Captain Giles Penn

Abt 1573 - 1656  (83 years)

• Name	Giles Penn
  Title	Captain
  Born	Abt 1573
  Gender	Male
  Died	1656
  Person ID	I1776	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2019

  
  

  Father	William Penn,   b. Abt 1544,   d. 1588  (Age 44 years)
  Mother	Margaret Rastall,   b. 1548, Bristol, Gloucester, England ,   d. 1570, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England  (Age 22 years)
  Married	1570	Bristol, England, (Present UK)
  	Spouse: Margaret Penn (born Rastall)
  Family ID	F670	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Joan Gilbert
  Children	1. Rachell Penn,   b. 24 Feb 1607, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. 1669, Eccles, Lancashire, England  (Age 61 years)
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2019
  Family ID	F668	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	William Bradshaw,   b. 1632, England
  Children	1. Isaac Plumley  [natural]
  Last Modified	20 Feb 2014
  Family ID	F0669	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Giles Penn son of William Penn, the law clerk of Malmesbury, and his wife Margaret Rastall, was born perhaps about 1573. Brigadier Hogg suggests that he may have been named for Giles, Lord Chandos who , in 1573, became lord of the manor of Minety. He was apprenticed as "Egidius Penne, filius Willinup.de Myntie... defunct," to the linen draper, John Horte of Bristol, and Juliane his wife, on 1 May 1593, a year after his grandfather's will was offered for probate. It was as "Gylles Penn draper," that he was admitted to the "Liberties" of Bristol on 3 April 1600 "because he was Prentice of Mr John Horte, Alderman, Deceased" (note 11) The following 5 November 1600 he married at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, Joan Gilbeart (Gilbert), of a family originally from Yorkshire. From draper Giles Penn progressed to Merchant with his younger brother William and by 1618 had been overtaken with financial losses. In 1630 records show that he was traveling between the Babary Coast, importing and selling assorted goods. Styled Captain Penn in 1631. he was in London in 1636, and the following year when he was appointed resident consul for Charles I at Sallee ( Sale Morocco), he was described as " a man well experienced in the language and custom of said country." He was deceased, probably overseas, by 1656, when a new consul was appointed at Sallee. The apprenticeship and citizenship records sited in the text above are from NEHGR, 54, 326-327. For a more extended account of Giles Penn see Hogg, Furtheright, 27-31.