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The Dublin King: The True Story of Lambert Simnel and the Princes in the Tower

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by John Ashdown-Hill


  The UK list below – incomplete though it appears to be – certainly indicates that during the past 500 years the surname Simnel(l) was never common in England. But it was by no means unknown. To offer a statistical comparison, similar searches over the same time period were conducted, relating to three of the rarer surnames which figure in my own ancestry. These produced the following figures:

  SEVIL

  approximately 470 entries.3

  BAULSOM

  approximately 280 entries.4

  MINEVEH

  only 16 entries.5 (However, Mineveh is very rare because it is a rather idiosyncratic variant of the slightly less rarified surname Minifie.)

  There certainly are living individuals in the UK bearing the surnames Sevil and Baulsom. Therefore it is not completely impossible that living Simnel(l)s also still exist somewhere.

  If there are any living males who bear the hereditary surname Simnel(l), I should be delighted to hear from them. It would be interesting to explore whether there is an identifiable Simnel(l) Y-chromosome. In other words do/did the bearers of this surname represent a single family? It would also be very interesting to be able to compare the Simnel(l) Y-chromosome(s) with the Plantagenet Y-chromosome!

  Simnell, ?

  buried 1645, Hampton, Middx

  Simnell, unnamed male

  d. 1869, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs

  Simnell, Abigail

  buried 1695, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnell, Agnes

  buried 1641, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire

  Simnell, Alce

  married 1570, Boxsted, Essex

  Simnell, Alce

  buried 1630, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnell, Alce

  married 1639, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnell, Alce

  married 1797, Manchester, Lancs

  Simnell, Alece

  buried 1588, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex

  Simnell, Ann

  bapt. 1633, Hayes, Middx.

  Simnell, Ann

  buried 1685, Holy Trinity, Cambridge

  Simnel, Anna

  married 1645, Hurworth, Durham

  Simnell, Anne

  married 1632, St Benet, Paul’s Wharf, London

  Simnell, Anne

  living London, 1661

  Simnell, Anne

  living London, 1676

  Simnel, Anne

  buried 1749, Burslem, Staffs

  Simnell, Audrey T.

  married 1944, Lichfield, Staffs

  Simnel, Clement

  buried 1735, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnell, Dorothy

  married 1635, St Martin, Ludgate, London

  Simnell, Edward T.

  married 1944, Wenlock, Shropshire

  Simnel, Eliza

  b. 1854, Stafford – still living 1871

  Simnel, Eliza Jane

  bapt. 1861, Eastchurch, Kent

  Simnell, Elizabeth

  buried 1615, Ipswich, Suffolk

  Simnell, Elizabeth

  bapt. 1631, Hayes, Middx.

  Simnell, Elizabeth

  buried 1631, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnell, Elizabeth

  buried 1643, Acton Middx.

  Simnell, Elizabeth

  buried 1682, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnel, Elizabeth

  bapt. 1737, Mold, Flintshire

  Simnel, Elizabeth

  buried 1739, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnel, Elizth Hanh

  bapt. 1820, Plymouth, Devon

  Simnel, Elizabeth

  b. 1830 – buried 1831, Wolstanton, Staffs

  Simnell, Elizabeth

  d. 1895, Bangor, Caernarvonshire

  Simnell, Elizth

  b. 1877, living 1881, Cannock, Staffs

  Simnell, Elz

  married 1603, Westminster, Middx

  Simnell, Elz

  married 1626, St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, London

  Simnell, Emily

  b. 1856, living 1881, Nottingham, Notts

  Simnell, George Charles

  married 1886, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs

  Simnell, Hannah

  married 1869, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs

  Simnell, Henry

  buried 1641, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire

  Simnell, Hernicus [sic]

  buried 1626, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnel, Henry

  married 1899, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs

  Simnell, James

  buried 1641, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnell, Jane

  married 1666, St Aug. & St Faith, London

  Simnel, Jane

  b. 1860 – still living 1881 London, St Giles

  Simnel, Joan

  married 1594, St Margaret, Westminster

  Simnel, Joan

  married 1615, St Clement, Ipswich, Suffolk

  Simnell, Joan(e)

  married 1624, St Margaret, Westminster

  Simnell, Johannes

  buried 1635, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnel, John

  married 1576, St Margaret, Westminster

  Simnell, John

  bapt. 1577, St Margaret, Westminster

  Simnell, John

  married 1598, Westminster, Middx

  Simnell, John

  married 1610, St Margaret, Westminster

  Simnell, John

  buried 1612, St Margaret, Westminster

  Simnel, John

  buried 1613, Westminster, Middx

  Simnell, John

  b. 1857, living 1881, Derby, Derbyshire

  Simnell, Joseph

  b. 1835, living 1881, Derby, Derbyshire

  Simnell, Joseph

  married 1883, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs

  Simnell, J.H. (male)

  b. 1887, left Liverpoool for Boston, USA, 1912

  Simnel, M.

  bapt. 1759, Neston, Cheshire

  Simnel, Margaret

  married 1613, St Clement, Ipswich, Suffolk

  Simnell, Mary

  married 1657, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnell, Mary

  buried 1667, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnel, Mary

  buried 1739, Maidstone, Kent

  Simnell, Mary

  b. 1809, living 1881, Liverpool, Lancs

  Simnell, Mary

  b. 1811, living 1901, Worcester, Worcs

  Simnell, Mary

  b. 1823, living 1851, Shoreditch, Middx

  Simnell, Maureen

  d. 1993, Ogwr, Glamorganshire

  Simnel, Michael

  married 1589, St Margaret, Westminster

  Simnell, Micheall [sic]

  buried 1593, St Margaret, Westminster

  Simnel, Michael

  buried 1594, Westminster, Middx

  Simnell, Nancy

  b. 1773, living 1851, Newington, Surrey

  Simnel, Philip Stephen

  b. 1966, East Ham, Essex

  Simnell, Phoebe

  b. 1833, living 1881, Derby, Derbyshire

  Simnell, Richard

  married 1567, Chelmsford, Essex

  Simnel, Richard

  buried 1630, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnell, Richard

  married 1642, St Bartholomew the Great, London

  Simnell, Richard

  buried 1667, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnel, Richard

  b. 1826, Stafford – still living 1871

  Simnell, Rose

  married 1698, Holywell-cum-Needingworth, Huntingdonshire

  Simnell, Samuel

  bapt. 1855, Bebington, Cheshire

  Simnell, Samuel Thomas

  b. 1901, Loughborough, Leics

  Simnell, Sara

  buried 1626, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnel, Sara

  buried 1638, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnell, Sarah

  b. 1691, buried 1776, London

  Simnel, Thomas />
  buried 1620, Westminster, Middx

  Simnel, Thomas

  married 1629, Heston, Middx

  Simnell, Thomas

  buried 1630, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnel, Thomas

  married 1632, London

  Simnel(l), Thomas

  married 1645, Hurworth, Durham

  Simnell, Thomas

  buried 1666, Somersham, Huntingdonshire

  Simnel, Thomas

  bapt. 1722, St Clement Danes, Middx

  Simnel, Thomas

  buried 1723, St Clement Danes, Middx

  Simnel, Thomas

  bapt. 1723, St Clement Danes, Middx

  Simnell, Thomas Frederick

  b. 1858, Wolverhampton, Staffs.

  Simnel, William

  married 1588, Bures, Suffolk

  Simnell, William

  married 1590, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex

  Simnell, William

  married 1643, St Peter, Cambridge, Cambs

  Simnell, William

  married 1686, Whittlesford, Cambs

  Simnel, William

  married 1695, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

  Simnel, William

  buried 1757, Neston, Cheshire

  Simnel, William

  bapt. 1759, Neston, Cheshire

  Simnell, William

  b. 1838, living 1911, Birmingham, Warks

  Map showing locations in England and Wales in which occurrences of the surname SIMNEL have been documented over the last 500 years.

  Notes

  Abbreviations

  CPR

  Calendar of Patent Rolls

  ODNB

  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  PROME

  Parliament Rolls of Medieval England

  1. http://www.findmypast.co.uk, accessed January 2014, and searched under the surnames Simnel and Simnell.

  2. http://search.findmypast.com.au/search/australia-and-new-zealand-records?lastname=simnel&lastname_variants=true&page=10, accessed January 2014. I am grateful to Olga Hughes for her help with this.

  3. http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/all-records/results?forename=&includeForenameVariants=true&_includeForenameVariants

  =on&surname=Sevil&_includeSurnameVariants=on&f, accessed January 2014.

  4. http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/all-records/results?forename=&includeForenameVariants=true&_includeForenameVariants=

  on&surname=Baulsom&_includeSurnameVariants

  =on&fromYear=&toYear=&Region=UK&Search=Search, accessed January 2014.

  5. http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/all-records/results?forename=&includeForenameVariants=true&_includeForenameVariants

  =on&surname=Mineveh&_includeSurname

  Variants=on&fromYear=&toYear=&Region=UK&Search=Search, accessed January 2014.

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