A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
John Anketell, MP was born 20 Jan 1597 and was of Compton, Wiltshire, England, 3rd son of John Anketell and Phillippa Grigg (given in IGI). He died 12 APR 1638. He is said to have resided at one time in Farrihy, County Clare, Ireland.
John Anketell of Farrihy (also of Compton, Wiltshire, England and Newmarket, Cork, Ireland). John was a supposed favourite of Melvyn Touchet. He was accused by Lady Audley of raping her mother Elizabeth at the instigation of her husband, Melvyn.
The McGillycuddy Papers includes MGillycuddy's bond to John Anketell of Farrihy.
Note from Herrup, C. B. (1999). A house in gross disorder: Sex, law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven. New York: Oxford University Press: "John Anktill was the younger son of "decayed" genteel stock from Dorsetshire. He came to Fonthill as Castlehaven's page, progressed to managing some of the estates, and in 1621, represented the family interest as a member of Parliament. Allegedly without the Earl's consent, he married Castlehaven's eldest daughter" With Lucy he had an only son, John, and three daughters, Elisabeth, Peternell, and Frances.
Note from The Trial of Mervyn Touchet, Earl of Castlehaven 1631, Copyright Rictor Norton.http://rictornorton.co.uk/touchet.htm: "...Amptil (or Antill in some accounts) sometimes also participated in these odd nuptial rites, though he was usually busy elsewhere. Amptil had originally been a beggar and a vagabond, until Sir Henry Smith picked him up and made him his footman. Castlehaven eventually acquired Amptil as his personal page, and found his services so agreeable that he made him his master of the stables. For thus tending his horses, Castlehaven gave Amptil a salary of £500 per year, compared with a yearly allowance of only £100 given to his own son James. James was furious when Castlehaven arranged for Amptil to marry his daughter by his first marriage, giving Amptil a dowry of £7,000. As will appear throughout the tale, Castlehaven was a kind master, though an unkind father and a vicious husband."
"The two servants who were proved to have had intercourse with Lady Castlehaven were a footman named Giles Broadway and a page named Ampthill, who married a daughter of Lord Castlehaven by his first marriage."
From Hyde, H. M. (1970). The other love: an historical and contemporary survey of homosexuality in Britain. London: Heinemann: "She also deposed that her husband 'delighted to see the act done, and made Ampthill to come into bed with them, and lie with her whilst he might see it: and she cried out to save herself. This testimony was corroborated by Ampthill and also by Broadway, who swore that while he (Broadway) was ravishing Lady Castlehaven, the earl amused himself with Broadway 'using his body as the body of a woman, but never pierced it, only emitted between his thighs."
From Anketell, H. K. (2001). A short history with notes and references of the ancient and honourable family of Ancketill or Anketell. Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Co.: John Anketell, of Newmarket, co. Cork, d. 12 April, 1638. He Lucia, dau. of Mervin, Earl of Castlehaven.
From the countess of Castlehaven's examination in Howell, T. B., & Howell, T. J. (2000). A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to the year 1783, with notes and other illustrations ... in twenty-one volumes. New York: Hein, Volume 3: That shortly after the earl married her, via. the first or second night, Amptil came to the bed's side, while (he and her husband were in bed, and the lord Audley spake lasciviously to her, and told her, ' That now her body was , his; and that if she loved him she must love Amptil: and that if she lay with any other man wiht his consent, it was not her fault but his, and that if it was his will to have it so, she muts obey and do it.? - That he attempted to draw her to lie with his serbvant Skipwith...
Two of the servants involved, Laurence Fitz Patrick and Giles Browning or Broadway, were executed as well as Castlehaven.
Father: John Anketell b: ABT 1555 in St Peter's, Shaftesbury, Dorset Mother: Philippa Grigg b: ABT 1569
Marriage 1 Lucy Tuchet Married: ABT 1623 in Newmarket, co Cork, Ireland 4 Children
Sources
Herrup, C. B. (1999). A house in gross disorder: Sex, law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven. New York: Oxford University Press.
O'Hart, J. (1892). The Irish and Anglo-Irish landed gentry when Cromwell came to Ireland, or, A supplement to Irish Pedigrees. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah. Page 28.
Brady, W. M. (1867). McGillycuddy papers: A selection from the family archives of "the McGillycuddy of the Reeks" : with an introductory memoir : being a contribution to the history of the county of Kerry. London: Longmans
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