Henrietta LE NEVE [23019]

  General Notes:

Henrietta married her distant cousin, Edward Le Neve, and their son Peter lived in Norwich and Ringland, a parish close to Witchingham. Henrietta seems to have been a very bright young woman.
Her uncle Peter records this in his diary: "Henrietta Le Neve came of age 21 years old, the 11th February 1717, and the birthday kept at Wichingham in great splendour while I and Mrs. Neve absent, and drank me out of one hogshead of nog". Nog was a very strong kind of beer peculiar to East Anglia and a hogshead is about 60 gallons.
Ref: http://www.leneve.com/chapter3.htm


Peter Le Neve, late of the city of Norwich, Esq
We must now turn back to Henrietta Le Neve, Oliver Le Neve's youngest daughter, who married a distant cousin, Edward Le Neve of Soho.
The wedding took place on 3rd July 1718 in St. Paul's Cathedral and Edward and Henrietta afterwards settled down in Soho Square.
There were three children of the marriage, Peter, born in 1719, Elizabeth, born in 1720 and Robert, born in 1723. Robert died in infancy,

Elizabeth married Vice-Admiral Pigot, R.N., and Peter appears to have left London and settled in Norfolk.
There is no record of Henrietta's death, but it is known that Edward married a second time, and curiously enough another relation, Mary Le Neve of Richmond.
It may well have been that Peter objected to his father remarrying or he may have quarrelled with his stepmother and this may account for his move to Norfolk.

His sister Elizabeth would, of course, have escaped from her stepmother by her marriage to Admiral Pigot.
Quite when or how Peter came to East Anglia is not known, but if one remembers that his great Uncle Peter's second wife was the daughter and heiress of Robert Beeston, the Witchingham miller, he may well have inherited property and possibly the lease of Lenwade Mill from this source.
He also had a substantial inheritance from his Aunt Isabella Le Neve, but this cannot have helped him very much as he only got the benefit of it during the last year of his life.

The Phillips Manuscript has this to say:
"Copy of Monument in Ringland Church. Sacred to the memory of Isabella Le Neve, late of Arlington Street, Westminster, eldest daughter of Oliver Le Neve of Great Witchingham in this county Esq., who was younger brother of Peter Le Neve Esq., Norroy King of Arms. She divided her property which was very considerable between Peter Le Neve of Norwich Esq., her nephew and the children of her sister Elizabeth who married Hugh Pigot Esq. a captain in the Navy".

Obviously Phillips has made a slip of the pen, as Isabella had no sister Elizabeth and an examination of the actual monument confirms that the word given by Phillips as "her" is in fact "his".

Of course this alters the whole sense of the statement and makes it quite clear that what actually happened was that Isabella left her fortune to be divided between her nephew Peter Le Neve and the children of his sister Elizabeth, that is, the two Pigot children, her great niece and great nephew.
As Isabella died in 1759 at the age of seventy-four and Peter, her nephew in 1760 aged forty-one, he gained little from his inheritance, but no doubt his daughters did so as they were able to make some quite extensive land sales at a later date.
Posted 26 Sep 2020 by Svitlana Condliff on Ancestry

Henrietta married Lord Edward LE NEVE of Soho [23018] [MRIN: 8277], son of Lord Edward LE NEVE of Soho [34733] and Elizabeth [34734], on 3 Jul 1718 in St Pauls Cathedral LND. (Lord Edward LE NEVE of Soho [23018] was born on 9 May 1693 in Soho Sq London and died circa 1719 in St Botolph Aldgate LND.)