xvii of Novemb' 1606 in the prishe of Garro in Wyraksheir. (https://archive.org/stream/yorkshirearchol00unkngoog/yorkshirearchol00unkngoog_djvu.txt)
(http://fmg.ac/phocadownload/userupload/scanned-sources/tgb/Vol10-PDFs/S-2365-2.pdf)
Obijt 16 die Aprilis 1617.
Arms: 1.
Argent, a chevron inter three goats' heads erased Sable, Bunny. 2.
Gules, a cross flory Or, on a chief Azure three buckles of the second. 3. Per
Saltire Ermine and Gules. 4. Argent, three bendlets Sable. 5. Gules, three lions
rampant Argent, crowned Or. 6. Sable, three lions rampant Argent. 7. Gules, a
fesse Or inter three saltiers Argent. 8. Argent, four bendlets Gules. 9.
Argent, three boars' heads couped, in bend, between two cottises embattled
Sable.
Francis, the third sonne of
Richard Bunny of Newland, nere Wakefield, Esquier, and of Bridget Restwould, of the Vache in Buckinghãshire, of very wor parentage, wife to the saide Richard Bunny, was inducted into this
peonage of Ryton 1578, Sept. 13, and had 5 children, Elizabeth the eldest, being married to William Fenay,
of Fenay, neere Almonbury in Yorkshire, died without
issue, and lyeth buried in York in the quyer
of All hallows Church. John the eldest sonne, Henry the third sonne, Matthew the fourth sonne, died very young, and were all
buried in this quier of Ryton Church, where also lyeth Francis the second sone of Francis aforesaid, whose monument
this is; he maried Mary, daughter and sole heir of John Wortley, second brother
of Sir Richard Wortley, of Wortley, Knight; he died without issue Feb. 26, 1610, being more then 26 yeares
old; he was borne 1584, Novemb. 9.
I was sometime, but now I am,
And shall live thus for aye,
I am, I say, in joy that lasts,
And never shall decay.
I was, but then I did but dreame;
My pleasures were but paine;
My joyes were short and mixt with griefe,
Adew then life so vaine.
Arms: Bunny, with eight quarterings, as before, impaling, Argent, a bend Gules charged with three bezants inter six martlets of the second, Wortley.
(http://www.british-history.ac.uk/antiquities-durham/vol2/pp284-297)
