Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet

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Arms of Spring: Argent, a chevron engrailed between three mascles gules

Hatchment in Packenham Church of Thomas Discipline of Bury St Edmunds, who married Merolina Spring (1695–1761), heiress of Pakenham, a daughter of Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet and one of the two sisters and co-heiresses of Sir William Spring, 4th Baronet. Arms: Discipline with inescutcheon of Spring[1]

Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet (c. 1672 – 2 April 1704) of Pakenham Hall in Pakenham, Suffolk, was an English baronet and landowner[2] who served as High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1696.[3]

Spring was the eldest son of Sir William Spring, 2nd Baronet and Sarah Cordell, daughter of Sir Robert Cordell, 1st Baronet of Melford Hall, Suffolk.[4][5] He was educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge and inherited his father’s title and estate upon his death in 1684.[6]

Marriage and issue[edit]

On 23 May 1691, he married Hon. Merolina Jermyn, a daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn and Mary Merry, and co-heiress of Henry Jermyn, 1st Baron Dover.[7] They had three sons and six daughters:[8]

  • Thomas Spring (died 1694)
  • Merolina Spring (died 1694)
  • Merolina Spring (1695–1761), married Thomas Discipline of Bury St Edmunds.[9] She inherited the manor of Packenham,[10] in the church of which survives the funeral hatchment of Thomas Discipline, showing his arms with inescutcheon of Spring.
  • Sir William Spring, 4th Baronet (1697–1736), died unmarried. He bequeathed his estates to his two surviving sisters, Merolina and Mary,[11] but was succeeded in the baronetcy by his uncle Sir John Spring, 5th Baronet (1674–1740).[12]
  • Mary Spring (1698–1765), married Revd. John Symonds and was the mother of John Symonds and Thomas Symonds and grandmother of Admiral Sir William Symonds[13]
  • Penelope Spring (1700–1707)
  • Jermyn Spring (died aged 17)
  • Henrietta Maria Spring (died January 1733), died unmarried
  • Delariviera Spring (died 1 February 1733), died unmarried

Death and succession[edit]

Sir Thomas Spring was buried on 6 April 1704 in Pakenham parish church.[14] He was succeeded in his title by his only surviving son, Sir William Spring, 4th Baronet (1697–1736),[15] who died unmarried, when the baronetcy, but not his estates, passed to his uncle Sir John Spring, 5th Baronet (1674–1740).

References[edit]

  1. ^ Discipline: Argent, on a mount vert a falcon rising proper belled or in chief three mullets gules (Arms granted to “DISCIPLINE of Bury” on 23 June 1731, per Davy . Misc . Gen. 4th. S. II, I 16).
    (Source: Corder, Joan, Dictionary of Suffolk Arms, Vol.VII, Suffolk Records Society, 1965, p.125 [1]
  2. ^ Arthur Collins, ‘Spring, of Pakenham’, The English Baronetage (Volume 2, Tho. Wotton, 1741), p.243.
  3. ^ Arthur Collins, ‘Spring, of Pakenham’, The English Baronetage (Volume 2, Tho. Wotton, 1741), p.243.
  4. ^ William John Courthope, Synopsis of the Extinct Baronetage of England (Rivington, 1835), p.187.
  5. ^ ThePeerage.com (entry #455799) http://www.thepeerage.com/p45580.htm (Accessed 11 February 2015)
  6. ^ Arthur Collins, ‘Spring, of Pakenham’, The English Baronetage (Volume 2, Tho. Wotton, 1741), p.243.
  7. ^ William Harvey, The Visitation of Suffolke (Volume 2, S. Tymms, 1868), p.185.
  8. ^ Arthur Collins, ‘Spring, of Pakenham’, The English Baronetage (Volume 2, Tho. Wotton, 1741), p.243.
  9. ^ The English Baronetage:: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of …
    By Thomas Wotton, Vol II, London, 1741, p.243 [2]
  10. ^ “Pakenham-Village of Two Mills : PV book – Chapter 7 – the Manors of Pakenham”.
  11. ^ “Pakenham-Village of Two Mills : PV book – Chapter 7 – the Manors of Pakenham”.
  12. ^ The English Baronetage:: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of …
    By Thomas Wotton, Vol II, London, 1741, p.243 [3]
  13. ^ Symonds, Sir William; Sharp, James A. (1858). Memoirs of the Life and Services of Rear-Admiral Sir William Symonds: Surveyor of the Navy from 1832 to 1847. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. pp. 2–4. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  14. ^ Joseph Jackson Howard, ‘Spring’, The Visitation of Suffolk ( Whittaker and Co, 1866), pp.165-206.
  15. ^ William John Courthope, Synopsis of the Extinct Baronetage of England (Rivington, 1835), p.187.