Hi there 'Trees'
I wonder if you are still here and whether you ended up sorting out the Packington Tomkyns mystery? I have found these people also as a result of helping a friend with TOMKYNS research. Have downloaded (and transcribed) numerous PCC wills, and also found on Google Books: Collections Towards the History and Antiquities of the County of Hereford (vol.2) by John Duncumb AM, pub. 1812 which has a chapter on Buckenhill. I believe there are a few errors here. He says, inter alia:
- John Tomkyns Esq, a free burgess of Bromyard, bought Buckenhill from Mr Flackett 1660
- Tomkyns' originally from Worcestershire (yes, think that's right)
- John married a Miss Eyre "who was related to the Packingtons" (don't know)
- had issue Nathaniel who married a daughter of Baynham Esq.
- He had issue: "Packington Tomkyns who married Mary a daughter and co heiress of Bohun esq of Newhouse in Warwickshire"
I believe that this last statement is wrong on both counts because:
a) the only Nathaniel Tomkyns I can find died 1681 and was of Merton, Worcestershire - am still struggling with his will, but am almost certain that he had NO issue! However he had a cousin John, and an uncle John (I give to my first cousin John Tomkins sonn of John brother to my ffather)
b) Packington Tomkyns who d. April 1754, Bromyard, Herefordshire, left a wife Elizabeth. Although I suspect that he married twice - he only names his younger children in his will, though the eldest son, George gets to administer the estate, I doubt that either wife was Mary Bohun.**
When George Bohun Esq of Newhouse d. 1710 he left a widow Mary, and a daughter Mary, but she was married to Roland (or Rowland) Berkeley Esq. No Tomkyns are mentioned, though when George's brother Ralph dies in 1717, there is an oblique reference in his will to "my cozen Tomkins"
If you've managed to follow this ramble and have any comments or records of the marriages I would be interested to read them!
**Incidentally I agree with John Duncumb's names of descendents from here on.
Sylvia