Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset
???? - 1574

Relationship to me: unrelated  
Born ????  
Died ????  
Age ??  
Father:      Sir Thomas Wyndham ???? - 1522 or 1530
Mother: Eleanor Scrope ???? - ????
Brothers: Sir Edmund Wyndham
Sisters: Margarat Wyndham
  two others
Married: Elizabeth Sindenham (see below) 1506 - 1571
Children:  Edmund Wyndham ???? - ????
  John Wyndham (see below)  


In Oct 2020, Gay Brennan established that the Wyndhams are not ancestors of the Newmans as used to be thought. See note on Dinah Wyndam's page.


Earlier notes from Jerry Gandolfo:

Sir John Wyndham: By his marriage to Elizabeth Syndenham, he acquired the estate now called Orchard Wyndham in Somerset.

Sources: Hand-written notes from an unknown source passed down from Harold Ernest Montague Newman
Website: http://papayne.rootsweb.com/d0019/f0000086.html#I15725
Burke's , The Landed Gentry

John Wyndhan: married Florence Wadham, sister of Nicholas Wadham, founder of Wadham College, Oxford, who died August 25, 1572;

Elizabeth Sydenham:
Born: 1506
Died: 1571
Father: John Syndenham
Mother: Elizabeth Hody
Married: Sir John Wyndham of Felbrigg
Children: Edmund Wyndham; Charles Wyndham; and Humphrey Wyndham
Siblings: John Syndenham (married Catherine Poulett); and Jane Syndenham (married Sir Thomas Bruges)
Note: Daughter and co-heir of John Syndenham of Orchard

Sources: Hand-written notes from an unknown source passed down from Harold Ernest Montague Newman
Website: http://papayne.rootsweb.com/d0019/f0000086.html#I15725
Burke's , The Landed Gentry


Page updated 14 Oct 2020 - severence of Wyndhams from Newman ancestry based on information from Gay Brennan.
Page created 25 July 2002