John Mayne
1st Husband of the Countess Dundonald - Isabella Raymond
The family name of Mayne features numerous times in the ancestry of the Raymond family. Isabella Raymond married
John Mayne of Teford, Wiltshire in 1761.
Isabella Mayne married Archibald Cochrane, ninth Earl of Dundonald in
1788. Isabella, the then Right Honourable Countess Dundonald, died in 1831.
As John Mayne died without an heir his estate was left partly to Isabella, his widow, and to the Batt and
Hulbert families. The Tefford Estate was considerable and was split between Isabella and two others.
John Mayne contributed the tenor, 8th bell, to the belfry of St. Mary's Belchamp Walter in 1781. This mean't
that an 8 bell, Major, peel could be performed. According to church records
the first Major peel was recorded as 8th Jan 1781.
The Mayne family
Isabella was the daughter of Samuel Raymond and her older brothers were Philip Honywood and
Samuel Raymond (I have called him "junior"). Samuel junior was the heir of the Raymond estate and the
father of John Mayne St.Clere Raymond. It is not known where the St. Clere originates.
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The Wikitree biography:
The Wikitree notes below are not well formatted but they do give a hint to the connections to Belchamp
Walter.
John was born about 1723. He was the son of John Mayne and Elizabeth (Batt) Mayne. [1]
“Christopher Mayne, esq. b. at Exeter in 1655, who purchased in 1679, the estate of Teffont Ewyas,
in the county of Wilts. He m. Mary, daughter and co-heir (with Dinah, wife of Sir William Walrond,
of Bradfield,) of
Sir Thomas Mompesson, knt. by whom he acquired the adjoining manor, with a considerable estate at
Chicks-grove, and had several children who all died unmarried with the exception of Elizabeth,
wife of John Smith, esq. of Oxenwood, Berks, who died s.p. and one son,
John Mayne, esq. of Teffont Ewyas,
b. there in 1688, who m in 1722, Elizabeth, daughter, of Christopher Batt, esq. of Kensington, and by
her, who died in 1768, aged seventy-three, left at his decease in 1726, a son and successor,
John Mayne, esq. of Teffont Ewyas, b. there in 1723, who m. at St. Dunstan’s in the West,
London, Isabella, only daughter of Samuel Raymond, esq. of Belchamp Hall, Essex,
but died without issue in 1785.
His widow wedded secondly in 1788, Archibald, ninth Earl of Dundonald.
Upon the demise of Mr. Mayne, the male representation of the family devolved on his kinsman,
(the descendant of the Rev. Zachary Mayne, uncle to the purchaser of Teffont,)…” [2]
In 1738, John and his sister Elizabeth were legatees in the Will of their grandfather Christopher Batt. [3]
In 1745, John and his sister Elizabeth are named in the Will of their aunt Eleanor Mayne. [4]
In 1756, John is a legatee in and executor of the Will of his uncle, Christopher Batt of Kensington. [5]
He married Isabella Raymond in 1761.[6]
He passed away about 1785. His Will names his wife, Isabella Mayne, William Batt of New Hall in Wiltshire;
William Hulbert of Reading, Berks.; and John Thomas Batt of Lincolns Inn. He desires to be buried in
Teffont Evias in the same vault as his parents. [7]
The parish of Teffont Evias
Teffont Evias
The inheritors of the Teffont Estate
John Thomas Batt of New Hall , Wiltshire - died 1831 - also William Batt
William Hulbert of Reading, Berks. - William was born about 1763. He was the son of Benjamin Hulbert.
He passed away about 1830.
The tenor bell in the belfry at St. Mary's
The tenor, or 8th bell, has the inscription JOHN MAYNE Esq. KENSINGTON