Nicholas Noyes

Abt 1496 - Bef 1575  (~ 78 years)

• Name	Nicholas Noyes
  Born	Abt 1496	Littleton, Hampshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Bef 1503  [2]
  Died	Bef 1575  [1]
  Alternate death	Abt 1575  [2]
  Person ID	I265	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	4 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Robert Noyes,   b. Abt 1467,   d. Bef 4 Apr 1524  (Age ~ 57 years)
  Mother	Joan,   d. Aft 15 Oct 1532
  Married	Abt 1488  [1]
  Family ID	F176	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	(Unknown wife of Nicholas Noyes)
  Married	Abt 1515  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Robert Noyes,   b. Abt 1518, Cholderton, Wiltshire, England ,   d. Aft 17 Nov 1599  (Age ~ 81 years)
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2015
  Family ID	F107	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  With his brothers Robert and John, he appears to have fought a protracted dispute with the family of Sir John St. John over the manor of Littleton, Hampshire, which had been leased in the early 1500s to Noyes's parents by the Abbot of St. Peter's, Gloucester, but which had later been granted by Henry VIII to the St. John family following the dissolution of the monasteries. This ongoing fracas went well beyond legal challenges; on at least one occasion a group of several dozen "women and other persons...did assault Nicholas SeyntJohn, his servants and plough men," throwing stones and driving them away. At the next harvest, St. John took by force £200 worth of grain and threatened to burn the Noyes house and kill Robert, at which point the Noyes family gave up their claim.

  
  

• Sources

  [S758] Dean Crawford Smith and Paul C. Reed, "Four Generations of Ancestry for the Noyes Families of New England." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 149:105, April 1995. [S5882] Ancestral Lines from Maine to North Carolina by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015.