Nielsen Hayden genealogy
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| 501 | "Isabel was descended in some unknown manner from Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, the Magna Carta baron, from whom she inherited an interest in Wotton near Edenham, Norfolk." [Royal Ancestry] | Patrick, Isabel (I3171)
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| 502 | "Isabel, da. and h. of Walter de Bolebec, Lord of Whitchurch, Bucks. m., as his 1st wife, Aubrey (de Vere), 2nd Earl of Oxford (who d. s.p. legit. in 1214), and d. s.p.1206-7. Isabel, da. of Hugh and sister of Walter de Bolebec abovenamed, coh. to her niece, Isabel, Countess of Oxford, and widow of Henry de Nonant, m. Robert (de Vere), 3rd Earl of Oxford (who d. 1221), br. and h. of Aubrey. She d. 3 Feb. 1244/5, being ancestress of those later Earls of Oxford, who, from Tudor times, adopted the style of Viscount or Baron Bolebec, or Bulbeck." [Complete Peerage XIV:95, completely replacing the text of the entry in II:203.] | de Bolebec, Isabel (I13018)
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| 503 | "Isabel, da. and h. of Walter de Bolebec, Lord of Whitchurch, Bucks. m., as his 1st wife, Aubrey (de Vere), 2nd Earl of Oxford (who d. s.p. legit. in 1214), and d. s.p.1206-7. Isabel, da. of Hugh and sister of Walter de Bolebec abovenamed, coh. to her niece, Isabel, Countess of Oxford, and widow of Henry de Nonant, m. Robert (de Vere), 3rd Earl of Oxford (who d. 1221), br. and h. of Aubrey. She d. 3 Feb. 1244/5, being ancestress of those later Earls of Oxford, who, from Tudor times, adopted the style of Viscount or Baron Bolebec, or Bulbeck." [Complete Peerage XIV:95, completely replacing the text of the entry in II:203.] | de Bolebec, Isabel (I13025)
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| 504 | "It appears that in about 1310 Adam de Walton, parson of Mitton, held two plough-lands in Ulnes Walton, where ten plough-lands made a knight's fee." He died without issue. | de Walton of Mitton, Adam (I36101)
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| 505 | "It has been surmised that she was illegitimate, but there is no evidence on this point, the fact that she did not succeed her brother in the earldom in 1120 being no proof of illegitimacy." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] "Geva cannot have been a legitimate daughter, as otherwise she would have been heiress when her paternal half-brother drowned in the White Ship without issue. The palatine earldom of Chester then passed to the family of the viscounts of Bayeux through Geva's paternal aunt, Hugh's sister." [Peter Stewart, SGM, 21 Sep 2017] | of Chester, Geva (I2426)
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| 506 | "It is not known exactly when Edward came to New England. The first record we have of him is on a record when he took the oath of fidelity, 18 October 1648, as an inhabitant of New Haven. The earliest mention of his name after that on the New Haven records, is in a volume of miscellaneous transactions or 'Estate Settlements,' p. 225, dated 3 November 1657, when as a planter he makes deposition: 'That in the Spring last he sewed about 2 acres of Pease in his lott, and after they were come up Ther came in hoggs at Stendman's fence and spoyled them--so that he had not above two bushels of pease of them; but he then got the damage viewed by John Coopr and Samuel Whitehead, who judged his loss at least six bushels of pease, which he hath demanded of Mr. Stendham.'" [English Origin of Six Early Colonists by the Name of Perkins, citation details below] | Perkins, Edward (I28630)
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| 507 | "It is probably this John who, in 1631, signed his name to the agreement with several other Braintree men to join the settlement at the Isle of Old Providence, which is off the coast of South America. In 1641 the Spaniards drove the English from the two Islands of Providence, and this is probably why John Wilbore and his two brothers were admitted the next year to land called Hollis Grove, which is partly in Braintree and partly in Bocking." [Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, "The English Ancestry of Samuel Wilbore, of Boston, and William Wilbore, of Portsmouth, R.I.", citation details below.] "The Providence Island colony was established in 1631 by English Puritans on what is now called Isla de Providencia, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of the coast of Nicaragua. Although intended to be a model Puritan colony, it also functioned as a base for privateers operating against Spanish ships and settlements in the region. In 1641, the Spanish overran and destroyed the colony." [Wikipedia] | Wilbore, John (I5059)
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| 508 | "It is said that many curious incidents occurred in the life of this man, making it quite romantic. He was a person of great activity and energy." ["Descendants of Robert Hebert of Salem and Beverly, Mass.", citation details below.] | Hibbird, Robert (I15001)
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| 509 | "It is thought that the arms of Murray quartering Stewart in Tullibardine church represent this marriage. Her parentage has not been established." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | Stewart, Isabel (I27377)
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| 510 | "It should be noted that the Register of Walter Bronescombe calls him son and heir of Philip de Bodrugan; this is clearly an error and should properly be grandson and heir." [Joe Cochoit, 26 Apr 2011, citation details below.] From The Complete Peerage II:199: Henry Bodrigan was sum. to Parl.. 26 Oct 1309, by a writ directed 'Henrico de Bodrigan', but he had been dead 9 months when the writ issued (a). [...] He m., before 26 Oct 1288, Sibyl, widow of Piers le Power, sister and heir of Walter de Mandeville. She, who was then aged over 24, was living 18 July 1304, but d. in or before 1308. He had livery of her lands and of those of his uncle, William Bodrigan, in 1308. He d. Jan 1308/9. Writ for IPM, 23 Jan, 2 Edw. II. None of his descendants were sum. to Parl. (a) Although the House of Lords has been very liberal in conferring peerages on gentlemen living about this time, who would have been much surprised to learn that they enjoyed that honour, yet the House has never yet held that a summons to a dead man created an hereditary Barony descendible to heirs general. | de Bodrugan, Henry (I6389)
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| 511 | "It was part of the traditional lore of the Welsh bards that Gruffudd ap Cynan had made certain regulations to govern their craft, and his name was used to give authority to the 'statute' drawn up in connection with the Caerwys eisteddfod of 1523. There is nothing to substantiate this tradition, but it is not unreasonable to suggest that Gruffudd may have brought bards and musicians with him from Ireland and that these may have had some influence on the craft of poetry and music in Wales. He may also have made some formal changes in the bardic organization. It is clear that a genuine and persistent tradition to this effect existed in the 16th century. It is perhaps worth noting that the History mentions the death in battle of Gellan, Gruffudd's harpist, in 1094." [Dictionary of Welsh Biography, citation details below.] | ap Cynan ab Iago, Gruffydd King of Gwynedd (I5297)
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| 512 | "It was [this John Tomes] who concealed Charles II in his home when the king was a fugitive after the Battle of Worcester, on the night of 10 Sept. 1651. [The king] was disguised as servant of Mrs. Jane Lane, and as 'Will Jackson' was sent to the kitchen. The maid, getting supper for her master's friends, asked him to wind up the Jack. Will Jackson obediently attempted it, but hit not the right way, and the annoyed maid asked, 'What county man are you, that you know not how to wind up a Jack?' He answered to her satisfaction, 'I am a poor tenant's son of Colonel Lane in Staffordshire. We seldom have roast meat, but when we have we don't make use of a Jack.'" [Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families, citation details below.] | Tomes, John (I18846)
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| 513 | "Ivor West stated, in June 2002, that Elis IV and his sister Bertha were the children of Elis III by an unknown wife, not by Maud." [Chris Phillips, Some Corrections and Additions to the Complete Peerage.] From Complete Peerage V:639: Sir John Giffard, of Brimpsfield, Badgeworth, Stonehouse, Stoke Gifford, and Rockhampton, co. Gloucester, Elston, Orcheston St. George, Sherrington, Ashton, and Broughton Gifford, Wilts, son and heir of Sir Elis Giffard, of Brimpsfield, &c. (who died shortly before 2 May 1248) (c), by his 2nd wife, Alice, sister of Sir John Mautravers, of Lytchet Matravers, Dorset. (c) In 1221 this Elis stated that "Osbertus Giffard, antecessor suusqui venit ad conquestum Angl' tenuit manerium de Bimesfeld' . . . et post eum Elias flius suus . . . et post eum Elias filius illius Elieet pater suus." At least one generation is here omitted. The Elis living in 1221 was son and heir of Elis III, by Maud, daughter of Morice fitz Robert fitz Hardinge, of Berkeley: which Elis III owed 100 marks 'pro fine terre sue' in 1166 and died before Michaelmas 1190, when William le Mareschal owed 140 marks for the custody of the lands of Elis Giffard. Elis III was son and heir of Elis II (who became a monk in Gloucester Abbey), by Berta (living 1167), sister of Walter de Clifford, of Clifford and Glasbury, and daughter of Richard fitz Ponce. In 1130 Elis II rendered account of 100 marks of silver for the relief of his father's lands, being son and heir of Elis I, by Ala, his wife. Before 1096 Elis I had succeeded his father Osbern Giffard, the Domesday tenant of Brimpsfield, Stoke, Rockhampton, Elston, Orcheston, etc. | Giffard, Elias IV (I10237)
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| 514 | "J. William Metzger, [...] spent his life in farming. He owned a valuable farm near Manchester, York County, Pa., and also a large distillery in Manchester, and was very successful in business both as a farmer and as a distiller. [...] Mr. Metzger and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church." [History of Frederick County, Maryland, citation details below] It is notable that although the History of Frederick County, Maryland calls him "J. William Metzger", his gravestone calls him Johann Wilhelm Metzger, and the entire (lengthy) inscription is in German. Few modern Americans understand how extensively German-speaking this country was from the mid-18th century to the early 20th. | Metzger, Johann Wilhelm (I31279)
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| 515 | "Jacob Butler served as a constable in Chowan County, North Carolina in 1734. In 1738 he was first elected as a member of the Vestry at St. Paul's Church in Chowan County. On 10 July 1742 he submitted to the Vestry a certificate for 8 wolf scalps, wildcat hides and 477 squirrel pelts and 'prayed he might be allowed for the same as the Law Directs.' That year he collected one bounty of 1 pound, 13 shillings for 66 squirrel pelts and an additional 20 shillings for a wildcat hide. [The Descendants of Thomas Pincerna, Progenitor of the Butler Family] Justice in Chowan County, 1742. Elected church warden, 26 Jul 1743 to 26 Jul 1744. | Butler, Jacob (I1661)
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| 516 | "James Sykes, who, with his friends John and William Cowper, had sheltered a recusant priest, remained faithful to Catholicism, and there is evidence that the sympathies of the next generation lay in the same direction, although the betrayal of James's son Edmund, possibly by one of his brothers, must have caused, or been symptomatic of, a deep rift within the family." [Joan Kirby, citation details below] James Sykes and the parents of his daughter-in-law Sibbell Reame (Alexander and Grace Reame), are, as of January 2020, the earliest ancestors we've discovered for PNH. | Sykes, James (I26744)
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| 517 | "James, the son of Angus, had a daughter Jean, who married Alexander, eldest son of Walter, Steward of Scotland." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz calls him "James of Bute" and says he was "[k]illed in 1210 in Scotland with his father and brothers by the men of Skye", which accords with SP's sketch of his father. | Macrory, James (I27484)
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| 518 | "January 31, 1771, he was appointed, by Gov. John Wentworth, ensign of the Thirteenth Company in the Fourth Regiment of militia, commanded by Col. Nathaniel Folsom of Exeter, and, November 3, 1773, was appointed lieutenant of the same company. He settled his son Jeremiah on the farm owned by Martha Cilley, while he retained his son Jonathan in the same house that his grandson, Meshech Maloon, occupies. His wife died in 1800. He died July, 1803, very suddenly, in his chair." [History of Nottingham, Deerfield, and Northwood, citation details below] Genealogical footnote: New Hampshire royal governor John Wentworth (1737-1820) was a great-great-grandson of TNH's ancestor William Wentworth (1616-1697), a seventeenth-century emigrant to Boston and then New Hampshire. He succeeded his uncle Benning Wentworth as governor of New Hampshire in 1766. Following the outbreak of the Revolution he left New Hampshire and by 1783 he was a crown official in Nova Scotia, where in the 1780s, bored out her skull by local society, his vivacious wife, his cousin Frances Deering Wentworth, had an affair with Prince William Henry, younger brother of George III. In 1792 he was appointed lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia. Throughout the 1790s he and his wife frequently hosted, at their Nova Scotia home, Prince Edward Augustus, fourth son of George III and commander-in-chief in Nova Scotia. Prince Edward used their home as one of the several rendezvous points for his long-running affair with his French mistress, Thérèse-Bernardine Mongenet, known as Mme de Saint-Laurent, during the years of his Nova Scotian and British North American commands, 1794-1800. | Maloon, Lieut. Nathaniel (I35233)
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| 519 | "Jasper Riddlesdale, husbandman, was a churchwarden of Boxford in 1542-3 and 1547-8. During the period 1540 to 1550, he was paid various sums for loads of straw, clay, gravel, and for carriage of lead to the church -- 2d. in 1547. These must have been for repair of church property, the lead certainly for the church roof. In 1541 he helped to organize a church ale [a money-making social gathering involving the provision of food, drink, and entertainment]." ["John Wyatt of Ipswich, Massachusetts and His Wife Mary (_____) Riddlesdale", citation details below.] | Riddlesdale, Jasper (I13897)
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| 520 | "Jesse was not yet 17 when the Revolutionary War began, and he enlisted on July 7, 1775, with his brother David. Jesse served until December 16th in Captain Pease's 3rd Company in Colonel Hunton's Connecticut Regiment. The Pease family were prominent members of Somers. In 1776, with his brother Sanford, Jesse enlisted again with Captain Pease in Colonel Erastus Wolcott's Connecticut Regiment and served nine months, being discharged on January 1, 1777. He enlisted again in 1778 and served one year in Captain Haws' Company in Colonel Mason's Connecticut Regiment. At the end of that last tour of duty, when he was 20, he married 19 year-old Anna Jones on November 12, 1778 in Somers, at the Congregational Church." [John Thomas Bullock, citation details below] A letter from A. D. Miller of the War Department pension office to Mrs. P. Nugent, 18 Feb 1932, viewable at fold.com, substantiates nearly all of the above, and adds that "He was allowed pension on his application executed March 7,m 1833 in Monroe Township, Mukingum County, Ohio, in which state he had resided fifteen years, aged seventy-four years." | Richardson, Jesse (I30121)
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| 521 | "John (de Botetourt), Lord Bortetourt, grandson and h., being s. and h. of Thomas de B., by Joan (living 18 Jan. 1326/7), da. of Roger de Somery, sister (and coh. of the considerable estates) of John [Lord] Somery, which Thomas de B. was s. and h. ap. of the late Lord, and d. v.p., in 1322. He, who was aged 4 in Aug. 1322, and 7 in Dec. 1324, had livery of his lands (1341) 14 Edw. III, having had livery (though then a minor) of his mother's lands 16 July 1338. He distinguished himself in the French wars. He was sum. to Parl. from 25 Feb. (1342) 16 Edw. III to 3 Feb. (1385) 9 Ric. II. [...] He m., [...], before 31 May 1347, Joyce, da. of William Zouche, formerly Mortimer [Lord Zouche of Mortimer]. She was living 4 May 1372. [...] He d. 1385, and was bur. at Halesowen, when any Barony which may be held to have been cr. by writ, became dormant, but the right thereto, according to modern doctrine, would appear to have devolved, as under. Will, as Lord of Weologh, pr. 1386 at Lambeth." [Complete Peerage II:235, as corrected by Volume XIV.] Even subsequent to the corrections in Volume XIV, CP is still mistaken in claiming (in passages replaced above by ellipses) that this John Botetourt had as his 1st wife Maud de Grey, daughter of John de Grey, 1st Lord Grey of Rotherfield. Details here. | Botetourte, John (I4874)
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| 522 | "John (de Neville), Lord Neville, son and heir (a), had writs of livery of his father's lands in England and Scotland, after doing homage, October 1367. He was a captain under his father at the battle of Nevill's Cross, 17 October 1346, and was knighted about April 1360. His life of public service was as active as his father's. He served in Aquitaine, 1366 and the following years, and numerous commissions issued to him, December 1367 onwards. In 1368 (September, October) he was joint ambassador to France. K.G. 1369. In 1369 and 1371 trier of petitions in Parliament; Admiral of the North, July 1370, and in November following joint commissioner to treat with Genoa; steward of the King's household, 1372. In July 1372 he sailed for Brittany on an expedition protracted for want of reinforcements. He was then for several years engaged in Scotland and the Marches. In December 1377 he had a patent of the keepership of Bamburgh Castle for life; and in 1378 licence to castellate Raby and Sheriff Hutton in 1382. He was made keeper of Fronsac Castle, on the Dordogne, 3 June, and Seneschal of Gascony in June 1378. Returning to England, he became Warden of the Marches (as above), and in 1381 conservator of the peace, co. Durham and Sedbergh; joint commissioner to treat of peace with Scotland, May 1383 and March 1386/7. In July 1385 he was under orders to accompany the King to Scotland." [Complete Peerage] "He was presumably of age when a recognizance was made to him in January 1351/2. His age of 40 and more at his mother's death on 13 Jan. 1373/4 supports this conclusion." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below.] John de Neville and Maud Percy were great-grandparents of Edward IV and Richard III, making them the most recent common ancestors of TNH and Elizabeth II: John de Neville (1330-1388) = Maud Percy (d. 1379) Ralph de Neville (1364-1425) = Joan Beaufort (1379-1440) Cecily Neville (1415-1495) = Richard of York (1411-1460) Edward IV (1442-1483) = Elizabeth Woodville (1437-1492) Elizabeth of York (1466-1503) = Henry VII (1457-1509) Margaret Tudor (1489)-1541) = James IV (1473-1513) James V (1512-1542) = Mary of Guise (1515-1560) Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587) = Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545-1567) James VI and I (1566-1625) = Anne of Denmark (1574-1619) Elizabeth of Bohemia (1596-1662) = Frederick V of the Palatine (1596-1632) Sophia of Hanover (1630-1714) = Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneberg (1629-1698) George I (1660-1727) = Sophia Dorothea of Celle (1666-1726) George II (1683-1760) = Caroline of Ansbach (1683-1737) Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-1751) = Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772) George III (1738-1820) = Charlotte of Mecklenburg (1744-1818) Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767-1820) = Victoria of Saxe-Coburg (1786-1861) Victoria (1819-1901) = Albert of Saxe-Coburg (1819-1861) Edward VII (1841-1910) = Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925) George V (1865-1936) = Mary of Teck (1867-1953) George VI (1895-1952) = Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002) Elizabeth II (1926- ) boldface: monarchs of England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom italic: monarchs of Scotland boldface & italic: James IV and I, king of both TNH is therefore 19th cousin once removed to Elizabeth II, no doubt sharing that distinction with literally hundreds of millions of other people. | de Neville, John (I11514)
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| 523 | "John and Margaret Goodenow are tentatively identified as the parents of Thomas Goodenow, primarily based on chronology and geography. No direct evidence either supports or excludes this connection. Thomas owned property in Ebbesborne, as seen in the inventory of his estate forty years after the death of this John Goodenow, and was likely the Thomas named in [John Goodenow's] will." [The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part III, citation details below.] | Goodenow, John (I7097)
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| 524 | "John Assheton (II), of Ashton-under Lyne, co. Lancaster, entered the service of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, in the 1380s, created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of John's son, Henry IV (1399), Knight of the Shire for Lancashire in the parliament of 1413, appointed Seneschal of Bayeux after its capture in 1416, born after 1338 (under-age in 1360), died 3 September 1428. This man's marriages, and particularly the maternity of his son Thomas, appear to be the object of some confusion. One source states that he married (1) Isabel Kirkby, granddaughter and heiress of Sir Richard Kirkby, implying that she was mother of his son Thomas, and (without explanation) makes him married (2) to ________. Another source states that he married (1) Jane, daughter of Sir John Savile, of Tankersleigh, and that she was mother of his son Thomas. The various accounts of this man agree however in making him marry finally, by 1420, Margaret, widow of Sir William Atherton and of Sir Maurice Berkeley, and daughter of Sir John Byron, of Clayton (by whom he was ancestor of the extinct house of Baronets Assheton of Middleton). He married by 1403 (if she was mother of his son Thomas), Isabel Kirkby, granddaughter and heiress of Sir Richard Kirkby." [John Blythe Dobson, citation details below] His History of Parliament (citation details below) entry says that he was a knight of the shire for Lancashire in 1411, May 1413, and March 1416. | Assheton, John (I35869)
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| 525 | "John Babington married a Cambridgeshire bride, but served as a tax collector in Nottinghamshire in 1382, was styled as 'of Rolleston' in a mainprise of 1386, and was buried in the church at East Bridgford." [Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire by S. J. Payling, citation details below.] | Babington, John (I10420)
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| 526 | "John Breed was the 10th settler at Stonington, buying land from his future father-in-law, Gershom Palmer. He was a leather tanner by trade." [Marcia Wiswall Lindberg, citation details below.] From "Ancient Burial-Ground at Stonington, Connecticut", citation details below: The tombstone of Mr. John Breed is a large upright slab of blue slate stone, the inscription being as clear and distinct as it was the day it was cut. It is as follows: In memory of a pious pair This carved stone is erected here viz. of Mr. JOHN BREED & his wife MERCY who lived together in ye marriage state in a most religious manner about 64 years & then decd leaving a numerous offspring, he in ye year 1751 about 90 years of age & she in ye year 1752 about 83. erected in ye year 1772. 6 of their children then living. Behold th' Righteous live long on earth And in old Age resign their Breath They & their Ofspring here are blest When don with life they go to rest. | Breed, John (I11195)
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| 527 | "John Brockett was one of the original settlers at New Haven, where he was made a freeman in 1639, and was one of those to sign on June 4, 1639, the compact to govern the community according to the scriptures. He was an excellent surveyor, and was called upon soon after its settlement to lay out the square in the centre of the town, which he did with great accuracy. A few years later the Governor of New Jersey sent for Brockett to lay out Elizabeth Towne (Elizabeth, New Jersey). When the first General Assembly of New Jersey convened at Elizabeth Towne on May 26, 1668, Brockett was chosen as its representative in the House of Burgesses." [Babcock and Allied Families, citation details below] He was later one of the original founders of Wallingford, Connecticut. | Brockett, John (I23377)
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| 528 | "John Bullard appeared as a bowman in the 1535 muster roll of Barnham, Suffolk, credited with a harness, a bow and a sheaf of arrows." [The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part I, citation details below.] | Bullard, John (I14047)
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| 529 | "John Burroughs, Jr., went to New Hampshire with his father in 1765 and removed his family there in 1767; was living in Alstead in 1826. He volunteered under Captain Webber of Walpole in 1777 to go to Bennington, Vermont, and was engaged in battle there; from there he proceeded against Burgoyne at Still Water and returned safely in the fall. He later held a commission as Captain." [Abbe-Abbey Genealogy, citation details below] | Burroughs, John (I3155)
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| 530 | "John Corney was a laborer; he lived one year in John Ingersoll's house and one year in Samuel Ingersoll's house, both on the Neck; he had a sixty acre lot on Nonsuch Point; he had a son Elisha, born 1668; they both subsequently lived at Gloucester, where the name is written Curney. He married Abigail Skilling, 1670, and had several children. He died 1725, age 80. His wife died 1722, age 70." [William Willis, citation details below.] | Curney, John (I18488)
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| 531 | "John Cotton Jr. (1639–1699) was the second son of one of the most famous clergymen of New England's founding generation. At the age of twenty-two, already the pastor of the church in Wethersfield, Connecticut, he lost his ministry as a result of a sexual scandal. Disgraced and jobless, Cotton moved his family to distant Martha's Vineyard to start anew as a missionary to the Indians. Within a few years, Cotton had managed to rehabilitate his reputation, and he accepted a call to the church in Plymouth. He kept the Plymouth pulpit for nearly thirty years before losing it, once again to scandal and factional church politics. Cotton retired to Cape Cod for a short time before accepting one final call, this time to Charleston, South Carolina, where he died in less than a year of yellow fever." [Descriptive copy for The Correspondence of John Cotton Jr. ed. Sheila McIntyre and Len Travers, 2009.] Here's a very interesting interview, about the life and letters of John Cotton, with the two editors in the citation above. | Cotton, Rev. John (I13908)
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| 532 | "John Crearye and prudence white of playnfild was married by Justice minott octor 12: 1715" | Family F16759
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| 533 | "John Cutten and John Cutten the younger, both of Newbury, were joint masters of the Desire of Boston in 1641, as stated in the account of the older man, and there can be little doubt that they were father and son." [Walter Goodwin Davis, citation details below] His birth date, death date, and wife are unknown, but it seems likely that he died shortly after Dec 1642, and that Mary Cutting, wife of Samuel Moody of Newbury, was his only child. | Cutting, John (I26329)
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| 534 | "John de Clinton, 2nd Baron Clinton; fought with the royal army which defeated Edward II's cousin Thomas, Earl of Lancaster at Battle of Boroughbridge 16 March 1321/2, knighted by 1324." [Burke's Peerage] "He and his brother, William, were squires in the household of Queen Isabel of France, wife of King Edward II, in 1311-12." [Royal Ancestry] "John de Clinton, 2nd Lord Clinton, b. c 1300, d. c 1335; m. by 24 Feb 1328/9, Margaret Corbet, daughter of Sir William Corbet of Chaddesley Corbet, co. Worcester. She was living 1343. John de Clinton, 2nd Lord Clinton was son & heir of John de Clinton (son and heir of Thomas de Clinton by Maud, daughter of Sir Ralph Bracebridge of Kinsbury, co. Worcester), b. c 1258, d. 1310, 1st Lord Clinton; m. c 1290 Ida, daughter of Sir William de Odingsells of Maxstoke by Ela, daughter of Walter Fitz Robert. She was 1st daughter, b. c 1270, living 1321." [Ancestral Roots] "John (de Clinton), Lord Clinton, son and heir born probably in, or shortly before 1300. He fought, 16 March 1321/2, ex parte Regis, at Boroughbridge. Knighted before 1324. From 27 January 1331/2 to 1 April 1335, he was summoned to Parliament, the words 'Mortuus est' being added to the last writ. He married, before 24 February 1328/9, Margery, daughter of Sir William Corbet, of Chaddesley Corbet, co. Worcester. He died about 1335. His widow was living May 1343." [Complete Peerage III:313] | de Clinton, John (I8394)
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| 535 | "John de la Moore, sen., [...] attested many charters of the time of the first Edwards; he was one of the three attorneys found by the borough of Liverpool in a plea of quo warranto at Lancaster in 1292, and he and his brother Richard were returned to the Parliament at Carlisle in January, 1307, as burgesses for Liverpool." [VCH Lancaster, citation details below] | de la Moore, John (I35962)
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| 536 | "John Denison moved to Bishop's Stortford before 1566, for in that year he was 'collector for the poor' in Bishop's Stortford and in 1582 paid a tax in Stortford." [Spencer Miller, "Willie, Denison and Abbott Families", citation details below.] He was a tailor. He died of the plague. | Denison, John (I8800)
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| 537 | "John Exherst, husbandman of Staplehurst was among those pardoned in July 1450 after Cade's Rebellion. He must have been at least 25 to have even been slightly involved. John moved to Canterbury by 1478, when he was admitted as a freeman there. He was a brewer in Canterbury and lived in St. Paul's parish" [Todd Whitesides on findagrave.com] "Richard Exhurst's father John retained his land in Staplehurst, but in his later years he seems to have lived in Canterbury, where he was recorded as a brewer on his admission as a freeman of the town by redemption (purchase) in 1478. Chronologically, it is possible that John was the John Exhurst, husbandman of Staplehurst, who was among those pardoned in July 1450 after Cade's Rebellion. Around 1480 John Exhurst, citizen and brewer of Canterbury, and Sir Thomas Bouchier, knight, of Leeds, were involved in the arbitration of a dispute concerning the ownership of some oxen. On 26 June 1487 John Exhurst, John Waller, and others witnessed a deed in Canterbury. In his will John Exhurst described himself as a brewer of St. Paul's parish in Canterbury. He requested burial within the monastery of St. Augustine by Canterbury and gave 6s. 8d. to the making of a new bell there. John Exhurst died between 20 March 1492/3, the date of his will, and 15 April 1493, the date it was proved." ["The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings of New England," by Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson, and Janet Chevally Wolfe. Part One, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 165, October 2011.] | Exhurst, John (I12321)
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| 538 | "John Fitz Alan, feudal Lord of Clun and Oswestry, Salop, s. and h. of John Fitz Alan of the same, by his 1st wife, Isabel, 2nd sister and, in her issue, coh. of Hugh, and da. of William (d'Aubigny), Earls of Sussex, &c, abovenamed, suc. his father (whom his mother had predeceased) in 1240. To him, by writ dat. 27 Nov. 1243, was awarded (in right of his deceased mother) the Castle and Honour of Arundel, whereby (according to the admission of 1433 abovenamed) he must be regarded as de jure Earl of Arundel. He obtained possession, 26 May 1244, of his paternal estates in Salop on payment of £1000. By the title, however, of Earl of Arundel he never appears to have been known (either in his lifetime or afterwards), although he lived 24 years after the acquisition of that Castle and Honour. In an award dat. Friday after the Circumcision 1258, he is expressly called Dominus de Arundel (i.e. Lord of the Honour of Arundel), and in the Fine Roll, 10 Mar. 1261/2, he is called Baro noster, while in his Inq. p. m. he is described (merely) as Johannes filius Alani, and the endorsement says that he held a quarter of the Earldom of Arundel. He took part in the Welsh war 1258, and, though sometimes leagued with the Barons against the Crown, was, while fighting on the Royal side, taken prisoner at the battle of Lewes, in 1264, together with the King. He m. Maud, da. of Theobald le Botiller, by his 2nd wife, Rohese, da. and h. of Nicholas de Verdun, of Alton, co. Stafford. He d. 1267, before 10 Nov. Will dat. Oct. 1267. His widow m. Richard d'Amundeville, and d. 27 Nov. 1283. He was living 1286/7." [Complete Peerage I:239-40, as corrected by Volume XIV.] | Fitz Alan, John (I4244)
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| 539 | "John had a son Alexander, who became an eminent Presbyterian clergyman. He was educated in Glasgow, Scotland, and prepared for the ministry at the University of Edinburg, Scotland. He was pastor of Rock congregation in Cecil county, Maryland; principal of the classical academy, afterwards Delaware College, Newark, Delaware." ["The McDowell Family," citation details below.] "He was Principal of New London Academy, Pa., 1752. It was removed by him first to Elkton, Md., and then to Newark, Del. Rev. Matthew Wilson was associated with him in 1754, and it was chartered in 1769 by the Proprietary, John Penn. It flourished for many years, and finally formed the basis on which Delaware College was established." [The Craighead Family: A Genealogical Memoir, citation details below.] | McDowell, Rev. Alexander (I20526)
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| 540 | "John Heydon, gentleman, of Baconsthorpe (about 3 miles from Gresham) was a Norwich lawyer who encouraged Lord Moleyns in his attack on Gresham manor. He was J.P. 1441-50 and 1455-60, and M.P. 1445-6, 1459, and 1460-1, but was involved in many illegal and violent incidents. He died in 1479." [Norman Davis, footnote in The Paston Letters, citation details below.] "Heydon [formerly Baxter], John (d. 1479), lawyer, was the son of William Baxter, a free peasant or yeoman at Heydon in north-east Norfolk in the early fifteenth century. Heydon's humble origins were known to contemporaries and although throughout his career he used the surname Heydon, possibly in order to disguise his origins, legal records as late as 1450 refer to him as John Heydon of Baconsthorpe alias John Baxter of Heydon." [Oxford DNB, citation details below.] "John Heydon's marriage was troubled. He seems to have believed that the second child born to his wife, Eleanor, was not his; in July 1444 Margaret Paston reported that Heydon 'wille nowt of here, nerre of here chyld', and that he had threatened to cut off her nose 'to makyn here to be know wat sche is' and kill the infant if they came near him. Heydon appears to have remained on good terms with his father-in-law, but his marital problems clearly continued, for in October 1450 he is said to have paled visibly when Chief Justice Markham remarked that he 'levid ungoodly in puttyng awey of his wyff and kept another'. His will, made in March 1478 and proved in 1480, makes no reference to his wife or to any child besides Henry, though it is otherwise a pious and conscientious document." [Oxford DNB, citation details below.] | Heydon, John (I16792)
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| 541 | "John Higginson was admitted freeman May 25, 1636, and the same year went to Saybrook, Conn., as chaplain at the fort, where he remained 'about four years.' In 1641 be taught school at Hartford, Conn., and later became assistant to Rev. Henry Whitfield at Guilford, Conn. Upon Mr. Whitfield's resignation in 1653, he was settled as pastor of the church, where he remained until 1659, when, with his family, he embarked for England. On account of bad weather, the vessel entered Salem harbor. While there he was invited to remain and become pastor of the church founded by his father. He was installed in August, 1660, and continued in the pastorate till his death." [Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson, citation details below.] "Reverend Higginson was chosen by Cotton Mather to write the preface of the latter's Magnalia Christi Americana, since he had been a minister in New England for sixty of the seventy years of ecclesiastical history which that volume covered." [The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield, citation details below.] He was much concerned with what he considered an excessive number of taverns, "ordinaries," in Salem. He was opposed to slavery. He wrote a treatise in opposition to the wearing of wigs. His funeral sermon was preached by Cotton Mather and then published under the title The Happy Dismissal of a Holy Believer, A Funeral Sermon on the Death of the Rev. John Higginson, with Memoirs of His Life. Note: He was not a twin to his brother Theophilus, as widely reported; Theophilus was born a year later. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. | Higginson, Rev. John (I15615)
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| 542 | "John Higginson was one of the great merchants of Salem, and held many public offices. In 1678, he was chosen to keep the town books, and was frequently selectman. He was deputy from Salem, 1685, 1689, and 1691, and a member of the Council from 1700 until his death. He was also county treasurer and justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He was commissioned ensign in 1675 and promoted until, in 1701, he ranked as colonel." [Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson, citation details below.] | Higginson, John (I15611)
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| 543 | "John I Chichester married in about 1365 Thomasine de Raleigh (d.1402), daughter and heiress of Sir John De Raleigh. He was lord of the manors of Treverbin in Cornwall and of Beggerskewish and Donwer in Somerset. According to Sir Alexander Chichester, Bart., he was the son of Sir Roger Chichester, who was knighted in 1346 at the Siege of Calais and later fought at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. According to the Heralds' Visitation of Devon his father was John Chichester, 7th in descent from Walleran de Cirencester alias Chichester, himself descended from a brother of Robert of Chichester, Bishop of Exeter in 1155-1160. According to the Ledger Book of Tor Abbey, in 1237 Walleran did homage to William de Raleigh for the manor of South Pool." [Wikipedia] In fact, of the three different published heralds' visitations of Devon, only one says anything about the John Chichester who married Thomasine Raleigh -- J. L. Vivian's notoriously squirrely The Visitations of the County of Devon, Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620 (1895). What Wikipedia doesn't mention is that Vivian gives both possible ancestries on the same page, "for comparison", the one in Alexander P. B. Chichester's book (citation details below), which he credits, and also the other, which he attributes to "Harl. MS. 1538, fo. 256, and the College of Arms." Alexander P. B. Chichester's is as follows: Richard de Cicester, went to the Holy Land with King Richard Robert de Cicester, m. Petronilla Richard de Cicester, brother of Robert de Cicester, bishop of York; Richard m. Elizabeth Roger de Cicester, accompanied Edward I to Gascony Roger de Cicester, in the French and Scottish wars with Edward III Roger de Cicester, knighted after the siege of Calais John Chichester, m. Thomasine Raleigh The College of Arms version is as follows, assuming that Vivian transcribed it correctly: Waleran to Cirencester alias Chichester, as described by Wikipedia above John de Cirencester John de Cirencester Thomas Chichester, m. Alice de Rotomago William Chichester John Chichester Richard Chichester John Chichester John Chichester, m. Thomasine Raleigh | Chichester, John (I8057)
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| 544 | "John Komnenos was a Byzantine aristocrat and military leader. The younger brother of Emperor Isaac I Komnenos, he served as Domestic of the Schools during Isaac's brief reign (1057–59). When Isaac I abdicated, Constantine X Doukas became emperor and John withdrew from public life until his death in 1067. Through his son Alexios I Komnenos, who became emperor in 1081, he was the progenitor of the Komnenian dynasty that ruled the Byzantine Empire from 1081 until 1185, and the Empire of Trebizond from 1204 until 1461." [Wikipedia] | Komnenos, Ioannis (I5937)
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| 545 | "John le Strange II, son and heir. In 1196/7 he acquired rights in land at Knockin, Salop, from his cousins, daughters of his uncle Guy. In 1198 he took the place of his cousin Ralph, who was ill, in the King's servlce. In 1204 the King asked Llewelin, Prince of North Wales, to grant John a safe conduct to go to and return from him. In 1206 he had sent his knights overseas. In 1212 he was concerned in the management of Album Monasterium; and was returned as holding the manors of Nessa nd Cheswardine of the grift of King Henry II. In 1213 he was given the custody of the castle of Carreghova; and in 1214 was sent to Llewelin to exact an oath to keep the truce. In 1216 the King committed to him the counties of Staffs and Salop during pleasure, and directed that he was to be treated as sheriff; and in the same year he was to have the manor of Kidderminster during pleasure. In March 1217/8 he was, with Hugh de Mortimer and Henry de Audley, directed to give safe-conduct to the Magnates of North Wales, that they might do homage at Worcester; and in the same month the sheriff of Staffs and Salop was directed to give him an aid from the counties for strengthening his castle at Knockin. On 7 June 1218 he was present at the dedication of Worcester Cathedral. In January 1223/4 he was granted a market at his manor of Hunstanton. On 29 August 1226, as John Lestrange senior, he was granted a pardon for debts and the vill of Wrockwardine for his maintenance during pleasure, for his services to the King and his father; and on 2 September he was appointed to sit with the Bishop of Hereford and others at Album Monasterium to accept the surrender of lands by the Prince of North Wales. He married Amice. He was dead by 20 January 1233/4, when his son did homage." [Complete Peerage XII/1:349-50] | le Strange, John (I1439)
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| 546 | "John married Jane. According to [great-grandson] Chrisman Parker's memoir, John and his wife raised their children in North Carolina, where their family farm was raided by the Tories while John was away fighting for his country's freedom, and where John lived out his days. Many people believe that our John who later moved to Tennessee and then Kentucky was the John Parker who married Elizabeth Carrell in Wilkes County, North Carolina, on January 9, 1793 and was bondsman for the marriage of William Parker and Candace Austin there on October 28, 1801; that his father was the John Parker who died leaving a will in Wilkes County in 1791, naming his wife Mary, step-daughter Maryann Coons, and his children John, William, James, and Diana. That may be true, but since there are so many Johns and Elizabeths, it's difficult to be sure that you've got the right people." [Parker's Genealogy & History Establishment] The memoirs of his great-grandson Chrisman Harrison Parker (1823-1914) state that this John Parker was born in England. | Parker, John (I2824)
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| 547 | "John Mawle was a prosperous clothier with considerable property in and around Nayland and across the Stour River in Essex County." [Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England, citation details below.] | Mawle, John (I10282)
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| 548 | "John Mayo of Northamptonshire, who matriculated in the University of Oxford as a commoner's son from Magdalen Hall 28 April 1615, aged 17, but took no degree, was probably identical with the emigrant of that name who became colleague minister to John Lothrop at Barnstable in 1640, first pastor of Eastham in 1646, and first minister of the Second (North) Church in Boston 9 November 1655. Increase Mather was his colleague. Overseer of Harvard College. Dismissed in 1673 on account of age; died at Yarmouth in May 1676." [Samuel Eliot Morrison, The Founding of Harvard College, citation details below.] Emigrated to New England with his wife and children sometime between 1638 and 1640 (sources differ). His duties as an overseer of Harvard College were by virtue of his role at the Second Church. The Second Church at which Mayo was first minister was also known as the "Old North Church" -- but it isn't the church, or the congregation, called the "Old North Church" today. Mayo's church was on North Square, across the street from what is now called "Paul Revere's house." The church building in which Mayo preached was demolished and rebuilt on site in 1677, and this second building was dismantled for firewood by the British during their occupation of Boston during the Revolutionary War. The building now widely called "Old North Church", officially Christ Church in the City of Boston, is a separate congregation; it was built in 1723. His successors as minister at the Second Church were Increase Mather and Cotton Mather. | Mayo, Rev. John (I1114)
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| 549 | "John Savage had risen to prominence in the service of Edward, the Black Prince, in France: one of the remaining garrison commanders after 1369 when the days of large-scale musters had passed, he held Salveterre in 1373." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | Savage, John (I15472)
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| 550 | "John Selys of Biddenden was probably the man who was buried there 7 August 1570, reference being made to him as 'Father Seelis householder.' Nothing further is known of him." [Elizabeth French, citation details below] | Selys, John (I33818)
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| 551 | "John settled at Wethersfield, where he was a selectman in 1679. He later moved back to Windsor and was elected to the House of Deputies in 1698 and subsequently." [Wolcott Immigrants and Their Early Descendants, citation details below.] | Wolcott, John (I18176)
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| 552 | "John Seymour spent his first eleven years in Cove before his family moved to Mesa, Arizona. He has been extremely active in missionary work and colonization. He has made his livelihood by farming and canal building. His first mission was in the Southern States; the second in the Eastern States; and the third in the Southwest Indian Mission among the Pimas. He and his wife have financed twenty-one years of missionary work and have contributed funds for temple work. No request from the church was refused whether great or small. He has been a faithful ward teacher for fifty years without missing one month. While supporting one missionary he prospered greatly and was so encouraged that he supported two more after the first had returned. His financial status reversed and he became almost bankrupt, barely able to keep the missionaries out. Later he was asked why he had not become discouraged in the Gospel because of this situation and he replied, 'Whether I get rich or go broke while I keep a missionary out doesn't change the fact that the Gospel is true.' "His wife, Barbara Phelps, came to Mesa from Montpelier, Idaho when she was a year old. They suffered the rigors of pioneer life including a smallpox epidemic. She recalls having her shoes blacked with soot and grease before she could go to Sunday School and Primary. She was energetic and capable with a nice singing voice. Their marriage has been humble and devout. Ten of their twelve children grew to maturity and are active in the Church. She milked cows to support herself and family and to supply her husband while he was on two missions. She joined her husband on his third mission and they did a splendid job among the Indians at Santon, Arizona. She has worked in all the auxilaries and at present, at the age of seventy-five, she is still teaching Primary." [Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen] "Allen was proud of his large family of 12 children, which included [his] seven sons. While living in Gilbert, in 1934, he organized and coached the Allen family basketball team and challenged any family in the church to a game." [Images of America: Latter-Day Saints in Mesa by D. L. Turner and Catherine H. Ellis. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2009.] | Allen, John Seymour (I5008)
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| 553 | "John Talcott was one of the most useful men in Connecticut in his generation. He was chosen Ensign of the Hartford Train Band, June 1650, and was referred to as Captain as early as Oct. 1660. He served as Deputy for Hartford, May and Oct. 1660, June and Oct. 1661; and as Assistant of the Colony, 1662 to 1687 inclusive. He was Treasurer of the Colony, 1660 to 1675 inclusive, declining that office in 1676 and 1677. He was one of those named as Patentees of the Royal Charter in 1662. He was a Commissioner for the United Colonies, 1663, 1669, 1671, 1673, 1676. 1683, 1684, and 1686. In March 1663 he was a Commissioner to treat with New Haven relative to the absorption of that colony by Connecticut; Commissioner on the New York boundary, Oct. 1663, on the Massachusetts and Rhode Island boundaries, Oct. 1664, and on the Rhode Island boundary, May 1672. He served on Indian committees, 1671, 1674 and 1676, and on the Militia Committee, July 1666. He was appointed Chief Military Officer, Hartford County, June 1672, and Major, Aug. 1673. In Nov. 1673 he was made Commander-in-Chief against New York; a member of the War Council, Nov. 1673, July 1675, and May 1676; Commander-in-Chief, May 1676, King Philip's War. He was appointed to keep Court in New London, 1678, 1680 and 1681, and to preside over the Court of Assistants, May 1686." [Hale, House and Related Families, citation details below] | Talcott, Lt. Col. John (I31160)
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| 554 | "John was a farmer; prominent and leading citizen. Deacon for many years. Served on important civil committees. Deputy 1690. Captain 1712. Served in the Narragansett War." [The Griswold Family: England-America, citation details below.] | Griswold, Deacon John (I2755)
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| 555 | "John Whitmore was one of the early settlers at Medford, at least at the period when the records commence. [...] He was in service, under Major Swayne, against the Indians at Saco; and his wife petitioned the General Court that her husband might be returned to her and her three infant children. The fall after his return, he was engaged in purchasing lands and building a house." [Record of the Descendants of Francis Whitmore of Cambridge, Massachusetts] | Whitmore, John (I13700)
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| 556 | "John Wyndham was knighted for valour at the battle of Stoke in 1489 by King Henry VII., against whom, however, he afterwards conspired, in favor of Edmund de la Pole, the Yorkist claimant of the throne; for this he was arraigned in the Guildhall, London, 2nd May, 1502 (17th Henry VII.), and being found guilty of high treason, was beheaded on Tower Hill, 6 May, 1502. Sir James Tyrrell, his fellow-conspirator (the supposed agent of Richard III. in the murder of Edward V., and his brother Richard, Duke of York, in the Tower of London,) was executed with him. Their 'bodies and heads' were buried in Austin Friars, London, where many other sufferers for the house of York had been buried before them." [A Royal Descent, citation details below.] | Wyndham, John (I16910)
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| 557 | "John's wife Mary was not his stepsister Mary Webster, as has frequently been claimed." [The Great Migration] | Mary (I5989)
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| 558 | "JOHN, Mr., Capt., expert surveyor, of whom we know almost nothing except that he was a useful and highly respected inhab. and was k. by Indians 28 June 1689." [Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, citation details below] From his surname it is presumed that he came from Wales. He was Dover town clerk from 1686. He was killed in the capture of the Walderne Garrison. Everything known of his children comes from a notebook passed down through the descendants of his son Thomas (d. 1718), plus traditions among the descendants of his daughter Eleanor. | Evans, John (I26843)
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| 559 | "JOSIAH BOLTON, father of his family, was born in eastern Tennessee, December 22, 1822 and died January 18, 1909. He was a member of the Regular United Baptist Church for 50 or more years, the last 25 years spent in preaching the gospel." [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8295286] | Bolton, Josiah (I11892)
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| 560 | "jphjr47 Family Tree" on Ancestry has him b. 1639 in Brest, Finistere, Bretagne, France. | Perrier, Laurent (I1625)
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| 561 | "Julian [Julia Ann or Juliana], of unknown maiden name, second wife of Henry Munter, by a former husband of unknown name was mother of Anne who married first, by 1614, Rev. Richard Edwards, and second, 6 Dec. 1625, James Cole, and Anne by her first husband was mother of William Edwards, founder of the American family." [Hale, House and Related Families,, citation details below.] | Julian (I20733)
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| 562 | "Justiciar of England 1261; one of the deputation of the Barons to the Council of Lyons 1245; Constable of the castles of Oxford, Bristol, Corfe, and Sherburne; Sheriff of four counties; made prisoner with 'tuenti wounde' at Lewes, 1264, and imprisoned by De Montfort at Dover Castle, but was liberated after the battle of Evesham, 1265; was one of the arbitrators by which the 'dictum de Kenilworth' was drawn up; a member of the King's Council 1270; d. 'Bonae Memoriae' 1271." [The Wallop Family, citation details below.] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has him as the son of a wife of Thomas Basset preceding Aline de Gai; they name this wife "Alice de Gray," but they also note that "the similarity of [the names Alice de Gray and Aline de Gai] is such that the possibility that Alan had only one wife cannot be excluded." | Basset, Philip (I1161)
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| 563 | "Justiciar of Scotland in 1391, called on 28 February 1414/15 'Johannem de dromund militem dominum de Cargil,' had a safe-conduct into England 3 Feb 1423/4 to meet his nephew James I at Durham." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | Drummond, John (I27373)
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| 564 | "Keats-Rohan [...] suggests that Roger had only one wife. She also refers to a charter of of the time of Henry I (therefore 1100 or later) of Roger and Adelisa for Rochester Priory, attested by their children William, Humphrey, Gunnor and Matilda; on the hypothesis of the Complete Peerage, this would imply that the first wife survived at least until 1100, despite the suggested birth date of around 1095 for Hugh, seen as a son of the second marriage." [Chris Phillips, Some Corrections and Additions to The Complete Peerage] | de Tosny, Adeliza (I3589)
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| 565 | "Killed with her husband and a child coming from Longmeadow to Springfield, 20 Mar 1676." [Hale, House and Related Families] | Leonard, Sarah (I1133)
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| 566 | "King's Serjeant at Law, 1331; Knight of the Bath, Oct 1331; Justice of the King's Bench, 20 Mar 1333-30 May 1333, Justice of the Common Pleas, 30 May 1333-1340 when removed by Edward III on a charge of maladministration; reinstated 10 May 1342 and made chief baron of the exchequer, 2 July 1344; Second Justice of the Common Pleas, from 10 Nov 1345 and Chief Justice, from 26 Oct 1350 to May 1363. Excommunicated by Pope Innocent VI, 1357, for refusing to appear when summoned to answer for a sentence he had delivered against the Bishop of Ely. In 1364, he granted his manor of Alurynton, Shropshire to the Augustinian priory in Osney. In 1369 he withdrew to the Franciscan house at Oxford where he died." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | de Shareshull, William (I9392)
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| 567 | "Kinswoman and co-heiress of William Goth." [Royal Ancestry] "Sister of William Goth. The latter was an allodial lord along the River Sarthe, temp. William I." [Henry James Young, citation details below] | Goth, Aveline (I8326)
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| 568 | "Knighted 1275/80; Knight of the Shire for Stafford 1290, 1298, 1306, 1307/8, 1311/2, 1313, and 1318. He supported Thomas, Earl of Lancaster and was taken prisoner following the rebel defeat at the battle of Boroughbridge, 16 Mar 1322. He was imprisoned at Alton Castle whence his grandsons tried to release him. He was pardoned 19 Mar 1323. In 1328, the Sheriff of Staffordshire referred to him as 'so old and infirm.'" [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] Given by The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz as possibly, not certainly, a son of William de Stafford and Auda de Vernon. | de Stafford, William (I13120)
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| 569 | "Knighted 14 Aug 1378 while serving at sea in the retinue of Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham. Knight of the Shire for Buckingham, 1391 and 1397; Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire, 1399-1404, for Cambridgeshire, 1401-07, and for Huntingdonshire, 1405-07. Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1412-13." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | Aylesbury, Thomas (I16631)
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| 570 | "Knighted by Richard II at his coronation, 16 July 1377. Served in Ireland 1380/1, against the Scots 1385, and again in Ireland 1394/5." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] Summoned to Parliament by writs dated 3 Mar 1384 to 17 Dec 1387. | Talbot, Richard (I20111)
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| 571 | "Laurence held some position in the bishopric of Durham, probably the bishop's forester." [John Watson, citation details below.] | de Pontop, Laurence (I11280)
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| 572 | "Le Boîteux" (the Lame). Duke of Bourbon. | de Bourbon, Louis I (I21918)
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| 573 | "Le Grand." Duc de Bretagne; Comte de Vannes. He was probably the only king of Brittany (rex Brittaniae) to hold that title by legitimate grant of the emperor. | de Bretagne, Alain I (I12939)
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| 574 | "Led Scots to Hexham 1296; in prison at Berwick 1297; Sheriff of Northumberland 1315-17; took part in Middleton's rebellion 1317." [The Wallop Family] | de Swinburne, Adam (I2636)
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| 575 | "Leo van de Pas, in April 2002, pointed out that both Alasia's parents were members of the del Vasto family; her mother, Luisa, appears in modern Italian works as "Aluigia", and Alasia's maternal grandmother is given as Menzia d'Este [citing Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, vol. 1 (1960) and F. Cognasso, Il Piemonte nell'eta sveva (1968)]." [Chris Phillips, Some Corrections and Additions to The Complete Peerage] | Menzia (I883)
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| 576 | "Lieutenant of Aquitaine, 12 July 1293, being then a knight, and Seneschal of Aquitaine, 1294, during the wars of Edward I. He was captured by the French, 1296/7, and upon his return in 1297 was summoned for military service in Flanders. From 1298 until his death he was engaged in military operations in Scotland, including the siege of Caerlaverock in July 1300, being then a knight banneret." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | de St. John, John (I13030)
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| 577 | "Like his antecedents, Thomas de Grey was Constable of Norham Castle, Northumberland, one of the two castles of the Palatinate of Durham, on the Scottish border, and he defended it from the Scots in 1318, 1319, 1322 and 1327." [Rosie Bevan, citation details below] | Gray, Thomas I (I7715)
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| 578 | "Like his father, John Bullard also appeared in the 1535 militia muster roll of Barnham, Suffolk. His rank was that of 'billman.' A billman was a soldier armed with an ancient weapon having a hook-shaped blade with a spike at the back mounted on a long staff." [The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part I, citation details below.] | Bullard, John (I22294)
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| 579 | "Lived at Concord for a time after the burning of Groton, but returned before 1693, and again lived near Captain Parker, presumably at the old home of his father." [The Nutting Genealogy, citation details below.] | Nutting, John (I11225)
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| 580 | "London, Feb. 22. -- John A. McDonald, a pioneer of Middlesex county, and a cousin of Hon. Jas. McDonald, chief justice of Nova Scotia, and father of Rev. J. A. McDonald, a well known Presbyterian minister and editor of the Westminster Journal, died to-day aged 81." [Winnipeg Tribune, 23 Feb 1899, p. 5] | Macdonald, John Alexander (I34998)
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| 581 | "Lord Graham sat in the Parliaments of James III in 1479, 1481, 1482 and 1487, and supported the cause of that monarch against his son and the confederated Lords, being present on the royal side at the battle of Sauchieburn, 11 June 1488. He was soon received into favour, and even familiar friendship, by James IV, and sat in this sovereign's first Parliament 6 October 1488, and in the second 6 February 1491-92. His principal acquisitions were the estates of Aberuthven and Inchbrakie in Perthshire. Between 7 July7 and 20 November 1503 he was created EARL OF MONTROSE, and sat as such in Parliament 3 February 1505-6. On 3 March 1504-5 as William, Earl of Montrose, he had had a charter upon his own resignation of the lands of Old Montrose, which lands, the charter bears, belonged hereditarily to him by the grant of Robert I and the confirmation of David II under their Great Seals, to his predecessors, and which James IV now erected into the free barony and earldom of Montrose. Of the same date he had three other charters, viz. a new erection of the barony of Kincardine, of Aberuthven, Inchbrakie, and others united into a barony of Aberuthven, and of Kynnaber in Forfarshire also erected into a barony. The Earl accompanied James IV in his ill-starred invasion of England, and fell at Flodden, 'sub vexillo regis,' along with his brother George of Callendar, and his brother-in-law, Sir William Edmondstone of Duntreath, 9 September 1513." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below.] | Graham, William (I26544)
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| 582 | "Lord of Kilmarnock [… Succeeded] before 15 November 1385 (by which date his mother had remarried), styled 'domino de Kilmernok' as witness to a charter confirmed by Robert III on 17 August 1399, had a remission in 1409 from the Duke of Albany for the slaughter of Neilson of Dalrymple, petitioned with the other Gifford coheirs on 1 August 1420 for the erection of the collegiate church of Bothanis, a hostage in 1424 and 1425 for the ransom of King James I and for a time confined in England, the events of his life are often confused with those of his son Sir Thomas Boyd." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] A footnote on the same page (174) of The Ancestry of Charles II: "He did not die 7 July 1432, his wife was not Joanna Montgomery, and Margaret Boyd was not the daughter of his son Sir Thomas Boyd, as is generally stated, e.g., in SP 5:140. The lives of these members of the Boyd family have been confused and Robert Boyd, father of [this Thomas Boyd] and husband of the Giffard heiress, has been omitted altogether. 'Alice Gifford,' the supposed wife of [this Thomas Boyd] never existed. This Thomas is not known to have been knighted." | Boyd, Thomas (I27421)
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| 583 | "Lord of Seton, Winchburgh, and Tranent, one of the Scottish border lords who refused to attend the parliament that ratified a treaty with England and evidently took part in the subequent raid into northern England in 1383, styled 'Baron, lord of Seton,' in a petition to the pope granted 27 October 1394, and 'Dominus eujusdem, nepos et heres quondam Alexandri Seton de eodem' on 13 December 1397. […] He seems to have married twice, the mother of his second son being Jonet Fleming, elder daughter of Sir David Fleming of Biggar. However, the mother of his son John has not been identified." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | Seton, William (I27411)
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| 584 | "Lord of the Barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Afan), in the Honour of Glamorgan, South Wales. Died Feb 1241. He succeeded his elder brother, Lleision, c. 1213, and served the interests of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, by harrassing the Clare lords of Glamorgan." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz] | ap Morgan, Morgan Gam (I13272)
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| 585 | "Lorentz was naturalized at Albany 28 Feb 1716 and a patentee at Burnetsfield on lot #37 in 1722. He wrote the birthdates for himself, his wife, and his children in the family bible, which is now preserved at the Herkimer Co. Hist. Society. In this 'Herrther Bible', Lorentz stated he had eight sons and four daughters, but gave the names and dates for only the five sons and four daughters now known. Perhaps he purchased the bible after the last child was born and entered all the data at one time, which might account for omitting details on children that had died young. [...] His will dated 1 Jul 1776 mentions wife Abelonia, eldest son Nicholas (who got 20 shillings for his birthright), and three other sons, Fredrich, Hendrix, & Lorentz, who were to inherit his property, including lot #12. Also mentioned were daughters Catherine, Elisabeth, and Margaret and an 'Abelonia Schuttin', who was to receive his loom (she was probably his granddaughter, age about 10 then). Probably the Lorentz Sr who had 3 adults and 1 child (under 16) on 1778 German Flats relief." [Early Families of Herkimer County, New York, citation details below.] According to Harter History (citation details below), he and his wife are said to be buried at Frankfort, New York, and a monument near Utica lists 21 descendants of Lorentz Herrther/Harter who served in the American Revolution. | Harter, Lorentz (I23417)
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| 586 | "Lost his lands in Wales during the wars, and had his castle in Prestatyn destroyed by Owen Gweneth, temp. Hen. 2, and settled with all his people in Lancashire." [Ormerod, citation details below.] | Banastre, Robert (I16003)
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| 587 | "Lucy of Bolingbroke (died circa 1138) was an Anglo-Norman heiress in central England and, later in life, countess of Chester. Probably related to the old English earls of Mercia, she came to possess extensive lands in Lincolnshire which she passed on to her husbands and sons. She was a notable religious patron, founding or co-founding two small religious houses and endowing several with lands and churches. [...] Lucy, as widowed countess, founded the convent of Stixwould in 1135, becoming, in the words of one historian, 'one of the few aristocratic women of the late eleventh and twelfth centuries to achieve the role of independent lay founder.'" [Wikipedia] Much controversy has ensued over her parentage. Appendix J to volume 7 of the Complete Peerage sums up the state of play in 1929: "The parentage of the Countess Lucy is one of the unsolved puzzles of genealogy. The only direct statements about it are in the Peterborough Chronicle and the pseudo-Ingulf's Chronicle of Crowland, which agree in saying that she was daughter of Aelfgar, Earl of Mercia, and niece or grandniece of Thorold, sometime Sheriff of co. Lincoln. All that is certainly known is that she was niece of Robert Malet of Eye and of Alan of Lincoln, and that Thorold the Sheriff was a kinsman." The essay goes on to state that a good but not conclusive case can be made for her parents being Thorold the sheriff and an unnamed daughter of Robert Malet. The ODNB calls Lucy merely "heir of the honour of Bolingbroke". In 1995 Katharine Keats-Rohan made a case for the Thorold hypothesis, but Rosie Bevan argued on SGM that "the main sticking point [...] is that although Lucy is mentioned a few times as Thorold's heir she is not named as his daughter." Bevan went on to propose that the incomplete evidence could as easily be used to argue that Lucy's parents were William Malet (son of Robert) and a daughter of earl Alfgar III. The one point on which everyone appears to agree is that one of Lucy's parents has to have been a Malet, because in 1153 the future Henry II promised the honour of Eye to Ranulph, earl of Chester, to be held as "Robert Malet the uncle of his mother [i.e., Lucy] held it." | of Bolingbroke, Lucy (I317)
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| 588 | "MACKY Margaret née Craghead (Tullyaughnish Old Graveyard Ramelton County Donegal Ireland) Died Apr 12 1712 age 82 mother of Thomas Macky erected by descendant Nathaniel Stewart December 1860." [Ireland Memorial And Burial Register, citation details below] The abstract of the 1732 will of the Thomas Macky mentioned in the above inscription shows that he was brother to Patrick Macky. Patrick Mackey's 1756 will establishes that their sister Margaret was the mother of Margaret who married Thomas Craighead (1702-1735). | Craighead, Margaret (I27273)
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| 589 | "Made a justice in 10 counties in 1267 and later in 17 others. As a knight, he witnessed deeds of the Bishop of Bath and Wells and of Queen Eleanor 1275; Knight of the Shire for Gloucester 1295; fought in Scotland 1298." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | de Helyon, Walter (I20083)
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| 590 | "Magnus Olafsson (Old Norse: Magnús Óláfsson, Norwegian: Magnus Olavsson), better known as Magnus Barefoot (Old Norse: Magnús berfœttr, Norwegian: Magnus Berrføtt), was King of Norway (as Magnus III) from 1093 until his death in 1103. His reign was marked by aggressive military campaigns and conquest, particularly in the Norse-dominated parts of the British Isles, where he extended his rule to the Kingdom of the Isles and Dublin." [Wikipedia] | Magnus III King of Norway (I25469)
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| 591 | "MALDOUEN, third Earl of Lennox, who first appears on record in a charter by his father, Earl Alwin, to the church of Kilpatrick before 1199. Between 1208 and 1214 he granted the church of Campsie to the bishopric of Glasgow, and was then son and heir of his father. He succeeded before 10 August 1217, when he, as Earl, bestowed the lands and church of Kilsyth on his sister Eva and her husband. From this date on to 1250 he is frequently found granting charters, chiefly to the Abbey of Paisley. Other grants made by him were those to his brother Aulay of the lands of Faslane, to Gilchrist of the lands of Arrochar, and of the large territory of Colquhoun to Humphrey Kilpatrick. Following the example of King William the Lion, he was admitted into the fraternity of the Abbey of Arbroath, and in recognition of the fact he gave 'his brothers' an alms of four oxen each year, at Stirling, on St. John Baptist's Day, with a promise that, at his death, they were to have twenty oxen. His name and that of his brother Aulay were to be inscribed in the Abbey martyrology, 'that each year at our anniversary we may be absolved in their chapter.' This grant, which was continued yearly until 1317, when it was commuted into a yearly sum of two merks, to be paid at Cambuskenneth, was confirmed on 9 January 1231. He was present at the important treaty between Alexander II and Henry III, affecting the northern counties of England, on 25 September 1237, and he was a surety for the same in 1244. In 1238 he had a charter from King Alexander II of the earldom of Lennox, which his father Alwin held, except the Castle of Dumbarton, with the land of Murrach, with the whole part and the water and fishery of the River Leven, so far as the lands of Murrach extend, which the King retained in his own hands, with the Earl's consent. The last dated charter granted by the Earl was on 12 March 1250-51, containing a general confirmation of his benefactions to the monastery of Paisley. The date of this Earl's death is uncertain. His successor does not appear on record till about 1270. Earl Maldouen married a lady named Elizabeth, to whom he refers as his spouse in a charter of certain lands to the monks of Paisley, dated before 22 October 1228, when it was confirmed by King Alexander II. She is said to have been a daughter of Walter, the third High Stewart, and this is not improbable, as he not unfrequently is a witness to Earl Maldouen's charters, and seems to have taken an interest in the family affairs." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | of Lennox, Maldouen (I28941)
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| 592 | "Manuel Erotikos Komnenos was a Byzantine military leader under Basil II, and the first fully documented ancestor of the Komnenos dynasty. His origin and parentage is obscure. He is only mentioned in the sources as leading the defence of Nicaea in 978 against the rebel Bardas Skleros, and as an imperial envoy to him 11 years later. He had three children, late in life. The eldest, Isaac, became emperor in 1057–1059, and the youngest, John, was the progenitor of the Komnenian dynasty as the father of Alexios I Komnenos." [Wikipedia] | Komnenos, Manual Erotikos (I10662)
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| 593 | "Many sources state the year of his baptism as 1586, but in the parish register this entry falls under the heading 'The Inventore of weddings Christeings and Buriings of Cleabroke frome The 29 Septemb[e]r 1586 unto the 29 of Septemb[e]r 1587'." [Randy West, citation details below.] "In 1629 Francis Higginson kept a diary of his voyage to New England, and after his arrival he wrote a pamphlet entitled 'New England's Plantation,' which went through three editions in its first year. The diary, two editions of the pamphlet, and some other short writings by Higginson were collected and published in a limited edition in 1908 [New Englands Plantation with The Sea Journal and Other Writings (Salem 1908)]. [...] Cotton Mather wrote a lengthy biographical sketch on Higginson (not so long by Matherian standards, but longer than one might expect from the brief span of time that Higginson resided in New England." [Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins] From Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson [citation details below]: Francis Higginson was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, taking his degrees, B. A., 1609 and M. A., 1613. He was ordained deacon at Cawood Castle Sept. 25, 1614, by Toby Mathew, Archbishop of York when he was called curate of Scredingham. He was ordained priest at Bishopthorpe Dec. 8, 1614, by the same archbishop. Scredingham, now called Scrayingham, is in the East Riding of Yorkshire, eleven miles from York. He was collated (instituted) Apr. 20, 1615, by the Archbishop of York, the patron, to the rectory of Barton-in-fabis in the county of Nottingham and deanery of Bingham, which he resigned Apr. 4, 1616. Barton-in-fabis is six miles southwest of Nottingham, near the border of Leicestershire. It is stated that Francis Higginson was for a time settled at Claybrooke as curate and assistant to his father. It appears certain that he was connected with the parish of St. Nicholas, Leicester, between 1617 and 1629, styling himself "minister" and afterwards "lecturer." Under date of May 17, 1627, in an account given in the State Papers of the doings of the Puritans in and about Leicester, his name is prominently mentioned. Nichols, in his History of Leicestershire, records the fact that, "Mr. Francis Higginson, a Reverend Divine and sometime Preacher of God's word att the parish of St. Nicholas in this Borough of Leicester, gave divers bookes for and towardes the better furnishing of this Library [the town library of Leicester]; videlicet: "Oecolampadius in omnes Prophetas et Job. Strigelius in omnes Psalmos. Sarcerius in Epistolas Dominicales. Sarcerius in Evangelia Dominicalia." (Nichols' Leicestershire, Vol. 1, p. 506). Upon invitation of the Massachusetts Bay Company to go to New England, Francis Higginson sailed from Gravesend, in the Talbot, Apr. 25, 1629, and on June 29 landed at Salem. Here was founded the first church in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when, on July 20, 1629, "the people made choice of Mr. Skelton for their Pastor and Mr. Higginson for their Teacher. And accordingly it was desired of Mr. Higginson to draw up a confession of faith and covenant in scripture language." This covenant was signed the "6 of 6th Month, 1629," and one year from that date, Aug. 6, 1630, Francis Higginson died. | Higginson, Rev. Francis (I16380)
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| 594 | "Margaret was the daughter of John Penn, mercer of London, who names his wife Alice, sons John, Thomas, and Ralph, and daughters Alice and Margaret in his 1450 will. He also mentions Thomas Fereby, brother of his wife. Several documents demonstrate that Alice (Fereby) (Penn) (Brayne) Newbury was the mother of Ralph Penn. The 1454 will of Alice's father, John Fereby of Paul's Cray, names his son Thomas, his wife Alice, and John and Alice, son and daughter of John Penn. If John and Alice were Penn's oldest son and daughter, as the order of the bequests in Penn's will suggests, Penn's wife Alice, who survived her husband, must have been the mother of all of his children." ["The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings of New England," by Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson, and Janet Chevally Wolfe. Part Two, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 166, January 2012.] | Fereby, Alice (I12351)
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| 595 | "Margaret [...] was evidently near related to John Hussey, Knt., Lord Hussey, of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, who referred to one of their sons as his 'kinsman' in 1536." [Royal Ancestry] | Boys, Margaret (I9275)
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| 596 | "Margaret, the third daughter, was married to Henry de Bury, and was one of the most remarkable women of her time. Her husband was slain at Bury in 1315, by partisans of Adam de Banastre, whereupon Margaret became the ruler of Bury Town, in the annals of which place she is known as Great Dame Margery, Lady of Bury. Two years before his death her husband made settlement of his lands, which were to remain to Margery, daughter of Richard de Radclyffe, for life; then to Henry, son of Henry de Bury, and in default of heirs, to Alice, Agnes, and Isabel, daughters of the elder Henry, failing whom, to Adam, son of Matthew de Bury, and his heirs. Shortly before the death of her husband, another son, Adam, was born to Margery, but his father's untimely end prevented any alteration of the settlement. Margery's elder son, Henry, was slain in another affray in 1318, one of the ringleaders in which was a relative of Roger de Freckleton, whom Margery had appointed Rector of Bury. She thereupon arranged an exchange of livings, sending Freckleton to Radclyffe, and bringing to Bury Richard de Radclyffe, her brother, that in the midst of a host of enemies she might have the support of one of her own indomitable clan. In the County Rolls, under date of 1323, it is recorded that 'Margt. de Burie held Manor of Burie, and renders Socage 8s. and the same Margery holds the town and renders for ward of the castle 10s.'"' On the death of Lady Margery, the Bury estate passed to the Pilkingtons, by the marriage of Alicia, eldest daughter of Margery, to Roger de Pilkington." [The Book of the Radclyffes, citation details below] | de Radcliffe, Margery (I35970)
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| 597 | "Margery sister of Adam, who married Thurstan de Northlegh [...]." ["Townships: Ulnes Walton" in VCH Lancaster (citation details below), volume 6] "In 1311 Robert del Clough and Joan his wife claimed two-thirds of certain messuages, &c., in Eccleston and Ulnes Walton against Margery daughter of John de Walton, and it appeared that Joan, Margaret and Margery were the sisters and heirs of Adam son of John de Walton. Margery had married Thurstan de Northlegh before 1315, when the suit was continued. From a continuation of the suit it is shown that John de Walton was brother and heir of an Adam de Walton." ["Townships: Ulnes Walton" in VCH Lancaster (citation details below), volume 6] | de Walton, Margery (I36031)
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| 598 | "Margret H. Deser" is the name as given in the Leo Hayden family Bible. The transcription of Leo Hayden's family bible, in "Bible records of Basil Hayden (Basil Robert Hayden, 1774-1833)," Kentucky Genealogical Records Book, GRC Book Series 1, volume 319, pp. 84-87, gives her birth date as 8 Oct 1809 and her brother Joseph's as 4 Apr 1809. At least one of these has to be wrong. | Hayden, Margaret (I3867)
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| 599 | "Marguerite Bourgeoys [...] was a French nun and founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal in the colony of New France, now part of Québec, Canada. Born in Troyes, she traveled to Fort Ville-Marie (now Montreal) by 1653, where she developed the convent and educated young girls, the poor, and children of First Nations until shortly before her death at the turn of the 18th century. She is also significant for developing one of the first uncloistered religious communities in the Catholic Church. Declared 'venerable' by the pope in 1878, she was canonized in 1982 and declared a saint by the Catholic Church." [Wikipedia] A more detailed biography of her can be read here at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. In addition, the site of the Canadian medieval music ensemble Schola Magdalena features this thoughtful essay about her. As a side note, evidently Marguerite Bourgeoys coined the phrase "filles du roi" to describe the women who were brought to New France to alleviate the colony's catastrophic shortage of marriageable women in the 1660s and 70s. | Bourgeoys, St. Marguerite (I32415)
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| 600 | "Marion Cunningham, Lady Bar, died at her home in Ayr in January 1623. She was the daughter of William Cunningham of Aiket and Helen Colquhoun, daughter of a Highland chief. […] She grew up in an age of aggression in northern Ayrshire, the time of the great feud betewen the Montgomery Earl of Eglinton and the Cunningham Earl of Glencairn which lasted over seventy years in the sixteenth century." [Ayr and Its People, citation details below] | Cunningham, Marion (I25776)
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| 601 | "Married the heiress of Ightfield, Shropshire." [Kay Allen, citation details below] William Mainwaring (d. <1500) = Margaret Warren (b. 1401) Thomas Mainwaring (d. 1508) = Joan Sutton John Mainwairing (d. 1518) = Joan Lacon (d. 1524) Richard Mainwaring (d. 1558) = Dorothy Corbet Arthur Mainwaring (d. 1590) = Margaret Mainwaring Mary Mainwaring (~1541-1578) = Richard Cotton (~1539-1602) Frances Cotton (d. >1630) = George Abell (d. 1630) Robert Abell (~1605-1663) = Joanna (d. >1682) Caleb Abell (~1647-1731) = Margaret Post (1653-1700) Experience Abell (1674-1763) = John Hyde (1667-1727) James Hyde (1707-1793) = Sarah Marshall (1720-1773) Abiah Hyde (1749-1788) = Rev. Aaron Cleveland (1744-1815) William Cleveland (1770-1837) = Margaret Falley (1766-1850) Rev. Richard Falley Cleveland (1804-1853) = Anne Neal (1806-1882) (Stephen) Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) | Mainwaring, William (I2573)
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| 602 | "Mary Betts, widow, known as 'the School Dame', owned land 'by the courtesie of The Towne'. Her home lot of 2 acres was located on the south side of the road from the Meeting House to the Mill, just to the north of the Little River, which she purchased from Seth Grant. She received four acres in the division of 1639–40." [Timothy Lester Jacobs at the Founders of Hartford site] As "Mary Betts," her name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. | Mary (I4763)
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| 603 | "Mary Clements is mentioned as 'a remarkably pious and good woman,' and yet in 1692, she was accused of witchcraft. It is perhaps indicative of the height to which the witchcraft delusion rose that so prominent a woman could be found among the accused. […] The legal examination of the Andover victims lasted for several weeks; that of Mary (Clements) Osgood taking place on 8 Sept. 1692. With but one exception, the frenzied and agonized women, Mrs. Osgood among them, confessed that they had been 'dipt' by Satan. About the only way to escape conviction and execution was to confess guilt and beg for mercy, so it is not surprising that Captain Osgood urged his wife to confess, in the hope of saving her life. However, in the end, the awfulness of a confession that one had given body and soul to Satan, outweighed in Mrs. Osgood's mind the desire for life and she recanted. […] She was discharged the January following with others of the accused." [Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Clements, citation details below.] | Clements, Mary (I17206)
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| 604 | "Mary Exhurst was born about 1507, the daughter of Richard and Joan Roberts Exhurst. Joan was Richard's second wife. About 1536, she married Edward Stoughton. They had three sons. A lawsuit initiated in 1556, brought by Walter Mayne against Edward Stoughton and his sons Francis and Thomas, confirms that Richard Exhurst was the father of Edward Stoughton's wife, Mary Exhurst, who was the mother of Francis Stoughton. One of the documents in the suit asserts that Mary was the daughter of Richard's second wife, Joan. It names the husbands of Bennett, Mary and Elizabeth Exhurst as Thomas Aldye, Edward Stoughton and Alane Mathewe respectively. Thomas Aldye and Bennett had a daughter, Margerye, and Edward Stoughton and Mary had sons Francis and Thomas. After Bennett and Mary died, Margerye married John Monnynges. Walter Mayne says that Richard Exhurst had two daughters by his first wife, Bennett and Elizabeth, and two daughters by his second wife, Joan; Mary and another Elizabeth. He also says that both Mary and the Elizabeth who married Alane Mathewe were the daughters of Joan. The language of the lawsuit indicates that Mary was dead by 1556. She was probably buried in the churchyard of St. Nicholas' Church in Sandwich, Kent." [Findagrave.com page for Mary Exhurst, by Todd Whitesides.] | Exhurst, Mary (I12312)
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| 605 | "Mary is mentioned in her husband's will, as his wife and also is shown to be the wife of Jacob Butler in the deposition of David Butler which was attached to the will of Jacob by his son Christopher, when seeking probate of same on 17 January 1745. (Chowan Co., NC County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Minutes, Jan 1/45; NC Archives Call No. C.024.3000) [The Descendants of Thomas Pincerna, Progenitor of the Butler Family] | Mary (I1673)
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| 606 | "Mary Kittamaquund, daughter of the Tayac (Paramount Chief) of the Piscataway Indians, was born in Maryland probably about 1631. Her father ruled over as many as 7,000 people between the Potomac and Patuxent Rivers. Following about six months of dialogue and study with Jesuit Missionary Father Andrew White, Mary's father converted to Christianity and was baptized on July 5, 1640. Soon after February 15, 1640/1, Mary too was baptized, and her father sent her to the English settlement called St Mary's City, near the mouth of the Potomac River, to be educated by Governor Leonard Calvert and his sister-in-law, Margaret Brent. Mary married Giles Brent, brother of Margaret Brent, before January 9, 1644/5." [Roberta Estes, citation details below.] | Kittamaquund, Mary (I26096)
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| 607 | "Mary may have been related to the family of Thomas 'Customer' Smythe (1522-91), a wealthy haberdasher, customs officer, and financier, and sometime member of Parliament. This Thomas Smythe was granted the manors of Eastenhanger and Westenhanger in Kent by Queen Elizabeth on 26 May 1585. The funeral monument for Thomas Smythe and his wife Alice is extant in the south transept of the Ashford church. The will of their son 'Sr Richard Smith of Leedes Castle in the Countie of Kent knight,' written 12 October 1627 and proved 1 August 1628, bears his request to be buried near his father, mother, and eldest brother in 'the parishe church of Eyshford in the Countie of Kent.' He mentioned many friends and relatives, and, on the sixth pahe, he gave 'unto my cosen Mary Hall widowe in money six pounds thirteen shillenges & fower pence.' This might be a reference to Peter Goatley's widow Mary (Smyth) (Goatley) Hall." [Leslie Mahler, citation details below] | Smyth, Mary (I30251)
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| 608 | "Mary Willis wife of Hennery Willis of Westbery an Innosent woman dyed ye 23d 4mo 1714 aged 82 years." ["Records of the Society of Friends of the City of New York and Vicinity, from 1640 to 1800," citation details below] | Peace, Mary (I28134)
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| 609 | "Mary Willitts of Jerrico An antiant widdow she Received ye Blessed truth in Early dayes and boar a Publick testimony in Meetings Continued faithful to ye end of her days dyed ye 17d 11mo 1713 Aged about 84 years." ["Records of the Society of Friends of the City of New York and Vicinity, from 1640 to 1800," citation details below] | Washbourn, Mary (I28165)
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| 610 | "Mary, widow of James Seabrook, in 1676, married Thomas Whitlock, and removed from Westchester County, N.Y., to Shoal Harbor, (now Port Monmouth), in Monmouth County." [History of Monmouth County, New Jersey, citation details below] | Mary (I27222)
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| 611 | "Master of the Household to King James I, a prisoner after the battle of Homildon Hill and a hostage in England in 1407, one of the commissioners appointed to treat for the liberation of James I and one of the named conservators of the truce of seven years concluded in 1424." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | Seton, John (I27394)
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| 612 | "Matthew Howard of Maryland: given a fanciful conspiracy-theory (literally) descent from Henry VII, in a 1976 historical novel (!) by Maryland genealogist James Moss. The other theory in print is the older one by Harry Wright Newman; both are groundless. Newman's theory is patently false; the Moss theory may have a grain of truth in some distant cadet connection to the ducal Howards of Norfolk, but there is no evidence beyond the questionable armory." [Nathaniel Lane Taylor, here] Matthew and Anne Howard are common ancestors of JMF and PNH. They are also ancestors of the poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) and of Frank and Jesse James: Matthew Howard (1609-1658) = Ann (1612-1659) John Howard (1645-1696) = Susannah Norwood (b. 1620) John Howard (d. 1704) = Katherine Greenbury (d. 1704) Katherine Howard (b. 1697) = Orlando Griffith Sarah Griffith (1718-1794) = Nicholas Dorsey (1712-1780) Rachel Dorsey (1737-1805) = Anthony Lindsay (b. 1736) Vachel Lindsay = Annie Quisenberry Nicholas Lindsay = Martha Cave Vachel Thomas Lindsay (b. 1843) = Esther Frazee Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, known as Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) Matthew Howard (1609-1658) = Ann (1612-1659) John Howard (1645-1696) = Susannah Norwood (b. 1620) John Howard (d. 1704) = Katherine Greenbury (d. 1704) Katherine Howard (b. 1697) = Orlando Griffith Sarah Griffith (1718-1794) = Nicholas Dorsey (1712-1780) Rachel Dorsey (1737-1805) = Anthony Lindsay (b. 1736) Anthony Lindsay (1767-1831) = Alice Cole (1769-1818) Sarah Lindsay (1803-1851) = James Cole (1804-1827) Zerelda Elizabeth Cole (1825-1911) = Robert Sallee James (1818-1850) Alexander Franklin James, known as Frank James (1843-1915) -- and his brother -- Jesse Woodson James, known as Jesse James (1847-1882) Matthew Howard (1609-1658) = Ann (1612-1659) Mathew Howard (~1640-~1692) = Sarah Dorsey (d. <1691) Sarah Howard = John Worthington (~1651-1701) Thomas Worthington (b. ~1691) = Elizabeth Ridgely Elizabeth Worthington (d. 1775 or 1776) = Henry Dorsey (1712-1770) Ariana Dorsey (b. 1755) = Benjamin Warfield Daniel Warfield = Nancy Mactier Henry Mactier Warfield (1826-1885) = Anna Emory (1830-1915) Teackle Wallis Warfield (1869-1896) = Alice Montague (1869-1929) Bessie Wallis (Warfield) (Spencer) (Simpson) Warfield (1896-1986), Duchess of Windsor, wife of the abdicated Edward VIII | Howard, Matthew (I3448)
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| 613 | "MATTOON, Ebenezer, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in North Amherst, Hampshire County, Mass., on August 19, 1755; attended the common schools and received private instruction; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1776; served in the Revolutionary Army and attained the rank of major; taught school and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives in 1781 and 1794; justice of the peace 1782-1796; served in the State senate in 1795 and 1796; served from the rank of captain to that of major general of the Fourth Division, State militia; appointed sheriff of Hampshire County in 1796 and served twenty years; elected as a Federalist to the Sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Lyman; reelected to the Seventh Congress and served from February 2, 1801, to March 3, 1803; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1812; major general of Massachusetts Militia 1799-1816; adjutant general of the State militia 1816-1818; became totally blind in 1818 and retired from active public life; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1820; died in Amherst, Mass., September 11, 1843; interment in West Cemetery." [Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress] | Mattoon, Maj. Gen. Ebenezer (I18228)
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| 614 | "Maud lived into the early 1380s. [...] The surname of Maud is not certain. She is given in some secondary sources as the dau. of Sir John Stafford, and in another as dau. of Sir John de Phillibert." [Charles M. Hansen, citation details below.] | Maud (I18803)
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| 615 | "Maud, suo jure Countess of Angus [S.], da. and h., m. John Comyn, who, in her right, became Earl of Angus [S.], and d. s.p. in France, 1242. She m., 2ndly, in 1243, Gilbert de Umfreville, Lord of Prudhoe and Redesdale in Northumberland, who may, in her right, have become Earl of Angus [S.]. He was s. and h. of Richard de Umfreville, of the same, and did homage for his father's lands 8 Jan. 1226/7. He d. shortly before 13 Mar. 1244/5, and was bur. in Hexham Priory. His widow m., before 2 Dec. 1247, Richard de Douvres, of Chilham, Kent, s. and h. of Richard fitz Roy, an illeg. s. of King John." [Complete Peerage I:146] | of Angus, Maud (I218)
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| 616 | "May 4. 1718 I was informed that mr Hamlin died yesterday afternoon and is to be buried tomorrow." ["Diary of Reverend William Homes", citation details below] | Hamlin, James (I429)
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| 617 | "Merchant bourgeois (marchand bourgeois)." [Genealogy of the French in North America] | Fleuricour, Jean (I6166)
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| 618 | "Mercy, m. Nicholas Whitmarsh of Weymouth." [Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, listing Mercy Reed, daughter of William Reed and Esther Tomson.] Nicholas Whitmarsh was her first husband, not her father as incorrectly stated in many sources. | Reed, Mercy (I3261)
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| 619 | "Michael Hutts (deceased) was a native of Virginia, and there married Judith McCormick. They emigrated in 1829 with a blind horse, a cart, $7, and four children: Mahala, Mark, Lewis, and Giles, and settled in Jackson township, Fountain county, Indiana, where Mr. Hutts took a lease on eighty acres of Sec. 16 for nine years. With the first $50 he accumulated he entered forty acres of land in Jackson township. He settled on his little farm and rented his leased tract. By toil and energy he began to increase his possessions. At the time of his death he was worth $25,000. He died in 1874, in his seventy-seventh year. His wife died in 1875, aged seventy-six years. Both belonged to the Baptist church. He was a lifelong democrat." [History of Fountain County (citation details below)] | Hutts, Michael (I28430)
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| 620 | "Mormon church religious leader. Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Joseph Smith told him, 'Brother Amasa, the Lord requires your labors in the vinyard.' He replied, 'I will go.' This kind of dedication characterized his life, nearly fulfilling one hundred missions in thirty-five years. He marched with Zions Camp, stood in defense at Far West, and served jail time with Joseph Smith. He was called to the Twelve following the apostacy of Orson Pratt who had been excommunicated. When Elder Pratt had been reinstated to the Church and his former position, Joseph called him as counselor replacing Sidney Rigdon. While on a mission to Europe with Charles C. Rich, he was accused of preaching heresy and repented, however, a few weeks later he again began preaching such and was released from the Quorum of the Twelve and excommunicated. He later associated himself with the Godbeites, a Mormon splinter group, and died having never returned to the cause in which he sacrificed so much." [FindaGrave.com] | Lyman, Amasa Mason (I2867)
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| 621 | "Morris C. Moore was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, was reared and educated there and in that county married Rebecca M. Beals, who was born in Eastern Tennessee, daughter of Abram Beals. Morris Moore and family went from North Carolina to Hancock County, Indiana, and from there in 1859 came west to Kansas Territory. He was one of the pioneers in Lyon County, and filed on a homestead northwest of Emporia. Later he moved to Chase County, entering land four miles east of Cottonwood Falls. The rest of his life was spent there and he died in 1870, when about thirty-five years old. Though his activities were those of a farmer and stockman he acquired considerable prominence in his locality. He was a man of great ambition and a leader in the Republican party. He remained true to the faith in which he was reared, that of the Friends. His widow survived him and afterwards married Barclay Thomas and now lives at Whittier, California. By her marriage to Morris Moore she was the mother of the following children: Ada V., wife of Dr. D. F. Janeway, of Stillwater, Oklahoma; Theodore B.; Marcellus E., of Ontario, California; Mary Rosetta, who died in young womanhood; Sarah Isabel, for many years a teacher in the Morgan Park schools of Chicago; Laura M., wife of Warren S. Wood, of Lawrence, Kansas." [Find a Grave page for Morris Moore, citation details below, accessed 7 Nov 2020] | Moore, Morris C. (I30616)
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| 622 | "Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hayden announce the marriage of their daughter, Daisy Cecelia, to Mr. Virgil Bowlds, to take place on Wednesday, April 26, in the parsonage of St. Paul's Catholic Church, the ceremony to be performed by Rev. E. S. Fitzgerald. The attendants will be Miss Nina Clark and Mr. Tony Smith." [Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, 16 Apr 1905, p. 11] | Hayden, Daisy Cecilia (I3315)
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| 623 | "Mr. Doom was descended from Holland Dutch, a good substantial plain people. He was a man of great intelligence and of stern integrity. He was a wealthy manufacturer at the beginning of the civil war, and owned an immense tannery, sawmills, stone quarries; was offered large sums for his property, but not knowing the future, refused them and was left without wealth so far as this world goes." [James Nourse and His Descendants, citation details below] | Doom, James Madison (I34668)
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| 624 | "Mrs. Bishop was a model Presbyterian, remarkable for her piety and force of character." [Record of the Descendants of John Bishop, citation details below.] | Shields, Mary (I18027)
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| 625 | "Mrs.Waterman, a highly respected old lady living two miles west of Colt died Sunday, Aug. 6, 1899." [Forrest City, Arkansas Times, 11 Aug 1899] | Hardy, Mary "Mollie" (I35200)
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| 626 | "My son Robert was Marryed in Boston to mrs Mary Franklin April 3rd at 9 at night by the Revd mr Eben Pemberton." ["Diary of Reverend William Homes", citation details below] | Family F12318
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| 627 | "Nathan Foster was born in Massachusetts and before reaching his majority went to Maine. He located at what was later incorporated as Norway. Was always a farmer. He took a prominent part in all of the town's affairs. His death was very sudden. He went to the barn to attend to his stock and was found dead in the yard, where he had fallen, as was supposed, in a fit of apoplexy." [Foster Genealogy, citation details below] | Foster, Nathan (I33539)
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| 628 | "Near the end of his life, John added to his estate a substantial purchase of land in Ticehurst and Etchingham in Sussex. Documents recording the purchase suggest that John was a draper who may have recently achieved the status of esquire through his land purchases." ["The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings of New England," by Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson, and Janet Chevally Wolfe. Part Two, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 166, January 2012.] | Roberts, John (I12326)
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| 629 | "Nephew of Roger II of Berkeley, for whose land he accounted in 1129/30. He was succeeded shortly afterwards by his son Roger III. Founded the Cistercian abbey of Kingswood, colonized from Tintern, at the request of his uncle Roger in 1139, subsequently confirmed by his son Roger III." [Domesday Descendants, p. 321] | de Berkeley, William (I4143)
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| 630 | "Nicholas Babbs is first heard of in 1539 when he appears on the list of 'Harnes appoyntd within the towne of Guldeford'; Constable in 1541, Flesh and Fish Taster in 1542, along with another man, 1544 on the jury, 1545 on the list of approved men indicating he had been a bailiff, same year named as an Affeerer (an official who assesses fines and fees not already standardly fixed), 1545 bailiff again, and same year listed as a fishmonger for the whole of Lent for which privilege he was assessed 6d. His burial record says he had been Mayor of Guildford." [Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins, citation details below.] | Babbs, Nicholas Mayor of Guildford (I20569)
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| 631 | "Nicholas de Moels, whose parentage is unknown, appears to have been from an early age in the court of King John, and was an official actively employed in the King's service both in embassies and the field. In 1217 the manor of Watlington was granted to him 'for his sustenance in the king's service,' and similar gifts followed. In April 1223, he was sent to Poitou on an embassy from the King, and again in the following January. In the summer of 1223 he served in the King's expedition into Wales, and in the following year at the siege of Bedford. In January 1224/5 he was one of the ambassadors sent to Cologne to treat of a proposed marriage between Henry III and a daughter of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria. In July 1226 the land of Little Berkhampstead was granted to him, and this and other estates were later confirmed in fee. He also, by his marriage with a wealthy heiress, Hawise, one of the daughters and heirs of James de Newmarch, acquired Cadbury and other manors in Somerset and the neighbouring counties, thus becoming one of the greater landowners. In 1227 he was in Gascony on the King's service, and a joint ambassador to the Count of Flanders; in March 1228 was charged with negotiations as to the truce with France, and in November of that year, at Westminster, witnessed Henry's grant to the Bishop of Chichester of land in 'New Street,' now the site of Lincoln's Inn. In April of the following year, as miles noster familiaris, he was a plenipotentiary to treat of peace with Louis IX of France, and was again going to Gascony in the King's service. He was sheriff of Hants and custos of Winchester Castle from July 1228 to March 1231/2, sheriff of Devon, 1234-1236, of York, Easter 1239 to Michaelma 1241, and of Kent, March to October 1258. He was granted the custody of the Channel Islands in 1234, and was keeper the bishopric of Durham during part of the vacancy after the translation of Bishop Richard le Poer, 1237. At the Coronation of Queen Eleanor, in 1236, he and Richard Siward, milites strenui, carried the two royal sceptres. In 1242 he was ambassador to the King of France with Ralph FitzNicholas, and later in the year joined the English King in Bordeaux. In September 1243 Henry III, returning to England, left Nicholas de Moels as seneschal of Gascony. In the following year he inflicted a defeat on the King of Navarre. In 1245 he was appointed keeper of the castles of Cardigan and Carmarthen, and in the same year was constable of Pembroke, Haverford, Kilgarran and Tenby. In 1246 and 1247 he was in the wars of Wales and was seneschal of Carmarthen, and in February 1248/9 was added to the commissioners to deal with the King of Navarre. As 'Nicholas de Molis, king's clerk,' he had a grant of free warren in his demesne lands in Cadbury and Mapperton in January 1250/1. On 16 June 1252 he was sent into Gascony with Roscelin de Fos, Master of the Templars in England, as conservator of the truce between Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and Gaston, Viscount de Bearn. He was engaged in Wales in connection with Henry's futile expedition in 1257, and in 1263 received his last military summons to the muster at Hereford against Llewelyn. In January 1257/8 he was appointed constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports. He was constable of the castles of Rochester, Canterbury, and Winchester in 1258, of Sherborne in 1261, and of Corfe in 1263, and one of the King's serjeants in Windsor Castle 1263-64. He was on the King's side in the Barons' War, and was ordered, 4 July 1264, to deliver Windsor Castle to John, son of John, the custodian appointed by the Barons." [Complete Peerage] | de Moels, Nicholas (I8163)
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| 632 | "Not to be confused with his 1st cousin, Sir John Fortescue, lawyer who became Chief Justice in England." [Ancestral Roots] This confusion is present in A History of the Family of Fortescue in All its Branches, citation details below. | Fortescue, John (I7889)
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| 633 | "Nothing is known of the family background of Waleran's first wife, Oda. All we know of her for certain is that she was mother of five children by 1024 and after her husband unsuccessfully tried to get their marriage annulled she died as a nun at Notre-Dame de Coulombs by 1033. You can safely disregard any internet genealogy that includes her as a sister of Herluin of Conteville, or that traces the lineage of a Jean of Conteville through imaginary Baldwins of Blois." [Peter Stewart, citation details below.] | Oda (I10402)
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| 634 | "Obtained from King William the Lion, before 1196, the district of Carrick, formed out of the old Cumbrian Kingdom, part of ancient Galloway, with the title of Earl of Carrick." [Complete Peerage] | Duncan (I23842)
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| 635 | "Of a total of approximately 15 inventories for Towednack for the period 1660-1691, that of Andrew Rosewall has the highest value with £354.8.6, the only others to approach it being: Robert Curnow £196.14.8, Francis Quick £159.3.4." [West Penwith at the Time of Charles II, citation details below.] Robert Curnow willed to his son Robert Curnow "1 mare called Splat, a metal crock, a metal pan and the boarding in the loft over the parlour." Interestingly, he also willed to his son Peter "the tenament called Terean Rose, Amallwidden in Amalveor." Amalveor is a tiny hamlet three miles southwest of St. Ives. In December 1931 a trove of gold objects dated to the Bronze Age were discovered at Amalveor Farm, about a mile west of Amalveor church; these artifacts now live in the British Museum. | Curnow, Robert (I12441)
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| 636 | "Of Philips Precinct, Dutchess County." [The Nelson Family] | Davenport, Thomas (I1736)
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| 637 | "Of Saint Martin." [Joan Stevens, citation details below.] | Le Maistre, François (I17046)
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| 638 | "Of the family of Baird of Cambusnethan." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | le Barde, Margaret (I27383)
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| 639 | "Of Weston in Sussex, but afterwards of Poultney." [Nichols, citation details below.] | Neale de Clipston, Adam (I21790)
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| 640 | "Often styled Mary, but in a charter (1439/40) by her grandson, Sir Duncan Campbell, she is called Isabella 'Laigmani,' i.e. Lamont (SP 1:327 n. 5). The man given as her father by McKechnie, The Lamont Clan, 60-61, was actually her grandfather, as a study of the chronology shows." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | Lamont, Isabella (I27409)
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| 641 | "Olaf Haraldsson (Old Norse: Óláfr Haraldsson, Norwegian: Olav Haraldsson), known as Olaf Kyrre (Old Norse: kyrri, English: Peaceful), ruled Norway as King Olaf III from 1067 until his death in 1093. He was present at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in England in 1066 where his father, King Harald Hardrada, saw defeat and was killed in action, an event that directly preceded his kingship. During his rule, Olaf made peace with regards to earlier royal conflicts with the church, strengthened the power of the monarchy, and is traditionally credited with founding the city of Bergen circa 1070." [Wikipedia] | Olav III King of Norway (I25471)
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| 642 | "Old Talbot." Lord Strange of Blackmere. Count of Clermont, Marshal of France, Constable of Ireland, Privy councillor 1422 and 1443, Lord Justice of Ireland, and many other titles. Noted as the only Constable of France appointed by a king of England. Summoned to Parliament by writs, 26 Oct 1409 and after. Created Earl of Shrewsbury 20 May 1442. Created Earl of Waterford 17 Jul 1446. He was a major military commander of the Hundred Years' War, and was killed on the field at the Battle of Castillon, considered the last battle of that conflict. A monument to him was raised by the French generals who defeated him. His death in battle is portrayed in a painting by Charles-Philippe Larivière. He spent four years a prisoner in France, after Joan of Arc stopped his string of successes there at the battle of Pattay, 1429. He appears in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 as "valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, Created, for his rare success in arms." | Talbot, John (I13507)
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| 643 | "Oliver de Vaux accompanied King John to Ireland 1203, later opposed John, hence his lands forfeited, though they were restored him by Henry III c. 1218; Justice itinerant c. 1234; married Petronilla, widow of Henry de Mara and William de Longchamps, and died after 1244." [Burke's Peerage] | de Vaux, Oliver (I1233)
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| 644 | "On 10/14/1837 LEWIS HAYDEN purchased 1382 1/2 acres of land in Daviess County, next to his brother WILLIAM LEO HAYDEN on the south bank of the Panther Creek (Deed E:521-523). Upon his death, LEWIS HAYDEN's 13 children became heirs to this property. LEWIS and Mary apparently never lived in Daviess County. Both are buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Bardstown, Kentucky." [John Medley, citation details below] | Hayden, Lewis (I11380)
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| 645 | "On 24 Dec. he was sum. as Robert de Ros to (de Montfort's) Parl. in London." [Complete Peerage] Knight of the shire 1261 & 1265. His bowels were buried at Belvoir, his heart at Croxton Abbey, and the remainder at Kirkham Priory. | de Ros, Robert (I7079)
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| 646 | "On 25 March 1235, Gerard Salvain was appointed one of the collectors of a tax of a fortieth in Yorkshire. On 17 July 1235, Gerard Salvain and Thomas de Lucton were made collectors of an aid in the East Riding of Yorkshire. On 17 November 1235, Gerard Salvain was made one of the king's coroners in Yorkshire. In 1239, Sir Gerard Salvain was a justice and witnessed, at York, a charter of Monk Bretton Prior." ["The Yorkshire Family of Salvain," citation details below.] | Salvain, Gerard (I5775)
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| 647 | "On 29 Sept 1348 a commission was directed to investigate her rape and robbery by Thomas Wandak, who in 1351 was pardoned of these crimes for good services in the war with France." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | Helion, Rose (I20072)
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| 648 | "On 5 March 1666/67, the General Court, presided over by Gov. Thomas Prence, fined Arthur Howland, Jr. £5 for 'inveigling of [Gov. Prence's daughter] Mistris Elizabeth Prence and makeing motion of marriage to her, and procecuting the same contrary to her parrents liking, and without theire consent, and directly contrary to theire mind and will.' He was also ordered to find sureties for his future good behavior, and 'in speciall that hee desist from the use of any meanes to obtaine or retaine her affections as aforsaid.' On 2 July 1667 Arthur Howland, Jr. 'did sollemly and seriously engage before this Court, that he will wholly desist and never apply himself for the future, as formerly he hath done, to Mistris Elizabeth Prence in reference unto marriage.' In spite of his pledge not to speak of marriage to Elizabeth Prence again, on 9 December 1667 Arthur Howland, Jr. married Elizabeth Prence, and thus the governor acquired Quaker in-laws. Many of the other Howlands continued their Quaker ways in the new town of Dartmouth, but Arthur Howland, Jr. remained in Marshfield, and on 5 June 1671 he was made constable of Marshfield, where presumably his duties could have included seeing that Quakers fully complied with the law." [Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620-1691 by Eugene Aubrey Stratton. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986.] | Howland, Arthur (I3915)
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| 649 | "On advice of Pope set out with an army of 15,000 men on crusade to the Holy Land, 1217, but the expedition failed. Upon his return he found Hungary in near anarchy. Hungarian nobles extorted from him the Golden Bull (Hungarian Magna Charta), 1222." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz] | András II King of Hungary (I21257)
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| 650 | "On April 7, 1732, Thomas Thorne was chosen as an overseer of highways, and on Aug. 6, 1754, he registered his earmark (Hempstead Town Rec. 4:98 & 425). His name appears occasionally in Hempstead as a witness to deeds and other legal papers. Although he died two years after the Declaration of Independence, nothing has been found regarding his political opinions. His will, executed Feb. 20, 1778, and proved Oct. 17, 1778, leaves to 'my dearly beloved Wife Mary' household furniture and plate; 'all my hogs, my riding chair, and my Negro wench Teen'; and during her widowhood the dwelling house and farm, together with 'Negro man Jack' while she occupies the farm; but if the farm is sold or rented out 'then I give the said Negroman Jack to my Sons Amos, Richard, and Thomas, equally to be divided among them.'" [Genealogies of Long Island Families] | Thorn, Thomas (I8353)
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| 651 | "On August 7, 1699, she was convicted of selling drink by retail, contrary to order, and was fined forty shillings for it, but the fine was remitted on her petition." [Babcock and Allied Families, citation details below] | Brown, Jane (I10181)
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| 652 | "On the 1870 Mortality Schedule for Bullitt Co. KY is: Elizabeth Cheshire died October 1869, Bullitt Leaches KY. Died at 84 of dropsy of the heart. b. VA. Right age and place to be Jonathan's wife." [Dupaix, citation details below.] No birth record for her has been found. Her maiden name was recorded in Johnson County, Indiana marriage records when her sons John S. and Thomas Cheshire married their fourth wives. | Hollis, Elizabeth (I8448)
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| 653 | "On the 26th of May, 1209 [Sir Robert Bertram] fought a duel in armour at Porchester with Ralph de Clere concerning land in 'Eddeston' and 'Holm,' which Ralph had guaranteed to him and his wife Mabel; he won the contest and Ralph acknowledged William the prior of Hexham, to be the owner of these lands. [...] [Robert Bertram] married Mabel or Mabilia, who it is said married first Ralph de Clere and had a daughter and heiress, Agatha de Clere, and apparently she retained this name, possibly for reasons of dowry, but who was the Ralph de Clere who guaranteed to them the lands mentioned above? In 1214/5 Mabel de Clere rendered an account for £197 18s. 4d., for having custody, as is contained (in the preceding roll), probably her son and lands, in the treasury, 50 marks and the escheators of York had rendered £7 17s. 5d. of the issues of the land of Robert Bertram her husband and again in the same year, she rendered account for three fees and Robert Bertram had her heir in custody. She occurred in 1219/20 and 1229/30 as mother of Richard Bertram. There is nothing to show why she retained the name of Clere, but she did not remarry." [Ogle and Bothal, citation details below.] | de Clere, Mabel (I3791)
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| 654 | "On the Sunday following his baptism, his great-grandfather and godfather, Sir Richard Lovel, held a feast at la Mersh, by Wyncaulton for all who attended to bear witness to this event. He was a knight by 27 May 1379 and served as Sheriff of Devonshire 1368-69, 1381-82, and 1387-88." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below] Richard Champernoun was the direct ancestor of several well-known adventurer-explorers. Ancestor of Sir Walter Ralegh: Richard Champernoun (d. 1419) = Alice Astley Joan Champernoun (d. 1419) = John Courtenay (d. <1406) Philip Courtenay (1404-1476) = Elizabeth Hungerford (d. 1476) Philip Courtenay (1430-1489) = Elizabeth Wonwell (1432-1482) Margaret Courtenay (d. 1527) = John Champernowne (1458-1503) Philip Champernowne (d. 1545) = Catherine Carew (d. 1546) Katherine Champernowne (d. 1594) = Walter Ralegh (1505-1581) Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618) And of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, a man loathsome even by the standards of imperialist chancers: Richard Champernoun (d. 1419) = Alice Astley Joan Champernoun (d. 1419) = John Courtenay (d. <1406) Philip Courtenay (1404-1476) = Elizabeth Hungerford (d. 1476) Philip Courtenay (1430-1489) = Elizabeth Wonwell (1432-1482) Margaret Courtenay (d. 1527) = John Champernowne (1458-1503) Philip Champernowne (d. 1545) = Catherine Carew (d. 1546) Katherine Champernowne (d. 1594) = Otho Gilbert (d. 1547) Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1537-1583) And ancestor of Francis Champernowne and his father Arthur Champernowne, both of whom were associates of Sir Ferdinando Gorges in his early efforts to settle and develop the coasts of what are now Massachusetts and Maine. Gorges was married to Mary Fulford, sister of Arthur Champernowne's wife Bridget Fulford. Francis settled permanently in Massachusetts in 1637. Richard Champernoun (d. 1419) = Alice Astley Joan Champernoun (d. 1419) = John Courtenay (d. <1406) Philip Courtenay (1404-1476) = Elizabeth Hungerford (d. 1476) Philip Courtenay (1430-1489) = Elizabeth Wonwell (1432-1482) Margaret Courtenay (d. 1527) = John Champernowne (1458-1503) Philip Champernowne (d. 1545) = Catherine Carew (d. 1546) Arthur Champernowne (1524-1578) = Mary Norreys (d. 1570) Gawen Champernowne (1554-1591) = Roberta d'Orge Arthur Champernowne (1580-1650) = Bridget Fulford Francis Champernowne (1614-1687) It's notable that the Champernoun family was rich, and rich for a long time. In the direct male line, the earliest known individual, Jordan de Cambernon (d. >1172), married a granddaughter of Henry I. His 3XG-grandson Richard de Champernoun married a granddaughter of King John. So why did Arthur Champernowne and his son Francis involve themselves in the risky, high-stakes business of financing fishing colonies in Newfoundland and on the coast of Maine? The answer is, because their line of Champernowns had lost all their money. Arthur's maternal grandfather, remarkably, was Gabriel d'Orge, count of Montgomery, who at a joust in 1559 accidentally killed Henri II, king of France. Despite the dying king's forgiveness, so traumatized was the count by this -- and so immediate and complete was his exclusion from French courtly society -- that in due course he converted to Protestantism and became a leader of the Huguenots. He was one of the few Huguenots to escape the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, from which he fled to England. The queen mother, Catherine de Medici, demanded his extradition, which Elizabeth I refused. In 1573, d'Orge raised a fleet in an unsuccessful attempt to relieve the siege of La Rochelle. The next year, he tried to raise an insurrection in Normandy but was captured and executed. Just before his execution he was told that all his property and that of his children would be confiscated and all their titles stripped. (All of which sounds remarkably like a Dumas novel, and in fact a novel about Gabriel, The Two Dianas (1846-47) was published with Dumas' name on it, albeit mostly or entirely written by his friend and collaborator Paul Meurice.) The count's daughter Roberta had married the Devon squire Gawen Champernowne, father of Arthur, and Gawen had become a close ally of the count. Now their branch of the family was substantially penniless. It's little wonder that Arthur and Francis looked to the potential riches of the New World, despite the risks involved. | Champernoun, Richard (I12956)
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| 655 | "One of the barons of Scotland attending the Parliament at Brigham who confirmed the Treaty of Salisbury with England, 14 Mar 1289/90." [John P. Ravilious, citation details below] He is known to have been married to a Christiana, probably Christiana de Lilleburn, widow of Sir Thomas de Fenwick who d. 1275, herself known to have been living in 1318, but she was probably not the mother of his daughter Margaret. | de Bonkil of that Ilk, Alexander (I27335)
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| 656 | "One of the greatest feudal barons of the reign of Henry III, he was called 'Great Lord of Kent' on account of his extensive possessions and the many offices he held. Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1228; Sheriff of Kent, 1232-3 and 1242-8, and of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1239." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz] | de Criol, Bertram (I13320)
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| 657 | "Originally born with the name of Carloman (after his paternal uncle), he was renamed Pépin in 781 when he was named as king of Italy by pope Hadrian." [The Henry Project] | Pépin King of Italy (I8166)
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| 658 | "Other participants in the events of 1460-1, however, had returned to their homes and had sunk into obscurity until the Readeption. One example is Sir William Fielding of Lutterworth in Leicestershire. He had gravitated toward the Lancastrian establishment in the Midlands during the later 1450s. There is some limited evidence to support an attachment to the Beauforts, although the precise depth of Fielding's loyalty to the House of Lancaster cannot be stated with absolute certainty. Nevertheless, his general pardon secured in March 1461 implies that he had fought for them at Wakefield or Towton. Little is known about Fielding during the 1460s but his underlying loyalties apparently remained Lancastrian. He served as Readeption sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire as well as a justice of the peace in Leicestershire. It has been suggested that Fielding was paying careful heed to events at this time. His concern about what might happen apparently led him to sit down before the battle of Tewkesbury where he drew up his will and evidence of his family's illustrious descent in case he did not survive." [Malcolm Mercer, "The Strength of Lancastrian Loyalism", citation details below.] | Fielding, William (I21740)
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| 659 | "Otto [...] did not appear in connection with the dies. Gibbs, p. 136, prints a charter of Theobald of Lisson Green, goldsmith and engraver of the dies for the money of England, dated before 1200, who may have been the family representative in this generation, but no other reference to this Theobald has been found." [F. N. Craig, "Descent from a Domesday Goldsmith." The American Genealogist 65:1, January 1990, p. 24.] | fitz William, Otto (I5503)
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| 660 | "Patrick Graham's son, David, who had fought with his father at Dunbar and was taken prisoner after the battle, succeeded. He continued to uphold the Balliol cause, and it was the killing of his patron, Sir John Comyn, by Robert Bruce, that explains his reluctance to espouse Bruce's cause and led to a period of English service. Following Bannockburn, however, Graham accepted the political situation and returned to serve Robert I, appending his seal to the declaration of Arbroath in 1320. In 1325 he exchanged lands in the earldom of Carrick with the king, for which he received lands including Old Montrose in the sheriffdom of Forfar." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | de Graham, David (I27297)
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| 661 | "Paver's Marriage Licenses" (citation details below) gives the surname for her and her father as "Stocks." | Stock, Grace (I26738)
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| 662 | "PAYN (PAGANUS) I was apparently granted the lordship of Coity, comprising the manors of Coity Anglia and Coity Wallia, by Robert Fitzhamon. Alone among the Glamorgan lordships it was held on the easy tenure of serjeanty of hunting, probably because of the importance of its strategic position. Payn I was known as 'the Demon' ('Y Cythraul'), but nothing is known of the reasons for this derogatory epithet. He only appears as witness to charters in 1126 and 1129. The pleasant story of his marriage to the daughter of the Welsh chieftain of Coity, and the less pleasant story of his giving Fitzhamon a blow that rendered him imbecile, seem to be devoid of historical foundation." [Dictionary of Welsh Biography, citation details below] | de Turberville, Payn (I30019)
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| 663 | "Perhaps he married first KATHERINE -----, daughter of Thomas, Lord Bray; and he married, perhaps secondly, JOAN -----, who is said to have been daughter of Thomas Berrie. On 17 Oct. 1394 he is recorded as about to go into Ireland in the King's service, with Thomas de Percy, steward of the King's household." [French, citation details below.] It's also possible that the daughter of Lord Bray was the Katherine who married his son. | Jocelyn, Jeffrey (I27698)
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| 664 | "Perhaps theirs was the martriage recorded at Wouldham, Kent, 8 August 1621, between Thomas Chittenden and Rebecca Bamfort." [Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, p. 72.] | Rebecca (I13990)
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| 665 | "Peter de Sancto Mauro lived in the time of Henry III, at Weston in Gordano, in the hundred of Portbury, which manor he held together with this of Kingston. His seal was a port cullis quartered with two chevronels. He left issue one only daughter and heir, Maud de Sancto Mauro, who was twice married; first to Walter de Wengham, who died 8 Edw. I. and secondly, to Simon de Ludgate." [The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, citation details below] | de Sancto Mauro, Peter (I29675)
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| 666 | "Peter de Sancto Mauro […] left issue one only daughter and heir, Maud de Sancto Mauro, who was twice married; first to Walter de Wengham, who died 8 Edw. I. and secondly, to Simon de Ludgate. By her first husband she had four daughters, Joan the wife of Richard de Ken; Alice the wife of John de Wyke, who died without issue; Maud, the wife of Philip de Wyke; and another Joan, the wife of Sir John de Boudon. By her second husband, Simon de Ludgate, she had one son, Laurence, surnamed (according to the mode of those times) from his mother, by reason of her noble extraction, de Sancto Mauro. Which Laurence, notwithstanding divers claims and litigations, inherited little of the patrimony; and this manor, together with the advowson of the living, was allotted to the daughters of Walter de Wengham." [The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, citation details below] | de Sancto Mauro, Maud (I29674)
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| 667 | "Phebe (Bisby) Bressey married, as her second husband, Lieut. Samuel Martin of New Haven. They moved to Wethersfield where Martin died 15 Sept. 1683. Phebe's father, William Bisby, was not pleased with either of her husbands. In a letter to his sister-in-law, Mary Wyllys, wife of George Wyllys, Governor of the Connecticut Colony, dated 11 May 1646, he says of his daughter 'shee was rash in her first marryage, & soe in her second.' In another letter to Mrs. Wyllys, dated 21 Aug. 1646, he states that Phebe had had £20 each year from him since she went to New England, 'which is, I take it, twelve years.'" [Walter Goodwin Davis, citation details below.] | Bisby, Phebe (I19598)
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| 668 | "PHILIP (ap RHYS?). Said to be both son of Rhys ap Fychan, died 1271, and Rhys ap Mechyll, died 1244, father of the latter, but both claims seem questionable." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz. citation details below.] | Philip (I26204)
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| 669 | "Philip Chesley, b. 1606-08, ± 77 in Nov. 1683. First ment. Dover Neck wit. 1642; he had a home lot there. At Oyster River by 1648. His and his 2d wife's share of existing records would fill a 'movie,' an alternating current of honor. and impuls. activ. His wife Elizabeth, liv. 1661, was presum. dead when he put everything in his sons' names. Soon his wife was Joanna, app. relation of James and Elizabeth Thomas. Both living 30 Apr. 1685. [...] Ch: Thomas, b. ab. 1644. Philip, b. ab. 1646. By 2d w: Hannah, m. Thomas Ash. Mary, in ct. 1698, found at the house of Thomas Ash in Portsm.; m. 28 May 1701 Ralph Hall; 2d John Foye (3). Esther, m. 3 July 1699 John Hall." [Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire] From New Hampshire Court Records 1640-1692, Court Papers 1652-1688, State Papers Series Vol. 40, edited by Otis G. Hammond. New Hampshire: The State of New Hampshire, 1943: phillip Chesly for givinge out Reprochfull spechis against the worshipfull Captin wiggins Is sentensed by this Courte to make a publiqe acknouledgment three severall publiqe Days the first Day in the head of the train band: the other two Days are to be the next publiqe meetings days in Dover, when oyster River peopell shall be there Present: which is to be Done within fouer months after this Present Day, and in Case he Doth not performe as affore sayd he is to be whipped not exseding ten strips: and to be fined five Pounds to the Contry: ffees for the Court 0-02s-6d. [...] The Deposioc of Thomas Bradbury Junior Aged Twenty Yeares or there abouts who Testifyeth yt upon the second Day of October (1661) or there abouts Phillip Chesley being att Salisbury and mr Andrew Wiggins with him: Phillip Chesley asked this deponent where Mr. Hall was, or whether he was gone for England, this depont told him that hee was gone to Boston: the said Chesley asked him whether mr Hall had any Cattle or horses [...T]he said Phillip Chesley [...] in the hearing of this depont [said] that mr Sam:Hall was a Knave and that he had Cheated him of Tenn pounds wch was a due debt and further said if he could sight of him hee could lay him fast & further saith not. ----- On 24 Jun 1662, Samuel Hall sued Philip Chesley for £500 over Chesley having called him a "knave" who had "cheated him...of a just debt." Chesley was jailed for a time. The torrent of charges and counter-charges can be discerned through the translucent veil of seventeenth-century language here, beginning on page 491. | Chesley, Philip (I3042)
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| 670 | "Philip de Orreby, presumably elder son by 1st wife, born circa 1190, was witness with his father to Earl Ranulph's charter to William de Cauntelo, as Philip de Orreby the younger. He married Leucha, daughter of Roger de Mohaut (son of Robert de Mohaut by Leucha his wife), and d. v.p., leaving a daughter Agnes, who in or before 1227 was her mother's heir." [Complete Peerage X: 169-70] | de Orreby, Philip (I3640)
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| 671 | "Philip married Hannah Sessions, a member of the Society of Friends, at the [Joseph] Fisher home in Philadelphia." [On Footings From the Past: The Packers in England] From "Certificates of Removal Received at Philadelphia Monthly Meetings of Friends, 1682-1750," in The Literary Era: A Monthly Repository of Literary and Miscellaneous Information, volume 7, 1900, pp. 52-53: James Sessions, from Mo. Mtg. at Witney [England], dated 5 mo. 10, 1682. Hannah Sessions, from Witney, dated 2 mo. 10, 1682. | Sessions, Hannah (I7668)
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| 672 | "Plaintiff in a suit in 1332 against Richard Wace over 7 1/2 acres of land and 2 acres of meadow in North Weston originally held by his great-grandfather, Herbert Quartermain. In Aug 1335, a verdict was reached in favor of the defendant and Thomas Quartermain was liable for a false claim. (QOX: 10-11. William Quartermain, generally identified as the father of this man's son, No. 1756, was in fact this man's father, as attested to in the Plea Rolls of Trinity Term 6 Edward III, in 1332.)" [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | Quartermain, Thomas (I11251)
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| 673 | "Possibly daughter of William Saint Clair, of Hamerton, Huntingdonshire." [Royal Ancestry] | Maud (I12307)
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| 674 | "Possibly the 'Johan Bredstret' buried at Haughley 7 December 1564." [Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton II, citation details below.] | Johan (I9078)
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| 675 | "Presumably came to New England in 1635, age 22, arriving on the James with his father and younger brother Robert Pike, about 18, and sisters Dorothy, about 16, Ann, about 14, and Israel (female), age 12. The family first settled in Ipswich, removed to Newbury in 1635 and then to Woodbridge, New Jersey in 1665." [Early New England Families Study Project, citation details below] | Pike, John (I23481)
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| 676 | "Presumably one of the Flemings who settled in Pembrokeshire under Henry I." [Complete Peerage] | of Ros, Godebert "The Fleming" (I7062)
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| 677 | "Probable daughter of Robert Molyneux." [Royal Ancestry] | Molyneux, Joan (I13545)
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| 678 | "Probably a daughter of Capt. Richard Wright." [Thomas and Anna (Wright?) Burnham of Hartford, Connecticut", citation details below.] | Wright, Ann (I5495)
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| 679 | "Probably he was the Thomas Welby who was Mayor of Boston, co. Lincoln, in 1643." [The Bulkeley Genealogy] | Welby, Thomas (I12256)
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| 680 | "Probably" the father of Nicholas, according to J. J. Alexander (citation details below). And according to the same source, not the same John Keynes d. 1419 whose daughter married John Speke and whose pedigree appears in The Wallop Family (volume 2, p. 469, "KEYNES II"). | Keynes, John (I8442)
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| 681 | "Ralph (de Neville), Lord Neville, 2nd but 1st surviving son, was aged 40 and more at his father's death. He was taken prisoner with his younger brothers at Berwick in 1319. He had begun his long career of public service and official work already in 1322, when he was constable of Warkworth Castle, and serving in the Marches under the Earl of Carlisle. In 1324 he was appointed with the Earl of Angus to escort the envoys of Robert Bruce to York, to treat of peace, and in 1325 commissioner to keep the truce in Northumberland. At the time of his father's death he was already steward of the King's household. In the following January he indented to serve Sir Henry Percy, and in July was commissioned to take over the keepership of the Forest beyond Trent. He was present at the surrender of Berwick Castle to Edward III, July 1333, and again with the King in Scotland in 1334 (June-October) and in the summer of 1335; joint commissioner, 1333 and 1334, to Edward Baliol's Parliament, to demand confirmation of covenants, and in 1334 Warden of the Scottish Marches, some time sole and some time with Percy; in the same year chief of the justices in eyre of the Forest (Notts and Yorks) for that turn; in 1335 he was made keeper of Bamburgh Castle for life, and by Mar. 1336/7 was a banneret. In July 1338 and June 1340 he was appointed on the Council of Prince Edward as Keeper of the Realm, and (by the Bishop) overseer of the keepers of the temporalities of the see of Durham during his absence on the King's service. He commanded the first division at the victory of Durham, or Nevill's Cross, 17 October 1346, where King David of Scotland was taken prisoner; and took part in the naval success against the Spaniards off Winchelsea, 29 Aug. 1350." [Complete Peerage] Unmentioned by CP, but he was educated at Oxford. He was the first layman to be buried at Durham Cathedral, in recognition of his role in the victory at Nevill's Cross. | de Neville, Ralph (I1704)
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| 682 | "Ralph Basset, s. and h. of the above, served in the French and Scottish wars. He suc. his father 4 Aug. 1265. He held lands of Ralph Basset of Weldon 1284/5; he was sum. to attend the King at Shrewsbury, 28 June (1283) 11 Edw. I, and was sum. to Parl. 23 June (1295) 23 Edw. I to 10 Apr. (1299) 27 Edw. I, by writs directed Radulfo Basset de Drayton whereby he is held to have become Basset of Drayton. He m. Hawise. He d. 31 Dec. 1299, and was bur. at Drayton." [Complete Peerage II:2] | Basset, Ralph (I4145)
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| 683 | "Ralph de Camoys, s. and h. of Ralph de C. (d. 1259), by Asceline, heiress of Torpel, Northants, was aged 45 and more at his father's death. Constable of Pevensey Castle 18 July 1264. He was sum. to Parl. 24 Dec. (1264) 49 Hen. III, by writ directed Radulfo de Cameys. Such summons, having issued in rebellion, should not, however, constitute a peerage dignity. He d. before 11 Mar. (1276/7) 5 Edw. I, when the writ for his Inq. p. m. is dat." [Complete Peerage II:506] | de Camoys, Ralph (I3339)
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| 684 | "Ralph de Ferrers, said by Pole to be the founder of the family. If true, then he married Sibilla de Pyn, daughter of William de Pyn [...]" [Todd A. Farmerie, 1 Feb 1999, post to SGM]. | de Ferrers, Ralph (I11116)
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| 685 | "Ralph de Neville, a younger son of Alan aforesaid, is known only as being father of Hugh the Forester." [Complete Peerage] | de Neville, Ralph (I901)
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| 686 | "Ralph de Neville, who had from Walter de Gand (d. 1139) lands in Fordon, Filey, Muston and Righton (which the Countess Alice confirmed to his son Geoffrey); which Ralph, with consent of his wife Hawise and son and heir apparent Geoffrey, made to Rievaulx Abbey a grant of Land in Righton, in the Gand fee of Hummanby, which was confirmed by Gilbert de Gand; and for the soul of his wife Avice, with consent of his son and heir Geoffrey, gave land in Filey to Bridlington Priory. Ralph de Neville founded, before 1164, a priory at Hutton Rudby, Yorks, upon the 'liberum maritagium' of his wife with consent of Adam de Brus, the overlord, and of Arnold de Percy, to whom the service upon her portion was due." [Complete Peerage] | de Neville, Ralph (I4873)
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| 687 | "Ralph de Neville, who [1100-1120] held 10 carucates in Lincs from Peterborough, and, about 1114, witnessed the foundation charter of Bridlington Priory by Walter de Gand." [Complete Peerage] | de Neville, Ralph (I6705)
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| 688 | "Ralph, who in 1086 held Scotton [Essex] and Manton [Lincolnshire] of [the Abbot of] Peterborough, and possibly Habrough, &c., from Alfred of Lincoln." [Complete Peerage] | de Neville, Ralph (I8258)
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| 689 | "Randolf or Ranulph (sometimes called, seemingly in error, Ralph, son and heir of Robert de Neville and Mary his wife, was born 18 October 1262, and was heir to the Neville estates on the death of his grandfather, in 1282 (having livery under writ of 11 January 1283/4), and to his mother's inheritance, April 1320. He was summoned, 15 July 1287, with horses and arms to a military council at Gloucester (before Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, in the King's absence abroad), and to attend the King at Westminster, June 1294. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295 to 18 February 1330/1, by writs directed Ranulpho (and Radulpho) de Neville, whereby he is held to have become Lord Neville. For service in Scotland he was summoned 1291 and in later years; for service in Gascony, 1294, 1297 and 1324; and against the rebels under the Earl of Lancaster, 1322. His seal, as Dominus de Raby, was attached to the letter of the Barons to the Pope, February 1300/1. In 1303 he was chief of the delegates summoned by the King to set forth the grievances of the people against the Bishop of Durham. He, or possibly his son Ralph, was commissioner of array in Durham, 1322, in the North Riding of Yorks, 1324, and in Northumberland, 1324 and 1326; in 1325 Keeper of the Peace and one of the specially appointed keepers of the coast in Northumberland, and in 1326 one of the commissioners to impress shipping in the ports of that county. He m., 1stly, Eupheme, daughter of Robert Fitzroger, Lord Fitzroger (see Clavering), and, 2ndly, Margery, dau. of John de Thweng, by whom he had no issue. He died shortly after 18 April 1331." [Complete Peerage IX:497-8.] Dugdale says of him that "It is reported of this Ranulph, that he little minded Secular business; but, for the most part, betook himself to conversation with the Canons of Merton and Coverham; as also, that he committed Incest with his own Daughter, and that Richard de Kellaw, Bishop of Durham, did for that crime compel him to do publick pennance." According to footnote (b) of the CP account quoted previously, this took place in 1313. A slightly different version of the incest story is found in the 1875 Preface to Volume III of The Register of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine and Bishop of Durham, 1314-1316, by the volume's editor, Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy. Hardy devotes nearly a page to the conviction and punishment of Ranulph's daughter Anastasia for her adultery with John de Lilleford, dwelling at length on how "proving contumacious, sentence of the Greater Excommunication was pronounced against her." This sentence was subquently commuted by the bishop and replaced with six weeks of elaborate public penance. But "[t]his unhappy woman's troubles seem not to have ended even with this promulgation of her shame and disgrace. On the 9th of November following, a mandate was issued by the bishop for the condemnation of Sur Ranulph de Neville, knight, who had been 'judicially convicted of the crime of incest and adultery with the said Anastasia, his daughter, and wife of Sir Walter de Fauconberg;' to appear in the parish church of Aukland, on the Monday after the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, there to receive penance for the said crime and for the further offence of contumacy. Sir Ranulph failing to appear, on the 16th of the following month, a mandate was issued, directing him to be excommunicated, in the Galilee at Durham, and all parish churches within the archdeaconry of Durham. We have no further details of this lamentable story. Sir Ranulph de Nevill, of Raby, was a baron of Parliament by writ, succeeded his grandfather Robert, in 1282, and died in 1331. It is only just to add, that Sir Ranulph seems habitually to have been in disfavour with the church; as for other, and apparently, trivial offenses, he had been pronounced excommunicated in the month of August before; but on the Tuesday after Michaelmas day had been absolved. On the 13th of October following, we find him again cited, 'for certain crimes and excesses which he has confessed,' to appear before the bishop or his commissaries, in the Galilee at Durham. In this instance, the nature of his offenses is not named." There certainly seems to have been no love lost between the Neville family and the Durham ecclesiastical establishment. Dugdale reports that shortly after Ranulph assumed his inheritance in 1282, he had a feud with the prior of Durham over the terms of a customary presentation of a stag to the priory on St. Cuthbert's Day. And we see from his CP entry that in 1303 "Ranulph was chief of the delegates summoned by the King to set forth the grievances of the people against the Bishop of Durham." The incest case happened in 1313. In 1318, Ranulph's eldest son Robert attacked and killed Richard Marmaduke, seneschal to the bishop, on the Old Bridge of Durham. All of which suggests a cycle of offense and reprisal. (Later in the same year, Robert was killed by James, earl of Douglas, in single combat to which Robert had dared the earl.) It should also be noted that Dugdale's characterization of Ranulph as "little minding Secular business" accords oddly with the eventful life of military and civilian service set forth by Complete Peerage. And yet this characterization appears elsewhere. T. F. Bulmer's 1890 History and Directory of Old Yorkshire states that this Ranulph "was so indolent and careless in the management of his affairs, that his mother settled Middleham and the rest of her manors on her grandson, Robert Neville". One wonders if we aren't simply picking through the tattered leavings of a 700-years-gone propaganda war. | de Neville, Ranulph (I2314)
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| 690 | "Ranulf the Moneyer, whose antecedents are unknown, first appears in 1035 when, Robert I of Normandy having died on his way home from Jerusalem, the Abbot of Le Mont St. Michel sold to Ranulf the mill of Vains which the Duke had given to the Abbey." [Complete Peerage XII/2:268.] | the Moneyer, Ranulf (I8810)
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| 691 | "Rebecca and her husband Charles were accused in the defamation and slander of Winifred Holman of Cambridge on 28 March 1660. Rebecca had suffered from serious 'fits' and perhaps mental problems as well and had accused Winifred of being a witch. The jury in the two trials found Winifred Holman not guilty of witchcraft and dismissed the suit against Rebecca on the grounds that she had been 'deprived of her natural reason when she expressed those words charged on her.' Rebecca was ordered to apologize and pay a fine." [David D. Hall, Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England] | Gibson, Rebecca (I30698)
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| 692 | "Reginald, according to the Irish historians, seems to have been popular both in Scotland and in Ireland, and to have been a man of peace. In or about the year 1180 he granted a charter to the monastery of Paisley, giving eight cows and two pennies for one year, and one penny in perpetuity from every house on his territories from which smoke issued. In this charter he is styled Lord of the Isles, which is the first reference in any authentic document to this title as assumed by the family. He is also styled King of the Isles and Lord of Argyll and Kintyre. His arms are thus described: 'In the middle of the seal on one side a ship filled with men-at-arms; on the reverse side, the figure of an armed man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand.' Reginald, on completing the Abbey of Saddel, granted to the monks the lands of Gleusagadul and the twelve-mark lands of Balebean, in the lordship of Kintyre, and Cesken in Arran, and unuin denarium ex qualihet domo. He died in 1207, having, it is said, married Fonia, daughter of the Earl of Moray, and granddaughter of Fergus, Prince of Galloway. The authority for this is not clear, and he is also said to have married Macrandel's daughter, or, as some say, a sister of Thomas Randel, Earl of Moray. This last is inadmissible, but Reginald may have married a daughter of Ranulph, son of Dungall, an ancestor of the famous Earl." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | of the Isles, Reginald (I27461)
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| 693 | "Removed to Newark, New Jersey," according to John Keep of Longmeadow, Massachusets 1660-1676 And His Descendants | Miller, Jacob (I5062)
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| 694 | "Removed, with his father, to Wakefield, N.H. about 1770." ["Charles Allen and Some of His Descendants"] His wife's identity is unknown; she was not "Content Stockbridge" as reported in Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen by Gerald R. Fuller. [See New England Historical and Genealogical Register 135:129, 1981.] | Allen, Samuel (I8457)
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| 695 | "Resigned [as archdeacon] on the death of his father and succeeded him as count of Rethel." [Ancestral Roots] | de Réthel, Gervase Archdeacon of Reims (I8414)
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| 696 | "Rev. Aaron Wheeler served as a private in Lt. John Deyers' company.; Col. Thos. Carpenter's regiment in Rhode Island on the alarm of Dec 8 1776. Enlisted Dec 8 1776, discharged Dec 24 1776. Marched from Rehoboth to Bristol, also served as a private in Capt. Sylvanus Martin's company., Col. William's regiment. Enlisted Sept 27 1777, served one month at Tiverton, R.I." [Find a Grave page for Aaron Wheeler, citation details below.] | Wheeler, Rev. Aaron (I1667)
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| 697 | "Rev. Hugh Peter graduated from the University of Cambridge, obtaining a B.A. in 1617/8 and an M.A. in 1622. It was while teaching school at Laindon, co. Essex, that he met and married Mrs. Reade, who must have been much his senior. Ordained by the Bishop of London, he was appointed curate at Rayleigh, but his non-conformist tendencies caused his departure for Holland in 1629 and in 1632 he was minister of the English church in Rotterdam. Being in constant communication with his wife's children in New England, he joined them in 1635, was made a freeman of Massachusetts Bay on March 3, 1635/6 and settled as minister of the Salem church in the following December. After five years of controversial ministry he left for England, as one of the colony's agents, in 1641, and the rest of his life was occupied in semi-military, semi-religious activity with the Parliamentary forces in Ireland and England during the Civil War. On the restoration of Charles II he was arrested, confined in the Tower, tried at the Old Bailey for complicity in the execution of Charles I, found guilty and executed October 16, 1660." [The Ancestry of Bethia Harris, citation details below] | Peter, Rev. Hugh (I27166)
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| 698 | "Revived the power of his clan, a member of the 'Highland Party' who later made peace with David II and attended councils and parliaments in 1365-69." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | of Lorn, John (I34749)
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| 699 | "Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Michigan" (citation details below) makes him and his father into a single long-lived Isaac Hickman who married Susannah Lunnon or Hunnon as his second wife. Since they name "Mrs. Julia Hickman and Miss Dorothy Squire, Battle Creek, Mich." as the "Living Descendants:--(1917)," some credence must (despite the misspelling of Squier) be given to this source. | Hickman, Isaac (I22496)
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| 700 | "Reynold de Briouze, next br. He had seizin of his father's lands 26 May 1216, but gave up Bramber in or after 1220 to his nephew John, s. and h. of his 1st br. William. He m., 1stly, Grecia, da. and in her issue coh. of William Brieguerre or Briwere, by Beatrice de Vaux. He m., 2ndly, 1215, Gwladus Du, da. of Llewelyn ap lorwerth. Prince of North Wales, by his 2nd wife, Joan, illegit. da. of King John. He d. between 5 May 1227 and 9 June 1228. His widow m., 2ndly, Ralph de Mortimer, of Wigmore, who d. 6 Aug. 1246, and was bur. at Wigmore Abbey. She d. at Windsor in 1251." [Complete Peerage I:22] He attended the king at the siege of Bitham, 1221. | de Briouze, Reynold (I2005)
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| 701 | "Reynold de Lucy, ancestor of this family, was probably a near kinsman of the great justiciar Richard de Luci. He was associated with the county of Cumberland as early as 1158. From 1168 to 1175 he was in charge of the Honour of Peverel of Nottingham; and was keeper of Nottingham Castle when it was taken and burnt by Earl Ferrers in the rebellion of 1174. In 1181 he was in Ivry. In 1187, he escorted Henry II's granddaughter, daughter of Henry the Lion of Saxony, from Southampton to the Continent. He was present at the Coronation of Richard I in September 1189." [Complete Peerage] That Reynold / Reginald de Lucy was a son of Richard de Lucy the justiciar has been shown by Rosie Bevan and Peter G. M. Dale in their paper "Reginald de Lucy, Son of Richard de Lucy, King's Justiciar: New Perspectives" (citation details below), in which they transcribe a copy of the original charter of gift by Richard de Lucy to the church of Holy Trinity, London of 20 shillings rent from his vill of Newington, Kent, for the soul of his wife Rose, witnesses to which include "Geoffrey de Lucy and Reginald his brother." This copy was "found in a folio entitled A Collection of Deeds and Seals comprising copies of charters and seals commissioned by the English antiquary, Elias Ashmole", and the authors carefully document its provenance and connection to the original, which probably perished in the fire in Elias Ashmole's rooms in Middle Temple in 1679. Bevan and Dale also opine that the 1199 death date given for Reginald / Reynold de Lucy may actually be that of his son Reginald, and that this Reginald may have died earlier. | de Lucy, Reynold (I5497)
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| 702 | "Richard came to Sherborn at the age of 21, with his brother Nath'l, to establish the business of blacksmithing. […] Richard's estate at his death was inventoried at £706, not including town rights and allotments at Douglas. He seems to have been a useful and respected citizen, and an exemplary member of society. To him was committed the sacred charge of taking care or the Meeting house, to which his was much the nearest dwelling." [Abner Morse, citation details below] | Sanger, Richard (I30817)
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| 703 | "Richard de Lucy's only known wife was Rose, who died sometime before Queen Maud's death in 1152. Queen Maud and her son and heir, Eustace, witnessed a notification by Richard that he had, 'granted to the canons of Holy Trinity, London, in frank almoin, 20s. yearly rent from Niweton [Newington] for the soul of Roheis his wife, who is buried in their church...'" ["A Rose by Any Other Name: Another Daughter of Richard de Lucy," citation details below. Notwithstanding this, King Stephen's wife Maud actually died in 1151.] | de Boulogne, Rohese (I961)
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| 704 | "Richard de Lucy, son and heir, in 1200 gave 300 marks for his relief and to have his inheritance in Copeland and Cambs, and for leave to marry where he would; also for the portions of the lands of his mother Amabel held by his aunt Alice, then wife of Robert de Courtenai, and his cousin Hawise, Countess of Aumale. He was one of the magnates who in 1201 refused personal service overseas with King John, and paid 15 marks in lieu thereof. About 1202 he granted a release of 'duretol' in Allerdale. In 1204 he and his wife Ada obtained a charter to them and her heirs of the forestership of Cumberland, as formerly held by her father, without partition to her sister Joan, and of the esnecia of the said Ada. Both he and his wife were benefactors of the monasteries of St. Bees, Wetheral and Calder." [Complete Peerage VIII:248-9] | de Lucy, Richard (I8520)
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| 705 | "Richard Gaymer was an apparently prosperous miller and landowner in a village which was chiefly engaged in raising grain for export to London and nearby cities and villages. He was literate." [Vernon Dow Turner, citation details below.] | Gaymer, Richard (I23764)
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| 706 | "Richard Harvey seems to have been a linen weaver, and it is odd that he is described as a clergyman only in the burial entry. We take it that he was not a university graduate, and probably he was one of those who entered the church 'by the back door' after studying Latin and theology under preceptors." [Donald Lines Jacobus, "Booth, Harvey, Beardsley," citation details below.] | Harvey, Richard (I19768)
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| 707 | "Richard Sperry was a proprietor of New Haven in 1685 and a member of the 'Night Watch.'" [Spooner Saga, citation details below.] "[T]he most famous incident involving Richard Sperry concerns the regicide judges, Edward Whalley and William Goffe. They had been denied amnesty for their part in the execution of Charles I and were being pursued for retribution by agents of his son, the restored King Charles II. New Haven was, perhaps, the most Puritan of all the colonies and, accordingly, Whalley and Goffe fled there for protection in the late spring and summer of 1661. In the period between May 13th and June 11th, they hid in the 'Judges' Cave' near the West Rock. Atwater's history [Edward E. Atwater, History of the Colony of New Haven to its absorption into Connecticut, 1881] states that this was located about a mile from Sperry's farm and that he and his family provided them with shelter in inclement weather as well as food, which it is told they left on a nearby stump. From a tradition handed down in the family, it has been said that Whalley and Goffe left the cave on June 11th because they had been frightened by a wild animal (supposedly they saw the 'glaring eyes' of a 'panther' at the entrance of the cave). However, this is probably merely a legend since Atwater makes no mention of it and indicates that they left their hiding place and showed themselves openly so that Davenport and others who might have been thought to be concealing them would be relieved of suspicion. It is not known where Whalley and Goffe went between June 11th and the following 22nd, however, on the latter date they returned openly to New Haven. At this time, they considered surrendering to the authorities, but by June 24th on the advice of friends they had changed their minds and, again, went into hiding at the Judges' Cave. Undoubtedly, as before the Sperry family provided sustenance for the regicides. Atwater reports that they remained in secret at the West Rock until August 19th 'when the search for them being pretty well over', Whalley and Goffe went to Milford where they stayed two years and afterward went to Hadley, Massachusetts. They were never captured by royal agents." [David R. Evans, Richard Sperry, immigrant. Evans's essay at that URL is a good overview of the facts and legends around Richard Sperry.] It has been persistently asserted over the years that Richard Sperry's wife Dennis was the daughter of the affluent London merchant Stephen Goodyear who emigrated to New Haven in or before 1638. In 1646 Goodyear's wife embarked back to England and was lost at sea. Goodyear himself returned to London in 1656 and died shortly thereafter. It appears to be actually the case that Sperry's passage to New England was paid by Goodyear, that Goodyear had a house built for Sperry on the Connecticut lands that Goodyear had purchased, and that Sperry farmed those lands for Goodyear and later acquired them in his own right. Certainly all of this makes sense if Sperry was the man who married "the boss's daughter", as W. M. Bollenbach puts it in The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson (citation details below). Unfortunately no record exists to confirm this, and no "Dennis" or variant thereof has ever been found listed among the documented offspring of Stephen Goodyear. | Sperry, Richard (I5397)
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| 708 | "Richard was a remarkable man. He inherited the combative, mirthful, acquisitive, and persevering characteristics of his mother's race, and excelled them in enterprise. He was brought up to the business of his father, and continued to be styled blacksmith until thirty years of age. […] In 1737, he opened a store, which he seems to have left in the hands of another in 1747, when he removed to Boston, and for a short time did a large and lucrative business. The climate disagreeing with the health of his lady, he returned the next year to Sherborn, and here traded extensively in merchandise and real estate. He was at that day concerned in land speculations in Maine. He accumulated a large fortune, which he divided among seven children, without reserving enough for protracted old age. Between 1740 and '67, he served the town ten years as selectman, and often acted as moderator at town meetings. He was a good whig, served on committees to provide for the poor of Boston, in the time of the war, and to report on the services of soldiers employed by Sherborn. In 1776, he was the first man placed on the committee of safety with President Locke." [Abner Morse, citation details below] | Sanger, Richard (I30813)
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| 709 | "Robert de Cherleton was of record attesting Uppington deeds from about 1220 to 1265. He served on juries in 1243, 1246, 1249, 1253, 1259, 1260, and 1262. Records of the time refer to Robert son of William Cherleton." [Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, citation details below.] | de Cherleton, Robert (I13092)
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| 710 | "Robert de Mortimer was son of Robert de Mortimer of Essex. It was either the father or the son after his father's death, the date of which is not known, who took part in the third Crusade, perhaps in personal attendance on Richard I. From 1200 onwards the son appears to have been frequently at court In 1203 he was excused scutage on Woodham and Amberden, probably in consideration of personal service; and in May 1206 had a grant of land in East Ham, Essex. From the time of his marriage (in 1210), by which he acquired the barony of Burford and Richard's Castle, he was active in the duties of a Lord Marcher, and in that year was in the King's service in Ireland. In 1213 he made an offer to serve the King with 10 knights, of whom he himself should be one, if the King would acquit him of the fine for having his wife. The same year he was one of the commissioners to inquire in Herefordshire as to the losses sustained by the clergy owing to the King's quarrel with the Church. In 1214 and 1215 he was again abroad with the King, to whom he remained loyal throughout the differences with the barons. About this time he and his wife were in some way disturbed in possession of her inheritance. He was at Hereford with King John in July 1216. He took part in the Council called at Bristol within a month of that King's death, and was active in assisting the return of the 'perverse' to their allegiance in the early days of Henry III. The last order issued to him, of which there is record, was on 26 January 1218/9, when he was required to assist the sheriff of Hereford in taking the castles of Grosmont, &c., from Reynold de Braose. He was still living in Easter term 1219, when he pledged himself to discharge the scutage due on Richard's Castle." [Complete Peerage] | de Mortimer, Robert (I1234)
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| 711 | "Robert de Ros, who bore the unexplained nickname of Furfan or Furson, s. and h., a minor, was in ward to the King in 1185, when his lands were in the custody of Ranulf de Glanville. He had livery of the lands in 1190. In Normandy he was bailiff of the royal castellany of Bonneville sur Toques. As son-in-law of William the Lion, King of Scotland, he was of his escort into England, Nov. 1200, to do homage, and again in 1209. He appears to have obeyed the summons to muster at Porchester for an expedition to Normandy, May 1205. In Feb. 1205/6 he proposed to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. He was serving with the King in Ireland in 1210. In 1212 he had taken, or was believed to have taken, the 'habit of religion,' but in the following year was certainly in the King's employment. Sheriff of Cumberland, 1213-15. One of the 12 Barons named as guarantors in John's letters to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the bishops with him, overseas, May and June 1213, on the lifting of the excommunication. In Nov. 1214 he was joint commissioner to preside at the doing of homage to William (de Forz), Count of Aumale. Although he had been so closely associated with the King, he was one of his most vigorous opponents in the matter of Magna Carta, and of the 25 elected to see that its provisions were observed; and Robert and his son were included in the Bull of excommunication, Jan. 1215/6. In Nov. 1217 he had returned to his allegiance, and was one of the escort of Alexander II to England; in 1218, and later, the Cumberland estates were confirmed to him. In 1221 he was one of the barons called upon for help in the siege of Skipsea Castle. He was one of the assessors of an Aid in Feb. 1224/5, and witnessed at Westminster the confirmation of Magna Carta and the Forest charter. He m. at Haddington, early in 1191, Isabel, widow of Robert de Brus (d. v.p.s. of Robert de Brus II), illegitimate da. of William the Lion, King of Scotland. He d., or, as a Templar, retired from secular life, before 23 Dec. 1226, when his son did homage for his lands." [Complete Peerage] | de Ros, Robert (I4007)
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| 712 | "Robert Feake became mentally unable to handle his life and spent his last thirteen years under the care of the town of Watertown, which disbursed £90 in town funds and petitioned the court for another £12 after his death for his funeral." [Early Families of New England Study Project, citation details below.] | Feake, Lt. Robert (I6570)
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| 713 | "ROBERT FLEMING, one of the leading men of Scotland, to whom Edward I wrote in 1290 about settling the succession of the crown upon the death of Margaret, and who proposed the marriage of the said Margaret, the Maid of Norway, to Prince Edward of England at Brigham on 12 March 1289-90. He afterwards swore fealty to Edward I, but soon repenting, he joined Robert Bruce in his efforts to secure the crown and restore the liberties of Scotland. He was with Bruce in the town of Dumfries on 10 February 1305-6, when, in the church of the convent of the Minorite Friars, he stabbed Sir John Comyn. Fleming then entered the church with Kirkpatrick and others and despatched the wounded man. Cutting off his head, it is said, and returning to Bruce, who inquired if Comyn were dead, he produced the same with the remark, Let the deid shaw, which was thereafter borne by the family for their motto. As a reward for his services he received from the King a charter of the lands of Lenzie and Cumbernauld in Dumbartonshire which had been forfeited by John Comyn, Earl of Buchan." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Fleming, Robert (I28962)
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| 714 | "Robert Guiscard (c.?1015 - 17 July 1085) was a Norman adventurer conspicuous in the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily. Robert was born into the Hauteville family in Normandy, went on to become Count of Apulia and Calabria (1057-1059), and then Duke of Apulia and Calabria and Duke of Sicily (1059-1085). His sobriquet, in contemporary Latin Viscardus and Old French Viscart, is often rendered 'the Resourceful', 'the Cunning', 'the Wily', 'the Fox', or 'the Weasel'. In Italian sources he is often Roberto il Guiscardo or Roberto d'Altavilla (from Robert de Hauteville)." [Wikipedia] The Byzantine historian Anna Comnena described Robert Guiscard: "This Robert was Norman by birth, of obscure origins, with an overbearing character and a thoroughly villainous mind; he was a brave fighter, very cunning in his assaults on the wealth and power of great men; in achieving his aims absolutely inexorable, diverting criticism by incontrovertible argument. He was a man of immense stature, surpassing even the biggest men; he had a ruddy complexion, fair hair, broad shoulders, eyes that all but shot out sparks of fire. In a well-built man one looks for breadth here and slimness there; in him all was admirably well-proportioned and elegant...Homer remarked of Achilles that when he shouted his hearers had the impression of a multitude in uproar, but Robert's bellow, so they say, put tens of thousands to flight." [The Alexiad of Anna Comnena, trans. E. R. A. Sewter (London: Penguin, 1969), p. 54.] | Guiscard, Robert (I9474)
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| 715 | "Robert Lestrange; acquired Chawton after death of his brother Hamon, and Wrockwardine in the latter's lifetime; married Eleanor, daughter and coheir of William de Blancminster (modern Whitechurch, Salop) and predeceased her 12 Oct 1276." [Burke's Peerage] Crusader about 1270, according to AR. | le Strange, Robert (I3279)
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| 716 | "Robert Marmion, son of Roger Marmion, which Roger at the time of the Lindsey Survey, circa 1115-18, held land in Lincolnshire, rendered an account of 176£ 13s. 4d. for relief on his father's lands, of which 60£ had been paid by Michaelmas 1130. He was granted by Henry I, circa 1129-33, free warren in Warwickshire as his father had it, especially at Tamworth. With his wife Milicent he granted the church of Polesworth and other property to the nuns there, and the vill of Buteyate to Bardney Abbey. In 1140 Geoffrey, Earl of Anjou, besieged and destroyed his castle of Fontenay. A prominent figure in the anarchy of Stephen's reign, he evicted the monks of Coventry and profaned their church. [...] He died in 1143 or 1144, being slain in warfare with the Earl of Chester." [Complete Peerage] From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Marmion took King Stephen's part in the struggle with the Empress Matilda. In 1140 he appears as castellan of Falaise, where he successfully held out against Geoffrey, count of Anjou. His own castle at Fontenoy-le-Marmion was destroyed as a reprisal. In England he was in contention with William de Beauchamp over the castle and honour of Tamworth, where he had received a grant of free warren from Henry I. Marmion faced a more formidable opponent, however, in Ranulf (II), earl of Chester. Here the struggle centred on the town of Coventry. Marmion was no mean figure himself militarily, being described as a warlike man, almost unequalled in his time for ferocity, adroitness, and daring, renowned for his many successes far and wide. At Coventry he expelled the monks and fortified the priory, using its stone buildings as a fortress from which to launch frequent attacks on the earl's castle. He also covered the field between the two with ditches to impede the enemy's forces. It was an act of desecration from which the chroniclers were soon able to draw a moral. The story is told in outline by Henry of Huntingdon, referred to by John of Salisbury, and given detail by the later twelfth-century chronicler, William of Newburgh. When the earl came with a considerable force to relieve the castle, Marmion's forces went out to engage him. During the action he was thrown from his horse into one of his own ditches. As he lay immobilized, with a broken thigh, he was decapitated, in full view of all, by a common soldier of the opposing army. He was apparently the only man killed in the action, 'crushed under the weight of divine judgement' (William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum ed. R. Howlett, Rolls Series, 1884, 1.71). This occurred about 16 September 1144. Marmion was buried at Polesworth, in unconsecrated ground as an excommunicate, and was succeeded by his son Robert. His widow, Milicent, married Richard de Camville. | Marmion, Robert (I5144)
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| 717 | "Robert Pantulf (fl. 1130), according to the cartulary of the nunnery of Caen, robbed the nuns of 6 pounds of silver. In the Bedfordshire pipe roll for 1130 an entry is found concerning a trial by combat between him and Hugh Malbanc, whose estates were contiguous to Robert's." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] | Pantulf, Robert (I1407)
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| 718 | "Robert Ring was born in 1614 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England and traveled to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 as an indentured servant on the ship the Confidence. That same year English colonists traded enslaved Pequot Indians they had defeated in war for the first cargo of African slaves brought to Massachusetts. Unlike the group of slaves arriving from the West Indies, Ring's period of servitude was not for life. Indeed, his contract was remarkably short compared to the typical indentured servant who served 7 years in exchange for passage to the New World. In 1640, just two years later at the age of 28, Ring became a freeman. After acquiring head right land in Salisbury, Mass., he returned to England for a period of 8 years and then came back to the colony. Upon his return he initiated and won a suit against Essex County which had tried to reclaim his land while he was absent. He established a fishing business on what came to be known as Ring's Island and also was a cooper and a planter." [Natalie J. Ring, "Ancestors, Indentured Servitude, and the Salem Witch Trials"] | Ring, Robert (I6055)
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| 719 | "Robert Royce, an early settler in Stratford, CT, had land recorded there in his name as late as 1658, though he appears to have removed to New London, CT a year before that date. He was constable in 1660, and in the folowing year represented New London in the General Court. [...] It needs to be reaffirmed that the New London man was a separate individual from Robert Royce of Boston, with whom he has been persistently confused. Robert Royce of Boston left a widow Elizabeth; Robert Royce of New London died in 1676, leaving a widow Mary." [Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy] Robert Royce (d. 1676) = Mary (d. 1696) Nehemiah Royce (~1636-1706) = Hannah Morgan (1642-1706) Lydia Royce (1680->1746) = Daniel Messenger (~1683-1751) Susannah Messenger (b. 1704) = Ebenezer Hopkins (1699-1784) Tabitha Hopkins (b. 1745) = Abiathar Millard (1744-1811) Phoebe Millard (1781-1831) = Nathaniel Fillmore (1771-1863) Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), 13th President of the United States Robert Royce (d. 1676) = Mary (d. 1696) Nehemiah Royce (~1636-1706) = Hannah Morgan (1642-1706) Joseph Royce (1663-1707) = Mary Porter (1662-1739) Hannah Royce (1701-1770) = John Ives (1694-1745) John Ives (1729-1816) = Mary Hall (1742-1788) Isaac Ives (1764-1845) = Sarah White (1773-1851) George Ives (1799-1862) = Sarah Wilcox (1808-1899) George Edward Ives (1845-1894) = Mary Elizabeth Parmalee (1850-1929) Charles Ives (1874-1954), American composer | Royce, Robert (I9193)
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| 720 | "Robert Sedgwick [...] settled in Charlestown as early as 1636, was one of the founders of the Artillery Company in 1638, was chosen Major-General, the highest military office in the colony, May 26, 1652; went to England and was appointed by Cromwell commander of the expedition which captured in 1654 the French posts in Acadia. He was sent as a commissioner to Jamaica after the capture of that island, where he died May 24 (Drake), or June 24 (Palfrey), 1656. His children were Samuel, Hannah, William and Robert. His widow Joanna became the second wife of Rev. Thomas Allen of Charlestown, whose first wife was Anna, widow of John Harvard, founder of Harvard College." [Henry F. Waters, citation details below.] William Sedgwick (1609-1664), called a "religious and political controversialist" by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, was his brother. From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Beginning as an importer, especially of cloth, [Robert Sedgwick] helped to organize the [New England] fisheries. He became a leading dealer in fish, his brother-in-law, London financier Robert Houghton, providing links to London importers. Working through partnerships, Sedgwick invested in the establishment of the famed Saugus Iron Works as well as the building of ships, wharves, and warehouses in the towns around Boston harbour. He also owned the Tide Mill at Charlestown, another of the colony's early major industrial projects. Inevitably involved in land development, he aided in the creation of the town of Woburn in 1642. His commercial and military interests gave him a sophisticated sense of England's imperial opportunities in the Americas. In 1644, for instance, he participated in a company to tap into the Great Lakes fur trade by flanking Dutch New Netherland by way of the Delaware valley. The scheme was thwarted by mismanagement and Dutch counter-measures. He also resisted the colony's isolationist impulses by petitioning in 1643 to repeal laws against Baptists and by protesting a 1645 law restricting residence of strangers to three weeks. [...] Cromwell, in June 1655, gave Sedgwick twelve ships and 800 soldiers to reinforce the Western Design, an expedition against the Spanish Caribbean. He found the demoralized army occupying Jamaica after its catastrophic defeat at Hispaniola. Although he lived less than a year from his arrival, Sedgwick, appointed one of the commissioners for civil government of the island, played a major role in laying the foundation for the eventual success of the new colony. He inaugurated the commerce between New England and Jamaica, essential to the future prosperity of both. He discouraged piracy, even against the Spanish, and sought instead permanent agricultural settlers. He failed to recruit New Englanders, but in March 1656 some 1400 planters from Nevis, led by their governor, migrated to Jamaica. Nevertheless, Sedgwick was oppressed by a sense of failure, and, soon after receiving word of his appointment as commander-in-chief of English forces in America, he died in Jamaica on 24 May 1656. His secretary claimed the new responsibilities had hastened his death. "There is so much expected of me", he said, "and I, conscious of my own disabilities, having besides so untoward a people to deal with, am able to performe soe little, that I shall never overcome it; it will breake my heart." | Sedgwick, Maj. Gen. Robert (I23350)
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| 721 | "Robert son of Roger le Spenser, a minor, in 1337–8 claimed a free tenement in Euxton and Ellel against Robert de Holland and others, the latter asserting that the plaintiff's land was held by knights' service, and he was therefore in ward to Robert de Holland. Robert [de Holland] seems to have come to a violent end shortly afterwards, for in 1339 two men were pardoned for their part in the death of Robert de Holland of Euxton." [VCH Lancaster, citation details below] | de Holland, Robert (I36065)
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| 722 | "Robert Tybotot, son and heir, born 1228, did homage and on 23 January 1249/50 was given seisin of his lands in Essex. On 3 May 1254 he was granted protection to go to Gascony, but is not further mentioned until 13 May 1260, when he was granted a rent in Eston, near Grantham, by the Lord Edward, who also gave him, 10 May 1263, all the manor of Nettlestead, Suffolk. In April 1262 he was ordered to return Shopland to the heir of Baldwin de Ostewic and he witnessed a deed of John de Burgo, 4 July following. During the conflict between the Crown and Simon de Montfort Robert Tybotot was a staunch supporter of the Lord Edward. After the defeat of the King at Lewes on 14 May 1264, he was among those supporters of the Crown who held Bristol against the Earl of Leicester. His name appears, in July 1264, among those who were said to be coming to aid the King, he joined in a raid to rescue the Lord Edward from imprisonment in Wallingford Castle, and in September 1264 he and others were ordered to surrender control of the castles of Marlborough and Ludgershall. In December 1264 Simon de Montfort and the Earl of Gloucester led an army against Bristol, but when the town surrendered Robert and his associates were allowed to establish themselves in Salisbury Castle, and the Earl of Leicester was forced to compromise with the garrison of Salisbury. In February 1264/5 Robert Tybotot and a companion were granted safe conduct to come to the King's household, and in the following March Robert and other persons were granted protection, provided that they did not join the King or the Lord Edward unless requested to do so by the King's Council which was controlled by Simon de Montfort. During the period of unrest after the battle of Evesham, 4 August 1265, Robert seized many lands which were later restored to their rightful tenants. However, when peace was finally restored his faithfulness to the Crown was rewarded. In October 1265 he was given the house of Philip le Taylur in the City of London, in the following month he became lord of Carbrooke, Norfolk, and in January and August 1266 the manors of Allesley and Fillongley, co. Warwick, Carlton Castle and Caenby, Lincs, passed under his control. Constable of Porchester Castle, November 1265 to April 1266. He was granted timber in 1267, received rights of free warren on his demesne lands, March 1268/9, and obtained control of Kingsbury, co. Warwick, October 1269. In February 1269/70 he became guardian of the lands of Geoffrey Lutterel in place of the £30 annual rent which he had been receiving from Bristol; and the manor of Streethall, Essex, also passed to his control. On 13 July 1270 he was among those who were granted protection for 4 years to accompany the Lord Edward on the Crusade, arrangements were made for the care of his heirs if he should die and attorneys were appointed to act during his absence. When he returned, the Archbishop of Canterbury was ordered by the Pope, 29 April 1273, to pay him 600 silver marks towards his Crusade expenses. In January 1274/5 he was appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle and Keeper of the forest of Bestwood, offices which he held until his death, and in September 1279 he became Keeper of the town of Nottingham. King Edward granted him many favours. In May 1275 he became guardian of the lands and heirs of John de Moese, and in September of the lands of Lucy de Meinill; he was granted the marriage of the heir of John de Mohun, July 1279, and obtained possession of the manors of Langar and Barnston, Notts, in 1285. He was named in October 1275 to supervise the collection of the fifteenth in Norfolk and Suffolk; was one of the Keepers of the Bishopric of Norwich in 1278; and in July 1279 he was ordered to enquire in Norfolk and Suffolk concerning those who were spreading evil rumours about the King. He was one of the keymen of the conquest and administration of Wales. In November 1276 he attended the Council which decided to declare war against Llewelyn; and in November 1277 he was one of the English representatives to negotiate the peace of Conway, to swear to the English observance of the peace and to conduct Llewelyn to meet Edward at Rhuddlan. He was summoned for service in Wales in 1277 and 1282; was at Westminster, September 1278, when Alexander, King of Scotland, did homage to Edward I; and was at Acton Burnell, Salop, Michaelmas 1283, when the Statute of Acton Burnell was promulgated. From 8 June 1281 till his death he was guardian of the King's lands and castles in West Wales and Justice of West Wales. He was nearly captured in March 1282, when the castles of Llandovery and Carreg Cennen, co. Carmarthen, fell to the Welsh. In the same month he was appointed captain of West Wales, but on 10 April 1282 he was placed under the command of the Earl of Gloucester there and in March 1283 he was ordered to serve against the Welsh in Merionethshire. The rebellion of Rhys ap Maredudd of Dryslwyn and Dinefwr in 1287-88 was crushed by Robert, who captured Newcastle Emlyn in January 1287/8. After the rebellion Maredudd ap Richard ap Maredudd of Elfed appeared before him to submit to the King. In June 1288 or 1289 Robert resisted the attempt of the Earl of Pembroke to seize the commote of Ystlwyf and in 1292 he granted the commote of Mallaen and Kylsaen to the sons of Madoc ap Arandor. Although there is no evidence of him being summoned to Parliament, he was present in pleno parliamento on 29 May 1290, when consent was given for the levy of an aid, and he was ad parliamentum to which the men of Yarmouth complained in the same year. In 1291 he was one of the mainperners for the Earl of Hereford in the dispute with the Earl of Gloucester and he was summoned for service against the Scots, 1291 and 1297. He attended the meeting at Berwick-on-Tweed, October 1292, to decide the claims of Bruce or Balliol to the Scottish throne, was at Tuggrall, Northumberland, December following, when the Great Seal passed to the care of John de Langton, and witnessed the homage, of Balliol to Edward I at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 26 December 1292. In June 1294 he was granted protection to proceed with the King to Gascony and mustered at Portsmouth, August following. During the expedition he was director of finance and one of the councillors of John of Brittany, King's Lieutenant in Gascony. He acted with John de St. John, Seneschal of Gascony, on diplomatic missions and was appointed to conduct negotiations with the King of Castile. In 1295 he just managed to escape from the town of Risonces, when it was captured by the French, and he remained in royal service in southern France until the end of 1297." [Complete Peerage XII/2: 89-93] | de Tibetot, Robert (I413)
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| 723 | "Robert Wade [...] is claimed as father of Rebecca in Ralph Dornfield Owen's Descendants of John Owen of Windsor, Connecticut (1622-1690) (Philadelphia 1941), p. 19, but without documentation. The present writer has done no research on this problem, but since John Owen and wife apparently did not share in the settlement of Robert Wade's estate, as Mr. Jacobus points out, it would be well to be cautious." [George E. McCracken, citation details below.] | Wade, Rebecca (I22385)
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| 724 | "Robeson County [North Carolina] was formed out of Bladen County in 1786. It is not known whether [Angus Sellars and Katherine McEwen] first settled in what is now Robeson County; however, it is known that they were in Robeson County when it was formed." [McCallums, citation details below.] | Sellars, Angus (I18083)
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| 725 | "Roger de Berkeley [...] who completed the building of the Castle of Berkeley. He suffered much in the wars between Stephen and the Empress Maud, at the hands of Walter, son of Miles, Earl of Hereford. He was deprived of the Manor of Berkeley, &c., about 1152, apparently for refusing to recognise the authority of either party, though he was soon afterwards restored to the Honour of Dursley. He d. about 1170, leaving issue. The Castle and 'herness' of Berkeley were granted by the King as under." [Complete Peerage II:124. "As under" refers to the entry on his son-in-law's father Robert fitz Harding.] "de Berchelai, Roger III: Son of William of Berkeley, whom he succeeded after c. 1141. He was deprived of part of his barony at the end of Stephen's reign, with Robert fitz Harding being the beneficiary. He reorganized his barony to centre upon Dursley, Gloucestershire. He died after 1177 leaving a son Roger IV (d. 1190) and a daughter Alice, wife of Maurice fitz Harding. Father also of Oliver, according to Earldom Gloucester Chh., 288." [Domesday Descendants, p. 321] | de Berkeley, Roger III (I11094)
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| 726 | "Roger de Berkeley, styled Junior, br. of Eustace of Nympesfield, both being not improbably sons of the above Roger, Senior. He is said to have begun the building of the Castle of Berkeley in 1117. He d. before Michaelmas, 1131." [Complete Peerage II:124, as corrected in Volume XIV.] CP XIV's correction to the above entry consists of changing "he began the building of the Castle of Berkeley in 1117" to "he is said to have begun", etc. A note in brackets says "Lord Berkeley wrote to the then editor in 1924, expressing his opinion that the castle was not begun till about 45 years later." CP also has this Roger de Berkeley as the father of the third Roger de Berkeley, whereas Keats-Rohan has the third Roger as the son of this Roger's nephew William. Berkeley Castle is of course most noted in English history as the site of the imprisonment and probable murder of Edward II. | de Berkeley, Roger II (I3573)
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| 727 | "Roger de Lacy, who rebelled against William II in 1088 and again in 1094–5, after which he was dispossessed and sent into exile, though the king allowed his brother Hugh to succeed." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] | de Lacy, Roger (I3884)
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| 728 | "Roger de Wellebi, defendant land suit in Weston 1218; feudal retainer or steward of Thomas de Multon 1225." [Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees] | de Wellebi, Roger (I4057)
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| 729 | "Roger of Lauria was an Italian admiral in Aragonese service, who was the commander of the fleet of the Crown of Aragon during the War of the Sicilian Vespers. He was probably the most successful and talented naval tactician of the medieval period. He is known as Ruggero or Ruggiero di Lauria in Italian and Roger de Llúria in Catalan." [Wikipedia] His father was not Richardo de Lauria, justiciar of Naples; this has been shown by Peter Stewart to have been an invention. His mother was, however, named Bella d'Amico or de Amichi. | de Lauria, Ruggiero (I25615)
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| 730 | "Roger, held in Ryngesthorp, Barkston, by military service under William de Keen circa 1252; held in Multon; died before 1256." [Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees] | Welby, Roger (I2897)
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| 731 | "Ruhamah was evidently a great beauty, but 'of a disagreeable nature' and delighted in harassing others, so much so that her neighbors tried not to offend her. It was said that if provoked she would play havoc with their washing, their choice plants and the fruits of their harvest. She was ready for an argument at any time. She was even suspected when Edward Banks' barn was burned after they had quarrelled. Ruhamah said she was sick at the time of the trial and Joseph petitioned the court for an abatement. Joseph had given surety for Ruhamah to the sum of £50 and the court wanted to know whether or not to levy this fine. Joseph had failed to attend court and pleaded ignorance of the law of releases and stated that any adverse action at that time would cause him to lose his estate and render himself and his wife destitute in their old age. Col. Otis ruled tentatively in favor of Joseph 7 Mar. 1710/1. Joseph also petitioned the court to have his farm restored to him 27 June 1711. Ruhamah lived to a great age and on 21 Oct. 1735 the town of Harwich was ordered to pay £8/1/3 for her care, 'an aged impotent woman', in the home of John Eldredge. Evidently she had remained sitting for so many years that upon her death it was thought best to bury her in 'the same crooked position'." [Jeff Martin] | Jones, Ruhamah (I20199)
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| 732 | "Said by Cotton Mather to have come to New England in 1634, possibly the John Sherman, aged 20, enrolled on the Elizabeth of Ipswich, 30 April 1634, although Great Migration has assigned that record to his cousin of about the same age who became known as Captain JOHN SHERMAN (GM2, 6:287-94) of Watertown. Rev. John Sherman's parents and several siblings came to Watertown in 1635 and he removed with them to Wethersfield the same year. John moved on to Milford in 1640 and New Haven, Connecticut, before returning to Watertown in 1647." [Early New England Families Study Project, citation details below] "He was dismissed from the Watertown, Mass. church, 29 May 1635, and came to Wethersfield, Connecticut with the early settlers. He represented Wethersfield as Committee (Deputy) in the Connecticut General Court, May 1637. He joined the Milford settlers, probably in 1640, and was the first minister of Branford, 1 Oct. 1644 to Jan. 1646/7. He was Deputy for Milford to the New Haven General Court, Oct 1643. In 1647 he was called to Watertown, Mass., to fill the pastorate there, and continued in this office until his death." [Donald Lines Jacobus, citation details below] He was a Fellow of Harvard College, where he lectured for over thirty years. According to F. L. Weis's 1936 The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches in New England, "his sermons were distinguished for beauty of style and language; he was a recognized authority in astronomy." "Mather's [Magnalia Christi Americana says of the Rev. John Sherman that] 'His intellectual abilities, whether natural or acquired, were such as to render him a first-rate scholar, the skill of tongues and arts, beyond the common rate, adorned him. He was a great reader...he read with an unusual dispatch, and whatever he read became his own. From such a strength of invention and memory it was, that albeit he was a curious preacher, nevertheless, he could preach without any preparatory notes of what he was to utter...He was witty, and yet wise and grave, carrying a majesty in his very countenance; and much visited for council, in weighty cases; and when he delivered his judgment in any matter, there was little or nothing to be spoken by others after him.' His hobby was mathematics and Mather claimed that Sherman was one of the best mathematicians 'that ever lived in this hemisphere.' '...among other things very valuable to me, in the temper of this great man, one was a certain largeness of soul, which particularly disposed him to embrace the Congregational way of church-government, without those rigid and narrow principles of uncharitable separation, wherewith some good men have been learned.' 'And there was one thing in his preaching, which procured it a singular admiration: this was a natural and not affected loftiness of stile; which with an easie fluency bespangled his discourses....'" [Early New England Families Study Project, citation details below] He was taken suddenly ill while delivering a guest sermon at Sudbury and died three days later in his house at Watertown. The Latin inscription on his tombstone there translates as "Sacred to the memory of John Sherman, a man distinguished for his piety, character, and truth; a profound theologian; as a preacher a veritable Chrysostom; unsurpassed in his knowledge of the liberal arts, particularly mathematics; a faithful pastor of the Church of Watertown in New England; an Overseer and Fellow of Harvard College." "Rev. Mather's account of the career of Rev. John Sherman states that he entered 'Immanuel' (Emmanuel) College in Cambridge but did not graduate. Later historians apparently matched the name John Sherman with records of a man who entered Emmanual College in 1638, but who could not be the same as Rev. John Sherman of New England, who was in Connecticut by then. Another attempt was made to match him with the John Sherman who graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, recciving his B.A. in 1629-30 and MA in 1633. The problem here is that this man was a tutor at Trinity from 1636 to 1644, received a B.D. in 1640, and a D.D., per Literas Regias, in 1660." [Early New England Families Study Project, citation details below] | Sherman, Rev. John (I27523)
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| 733 | "Said by some to be son, and by others to be brother and heir of Hugh de Vernon." [Ormerod, citation details below.] | de Vernon, Warin (I11024)
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| 734 | "Said to be a daughter of Domnall Mór Ua Briain, King of Limerick." [Royal Ancestry] "According to one Irish source de Burgh was married to a daughter of Domnall Mór Ó Briain, which is consistent with the fact that he was frequently accompanied by his Ó Briain allies, hereditary enemies of the Mac Carthaig and the Ó Conchobhair, in his numerous campaigns in Desmond and Connacht. Presumably this alliance gave him the means to prosecute his territorial interests in Desmond and Connacht, while leaving his castles on the Thomond frontier secure from attack." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] | (Unknown) (I4544)
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| 735 | "Said to be the daughter of Hugh de Pierrepont." [Royal Ancestry] | de Pierrepont, Beatrix (I9194)
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| 736 | "Said to have been poisoned for her infidelities." [John Blythe Dobson] | Bertila (I2280)
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| 737 | "Sampson Mason, the immigrant ancestor, was a soldier or 'dragoon' in Cromwell's army, and he came to America about 1650. The earliest record found of him in America is in the Suffolk county record of the settlement of the estate of Edward Bullock, of Dorchester, Massachusetts. His will was dated July 25, 1640, and a debt is mentioned due to Sampson Mason for his wife's shoes. In 1651 Sampson Mason purchased a house and land in Dorchester of William Botts, and afterwards sold it to Jacob Hewins. He removed to Rehoboth, Massachusetts, where by vote of the town, December, 1657, was given permission to buy land and settle there. He was a Baptist, and the records show that he and other Baptists became prominent in the town in spite of the fact that they were only allowed to live there, without the privilege of being made freemen, by the Puritan inhabitants. He obtained grants of land south of Rehoboth, from the Indians, in the town Swansea. His name is among the original associates and founders of the town, and of the original proprietors of the 'North Purchase,' later Attleborough, Massachusetts. He died in 1676, in the midst of Indian wars, and his widow settled that of the estate which was left after the ravages of the Indians." [New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, citation details below.] | Mason, Sampson (I22679)
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| 738 | "Samuel and Sarah Marshfield of Springfield, Mass., known to be brother and sister, have generally been placed by probability as children of Thomas Marshfield of Windsor. No guardianship appointments are found for them, but they would have had no inherited property in this country if the insolvent Thomas was their father, and they may have been indentured to Windsor families by the Selectmen. Neither named a daughter Priscilla, but Samuel named his eldest son Thomas." [Hale, House and Related Families] | Marshfield, Sarah (I1256)
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| 739 | "Samuel C. Moore, was a native of North Carolina, lived in one of the western counties of that state, was a Quaker, and as his association with that faith would indicate, was a pronounced abolitionist. About the opening of the Civil war he migrated to Indiana, and the property he left behind in North Carolina was confiscated by the Confederate Government. Later he came on to Kansas and he died in Chase County." [Find a Grave page for Samuel Moore, citation details below, accessed 9 Nov 2020] From the Christian Worker, Fifth Month 12, 1881 (citation details below): Fourth month 7, 1881, after a brief but severe illness of dropsy of the heart, Samuel Moore was called from his earthly labors to his heavenly home. He was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, in 1808, where he resided until 1860. At that time, believing that war between the North and South was inevitable, and his sympathies being strongly with the North, fearing that his sons would be compelled to take part in the Southern cause, disposed of his property at a great sacrifice, and emigrated to the State of Indiana, where he remained until 1867, at which time removed to Chase County, Kansas, where he lived until his death. He was the faither of eight children, who all survive except one. He lived to see all his children married and settled in life, with whom he spent the greater part of his last ten years, and was always a welcome visitor. Possessing an unusually strong filial affection, he was bound to his kindred by ties that only death could sever. He was a life-long member of the Society of Friends (Orthodox), in which he held the position of elder for over thirty years, and was also a strong advocate of peace and temperance. During his last illness he bore his sufferings with great patience, resigning all into the hands of the Lord. | Moore, Samuel (I30991)
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| 740 | "Samuel Palmer was born August 8, 1707, in Middleboro, MA, the fourth of nine children born to Thomas and Elizabeth Stevens Palmer. Although Thomas Palmer was not a college graduate, he was ordained as the minister of the First Church in Middleboro on May 2, 1702. As was the practice at that time, he was also the town physician, perhaps ministering to the physical needs of his parishioners through scripture and prayer. When Samuel was just a year old, his father was discharged by the church on June 30, 1708, for 'scandalous immorality and intemperance.' He was dismissed 'by the advice of an ecclesiastical council of twelve Churches, which deposed him from the ministry, and laid him under Church censure. And some time previous to that, he had been dismissed by his Church and Congregation, and preached in a private home to a party of his adherents.' In disgrace, Thomas Palmer most likely supported his family by practicing medicine among those "adherents" who stood by him. To his credit, however, Thomas was able to vindicate the family name by sending two of his sons to Harvard College, Samuel and his youngest sibling Job. It is unfortunate that Job died at twenty-five in 1745, five years after the death of his mother in 1740 and two years after the death of his father in 1743. All three are buried in the Middleboro Green Cemetery next to the First Congregational Church." [Leonard Miele, "The Life of Reverend Samuel Palmer," Spritsail: A Journal of the History of Falmouth and Vicinity 20:1, 2006.] | Palmer, Dr. Thomas (I23212)
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| 741 | "Sancho Garces I founded the second dynasty to rule Pamplona by supplanting the previous dynasty in 905, and ruling to 925. [...T]he description of Sancho Abarca in the traditional account is one of a strong warrior who stood up to, and even defeated the Muslims, and this clearly describes Sancho I and not Sancho II." [Todd A. Farmerie, citation details below.] | Sancho Garcés I "Abarca" King of Navarre (I1447)
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| 742 | "Sarah Lord Wilson was arrested with several others after a 'touch test' in Andover on 7 Sep 1692 that was conducted under the auspices of the Rev. Thomas Barnard. Her 14-year-old daughter, Sarah, was likewise arrested. Both Sarah and her daughter, Sarah, spent several weeks imprisoned (hellishly). Sarah's son, John, married the granddaughter of Samuel Wardwell. The Sarahs were released on bond and escaped being hanged; however, she and her daughter endured the unpleasant nature of prison life. They appeared in the Superior Court of the Judicature at Ipswich and were cleared in May 1693." [John M. Switlik, citation details below] | Lord, Sarah (I28462)
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| 743 | "Sarah's birth was probably well before her baptism, considering how young she was when her first child was born." [Gale Ion Harris, citation details below] | Harris, Sarah (I34568)
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| 744 | "Seigneur de Roquefeuil, Castelnau-de-Monratier, etc." [Dennis Beauregard, citation details below.] "Seigneur of Roquefeuil and Blanquefort." [Ludovic Noirie, citation details below.] Antoine de Roquefeuil and his wife Delphine d'Arpajon would appear to have been second cousins; it would be good if someone could locate the dispensation. | de Roquefeuil, Antoine (I7187)
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| 745 | "Seneschal of the Household to Queen Isabel; Knight of the Shire for Northampton 1325, 1327-1337. Served on a mission to the abbey of Cluny in 1323 and in 1326 attended the King with men at arms for service against Roger de Mortimer and other rebels." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | de Drayton, Simon (I10313)
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| 746 | "Sent to France in 1334 along with her brother King David II and her sister Margaret for their safety, returned in 1341." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | de Brus, Matilda (I34753)
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| 747 | "Served in King Philip's War and participated in Turner's Falls Fight under Capt. William Turner." | Edwards, Benjamin (I4696)
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| 748 | "Several years after the death of Ludwig II, Udelhild founded a convent in 1139 near Koblenz and became its abbess. After nineteen years of prayer and service to God, she died on 5 July 1158. Earlier that year she is recorded as donating a stone mill in Odenkrichen to the Church of St. George (St. Georgsstift) in Cologne." [Leo van de Pas, citation details below.] | von Odenkirchen, Udelhild (I14113)
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| 749 | "She and her husband Simon Bussy were in court July 4, 1659, for having a child before marriage, and they were sentenced to the brutal punishment of ten lashes each at a public meeting either in Falmouth or Scarborough." [Walter Goodwin Davis, citation details below] | Wormwood, Margaret (I26845)
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| 750 | "She came to England probably with her mother and half-siblings Samuel and Joanna Chamberlaine. On 10 Nov 1644, the Boston Church granted to 'our sister Elizabeth Skuddar' a letter of recommendation to the Church at Barnstable. 'John Lathrop the sonne of our sister some time or formerly called Elizabeth Skuddar' was baptized 7 Dec 1645. The baptismal record continues 'now the wife of one John Skuddar,' an error for 'Lothrop' that is mentioned by Savage and noted in the published version." [Jane Fletcher Fiske, "A New England Immigrant Kinship Network," citation details below.] "[Elizabeth Scudder's] parents were John SCUDDER and Elizabeth STOUGHTON. Many genealogies say that her parents were John's brother Thomas Scudder and sister-in-law Elizabeth Lowers. But their daughter Elizabeth married Henry Bartholomew and they had ten children between 1641 and 1658. Elizabeth died 1 Sep 1682 in Salem. There were two Elizabeth Scudders. Her cousin Elizabeth died 28 Feb 1700 in Salem." [Miner Descent] Genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts on the (literally) hundreds of notable descendants of the Scudders and Stoughtons: www.americanancestors.org/immigrant-stoughton-siblings/ www.americanancestors.org/descendants-henry-scudder/ Samuel Lathrop (1621-1700) = Elizabeth Scudder (1625-1700) Abigail Lathrop (b. 1665) = John Huntington (b. 1666) Martha Huntington (1696-1779) = Noah Grant (1693-1727) Noah Grant (b. 1719) = Susanna Delano (1724-1806) Noah Grant (1748-1819) = Rachel Kelley (d. 1805) Jesse Root Grant (1794-1873) = Hannah Simpson (1798-1883) Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) Elizabeth Scudder (1625-1700) = Samuel Lathrop (1621-1700) Samuel Lathrop = Hannah Aldgate Hannah Lathrop = Jabez Perkins Hannah Perkins = Joshua Huntington Lydia Huntington = Ephraim Bill Lydia Bill = Joseph Howland Susan Howland = John Aspinwall Mary Rebecca Aspinwall = Isaac Roosevelt James Roosevelt = Sara Delano Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) | Scudder, Elizabeth (I4668)
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| 751 | "She came to the United States around 1860, by way of the Isthmus of Panama; having no money to ride across, she walked from the Caribbean shore to the Pacific." [Patrick Foley, citation details below] | Fleming, Honora (I31236)
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| 752 | "She died at Cambridge 10 December 1639, yet her husband named her in his [19 December] will, suggesting an error on the clerk's part or a lack of awareness on John's [NEHGR 4:181]. Alternatively, Jane could be a daughter or other relative of John's and his wife's name unknown." [Robert Charles Anderson, citation details below] | Jane (I34216)
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| 753 | "She held the Castle of Dunbar for the Scots till forced, 29 Apr. 1296, to surrender it to Edward I." [Complete Peerage, citation details below] | Comyn, Marjory (I27331)
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| 754 | "She is called Hedwig 'of Mossa' (died on 1 June in an unknown year after 1100, perhaps ca 1112)." [Peter Stewart, citation details below.] | of Mossa, Hedwig (I229)
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| 755 | "She is mentioned in a charter of the Earl founding a chaplainry at Dundee 23 April 1429, endowed from the lands of Westerbrichty." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Marjory (I27283)
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| 756 | "She is probably the Anna Smith who married William Puttrell at Alford on 10 June 1612. Richard Smith's death and his widow's apparent remarriage may account for the indenturing of their daughter Judith." [Sanford, citation details below.] | Goodwin, Anna (I675)
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| 757 | "She is said to have died on 15 February 1675." [Robert Charles Anderson, citation details below.] | Frances (I17770)
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| 758 | "She married first, Richard Ussell. On 21 May 1657 Abigil Davis petitioned the General Court alleging that her stepfather John Cowdell and her mother had forced her into marriage with Richard Ussell . The marriage was declared unlawful and she was free to marry Edward Richmond." [Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy, citation details below] | Davis, Abigail (I22654)
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| 759 | "She married, second, at St. James, Bristol, 25 May 1622, JOHN ROOME, a merchant, with whom she evidently emigrated to Rhode Island. Her name appears in Rhode Island records as Ann, Anna, and Annis. In 1667 she deeded to her grandson William Corrie property in Bristol which had belonged to her late husband, and document confirming the deed in 1669 refers to William's father as John Correy, deceased." [Wilcox, citation details below.] | Wauker, Agnis (I12422)
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| 760 | "She may be daughter of George Willard." [The Pilgrim Migration] | Willard, Deborah (I8994)
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| 761 | "She may have been bpt. 13 July 1604, Stratton, Dorset (2 miles NW of Dorchester), dau. of Nicholas Hardye and Agnes." [Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John, citation details below] | Hardey, Jane (I18305)
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| 762 | "She may have been the proprietrix of the lands of Hirsel, of which she gave a portion to the nuns of Coldstream." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below.] | Derdere (I8474)
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| 763 | "She must have married young, as after her husband's death her sons wished to find her a second husband, 'timentes ne quia adhuc juvenis erat a consortio viri se abstinere non valeret.' She devoted herself, however, to good works, founding a hospital at Ivry, and to religious exercises, having learned the psalter by heart in her youth. Finally she took the religious habit and settled as a recluse beside the abbey of St. Martin at Pontoise, where she died in the odour of sanctity on the third of June; the Martyrology of Chastellain, cited by Depoin, gives the year as 1115. In spite of her undoubted piety, the monks of Saint-Père-de-Chartres accused her of forcibly seizing land which had been given to the abbey by her mother's sister Gertrude, but, as they seem to have contented themselves with leaving the matter to Divine justice, one is tempted to suspect that a merely human judge would have decided in her favour. It may be noted that she is described as 'uxor Rodberti militis de castro Ebroico'." [Complete Peerage] | de Gallardon, Hildeburge "The Blessed" (I513)
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| 764 | "She seems to be the daughter and heir of Simon Borard, who married Thomas Reynes as her first husband; he was still alive in 1272. She is still called Joan Chamberlain in 1304 but had married before 1310 Saer De Raundes." [F. N. Craig, citation details below] | Borard, Joan (I10642)
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| 765 | "She seems to have been the Sarah Parker who m. Aug. 4, 1675, Capt. John Wait of Malden." [Parker in America, citation details below] This Sarah died 13 Jan 1708 in Malden. | Sarah (I34378)
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| 766 | "She took the veil shortly before 18 June 1293." [Complete Peerage II:2] | de Somery, Margaret (I4725)
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| 767 | "She very probably was from a Cotentin family." [K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People] | Beatrice (I10417)
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| 768 | "She was a daughter of William Beauchamp and his second wife Idonea, daughter of William Longespee, a natural son of king Henry II." [F. N. Craig, "Descent from a Domesday Goldsmith." The American Genealogist 65:1, January 1990, p. 24.] | de Beauchamp, Beatrice (I4838)
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| 769 | "She was abducted by Sir Robert Burdet from her 1st husband in 1312 and later married him." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | de Camville, Elizabeth (I10234)
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| 770 | "She was buried on 11 September 1291 in the Abbey of St Mary and St Melor, Amesbury on 9 December. The exact site of her grave at the abbey is unknown making her the only English queen without a marked grave. Her heart was taken to London where it was buried at the Franciscan priory." [Wikipedia] | of Provence, Eleanor Queen Consort of England (I10311)
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| 771 | "She was governor to the younger children of Henry III and a close friend of that King and his Queen." [Patrick Montague-Smith, citation details below] | de Cormeilles, Sibyl (I2397)
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| 772 | "She was imprisoned in the Tower of London, 17 Nov 1326, later released, and had her lands restored to her, 22 Apr 1328. Before 26 Jan 1329 she was abducted from Hanley Castle by Sir William la Zouche who subsequently married her. She was imprisoned again in the Tower, shortly after 5 Feb 1329, and then in Devizes Castle, until after 6 Jan 1330 as a result of accompanying her husband in his siege of her castle of Caerphilly." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | de Clare, Eleanor (I12416)
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| 773 | "She was nearly related to Hugh de Port of Basing [Hampshire]" [Complete Peerage]. | de Port, Emma (I1143)
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| 774 | "She was of record as preparing to go to Santiago on pilgrimage in 1336." [Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, citation details below.] | la Zouche, Maud (I4924)
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| 775 | "She was possibly nee Abbes as is suggested by her will, in which case she was the daughter of George Abbes of Stoke Nayland who died testate in 1554, mentioning children under the age of 18 but not naming them. George Abbes also mentioned his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Abbes, and her children who were also under 18." [Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England, citation details below.] | Margaret (I3878)
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| 776 | "She was possibly the Elizabeth Sheppard, widow, who was buried on 21 April 1577 in St. Michael Bassishaw, London, a parish that borders St. Giles Cripplegate and where Richard Overton's brother John had resided." ["In Search of 'Mr.' Overton," citation details below.] | Elizabeth (I23860)
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| 777 | "She was probably the 'Widow Seelis' who was buried at Biddenden 6 May 1614." [Elizabeth French, citation details below] | Stedman, Mary (I33816)
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| 778 | "She was probably the Margery Ashenden who married at Biddenden, 27 Nov. 1610, Thomas Lea, buried there 9 Sept. 1612, by whom she had a son buried at Biddenden, unbaptized, 27 Feb. 1611-12, and a son Thomas baptized 14 Mar. 1612-13." [Elizabeth French, citation details below] | Margery (I33814)
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| 779 | "She was throughout her life very active and energetic, and retained her erect carriage to extreme old age. For many of the last years of her life she was blind." [The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, citation details below.] | Lamb, Sarah (I18232)
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| 780 | "She […] had a position in the households of queens Anne of Cleves and Katherine Parr, while her sister-in-law Lady Berkeley was governess to Princess Elizabeth. A committed protestant, with her sister Katherine Raleigh she is reported to have protected the persecuted reformers in Devon. In the summer of 1546 Lady Denny (and by extension her husband) was one of the court protestants whom religious conservatives tried to incriminate through accusations wrung from Anne Askew, a distant relative of Joan's uncle Sir Gawain Carew; Anne would admit only that Lady Denny's servant had brought her money, and Sir Anthony survived as a leading figure among Seymour's associates at the close of the reign." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | Champernoun, Joan (I27817)
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| 781 | "Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, 1365-1371, 1373-1374, 1377-1378, 1381-1383, 1386-1387; Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire, 1375-1382, 1385-1397; Knight of the Shire for Buckingham, 1376, 1377, 1379, 1380, 1381, 1390." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | Aylesbury, John (I16635)
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| 782 | "Sheriff of Devonshire, and Castellan of Exeter, 1209; Castellan of Oxford and Sheriff of Oxfordshire, 1215 in which year King John committed to him the coinage of tin in Devonshire and Cornwall. In 1219 he inherited from his mother the great Honour of Okehampton amounting to 92 knight's fees." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] Ancestral Roots places Ford Abbey in Devon. It is now in Dorset, but appears to be quite close to both the Devon and Somerset borders (in fact its mailing address is in Chard, Somerset). Given shifting county borders, AR could well be correct for the time when Sir Robert was buried. | de Courtenay, Robert (I2985)
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| 783 | "Sheriff of Herefordshire, 1294-1299, of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1304-1305; fought in Wales 1283 and in Scotland 1296-1297, 1300 and 1301; Knight of the Shire for Hereford, 1300, 1301, and of Gloucester, 1301; Justice of the Assize in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, 1309-1312. A knight in Dec 1308." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | de Acton, John (I26144)
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| 784 | "Sheriff of Lancashire 1236, 1249- 1254, and 1264-1265; granted custody of the Honor and Castle of Lancaster 1249 and 1254; summoned for military service in Wales, 1277 and 1282. Knighted 1243 in consequence of the king's writ to enforce knighthood on all who had an estate of fifteen librates of land." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | de Lathom, Robert (I13113)
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| 785 | "Sheriff of Northamptonshire 1190-2. Founder of Fineslade Priory. He joined the Barons with his son Viel against King John, for which his lands were seized, but made his peace and was restored to his lands in 1217." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz] | Engaine, Richard (I6522)
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| 786 | "Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1215. He sided with the Barons against King John, 1215, but returned to allegiance upon the accession of King Henry." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz] | de Duston, William (I11360)
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| 787 | "Sheriff of Notts and Derby, for 7 weeks, February-March 1194. About that time, before the King's return to England, he supported the justiciar against John, Count of Mortain, and, with the Earl of Chester, besieged Nottingham Castle. Shortly afterwards he took part at Richard's second Coronation, 17 April, being one of the four Earls who bore the canopy. After the King's death, he was at the Council of Northampton, which declared for John as Richard's successor: he was present at the Coronation, 27 May 1199. On 7 June 1199, the King restored and confirmed to him the third penny of all the pleas pleaded per vicecomitem de Dereby, unde ipse Comes est, as amply as any of his predecessors had had the same, to hold, to him and his heirs for ever, and with his own hand girded him with the sword as an Earl. On the same day the King gave him Higham with the hundred and a half, and the park of that town, and Newbottle and Blisworth, as his right and inheritance which descended to him as right heir of the land which was of William Peverel, to hold, to him and his heirs for ever, by the service of a knlght's fee. And the Earl quit-claimed the residue of the land which was of William Peverel to the King, and paid 2,000 marks for his charter. He was present at the Coronation of Henry III, 28 October 1216. On 30 October the King granted him the castles of Peak and Bolsover, co. Derby, with the homages, and on 16 January 1216/7 the manor of Melbourne in that co., to hold till the King was 14 years of age. He assisted the Regent to raise the siege of Lincoln Castle, 20 May 1217, and with his brother-in-law, the Earl of Chester, commanded the royal forces which took and razed the castle of Montsorel. In June 1218 he went on Crusade. He was warned, 26 June 1222, to surrender the castles of Peak and Bolsover before Michaelmas. Sheriff of co. Lancaster and Keeper of the honour of Lancaster, 30 December 1223 to 2 January 1227/8. He accompanied the King in the expedition to Brittany and Poitou, April to October 1230. On 19 January 1230/1 he was given the custody of all the lands of the Normans in England which were of his fee. He was at the Council of London, February 1231/2. He was summoned for Military Service against the Scots 15 May 1244, by writ directed W. de Ferar' comiti Derebi." [Complete Peerage] Died of the complications of gout. | de Ferrers, William (I5914)
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| 788 | "Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, 1249. He accompanied the King to Gascony in 1253 and the next year, on his way home, was captured with the Earl of Warwick and other nobles at Pons, in Poitou. Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1261-1262 and joint sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1263."[The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | Marmion, Philip (I2724)
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| 789 | "Sheriff of Yorkshire 1234. Admitted to the Privy Council 1237; Chief Justice of the Forests 1241; Seneschal of Gascony 1243; Justiciar of Ireland 1245." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz] | fitz Geoffrey, John (I2940)
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| 790 | "Sheriff of Yorkshire. Governor of York Castle. By 1332 he had established himself in the service of Henry, third earl of Lancaster (d. 1345), acting as constable and steward of the earl's honour of Pickering and serving with the earl's eldest son, Henry of Grosmont (d. 1361), on a series of successful military campaigns—in Scotland (1336), Brittany (1342), and Aquitaine (1344, 1345–6). The substantial rewards of this service (a fee of £20 as steward of Pickering and an additional £40 retaining fee) enabled Sir Ralph to expand the Hastings family estates, both in the North Riding, where he purchased the manors of Slingsby, Howthorp, and Colton, and in Leicestershire, where he acquired estates at Newton Harcourt and Welford. A series of royal privileges, including free warren in all his lands (1329) and a licence to crenellate and impark his new residence at Slingsby (1344), underlined his increased status and prosperity, while the acquisition of the advowson of Sulby Abbey, Northamptonshire, in 1343 allowed the Hastings family to treat this Premonstratensian house as their mausoleum—both Sir Ralph and his eldest son requested burial there. Appointed a keeper of the peace in the North Riding in 1332, Sir Ralph served as sheriff of Yorkshire between March 1337 and October 1340 and was closely involved, during his tenure of the shrievalty, in implementing Edward III's schemes for the regulation and financial exploitation of the wool export. He died in November 1346, less than a month after he had led the rearguard of the army that defeated the invading Scots at Neville's Cross." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] "Sir Ralph de Hastings, of Slingsby, Co. Ebor., was the son and heir of Sir Nicholas Hastings, who was descended from a younger son of an Earl of Pembroke. His mother was Emeline, daughter of Walter de Heron. He was Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1337 and 1340, and Governor of the Castle of York. He married Margaret, daughter of William de Herle, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, and died of wounds which he had received at the battle of Neville's Cross on the 17th of October, a month before the date of his will. He had, as it appears, taken in the battle of Neville's Cross a prisoner of importance, whom, or rather whose ransom-money, he bequeaths." [Testamenta Eboracensia, citation details below; but note that Nichols' Leicestershire, which we follow in this instance, shows Emeline de Heron as his great-grandmother, not his mother.] Richardson's Royal Ancestry (2013 edition) calls him "Hugh de Hastings," but queried via email, Richardson graciously acknowledged the error and provided several references confirming that the husband of Margaret de Herle, father of Ralph Hastings MP, was indeed named Ralph. | de Hastings, Ralph (I10207)
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| 791 | "Sherman is especially notable in United States history for being the only person to sign all four great state papers of the United States: the United States Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Association, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. Robert Morris, who did not sign the Articles of Association, signed the other three." [Wikipedia] 1745-1752 Surveyor New Haven County 1752-1758 Surveyor Litchfield County 1754 February Admitted to the Bar of Litchfield County 1755-1759 Justice of the Peace Litchfield County 1755-1756 1758-1761 Deputy for New Milford to General Assembly 1759-1761 Justice of Quorum County Court for County 1759 Commissary of Supplies for Connecticut at Albany NY 1760-1772 In mercantile business in New Haven 1765-1776 Treasurer of Yale College 1764-1766 Deputy for New Haven to General Assembly 1765 May Justice of the Peace, New Haven County 1765 October Justice of the Quorum, New Haven County 1766-1789 Judge of Superior Court of Connecticut 1768 Received degree of Master of Arts from Yale College 1774-1781 and 1784 Delegate to Continental Congress 1774 Signed Articles of Association 1774 Signed Address to the King 1776 Signed Declaration of Independence 1777 Delegate to Currency and Anti Monopoly Conventions at Springfield Mass 1777-1779 and 1782 Member of Council of Safety of Connecticut 1778 Signed Articles of Confederation 1778 Delegate to Convention on regulation of prices at New Haven 1783 Revised the Connecticut Laws with Judge Richard Law 1784-1793 First Mayor of New Haven 1787 Delegate to Constitutional Convention 1787 Signed the Constitution of The United States 1788 Delegate from New Haven to Convention of Connecticut which ratified the Constitution of the United States 1789-1791 Representative for Connecticut in Congress of the United States 1791 June until death July 23 1793 United States Senator for Connecticut | Sherman, Roger (I13590)
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| 792 | "Sherwood attended Middlebury College in Vermont and Union College in New York City. In 1819, he moved to Savannah, Georgia, where he involved himself with the Baptist ministry. He was instrumental in the founding of the Georgia Baptist Convention. He introduced and widened the support of the temperance movement after moving to Georgia. While in Georgia, his manual-labor system helped inspire the founding of Mercer University and in 1857, he became president of Marshall College in Griffin, Georgia. Between 1827 and 1860, he collected statistical information on Georgia's counties and place names, which he compiled into his publication A Gazetteer of the State of Georgia. Sherwood published as many as five different editions between the years of 1827 and 1860. After his farm in Butts County, Georgia was burned by Sherman's troops in the American Civil War, Sherwood moved to Missouri, where he died on August 19, 1879." [Wikipedia, accessed 8 May 2020] Among his several literary works is an anti-Semitic tract entitled The Jewish and Christian Churches: Or, The Hebrew Congregation and Christian Church, Distinct Organizations (1854). He is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, directly across Calvary Avenue from Calvary Cemetery, resting place of William Tecumseh Sherman. | Sherwood, Adiel (I28544)
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| 793 | "Shortly after his father's death, evidently because of animosity toward his step-mother, he kidnapped his younger half-brother and refused to release him. He was still alive in 1446, in which year he, in company with Edmund de Trafford (father of John Trafford, who married Thomas's daughter Elizabeth), was granted a licence from the crown dated 9 March 1446 (24 Hen. VI), 'encouraging [them] … to pursue their experiments in alchemy, and forbidding any subject of the king to molest them' (in the words of a modern paraphrase). He and his wife (who was his stepmother's sister) are said to have had eleven children." [John Blythe Dobson, citation details below] | Assheton, Thomas (I35827)
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| 794 | "Sieur d'Aubigny […] never knighted, still in Scotland 21 September 1419, in French service until 1437, when he returned to Scotland, only to be slain by Sir Thomas Boyd the next year." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | Stewart, Alan (I27390)
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| 795 | "Sigrid the Haughty." Possibly, but not certainly, the same individual as the daughter of Mieszko I of Poland and Doubravka of Bohemia who, some claim, married Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark and was the mother of Canute the Great. | Storråda, Sigrið (I3757)
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| 796 | "Simon was a 'relatively wealthy' clothier who, along with his wife Elizabeth Clark (or Clerke) Stacy, was a member of the thriving East Anglian Puritan community. With the ascendancy of Archbishop William Laud, however, Puritans experienced repression. At about the same time (1629-34), a severe economic depression struck the area's cloth industry. Many Puritans, not only the poorest and most religious, were inspired to emigrate. In the Stacys' Bocking, 'the depression was making the town "very hazardous for men of better rank to live" as the poor were becoming "very unruly."' And so, in and about 1636, the Stacys moved all or part of their family to Massachusetts in a migration that would come to encompass nineteen relatives." [Robert Strong, "Two Seventeenth-Century Conversion Narratives"] | Stacy, Simon (I20506)
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| 797 | "Simon [...] joined the barons against King John in 1215. In November of that year his lands in Brixworth were committed to Roland Bloet, but were later given to his wife, Beatrice of Brixworth. She also had a grant of an aid to be levied from those of Simon's knights and free tenants who had aided the rebels, to acquit him of the fine made for his redemption." [VCH Northamptonshire, citation details below.] | Fitz Simon, Simon (I26519)
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| 798 | "Since the publication of Goodwin's Genealogical Notes in 1856, the early wife of Gerard who was mother of his children has always been named as Hannah. The present compiler follows these authorities, though confessing that he has not seen an original or quoted contemporary record so naming her. Still, such a record may exist." [Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Four Spencer Brothers -- Their Ancestors and Descendants," citation details below.] | Hannah (I851)
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| 799 | "Sir Alan Stewart, second son of Sir John Stewart of Bonkyll, accompanied Edward Bruce to Ireland in 1315, and next year was taken prisoner by the English, but was soon released, and continued to fight against them. He received from King Robert I the lands of Dreghorn, in Ayrshire, and fell with his two brothers, James and John Stewart, at the battle of Halidonhill in 1333." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Stewart, Alan (I28932)
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| 800 | "Sir Gilbert de Haya of Locherworth swore fealty to King Edward I 12 July 1296. He had charters from King Robert I (1306-29), to Gilbert de Haya of Locherwart of the lands of Auchinfichlach, etc., which belonged to Sir Duncan Frendraught, of the lands of Achenus, etc., of the Forest of Dwne and of the lands of Awne in Boyne, with many others in the county of Banff, together with a grant of the office of Forester of the forests of Awne and Boyne. A charter was granted in the reign of the same monarch to Gilbert Hay of the lands of Brechin, co. Forfar, by William de Montealto, of Kinblathmonth. He married Mary, daughter and coheir of Sir Simon Eraser of Oliver Castle, who was executed by Edward I 1306. With her he acquired Oliver Castle and a considerable estate in co. Peebles, and his descendants have since quartered the Fraser arms." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | de Haya, Gilbert (I28984)
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| 801 | "Sir Giles Daubeney, of South Ingleby, South Petherton, &c., and h., by 1st wife. On 14 Oct. 1351 he had letters stating that, though born out of the King's allegiance, he might nevertheless enjoy his inheritance. In Oct. 1357 he bought the manors of Kempston, Beds, and Tottenham, Middlesex, from William Daubeney and Philippe his wife, for 200 marks. Sheriff of Beds and Bucks, 1379-80. Knight of the Shire for Somerset, 1382, 1383, and 1384. He m., soon after 5 Jan. 1358/9, Alianore, da. of Sir Henry de Wilington, of Umberleigh, Devon, Poulton, co. Gloucester, &c., by Isabel, da. of Sir John de Walesbreu, of Lamellen and Lancarfe, Cornwall. He d. 24 June 1386, at Barrington, Somerset. 1386. His widow's dower was ordered to be assigned, 8 Aug. 1386. She d. 6 Aug 1400, and was bur. at Kempston." [Complete Peerage IV:97-8] | Daubeney, Giles (I7524)
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| 802 | "SIR HENRY ST. CLAIR of Roslin was one of whose who swore fealty to Edward I on 13 June 1292. He, however, was one of the garrison of Dunbar Castle, where he was taken prisoner, sent to England, and on 16 May 1296 was removed to St. Briavels Castle, but on 7 April 1299 was exchanged for Sir William Fitz-Warin, and taken from Gloucester to York 16 February 1299, apparently on his way to Scotland. About 15 September 1305 he was appointed Sheriff of Lanark by Edward I, and on 30 September 1307 was ordered by him to assist the Earl of Richmond and march into Galloway against Robert Bruce, and further, on 14 December following was begged to keep the peace in Scotland. He, however, supported Bruce, and fought against the English at Bannockburn. In recognition of his services he had a charter from King Robert on 21 October 1314, of all His Majesty's lands on the Muir of Pentland in free warren, and a further charter from Edward de Gourton of part of the lands of Gourton, tenanted by Roger de Hauewood, dated the Friday after the feast of St. Bartholomew, 28 August 1317. He was one of the Barons of Scotland who signed the letter dated 4 April 1320 to Pope John XXII, asserting the independence of Scotland, in which letter he is called 'panetarius.'" [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Sinclair, Henry (I28950)
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| 803 | "Sir Hugh le Despenser of Loughborough, Burton, Hugglescote, Freeby, and Arnesby, co. Leicester, Parlington and Hilliam, co. York, Sibsey and Aukborough, co. Lincoln, Ryhall and Belmesthorp, Rutland, s. and h. of Sir Hugh le Despenser, of the same (who d. between 23 Feb. and 30 May 1238). He was b. in or before 1223. Had respite of knighthood, 11 July 1244. On 7 Nov. 1255 he was appointed Constable of Horston Castle for five years from the preceding Michaelmas. In Apr. 1257 he accompanied Richard, Earl of Cornwall, to Aachen, for the latter's coronation, on 17 May, as King of the Romans. At the Parl. of Oxford, in Jun 1258, he was one of the twelve elected by the Barons to redress grievances, and also one of the twelve elected to treat with the King's Council in Parl. Appointed Justiciar of England, 25 Oct. 1260, being the nominee of the Barons: he was deprived of his office by the King, May or June 1261. Attended Montfort's Parl. at Oxford in Apr. 1263. Appointed Justiciar of England and Constable of the Tower of London, about 15 July 1263, by the Barons, with the assent of the King. In Mar. 1264, when Constable of the Tower, he led the rioters who sacked the mansion at Isleworth of the King of the Romans. Was at the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1264. Appointed, by the counsel of the Barons, Constable of the Castles of Devizes and Oxford, 12 July, of Orford Castle, 18 July, and of Nottingham Castle, 15 Dec. 1264. Was appointed an arbiter to consider the peace between the King and the Barons, 11 Sep. 1264. He was sum. for Military Service against the Welsh, 14 Mar. (1257/8) 42 Hen. III and 25 May (1263) 47 Hen. III, by writs directed Hugoni le Despenser Justic' Anglie. He was appointed an arbiter between the Earls of Leicester and Gloucester in May 1265. He m., in or before 1260, Aline, da. and h. of Sir Philip Basset, of Wycombe, Bucks, Compton-Bassett and Wootton-Basset, Wilts, &c., Justiciar of England, by his 1st wife, Hawise, da. of Sir Matthew de Lovaine, of Little Easton, Essex. He joined the Earl of Leicester in his last campaign, and with him was slain at the battle of Evesham, 4 Aug. 1265. He was bur. in Evesham Abbey." [Complete Peerage IV:259.] | le Despenser, Hugh (I166)
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| 804 | "Sir James Tyrrell was an English knight, a trusted servant of King Richard III of England. He is known for allegedly confessing to the murders of the Princes in the Tower under Richard's orders. William Shakespeare portrays Tyrrell as the man who organises the princes' murder in Richard III." [Wikipedia] | Tyrrell, James (I19039)
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| 805 | "SIR JOHN DE HAYA, who is known only from a charter by his son. It may be he who appears as a witness to a charter by King Alexander at Roxburgh in 1222, and to another by the same King, dated at Selkirk 28 July 1238. He is said to have married the daughter and heiress of Robert de Lyne, of Locherworth, co. Edinburgh, with whom he acquired that property, which henceforth became for some two hundred years the territorial designation of his family." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | de Haya, John (I28993)
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| 806 | "Sir John de Oggill was leagued with the rebel barons against Henry III, and so was probably at the siege of Northampton and the battles of Lewes and Evesham, and, according to an escheat of 49 Henry III., his lands were 'extended' (?). He, however, soon recovered his estates, which, whilst his father was alive, could not have been great, ancl moreover he and Gilbert de Oggill were, 51 Henry III, jurors upon an inquest taken at Stannington, respecting lands forfeited in this county by the celebrated Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, the leader in the revolt, and he was then a knight, as also in the same king's reign, when he, Sir John Widdrington, and Sir Hugh Gubium witnessed a charter at Ellington, and he also appears as a witness in 1272 concerning Whittonstal." [Ogle and Bothal, citation details below.] | Ogle, John (I3886)
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| 807 | "SIR JOHN DE SETON, or SEYTON, was the eldest son of Sir John Seyton of Draughton in Northamptonshire, by Bridget daughter of Lord Basset of Sapcote, and was born about the year 1346. In September 1383 he was abroad in the King's service, and in October 1394 was in the retinue of John of Gant in Acquitaine. He made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1396, and died in the Holy City; but his body was brought to England and deposited on the south side of the chancel of Maidwell Church, where a monument, consisting of his effigy in armour, with the legs across, his head supported by a horse's leg, and his shield charged with his arms, Gules, a bend Argent between six martlets Or, still remains." [The Controversy Between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor, citation details below.] | Seyton, John (I21823)
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| 808 | "Sir John, who was an Esquire of the Body to King Edward the Fourth, was sent by him as Sheriff into Cornwall, where he had to conduct the siege of St. Michael's Mount, which was defended by the Earl of Oxford. This was in 1471; in 1481 he was Sheriff of Hertfordshire and Essex, and in a year or two the King made him "Master Porter" of Calais. King Richard the Third, who had succeeded by the murder of his nephew, sent Sir John Fortescue a fresh appointment as Esquire of the Body to the King, with a salary of fifty marks, which appointment carried with it the title of 'Sir;' but Sir John Fortescue joined his old adversary the Earl of Oxford, and they offered their services to the Earl of Richmond, who soon after became Henry the Seventh. Landing at Milford Haven on August 6, 1485, on the 22nd the decisive battle of Bosworth Field was fought, in which Sir John, who had been knighted by Henry on his landing, took his part. The victory gave the throne without a rival to Henry the Seventh, and the King rewarded Sir John by making him, within a month of the battle, Chief Butler of England, and by many grants of forfeited manors. At the coronation he was made Knight banneret. Sir John was much at Court henceforward, among other occasions at the festivities in 1494, when Prince Henry, afterwards Henry the Eighth, then but two years old, was created Duke of York and a Knight of the Bath. At length, crossing over to Calais with the King and Queen, in May, 1500, to avoid the plague, of which thirty thousand persons died in London in that year, his own life came to a close immediately after a speedy return to England, for he died at Punsborne July 28, 1500." [John Morris, citation details below] | Fortescue, John (I35713)
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| 809 | "Sir Malcolm was either slain at the battle of Durham, anno 1346, or died immediately thereafter." [The Peerage of Scotland, citation details below] | Drummond, Malcolm (I20927)
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| 810 | "Sir Peter de la Mare, the father of Geoffrey, drowned in the Menai Strait on 6 November 1282, along with with several hundred other English soldiers fighting against the Welsh." [John Watson, 2015, citation details below.] | de la Mare, Peter (I12034)
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| 811 | "Sir Ralph d'Aubigne, or d'Aubeney, of South Ingleby, co. Lincoln, Seigneur de Landal in Brittany, yr. br. and h. of Philip d'Aubigne, of Ingleby (who d. before 20 Dec. 1224), and s. of Ralph d'Aubigné, of Ingleby, by Mahet or Maud, De Montsorel, Seigneur de Landal. He was a minor, 12 Oct. 1229. Was nephew and h. of Philip d'Aubigné who d. s.p. in the Holy Land, 1236, and was bur. there, of South Petherton, Barrington, and Chillington, Somerset, sometime Warden of the Channel Islands, who gave him Petherton, of which he had livery, having done homage, 7 Dec. 1234. He was not yet a knight, 15 Aug. 1247. Was with the King in Gascony in 1253. In 1276 he quitclaimed to the King, for 100 marks, all his rights in the honour of Monmouth. He was on the King's service in Wales in 1277 and in 1282. He was sum. for Military Service, 14 Mar. (1282/3) 11 Edw. I, and to attend the King at Shrewsbury, 28 June (1283) 11 Edw. I, by writs directed Radulfo de Albiniaco. He m. Isabel. He d. shortly before 25 Jan. 1291/2. His widow was living 4 Aug. 1294." [Complete Peerage IV:93-94] | d'Aubigné, Ralph (I7383)
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| 812 | "Sir Ralph Daubeney, of South Ingleby, South Petherton, s. and h., b. 3 Mar. 1304/5. On 2 July 1323 the King notified to the Duke of Brittany, the Bishop of Dol, and all others, that Ralph was heir of Elis. Having proved his age, the King took his homage, and he had livery of his father's lands, 21 June 1326. Was knighted and had robes as a banneret, 16 Jan. 1 326/7. He was sum. for Military Service against the Scots, 27 Mar. (1335) 9 Edw. III, and to a Council, 25 Feb. (1341/2) 16 Edw. III, by writs directed Radulfo Daubeny or Daubeney. He was taken prisoner by the Scots, and was not released till after 6 Oct. 1337. Was in the King's division at the battle of Crécy, being in the retinue of the Bishop of Durham, and was at the siege of Calais in the retinue of the Earl of Huntingdon. He m., firstly, before 27 Jan 1332/3, Alice, 1st da. of Sir William de Montagu, of Shepton Montague, Somerset (Lord Montagu), by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Piers de Montfort, of Beaudesert, co. Warwick. He m., 2ndly, before 8 Feb. 1345/6, Katherine, 3rd sister and in her issue coh. of Thomas de Thweng [4th Lord Thweng], clerk, of Thwing and Kilton, co. York, and da. of Sir Marmaduke de Thweng [Lord Thweng], by Isabel, da. of Sir William de Ros, of Ingmanthorpe, in that co. She d. between 20 Apr. 1364 and 28 May 1374. He was living 18 Aug. 1371, and (it is stated) in Dec. 1378." [Complete Peerage IV:97-98, as corrected in volume XIV.] | Daubeney, Ralph (I7787)
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| 813 | "Sir Ralph de Vernon, priest, rector of Hanwell, who before ordination had one daughter." [The Blackmans of Knight's Creek, citation details below.] "Warine Vernon, elder son of the 4th Baron, had no male heir and his extensive estate was divided between his daughters and his brother Ralph, Rector of Hanwell. Ralph's son, also Ralph b. 1241, was reputed to have lived so long he earned the soubriquet The Old Liver." [Wikipedia] | de Vernon, Ralph (I10544)
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| 814 | "Sir Richard Tempest, had an illustrious career involving battles with the Scots and French and extensive administrative responsibilities in the north of England under five kings of England, from Edward III to Henry VI. […H]e was co-warden of Berwick Castle with Sir Thomas Talbot, presumably his mother's brother, in 1385-86." [Schuerman and Hickling (citation details below)] Knight of the shire for Yorkshire in Jan 1404. His birth year is established by the fact that he gave his age as 30 when testifying in the celebrated Scrope vs. Grosvenor heraldic dispute, Oct 1386. | Tempest, Richard (I28220)
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| 815 | "Sir RICHARD WILLOUGHBY, Kt., M.P., of Willoughby & Wollaton, Notts., & Risley, Derbys. He was knighted in 1312. He was a Pleader in the Court of Common Pleas, from 1301. He rose to be appointed Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland, 1323. Died 1325." [Robert O'Connor, 16 Jun 1999, post to soc.genealogy.medieval] "[I]t was [Richard Willoughby d. 1290's] son, another Richard, who accelerated the family's advance into the ranks of the more substantial county gentry. A pleader in the court of common pleas from 1301, he rose to the office of chief justice of the bench in Ireland in 1323. This success, although modest compared with that later achieved by his son, enabled him to extend the family's estates far beyond Willoughby and its immediate neighbourhood, chiefly, and in a manner typical of judicial families in this period, at the expense of an insolvent knightly family, in his case, that of Morteyn, lords of Dunsby in Lincolnshire, Wollaton in Nottinghamshire, and Risley in Derbyshire. In 1310 his son, Richard, was married to Sir Roger Morteyn's daughter Isabel, and thereafter the Willoughbys acquired a large part of the Morteyn patrimony from both Sir Roger and Sir Roger's son, Sir William." [Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire by Simon J. Payling, citation details below.] | Willoughby, Richard (I6372)
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| 816 | "SIR ROBERT BOYD, the faithful companion of Robert the Bruce in the War of Independence. A Robert Boyd attended the King's escheators from Dumbarton to Renfrew with Sir John Walleys and their men at arms, October 1304, and Sir Robert de Boyt was taken prisoner by the English in the Castle of Kildrummie shortly before 13 September 1306, a Duncan Boyd having been captured and hanged 4 August previously. Robert Boyd joined in a letter to the King of France, 16 November 1308, and he was one of the Scottish commanders at the battle of Bannockburn 24 June 1314. For his faithful adherence to his cause, he had a grant from King Robert to 'Roberto Boyd, militi, dilecto et fldeli nostro,' of the lands of Kilmarnock, Boudington, and Hertschaw, which were John de Baliol's; the lands of Kilbryd and Ardnel (Portincross), which were Godfrey de Ross's, son to the deceased Reginald de Ross; all the land which was William de Mora's, in the tenement of Dalry; with seven acres of land, which were Robert de Ross's in the tenement of Ardnel all erected into an entire and free barony to be held of the King. He had also a charter of the lands of Nodelles dale; and a third, granting Hertschaw in free forest. He was one of the guarantors of a treaty of peace with the English 1323. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Halidonhill, 19 Jul 1333, and died not long afterwards." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Boyd, Robert (I28960)
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| 817 | "Sir ROGER VAUGHAN, third son of ROGER VAUGHAN of Bredwardine […] by Gwladys, daughter of Dafydd Gam, was the first of the Vaughans to reside at Tretower. It is said that the residence was a gift to him from his half-brother William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, to whom the castle and manor of Tretower had descended by the marriage of his father, Sir William ap Thomas, to the widow of Sir James Berkeley, heiress of Tretower. Roger Vaughan enlarged and remodelled the house by the addition of a western range of buildings with a hall. Like all his kindred, Roger Vaughan is found on the Yorkist side in the divisions of his time, but he also was granted a pardon by the Coventry Parliament of 1457. The Privy Council ordered him, with Sir William Herbert and Walter Devereux, to prevent assemblies and the victualling of castles in Wales, 17 August 1460. He was with Edward's forces at Mortimer's Cross, 1461, and it is said that it was he who led Owain Tudor to his execution at Hereford after the battle. He was granted the offices of porter of the castle of Bronllys, forester of Cantrecelly, steward and receiver of the lordships of Cantrecelly, Penkelly, Alexanderston, and Llangoed, 15 November 1461, and lands in south-west England, 11 July 1462. He took a prominent part in quelling a rising in Carmarthenshire in 1465, and received grants of the insurgents' manors and estates in Gower and Kidwelly. By 23 March 1465 he was a knight, though the investiture is not recorded by Shaw. He was on commissions of 'oyer et terminer' in Wales and the Marches in 1467 and 1468. In the earl of Warwick's charter to Neath abbey, 24 June 1468, Vaughan as the earl's chancellor at Cardiff is the first witness, and Thomas ap Roger, possibly his son, is described as coroner of Cardiff. The common belief that he fell with his brothers at the battle of Banbury is incorrect. Lewis Glyn Cothi called upon him to avenge that battle, and on 16 February 1470 he was appointed constable of Cardigan castle. After the battle of Tewkesbury, 1471, it is said that Edward IV ordered him to pursue and capture Jasper Tudor, earl of Pembroke, but it was Vaughan himself who fell into the earl's hands, to be summarily beheaded at Chepstow. His elegies were sung by Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal or Huw Cae Llwyd, and Llywelyn Goch y Dant, who accused Jasper Tudor of treachery and guile. Guto'r Glyn also called on his family to avenge his death. He is described in the pedigree books as lord of Cantrecelly and Penkelly, owner of Merthyr Tydfil and Llandimore, and various lands in Glamorgan, and it is said that he built the 'royal palace' at Cardiff." [Dictionary of Welsh Biography, citation details below] "The three sons of Roger Fychan—Watkyn, Thomas, and Roger—were established at the main Vaughan residences of Bredwardine, Hergest, and Tretower, having been brought up with their half-brothers, William [see Herbert, William, first earl of Pembroke] and Richard Herbert, after the widowed Gwladus married Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan. The Vaughans proved staunch Yorkists during the Wars of the Roses, and Roger Vaughan was the duke of York's receiver of Builth as early as 1442–3. […] Sir Roger Vaughan (d. 1471), the third son of Roger Fychan of Bredwardine, was the most prominent of all. He was the first Vaughan to reside at Tretower, which appears to have been a gift from William Herbert, and which he turned into an imposing fortified manor house. He was closely associated with his Herbert and Devereux kinsmen, whom he joined on the Yorkist side at Mortimer's Cross in February 1461; Roger is said to have led Owen Tudor to execution at Hereford after the battle. Vaughans, Herberts, and Devereux were responsible for securing Wales for Edward IV: Roger was steward and receiver of Cantref Selyf, Alexanderston, and Pencelli; he helped to quell a Carmarthenshire rising in 1465, and he was knighted. On 16 February 1470 he was appointed constable of Cardigan Castle, but after the Lancastrian defeat at Tewkesbury in May 1471 he was captured by Jasper Tudor and beheaded at Chepstow, an act that poisoned the Vaughans' relations with the Tudors. Welsh poets urged revenge for the defeat of the Herberts and their allies at Edgcote, and for Jasper Tudor's treachery at Chepstow. The four daughters of Roger and his first wife, Denise, daughter of Thomas ap Philip Vaughan of Talgarth, married prominent gentry in southern Wales." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | Vaughan, Roger (I29850)
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| 818 | "Sir Rowland Johnson of Gray's Inn." | Johnson, Rowland (I17006)
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| 819 | "Sir Thomas Culpeper was a member of Parliament for Kent in 1382 and 1383 and sheriff in 1393 and 1394." [The Family of Twysden and Twisden by John Ramskill Twisden, 1939. Page 42.] "Sir John [i]'s eldest son, Sir Thomas Culpeper (d. 1429), was a Kentish JP, sheriff in 1394, and MP in 1382 and 1383. His marriage to Eleanor, daughter of Nicholas Green, brought her father's manors of Exton, Rutland, and Isham, Northamptonshire, to the family. By the time he died he was possessed of property in Lincolnshire, as well as in Warwickshire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Kent, and Sussex. His will leaves no doubt as to his wealth. He left his body to be buried in Bayham Abbey, on the Sussex side of the border between Sussex and Kent, where an alabaster tomb had been prepared for him (his son Nicholas was also to seek burial there). As well as making a large number of bequests to religious houses, and leaving a total of £440 in cash to his sons, he provided for legacies to members of his household, who included a butler, a cook, a baker, and 'Malyne my little chambermaid', who received 20s. towards her marriage. A reference to another son, Richard, who had been buried at Pontoise in Normandy, suggests that at least one member of the family had served as a soldier in France. Sir Thomas's will also shows that he had married again; his second wife was Joyce, the widow of John Vyne, and she survived him." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] | Colepeper, Thomas (I12361)
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| 820 | "Sir Thomas's grandfather twice represented the county in Parliament and also served as sheriff continuously between 1363 and 1368." [History of Parliament, on his grandson Thomas Hawley MP.] | Hawley, William (I4617)
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| 821 | "Sir Thomas, son of Thomas, son of Ranulph, so designed in a charter, dated in 1266, to which he is a witness, when he was already a knight, and by Bower in chronicling his appointment, in 1269, as High Chamberlain. In 1266, also, he is named as Sheriff of Roxburgh, and still held that office in 1268-69. He was, as stated, appointed High Chamberlain of Scotland in 1269, as successor to Reginald Cheyne, being described as 'vir magnae mansuetudinae et sapientiae,' and held that office until about 1278. In 1279 he appears as one of the itinerant justices deciding pleas in the ward of Tynedale, then in the hands of the King of Scotland. In 1280 he was one of the executors of John Baliol of Bernard Castle, and in 1290, on the death of his widow, Devorgilla Baliol, Sir Thomas was one of her executors. But whether this was on account of relationship or because of his known probity cannot be determined. He was present at the Convention at Brigham on 17 March 1289-90, which assented to the proposed marriage of the young Queen of Scotland to Prince Edward of England. He was also present when King John Baliol did homage to Edward, and released the latter from all obligations, and his seal, bearing on a shield three cushions, two and one, with the legend 'Sigillum Thome Randolf,' is still attached to the release, of date 2 January 1292-93. On the 23 February following he was witness at Dundee to a charter by the new King to John 'de Insula' of the lands of Whitsome. In 1294 he was summoned by King Edward I to accompany him in arms to France, and he appears to have been in that country as an envoy from King John in September 1296. He is not again on record, and may have died not long after." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Randolph, Thomas (I27336)
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| 822 | "Sir William de Breuse, s. and h. of John de Breuse, Lord of Bramber and Gower, by Margaret, da. of Llewelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales. He suc. his father in 1232, before 18 July, and was of full age before 15 July 1245. He was sum. cum equis et armis from 14 Mar. (1257/8) 42 Hen. III to 14 Mar. (1282/3) 11 Edw. I, and to attend the King at Shrewsbury, 28 June (1283) 11 Edw. I, by writs directed Willelmo de Breuse, Brehuse, or Brewes. He is recorded to have sat in the Parl. of Apr.-May 1290, whereby he may be held to have been Lord Brewose. He m., 1stly, Aline, da. of Thomas de Multon of Burgh-on-Sands, Cumberland, by Maud, da. and h. of Hubert de Vaux, of Gilsland in that co. He m., 2ndly, Agnes, da. of Nicholas de Moels, of Cadbury, Somerset by Hawise, widow of John de Botreaux, yr. da. and coh. of James de Newmarch, of Cadbury afsd. [See Moels.] He m., 3rdly, in or before 1271, Mary, da. of Robert de Ros of Helmsley, by Isabel, da. and h. of William d'Aubigny, of Belvoir. He d. 6 Jan. 1290/1 at Findon, West Sussex and was bur. at Sele Priory 15 Jan. His widow, whose dower was settled by deeds dated 21, 23 Mar. 1290/1, d. shortly before 23 May 1326." [Complete Peerage II:302, as corrected in Volume XIV.] | de Brewes, William (I3329)
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| 823 | "Sir William de Brewes or Brewose, Lord of Bramber and Gower, s. and h., by 1st wife. Having done homage, he had livery of his father's lands, 1 Mar. 1290/1. He was sum. cum equis et armis from 14 June (1294) 22 Edw. I to 18 Apr. (1323) 16 Edw. II, to attend the King wherever he might be, 8 June (1294) 22 Edw. I, to attend the King at Salisbury, 26 Jan. (1296/7) 25 Edw. I, and to Parl. from 29 Dec. (1299) 28 Edw. I to 18 Sep. (1322) 16 Edw. II, by writs directed Willelmo de Brewosa. As Willelmus de Breuhosa dominus de Gower, he took part in the Barons' letter to the Pope, 12 Feb. 1300/1. he m., 1stly, Agnes. He m., 2ndly, before 24 Apr. 1317, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir Raymund de Sully, of Sully, co. Glamorgan. He d. shortly before 1 May 1326, having alienated his lordships of Bramber and Gower to his son-in-law, John de Mowbray. His widow, who was aged 20 and more at her father's death in 1316/7,(«) d. s.p., before 24 Aug. 1328." [Complete Peerage II:302-03, as corrected by Volume XIV.] | de Brewes, William (I3325)
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| 824 | "Sir William Hawley was chief steward of the north parts of the duchy of Lancaster for some seven years. Sir William was indeed a loyal retainer of John of Gaunt, and drew up his will at Bayonne, in 1386, having gone there as a member of the expeditionary force with which Gaunt hoped to secure the throne of Castile." [History of Parliament, on his son Thomas Hawley MP.] | Hawley, William (I4613)
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| 825 | "Sister & heir of Ralph Picot." [Henry James Young, citation details below] | Picot, Isabel (I30337)
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| 826 | "Slain in a riot in London." [Complete Peerage] Also known as Alberic; Albericus de Ver. From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Vere, Aubrey (II) de (d. 1141), administrator, was the son and successor of Aubrey (I) de Vere and Beatrice, his wife. While the family was from Ver, south of Coutances in Normandy, there is no evidence that Aubrey senior or his descendants held lands either there or in Brittany, with which they retained ties. The elder Aubrey was most probably the younger son of a Norman lord who prospered in England after the conquest, becoming a royal chamberlain. Probably born in the early 1080s, Aubrey junior married Alice (d. 1163?), daughter of Gilbert de Clare, before 1107. He was to become one of the most prominent royal administrators of the later years of the reign of Henry I and the early years of Stephen. It is likely that Aubrey (II) began his administrative career as royal chamberlain, possibly inheriting that office from his father when the latter died c.1112. By 1121 he was sheriff of Essex, and, later in that decade, of London and Middlesex. The extent of the king's confidence in de Vere is evident in his appointment as joint sheriff, with Richard Basset, to the custody of eleven counties in 1129-30. This unprecedented situation was probably part of an effort to collect arrears and to adjust the shrieval farms. While the king had levied one fine of 550 marks and four war-horses against him for having allowed a prisoner to escape, and another of at least 100 marks for permission to resign the shrievalty of Essex and Hertfordshire, these fines had gone largely uncollected -- another sign of royal favour. In 1133 Henry I bestowed the hereditary office of master chamberlain of England on de Vere; the office was to remain in the de Vere family until 1703. Although his royal service was primarily confined to England, he was at least twice with Henry I in Normandy. "When Aubrey de Vere's son William de Vere asserted that his father was 'justiciar of all England', and privy to important royal secrets, he seems to have meant that his father had travelled extensively as a justice, rather than that he had been chief justiciar of the realm. William of Malmesbury describes him as causidicus -- a pleader or advocate -- and skilled in the law. De Vere may have served as an itinerant justice under Henry I; he certainly did so in Stephen's reign. He had accepted Stephen's rule by Easter 1136, and when the king was summoned before an ecclesiastical council after his arrest of Roger of Salisbury and other bishops in 1139, he sent de Vere as his advocate. Aubrey de Vere was killed in a London riot on 15 May 1141, perhaps while supporting his son-in-law Geoffrey de Mandeville, first earl of Essex (d. 1144). [...] "His family was to prove one of the longest lasting in the history of the English aristocracy. His eldest son was made earl of Oxford in the year of Aubrey (II)'s death, and although its descent was several times transmitted through collaterals, and twice interrupted by forfeitures, the title nevertheless passed to no fewer than nineteen successive descendants, until the twentieth earl, also Aubrey de Vere, died without a male heir in 1703." | de Vere, Aubrey (I2737)
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| 827 | "Somerled, a Celtic chief, who is said to have acquired the Western islands, assumed the designation of King of the Isles." [Complete Peerage, citation details below] | of the Isles, Somerled (I27462)
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| 828 | "Sometime after [10 Jun 1278], members of Eleanor's household petitioned the king, stating that she was mad and an imbecile, and requested a suitable wardship for her." [Royal Ancestry] Peter Stewart, 2 Dec 2020, post to soc.genealogy.medieval: There is no question that [Humphrey de Bohun, d. 1265, and his wife Eleanor de Briouze] did have a daughter named Eleanor, but she was the second wife of Robert de Ferrers, 6th earl of Derby, from June 1269 whereas the other Eleanor de Bohun, wife of John de Verdon, was widowed in 1274. The latter couple had a son named Humphrey—presumably after her father—born on 4 June 1267, and she had the Verdon and Bohun bearings on her seal. The Eleanor married to Robert de Ferrers was described as sister to Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd earl of Hereford (son of Humphrey who died in 1265 by Eleanor de Braiose) in the close roll for 1290 (Edward I, vol 3 p. 119: "Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford, and Eleanor de Ferrariis, his sister, acknowledge that they owe to Robert de Tibotot and Matthew de Columbariis, the king's butler, 200l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in cos. Hereford and Essex"). Two witnesses at the IPM of this Eleanor's son John, 1st lord Ferrers of Chartley, quoted in CP vol. 5 pp. 305-306 note (d), placed her as the granddaughter of Humphrey de Bohun who was clearly the 2nd earl of Hereford and 7th of Essex. The most likely answer seems to me that John de Verdon's wife Eleanor de Bohun was a paternal half-sister of Humphrey the husband of Eleanor de Braiose, i.e. a daughter of the 2nd earl of Herford by his second wife, Maud de Avenbury. This would account for her evident family connection as well as the chronology placing her apparently around 20 years younger than the daughters of the 2nd earl by his first wife, Maud de Lusignan. The double Verdon-Bohun marriages posited by [Mark S. Hagger, The Fortunes of a Norman Family, The Verduns in England, Ireland, and Wales, 1066-1316], including his Matilda who was actually named Margery or Margaret to John's son Theobald I, are somewhat downscale socio-politically from the Ferrers marriage of the 3rd earl's sister. Maybe Margery was also a near-contemporary half-blood aunt of the 3rd earl, another daughter of the 2nd earl by Maud de Avenbury. At any rate Hagger's placing her as a sister of the third earl would entail a second-cousin marriage between her son Theobald II de Verdon and Maud de Mortimer, both in that case great-grandchildren of William de Braiose and Eve Marshal. | de Bohun, Eleanor (I2394)
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| 829 | "Sometime between 1631 and 1635 John Lake's wife, Margaret (Reade) Lake, left him and emigrated with her sisters and their families to New England, taking with her two daughters, Ann and Martha Lake. For many years she lived with the family of her brother-in-law, Governor John Winthrop, Jr., at New London, Conn., and is mentioned repeatedly in the Winthrop family correspondence. The last decade of her life was spent at Ipswich, Mass., in the home of her daughter, Martha (Lake) Harris, and of her brother-in-law, Dept. Gov. Samuel Symonds. In 1654, Rev. Hugh Peter, Mrs. Lake's step-father, wrote from London to John Winthrop, Jr.: 'John Lake is alive and lusty'; and in 1657 he stated to the same correspondent: 'John Lake lives still.' On January 18, 1661/2, Mrs. Lake wrote from Wendham, to her brother-in-law, Governor Winthrop, who was in London: 'Might I not bee troublesome to you I would have desired yors. to have done mee yt courtesy as to have inquired concerning my husbands death, & how he ended his dayes, as also to have inquired of my cousen Thomas Cooke, whether hee knew whether their was any thing left mee or no....I would desire you inquire whether my sister Breadcale (sic) who dwells in Lee (Leigh), in Essex, bee living. You may heare of her, if liveing, at Irongate where boats weekly come from Lee.' No will of John Lake has been found." [The Ancestry of Bethia Harris, citation details below] | Reade, Margaret (I3869)
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| 830 | "Sometime constable, probably to the Count of Aumale, lord of Holderness." [Complete Peerage] | de Ros, Robert (I7318)
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| 831 | "Speculated to have been a daughter of the Count of Rouergue based on the introduction of novel names into the family." [Wikipedia] | Richilda (I11183)
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| 832 | "Speculated to have been daughter of a Count of Toulouse or Rouergue based on the names given to her children." [Wikipedia] | Letgarda (I3969)
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| 833 | "Spencer Miller reports that John Wylley married Joan Marsead; however, the original register clearly shows that her maiden name was Marshall." [William Wyman Fiske, "John Wall of Bishop's Stortford," citation details below.] "Joan died after 19 Feb 1591, when she witnessed the baptism in Thorley of her granddaughter Elizabeth, daughter of George Wylley." [William Wyman Fiske, "The Wylley and Cramphorne Families of Hertfordshire," citation details below.] | Marshall, Joan (I5307)
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| 834 | "Stephen was a mariner and in 1606 was admitted to the freedom of Yarmouth by Bailiff Crowe. This was a courtesy allowed to only one person each year by each bailiff." [The Tracy Genealogy, citation details below.] | Tracy, Stephen (I6437)
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| 835 | "Steward of Scotland, 1326-1336; Justice of North Wales, 1334-1376; Sheriff of Carnarvonshire 1339-1343, 1346-1347; Admiral of the West, 1340-1341 and 1345-1347; Sheriff of Shropshire, 1345-1376; commanded the 2nd division at the battle of Crécy, 26 Aug 1346, and was at the fall of Calais, 1347; assumed the title of Earl of Surrey, 1361, upon the death of his maternal aunt, Joan, widow of John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] Called "Copped Hat." A pair of memorial effigies depicting Richard Fitz Alan and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster can be seen at Chichester Cathedral. They lie side by side, a lion at his feet and a dog at hers. In a note of tenderness that makes one wonder if the sculptor knew the couple, he has his right hand ungloved, and her right hand rests lightly upon his. These effigies were celebrated in 1956 by Philip Larkin in his poem "An Arundel Tomb," the last lines of which are quoted on Larkin's own Poet's Corner memorial stone in Westminster Abbey. | Fitz Alan, Richard (I2654)
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| 836 | "Stradling [Stradelinges, de Estratlinges] family (per. c. 1290–1480), gentry, came from Strättlingen, on Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland. The Elizabethan scholar–courtier Sir Edward Stradling (c. 1529–1609) included in 'The winning of the lordship of Glamorgan out of the Welshmen's hands' a family pedigree that claimed that Stradlings arrived in England with the Danes. In reality they were established in Glamorgan and the west country of England in Edward I's reign, and became influential landowners. John de Estratlinges (d. c. 1293) came to England with Otto de Grandson, Edward I's companion-in-arms, from whom he received lands in Ireland and England; he married Maud, John of Wauton's heir." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] | de Estratlinges, John (I9501)
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| 837 | "Su última aparición en la documentación medieval fue en 1211 cuando donó a la Catedral de Zamora la villa de Castrotorafe que había recibido como parte de las arras entregadas por rey Fernando en 1165." [Spanish-language Wikipedia] | of Portugal, Urraca (I5716)
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| 838 | "Sufanna ye Daughter of Matthew Perkins & his wife Hannah was born January 29: 1752." [Norwich Vital Records, citation details below.] | Perkins, Susanna (I14524)
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| 839 | "Suffered forfeiture of his lands twice. His lands were escheated to the Crown at Easter 1183. In March 1193 he suffered forfeiture and was imprisoned for supporting John's rebellion. He evidently died in prison." [John Watson, citation details below.] | Brito, Robert (I10596)
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| 840 | "Summoned for military service against the Welsh in 1295 and against the Scots in 1296-1297 and 1300. A knight by 13 Mar 1303; Sheriff of Somersetshire and Dorsetshire 1304-1305 and 1315-1316; Sheriff of Devonshire and Constable of Exeter Castle 1311-1315." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | de Furneaux, Matthew (I21705)
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| 841 | "Sunifred was the Count of Barcelona as well as many other Catalan and Septimanian counties; including Ausona, Besalú, Girona, Narbonne, Agde, Béziers, Lodève, Melgueil, Cerdanya, Urgell, Conflent, and Nîmes; from 834 to 848 (Urgell and Cerdanya) and from 844 to 848 (others). He may have been the son of Belló, Count of Carcassonne, or more probably, his son-in-law." [Wikipedia] Todd A. Farmerie, 26 Apr 2016, post to soc.genealogy.medieval: I would suggest for Iberia that the cutoff for the most stringent level of evidence with every generation solidly documented would be at Ramiro I in Asturias; Gonzalo, father of Count Fernan Gonzalez in Castile; Garcia, father of Sancho I in Pamplona; Galindo, father of Count Aznar I in Aragon; Lope, father of Raymond I of Ribagorza and Pallars; and Sunifred, father of Wifred I in Catalonia. | of Urgell, Sunifred (I7517)
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| 842 | "Susanna, who came to New England with her son William in 1634 and died at the home of Rev. John Wheelwright, Wells, Maine, in 1645-6." [John Denison Champlin, citation details below] | Susanna (I18483)
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| 843 | "Svyatoslav remained a pagan, saying that if he converted, 'My men would laugh at that.' He is the first Kievan ruler of the line to have a purely Slavic name and be given a proper history in the chronicle, yet much of this must have come from oral tradition. He set out to expand his realm by conquest and thought of moving his capital to Pereyaslavets on the Danube, but after a lengthy campaign against the Byzantines he was ambushed and killed in 972 by the Pechenegs, who are said to have made a drinking up out of his skull." ["Ryurik and the First Ryurikids", citation details below.] | Sviatoslav I Grand Prince of Kiev (I4510)
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| 844 | "Sybil was a lady of the Queen's chamber in the retinue of Eleanor of Castile, but whether she held this position before or after the death of her first husband is not certain. She perhaps became known to the queen as her family held one half of Eltham, while the other half was royal demesne and the site of the royal palace at Eltham. In 1270, Henry III 'kept a public Christmas at his palace of Eltham, being accompanied by the Queen, and all the great men of the realm.' Sybil is frequently found in the household records of the Queen Eleanor beginning in February 1286, though an earlier connection to the Queen may be indicated by her marriage to Peter Le Poer. [...] Sybil married Henry de Bodrugan sometime before the IPM of her brother Walter de Mandville was taken on 6 November 1288. Henry de Bodrugan was in the expedition to Gascony in 1286 with King Edward, which was also accompanied by Queen Eleanor and a large number of the royal household. It is possible that it was while traveling with the king and queen that the match with Sybil was made. Queen Eleanor was well known for matchmatching of cousins and women of the queen's household to well landed English nobles. It is also possible that the Bodrugans' strong religious connections played a roll (marrying the niece of two powerful bishops to a major benefactor of Glasney College and the brother of the archdeacon of Cornwall). The first child of Sybil and Henry was born 6 January 1290 at Bodrugan, co. Cornwall. It may be that Sybil remained in the household of Queen Eleanor for a time after her second marriage as Sybil's children were still with the queen's children in 1289-90. Eleanor died in November 1290 and her will includes a bequest 'to Sybil, wife of Henry de Boderingeham, of the marriage of John le Power, son and heir of Peter le Power, tenant in chief, her former husband.'" [Joe Cochoit, 26 Apr 2011, citation details below.] | de Mandeville, Sybil (I1579)
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| 845 | "Taken together, the various pieces of evidence present a credible case that Francis Clayton descended from a clan around Blackburn and Leyland, Lancashire. It would be ideal to have specific lines and names, of course, but with record loss I doubt that we ever will. The most eligible candidate ancestor appears to be the Richard Clayton who in 1635 settled in Virginia, perhaps five to ten miles from Francis's Chesterfield farm of 1755. I suspect that Richard may have been just one of a larger family group, however, and it would be a mistake to settle on him just because we happen to have a little more information about him than about his namesakes. -- Still, the story makes good sense and is consistent with available evidence. That is not a bad start." [Paul Nordberg, "Family and Ancestry of Francis Clayton of Chesterfield County, Virginia," citation details below] | Clayton, Francis (I35472)
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| 846 | "Tamsen, widow of James Chesley, and daughter of Deacon Ezekiel Wentworth." [Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, citation details below.] | Wentworth, Tamsen (I7933)
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| 847 | "Tancred of Hauteville (980-1041) was an 11th-century Norman petty lord about whom little is known. His historical importance comes entirely from the accomplishments of his sons and later descendants. He was a minor noble near Coutances in the Cotentin. Various legends arose about Tancred which have no supporting contemporary evidence that has survived the ages." [Wikipedia] | of Hauteville, Tancred (I1635)
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| 848 | "That Edmund and Edith died just a few days apart, suggests that they may have been caught up in a contagion." [The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part I, citation details below. | Scullard, Edmund (I7137)
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| 849 | "That he was a man of considerable social standing and prestige in Northampton county is indicated by the fact that he is first mentioned in 1473 as an executor of the will of John Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire, a younger son of Humphrey Stafford, the powerful Duke of Buckingham. William Marbury married about this time into the prominent family of Blount. His wife Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Blount and Agnes Hawley, was niece of Sir Walter Blount, Lord Mountjoy, K.G., who in 1467 had married Anne Neville, the widow of Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. Sir Walter Blount, his wife Anne, Duchess of Buckingham, and William Marbury were co-executors of the will of Anne's son, John, Earl of Wiltshire. In the will, dated April 21, 1473, the Earl of Wiltshire made William a guardian of his only son, Edward, then age three: 'Also I will pray William Marbury to be attendaunte to my sonne and he to have rule about him.' It was William's brother, Robert, however, who attended the second Earl in the capacity of gentleman-usher for a period of twenty-five years." [The English Ancestry of Anne Marbury Hutchinson and Katherine Marbury Scott, citation details below.] | Marbury, William (I1374)
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| 850 | "That William was a son of Robert Marmion the son of Milicent is evident from a statement made in a lawsuit of about 1267 that William Marmion, lord of Checkenden about 1266 when he died, was great grandson of the Robert Marmion who gave the advowson of Checkenden to Coventry. Since this last William was son of Geoffrey who was son of this William, it follows then that William was a son of Robert." [The Ancestry of Thomas Bradbury, citation details below] | Marmion, William (I35333)
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| 851 | "The Sheldon Magazine states she was the daughter of David and Mary (Harmon) Sheldon, born 11 Dec. 1745. However, the only Deborah Sheldon of the right age found in Barbour's Suffield records was born 15 Dec. 1745, the daughter of Phineas and Deborah (Hathaway) Sheldon." [The Descendants of Thomas Hanchett, citation details below.] | Sheldon, Deborah (I14712)
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| 852 | "The ancestry of the Ingleby line can be traced from a younger sibling of William 'I' d'Aubigny (the husband of Cecilia). Charter evidence indicates this was likely a brother, whose wife was previously married to NN de Chauveni (or Chauvigny): it is also possible given the occasional changes in toponyms that a sister of William had married, with her issue chosing either d'Aubigny or de Chauveni as a surname. Helias or Elias d'Aubigny was one son, whose brothers were Iwen d'Aubigny (also Iwen de Chauveni in some charters) and Geoffrey de Chauveni." [John P. Ravilious, citation details below.] | (Unknown son of Main d'Aubigny) (I4458)
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| 853 | "The ANTHONY MARTELL and ANTHONY BASTIEN families, with a group of French Canadians, had migrated from Canada to Kaskaskia in 1851, and settled southwest of Oraville [in Jackson County, Illinois] in 1858." [Genealogy Trails, Jackson County, Illinois] | Bastien, Antoine (I11521)
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| 854 | "The Bearded." Duke of Silesia and Kraków. | of Silesia, Henryk I (I24962)
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| 855 | "The Black." Count of Anjou. Died while returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. | Foulques III "Nerra" (I6273)
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| 856 | "The Black." Count of Brittany. Earl of Richmond. | Alan III (I16953)
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| 857 | "The Blind." Also called Vászoly. "[T]he only certain information of his life [is] that he was kept in captivity and blinded in the fortress of Nyitra (Nitra, Slovakia) in the last years of the reign of his cousin, King Stephen I of Hungary. Modern historians, including György Györffy, do not exclude that he had earlier been Duke of Nyitra. He is the forefather of nearly all Kings of Hungary who reigned after 1046." [Wikipedia] | of Hungary, Vazul (I894)
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| 858 | "The Brave." | Sancho IV King of Castile and León (I25293)
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| 859 | "The Brave." Margrave of Austria. Genealogist Charles Evans proved that he was a son of his father's first wife Glismond, not of his second wife Frozza Orseolo, descendant of the Orseolo Doges of Venice. From Wikipedia: He increased the territory of his margraviate by amalgamating the Bohemian and Hungarian frontier marches up to the Thaya, March and Leitha rivers in what is today Lower Austria. In his time, the colonisation of the remote Waldviertel region was begun by his ministeriales, the Kuenring knights. Ernest received his epithet due to his fighting against King Béla I of Hungary and his son Géza I on behalf of their rival Solomon according to the chronicler Lambert of Hersfeld. In the commencing Investiture Controversy, he sided with King Henry IV of Germany and battled against the Saxons, dying at the Battle of Langensalza. | von Babenberg, Ernest (I3828)
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| 860 | "The Breed Family" (citation details below) says they were married 8 June 1691, but Buys (citations details below) gives the date and place we show, citing the records of the First Congregational Church (the "Road Church") in Stonington. | Palmer, Mercy (I11303)
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| 861 | "The cemetery, now called St. Anthony's, was originally a Protestant cemetery, later bought by the Catholic Church. The old part of it is still referred to as the Old Protestant Cemetery. Benjamin is buried there, and probably his wife Rachel." [Find a Grave page for Benjamin Wright, citation details below.] | Wright, Benjamin (I22371)
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| 862 | "The Child." Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. | of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Otto I (I25066)
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| 863 | "The churchwardens' accounts show John Webster II paying his mother's legacy, collecting a levy and doing business for the village at Stamford. Stamford, whose fair was one of the most notable in the Midlands -- its fame penetrated even to Justice Shallow in remote Gloucestershire -- is about thirty miles from Cossington, and that, with a laden waggon on Tudor roads would be three days' journey. His spouse, the 'goodwyfe Webster,' was responsible for the church's washing." [Skillington et al., citation details below.] | Webster, John (I17758)
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| 864 | "The cold hard fact was that marriages among gentry during this period were generally only objected to if the parties objected (one could endow whatever church, priory or house with lands to make up for the sins [e. g., Holy Trinity (Abbaye-aux-Dames) and St. Stephen (Abbaye-aux-Hommes) in Caen]. This is exemplified in that James de Audeley held the wardship and marriage of the heir of de Mascy (Hamon). James died, endowing the guardianship on his mistress, Alice (de Mohun) (de Clinton) de Beauchamp, who wedded Hamon de Mascy to her daughter Isabel de Beauchamp. The story goes that she died on her wedding night before consumation. Alice then married Hamon to the next daughter, Mary de Beauchamp. He later [after four children] divorced her on the grounds that the marriage was not lawful (you get the gist), and married Joan de Clinton (! -- still unlawful, technically). The heir, Hamon, was declared a bastard, but the sisters and their heirs eventually inherited the ancient barony of Dunham Massey." [Paul C. Reed, 21 Feb 1998, citation details below.] | de Beauchamp, Mary (I4090)
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| 865 | "The Coles were far from poor. Indeed, according to the standards of the day, Robert, at least, came from a prosperous family. His father, William Cole, was a yeoman, meaning that he was a farmer with modest land holdings. The competent English prose of Robert's will indicates that his family had the means to provide him with some formal education. There are also extant tax records that show that his widowed mother, Joan Cole, ranked within the top third of the economic pyramid in Heston. Additionally, Robert Cole had the resources necessary to transport his family and two servants to Maryland and then to purchase a three hundred acre farm when he got there." [Rory T. Conley, citation details below.] | Cole, William (I1744)
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| 866 | "The conclusion that this marriage record pertains to the Mayflower passenger is plausible, but not fully proved." [The Mayflower Migration, citation details below] | Family F12165
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| 867 | "The date of her death is unknown, but it can be no earlier than 1057, or later than 1073, as Bishop William of Roskilde (in office 1057–73), officiated at her funeral." [Wikipedia] | Estrid Queen of Denmark (I2275)
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| 868 | "The death by drowning of William Atheling, King Henry's only legitimate son, on 25 November 1120 transformed William Clito's fortunes. He was now the obvious male heir to England and Normandy, and a significant party of Norman aristocrats adopted his cause. Henry's problems became worse, as his son William Atheling had been betrothed to Matilda of Anjou, daughter of Count Fulk V of Anjou and Fulk wanted her dowry, several castles and towns in Maine, returned, which Henry refused. Fulk in turn betrothed his daughter Sibylla to William Clito giving him the county of Maine, between Normandy and Anjou, as her dowry. King Henry astutely appealed to canon law, however, and the marriage was eventually annulled in August 1124 on the grounds that the couple were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity." [Wikipedia] | Clito, William (I3629)
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| 869 | "The Devil." Duke of Normandy. | Robert I (I5420)
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| 870 | "The elder Grose, a native of Berne in Switzerland, came to England early in the eighteenth century (pedigree in the College of Arms), and was a well-to-do jeweller living at Richmond in Surrey. He fitted up the coronation crown of George III, and collected prints and shells, which were sold in 1770." [Dictionary of National Biography entry on his son, the antiquary Francis Grose] According to the Wikipedia article about Francis Grose, Francis Jacob Grose and his wife lived in Broad Street, St-Peter-le-Poer, London. | Grose, Francis Jacob (I19525)
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| 871 | "The evidences that Jerusha and Nathaniel were brother and sister are family statements of the descendants taken down around the year 1880 by the late Professor Arnold Doane of Barrington. The chief grounds for making them children of Enos Knowles are that Enos had a son not otherwise accounted for, that Jerusha and Nathaniel could not possibly have been children of Enos's brother Samuel or cousin Cornelius, that Nathaniel named a son Enos -- a name almost unused either in Eastham or Barrington, and that the name Jerusha prevailed among the proved descendants of Enos." [Charles Thornton Libby, citation details below.] Her first husband was Simeon Crowell, who was lost at sea in the summer of 1768. | Knowles, Jerusha (I20243)
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| 872 | "The Exile." Also called Wygnaniec. "[O]f the House of Piast, Duke of Poland in Krakow and Silesia" [Szabolcs de Vajay, citation details below]. | Wladislaw II King of Poland (I1786)
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| 873 | "The Fair." Duke of Schlesien-Liegnitz in Brieg. | von Schliesen-Liegnitz, Ludwig I (I24958)
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| 874 | "The family held a tenancy in the honour of Gloucester. It is stated (Complete Peerage, xi, 368n) that the descent was from Richard (if his first name is correctly recorded) de St. Quintin, a knight of Robert FitzHamon at the conquest of Glamorgan c. 1090. His relationship to Herbert de St. Quintin I, from whom the family descended, is uncertain, but they were probably father and son, Herbert's son being named Richard." [Early Yorkshire Families, citation details below.] | de St. Quintin, Herbert (I5087)
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| 875 | "The Fat." | Louis VI King of France (I4558)
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| 876 | "The Fat." Jarl in Sweden. | Folke (I25453)
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| 877 | "The Ferryman." [Culpepper Connections] | Culpepper, Benjamin (I7942)
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| 878 | "The first on record of the Moore family is Randle de la Moore, who as reeve of Liverpool appeared at the sessions of the justices in eyre at Lancaster in 1246. His name frequently occurs in documents of the time of Henry III and Edward I." [VCH Lancaster, citation details below] | de la Moore, Randle (I35963)
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| 879 | "The Fratricide"; "The Towhead". Count of Barcelona. "Killed while hunting in the woods of Perxa del Astor." | Berenguer, Ramon II (I4482)
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| 880 | "The Generous." Duke of Silesia in Breslau, Liegnitz, and Brieg. | of Silesia, Boleslaw III (I22140)
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| 881 | "The Giant." Marchese de Monferrato. | Boniface II (I25114)
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| 882 | "The Great." Count of Barcelona. | Berenguer, Ramon III (I10790)
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| 883 | "The Great." Count of Weimar. | Wilhelm II (I14124)
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| 884 | "The Great." Duke of Brunswick. | Albrecht I (I25065)
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| 885 | "The Great." Margrave of Meissen. From the site of Leo van de Pas: Konrad is often considered the founder of the greatness of the Wettin dynasty. In 1123 he became count of Eilenburg. That same year, Lothar von Supplinburg, duke of Saxony, appointed him margrave of Meissen in opposition to Wiprecht von Groitzsch, the appointee of Emperor Heinrich V. Lothar also named Albrecht 'the Bear' margrave of Lusatia (Lausitz), while Heinrich named Wiprecht to that march also. Wiprecht was unable to hold his own against his two opponents and in 1124 Konrad was securely in power in Meissen. In 1136 Lothar, then emperor, appointed him to Lusatia as well. Thereafter, Upper Lusatia remained a part of Meissen and the march of Lusatia was reduced to Lower Lusatia (Nieder-Lausitz) alone. In 1143 Konrad became count of Groitzsch and Rochlitz and Vogt (guardian) of Chemnitz and Naumburg. In 1147, while Konrad III of Germany was away on the Second Crusade, Konrad of Meissen joined Heinrich 'the Lion', Adalbert of Salzwedel, Albrecht 'the Bear', and the archbishop of Magdeburg and Bremen to organise a Crusade against the Obotrites and the Wagri. In August, Konrad and Albrecht, with the bishops of Magdeburg, Havelburg and Brandenburg, massed their forces at Magdeburg. The Obotrite prince Niklot and his fortresses of Dubin and Dimin were besieged. Both he and Pribislav, another Obotrite prince, were forced to accept Christianity and make peace. In the following years, Konrad founded the abbey of St. Petrus auf dem Lauterberg (Petersberg) near Halle, to which he retired on 30 November 1156. He died on 5 February 1157 and was buried there next to his wife Liutgart who had died in 1145. His eldest surviving son Otto II succeeded him in Meissen, while he second surviving son Dedo succeeded him in Lower Lusatia (Nieder-Lausitz). | of Meissen, Konrad I (I14251)
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| 886 | "The Great." Prince of Wales; Prince of Aberffraw; Lord of Snowden. Died as a Cistercian monk. | ap Iorwerth, Llywelyn Fawr (I4929)
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| 887 | "The Hairy", or in Catalan, Guifré el Pilós. Count of Urgell (from 870), Cerdanya (from 870), Barcelona (from 878), Girona (from 878, as Wilfred II), Besalú (from 878) and Ausona (from 886). "Wilfred was of Gothic lineage from the region of Carcassonne. Tradition claims he was born near Prades in the County of Conflent, now Rià, in Roussillon, France." [Wikipedia] "By 884, the Muslims had become increasingly uneasy by the expansion of the Christian counties to the north. Wilfred had established defensive positions or castles in Ausona at Cardona, Bergueda, and Vall de Lord; some were even south of the River Llobregat in the Vall de Cervelló. Essentially the frontiers of Wilfred's counties had now extended too far to remain irrelevant. The Muslim ruler Ismail ibn Musa ibn Qasi fortified Lleida in response. Provoked by this, Wilfred attacked Ismail at Lleida. The attack however was a disaster. The historian Ibn al Athir describes the massacre of the attackers by the city's defenders. Buoyed by this success, Ismail's successor Lubb ibn Muhammed ibn Qasi attacked Barcelona in 897. Wilfred died in battle on 11 August 897." [Wikipedia] "Wilfred the Hairy has become a figure of importance for contemporary Catalan nationalists. Nineteenth century European Romanticism looked to the medieval world for references and links to modern national and cultural identities, and in the context of Catalan nationalism and its search for its historical foundations in a distant and idealised past, Wilfred soon arose as a figure of independence, the de facto founder of the House of Barcelona, and, by purported extension, one of the forefathers of the latter Catalonia. One of the legends that has arisen around his person is that of the creation of the coat of arms from which the Catalan flag (the Senyera) derives today. After being wounded in battle (some versions say against the Moors; others, the Normans), the Frankish king Charles the Bald rewarded his bravery by giving him a coat of arms. The king slid Wilfred's blood-stained fingers over the Count's copper shield, and thus was the Senyera first born, with its four pallets in Gules on Or. As much as this legend is popular and extended, there is no historical evidence to support it." [Wikipedia] | de Barcelona, Wilfred "the Hairy" (I7220)
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| 888 | "The Hoarse." "Lord of Cantref Mawr and Cantref Bychan, in Deheubarth, South Wales. Under the banner of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth he was mortally wounded while attacking Carmarthan Castle and died at Llandeilo-fawr, 1234. Buried at St. David's Cathedral. An unreliable man who was self-seeking." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz] | Grig, Rhys (I13274)
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| 889 | "The home the Browns used as a residence and inn is located at 562 Main Street, Watertown, MA--adjacent on the east is the Abraham Brown School. Known as the Abraham Brown Jr. House to distinguish the owner from his immigrant grandfather Abraham Browne, the house was built by 1690, and possibly as early as 1663, and an addition made to it in 1729. It remained in the Brown family until 1897, and is currently on the register of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Gothic in construction, the restored house has a pilastered chimney believed to be similar to the original. The original house, the current North Hall, features a very large fireplace with a massive oak lintel, floors and walls of white pine, and ceiling beams of hewn oak. The Hall, used as residence and inn, is currently furnished with a canopied bed, a trestle table, bannister back chairs, and other 17th century furniture and utensils. A unique feature of the house is the use of three part casement window frames duplicated from a frame found during restoration--the earliest example of such a window found in New England." [America's Historic Houses and Restorations by Irvin Haas (New York, 1966)]\ | Browne, Capt. Abraham (I33654)
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| 890 | "The identity of William's mother is unknown, but his father married in 1432 Alice, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford and widow of Sir Edmund Cheyne, which made him one of the wealthiest men in Lincolnshire, and he was also very active on local commissions." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] Justice of the peace in Lincolnshire and Northumberland, 1441 onwards. Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire 1445. King's esquire. Captain of Alnwick Castle 1462. Styled "Earl of Kyme" upon inheriting the castle and estate of Kyme. Described in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article on his father-in-law William Bonville as "one of Suffolk's henchmen," referring to William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, beheaded 1450. Described in the first line of his own Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry as "Tailboys, Sir William (c.1416–1464), landowner and gang leader." From Foundation: The History of England from its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors by Peter Ackroyd (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2011): John Paston wrote of one hired gang that 'no poor man dare displease them, for whatsoever they do with their swords they make it law'. He had direct experience of such violent behaviour. In a petition to the archbishop of York he wrote of 'a great multitude of riotous people, to the number of a thousand persons or more' who 'broke, despoiled, and drew down' his manor house at Gresham; they 'drove out my wife and servants there being, and rifled, took, and bore away all the goods and chattels'. The gang then fortified the manor, and kept out Paston himself as well as the king's Justice of the Peace. Another gang, commanded by William Tailboys, was under the protection of Suffolk; it will be remembered that Suffolk, with the queen, helped to control the council of the realm. Tailboys and his 'slaughterladdes' were accused of three murders as well as charges of trespass and assault; but Suffolk helped him to escape justice. 'On lordship and friendship', it was said, 'depends all law and profit.' The spirit of misrule prevailed over the land, and the king could do nothing about it. From Wikipedia: William Tailboys, de jure 7th Baron Kyme (c. 1415-26 May 1464) was a wealthy Lincolnshire squire and adherent of the Lancastrian cause during the Wars of the Roses. He was born in Kyme, Lincolnshire the son of Sir Walter Tailboys and his first wife. Sir Walter had inherited considerable estates in Northumberland and Lincolnshire (with the main estate being at Goltho, Lincolnshire), and had been High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1423. William gained a reputation as a troublemaker, continually disputing with his neighbours, particularly Lord Cromwell, the ex-Treasurer. He was Justice of the Peace for Lincolnshire and for Northumberland from 1441 and in 1445 became Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire. However his unruly character led to his temporary imprisonment in the Marshalsea, London in 1448 for a series of murders and trespasses. He was also accused of having attempted to murder Lord Cromwell in the Star Chamber in 1449. He espoused the Lancastrian cause and was knighted at the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461. He also fought at the Battle of Towton in 1461, escaped and was declared a rebel and had his property confiscated by King Edward IV. He was with Queen Margaret in Scotland in 1461 and was Captain of Alnwick Castle for the restored King Henry VI in 1462. In 1464 he fought at the Battle of Hexham, where the Lancastrian forces were totally routed, but managed to escape the field. He was later discovered hiding in a coal pit near Newcastle with some 3000 marks (2000 pounds) of Lancastrian funds which had been intended as pay for the army. He was taken to the Sandhills in Newcastle and there beheaded. From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Nothing is known of William Tailboys's early life but he may have been 'the young layman by name Tailboys' who was living at Bardney Abbey in 1437 and 'did most foully browbeat and scold' one of the monks there (Virgoe, 462). By 1441 he was one of the king's household retainers, and remained so until at least 1448. His inheritance of his father's lands brought him election as knight of the shire for Lincolnshire in 1445 and appointment to the Northumberland and all three Lincolnshire commissions of the peace. But he rapidly became involved in a series of disputes which led to a great deal of violence. By 1448 he and his followers were accused of involvement in three homicides and many other crimes. Tailboys saw Lord Cromwell of Tattershall Castle as his greatest enemy and John, Viscount Beaumont, and William de la Pole, duke of Suffolk, as his patrons. When writs of exigent were issued against Tailboys and his followers in 1449 Suffolk persuaded the sheriff of Lincolnshire, Mauncer Marmyon, not to execute them, promising Marmyon a pardon -- incidents that formed part of the charges against Suffolk in his impeachment in 1450. Near the beginning of the parliament of November 1449 Tailboys and his band of 'slaughterladdes' assaulted and allegedly tried to kill Lord Cromwell at a meeting of the king's council. The Commons, perhaps inspired by Lord Cromwell, brought an impeachment against Tailboys -- the first for over half a century -- demanding that he, 'named and noysed for a comon murderer, mansleer, riottour and contynuell breker of your peas', be put in the Tower of London, to stay there for twelve months while actions could be brought against him (RotP, 5.200). The king was forced to agree to the main clause and it is clear that this impeachment formed the model for the much more serious impeachment of the duke of Suffolk in January 1450, also perhaps inspired by Lord Cromwell. [...] Tailboys remained in the Tower for a year and then in the custody of the sheriffs of London for another four years. After the Yorkist victory of St Albans in 1455 Tailboys received a general pardon and was restored briefly to the peace commission in Kesteven. He was certainly much damaged by his years of imprisonment, even though in 1457 Lord Cromwell's executors forgave him much of the £2000 awarded seven years earlier. His activities over the next three years seem to have been equally violent and in the Coventry parliament of 1459 the Commons petitioned that he, then living at Enfield, and other criminals be imprisoned. As the civil wars grew closer, however, Tailboys's influence in Lincolnshire, where he presumably remained friendly with Viscount Beaumont, became increasingly important to Henry VI. He served loyally on the Lancastrian side during the last four years of his life, being knighted in February 1461 at St Albans, where Lord Bonville, whose daughter, Elizabeth (d. 1491), he had married, was executed. He fought at Towton, defended, then surrendered Alnwick, and finally fought at the battle of Hexham in May 1464. After this battle he was discovered hiding in a coalmine near Newcastle with some 3000 marks intended for the Lancastrian forces. He was executed on 20 July 1464 at Newcastle and buried at the Greyfriars in Newcastle. | Tailboys, William (I2994)
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| 891 | "The Illustrious." Margrave of the Ostmark. Progenitor of the Babenberg dynasty in Austria. "In 994, Leopold travelled to Würzburg to mediate a dispute between his cousin Henry of Schweinfurt and Bishop Bernward von Rothenburg of Würzburg, one of whose knights Henry had seized and blinded. At a tournament held on 8 July, Leopold was hit in the eye by an arrow directed at his cousin. Two days later, on 10 July 994, Leopold died from his injuries." [Wikipedia] | von Babenberg, Leopold (I10065)
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| 892 | "The Inquest as to Knights' Fees in 1212 found that Willelmus de Monte Caniso tenuit Gurtreston...et fruit quondam dominicum Regis, et data fuit antecessoribus predicti Willemi per Henricum Regem avum domini Regis [a not uncommon description of Henry I in official records of the time of King John]. This seems to purport rather that land, which had been Godric's, passed to the Munchensy family than that Hubert, son of Godric, who witnessed a lease to his brother Ralph, 1134-40, assumed the name of Munchensy as has been supposed. Godric dapifer -- ie. steward -- held in 1086 many lands in Norfolk and Suffolk both in fee of the Crown and as the King's steward, including Gooderstone (Gurreston), Wramplingham, Winfarthing and Rockland; Bergh and Appleton he held of the Bishop of Ely, and had a lease of Little Melton from the abbey of St Benet Hulme; in Essex he was in charge of Great Sampford for the King. He was a prominent figure in East Anglia already in 1080, and in 1087 and later was sheriff of Norfolk and (or) Suffolk. In many of his Domesday holdings his predecessor in 1066 had been Edwin, teinus dominicus regis Edwardi, who, with his wife Ingrid, had given Little Melton to St Benet. The fact of Godric's thus succeeding to the lands of Edwin, coupled with the name of his wife -- also Ingrid -- suggests that Godric had married the daughter of the pre-Conquest holder. Godric and his wife also gave Little Melton to St Benet; and Ralph, son of Godric, and his wife Letseline, and, after his death, his widow Basile, held leases of that manor from the abbey for their lives. The lease of Basile, interpreted in the terms of that to Ralph, proves that he must have d. s.p. The cartulary also records the names of Ralph's brother Eudo and nephew Lisewy." [Complete Peerage IX:411, note (h).] | Godric (I1341)
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| 893 | "The IPM of John, heir of Griffin de Warren reports his death 4 Feb. 1412/3, leaving son and heir Griffin aged 13. Griffin's IPM reports his death 5 Oct. 1415, heir sister Margaret aged 13. A couple of years later, her proof of age gave her bapt. 11 Jun. 1401." [Todd A. Farmerie, citation details below.] Noting the above because some sources show Margaret Warren as a daughter of Griffin Warren and Margaret Corbet, which is shown by the above to be incorrect. Notably, Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry (2nd ed., 2011), p. 591, has Richard Charleton's wife as "ELIZABETH MAINWARING, daughter of William Mainwaring, of Ightfield, Shropshire, by Margaret, daughter of Griffin Warren, Esq." But his later Royal Ancestry, 2013, correctly (in the Mainwaring chapter that begins volume 4) shows Margaret as a "daughter of John Warren". | Warren, Margaret (I1424)
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| 894 | "The Just." Duke of Sandomir, Krakow, Kujawien, and Masovia. | Casimir II (I25033)
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| 895 | "The last payment made to [William Parsons] was on 19 February 1653/4, after which payments were made to the widow Parsons from 19 March 1653/4 through 15 April 1655. On the last date the widow Parsons was marked 'in siknes,' so she probably died soon after. Whether this widow was Margaret Parsons cannot be determined." ["Were Joseph and Benjamin Parsons and David Wilton of Beaminster, Dorset, England, the New England colonists?" by Gerald James Parsons. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April 1989, v. 143, pp. 101-119.] | Hoskins, Margaret (I953)
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| 896 | "The LeMays were closely akin to Huguenots, although this family appears to have been Catholic." Much more about Michel Lemay and his family at A Point in History. | Lemay, Michael (I31692)
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| 897 | "The Lion." Duke of Saxony and Bavaria. | of Saxony, Heinrich (I24914)
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| 898 | "The Lion." Lord of Mecklenburg. | of Mecklenburg, Heinrich II (I22082)
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| 899 | "The lords of Bradninch held Clyst St. George of the Pomeroy family; so Sir William de Tracy's wife likely dau. of Henry de Pomeroy, seen 1156, lord of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, by ROHESE (195-26). Rohese was a sister of REGINALD FITZ ROY (121-26), Earl of Cornwall, a bastard son of King Henry I." [Ancestral Roots, 124A:29, "Prepared for an earlier edition by Douglas Richardson."] | de Pomeroy, (Unknown) (I6612)
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| 900 | "The manor of Ulnes Walton was a member of the fee or barony of Penwortham, and thus passed from Bussel to Lacy and so to the Earls and Dukes of Lancaster and the Crown. Of the lord of Penwortham it was held by the service of the fifth part of a knight's fee by a family surnamed Walton. The earliest known member of it, Ulf de Walton, was living about 1160, and he no doubt gave the distinguishing name of Ulf's (Ulnes) to the township. He had a son Adam [...]." ["Townships: Ulnes Walton" in VCH Lancaster (citation details below), volume 6] | de Walton, Ulf (I36100)
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| 901 | "The marriage of Thomas Jocelyn with Maud Hide brought into his possession the manor of the Hide, or 'Hide Hall,' which descended to his heirs, the Josselyn family owning it for almost six hundred and fifty years, when in 1897, itv was willed to Sophia, widow of the fifth Earl of Roden, who had died without issue. A charter of 'Thomas son of John' is still preserved by the family." [Stevens-Miller Ancestry, citation details below.] | Jocelyn, Thomas (I27713)
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| 902 | "The Middletown entries continue with the marriage on 28 March 1660 of William and Phebe, without revealing her last name. Convincing arguments have been advanced by Frank Farnsworth Starr, as quoted by Myrtle M. Morris in Joseph and Philena (Elton) Fellows (1941), p. 162, and by Mary Lovering Holman (TAG 15:80-86), that Phebe may have been a daughter of Arthur Fenner. Note that Fenner was used as a given name several times among the descendants of William and Phebe Ward." ["Some Descendants of William Ward," citation details below.] "Phoebe (Fenner), bapt 5 Jan. 1633-34, was a Phebe Ward in 1680 with children. She is stated to have m. John Ward of Newport, but nothing has been found to substantiate this. It is more probable that she was the second wife (m. 28 Mar. 1659-60) of William Ward of Middletown. Conn., whose wife, Phebe, had these children: [...] William Ward d. 28 Mar. 1690, Middletown, testate; his widow, Phebe, d. thre 1 Sept. 1691. In his will, he does not name all his children but these eight were living." ["The Fenner, Browne, and Tully Ancestry," citation details below.] | Fenner, Phebe (I15106)
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| 903 | "The Mighty." Jarl in Norway. | Sigurdsson, Håkon (I25079)
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| 904 | "The most important member of a tightly knit family group was Ranulf's younger brother William le Meschin (d. 1129x35). William went on the first crusade, where he is mentioned, as 'William son of Ranulf le vicomte' at the siege of Nicaea in 1097 (Ordericus Vitalis, Eccl. hist., 5.59). In Cumbria William le Meschin was first given charge of Gilsland, which he failed to hold against the Scots, and then Egremont (the barony of Copeland). He built the castle at Egremont, and close by on the coast he founded the priory of St Bees, a further daughter house of St Mary's, York. William le Meschin married Cecily de Rumilly, the daughter of Robert de Rumilly and heir to the barony of Skipton in Craven, west Yorkshire, thus creating a substantial cross-Pennine estate. William and Cecily were the founders of the priory of Embsay, which later removed to Bolton in Wharfedale. In addition to the two baronies of Egremont and Skipton, William le Meschin acquired tenancies in several counties, the more significant held of his brother in Lincolnshire (where the Lindsey survey of 1115 - 18 provides detailed record) and in Cheshire. William remained closely linked with Ranulf, whom he survived by just a few years, dying before 1135. An elder son, Matthew, having predeceased him, William's heirs were successively his younger son, also called Ranulf le Meschin, and three sisters, Amice, Alice, and Matilda, who in the course of a total of seven marriages comprehensively dismembered the estate." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] "William le Meschin, Lord of Copeland, br. of Ranulph, 1st Earl of Chester, yr. s. of Rannulf, Vicomte of the Bessin, m. Cicely de Rumilly, Lady of Skipton, da. and h. of Robert de Rumelli, of Harewood and Skipton, co. York (see ped. of Lisle in vol. viii, between pp. 48 and 49), and had 3 daughters and coheirs. (1) Alice, Lady of Skipton, who m., 1stly, William fitz Duncan, s. of Duncan II, King of Scots. See Clay, Early Yorks Charters, vol. vii, pp. 9—10. They had one s., William, 'the Boy of Egremont', who d. in the King's ward after 1155, leaving his 3 sisters his coheirs: (i) Cicely, as in the text; (ii) Amabel, Lady of Copeland (called in the Pipe Rolls and elsewhere, Comitissa de Couplanda, who m. Reynold de Lucy (see vol. iii, pp. 247-8, sub Lucy); (iii) Alice de Rumilly, Lady of Allerdale, who m., 1stly, Gilbert Pipard, Sheriff of cos. Gloucester and Hereford, and 2ndly, Robert de Courtenay, Sheriff of Cumberland and d. s.p. (see vol. ix, pp. 527-8, sub Pipard). Alice, Lady of Skipton, m. 2ndly, Alexander FitzGerold. (2) Avice, Lady of Harewood, who m., 1stly, William de Courcy III, 2ndly, William Paynell, of Drax, co. York, and 3rdly, William de Percy of Rougemont, in Harewood, co. York (see vol. x, p. 319, sub Paynel, and p. 439, sub Percy). (3) Maud, m. 1stly, Philip de Belmeis, of Tong, Salop., and 2ndly, Hugh de Mortimer, of Wigmore, co. Hereford (see vol. ix, p. 271, note sub Mortimer (of Wigmore), and vol. xii, part 2, pp. 930—1, sub Zouche.)" [Complete Peerage I:353, footnote (d), as thoroughly corrected in Volume XIV.] | Meschin, William (I2094)
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| 905 | "The name de Normanville should be added to our list of Scottish families whose origin lies in Normandy, more specifically at Normanville in the Grand Caux. Hugh de Normanville (d. c. 1214) managed to survive the extortions of Philip II Augustus's acquisition of Normandy and brought lands in Scotland, England and Normandy which passed to his grand-daughter and co-heiress, Annora, and thence to her de Soules husband. The family continued to flourish in both Scotland and England and while the seals and painted arms are not identical across the border, they incorporate the same elements or charges (birds or fleurs-de-lys) on a bend or fess accompanied by bars gemelles." [Bruce McAndrew, citation details below.] | de Normanville, Hugh (I17834)
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| 906 | "The name is derived from Cressy near Bellencombre in the Pays de Caux, not from Crécy-en-Ponthieu." [Complete Peerage] | de Cressy, Roger (I12031)
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| 907 | "The name of Henry's wife is not known, though both Sibylla and Clémence have been suggested. Based purely on onomastics, historian Szabolcs de Vajay proposed that she was the daughter of Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Barcelona and his third wife, Guisle of Lluca. If this is true, Henry would have been married in Barcelona while on crusade." [Wikipedia] | (Unknown wife of Henry I of Burgundy) (I10005)
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| 908 | "The name of [Sybil de Mandeville's] father remains uncertain. In the 1288 IPM in Bedford, Sybil was found to be the heir of her brother Walter de Mandeveille's 1/6 share of the manor of Lutton, co. Bedford; Godfrey, bishop of Worcester claimed the manor of Alerynton (Alkerton), co. Oxford which he said he gave to Walter de Mandeville with the provision it should revert back to him if Walter died without heirs of his body. As a clue to the ancestry of Sybil and Walter, Walter had previously held the portions of the manors of Eltham, Woolwich and Mottingham, however he exchanged these for 1/6 of the manor of Luton with John de Vesci. One half of Eltham was anciently given to the Mandeville family but its exact descent to Walter de Mandeville is not known. However, in 1255 John de Marisco answered for the fee of Woolwich under Ralph de Mandeville. It seems a good possibility that Sybil and Walter are the children of this Ralph de Mandeville. Though at least one web site makes them the children of was Edmund de Mandeville citing 'A Survey of the Cathedral Church of Worcester (London: 1736.).' Neither this Ralph nor Edmund have yet been identified in the main Mandeville family as of yet." [Joe Cochoit, 26 Apr 2011, citation details below.] | (Unknown de Mandeville) (I5604)
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| 909 | "The office of the mint restored to the younger Otto in 1101 was that of Cutter of the Dies. At this time at least forty local mints were at work. The dies were distributed from London, where there is reason to think they were cut." [F. N. Craig, "Descent from a Domesday Goldsmith." The American Genealogist 65:1, January 1990, p. 24.] | fitz Otto, Otto (I5522)
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| 910 | "The old Ring homestead in Mass., once owned by [the grandfather of Reuben French Ring b. 1801] was sold to Daniel Webster and became a part of the Marshfield estate." [A History of Brooklyn, Susquehanna Co., Penn'a: Its Homes and Its People by E. A. Weston. Brooklyn, Pennsylvania: W. A. Squier, 1889.] | Ring, David (I2447)
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| 911 | "The Old". Count of Barcelona. | Berenguer, Ramon I (I3400)
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| 912 | "The Old". Count of Beaumont. | de Beaumont, Ivo (I4074)
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| 913 | "The Old." Count of Burgundy, of the Auxonne, and of Chalon. | de Châlons, Jean (I24678)
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| 914 | "The Old." Duke of Burgundy. "In 1025, with the death of his eldest brother Hugh Magnus, he and Henry rebelled against their father and defeated him, forcing him back to Paris. In 1031, after the death of his father the king, Robert participated in a rebellion against his brother, in which he was supported by his mother, Constance of Arles. Peace was only achieved when Robert was given Burgundy (1032). Throughout his reign, he was little more than a robber baron who had no control over his own vassals, whose estates he often plundered, especially those of the Church. He seized the income of the diocese of Autun and the wine of the canons of Dijon. He burgled the abbey of St-Germain at Auxerre. In 1055, he repudiated his wife, Helie of Semur, and assassinated her brother Joceran and murdered her father, his father-in-law, Lord Dalmace I of Semur, with his own hands. In that same year, the bishop of Langres, Harduoin, refused to dedicate the church of Sennecy so as not "to be exposed to the violence of the duke." [Wikipedia] | Robert I (I2512)
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| 915 | "The Old." Prince of Benevento; Prince of Capua. | of Benevento, Pandolfo III (I10292)
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| 916 | "The Pious." Duke of Kalisz and Poland. | Boleslaw (I24979)
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| 917 | "The Pious." Duke of Schlesien-Krakau und Grosspolen. | of Silesia, Henryk II (I24961)
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| 918 | "The Pious." Margrave of Brandenburg. | of Brandenburg, Otto III (I25124)
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| 919 | "The Proud." Duke of Bavaria and Saxony. | of Saxony, Heinrich (I24915)
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| 920 | "The Quarrelsome." Margrave of Meissen. Count Palatine of Saxony, 1281-91. Landgrave of Thuringia, 1307. "[O]ften at war or in rebellion, his lands in Thuringia were seized by the German king, Adolf, who forced him into exile, which he spent with relatives in Tirol, he later opposed the German kings, Albrecht I and his successor, Henry VII, finally giving his support to Ludwig IV." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | of Meissen, Friedrich I (I22106)
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| 921 | "The Redeless"; "Unraed" (Ill-counseled). | Æthelred II "Unræd" King of England (I4601)
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| 922 | "The Redhead." Duke of Bavaria. He was a close friend and ally of Barbarossa. His deeds are commemorated on tapestries in the White Hall of the royal palace at Munich. | of Bavaria, Otto I (I14116)
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| 923 | "The Rev. Charles Fay, D.D., of Vermont, was born in Cambridge, Mass., July 21, 1808. He was graduated from Harvard College with honor 1829; in 1832 he became assistant teacher in the school established by Bishop Hopkins at Burlington, Vt., and was ordained Deacon in 1833. He organized St. Paul's Church, Vergennes, Vt., in 1838; he took charge of St John's, Highgate; in 1841, established a school for young ladies near Macon, Ga.; thence he removed in 1844 to Louisiana, and engaged in missionary work at Bayou Goula, then at New Orleans. In 1848, he was called to St Luke's, at St Albans, Vt. From 1857 to 1870, he was in charge of St. Paul's Church at Marquette, when he returned to Vermont, making his home at Grand Isle. He died in New York on the 6th of November, 1888, at the age of eighty." ["The Report on the Committee on Memorials of Deceased Members", citation details below.] | Fay, Rev. Charles (I21000)
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| 924 | "The Rich." Count in the Breisgau. | Guntram (I24657)
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| 925 | "The Rich." Landgrave in Elzas; Count in Zurichgau. | von Habsburg, Albrecht III (I24651)
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| 926 | "The Riggs and the Holmes families came in the Great Migration to Massachusetts Bay as part of a group of Puritans known as the Nazeing Christians under Rev. John Eliot, settling in Roxbury. Edward Riggs and his family came in 1633; George Holmes* and probably his wife (and possibly some children) came after the baptism of his daughter Lydia in Nazeing on 26 July 1635 and before the first recorded birth of a child of his, a son Nathaniel, on 1 (12) 1639 [1 February 1639]. Edward Riggs was admitted to the Roxbury church in 1633, and George Holmes in 1638, so George probably immigrated in 1638. 18 Edward was admitted freeman on 14 May 1634 and George on 22 May 1639." ["Edward Riggs of Roxbury, Mass. Revisited", citation details below.] * Elizabeth Holmes's brother, not her father. --PNH | Riggs, Edward (I19287)
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| 927 | "The Shepherds were not Friends, but living so near the Meeting-House they gradually became 'somewhat convinced of the truth' and later a famous Friend Minister was called to the home of Mary Bryce Shepherd who was gravely ill and died apparently in the faith. Later on, her husband and family all joined the sect which worshipped so near to them, and where they neighbors gathered on First and Fifth days." [Wing Family of America rootsweb tree] "Daniel Shepherd was chosen the first school master in old Dartmouth. He was said to be a near relative of that 'sweete, gratious, heavenly-minded, soul-ravishing minister,' Mr. Thomas Shepherd, as he was ecstatically described." ["Five Johns of Old Dartmouth," by William A. Wing.] | Shepherd, Daniel (I5237)
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| 928 | "The Silent." Count of Habsburg-Laufenburg. | Rudolf I (I24649)
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| 929 | "The story that [Richard Empson] was the son of a sieve maker, first recorded by John Stow, was adopted by Francis Bacon but has no known factual basis--Peter Empson was of local consequence in Northamptonshire, holding property at Towcester and in nearby Easton Neston." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] | Empson, Peter (I21113)
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| 930 | "The Tall." Duke of Silesia. | of Silesia, Boleslaw I (I24963)
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| 931 | "The transepts both contain chapels or chantries. In the north is the Markenfield Chapel and in the south the Mallory Chapel. The former was dedicated to St Andrew and was the burying place of the Markenfields of Markenfield Hall, a fine old fourteenth century house still standing about three miles away on the Harrogate Road. The tomb and effigies in the Markenfield Chapel are those of Sir Thomas Markenfield and his wife who lived in the reign of Edward III. He wears plate armour and a curious collar of park palings with a stag couchant, which has been thought to indicate that he was a ranger or park keeper, and of the party of the House of Lancaster. Close by this monument is an old stone pulpit of Perpendicular design, much worn by weather. It was perhaps an open-air pulpit attached to a stone cross in the churchyard. The Markenfields came to an end apparently with the attainder in 1569 of Thomas Markenfield, who took a part in the Rising of the North, and got his estates confiscated for his pains." [Ripon Cathedral by William Danks. London: Isbister & Co., Ltd., 1899.] | Markenfield, Thomas (I6286)
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| 932 | "The two daughters, Joanna and Anne, who are herein credited to Percival Lowle, are considered by several very competent genealogists to have been children of John and Elizabeth Goodale of Great Yarmouth, co. Norfolk. As a widow, Elizabeth Goodale came to New England and settled in Newbury where her daughter Elizabeth married Percival Lowle's son John. In her will Elizabeth (Goodale) Lowle names the husbands of Joanna and Anne among her four 'brothers.' John Goodale of Great Yarmouth, her father, had, however, made a very careful and highly genealogical will in 1625, and neither in this document nor in the regular baptismal records of his children do daughters Joanna and Anne appear. It would seem to be a sound conclusion that the husbands of Joanna and Anne were Elizabeth's 'brothers' as husbands of her two Lowle sisters-in-law, and the whole atmosphere surrounding them tends to substantiate it." [Walter Goodwin Davis, citation details below] Her will, dated 4 Nov 1681 and proved 22 Feb 1691, mentioned her brother (in-law) Richard Lowle and her daughter Elizabeth Pierce; it also makes her son-in-law Daniel Pierce Jr. her executor. | Lowell, Anne (I27134)
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| 933 | "The visitation pedigree states that [John Lowell] married a daughter of Wake, and this is highly probable as that Northamptonshire family acquired the manor of Clevedon in 1432." [Walter Goodwin Davis, citation details below] Davis goes on to refute, in detail, the then-widespread idea that John Lowell's wife was a daughter of Roger Wake (1452-1504) and his wife Elizabeth Catesby. | Wake, (Unknown) (I23271)
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| 934 | "The wife of Colonel Whiting [...] was ANNA RAYMOND, whose mother, a wealthy widow, with many slaves, had a plantation on Fisher's Island, in Long Island Sound, where she was once visited by the notorious pirate, Captain Kidd, who took from her plantation the supplies he needed, and then, to remunerate her, poured money into her apron, as the family legend tells, until the string broke!" [Memoir of the Life and Character of Mrs. Mary Anna Boardman, citation details below.] | Raymond, Anna (I20479)
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| 935 | "The wife of Colonel Whiting [...] was ANNA RAYMOND, whose mother, a wealthy widow, with many slaves, had a plantation on Fisher's Island, in Long Island Sound, where she was once visited by the notorious pirate, Captain Kidd, who took from her plantation the supplies he needed, and then, to remunerate her, poured money into her apron, as the family legend tells, until the string broke!" [Memoir of the Life and Character of Mrs. Mary Anna Boardman, citation details below.] | Sands, Mercy (I20571)
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| 936 | "The wife of Eoin/John mac Donald and (2ndly) Duncan, Earl of Lennox was (in English) Helen Campbell, but this could easily have been rendered Elen or Elena, hence Eleanora. She was evidently the namesake of her paternal grandmother Helen de Menteith, a daughter of Sir John de Menteith the well-known 'betrayer of Wallace' (younger brother of Alexander, Earl of Menteith). Scots Peerage has this mangled as 'Helena, daughter of Sir John Mor, son of the Earl of Lennox' [SP I:325]." [John P. Ravilious, citation details below] | de Menteith, Helen (I35437)
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| 937 | "The wife of George Denison & a godly young woman dyed of a feaver & consumption." [The Great Migration Begins] | Thompson, Bridget (I11092)
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| 938 | "The will of Waters Dickinson shows that he was a yeoman engaged in husbandry. He apparently had the means to educate his sons, for his son William signed the Billingborough bishop's transcript of 1596/7 as a churchwarden with a firm, well-formed signature." ["The Correct English Origins of Nathaniel Dickinson and William Gull," citation details below.] | Dickinson, Waters (I18331)
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| 939 | "The Wise." Count of Habburg. Langrave in Elzas. | von Habsburg, Albrecht IV (I24925)
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| 940 | "The Younger". Favorite of Edward II; ultimately convicted of treason. "Outside the city he was stripped and then reclothed with his arms reversed, and he was crowned with stinging nettles. Condemned to death as a traitor, on 24 November 1326 he was drawn on a hurdle to the gallows, and then hanged from a height of 50 feet. Still alive, he was cut down and eviscerated before finally being beheaded. His head was displayed on London Bridge; his quarters were sent to Bristol, Dover, York, and Newcastle. In December 1330 Eleanor de Clare received royal permission to collect her husband's bones and inter them in Tewkesbury Abbey." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] | le Despenser, Hugh (I12415)
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| 941 | "The Younger." Count of Guelders. Count of Zutphen. | van Gelre, Hendrik (I14099)
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| 942 | "The [Trussebut] family descended from William Trussebut who, as Orderic records, was among those of ignoble parentage promoted by Henry I. He occurs in Normandy in 1126 and as castellan of Bonneville-sur-Touques in 1138. The supposition of Dugdale and others that he was son of Geoffrey son of Pain, the founder of Warter priory and holder of the manor of Market Weighton, cannot be acepted; but the succession of the Trussebut family to Market Weighton by right of succession from Geoffrey son of Pain, as recorded in a case of 1204, suggests that William Trussebut married Geoffrey's sister." [Early Yorkshire Families, citation details below.] | Trussebut, William (I11573)
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| 943 | "Their son James Babcock (b. 1663) had son: Dr. Joshua Babcock, b. 1707, served as speaker of R. I. legislature, chief justice R. I. Supreme Court, and major general of militia. His son: Henry Babcock (1736-1800), graduated from Yale at 16 (1752), entered army, became captain at 18, major at 20, lieut. colonel at 21, and colonel at 22; commanded all troops at Newport, R. I., Feb. 1776, but removed in May because of insanity." [Ancestry of Robert Harry McIntire, citation details below.] | Lawton, Mary (I1456)
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| 944 | "Theophilus Frary of Boston, cordwainer, son of John Frary of Dedham, was born in England. He resided in Dedham until he was admitted an inhabitant of Boston, Feb. 23, 1656-7. His first town office was that of surveyor in 1659-60, and he was selectman from 1679 to 1687 inclusive, and in 1689. He represented Boston in the General Court from 1689 to 1695 inclusive, and in 1699. He was one of the founders of the Old South Church in 1666, and was violently opposed to the Episcopal Church." [History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1637-1888 by Oliver Ayer Roberts. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1895-1901.] His daughter Mehitable married Samuel Lillie, son of Edward Lillie; the Lillie family were staunch Episcopaleans. Edward Lillie died in Dec 1688 or Jan 1689, at the exact time when the unpopular Governor Andros was stirring up sectarian feeling by his attempts to impose Episcopacy upon Massachusetts. This led to a scene at Edward Lillie's burial service, described by Hamilton A. Hill in his History of the Old South Church: "There was a painful scene at the grave of Edward Lilley, who died during the winter of 1688-89, which shows the intensity of the feeling in the Puritan community against the introduction of the rites of the English church here. Lilley had been more or less in sympathy with the Episcopal party, and his name appears among the subscribers for building the new house of worship; but he had left the ordering of his funeral to the executors. The Rev. Mr. Ratcliffe claimed the right to read the service over him, which Mr. [Theophilus] Frary in behalf of the family protested against, and with so much vehemency that he was bound over to keep the peace." | Frary, Theophilus (I22772)
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| 945 | "There are at least 2 baptisms of a Jeanne Chebrat, around 1627. This one is kept as the more likely because Charles de Menou has a seignory in the area." [Genealogy of the French in North America] Parentage: Genealogy of the French in North America says her parents were "maybe" Antoine Chebrat and Françoise Chaumoret who married in La Chaussée, Vienne, about 1620. | Chebrat, Jeanne (I5580)
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| 946 | "There is a strong tradition held by the different branches of this family that Francis' wife's name was Mary Skinner, and there may be some semblance of truth in their belief, but on the 8 October, 1733, if the instrument be correct drawn as entered on the county records, his wife was Ann. Francis may possibly have had two wives, surely there were children aplenty for any two women to mother (14), and as Ann's name does not appear until late in the life of Francis, it may be that the legendary Mary Skinner was the first, and Ann later." [The Nelson Family] | Anne (I72)
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| 947 | "There is a written record stating that William Noble was the father-in-law of Samuel Haight. In the same record is a quote that states that William had no issue of his own body. This may have met that William had no male issue to inherit his lands. William's wife, Mary, may have been the mother of Sarah, making William Sarah's stepfather. It is also possible that she was adopted by the Nobles. If any of this is true, Sarah's maiden name could have been Noble. At present, Sarah's maiden name must remain unknown. There is definitely a relationship between Samuel and William even after his death as Samuel is in charge of the estate and is the one petitioning the court in matters relating to William's will." [Kathy McCurdy, Ancestral Lines of Our Family] | Sarah (I9089)
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| 948 | "There is no direct evidence for the conclusion that the widow of Edward Bates was the Lydia Bates who married William Fletcher, but the circumstances make it a high probability: the last record of Edward Bates is in 1644, and the marriage of Lydia Bates takes place in 1645; and John Bates, presented to the Chelmsford church on 1 February 1656/7 as a child of William Fletcher, was said to be about fifteen at the time, which is exactly what the John Bates baptized in Boston as a son of Edward Bates would be." [Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, volume 1, p. 132] | Lydia (I34376)
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| 949 | "There is no doubt that the widow buried in July 1633 was the Katherine Yorke, late of Northampton, widow, who made the nuncupative will on or about 21 June 1633. Was she the same Katherine that Edmund Yorke had married in 1568? If so, it is surprising that the eldest surviving child was born in 1580, twelve years after the marriage, and that all the other surviving children follow that birth. Even placing before 1580 the two sons with unknown birthdates, there is still a large gap. Although the 1633 burial is the only one found, it seems possible that the Katherine of 1568 died and that Edmund remarried a second wife with the same first name. There being no evidence that such was the case, however, it must remain only a possibility." [Barry E. Hinman, "Edmund Yorke of Cotton End," citation details below.] | Robins, Katherine (I12522)
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| 950 | "There is no evidence to support the often repeated conjecture that her surname was 'Stream.' Elizabeth's surmane does not appear in any records and Stream was not a usual surname in East Anglia." [The Plymouth Colony Pages] | Elizabeth (I962)
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| 951 | "Therese Walling Seabrook [...] was very active in the women's suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th century as well as the temperance movement, being a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Keyport, New Jersey. A highlight of the collection is a letter from Susan B. Anthony (February 22, 1888) to Seabrook thanking her for a monetary donation and comments on her visit to Washington D.C., note by Florence Howe Hall, co-signed by Emma Blackwell and a letter by Clara Bewick Colby." [Rand Boyd, citation details below.] "Therese Walling Seabrook lived on West Front Street overlooking the Bay. She was the wife of a prominent businessman in Keyport and an activist for women's rights. She was a strong supporter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and an advocate of women's suffrage. In her mind, as in the minds of others late in the 19th-century, there was a connection between the temperance movement and the suffrage movement. In 1884, suffragists Phebe Hanaford of Jersey City, Therese Walling Seabrook of Keyport, and Henry Blackwell of Massachusetts met with the New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee to press for the introduction of a women's suffrage resolution in the Assembly. They succeeded in having the bill introduced, but the Assembly would take no action on the resolution." [Keyport Historical Society: Three Generations of Seabrook Women] "Mrs. Seabrook was an intellectually gifted woman, steeped in local genealogical lore, derived from her great ancestors. Upon their laps she sat when young, or with the assembled elders at the nearby hearthside, to be entertained by their constant repetitions of tales of exposure, hardship, love and war. The old are garrulous, live in the past, delight in the young, and with contracted lives and thought they become the local historians of the past to young but willing ears, upon whose excited imagination the stories remain indelibly impressed. Thus it was that Mrs. Seabrook passed onward the tales of her childhood." [John E. Stilwell, citation details below] | Walling, Therese (I22150)
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| 952 | "They came west in 1832, and located in York Township. After purchasing his land, he had $25 left. Here they settled and remained until their death . . . They were members of the Congregational Church, and were the staunch representatives of that township." [History of Medina County, citation details below] The 1830 US census has them in Worthington, Massachusetts; in 1840, they're in York, Medina County, Ohio. | Branch, Elisha (I27687)
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| 953 | "They lived near Branchville, Sussex Co., N. J. Samuel Hazen, Jr., and his wife Elizabeth sold land there 5 Oct. 1812. Soon after, they moved to Owl Creek, Knox Co., Ohio, but finally settled at Gilead, Marion Co. He removed to Kosciusco Co., Ind., where his son Ziba was living. He was a gunsmith by trade and a great hunter." [The Hazen Family in America, citation details below] | Hazen, Samuel (I34868)
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| 954 | "They moved to Tenterden before 1563, when they had a child baptized in the parish church, and Hatch was a church warden there in 1565." [The Ancestry of Joseph Neal, citation details below.] | Hatch, Thomas (I5820)
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| 955 | "This Agnes was widow of Richard de Percy, of Topcliffe, co. York, who d. shortly before 18 Aug. 1244. She was his 2nd wife. The Lady Agnes de Percy gave the manor of Steeping, co. Lincoln, to Edmund d'Eyncourt her s. and h., and his heirs, by deed dated 20 Edw. I. She d. before 20 July 1293. The effigy on her seal wears a dress charged with billets and a fesse dancette (Deincourt), and holds up two shields, the dexter charged with 5 fusils conjoined in fesse (Percy), the sinister with a saltire (Neville of Raby)." [Complete Peerage IV:118, note (d).] | de Neville, Agnes (I5052)
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| 956 | "This John had livery of his lands, 19 Sep. 1246, and was s. and h. of Oliver (who had livery in 1217), by Nichole, to whom Nichole (1st da. and co. of Richard de la Haye, and wife of Gerard de Caunville) gave Duddington in free marriage; which Oliver was s. and h. of Oliver (aged 24 in 1186, m. Amabel, and d. in or before 1201), son and heir of John (who had livery in 1167-8, and d. 6 Nov. 1183), by Alice, sister of Ralph Murdac. John was s. and h. of Walter, s. and h. of Ralph (who m. Basilie), s. and h. of Walter d'Aincurt, the Domesday lord of Blankney." [Complete Peerage IV:118, note (c).] | Deincourt, John (I8549)
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| 957 | "This lady appears to have been sister and co-heir of Richard son of Nicholas de Havering, who died in 1335, in whose right her husband acquired half the manor of Chalk well, co. Essex, which Thomas Butler, kt., alienated in 1498." [VCH Lancaster (citation details below), volume 1, ed. William Farrer and J. Brownbill] | de Havering, Elizabeth (I13487)
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| 958 | "This Urian was the first to set up the standard of prince Edward, in his earldom of Chester, after his escape from Simon de Montfort, and seized on Beeston castle in his behalf in 1265." [Ormerod, citation details below.] | de St. Pierre, Urian (I16783)
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| 959 | "This William was s. and h. of John, s. and h. of Humphrey Franc Chevaler, who in 1220 was alleged, by Ralph and Olimpia, to have held temp. Henry II 5 hides in Imber, Wilts, which were the right of Olimpia as Humphrey's heir (Idem, vol. ix, p. 341). In the time of Abbot Thomas Carbonel (1179-1205) Wymark, widow of John Franc Chevaler, gave lands to St. Peter's Abbey, Gloucester, for the souls of her husband and her s. William, with the consent of her s. Robert and of Olimpia, da. of her s. William. This gift was confirmed by Ralph de Wilington and his wife Olimpia." [Complete Peerage] | Franc Chevaler, William (I7679)
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| 960 | "Thomas Appelbee was a first settler of Hastings and was on a petition dated 26 July 1662." [Settlers of the Beekman Patent, citation details below.] | Appleby, Thomas (I12090)
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| 961 | "Thomas Burnham, of Hartford and Potunke, was born in England in and had evidently been educated as a barrister before coming to the New World. Here he carried on the practice of law, and was, evidently, according to records, a man of determined character. He carried on the practice of the law in the colonies, and among other cases, successfully defended Abigail Betts, who was accused of witchcraft, by which act he incurred the displeasure of the Puritan authorities and was prohibited further practice of the court 'for saving her neck.' He then erected a garrison house at Potunke, purchasing the land directly from the Indians. In 1659 he purchased of Tantonimo, chief sachem of the Potunke tribe, a tract of land now covered by the towns of South Windsor and Hartford, on which he resided, and a portion of which still remains in the possession of his descendants. What amounted to practically a feud with the authorities continued during most of his life, they continuing to call into question his title to the land which he held by deed from the Indians and he as consistently appealing to the law of England as against the highly theocratic form of government which the Puritans had established here. It would appear that in this contest Thomas Burnham was successful, as his large estate afterwards divided between his children and remained practically wholly in their hands. A portion of this tract was held by him under the will of Uncas, chief of the Mohegan tribe of Indians, and an ancestor of that famous Uncas who figured so prominently in the stories of Fenimore Cooper." [American Biography: A New Cyclopedia, citation details below.] Notwithstanding many sources' statements to the contrary, Thomas Burnham's forebears are unknown. See "The Confusing Origins of Thomas Burnham" by Mary Stanford Pitkin, which summarizes some of the problems. | Burnham, Thomas (I2264)
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| 962 | "Thomas Cooke alias Butcher was probably the child baptized 13 April 1600 in the parish church of St. Mary, Netherbury, Dorsetshire, England, as Thomas Bowcher. He died at Portsmouth, Rhode Island in the spring of 1677, probably just before 21 May, when his inventory was taken, as Thomas Cooke." [Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island, citation details below.] | Cooke alias Butcher, Thomas (I17964)
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| 963 | "THOMAS DE SWINNERTON (or SWYNNERTON), Knt., 3rd Lord Swinnerton, of Swinnerton, Staffordshire, Great and Little Barrow, Cheshire, Hostiarius to King Edward III, King's Bachelor, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1341–3, Escheator in cos. Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1342–3, Knight of the Shire for Staffordshire, 1343 (but never summoned to Parliament), and, in right of his wife, of Crick, Northamptonshire, 3rd son of Roger de Swinnerton, Knt., 1st Lord Swinnerton, of Swinnerton, Alstonefield, Quarnford, and Rushton Spencer, Staffordshire, Governor of the Town of Stafford, Governor of Eccleshale and Harlech Castles, Keeper of the Tower of London, 1321–3, by Maud, daughter of Thomas Haughton, Knt." [Douglas Richardson, 30 Jul 2020, citation details below] He was present at Crécy and at the siege of Calais. | de Swynnerton, Thomas (I15236)
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| 964 | "Thomas Faucomberge of Skelton who died in 1407 had a younger brother, Sir Roger Faucomberge, who predeceased his brother. Sir Roger's heir was his son Sir Walter Faucomberge, who is mentioned in the ipm of Thomas Faucomberge (CIPM, vol. 19, no. 386). Sir Walter Faucomberge died on 1 September 1415 (CIPM, vol. 20, no. 298-9). Unfortunately the ipm of Walter does not mention his heirs, and neither does his will (Early Lincoln Wills, 120) so the trail breaks at this point, but it seems likely to me that this Sir Walter Faucomberge was the father of Sir Roger Faucomberge (d. Jun 1455), Isabel, wife of Gerard Sothill and Constance wife of Anthony Nuthill. " [John Watson, citation details below.] | de Faucomberge, Isabel (I6180)
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| 965 | "Thomas Jones came from south-east England and emigrated with Henry Whitfield's company. He signed the 'plantation covenant' aboard ship, 1 June 1639. Jones settled at Guilford with Whitfield, and became a member of the church Whitfield gathered. Jones was elected as the first marshall of the plantation, and re-appointed annually until 17 June 1650, when another was chosen 'to succeed in his room in that office when he removes'. Henry Whitfield had already resolved to go back to England, and had presented his reasons formally to the Guilford church on 20 February 1649/50. At that point Jones signalled his willingness to continue payment to a minister. However, he and others in Guilford (notably Samuel Desborough) were now also contemplating departure. When Jones was next elected marshall, on 9 June 1651, provision was again made for the time 'when Providence shall remove him'. On 10 June 1652 someone else took his place. Jones went to England c. 1652, and may have joined Samuel Desborough in Scotland. William Leete, writing on 10 October 1654 to Desborough at Leith, asked him to 'remember my respects to Mr Jones'. Jones died soon after this: on 10 March 1654/5 John Davenport reported that 'Mrs Disborough, and Goodman Jones, of Gillford, dyed of the small poxe in England or Scotland'. Jones's children were still in New England. On 12 June 1656, his stepdaughter Mary Carter demanded £40 from his estate, which was paid to her. This left estate in New England valued at only £1 3s 8d for Jones's three other children, Samuel, Nathaniel and Sarah. Nathaniel Jones of Branford died in 1668, leaving £52 6s, of which £45 15s was due to him as portion of his father's will in England. On 4 March 1667/8 William Chittenden registered a sale of Jones's property from the early 1650s, made with permission of Jones's son Samuel. Chittenden had arrived in Guilford in 1639 with Jones and acted as his agent after he left." [Abandoning America, citation details below.] From "Thomas Jones of Guilford, Connecticut," citation details below: Thomas Jones was one of the pioneer settlers of Guilford, and came with Mr. Whitfield. His name is sixth on the plantation Covenant, signed 1 June 1639, on the passage of Mr. Whitfield's company to Guilford. He was evidently a young man, and probably was a relation of William Jones of New Haven. He appears to have been the first Marshal at Guilford, and have held that office without a dissenting vote. Perhaps he was not married when he came to Guilford, though this is not certain. He married a Mrs. Mary Carter, probably a widow, with a daughter, Mary Carter, who subsequently married Samuel Ward of Branford, 1 January 1658. He was a witness in the first court, 15 August 1645, and was chosen or rather reappointed Marshal at a court held 7 October 1646. To this office he was annually rechosen until 17 June 1650, when George Bartlett was chosen 'to succeed in his room in that office when he removes,' Thomas Jones to retain office until then. On 8 June 1651, 'George Bartlett was chosen to succeed brother Jones in the Marshal's place, when Providence shall remove him.' Before 10 June 1652, he had removed, and John Fowler was chosen Marshal. He left his property and family in Guilford, and may have intended to return. His wife died 16 September 1650, and probably soon afterward his place was sold and transferred to John Meigs. The deed was given many years later, however, on 4 March 1667/8, by Lieutenant William Chittenden, 'the said Thomas Jones's Agent.' Thomas Jones had died many years before that date. Mr. Davenport, in a letter to Governor John Winthrop, Junior, dated about 10 March 1655, wrote as follows: 'Mr. Disborough and Goodman Jones died lately of the small pox in England or Scotland.' Thomas Jones evidently came to Guilford for a more free exercise of his religious and perhaps political opinions, and returned to England when his friends came in power. When Mr. Whitfield tendered his reasons to the Church of Guilford, Feb. 20, 1649-50, for his removal, and enquiry was made of every man concerning his particular ability in paying to the ministers for the present, and in probability to continue according to ordinary providence, 'Thomas Jones professed his willingness and hoped to be able to continue his present payments.' His home lot lay next that of John Bishop, on the east side of the Green, and he held in addition 6 acres of upland and swamp near by, 4½ acres of upland in the East Creek Quarter, and 5½ acres of marsh land there. In the Neck he held 9¾ acres of upland, and also owned 8 acres of marsh at 'Salt-holes.' On 12 June 1656, Mary Carter demanded £40 sterling from Thomas Jones's estate, which the court ordered to be paid her. This sum consumed all the inventory but £1-03-08, which was ordered to be kept for the children. | Jones, Thomas (I22351)
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| 966 | "Thomas Osborne was an early but not original signer of the Covenant at New Haven. He was the Colony tanner in 1643." [Donald Lines Jacobus, citation details below] | Osborne, Thomas (I30244)
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| 967 | "Thomas Rodman...was lost at sea, off Newport, November 16, 1766. He was returning home from England, where he had gone to collect a large amount of money due him, and being rendered helpless by an attack of gpout, was the only person unable to save himself." [The Hazard Family, citation details below.] | Rodman, Thomas (I15880)
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| 968 | "Thomas Stoughton, the eldest son and heir of Henry, seems to have forsaken the mercantile pursuits of his father and grandfather and to have lived as a country gentleman upon his estates in Dartford. One wonders if he wished to live away from the scenes of his father's unhappy fate, and preferred the peace of country life to the stresses and strains of life as a business man in the city of London." [The English Ancestry of Thomas Stoughton, citation details below.] | Stoughton, Thomas (I12313)
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| 969 | "Thomas, known at various times as Thomas Cooke, Bowcher, Bocher or Butcher, was born perhaps about 1570, probably in or not far from the parish of Netherbury, Dorset, England, where he was living in 1593 when the surviving registers for that parish begin. He was buried there as Thomas Butcher 20 May 1614." [Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island, citation details below.] | Cooke alias Butcher, Thomas (I17966)
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| 970 | "Thomas1 Flegg, as the surname Flagg was spelled in England and early in New England, was long considered to be an unrecorded son of Bartholomew and Alice Flagg of Whinbergh and Shipdham, co. Norfolk, England. That still remains possible, although the late J. Gardner Bartlett gave reasons for identifying him with a Thomas Flagg baptized at Hardingham, co. Norfolk, 6 May 1621, son of Allen and Nazareth (Devoroys) Flegg. Since the immigrant Thomas was entered as aged 21 in the shipping list in 1637, and since he was owner of a 'homestall' of six acres and a lot of twenty acres in Watertown, Mass., perhaps as early as 1641, and had a child born in April 1641, it would seem that the Thomas baptized 1621 was somewhat too young for the identification. That the family descended from Algar De Fleg in the reign of Henry II (1154-1189) seems likely, but the exact line of descent is uncertain, as there are several unproved links in the line given by Mr. Bartlett." [The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, citation details below] | Flagg, Thomas (I15505)
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| 971 | "Thomasine Raleigh (daughter and sole heiress), married firstly Sir John Chichester; secondly Sir William Talbot. Her Inquisition post mortem states that she died on the Monday following the feast of St Peter ad Vincula, 1402. A very worn stone effigy of a lady, said by Pevsner to be from the 14th century, exists in Arlington Church, under a low arch recessed into the north wall of the chancel. Lysons (1822) suggested this represented 'a female of the Raleigh family', and it may therefore represent Thomasine." [Wikipedia] | Raleigh, Thomasine (I8063)
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| 972 | "Though it was Owain who finally accepted the principle of Angevin overlordship over Gwynedd, he regarded himself as no ordinary vassal (his attitude to episcopal elections in the see of Bangor should be noted) and it is clear that it was he who gave initial direction to the policies of his successors. It was largely due to his example, moreover, that the native rulers of Wales ceased to be mere tribal chieftains and took their place alongside the great feudal magnates of the time. The praises so repeatedly accorded to his many personal qualities by contemporary poets, and indeed by several public figures who could not have been predisposed in his favour, have so genuine a tone about them that the progressive trends in all the arts of peace and war discerned in 12th century Wales, it must be concluded, were in large measure due to the fostering genius of 'Owain the Great.'" [Dictionary of Welsh Biography, citation details below.] | Gwynedd, Owain King of Gwynedd (I2754)
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| 973 | "Though the succeeding lord of Tarbock is called 'son and heir' of John de Torbock, it seems quite clear that he was the son of Ellen's former husband, and as 'Richard son of Ellen de Torbock' or 'Richard son of Henry de Lathom of Tarbock' he occurs in the plea rolls of the time. He seems to have died shortly after his mother, leaving a son and heir Richard, whose brief career was marked by matrimonial entanglements resulting in a forty years' dispute over the heirship." [VCH Lancaster, citation details below] | de Torbock, Richard (I35917)
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| 974 | "Through his efforts, Marblehead became a separate entity from Salem in 1649. In reward for these efforts, he was elected as one of the first selectmen in 1649, a position he would hold for fourteen years between 1649 and his death. He held various other local positions and was the town's leading figure." [Wikipedia, accessed 19 Sep 2020] | Maverick, Moses (I30471)
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| 975 | "Thurstan de Montfort, son and heir, was a minor when he succeeded his father in or before 1199. In 1205 the King took his homage and gave him his land on condition that he demised it for two years to William de Cauntelo. In the summer of 1206 he was abroad in the King's service. In 1210 he was serving the King in Ireland; and in 1214 he was excused the scutage of Poitou, because he fought himself. He appears to have joined in the rebellion against John, and in March 1215/6 had letters of safe conduct on coming to the King." [Complete Peerage] | de Montfort, Thurstan (I6674)
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| 976 | "TIMOTHY COVEL. This settler came first to Roseway probably from Cape Cod about the beginning of the war. He undertook to move to Barrington but their vessel was captured by a privateer and he and his family were landed at Cape Negro. [...] ]There they stayed two years and then came to the Hill. The lands left and forfeited by James Bunker for four years had been occupied by him for four years in 1784. The earliest date we can fix for his residence in Barrington is 1776 when he signed a petition to the Mass. Court. His son Timothy settled on Cape Id. at Centreville and afterwards moved to Liverpool, N. S.; Jonathan also lived on Cape Id. near Cook's Point. He was for a time in charge of John Sargent's mill at the Head. He was drowned in 1812, and his brother Timothy died the same year. These were the last of the old race of Quakers who came to Cape Id. The wives of these brothers were daughters of Simeon Gardner, grantee, and they occupied lands granted to their father-in-law." [A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, citation details below] | Covell, Timothy (I20537)
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| 977 | "Took part in the conquest of Ireland under Henry II." [Complete Peerage] | fitz Godebert, Robert (I6928)
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| 978 | "Tradition says Edla was the daughter of a West Slavic tribal chief from Northern Germany. She was brought to Sweden as a prisoner of war c. 1000 at the same time or a little before, the arrival of Estrid of the Obotrites (Estrid av obotriterna). King Olof Skötkonung married Estrid but also fell in love with Edla and took her as his mistress. She became the mother of Emund, Astrid, and probably Holmfrid." [Wikipedia] | of Wendland, Ethla (I1163)
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| 979 | "Traditional pedigrees state that Ralph, the ancestor of the Montgomery family, was holding Cubley, Snelston, Derbyshire and four hides in Ecton, Northamptonshire of Henry de Ferrers in 1086 [VCH Northants v.4 p.123]. Keats-Rohan specifically identifies him as a Montgomery but there is no indication whether descent followed male or female succession." [Rosie Bevan, citation details below] | de Montgomery, Ralph (I36413)
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| 980 | "Umberto married Ancilla (Auxilia or Ancilia). She may have been Ancilla of Lenzburg, the daughter of the master of ceremonies of Burgundy. Alternatively, Ancilla may have been a daughter of Anselm and Aldiud, and thus a member of a northern Italian dynasty known as the Anselmids." [Wikipedia] | Ancilla (I740)
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| 981 | "Unknown" who married "Unknown" before 1587 in the parish of Saint-Jean, Mortagne-au-Perche, is shown here to indicate our knowledge that their offspring Marin and Jeanne Boucher were siblings and that they were both known to come from this parish. | Boucher, (Unknown) (I8983)
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| 982 | "Unless David [Robinson, b. 1649] had totally undocumented ch. it seems imposs. to find a place for [Thomas Robinson] in the 3d. gen. of the large Ex. fam." [Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, citation details below] | Robinson, Thomas (I35431)
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| 983 | "Various genealogical works state that Elizabeth (Hatch) Soane, sister of the immigrant brothers Thomas and William, married secondly on 9 October 1643, John Stockbridge of Scituate, Massachusetts, as his second wife. Elizabeth was baptized in 1595 and married Robert Soane. She and her husband had children baptized in Brasted, Kent, from 1614 to 1639/40. Her brother John left a legacy in his will dated 20 July 1643 to 'Elizabeth the wyfe of Robert Swone.' In the slightly less than three months after this legacy, Elizabeth's husband would have had to die in order for her to marry again. Also, she would have been about aged 50 and 52 at the births of her supposed children with John Stockbridge. Therefore, it is almost certain that it was her daughter, Elizabeth Soane, baptized in 1621, who married John Stockbridge, when she was about 22." [Taylor and West, citation details below] | Hatch, Elizabeth (I31441)
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| 984 | "Very little is known of the early history of the Blossomville family, especially in connexion with this parish. Gilbert de Blossomville, the Domesday tenant, appears to have been succeeded by a Robert de Blossomville, who, about 1150, gave lands in Cold Brayfield to Harrold Priory, Bedfordshire. In 1185 William de Blossomville sued Gerin de Charleton for lands in Turvey, but his successor, Robert de Blossomville, is the first mentioned in connexion with Newton, where in 1202 he quitclaimed half a virgate to William Miles. Simon de Blossomville was living in 1232; by 1255, when Gilbert de Blossomville owned land here, the place was already known as Newton Blossomville. The line seems to have ended in a female heir, Alice de Blossomville, who with John Druel, probably her son, in 1265 granted to Simon de Blossomville and Maud his wife for life lands in Newton Blossomville with reversion to the granters." [The Victoria County History of Buckingham, citation details below.] | de Blossomville, Alice (I7166)
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| 985 | "Vladimir is stated in the chronicle to have been [a son of] Malusha, a high-ranking servant, '(female) keeper of the keys,' to his grandmother Princess Olga." ["Ryurik and the First Ryurikids", citation details below.] | Malusha (I8898)
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| 986 | "Vreichfras" of the strong arm. Said to have been son of Ynyr, son of Iver, son of Richard, son of Einon ap Collwyn, 1090. | Cradock (I30007)
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| 987 | "Walter Culpeper of Goudhurst esquire and John Culpeper gentleman, his son, appear in the list of adherents of Jack Cade in 1450. [...] John married the heiress of the Bedgeburys and so acquired their estate. He was knighted, was sheriff in 1467 and died in 1480." [The Family of Twysden and Twisden by John Ramskill Twisden, 1939, page 42. A note on page 49 reads: "See a paper on 'Jack Cade's followers in Kent' by William Durrant Cooper F.S.A in the Arch. Cant., Vol VII p.233, to which is appended a list of the names of those pardoned taken from the Patent Rolls of 28 Henry VI."] "Sir John [iii] Culpeper (d. 1480), had an eventful public and private life. In January 1459, together with his brothers Richard [ii] Culpeper (d. 1516) and Nicholas [ii] (d. 1510), he was ordered to be arrested by the sheriffs of London and brought before chancery to answer allegations of riot and other offences; these may have been politically motivated in the dying days of Lancastrian rule. Certainly, Sir John [iii] proved himself a loyal servant of Edward IV. He was knighted by December 1466, and the following November he appeared on the Kentish bench. In October 1468 he was appointed to the commission to muster Lord Scales's retinue at Gravesend, and the following month he was pricked as sheriff of Kent. From October 1469 until April 1470 he appeared on several commissions of array in the south-east, alongside his brother Richard, but during the readeption of Henry VI he was absent from both commissions of array and the county bench. He returned to public life after Edward's victory at Barnet in April 1471, in which month he was once again arraying soldiers in Kent, and in June he reappeared as a JP. The same month one Thomas Miller, a gentleman of Marden, Kent, and perhaps a Lancastrian die-hard, was alleged to have led a rebellious host against him. He went on to serve on numerous commissions throughout the early 1470s." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] Sometime between 1457 and 1461, John Culpepper's brothers Richard and Nicholas travelled from Sussex to Kent with a pair of sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret Wakehurst, daughters of John Culpepper's wife Agnes Gainford by her deceased previous husband, Richard Wakehurst. At some not much later point, Richard married Margaret and Nicholas married Elizabeth, possibly in London. Shortly thereafter, the sisters' grandmother Elizabeth Wakehurst (maiden name lost to history) alleged in a petition to Chancery court that the two brothers, aided by John Culpepper, had in fact abducted the two sisters through force of arms, and that moreover John Culpepper was further culpable because as their stepfather he had "promysed on the faithe and trouthe of his bodye and as he was a gentylman" that he would protect the sisters. Of course the allegation was about money. Both sisters were the only remaining heirs of grandmother Elizabeth's husband Richard Wakehurst, MP and justice of the peace, who had died in 1455. His only son, Agnes Gainsford's first husband Richard Wakehurst the younger, had predeceased him. So what you have is: * Elizabeth, grandmother of the two sisters, widow of Richard Wakehurst the elder; * Agnes Gainsford, Elizabeth's onetime daughter-in-law, who is now married to... * John Culpepper, whose two brothers have "abducted"... * Elizabeth and Margaret Wakehurst, granddaughters of Elizabeth and sole heirs to their grandfather's estate. Much more detail on this can be read in "Abduction: An Alternative Form of Courtship?" by Julia Pope, a good paper with a misleading title presented at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2003. The upshot is that the only evidence that the sisters were "abducted" against their will, making "grete and pittious lamentacious and weping" as they were "toke and caried away" "with force and armes, riotously agense the Kinges peas," was the grandmother's claim that they had been. All other evidence points to it having been a voluntary elopement supported by a significant number of the sisters' relatives, including their mother and stepfather. For several reasons, the grandmother's claim was an astute strategy, both in her legal battle to maintain control of her husband's estate and in the war of local public opinion. The Culpeppers were already a bit notorious for building their family fortune by marrying heiresses, so there was some pre-existing disposition to regard them as upstarts. Also, contrary to modern popular belief, voluntary elopement was not considered illegal under late medieval English law, and according to Pope, the record of actual case law shows that consent, specifically the bride's consent, had great bearing on actual outcomes, notwithstanding the preferences of her family. (Note, however, that in her Imprisoning Medieval Women: The Non-Judicial Confinement and Abduction of Women in England, c.1170-1509, published in 2013, Dr. Gwen Seabourne argues in detail that the medieval concept of "consent" cannot be assumed to map reliably onto our own.) At any rate, Elizabeth had plenty of incentives to claim that her granddaughters had been carried off kicking and screaming by armed men. Yet ultimately Elizabeth lost. The court declined to overturn the marriages. She died in 1464, and both couples returned to Sussex shortly thereafter, where they lived out their lives, managing to inherit substantial portions of their Wakehurst grandfather's estate despite various legal challenges from their grandmother's allies over the next twenty years. To all the evidence, while the marriages divided their kinship network, the larger portion of support went to them. Richard and Margaret left no issue, but the funeral brass commemorating the family of Nicholas and Elizabeth Culpepper, ten sons and eight daughters, has been described as "so crowded as to look like a poster warning against rush hour travel." ----- If (as has been plausibly speculated but never proved) John Culpepper (1637-1674), early emigrant to Virginia, was the father of Henry Culpepper (d. 1675), 9X-great grandfather of PNH, this John Culpepper and his wife Agnes Gainsford would be the most recent common ancestors of PNH and TNH. John Culpepper (d. 1480) = Agnes Gainsford Walter Culpeper (1475-1524) = Anne Aucher (1480-1533) William Culpeper (1509-1559) = Cicely Barrett (1512-1559) John Culpeper (1531-1612) = Elizabeth Sedley (1534-1618) John Culpeper (1565-1635) = Ursula Woodcock (1566-1612) John Culpeper (c. 1637 Harrietsham, Kent - c. 1674 Virginia) possibly father of Henry Culpepper (1633-1675), 9X-great grandfather of PNH | Culpepper, John (I12331)
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| 988 | "Walter le Blount, 3rd son of William and Isabel, was in 1313 of the Lancastrian party against Gaveston. In 1318 and 1321 he was Knight of the shire for Worcester, and in 1322 was summoned for personal service against the Scots." [Complete Peerage IX:330-1] | le Blount, Walter (I6975)
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| 989 | "Warine de Lancaster [...] was royal falconer, and ancestor of a family known as 'de Lea' or 'de Lee'. He was contemporary with Henry II. That he belongs in this family [the family of Gilbert and his son William I de Lancaster --pnh] appears to be undisputed, but how? In one charter concerning Forton in the Cockersand Chartulary Henry his son speaks of the land granted to his father Warine by "'his uncle' William de Lancaster, which another charter makes clear to have been William de Lancaster I. Was it Henry's uncle or Warine's? Here we presume Warine's, as he was active in the late 1100s, so the same generation as William de Lancaster II. Henry Warine's son granted Forton to the monks of Furness for the souls of William de Lancaster, Warine de Lancaster and Mabel, Warine's wife, Richard Fitton father of his own wife Margaret, &c.; Harl. Chart. (B.M.) 52 I, 1. But these sources do not name Warine's father. (The source of Farrer's assertion that his name was Gilbert is unknown.) It appears that he already possessed the demesne and wood of Forton in the time of William I, which he then passed on to a son Roger, who in turn passed it on to another son Adam. Might Warine have been a son Gundred de Warrene and William? This might explain his importance despite not being the main heir?" [Andrew Lancaster, citation details below.] | de Lancaster, Warine (I184)
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| 990 | "Was a weaver; removed about 1770 to Wakefield, N.H. from Stratham." ["Charles Allen and Some of His Descendants", citation details below.] Died aged 98, at the home of his son Abner (1748-1835). | Allen, Samuel (I10100)
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| 991 | "Was in military service; died fairly young." ["Eirene?, First Wife of Emperor Isaakios II Angelos, Is a Probable Tornikina and Gateway to Antiquity," by Don C. Stone and Charles R. Owens, citation details below.] | Tornikes, (Unknown) (I12402)
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| 992 | "We do not know whether Isabel was the mother of Reginald's children -- indeed, there seems to be no evidence at all about the identity of their mother." [Chris Phillips, citation details below.] | Isabel (I3378)
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| 993 | "We know nothing about his first wife. In about 1478, when elderly and widowed, he decided to marry again, bringing grief to his sons, dissensions in the family, and a lawsuit to the courts which is a genealogical gold mine." [Kerry William Bate, citation details below] In essence, he undertook to grant his new wife an annuity out of his lands in Worton; his son John refused to give consent; Robert died with the matter unsettled; two years later, Edith and the sons came to an agreement which promptly broke down and led to years of further wrangling. Many depositions from the latter stage of this battle are reproduced in "Memoranda Relating to the Ancient Wiltshire Family of Flower" in Wiltshire Notes and Queries 8 (1914-16), pp. 301-08. The final outcome of the matter is unknown. | Flower, Robert (I27076)
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| 994 | "What did bride Amy say to the parish clerk that he heard her name as Ymal? The answer remains a mystery. The name Ymal is contained in no standard surname dictionaries. The only entry of the name in the printed St. Margaret's, Westminster parish registers is the 1564 marriage of Amy to Thomas Empson. Neither is it -- or possible variants Imal, Emal, or Amal -- contained in the will indexes for 1500 to 1600 in the Perogative Court of Canterbury, the Peculiar Court of Westminster, the Commissary Court of London, the Archdeaconry Court of London, or the Archdeaconry Court of Buckingham. A few miscellaneous entries for this surname appear in the International Genealogical Index [IGI], but none for the period of Amy's life." [Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "Empson Ancestors," citation details below.] On the same page as the footnote transcribed above, Myrtle Stevens Hyde mentions that the Thomas Empson who married this Amy is "possibly the one named in the 1590 will of John Amptill of St. Giles in the Fields, adjacent to London in Middlesex, yeoman." Amptill's will mentioned two locks with keys in Thomas Empson's house. It seems to us at least plausible that "Ymal" was a mangled transcription of "Amptill", particularly if the latter name is pronounced with the stress on the second syllable. | Ymal, Amy (I21138)
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| 995 | "Whatever the exact descent, it was the junior Thomas, Sir Thomas Tyrell, who established the family securely in Essex. He did so, at least in part, through royal service. In 1351 he was a yeoman of the crown, with a history of service to Queen Philippa and the king's daughter Isabel as well as to Edward III himself. From the early 1360s, however, his status suddenly rose, which could be linked (if the above argument is correct) with his acquisition of his nephew's land. In January 1362 he was made steward of the household and lands of the king's daughter Isabel. In 1365 he was knight of the shire for Essex, the first of five occasions on which he was to represent the county. By 1367 he was a knight. He died in 1382 and was buried at Downham, Essex, where he held a manor. His wife, Alice, survived him." ["Tyrell family," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] | Tyrrell, Thomas (I18155)
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| 996 | "When he got too old to farm it himself, Sampson deeded over his land to Jesse and lived with Jesse and his family." [Parker's Genealogy & History Establishment] | Parker, Jesse F. (I11731)
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| 997 | "When he was a young man he removed thirty miles westward from his ancestral region of Mid-Sussex and settled in Chichester. In this city he probably secured in trade the mneans which enabled him to acquire numerous pieces of property (some of which formerly belonged to monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII), and to raise his branch of the family into the armigerous gentry, with its pedigree and arms entered in the Heralds' Visitations, while the branches in Mid-Sussex remained among the yeomanry." [Elizabeth French, citation details below.] | Chatfield, Richard (I16371)
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| 998 | "When Henry, Duke of Normandy (Henry II), made promises of great grants to Ranulph, Earl of Chester, in 1153, the fees of Hugh de Mortimer (and those of others) in Staffordshire were excepted. On succeeding to the throne in December 1154 Henry required from Mortimer Bridgnorth Castle, which had been in his hands for many years; he refused to surrender it, whereupon the King proceeded in person first to Cleobury, which he took and destroyed, 17 June 1155, and then to Bridgnorth, which was taken after several days' vigorous assault on 7 July. Some time before 1161 he or his father conceded to Foucarmont gifts made by Hugh and William de St. Germain. In 1167 he was fined £100 in Hants because he refused at the King's command to give up to one of his own knights certain animals taken in distraint when security was offered. He figures in the returns of knights' fees in Normandy of 1172 as owing service of 5 knights and holding himself 13 1/2 knights' fees. The foundation of Wigmore Abbey was completed before Hugh's death. He was also a benefactor to the Templars in Lincolnshire." [Complete Peerage IX:270-2, XIV:488] "Hugh (II) de Mortimer's rising was one of several against the new king at this time, largely prompted by Henry's demand for the return of alienated royal lands and castles. But resistance was unco-ordinated: there was no co-operation, for instance, between Mortimer and his neighbour Earl Roger of Hereford. It was at Easter 1155, according to the Battle Abbey chronicle, that Mortimer, 'estimating the king to be a mere boy and indignant at his activity' (Searle, 159–61), fortified Bridgnorth and refused to submit to royal orders. The king promptly placed Bridgnorth, Cleobury, and Wigmore under siege, surrounding Bridgnorth Castle with a rampart and ditch, so that Mortimer could not leave it. With no choice but to surrender, therefore, on 7 July he made his peace with the king, at an impressive assembly of lay and ecclesiastical magnates. He was treated lightly, for whereas the earldom of Hereford was allowed to lapse when Earl Roger died, also in 1155, Hugh de Mortimer soon recovered Bridgnorth and Wigmore (Cleobury had been destroyed), and retained the privileged status of a tenant-in-chief. The fact that King Henry was himself frequently active in Wales may subsequently have had a constraining effect on Mortimer's activities there. In any event, after 1155 he seems to have turned his attention to the affairs of Wigmore, and especially of its abbey." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] | de Mortimer, Hugh (I848)
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| 999 | "When seventeen years of age he served in the Colonial forces in King Philip's War; in the Spring of 1676 he was in Capt. John Whipple's company, scouting along the Connecticut River, receiving £3-8-6; in the Summer of 1676 he was in Capt. Jonathan Poole's company on garrison duty in the Connecticut Valley towns, receiving £1-11-0; his name also appears under Watertown soldiers credited £3-3-6. (Bodge's 'Soldiers in King Philip's War,' pp. 283, 260, and 376.)" [Simon Stone Genealogy] | Stone, John (I5177)
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| 1000 | "When the Earl of Leicester lost control of Breteuil in 1141, Arnold III de Bois followed his lord across the Channel and settled permanently in England. There he was the first of several De Bois men to hold the important post of Keeper of the Royal Forest as well as the first recorded De Bois family member to serve as a Leicestershire steward, a title that became hereditary." [Kathryn A. Smith, citation details below.] | du Bois, Arnold (I4063)
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