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On Michaelmas 1570 John Shafto, Esq., alienated property in Brenkley, Northumberland, and one third of the manor to "John ffenwyck gen."
On 7 Feb. 1571 "John Fenwyk of Brenkley, gen:" was a witness to the will of Randall Fenwick, Gent., of Kirkharle, Northumberland.
On Michaelmas 1573 John Brysko, Esq., alienated to "John ffenwick gen." property in Brenkley and one third of the manor.
On 22 Apr. 1584 he appeared aged about 40 years as a witness to a chancery deposition.
On 24 Nov. 1585 he made his will devising his lands and tenements in Brenkley to his three sons [John, Martin, & Robert] successively in tail male.
On 26 May 1590 Marmaduke Fenwick, Gent., of Kirkharle, left a small bequest to each of the children of "my cosen Johne Fenwick, laite of Brenkleye, deceased."
The second John Fenwick of Brenkley leaves some of his earlier life open to discussion. In the first quarter of the 1600s there are two congregations of Fenwicks in Ponteland Parish [one in Prestwick & one in Brenkley]. There are also references to two men named John Fenwick in the parish register. The residence of one cannot be determined from the parish register and I also cannot find reference to him in Quarter Sessions Rolls or other contemporary records. He was John Fenwick who was buried 10 July 1620, and whose wife Elizabeth was buried on 11 June 1617. The following baptisms from Ponteland Parish appear to refer to his children: (1) Ursula Fenwick - chr. 6 Jan. 1607/8, (2) Dorothy Fenwick - chr. 17 Mar. 1610/11, (3) Michael Fenwick - chr. 1 May 1614, and possibly Isabella Fenwick - chr. 27 Aug. 1615 [but she could also possibly belong to the other John Fenwick that follows].
The other John Fenwick survived the other man with the same name as was consistently called in various records John Fenwick, Gent., of Brenkley. He certainly seems to be the man who married Jennet Pye on 10 Nov. 1612 and had the following children baptized in Ponteland Parish: (1) Jennet Fenwick - chr. 14 Mar. 1612/3, (2) Cuthbert Fenwick - chr. 29 Dec. 1614, and (3) Jane Fenwick - chr. 29 Nov. 1618. Alan Fenwick Radcliffe in his 1921 article "Notes on the Fenwicks of Brenkley," Archaeologia Aeliana, 3rd series, vol. 18, pp. 66-82, that this John Fenwick of Brenkley died s.p.m. and includes none of his descendants in his article which is based mostly on three chancery court cases beginning in 1647 and ending in 1714 involving the descendants of John's younger brother Robert. I appears the author of that article overlooked other possibilities to explain their absence at that time. Child #2 and #3 of John Fenwick of Brenkley mentioned above were immigrants to North America in the 1630s.
Some notes on the this second John Fenwick of Brenkley:
On 13 Mar. 1624/5 Nicholas Midforth, servant of John Fenwick, Gent., of Brenkley, was buried in Ponteland Parish.
In 1626 John Fenwick, Gent., of Brenkley leased the manor house at Ellingham from the Earl of Annandale for seven years at the rent of L60 per annum.
On 7 Oct. 1629 and 13 Jan. 1629/30 he was a grand juror at the Northumberland Quarter Sessions held at Morpeth.
On 15 Sept. 1633 John Fenwick of Brenkley was a godfather at the christening of Robert Gardner's son John at St. Andrew, Newcastle, Northumberland.
The majority of the registers from Ponteland Parish are missing for the years 1630 to 1676 so that likely explains the absence for a definite placement of his death.
In a 1647 chancery case the Fenwicks of Brenkley claimed their ancestors had held Brenkley for over a hundred years, so it appears likely that the first John Fenwick mentioned above was married to a granddaughter of one of the four daughters and co-heiresses of Robert Bertram of Brenkley and Benwell; and mostly likely to one of the four daughters of John Shafto, Esq., of Little Bavington, who was a son of Cuthbert Shafto and Isabella Bertram.
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