Knighted 6
th April 1680 (
https://books.google.ae/books?id=l4xUsPyL6koC&lpg=RA1-PA254&ots=vcVBDo3AdD&dq=sir%20john%20edwards%20%22heath%20house%22&pg=RA1-PA254#v=onepage&q=sir%20john%20edwards%20%22heath%20house%22&f=false).
https://books.google.ae/books?redir_esc=y&id=LrpdbHHrvOoC&q=edwards#v=snippet&q=edwards&f=false
Details on Heath House:
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1180036 which he acquired through his marriage to Arabella Heath.
Suggests that a) John Edwards was at least 18 in 1660, and that his wife Arabella was the daughter of Richard Heath.
Parts of his estate were sold by his widow and eldest son Arthur in 1706/7 to pay off his debts.
Heath House:
Country house. Circa 1660 for John Edwards, son in law of Richard Heath
See also
https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2021/12/504-beale-of-heath-house-leintwardine.html
Family Life
Apparently had 19 children (13 sons and 6 daughters). I have found:
- Richard, bapt. 1669
- Anne, bapt. 1670 and or Dorothy, also bapt. 1670
- Edward, bapt. 1673
- Arabella, bapt. 1678
Death
Died in February 1704, as described in
Journals of the House of Commons Vol. 15:
A Petition of Dame Arabella Edwards, Widow and Relict of Sir John Edwards, of Heath House, in the county of Salop, Knight, deceased, and Arthur Edwards, her Son, was presented to the House...setting forth that the said Sir John, some short time after his Marriage, settled several Lands and Tenements upon himself, and the Petitioner, for Life, Remainder in Tail Male, with a Power to charge the Premises with Portions for younger Children; that Sir John died in February 1704, leaving Issue the Petitioner Arthur, and two Daughters, all infants...
Abt 1625 - 1704 (~ 79 years)
(Age 73 years)