Probyn family

D23

Probyn family

1323 - 1844

Deeds, Papers, etc., relating to the Probyn family of Newland and Huntley Manor. Manor J. G. Clift

English

140 files

These papers were purchased by Major Clift to save them from destruction.

The Probyn family descends in the male line from the Hopkins family of Llanvihangel, Carmarthenshire. Sarah, daughter of William Probyn of Newland (d.1702) married the Rev. William Hopkins, rector of Llanvihangel, and eventually inherited the estate of her brother Sir Edmund Probyn, Chief Baron of the Exchequer (see D.N.B.). Their eldest son, John Hopkins, took the name and arms of Probyn in 1734 in compliance with the will of his uncle Sir Edmund Probyn. He married Ann, daughter and heiress of John Howell of Lincoln's Inn. Howell, a Welshman, was a solicitor, and a number of the items in this collection relate to his practice. The Probyns who lived at Newland, held the manors of Huntley and Longhope from 1740. Maria, great-granddaughter of John Hopkins Probyn, married the Rev. Charles Mein Dighton, grandfather of Conway Dighton, a keen amateur historian. The latter, who inherited the Probyn family papers, was also a genealogist, and his papers, mainly those collected while preparing 'The Dightons of Clifford Chambers', 1902, are catalogued as Gloucestershire Record Office GRO D23a.