Thomas Janney

Bef 1605 - 1678  (> 72 years)

• Name	Thomas Janney
  Born	Bef 27 Jun 1605	Styal, Cheshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	27 Jun 1605  [2]
  Buried	Feb 1678	Mobberley, Cheshire, England   [3, 4]
  	Address: Friends Burial Ground
  Died	17 Feb 1678	Mobberley, Cheshire, England   [4, 5]
  	Cause: [17da 12mo 1677]
  Person ID	I8245	TangledRoots
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Randle Janney,   b. 23 Feb 1579–80, Styal, Cheshire, England ,   d. 30 Oct 1613, Styal, Cheshire, England
  Mother	Ellen Allrod,   b. 15 Aug 1583, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England ,   d. 13 Jan 1643, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England  (Age 59 years)
  Married	14 Jul 1602	Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
  Family ID	F3316	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Worthington,   bur. Feb 1682, Mobberley, Cheshire, England
  Married	3 Sep 1625	Wilmslow, Cheshire, England   [6]
  Children	1. Mary Janney,   b. Bef 19 Mar 1626, Styal, Pownall Fee, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England ,   d. 3 Sep 1698  (Age > 72 years)   2. Margaret Janney,   b. Bef 16 Mar 1627, Styal, Pownall Fee, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England ,   d. 12 Jan 1674  (Age > 46 years)   3. Martha Janney,   b. Bef 6 Jun 1630, Styal, Pownall Fee, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England ,   d. 4 Apr 1702  (Age > 71 years)   4. Randle Janney,   b. Bef 16 Dec 1632, Styal, Pownall Fee, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England ,   d. 17 May 1674  (Age > 41 years)   5. Thomas Janney,   b. Bef 11 Jan 1634, Styal, Pownall Fee, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England ,   d. 12 Feb 1697, Mobberley, Cheshire, England  (Age > 63 years)   6. Henry Janney,   b. Bef 1 Jan 1637, Styal, Pownall Fee, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England ,   d. 3 Aug 1690, Heaton Norris, Lancashire, England  (Age > 53 years)
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2022
  Family ID	F3348	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - Bef 27 Jun 1605 - Styal, Cheshire, England Married - 3 Sep 1625 - Wilmslow, Cheshire, England Buried - Address: Friends Burial Ground - Feb 1678 - Mobberley, Cheshire, England Died - Cause: [17da 12mo 1677] - 17 Feb 1678 - Mobberley, Cheshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  They became Friends and suffered considerable persecution, including distraint of goods many times, and imprisonment in 1664 for an unspecified length of time, for six months in 1665.[21] Friends met for worship in one another's homes usually twice a week, and then some from each local group gathered once a month to consider the business of the larger group. For this they met in the homes of Thomas Janney, John Badily, John Sharples, Thomas Brassey, John Symcock, and others.[22] In 1679 Thomas, along with 32 other Friends, including Thomas Holmes, George Keith, William Penn, and Thomas Ellwood, signed a testimony against William Rogers of Bristol for circulating a manuscript critical of Robert Barclay's Anarchy of the Ranters without showing it to Barclay or the Second-day meeting in London.[23] This gives an indication of the increasing strength of the Second Day Meeting, and the necessity felt by many Friends to have somewhat more structure to the nascent movement. Thomas's estate inventory, taken 6 Sept. 1678, was valued at £53.19.6; its relative small size is no doubt due to the continued depredations made by unscrupulous informers, constables, and priests. Thomas's will was proved 10 Sept. They had 7 children. [Source: Janney, compiled and copyright by MJP Grundy, 2008]

  
  

• Sources

  [S455] Book: Publications of the Southern History Association, Volume 8, "The Quaker Janneys of Cheshire and Their Progenitors", Article by Miles White, Jr., Baltimore, Md., pg. 275-296. Thomas, their eldest son, was born at Styall, where he continued to live, and where all his children were born. He was bapt. June 27, 1605, and in the church register is recorded as "Thomas Jannie sonne of Randle Jannyne of Styall." [S455] Book: Publications of the Southern History Association, Volume 8, "The Quaker Janneys of Cheshire and Their Progenitors", Article by Miles White, Jr., Baltimore, Md., pg. 275-296. He was bapt. June 27, 1605, and in the church register is recorded as "Thomas Jannie sonne of Randle Jannyne of Styall." [S455] Book: Publications of the Southern History Association, Volume 8, Article by Miles White, Jr., Baltimore, Md. pg. 275. Thomas Janney died 12 mo. 17, 1677, and his widow, Elizabeth, 12 mo. 19, 1681-2, and both were buried in Friends' burial-ground at Mobberley. [S1437] England: & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837, p20 Thomas Janney. Thomas Janney of Pownall Fee in the County of Cheshire deceased the seventeenth day of Twelfth month in the year 1677 and was buried in the Burying place of the people of god in Mobberley. Monthly Meeting of Cheshire, formerly Morley: Mobberley, Congleton: Burials (1688-1742) [S455] Book: Publications of the Southern History Association, Volume 8, "The Quaker Janneys of Cheshire and Their Progenitors", Article by Miles White, Jr., Baltimore, Md., pg. 275-296. Thomas Janney died 12 mo. 17, 1677, and his widow, Elizabeth, 12 mo. 19, 1681-2, and both were buried in Friends' burial-ground at Mobberley. [S455] Book: Publications of the Southern History Association, Volume 8, "The Quaker Janneys of Cheshire and Their Progenitors", Article by Miles White, Jr., Baltimore, Md., pg. 275-296. He married, Sept. 3rd 1625, Elizabeth Worthington, when his name is spelled Janney, but it is generally spelled Janey when his children's baptisms are recorded.