William Lane

THE IRISH FOUNDER: William Lane, one of the '49 officers'; granted KILLEENS (renamed Lanes Park) & DERRIGEAR, 594 acres, Co. Tipperary, 13 Nov 1666 (Vol 3, Report of Irish Record Commission); of CATTIGANSTOWN, barony Slievardagh; will dated 30 Nov 1672, pr. Prerog. Dublin (destroyed 1922; Cavenagh's abstract survives): wife Jane (Morrish); son WILLIAM b. 1659, a minor, to have Killeens & Ballyraneny at 21 (1680); daus. Sarah, Abigail, Elizabeth (m. John Minchin); remainder to 'his nephew William Lane, son of his brother JOHN LANE, one of His Majesty's servants'; executors his brother-in-law John Morrish of Waterford, tanner, and Thomas Cleer; overseers incl. Capt. Mathew Jacob. THE JOIN TO BENTLEY - CONTESTED (regraded July 2026 on reading Cavenagh's full typescript): (A) Burke's LG 1848/Commoners, H. Murray Lane (Chester Herald, Genealogical Magazine Jul 1897) and Maj-Gen. Wrottesley (Staffs Hist. Collections 1910 p.188) all make the Irish founder WILLIAM OF SHELTON, son of Thomas Lane of Bentley x Anne Bagot - i.e. JANE LANE'S BROTHER (bapt. Wolverhampton Aug 1625). (B) Cavenagh's objections: the will's brother John Lane was seemingly alive in royal service 1672, but Col. John Lane d. 1667 with no recorded son William (though Burke's does say 'with OTHER issue'); and Gregory King's Staffordshire pedigree (Harleian Soc. vol 63, 1912, p.152) has William of Shelton LIVING 1683, m. a Collins, with three daughters only - which cannot be our 1672 testator. Cavenagh proposed instead an EARLIER William of the same Bentley stock (to Ireland 1625; 'cousin german to the Earl of Oxford' via the Trentham marriage - CSP Ireland Feb 1625), whose son was the 1666 grantee - making the Tipperary Lanes Jane Lane's FIRST COUSINS, not her brother's line. EITHER WAY the Bentley kinship stands (arms retained: per fess or and az, a chevron gu between 3 mullets counterchanged, motto Fide et Amore); but the BAGOT/CECIL ancestry holds ONLY under reading (A). Grade: kinship ~; the specific Thomas x Anne Bagot parentage ? CONTESTED. FINAL VERDICT (3 Jul 2026, all printed sources now read): the claim AS PRINTED IS BROKEN. (i) Gregory King (c.1683): William of Shelton alive in England, 'aet. 60 et supra', m. a Collins, three daughters, no sons, no Ireland. (ii) H. Murray Lane's own book ('Lane of Bentley Hall', 1910, p.8, photographed by Aynsley) says William of Shelton 'settled in Ireland in 1667' - a year AFTER the Nov 1666 grant to the '49 officer, who by definition had served in Ireland before Jun 1649 - 'and died in 1700, leaving three sons Ambrose, Matthew and Gilbert', demonstrably the sons of WILLIAM II of Killeens (d.1698, Ossory will): the Chester Herald conflated two men. (iii) Col. John Lane's children (HoP 1660-90; Murray Lane; Harleian 63): one son Thomas and eight daughters - NO William - so the 1672 will's 'nephew William, son of my brother John' cannot be satisfied at Bentley. (iv) No spare William in any other Bentley generation. THE LANES PARK FOUNDER CANNOT BE PLACED IN THE DOCUMENTED BENTLEY PEDIGREE. Kinship, if real, is via an undocumented collateral: candidates incl. the Monmouthshire branch (Burke's: 'Richard, of Kiernes, in Monmouthshire'; Murray Lane: 'Michael resided at Kearns, co. Monmouth') and cf. the LANES OF VERNON MOUNT, CORK (Murray Lane 1910, p.16 note: another Irish family claiming descent from this same William of Shelton, bearing the same lion-passant-guardant crest the Lanes Park family used). The retained Bentley arms + two Irish families' shared claim still argue SOME real connection - unproven. Open question reframed: WHO was the '49 officer? (Dalton's '49 list has FOUR Lanes: Richard, Thomas, William and Major Lane.) See Operation William Lane, final section. VERDICT REVISED (later July 2026, on reading the printed sources): Gregory King's near-contemporary Staffordshire pedigree (Harleian Soc. vol 63, 1912, p.152, compiled c.1683 from the family) shows William of Shelton ALIVE in England 1683, 'aet. 60 et supra', m. a COLLINS, with THREE DAUGHTERS (Dorothy, Elizabeth m. Russel of Wolverhampton, Jane) and NO SONS, and NO mention of Ireland - he cannot be the 1672 Cattiganstown testator unless King was misinformed. King also lists Col. John Lane's children in detail (eldest son died before baptism; Thomas; daughters incl. Elizabeth m. Humphrey Jervis, Lord Mayor of Dublin 1682-3) - NO son William, so the will's 'nephew William son of my brother John' fails there too. Wrottesley's 1910 sentence ('William Lane of Shelton, born 1625, who settled in Ireland, was the ancestor of the Lanes of co. Tipperary', SHC 1910 p.188) cites NO evidence. Cavenagh's earlier-generation theory is ALSO excluded (King: the previous generation's spare sons 'lived at Court but died unmarr.'). THE PARENT LINK HAS THEREFORE BEEN DETACHED: the Bentley kinship claim rests on the retained arms, Burke's, and Wrottesley, and stays as CLAIMED KIN (tradition-grade); the Tipperary founder's true parentage is an open question. Remaining discriminators: Staffordshire Hearth Tax 1666 (a William Lane at Shelton?); Col. John Lane's probate; Database of Court Officers (a John Lane in royal service alive 1672 with son William); the 1625 CSP Ireland entry. See Operation William Lane. [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 24 Jul 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.]