Robert Mohun

Male 1525 - 1580


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  • Born  6 Apr 1525  Bamptor Bridport, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  14 Nov 1580  Fleet, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • BIOGRAPHY: Robert Mohun (Moone) acquired large wealth, bought the manors of Loders, Maltravers and Fleet, lands in Baunton (Bothenhampton) and the manor of Maurgerton, Dorset, lands in Axminster, Devon that had been his father's and four burgages in Bridport. He was the searcher of Port of Poole and a burgess in Parliament for Bridport in 1558.
      BIOGRAPHY: On the north wall of the chancel of the Church of the Holy Trinity, the parish church of Fleet, Dorset, there is (according to Hutchins, op. cit, Vol. 1, p. 546) a brass plate with thefigures of a man and a woman kneeling at a desk, and behind the man are represented nine sons and behind the woman eight daughters. Above, the arms of Mohun impaling Hyde. Below, is the following
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      BIOGRAPHY: "HIC IACET MARGARITA, QUONDAM CASTISSIMA VIRI DIGNISSIME ROBERTI MOHUN, ALIAS OUN DE BOTHENHAMPTON, IN COMITATU DORCESTRENSI ARMIGERI, QUAE ETIAM COMITATU ARMIGERI. HAEC XVII LIBORUM FELICISSIMA FUIT PATENS, VIXIT ANNOS CIRCITER XC, AC IN DOMINO REQUISCIT. OBIT PRIM DIE DECEMERIS, ANNO REGN SERENISSIMI JACOBI ANGLORUM REGIS I. ACSCOTIAE XXXVI, SALUTI, MCDCIII"

      Information taken from Denise Moon’s entries on ancestry.com
    Person ID  I22676  Moon Anderson Family History & Genealogy
    Last Modified  7 Aug 2017 

    Father  Richard Mohun,   b. Abt 1495, Hawkchurch, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1570, Bridport, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Joan Howman,   b. Abt 1493, Bridport, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1547, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  21 Jul 1517  England, Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F9537  Group Sheet

    Family  Margaret Hyde,   b. Abt 1523, Hyde, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Dec 1603, West Fleet, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  Abt 1548  Tauton, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • _STAT MARRIED
    Children 
     1. Robert Moone,   b. 1555, Newsham, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Jan 1615, Woodplumpton, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Alice Mary Moone,   b. Abt 1556, Baumpton, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Jul 1628, Exeter, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Maximillian Moone,   b. 1 Feb 1564, Fleet, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Oct 1612, Fleet, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Mary Mohun,   b. Abt 1567, Baumpton, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Joan Mohun,   b. Abt 1569, Baumpton, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. William Mohun,   b. 1570, Isle Wight, Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1664, Isle Wight, Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. John Moone,   b. 19 May 1605, Maugerton, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1626
    Last Modified  25 Aug 2017 
    Family ID  F2877  Group Sheet


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