Annabelle Browne

Updated Wed 13th Nov 2024, by W.J.E.Wingfield;
Annabelle Browne was possibly the daughter of John or Anthony Browne.[1][2]
She was also known as "Annabella, a widow, of Co.Limerick", possibly a daughter of a soldier from Browne of Awney, Co.Limerick, who fell during a siege. She may have been the widow of Capt. William Apsley, of Limerick. [3]
She was married to Thomas Spring.[1] Thomas Spring was born in Suffolk, England, the son of Thomas Spring and Julian Fairey.[1][2][3][4]
He was the first of the Spring family to settle in Ireland.[1][2]
He married Annabelle Browne.[1] The marriage occurred after 1580.[5] Thomas and Annabelle's children were:

1. Thomas Spring[1][2][3][4]
2. Walter Spring[1][2][3][4]
3. Elizabeth Spring[2][4]
4. Frances Spring[2][4]
5. Susanna Spring[2][4]
6. Alice Spring[2][4]
7. Annabella Spring[2][4]

Thomas served as High Sheriff of Kerry, Ireland in 1592.[1]
He died on 22 August 1597.[1][4]

• Birth year guessed.
• Father: John Browne from Wikipedia,[1] Anthony Browne from The Peerage.[2]

Two different mothers are recorded for Annabelle (Annabella) Brown(e):

1. She is recorded in the Journal of the Royal Society of Ireland page 323 as the 4th daughter of Annabella Brown of Carnas, County Limerick and Brown's Castle near Ballybunion, County Kerry in 1584.......

2. She is recorded as the eldest of 10 sisters, daughters to John Browne, commonly called Master of Awney, and Catharine O-Ryan, who's father Dermod was master of the rolls in the Co. palatine of Tipperary. She had a son Edward (by her first husband Apsley) who drowned himself in the river Nore, and being found selo de se, his estate became forfeited and was granted to Francis Mitchel, who conveyed it to two sisters, viz the above Mary, who married Sir Thomas Browne of the Hospital, and Joan, married to Rich.Boyle, gent, who became the first Earl of Cork. Their mother Annabella was again married to Capt. Thomas Spring, who's posterity are settled at Ballycrispin in this County.

• The Antient and Present State of the County of Kerry: Being a Natural, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Historical, and Topographical Description Thereof. ... Embellished with a Large Map ... a Perspective View of the Lake of Killarney, and Other Plates. Undertaken with the Approbation of the Physico-Historical Society. By Charles Smith, 1756, Pg 41.