Edward Spanne Family History

Child
Margrett Spanne	b. about 1622 Bromborough, Cheshire Co., England	d.	m.
Anne Spanne	b. about 1624 Bromborough, Cheshire Co., England	d.	m.
Richard Spanne	b. 18 Aug 1624 perhaps in Bromborough, Cheshire Co., England	d. about 1688 Bromborough, Cheshire Co., England	m. Dorcas Broster 1647 Bromborough, Cheshire, England*
Katherin Spanne	b. about 1622 Bromborough, Cheshire Co., England
Mary Spanne	b. about 1622 Bromborough, Cheshire Co., England
Elizabeth Spanne	christ. 13 Jul 1626 Bromborough, Cheshire Co., England

1652- Edward Spann seems to have been arrested for insulting the Mayor of Chester. A number of documents relate to this individual.

FILE - [no title] - ref. ZM/L/3/352 - date: [1652-3]
Draft letter from William Bennett, Mayor, Randle Holme and John Johnson to [ ? ]. They enclose copies of several examinations which they have taken concerning Edward Spanne, a Citizen of Chester, who appears to be guilty of many horrid blasphemies and foul misdemeanours. Upon his examintaion, some of them committed him to prison until he found sureties to appear at Quarter Sessions. Having done this, he repaired to London to the Lord General, and complained against them for his imprisonment. The Lord General dismissed him, but he then betook himself to the Common Law, and has served several of them with writs to appear in the Exchequer at Westminster next term, on the ground of his imprisonment. He has spoken reproachfully not only against the government of the City, but also against His Excellency and him. They ask that if Spanne makes a loud outcry for being committed for these speeches, he will procure the examinations to be read in their justification. They ask him to endeavour to have him punished "or at least that his hellish mouth bee stop'd", as their hands are likely to be tied by certioraris and habeas corpuses. [Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service. http://www.a2a.org.uk/]

FILE - [no title] - ref. ZM/L/3/362 - date: 19th July, 1653
[Copy of] letter from Tho. Elliott, "Member of Jesus Christ and his Common wealth", to Captain Glynne, Captain of Colonel Tomlinson's troop; from Blackedogge, Newgate Market, London. Divers malevolent persons have illegally imprisoned his servant Edward Spanne in Chester for no other cause but "advanceinge of excellencies and armyes designes and preservacion of the peace of the Commonwealth". This is well known to Colonel Tomlinson, who was one of the Council of State when William Longe, the writer's servant in Sussex, was examined in similar circumstances. He requests him to send Spanne, bound in good bonds, to appear before his Excellency and the Council of State, the Council of War, or Parliament, or before the Mayor of Chester, or else to enlarge him if he renders the same account of his actions as Longe did, and shows the petition he invited the people to sign. [Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service. http://www.a2a.org.uk/]

I have no other information on this family than what is listed. The records are available through the LDS Family Research Center. The dates for the births of children cannot be accurate because the date listed for the marriage is the same as the births of the children. All we can assume from this is a very approximate time. I had thought at first that some of the children were twins but not like this. The records are extracted from the parish records for Cheshire co., England. The birth order and dates are probably very different than what I have listed.