[Ancestor] Penrose

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1 M Robert Penrose ¹

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         Spouse: Ann Russell (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 25 Jan 1669 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Penrose

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The ancient family of Penrose of Wheldrake in Yorkshire, England, which descended from Bernard Penrose, a citizen of Methela, Cornwall, in 1350. Richard Penrose, a grandson in the fourth degree, was sheriff of Cornwall in 1525, and from him descended the Thomas Penrose who signed the Visitation in 1620 which gave him the right to bear the Penrose coat of arms of this branch.
Penrose, from which the family name meaning Red Hill or Head is derived, is in the Parish of Sithney, two miles from Helston, and it is said to have been the seat of this family before the Norman Conquest. The Manor of Penrose, which passed from this family to John Rogers, Esq., in 1798, is situated in the midst of a beautifully wooded estate famous for some fine hanging woods and a piece of water called "The Loo Pool," renowned for its trout fishing as well as for its curious formation. Mr. Carew in his Cornish History says, "To this Pool adjoineth Mr. Penrose his house. He married the daughter of Rashleigh and beareth arms, three bands Sa charged with nine roses of the Field." These arms are emblazoned upon the wall of the south aisle in Saint Siduinus Church in Sithney and upon a wooden tablet affixed to the wall are the arms of another branch of the family, argent three bends sa. each charged with as many roses of the first; crest, a Loo trout, nainant or. The arms given at the Visitation in 1531 were Ermine on a bend Az. three roses or.
In Saint Ghivia's Church near Penryn on a white marble slab forming a panel to seats number 57 and 58 in the chancel is an epitaph written by Hannah Moore upon the occasion of the death of John Penrose, thirty-five years vicar of that parish, which concludes: "He taught his last, best lesson\emdash how to die!"
Many branches of this family separated from the main stock, notably the Penroses of Metheley, Rosevidney, Ludgeon, Monaccan and Sennen, all of which contracted marriages with other ancient Cornish houses.
The Penrose family of Yorkshire and County Wicklow, Ireland, according to the pedigree preserved in the British Museum, bore the arms taken at the Visitation of Cornwall in 1531 with the crest a lion's head erased or. The seat of the Yorkshire branch was at Alverton in the Parish of Wheldrake, Bulmer, not far from Castle Howard and about twelve miles northeast of the county seat of York, England.
Robert Penrose, a son of Robert and Jane Penrose, was born at Alverton in July, 1632, and going with, it is presumed, his brothers Richard and John to Ireland, settled at Ballycane, County Wicklow, in 1656. These brothers, while not originally Quakers, became so in 1669 and for their conscientious scruples suffered many persecutions. Stockdale in his "Great Cry of Oppression" says that John Penrose of County Wicklow had his goods taken for tithes in 1677. Richard in 1673, for having questioned a priest in regard to an address made at a burial, was committed to Wicklow jail for more than a year. Robert, son of Robert and Jane Penrose, because for conscience' sake he could not take an oath, was committed to Wicklow jail for ten weeks. Richard Penrose, son of Robert and Jane Penrose of Ballycane, married Anne, daughter of John Story of Churchtown, County Dublin and Waterford in Ireland.

1 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 79.