He served his apprenticeship at sea with his father. As noted earlier the Admiral is buried in St Mary Redcliffe church, Bristol, England. The Penn family of Penn were unrelated to William Penn (after whose father, Admiral Sir William Penn, Pennsylvania is named), whose family came from Wiltsire. We must remember that Penn was also a member of the landed gentry, and that despite his true interest in (relative) democracy and religious toleration, he was ‘proprietor’ of his Pennsylvania manor. He was warden of Bradon Forest. ... ( Christopher's sister).He was grandfather of Admiral Sir William Penn. Admiral William Penn. He is also known as a famous Quaker. William was the son of Admiral Sir William Penn. Genealogy for William Penn (c.1548 - 1610) family tree on Geni, ... the second part was an ammendment made out after his 1st son, William, died in 1590. He was the father of William Penn, founder of the Province of Pennsylvania. After Admiral Penn’s naval defeat in the West Indies in 1655, the family moved back to London and then to Ireland. [1] William Penn, Sr. served in the Commonwealth Navy during the English Civil War and was rewarded by Oliver Cromwell with estates in Ireland. Admiral Sir William Penn, 'the famous father of an even more famous son', wrote the code of naval tactics, which formed the basis of the Duke of York's Sailing and Fighting Instructions, the standard book on tactics for the Royal Navy for much of the next two centuries. What many people in Bristol, including many of Jamaican decent, do not know is that he was the Sea General responsible for the attack on the Spanish slave colony of Jamaica and annexing it as an English colony in 1654. Sir William son is known, of course, as the founder of Pennsylvania.
Admiral Sir William Penn was the father of the Quaker William Penn.
Sir William Penn was an English admiral and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1670. Bradon Forest The story of the Bradon Forest began many years ago. He acquired the foundations of a classical education at the Chigwell grammar school in the Essex countryside, where he came under Puritan influences. William Penn was born on month day 1644, at birth place, to Admiral Sir William Penn, MP and Hannah Penn, MP (born Hollister). In 1735 the manor of Penn, passed from the unmarried Roger Penn to his sole heir and sister, who was married to the 3rd Baronet Scarsdale, an ancestor of the Lords Curzon. Admiral was born on April 23 1621, in St. Thomas Parish, Bristol, Somerset, England, UK. William Penn was born in London in 1644, the son of Admiral Sir William Penn and Margaret Jasper, previously widowed and the daughter of a Rotterdam merchant. Penn was born in St. Thomas Parish, Bristol to Giles Penn and Joan Gilbert.