Mary Newlyn née Complyn (1721 to 1792)

Mary Complyn was a great-great-grandmother of Harriet Eliza Boyes who became the wife of John Parsons the Southampton publican. She was therefore a three times great-grandfather of Sidney Parsons who was the grandfather of the author of this web page.

Mary was born in Morestead in Hampshire late in the year 1721 or early in 1722. She was baptised there in the Parish Church on the eighth of February of that year. Her father was John Complyn who came from a family of yeoman farmers in the village. Read more about them at the following link — The Complyn Family of Morestead.

The chart below shows three generations of Mary’s ancestors. Her mother Elizabeth came from the Goldfinch family who had farmed in Compton, a village south of Winchester in central southern England, since before the civil war and her father John was descended from The Complyns of Weeke & Headbourne Worthy. Weeke and Headbourne Worthy are small villages to the north of Winchester.

Mary was the seventh of her parents’ ten children; she had three older brothers, three older sisters, and three younger brothers.

In 1729, when Mary was only seven years old, her mother died. Mary probably continued to live in Morestead with her father until he died in 1744. By then Mary’s older sisters were married but Mary moved to Easton, a small village about two miles north of Morestead, where she probably lived with relatives.

Mary married John Newlyn in Easton on the 18^th of November 1745. John’s family were farmers who lived in the southern part of the parish of Tichborne which is close to Morestead where Mary had grown up.

Mary and John lived in Easton for several years in a small cottage known as The Water House. Their first six children were born there: John, Thomas, Mary, William, Elizabeth and Robert. William, who later became the father-in-law of John Boyes of Owslebury, has his own biographical web page.

In 1755 Mary, John and their family moved to Compton, south of Winchester, where John took a lease of 21 years on New Barn Farm, the second largest farm in the village. The lease was arranged by Richard Goldfinch, Mary’s cousin, who gave up the lease in their favour. Mary and John had three more children, Richard, Faith and James, while they lived in Compton, but in 1768 they were struck by tragedy. Three of the children died in quick succession. The first of them, Richard was buried on the 28^th of May, Faith was buried on the 5^th of June, and Elizabeth just four days later on the 9^th.

John and Mary lived in Compton for the rest of their lives but records show that he had kept at least some of his land in Easton.

Mary died in April 1792 and was buried in the chrurchyard at Compton on the 30^th of that month. She was survived by her husband John Newlyn.

Children of Mary Complyn and John Newlyn

Mary’s son William Newlyn, who was baptised in Ovington near Easton in 1751, was a great-great-great-grandfather of the author of this web page. William’s daughter, Faith married John Boyes of Owslebury. You can read about William by clicking on the following link: William Newlyn’s biographical web page.

To read more about John and Mary’s other children click on the following link — The Children of Mary Complyn and John Newlyn

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You are free to make use of the information in these web pages in any way that you wish but please be aware that the author, Mike Parsons, is unable to accept respsonsibility for any errors or omissions.

Mike can be contacted at parsonspublic@gmail.com

The information in these web pages comes from a number of sources including: Hampshire County Records Office, Somerset Heritage Centre; Dorset County Records Office; Southampton City Archives; the General Register Office; several on-line newspaper archives; several on-line transcriptions of Parish Register Entries; and several on-line indexes of births, marriages and deaths. The research has also been guided at times by the published work of others, both on-line and in the form of printed books, and by information from personal correspondence with other researchers, for all of which thanks are given. However, all of the information in these web pages has been independently verified by the author from original sources, facimile copies, or, in the case of a few parish register entries, transcriptions published by on-line genealogy sites. The author is aware that some other researchers have in some cases drawn different conclusions and have published information which is at variance from that shown in these web pages.