The Silver Bowl: Tollemache - the first three generations

Thanks to an eagle eyed reader, Mark Sherbrooke, it was brought to my attention that I had not included the first three generations in the family tree that I had assembled on the TOLLEMACHE family. With the additon of this, that error is now corrected. The subsequent generations can be found at: Tollemache Family Tree starting with John Tollemache. Please let me know if other errors are spotted.
Sharon Oddie Brown, August 11, 2004

Descendants of Lionel Tollemache

Generation No. 1

1. SIR LIONEL¹ TOLLEMACHE He married ELIZABETH MURRAY, daughter of EARL OF DYSART WILLIAM MURRAY.

Notes for SIR LIONEL TOLLEMACHE: Second Lord Lauderdale

SOURCE: Helmingham Hall and the Tollemache Family: http://www.helmingham.com/introduction.htm

Helmingham and the Tollemache family have been together for many hundreds of years. The Hall and the old oak trees that you see today have seen much of the history of England pass before them, and many generations of this family. The Tollemache family has lived in Suffolk from shortly after the Norman Conquest to the present day. Their home for the first 400 years was at Bentley, near lpswich, and although there was a proud boast, Before the Normans into England came, Bentley was my seat and Tollemache my name, it seems now certain that the family came over from Avranches on the Normandy coast. Their name was spelt Talemache, meaning 'purse bearer', and it is recorded that Hugh Tollemache was Purse Bearer to Henry 1.

They remained at Bentley as squires and knights throughout the turbulent years of those early centuries, fighting for both Henry II against the Welsh and Edward I against the Scots and quite often against their neighbours to retain their lands, Two Tollemache knights from Bentley fought at the Battle of Crécy against the French in 1346.

However, in 1487, John Tollemache married Elizabeth Joyce [NOTE: My records have her as "Elizabeth Murray" sourced from Brian McDonald], the heiress of Helmingham, and his son Lionel also married a Joyce. further cementing the union, and so they moved to Helmingham where the Joyce family home of Creke Hall stood. John Tollemache and his wife proceeded to pull this down and build Helmingham, completed in 1510,

This part of the tree still needs attention. A note from Mark Sherbrooke may be helpful here: "I believe the John referred to here is several generations preceding Lionel, so Elizabeth Joyce is correct. Elizabeth Murray only came along later, and at any rate she married Lionel, not John. Also, you have William Tollemache marrying an Elizabeth Bacon, whereas according to Amy Lloyd's history this William married a Susan Bloomfield of Coddenham." August 12, 2004

Children of LIONEL TOLLEMACHE and ELIZABETH MURRAY are:

2. i. WILLIAM² TOLLEMACHE.

ii. LIONEL TOLLEMACHE.

iii. THOMAS TOLLEMACHE.

Generation No. 2

2. WILLIAM² TOLLEMACHE (LIONEL¹) He married ELIZABETH BACON.

Child of WILLIAM TOLLEMACHE and ELIZABETH BACON is:

3. i. NICHOLAS³ TOLLEMACHE.

Generation No. 3

3. NICHOLAS³ TOLLEMACHE (WILLIAM², LIONEL¹)¹. He married MARY RALPH¹.

Children of NICHOLAS TOLLEMACHE and MARY RALPH are:

i. ELIZABETH⁴ TOLLEMACHE¹, b. 1700.

ii. MARY TOLLEMACHE¹, b. 1703.

iii. JOHN TOLLEMACHE¹, b. 1710; d. 19 May 1777²; m. MARY³.

Notes for JOHN TOLLEMACHE: "Of New Place" formerly Gyppeswick Hall, Ipswitch.

Endnotes

1. Amy Lloyd's Family History.
2. email from Heather MacAlister July 24, 2004.
3. Amy Lloyd's Family History.