The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04
A CORNER IN ANCESTORS
By FRANCES cowLEs. THE OSBORN FAMILY

fcopyright 1915, by .the Mcclure News
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 The English Osborns with whom our own Connecticut Osborns are probably connected, have a proud pedigree. Peter Osborn of Pureigh, Essex. who lived in the middle of the fifteenth century, had son and heir named Richard, who mar ried a daughter of the Cawson family. They had two sons. John who left a daughter, and Richard. who located at Tyld Hall, Essex, and died in 1544, leav- ing two sons, John and Peter.
 Peter who was born in 1521, was a man of great understanding and is said to have been very zealous for the reformed religion. He held office in the exchequer and was keeper of the privy purse to King Edward VI He was a close friend of Sir John Cheke the noted English scholar, who was tutor to King Edward VI and the Princess Elizabeth. Cheke died in 1857 in the London home of Peter Osborn. Peter married Anne, daughter by Alice. sister of John Cheke, of Dr. Blythe, the first public kings reader of physics at Cambridge.
 Not the least of Peters distinctions was family of II sons and Il daughters. One of the daughters Catherine. married Sir Thomas Cheke. The eldest child was Sir John Osborn, who later became a knight He was born in the reign of James and was one of the commissioners of the navy. He was the first of the fam fly to settle at Chicksand. in Bedford tr-ha -F;n tain their country seat. Sir John mar ried Dorothy Barlee, and died in 1928 at the age of 76, leaving five sons and one daughter. These sons were Peter. Chris topher who died unmarried. Thomas, who has son Richard (probably the Richard who sailed from England in the ship Hopewel and founded the Connecti- cut Osborn family) and two others.
 Peter, the eldest son of Sir John and Dorothy Barlee, was for 2S years gov ernor of the island and castle of Guern- sey, in the regns of Charles I and James l. He married Dorothy Danvers. His son, Sir John, the first baronet married Eleanor Danvers and he was succeeded by his eldest son John, whose descendants still live at Chicksand. Dorset.
 Now as for the American Richard he came to these shores in 1884 at the age of 20 He was a volunteer from Windsor, Conn., in Lieutenant Ludlows company in the Pequot war and took part in the Bloody Swamp fight. for his service in which he received so acres of land in the town of Ridgefield. He had John, Hannah, Priscilla, Sara, Mary, Elizabeth and Davfd. Of his sons, John was the founder of the New Haven branch of the family and David the founder of the Ridgefield branch. Many descendants of these Osborns are now to he found in New York, Ohio, and other states of the union.
 Another Osborn family traced its origin in this country to Samuel Osborn, who was born in Ireland of Scotch parents and graduated at the Dublin university. Little is known of him, save that he was considered fine scholar and that he came to this country where he lived at Sandwich Mass. He had a son John, born in Sandwich, in 17i3. who was grad uated from Harvard college in 1735
 The arms of the Osborns are blazoned Argent bend between two lions rampant sable. The crest is a lions head proper ducally crowned or. The motto is: "Quan- tum in rubus inane."
 This is the armorial bearing of the Os- borns of Chicksand Priory, Shetfleid, Eng land, and of course, unless 1t can be proved by the American branch of Con niecut Osborns that the Richard who came to this country in 1884 in the ship Hopewell was the Richard. son of Thomas, son of Sir John Osborn. knight there is no very good reason why the Connecticut Osborns should bear these arms However, the evidence seems to be all in favor of such relationship
 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
 To a member of the F'lournoy ramYly who wishes to know the origin of that family in America. and also asks for a description of the coat-of-arms and crest
 Every FlournoY in America is descended from Laurent Flournoy ana ms wife Gabrielle Mellin. E'ourent fled from Champagne, France, to Geneva, Swtzer- land, after the Duke of Guise ma ssacred the Protestants at Vassy, in 1862. thus the Flournoys were early sufferers for their religion.
 His wife Gabrielle was born in Lyons They had two sons, Jean born 1874. and Gideon. Jean married Frances Mussa rd ano they had Jacques, born 1908 He married Judith Puerari, or Puesary Their son Jacques, born 1857, married Julia Eyrand.
 II is interesting to note that Julia is name. which joined to Eliza beth' has been perpetuated to the present day. 1r every generation there is an Elizabeth Julia.
 Laurent was lapdary and his sons followed the same trade. The son of Jacques and Julia was Jean Jacques born November r, 1885. He is one of the pro- genitors of the American branch of