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Admiral William Penn

Male 1621 - 1670  (49 years)    Has 8 ancestors and 33 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name William Penn 
    Prefix Admiral 
    Birth 23 Apr 1621  St. Thomas Parish, Bristol, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 16 Sep 1670 
    Burial Bristol, Avon, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I630267  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 7 Sep 2008 

    Father Giles Penn,   b. 1573   d. 1641-1656, Fex Or, Morocoo Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Margaret Gilbert   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 5 Nov 1600  St. Mary Redcliff, Bristol, , Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F274625  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret Jasper   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 6 Jun 1643 
    Children 
    +1. William Penn,   b. 14 Oct 1644, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Jul 1718, Ruscombe, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
     2. Margaret Penn   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Richard Penn   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F274624  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Sep 2008 

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  • Notes 
    • In the First Anglo-Dutch War , he served in the navy of the Commonwealth of England , commanding squadrons at the battles of the Kentish Knock ( 1652 ), Portland , the Gabbard and Scheveningen ( 1653 ).
      In 1655 he commanded the fleet that launched a bungled attack on La Hispaniola ; afterwards the less desireable island of Jamaica was seized for the Commonwealth regime.
      At the Restoration he was sent in the Naseby (later the Royal Charles ) to fetch king Charles II over to England.
      In the Second Anglo-Dutch War he was captain of the fleet at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665 under James Stuart, Duke of York .
      The key source for the adult life of Penn is the Diary of his next door neighbour Samuel Pepys . In 1660 Penn was appointed a Commissioner of the Navy Board where he worked with Pepys, Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board.
      Like Pepys and the Earl of Sandwich (Pepys' patron at the Navy Board) Penn was a "moderate" Roundhead who had succeeded in maintaining his position at the Restoration. Unsurprisingly, Penn appears several times in Pepys diary most vividly in an entry for 1665 when we read,
      "At night home and up to the leads [roof], were contrary to expectation driven down again with a stinke by Sir W. Pen's shying of a shitten pot in their house of office"
      A native of the West Country Sir William Penn is buried in the church of St. Mary Redcliffe in Bristol . His helm and half-armour are hung on the wall, together with the tattered banners of the Dutch ships that he captured in battle.



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