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Family/Spouse: William de Say. William (son of Geoffrey de Say and Hawise de Clare) was born in of Edmonton, Middlesex, England; died before 12 Feb 1272. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hawise married John Marshal after 1267. John (son of William Marshal and Pernel del Ortiay) was born about 1257 in of Hingham, Norfolk, England; died before 4 Dec 1282. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Alexander de Cheyne about 1268. Alexander (son of Alexander de Cheyne) was born in of Titeburst in Aldenham, Hertfordshire, England; died before 22 May 1296. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth. Elizabeth died after 1307. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hereditary Marshal of Ireland. Present at the siege of Caerlaverock. Summoned to Parliament from 8 Jan 1309 to 26 Nov 1313. Killed at the battle of Bannockburn.

Family/Spouse: Christian de Burgh. Christian (daughter of Robert Fitz Walter and Devorguille de Burgh) died before 6 Dec 1315 in Holywell Priory, Shorewell, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 16 Mar 1322, Pontefract, Yorkshire, England

Notes:

Also called William de Cheyney.

He served in France and against the Scots under Edward I. Later, in the reign of Edward II, he opposed Piers de Gaveston, and then Hugh le Despenser, and fought against the King's forces at the battle of Boroughbridge. He is said to have been hanged at York or Pontefract following that battle.

Family/Spouse: Margaret de Shurland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writ, 26 Jul 1313 to 14 May 1321.

Geoffrey married Idoine de Leybourne on 28 Dec 1295. Idoine (daughter of William de Leybourne and Juliane de Sandwich) died after 14 Nov 1337. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hawise married Robert de Morley before 20 Oct 1316. Robert (son of William de Morley and Cecily de Mohaut) was born in of Morley, Norfolk, England; died on 23 Mar 1360 in Burgundy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Robert de Cheyney. Knight of the shire for Kent. Knight of the shire for Wiltshire.

He fought at Crécy. His death in 1362 is said to have been caused by his horse falling on him.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Juliane married Roger de Northwode after 23 Mar 1322. Roger (son of John de Northwode and Agnes de Grandison) was born about 1307 in of Northwood in Sheppey, Kent, England; died on 5 Nov 1361. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Admiral of the Fleet from the mouth of the Thames westward. He fought at Crécy in the second division.

Family/Spouse: Maud de Beauchamp. Maud (daughter of Guy de Beauchamp and Alice de Tony) died after 30 Oct 1369; was buried in Black Friars, Holborn, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

De jure Lord Marshal. Summoned to Parliament from 4 Dec 1364 to 16 Feb 1379.

William married Cecily Bardolf after 8 Dec 1326. Cecily (daughter of Thomas Bardolf and Agnes) died on 23 Nov 1386; was buried in Austin Friars, Norwich, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Richard Cheyney.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Cralle. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writ from 1 Jun 1363.

John married Joan Hert in 1350. Joan (daughter of Robert Hert) died after Aug 1398. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Idoine married John de Clinton about 1350. John (son of John de Clinton and Margery Corbet) was born about 13 Apr 1328 in of Maxstoke, Warwickshire, England; died on 6 Sep 1398; was buried in Haversham, Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married William de Fiennes before 1356. William (son of John de Fiennes and Maud de Monceux) was born in of Herstmonceux, Sussex, England; died on 2 Dec 1359 in Overseas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1352

Notes:

Privy councillor. Hereditary Marshal of Ireland. Summoned to Parliament from 20 Oct 1379 to 3 Sep 1416. According to Walter Rye (citation details below), he was captain general of all English forces in France in the year of his death, 1416.

Thomas married Joan Hastings before 3 Apr 1374. Joan (daughter of Hugh de Hastings and Margaret de Everingham) died before Jun 1380; was buried in White Friars, Norwich, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Anne Despenser before 21 Oct 1390. Anne (daughter of Edward le Despenser and Elizabeth Burghersh) was born about 1363; died on 30 Oct 1426. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John Wilcotes before 17 Feb 1417. John was born in of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, England; died on 21 May 1422. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Juliane married John Dygge about Nov 1379. John (son of Roger Dygge and Albina) was born in of Diggs Court in Barham, Kent, England; died in 1421. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Baldwin de Montfort. Baldwin (son of John de Montfort and Joan de Clinton) was born in of Coleshill, Warwickshire, England; died between 1385 and 1386 in Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1396-97, 1398-99.

William married Elizabeth Batisford before 23 Apr 1385. Elizabeth (daughter of William Batisford and Margery de Peplesham) died before 1407. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1416

Notes:

Walter Rye (citation details below) places him as a son of Thomas Morley's second wife Anne Despenser, which is chronologically impossible.

Robert married Isabel Moleyns before Aug 1394. Isabel (daughter of William de Moleyns and Margery Bacon) died before Jun 1409. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1413

Family/Spouse: Henry Raynsford. Henry (son of John Raynsford) was born in of Oxfordshire, England; died before 3 May 1469. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Ashfield. John was born in of Bradley and Wenlock, Shropshire, England; died before 10 Nov 1455; was buried in Cold Norton Priory, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Juliane Horne before 1413. Juliane was born in of Popeshall, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Steward of the household of Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. Knight of the shire for Warwickshire 1422-23, 1427, 1429, 1437, 1445, 1450. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1431-32, 1441-42, 1450-51.

William married Margaret Pecche before 1407. Margaret (daughter of John Pecche and Katherine) was born on 30 Apr 1386; died before Apr 1417. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Sussex. Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex 1423, 1434-35. Constable of Porchester. Treasurer of the Household to Henry VI. Keeper of the King's Wardrobe. Chief Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster (Southern Parts and Wales).

He fought at Agincourt, 1415.

Roger married Elizabeth Holand before 1422. Elizabeth (daughter of John Holand and Margaret) died after Apr 1441. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Privy councillor. De jure Lord Marshal, Marshal of Ireland. Fought at Agincourt. Took part in the sieges of Rouen, Melun, and Meaux. Present at the death of Henry V and bore one of the banners at his funeral.

Summoned to Parliament from 15 Jul 1427 to 5 Jul 1435.

Thomas married Isabel de la Pole before 6 Feb 1403. Isabel (daughter of Michael de la Pole and Katherine Stafford) died on 8 Feb 1467. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 5 Aug 1487

Family/Spouse: Alice Anne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire, 1495-96.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Ford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Eleanor Montfort.

Ellen married Maurice Berkeley before 1428. Maurice (son of Maurice Berkeley and Joan Dinham) was born on 2 Feb 1401 in of Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England; died on 26 Nov 1464. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He entered holy orders as a priest, about 1460-61.

Family/Spouse: Joan Vernon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nicholas Carew. Nicholas (son of Nicholas de Carew and Isabel de la Mare) died on 20 Apr 1458; was buried in Chapel of St. Nichols, St. Mary's, Beddington, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lord Dacre of Herstmonceux. Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex 1452-53. Privy councillor. Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth Woodville. Summoned to Parliament by writs dated 9 Oct 1459 to 15 Nov 1482.

Richard married Joan Dacre after May 1446. Joan (daughter of Thomas Dacre and Elizabeth Bowet) was born about 1433; died on 8 Mar 1486; was buried in Herstmonceux, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John Arundell after 25 Apr 1446. John (son of John Arundell and Margaret Burghersh) was born on 9 Jun 1421 in Bideford, Devon, England; died on 12 Nov 1473. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married John Hastings about 21 Apr 1434. John (son of Edward Hastings and Muriel Dinham) was born about 1412 in of Fenwick, Yorkshire, England; died on 9 Apr 1477 in Elsing, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1474, of Mitchell Tew, Oxfordshire, England

John married Alice Danvers before 1504. Alice (daughter of William Danvers and Anne Pury) died before 22 Apr 1551. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Eleanor Seymour about 1500. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Baynton. John (son of Robert Baynton and Elizabeth Haute) was born about 1460 in of Bromham, Wiltshire, England; died on 31 Oct 1516; was buried in St. Nicholas, Bromham, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Gloucestershire 1484-85. Knight of the shire for Worcestershire.

He fought for Richard III at Bosworth in 1485, and in the wake of that defeat he was attainted, 7 Nov 1485, and all his estates declared forfeit. The following year the new king, Henry VII, granted what had been William's manor of Northfield, Worcestershire to the king's uncle Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford. In 1489 William was restored in blood, and granted the reversion of Northfield after the death of Jasper Tudor. Despite this, when Jasper died in 1495, the king took possession of Northfield.

Family/Spouse: Anne Stafford. Anne (daughter of Humphrey Stafford and Eleanor Aylesbury) died after 1502. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Stapleton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Eleanor Hoo about 1468. Eleanor (daughter of Thomas Hoo and Eleanor Welles) was born about 1449. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Anne Urswick before 22 Feb 1482. Anne (daughter of Thomas Urswick and Isabel Rich) was born about 1460. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married James Tyrrell after 23 Mar 1469. James (son of William Tyrrell and Margaret Darcy) was born about 1445 in of Gipping, Suffolk, England; died on 6 May 1502; was buried in Austin Friars, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Robert Hildyard before 8 Apr 1459. Robert (son of Robert Hildyard and Katherine de la Hay) was born about 1435 in of Winestead, Yorkshire, England; died on 21 May 1501. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne Gascoigne. Anne (daughter of William Gascoigne and Margaret Clarell) died after 7 Jun 1488. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Katherine Taverner. Katherine (daughter of Walter Taverner and Alice) died before 24 Sep 1558; was buried on 24 Sep 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married Richard Pauncefoot before 1538. Richard (son of John Pauncefoot and Bridget Tate) was born about 1512 in of Hasfield, Gloucestershire, England; died on 20 Dec 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 1495
• Alternate birth: Abt 1495

Notes:

A courtier and survivor at the court of Henry VIII, perhaps best described as a combination of Littlefinger and the Vicar of Bray.

Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1522-23. Esquire of the body to Henry VIII by 1522. Knight of the shire for Wiltshire, 1529 and 1539. Burgess for Wilton in 1542.

"[H]e was an astute courtier who served in the royal household (he was vice-chamberlain to all save the first of Henry VIII's wives) and on military expeditions to the Scottish borders and France, as well as in local affairs. He sat in the parliaments of 1529 and 1539 as a knight of the shire for Wiltshire, and in that of 1542 as a burgess for Wilton. Probably during his association with Thomas Cromwell he began the family tradition of strong protestantism, and at the dissolution he gained much former monastic land in and near Wiltshire, especially the site of Stanley Abbey and sixteen of its manors. He built an imposing manor house at Bromham, which was said to be almost as large as the king's new court at Whitehall, and which remained the family's chief residence until demolished during the civil war. [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Edward married Isabel Leigh about 18 Jan 1532. Isabel (daughter of Ralph Leigh and Joyce Culpeper) died on 16 Feb 1573. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married John Gyse before 23 Sep 1483. John (son of John de Gyse and Alice Wysham) was born in of Elmore, Gloucestershire, England; died on 30 Sep 1501; was buried in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Coningsby. Elizabeth (daughter of Humphrey Coningsby and Alice Fereby) died between 30 Nov 1545 and 8 May 1546. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married George Booth before Jan 1473. George (son of William Booth and Maud Dutton) was born about 1445 in of Dunham Massey, Bucklow, Cheshire, England; died on 21 Mar 1484. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was made a knight banneret by Henry VII after the battle of Blackheath, 1497.

Family/Spouse: Malyn Oxenbridge. Malyn (daughter of Robert Oxenbridge and Anne Lyvelode) died on 3 Oct 1544. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Goddard Oxenbridge. Goddard (son of Robert Oxenbridge and Anne Lyvelode) was born in of Forde Place, Brede, Sussex, England; died on 10 Feb 1531; was buried in Lady Chapel, Brede, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was attainted with his father in 1502, pardoned in 1504, and restored to his estates in 1507. He attended the queen at the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Willoughby. Margaret (daughter of Christopher Willoughby and Margaret Jenney) died after 14 Nov 1526. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Piers Hildyard.

Peter married Jane de la See between 1480 and 1485. Jane (daughter of Martin de la See and Elizabeth Wentworth) died between 20 Jul 1527 and 7 Apr 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Muriel married Ralph Eure on 18 Jan 1482. Ralph (son of William Eure and Margaret Constable) was born in of Ayton in Pickering Lythe, Yorkshire, England; died on 22 Oct 1539. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Anne Meade on 8 Nov 1559. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Jane Pauncefote.

Jane married John Gyse on 27 Jun 1564 in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England. John (son of William Gyse and Mary Rotsey) was born about 1540 in of Elmore, Gloucestershire, England; died on 24 Jan 1588; was buried in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MP for Malmesbury, 1572; Devizes, 1584 and 1586; Old Sarum, 1589, and possibly Devizes again in 1593.

"In 1593 he succeeded his mother to the site and demesnes of the monastery of Edington, Wiltshire. He so despoiled the house there, that the Marquess of Wiltshire alleged that £1000 would not repair it." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Anne Cavendish. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called John Guise.

Family/Spouse: Tacy Grey. Tacy (daughter of John Grey and Anne Grey) died before 15 Nov 1558; was buried on 15 Nov 1558 in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel Dennis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 11 Nov 1519

Family/Spouse: Ellen Montgomery. Ellen (daughter of John Montgomery) died after 18 Nov 1523. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Beddington, Surrey, England

Notes:

Nicholas Carew was a courtier and diplomat, knight of the shire for Surrey, sheriff of Surrey and Sussex 1518-19, and Master of the Horse to Henry VIII. A close friend and rousting partner of the king's for many years, he was eventually brought down by Thomas Cromwell. Accused and convicted of having been part of the Exeter Conspiracy, he was attainted and executed at Tower Hill on 3 Mar 1540. One of the jurors who convicted him was his wife's brother Francis Bryan, rake, libertine, trimmer, close friend of Henry VIII, remembered to history, for his efficient lack of any perceptible principle, as the "Vicar of Hell."

Nicholas married Elizabeth Bryan in Dec 1514. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Bryan and Margaret Bourchier) died between 21 May 1546 and 17 Jul 1546; was buried in St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lady of the Privy Chamber to Queen Jane Seymour. Author of Morning and Evening Praiers, with Divers Psalmes Himnes and Meditations (1574), which contains orders for private morning and evening prayers, with a series of "godly prayers" and hymns appended, and which appears in a unique copy held in the British Library, as part of a volume that appears to have belonged to Elizabeth I. The volume also contains an incomplete copy of The Queen's Prayers by Katherine Parr.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

From her father's first marriage Elizabeth had a half-brother, Thomas, whose daughter Elizabeth, also married to a Robert Tyrwhit, needs to be distinguished from her father's half-sister.

The elder Elizabeth Tyrwhit's early career took place at the court of Henry VIII, where she appears in household records from 1537 on as a recipient of gifts and as a gentlewoman of the privy chamber. Her relationship with Katherine Parr was especially close, possibly because Parr was cousin by marriage to Sir Robert Tyrwhit through her own first marriage to Edward, Lord Borough. Tyrwhit shared Parr's protestant sympathies and, with others of Parr's ladies-in-waiting suspected of links to the martyr Anne Askew, was arrested by Henry in 1546. When Katherine Parr died of puerperal fever in September 1548, Tyrwhit was at her bedside. For a brief period in 1549, after the scandal surrounding the relationship between Parr's last husband, Thomas Seymour, and Princess Elizabeth in 1547–8, Tyrwhit was appointed governess to the princess in lieu of the suspect Katherine Astley.

Elizabeth married Robert Tyrwhit between Apr 1538 and 4 Aug 1539. Robert (son of Robert Tyrwhit and Maud Tailboys) was born before 1504; died on 10 May 1572; was buried in Jun 1572 in Leighton Bromswold, Huntingdonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married John Clere before 19 Aug 1529. John (son of Robert Clere and Alice Boleyn) was born about 1511 in of Ormesby St. Margaret, Norfolk, England; died on 21 Aug 1557 in At sea. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Ralph Legard about 1520. Ralph (son of Robert Legard and Joan Haldenby) was born about 1490 in of Anlaby, Yorkshire, England; died on 30 Jun 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Willoughby about 1503. Elizabeth (daughter of Christopher Willoughby and Margaret Jenney) was born about 1483. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Mary Kirton on 14 Dec 1602 in Croydon, Surrey, England. Mary (daughter of Thomas Kirton and Marie Sadler) died after 20 Apr 1634. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Robert Haviland on 7 Jul 1604 in Kenn, Somerset, England. Robert (son of Matthew Haviland, Mayor of Bristol and Mary Kitchin) was born before 11 Feb 1577 in of Hawkesbury Barnes, Gloucestershire, England; was christened on 11 Feb 1577 in St. Werbergh's, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; died before 19 Jul 1648; was buried on 19 Jul 1648 in St. Werbergh's, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His wife's grandfather, William Weare alias, innkeeper of Salisbury, left to her all his lands and tenements in Salisbury, by which means Ferdinando Baynton became an innkeeper himself. Observed Walter Goodwin Davis (citation details below), "As the third son of a fourth son of his grandfather, Sir Edward Baynton, Ferdinando would have expcted no share in his family's great wealth and it seems obvious that he got none."

Ferdinando married Jane Weare alias Browne about 1598. Jane (daughter of John Weare alias Browne) died after 1629. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called William Guise.

William married Mary Rotsey before 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Ligon. Henry (son of Richard Lygon and Margery Greville) was born in of Upton St. Leonard's, Gloucestershire, England; died on 31 Jul 1577. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Jane Booth.

Joan married Thomas Holford after 28 Jun 1539. Thomas (son of John Holford and Margery Brereton) was born in of Holford, Cheshire, England; died on 24 Sep 1569. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arthur Darcy and Mary Carew were both descendants of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault, he as a 6Xgreat-grandson and she as a 5Xgreat-granddaughter. By those descents they were, to one another, sixth cousins once removed. But in fact they were slightly more closely related than that: fifth cousins once removed by shared descent from Ralph de Greystoke and Katherine Clifford, and fifth cousins twice removed by shared descent from John de Welle and Maud de Ros.

Family/Spouse: Arthur Darcy. Arthur (son of Thomas Darcy and Dowsabel Tempest) was born in of Brimham, Yorkshire, England; died on 3 Apr 1561; was buried in St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Darcy. Henry (son of Arthur Darcy and Mary Carew) was born in of Brimham, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 3 Jun 1606, London, England

Notes:

Burgess for Thetford 1557-58, 1562-63. Burgess for Grampound 1571. Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk 1567-68. Sheriff of Norfolk 1580-81.

From the History of Parliament (citation details below):

Though a younger son, Clere succeeded to an extensive patrimony on the north-east coast of Norfolk, being licensed to enter his lands on 22 Feb. 1558. In May of that year he purchased further property at Wymondham, and in 1561, on the death of his great-uncle Sir James Boleyn he inherited Blickling, which he made his chief seat. On the death of his father-in-law (Sir) Richard Fulmerston in 1567, Clere and his wife came into possession of most of his extensive estates in and around Thetford as well as inheriting most of his personal property.

Thus, after 1567 Clere was one of the greatest landowners in Norfolk, appearing in 1588 on Lord Burghley’s list of ‘knights of great possessions’ able to support a peerage. He was a second cousin to the Queen and to Lord Hunsdon, and brother-in-law to Walter Haddon, the master of requests. His connexion with the Duke of Norfolk through his father-in-law Fulmerston, the Duke’s servant, caused him to be among those questioned on Norfolk’s arrest in October 1569, and in September 1571 he and others were ordered to take an inventory of the Duke’s goods at Kenninghall. In 1570 he was made collector in Norfolk of the forced loan. This inevitably made him unpopular with his fellow gentry, and gave rise to probably well-founded accusations of fraud and extortion. He was also in conflict with his manorial tenants, and at loggerheads with the Thetford corporation. He had to attend upon the Privy Council for a while after the forced loan episode, but he never lost the Council’s confidence. In 1578 he entertained the Queen during her Norfolk progress, ‘worthily feasted’ her retinue, and was knighted by the Queen at Norwich. In 1583 he signed a petition on behalf of certain puritan ministers and four years later was noted by the bishop of Norwich as a ‘favourer of religion’.

Clere’s election at Thetford to the Parliaments of 1558 and 1563 was due to the local influence of his father-in-law, Fulmerston. Clere succeeded to Fulmerston’s land in 1567 and what made him resort to Grampound for a seat in 1571 is not evident, nor is it clear who was his patron there. Possibly there was a court connexion with the 2nd Earl of Bedford. Clere’s committee work concerned the continuance of statutes (20 Mar. 1563), priests disguised as servants (1 May 1571), and tillage and the navy (25 May 1571). He spoke on the treasons bill (9 Apr. 1571), the anonymous diarist commenting, ‘Mr. Clere of Norfolk, a gentleman of great possessions, made hereupon a staggering speech: his conclusion I did not conceive’. Of another speech, again on a religious topic (11 Apr.), he wrote ‘such was my ill hap I could not understand what reason he made’. D’Ewes records Clere as speaking on the bill for Bristol, also on 11 Apr. In the discussion on Strickland’s case on 20 Apr., he defended the prerogative of the Crown.

In 1572 Clere decided to try for the county seat, Sir Thomas Cornwallis reporting just before the election that Clere ‘leaveth no stone untouched that may further his part’, and that ‘a great number of the shire’ were ‘evil affected towards him’. Unsuccessful, he wrote a series of letters to Richard Southwell, whom he had addressed as ‘loving cousin and friend’ when canvassing support beforehand, describing his ‘found falsehood’, and contrasting Southwell’s ‘overt action in so great an assembly’ with his ‘former pretended opinion’.

In October 1586 he and his fellow deputy lieutenant Sir William Heydon were ordered by the Privy Council to ensure that at the new election of knights of the shire ‘fit men may be chosen, known to be well affected to religion and the present estate’, and Clere wrote to his friend, Bassingbourne Gawdy, suggesting that he stand, adding that if he himself were not incapacitated by a rupture, he ‘should be willing to be with you there’. The Norfolk gentry at this time were divided. In the north of the county Clere and Sir William Heydon, after initial quarrels over the rights of Clere’s second wife to the Heydon manor of Saxlingham, had united against Nathaniel Bacon, the Knyvet and Wyndham families and others of their neighbours. Soon after the 1586 election they apparently persuaded the lord lieutenant, Hunsdon, to replace Sir Thomas Knyvet by their friend Sir Arthur Heveningham as a deputy lieutenant, and had several of their opponents turned off the commission of the peace. During the next few years Clere can generally be found on the side of Heveningham in the latter’s quarrels with the Bacon faction over such contentious matters as the organisation of county musters.

Clere’s eldest son Edward, already in 1585 ‘in peril divers ways of imprisonment and shame’, was accused in the next reign of sheltering a seminary priest and from 1606 spent much of his life in prison. Clere therefore did his best to keep his property out of his eldest son’s hands, though he could not break the entail on the Fulmerston estate. By various settlements and by his will, made in April 1605, he divided the rest between the younger sons, Sir Francis and Robert, and his grandson Henry. Most of the land eventually reverted to Henry, who became a baronet in 1620 and died s.p. in 1622. Clere’s will contained bequests to other relatives, and arranged for the foundation of a fellowship and scholarship at St. John’s, Cambridge. Most of the personal property was left to the widow, the sole executrix, who had a life interest in Blickling. One of the two supervisors was his ‘old well tried friend’ Dru Drury. Clere died in London on 3 June 1606, and was buried at Blickling.

Edward married Frances Fulmerston about 16 Dec 1554. Frances (daughter of Richard Fulmerston and Alice Lonzam) died on 20 Mar 1580 in Blickling, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Joan Ledgard.

Joan married Richard Skepper after 4 Feb 1551. Richard (son of Richard Skepper and Audrey Grynne) was born about 1495 in of East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England; died after 26 May 1556. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was slain in the Battle of Ancrum Moor, part of the 1542-51 War of the Rough Wooing.

Ralph married Margery Bowes before 1529. Margery (daughter of Ralph Bowes and Elizabeth Clifford) died after 1566. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of LD's five "gateway ancestors."

He was a fisherman, a merchant, and a slaveowner. He emigrated to Masaschusetts in 1630 and settled at Boston.

In 1637 he was one of the supporters of the Rev. Wheelwright who were ordered disarmed. On about 22 Nov 1637 he acknowledged his error in signing the petition in favor of Wheelwright.

Edward married Elizabeth before 15 Dec 1633. Elizabeth died on 16 Nov 1688 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Capt. William Torrey on 17 Mar 1629. William (son of Philip Torrey and Alice Richards) was born before 21 Dec 1608; was christened on 21 Dec 1608 in Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England; died on 10 Jun 1690 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 23 Sep 1602

Notes:

One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors."

"Because in all probability no other seventeenth-century English emigrant to America had so many close kinsmen of high rank as Anne possessed, they are partially listed here, at the risk of repetition. Through her great-aunt Bridget Baynton, Anne was the second cousin of the Countess of Suffolk, the Countess of Lincoln and the Countess of Rutland, and the second cousin, once removed, of the Duchess of Buckingham. Through her great-grandfather Sir William Cavendish, she was a great-niece of the Earl of Devonshire, the Countess of Shrewsbury and the Countess of Lennox, and the first cousin, once removed, of Lady Arabella Stuart, the Duke of Newcastle and the Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull. This constitutes an outstanding example of the fluidity of English society, a fluidity which would have been almost impossible in the caste systems of the European continent." [Walter Goodwin Davis, citation details below.]

Davis is probably right that "no other seventeenth-century English emigrant to America had so many close kinsmen of high rank as Anne possessed", although Mary Launce (ancestor of AP) was probably competitive. Meanwhile, gateway ancestor Elizabeth St. John (ancestor of JTS) was probably the emigrant most closely related to contemporary English royalty, being a half fifth cousin once removed to Charles I. Anne Baynton was a sixth cousin once removed to that particular monarch, through common ancestors Richard Wydevill and Joan Bittlesgate.

"In 1664 [...] Anne, wrote Lord Clarendon in England requesting help restoring a wine license formerly granted to her father." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below]

Anne married Christopher Batt on 12 Oct 1629 in St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Christopher (son of Thomas Batt and Joane Byley) was born before 6 Jul 1601; was christened on 6 Jul 1601 in St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died on 9 Aug 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called John Guise.

John married Jane Pauncefoot on 27 Jun 1564 in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edward Basset. Edward (son of William Basset and Jane Ashe) was born in of Uley, Gloucestershire, England; died between 3 Jun 1601 and 5 Nov 1602. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Bruen. John (son of John Bruen and Mary Oteley) was born in of Bruen Stapleford in Tarvin, Cheshire, England; died on 14 May 1587; was buried on 15 May 1587. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Katherine Tyrwhit. Katherine (daughter of Robert Tyrwhit and Elizabeth Oxenbridge) died in 1567. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Conyers. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Edward Darcy was Groom of the Privy Chamber to Elizabeth I, 1583-1603. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1561, and was admitted at the Inner Temple in Nov 1561. Special ambassador to Francis, Duke of Anjou and William of Orange in 1583. Burgess (M.P.) for Truro, Cornwall, in 1584; justice of the peace in Kent from 1604 to his death.

His lifelong cupidity appears to have been notable even by the standards of Elizabethan court society. From his entry in the History of Parliament: "In 1594 the attorney-general protested at the nomination of one Wiseman to the post of clerk of the outlawries, after Darcy had virtually put up the office for auction, and in 1600 the widow of Edward Denny petitioned against Darcy's attempt to obtain part of the proceeds of the sale of her late husband's office. He had little need, she wrote, 'to suck this small portion of her Majesty's favour from the hungry mouths of my children'. [...] His patent for searching and sealing leather, which he was granted in 1592 (or 1593), led him to commit 'such exactions and outrages as disquieted all England', and his privileges were first reduced (in 1595) and then (before May 1598) replaced by a new patent for the monopoly of importing and manufacturing playing cards." Sometime between then and 1602, Darcy sued Thomas Allin (also spelled Allain, Allein, Allen, etc.), haberdasher of London, for infringing on his playing-card patent. In what came to be regarded as a landmark case in English law, known to history as the "Case of Monopolies," the King's Bench ultimately ruled against Darcy, declaring his patent void because monopolies are ultimately damaging to the public good. The arguments set forth in the verdict were later much quoted in the various deliberations leading to the creation of modern antitrust and competition law.

His loss in court can't have broken his stride too badly; he was knighted the next year, on 23 Apr 1603, and retired to live the comfortable life of a wealthy man.

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Edward Darcy (1543-1612) = Elizabeth Astley
Robert Darcy = Grace Reddish
Edward Darcy = Elizabeth Stanhope [1]
Katherine Darcy (d. 1713) = Erasmus Phillips (d. 1697) [2] [3]
Elizabeth Phillips (b. abt 1664) = John Shorter [4]
Catherine Shorter (1682-1737) = Robert Walpole (1676-1745) [5]
Horace Walpole (1717-1797)

[1] Daughter of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield.

[2] Erasmus Phillips and Katherine Darcy were parents of Sir John Phillips of Pembrokeshire, a leading Welsh social and religious reformer.

[3] Through his mother, Elizabeth Dryden, Erasmus Phillips was a first cousin of the poet John Dryden, a second cousin once removed to Jonathan Swift, and a first cousin once removed to Mrs. Ann Marbury Hutchinson, the antinomian religious reformer who was famously cast out of the early Massachusetts Bay colony.

[4] John Shorter was a son of John Shorter (1625-1688), Lord Mayor of London.

[5] Robert Walpole is generally considered to have been the first Prime Minister of England in the modern sense.

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Edward Darcy (1543-1612) = Elizabeth Astley
Catherine Darcy (1581-1646) = William West (b. 1575)
Elizabeth West (1606-1669) = Francis Vane (1617-1680)
Francis Vane (1643-1691) = Hannah Rushworth (1646-1705)
Henry Vane (1669-1726) = Anne Scrope (1673-1721)
Thomas Fane (1701-1871) = Elizabeth Swymmer (1708-1782)
Mary Fane (1739-1809)= Charles Blair (b. 1735)
Charles Blair (1776-1820)
Thomas Richard Arthur Blair (1802-1867) = Frances Catherine Hare (1823-1867)
Richard Walmesley Blair (1857-1939) = Ida Mabel Limouzin (1875-1943)
Eric Blair (George Orwell) (1903-1950)

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Astley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married William Gilbert on 23 Apr 1578 in Blickling, Norfolk, England. William died before 21 Feb 1608; was buried on 21 Feb 1608 in Mickleover, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Okeover Crompton about 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Mary Robinson on 11 Apr 1592 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Mary died after 1630. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lancelot Mansfield. Lancelot was born about 1533 in of Skirpenbeck, Yorkshire, England; died after 20 Sep 1563. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathan married Mary Sunderland on 29 Nov 1656 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of John Sunderland and Dorothy) was born on 12 Mar 1643 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 19 Apr 1698 in Southold, Suffolk, Long Island, New York; was buried in Presbyterian Cemetery, Southold, Long Island, New Netherland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was minister at Hull, 1656-1664, and minister of the First Parish of Weymouth, 1664 to 1707.

Samuel married Mercy Chickering on 30 Jul 1695 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Mercy (daughter of Francis Chickering and Anne Fiske) was born in Apr 1648 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 9 Apr 1648 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 12 Mar 1721 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of DGH's four proven gateway ancestors.

William married Deborah about 1668. Deborah was born about 1649; died on 8 Feb 1729 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Edmond Angier on 12 Jun 1657 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Edmond (son of John Angier and Ann Sherman) was born before 31 Mar 1612; was christened on 31 Mar 1612 in Dedham, Essex, England; died on 4 Mar 1692 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Dr. Peter Toppan on 3 Apr 1661 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Peter (son of Abraham Toppan and Susanna Taylor) was born in Aug 1633; was christened in Aug 1633 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; died on 3 Nov 1707 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Robert Haviland on 7 Jul 1604 in Kenn, Somerset, England. Robert (son of Matthew Haviland, Mayor of Bristol and Mary Kitchin) was born before 11 Feb 1577 in of Hawkesbury Barnes, Gloucestershire, England; was christened on 11 Feb 1577 in St. Werbergh's, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; died before 19 Jul 1648; was buried on 19 Jul 1648 in St. Werbergh's, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married John Deighton on 12 Apr 1605 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. John (son of Thomas Deighton and Anne) was born before 18 Nov 1568; was christened on 18 Nov 1568 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England; died on 16 May 1640; was buried in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a Puritan whose piety and iconoclasm (he personally destroyed a great deal of church art and stained glass) was celebrated in a hagiographic biography of him written by William Hinde, husband of Margaret Fox, sister to Bruen's second wife Anne Fox.

"According to Hinde, it was the death of Bruen's father in 1587 that prompted a radical transformation in Bruen's lifestyle. Whether because of a spiritual crisis or because of the financial constraints imposed by his new responsibilities towards eleven siblings, including his sister Katherine Bruen (to become famous in 1601 because of her putative deathbed loss of faith), Bruen imposed a strict code of piety on the household. He began by disparking the estate and suppressing hunting and gaming, and subsequently enforced a culture of discipline on family, servants, and tenants alike. This not only involved prayers seven times daily but also attendance at both morning and evening sermons on Sundays, usually without departing from the church in between. The knowledge of scripture among even his illiterate household servants became legendary: Hinde drew particular attention to 'Old Robert', Robert Pashfield (fl. c. 1600), servant, whose familiarity with the Bible was such that he could cite chapter and verse of almost any scriptural text, despite his inability to read. Bruen also suppressed the drinking, dancing, and sport associated with the annual festivities of the St Andrew's day wakes that he (and Hinde) regarded as popish and profane." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

"BRUEN, JOHN (1560-1625), puritan layman, was the son of a Cheshire squire whose family had long been settled at Bruen Stapleford, and is believed to have given its name to the township. There had been a succession from the middle of the thirteenth century. The elder John Bruen of Bruen Stapleford was thrice married. His union with Anne, the sister of Sir John Done, was childless, but his second wife brought him fourteen children, of whom Katharine, afterwards the wife of William Brettargh, and John, who, although not the eldest born, became by survivorship his heir, were remarkable for the fervour of their puritanism. John was in his tender years sent to his uncle Dutton of Dutton, where for three years he was taught by the school-master James Roe. The Dutton family had by charter the control of the minstrels of the county. Young Bruen became an expert dancer. 'At that time,' he said, 'the holy Sabbaths of the Lord were wholly spent, in all places about us, in May-games and May-poles, pipings and dancings, for it was a rare thing to hear of a preacher, or to have one sermon in a year.' When about seventeen he and his brother Thomas were sent as gentlemen-commoners to St. Alban Hall, Oxford, where they remained about two years. He left the university in 1579, and in the following year was married by his parents to a daughter of Mr. Hardware, who had been twice mayor of Chester. Bruen at this time keenly enjoyed the pleasures of the chase, and, in conjunction with Ralph Done, 'kept fourteen couple of great mouthed dogs.' On the death of his father in 1587 his means were reduced; he cast off his dogs, killed the game, and disparked the land. His children were brought up strictly, and his choice of servants fell upon the sober and pious. One of these, Robert Pashfield, or 'Old Robert,' though unable to read or write, had acquired so exact a knowledge of the Bible, that he could 'almost always' tell the book and chapter where any particular sentence was to be found. The old man had a leathern girdle, which served him as a memoria technica, and was marked into portions for the several books of the Bible, and with points and knots for the smaller divisions. Bruen in summer rose between three and four, and in winter at five, and read prayers twice a day. His own seasons for prayer were seven times daily. He removed the stained glass in Tarvin Church, and defaced the sculptured images. On the Sunday he walked from his house, a mile distant, to the church, and was followed by the greater part of his servants, and called upon such of his tenants as lived on the way, so that when he reached the church it was at the head of a goodly procession. He rarely went home to dinner after morning prayers, but continued in the church till after the evening service. He maintained a preacher at his own house, and afterwards for the parish. Bruen's house became celebrated, and a number of 'gentlemen of rank became desirous of sojourning under his roof for their better information in the way of God, and the more effectual reclaiming of themselves and their families.' Perkins, the puritan divine, called Bruen Stapleford, 'for the practice and power of religion, the very topsail of all England.' His wife died suddenly, and after a time he married the 'very amiable and beautiful' Ann Fox, whom he first met at a religious meeting in Manchester. For a year they dwelt at her mother's house at Rhodes, near Manchester. He then returned to Stapleford, and again his house became the abode of many scions of gentility. Bruen's second wife died after ten years of married life, and the widower broke up his household with its twenty-one boarders and retired to Chester, where he cleared the debt of his estate, saw some of his children settled, and maintained the poor of his parish by the produce of two mills in Stapleford, whither he returned with his third wife, Margaret. He had an implicit belief in special providences, 'judgments,' witchcraft, &c. He kept a hospitable house, and was kind and charitable to the poor of his neighbourhood and of Chester. He refused to drink healths even at the high sheriff's feast. Towards the end of his life his prayers were twice accompanied by 'ravishing sights.' He died after an illness, which was seen to be mortal, in 1625, at the age of 65. There is a portrait of him in Clark's 'Marrow of Ecclesiastical History.' This has been re-engraved by Richardson. Among the Harleian MSS. is a compilation by him entitled 'A godly profitable collection of divers sentences out of Holy Scripture, and variety of matter out of several divine authors.' These are commonly called his cards, and are fifty-two in number. The same collection contains the petition of his son, Calvin Bruen, of Chester, mercer, respecting the treatment he received for visiting Prynne when he was taken through Chester to imprisonment at Carnarvon Castle. The life of John Bruen was not eventful, and he is chiefly notable as an embodiment of the puritan ideal of a pious layman." [William Edward Armytage Axon, Dictionary of National Biography 1885-1900]

John married Anne Fox after Jan 1597. Anne (daughter of William Fox and Margaret Orrell) was born about 1581; died before 29 Dec 1606; was buried on 29 Dec 1606. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Her short life was dominated by her illustrious elder brother, the godly gentleman John Bruen, who had care of Katherine and ten of her siblings, bringing them up in an atmosphere of strict household discipline and rigorous religious observance. About 1599 Katherine married another of the self-professed godly, William Brettergh of Brettergh Holt, near Liverpool, with whom she had one child, Anne. The two shared an extraordinarily pious lifestyle at Little Woolton in Childwall, Lancashire, reading at least eight chapters of the Bible every day and hearing two sermons on Sundays whenever possible, and she appears to have stiffened his resolve in withstanding the hostility, mockery, and harassment of the parish's strong Roman Catholic minority, organized by a local seminary priest, Thurstan Hunt, and the lord of the manors of Speke and Garston, Edward Norris. In turn, William Brettergh's attempt as high constable of West Derby hundred to apprehend recusants within the parishes of Huyton and Childwall in May 1600 provoked not only a full-scale riot but the maiming of Brettergh's cattle on two separate occasions over the following months.

However, it is Katherine's premature and agonizing death rather than her short life which brought her most fame, and which provoked the biographies that provide virtually all the evidence of her godly lifestyle. At the age of twenty-two she succumbed to an unknown illness, and on her deathbed suffered from a terrible crisis of faith, during which she raged against God's unmercifulness and threw her Bible repeatedly to the floor. She died on 31 May 1601. Her agonies formed the centrepiece of a polemical account of her embattled life appended to the two sermons preached by William Harrison and William Leigh at her funeral in Childwall church on 3 June 1601, published together in 1602 as Death's Advantage Little Regarded, of which five editions had appeared by 1617 and a further two by 1641. Harrison in particular attempted to explain her deathbed anguish as the consequence of a diabolical assault on her virtue rather than a providential punishment for sin and hypocrisy. As a result her death became not only a gigantic struggle between God and Satan for her soul, but also, through a pamphlet exchange (of which the Catholic side has unfortunately not survived), a furious debate between Romanists and puritans over which religion could promise the more merciful death. From this perspective the conspicuous absence of any reference to Katherine's deathbed crisis in William Hinde's elaborate biography of her older brother, published in 1641, seems striking, perhaps even deliberately evasive.

From the 1885-1900 Dictionary of National Biography:

Her biographers are indignant at the imputation that she died despairing. She was buried at Childwall Church on Wednesday, 3 June, as appears from the title of the little book which forms the chief authority as to her life: Death's Advantage little Regarded, or the Soule's Solace against Sorrow, preached in two funerall sermons at Childwall, in Lancashire, at the buriall of Mistris Katherine Brettergh, 3 June 1601. The one by William Harrison, the other by William Leygh, B.D., whereunto is annexed the christian life and godly death of the said gentlewoman, London, 1601. There is a portrait of her in Clarke's second part of the Marrow of Ecclesiastical History, book ii., London, 1675, p. 52, from which it seems that her puritanism did not forbid a very elaborate ruff. The face is oval, the features refined, the hair closely confined by a sort of skull-cap, over which towers a sugarloaf hat.

Katherine married William Brettergh about 1599. William was born about 1571. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1631

Family/Spouse: Grace Reddish. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1669, London, England

Notes:

Her second husband was the Rev. Sydrach Simpson, Master of Pembroke Hall at the University of Cambridge.

Isabella married John Launce about 1619. John (son of Robert Launce and Susan Tubb) was born about 1597 in of Penair in St. Clement, Cornwall, England; died before 25 Jun 1635; was buried on 25 Jun 1635 in St. Clement, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her second husband was William Hopkins. Administration on the estate of Temperance Hopkins who died overseas was granted to him on 6 Nov 1648 by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. For this reason it is believed that she emigrated to New England with her daughter.

Temperance married John Alsop on 1 May 1617 in Mickleover, Derbyshire, England. John (son of Anthony Alsop and Jane Smith) was born about 1596 in of Alsop-le-Dale, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England; died between 28 Mar 1631 and 8 Jun 1631. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1640 and 1650

Notes:

Emigrated to New England in 1639. One of AP's two proven gateway ancestors.

He was admitted a pensioner at Sidney College, Cambridge, 8 Jul 1612. He matriculated 1614, B.A., 1617-18. He was Rector of Thorpe by Wainfleete (Thorpe-in-the-Marsh) in 1630, a parish next to Wainfleet All Saints where his elder sister Mary had married the rector in 1622. He left Thorpe-in-the-Marsh sometime before Dec 1638, when John Watts is recorded as the vicar there, and is next seen in Boston, Lincolnshire, where he married his second wife Sarah Fisher. The exact date of his emigration to New England is unknown but it appears to have taken place in 1639. He did not subsequently live long there, but he is recorded there as having arranged for certain monies to be provided to his four older children.

His descendants include Calvin Coolidge, Roy Rogers (the actor and singer, not the guitarist), Tuesday Weld, and John Kerry.

Rev. William Skepper = Jane (first wife)
Jane Skepper = Abraham Browne
Jane Browne = Henry Lunt
Jane Lunt = Nathaniel Drake
Abraham Drake = Martha Eaton
Martha Drake = John Smith
John Smith = Mary "Polly" Mudgett
Mary Hussey Smith = Jacob Lee Merrill
George David Merrill = Mary Bird
Gertrude May Merrill = Frederick George Sanders
Doris May Sanders = Gordon Arnold Markle
Thomas Wayne Markle = Doria L. Ragland
Rachel Megan Markle (1981- ) = Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

William married Sarah Fisher on 17 Jan 1639 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of London, England

Notes:

Burgess (M.P.) for Beverley, Yorkshire. Queen's Surveyor. B.A., Peterhouse College, Cambridge, 1572-3.

He was described as a resident of London in 1582, but the 1587 pedigree attached to the grant of his father's crest called him "of Huton on Derwent", Yorkshire.

From Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed, "The Ancestry of the Royally-Descended Mansfields of the Massachusetts Bay" (citation details below):

Cotton Mather, in his biography of the Rev. John Wilson, identifies the father of the immigrants as "Sir John Mansfield, master of the Minories, and the Queen's surveyor." This identification has always been troublesome, as it includes some inaccuracies. The immigrants' father was an "esquire," a step below the dignity of knighthood, but above gentleman. Evidence has been found, however, to confirm that John Mansfield was intimately involved with royal mining interests, and was Queen's surveyor -- at least in Yorkshire.

When Mather used the word "Minories," he must have intended the word "mineries," or mining operations. The 3rd Earl of Huntingdon held mines and lands in Dorsetshire, having purchased various mining interests from James, Lord Mountjoy. John Mansfield was the Earl's "servant, and at one stage his lessee of the Canford mines, near Poole, Dorset. Lord Mountjoy was heavily indebted to creditors, and various interrogatories were taken in May 1582 concerning his sale to Huntingdon. "John Mansfield, and W[illia]m Bird, all of London," were among men examined on behalf of the Earl on May 17, 21, 24, and 31, and June 1, 1582. "John Mansfield of London" was also examined on 14 or 15 June.

John Mansfeild, Clement Draper, and Richard Laycolte received lands, rents and liberties in Brownsea Island, Dorset, with the advowson, by permission of license dated 1 April 1581. John Mansfelde, Richard Laicolte, Clement Draper, and Edward Mead complained to the Privy Council on 4 January 1581 that Edward Lane [of Blackfriars, London, 1582], John Lane, and others had "wrongfullie dispossessed them of two their workehouses for allum and coppres, called Allam Chyne and Okemans in the countie of Dorset." The various examinations "touching matters in conroversie betwene John and Edward Lanes and John Mansfelde" were delivered to the servant of the Earl of Huntingdon on 27 May 1582. On 12 September 1592, Clement Draper wrote to the Queen, pleading that he had "been detained in prison 12 years against all right, by practice of the Earl of Huntingdon, John Mansfield, his deputy, and Richard Laycolt, who have taken away his goods, which, with other losses, amount to 10,000l; his good name, dearer to him than his life, is rooted out by their false reports." He further claimed that "Mansfield, for 4l., got a protection under the Great Seal to defraud him and others of their goods....The Earl, the better to defend his own quarrel against Lord Mountjoy, has got into his hands...the writer's [Draper's] deeds and writings concerning his estate in the mines, and detains them. The Earl, in May 1583, covenanted that the mines should be maintained and set to work." John Mansfeld/Mansfyeld, with Clement Draper, had brought suit against others in the Court of Star Chamber, but later John sued Clement Draper in Chancery.

John Mansfield's career in politics reached its pinacle in 1593, when he represented Beverley, Yorkshire, in Parliament. He is not known to have had personal connections at Beverley, so the seat was likely procured through the influence of his lord the Earl of Huntingdon or cousin Lord Eure. As one of the burgesses for Yorkshire boroughs, he was appointed to a committee on cloth 23 March and to another concerning weirs 28 March 1593. In 1597, by which time he was serving as a Justice of the Peace for the North Riding of Yorkshire, John Mansfield offered himself for election to Parliament at Scarborough, but though he was recommended to the bailiffs and burgesses by the Archbishop of York, and had the support of his prospective fellow burgess, Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby, his nomination was not accepted by the borough authorities.

Queen Elizabeth I on 8 February 1597/8 granted John Mansfield "the office of collector of the rents and revenues of the dissolved monastery of St. Mary's, York," and more importantly, "the surveyorship of the Queen's lands in the North Riding of Yorkshire." The Crown had extensive honours and holdings in Yorkshire. John Mansfield set about to prove his proficiency by making an unusually thorough and careful survey of the manor of Settington, Yorkshire, compiled between 17 and 21 March 1599/1600. Mansfield obviously took great pains in producing this detailed document, probably an attempt to demonstrate abilities superior to those of a rival who had received many benefits for little effort. John alluded to this in his plea to the Lord Treasurer in his introductory remarks to one copy of the survey:

It is my hard fortune whilest other men receyue great rewardes for small deserts I must hold my selfe happy not to be disgraced after good seruyce done. Good my Lord excuse me for thus writyng. I haue chosen to depend on your lordship onelye. When your lordship shall please to gyue me over I wilbegone as forsaken by all. I will equall my selfe to all in this[,] never any did nor shall performe more honest dutyes to your Lordship then I will.

The manor of Settrington had been granted to Matthew, Earl of Lenox, and his wife Margaret, in 1544, but was later returned to the Crown. John Mansfield, "Crown Surveyor," was ordered to make a survey of the manors of the late Margaret, Countess of Lennox. These documents are dated February 1600/1 to July 1601, when Mansfield died. He made the surveys as part of a northern tour, likely drawing up the results after his return to London.

Family/Spouse: Mary Hobson. Mary (daughter of William Hobson and Mary) died between 1587 and 3 Feb 1592. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth before 3 Feb 1592. Elizabeth died before 10 Feb 1634; was buried on 10 Feb 1634 in St. Michael Cornhill, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Martha Raymond. Martha (daughter of Joshua Raymond and Elizabeth Smith) was born before 5 Dec 1675; was christened on 5 Dec 1675. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Symmes on 26 Dec 1700 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Capt. William Symmes and Mercy Chickering) was born about 1678 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets; died on 14 Feb 1758 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Jonathan Pierpont on 29 Oct 1691. Jonathan (son of Robert Pierpont) died on 2 Jun 1709 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Abigail Wigglesworth on 23 Dec 1700 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Rev. Michael Wigglesworth and Martha Mudge) was born on 20 Mar 1681 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 28 Jan 1771 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Capt. William Torrey on 17 Mar 1629. William (son of Philip Torrey and Alice Richards) was born before 21 Dec 1608; was christened on 21 Dec 1608 in Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England; died on 10 Jun 1690 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1671, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

She was a "gateway ancestor," one of LD's five.

Jane married John Lugg on 3 Jan 1628 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. John (son of Richard Lugg) was born before 11 Jul 1595; was christened on 11 Jul 1595 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; died before 10 Sep 1646; was buried on 10 Sep 1646 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Great Migration Begins shows her baptismal date as 16 Jan 1614, which we suspect may simply be a case of absent-mindedly rendering the date in old style.

Katherine married Thomas Dudley, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on 4 Apr 1644 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Thomas (son of Capt. Roger Dudley and Susanna Dorne) was born on 12 Oct 1576 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England; died on 31 Jul 1653 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried on 6 Aug 1653 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1681, Newark, Essex, New Jersey

Notes:

One of TSW’s eight proven “gateway ancestors”, and one of LD's five. He was a member of the drapers’ guild in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, although this does not prove that he actually worked as a draper.

“He and his family emigrated to New England in 1640, where they lived successively at Marshfield and Gloucester, Massachusetts, and New London, Connecticut. He served as Deputy Judge for New London, 1660, Judge for New London, 1662-6, Patentee of the Royal Charter, 1662, Deputy for New London to the Connecticut Legislature, 1665-6, and Clerk for New London County Court in 1666. In 1667 he and his wife, Sarah, removed to Newark, New Jersey.” [Royal Ancestry, citation details below.]

“Obadiah Bruen was born in Bruen Stapleford, England, and immigrated to New England with his wife Sarah in 1640. He settled first at Plymouth Colony, and then at Gloucester, Massachusetts (1642), where he was town selectman (1643) and a representative to the Connecticut General Court (1643-1651). He was one of the early settlers at Pequot (later New London), Connecticut, and served as the town clerk (1651-1666) and as a representative from New London in the Connecticut General Court (1652-1666). His name is the only name from New London to appear on the royal charter for the colony of Connecticut. In 1666, he joined an association to found a colony on the Passaic River called Milford (later Newark, New Jersey). He was one of the signers of the deed to purchase land from the Indians along the Passaic River (July 11, 1667).” [Yale Indian Papers Project.]

In 1889 his remains were re-interred in the Founders’ Vault at Fairmount Cemetery.

Obadiah married Sarah Seeley on 7 May 1633 in St. Martin's, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. Sarah (daughter of William Seeley and Alice Byssell) was born before 22 Oct 1609; was christened on 22 Oct 1609 in St. Giles, Sheldon, Warwickshire, England; died after 1696. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Newhall, Derbyshire, England

Edward married Elizabeth Stanhope after 1634. Elizabeth (daughter of Philip Stanhope) died about 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of AP's two proven gateway ancestors.

Cotton Mather, in Magnalia Christi Americana, called Mary Launce, second wife of the Rev. John Sherman, a "young gentlewoman [...] a Person of good Education, and Reputation, and honorably descended," whose mother was "daughter to the Lord Darcy, who was Earl of Rivers." She certainly was not, and in his pioneering 1860-64 Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James Savage took delight at exercising his well-known animus against Mather, who "tells of this wife calling her mother daughter of Darcy, Earl Rivers, one of the Popish Counsellors of Charles I who had no daughter that married a Launce." Savage continues: "If [Mary Launce Sherman] did give [her husband] these myths of her noble descent [...] either she was insane, which he had not sanity enough to discover, or she was irreverently playing on his bottomless credulity." It was left to the great Donald Lines Jacobus, founder of the twentieth-century "Jacobus School" of skeptical, fact-based genealogy, to point out, in a 1944 article, "The Family of Rev. John Sherman" (citation details below), that Mary Launce's mother really was a Darcy, albeit one of the Darcy family of Kent. Isabella Darcy of London, daughter of Sir Edward Darcy, a confidant and ally of Elizabeth I, first married John Launce of Cornwall and, secondly, the Rev. Sydrach Simpson, master of Pembroke Hall at Cambridge University. Her 1668 will names, with others, her sons James Launce and Darcy Launce, and her daughter Mary Sherman. In a subsequent article, "The Darcy Ancestry of Mrs. John Sherman" (citation details below), Jacobus put forth further proofs of Mary Launce's parentage, calling it a "perfect chain of evidence" and remarking that "Few English lines of early colonists are so thoroughly proved."

Descendants of the Rev. John Sherman and Mary Launce include Norman Rockwell, Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine, and the 68th governor of Massachusetts, William Weld.

Regarding the date of her death, the Early New England Families Study Project (citation details below) states only that she "[d]ied probably at Watertown between 15 October 1705 and 24 December 1712. She was living on 20 October 1704, when she acknowledged a deed." But Watertown records (citation details below) clearly state "m^s Mary Sherman (widow of mr. John Sherman Late: R^d: pastor of the church in watertown) deceas^t march : 9 : 1709/10".

Mary married Rev. John Sherman about 1647. John (son of Edmund Sherman and Grace Makin) was born on 26 Dec 1613 in Dedham, Essex, England; was christened on 4 Jan 1614 in Dedham, Essex, England; died on 8 Aug 1685 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in East Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Notes:

One of DDB's six proven "gateway ancestors."

Elizabeth married Richard Baldwin after 5 Feb 1643 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. Richard (son of Sylvester Baldwin and Sarah) was born before 25 Aug 1622; was christened on 25 Aug 1622 in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 23 Jul 1665 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 18 Dec 1710, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

Probably born in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Sarah married Walter Fairfield on 28 Dec 1654 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Walter (son of John Fairfield and Elizabeth) was born in 1631 in England; died on 20 Jul 1723 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gateway ancestor, one of LD's five (so far).

From Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed, "The Ancestry of the Royally-Descended Mansfields of the Massachusetts Bay" (citation details below):

Of Elizabeth (Mansfield) Wilson, not much is known. She was very unwilling to come to New England; as Mather writes, she had to be "perswaded over into the difficulties of an American desart," arriving two years after her husband. In May 1631, Margaret (Tyndal) Winthrop told how Mr. Wilson "can not yet perswad his wife to goe, for all he hath taken this paynes to come and fetch hir. I maruiell [marvel] what mettell she is made on. shure she will yeald at last, or elce we shal want him excedingly in new england." Later the same month, Mrs. Winthrop again mentioned Elizabeth's distaste for the trip; she was "more auerce [averse] then euer she was." Mrs. Wilson finally arrived in Massachusetts in 1632. Her dislike of the voyage to New England, and her unhappiness at hearing of the death of her eldest son, whom she did not long survive, are almost all that we know of her character and life.

Elizabeth married Rev. John Wilson before 1617. Rev. (son of Rev. William Wilson and Elizabeth Woodhall) was born about 1591; died on 7 Aug 1667 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Robert Keayne on 18 Jun 1617. Robert (son of John Keayne) was born about 1594; died on 23 Mar 1656 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Samuel Avery on 23 Jun 1702 in New London, New London, Connecticut. Samuel (son of Thomas Avery and Hannah Minor) was born on 15 Nov 1680 in Groton, New London, Connecticut; was christened on 2 Jan 1681 in First Church, New London, New London, Connecticut; died on 25 Feb 1750 in Montville, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ann Torrey and her husband James Humphrey were half second cousins, being both descended from William Torrey (d. 1690) but by different wives of his.

Ann married Maj. James Humphrey on 5 Dec 1734 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. James (son of James Humphrey and Margaret Torrey) was born on 22 Jun 1711 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 2 May 1798 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Enoch Sawyer. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 28 Feb 1720, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

Also spelled Toppan. Graduated Harvard in 1742, taught school in Haverhill, and was ordained and installed as pastor over the Congregational Church in Manchester in December of 1745, a position he held until his death forty-five years later.

Benjamin married Elizabeth Marsh on 5 Oct 1746. Elizabeth (daughter of David Marsh and Mary Moody) was born on 29 Jun 1723 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 24 Sep 1807 in Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was minister at Hull, 1656-1664, and minister of the First Parish of Weymouth, 1664 to 1707.

Samuel married Mercy Chickering on 30 Jul 1695 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Mercy (daughter of Francis Chickering and Anne Fiske) was born in Apr 1648 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 9 Apr 1648 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 12 Mar 1721 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of DGH's four proven gateway ancestors.

William married Deborah about 1668. Deborah was born about 1649; died on 8 Feb 1729 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married James Bell before 1658. James was born about 1633; died in 1676 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married Richard Marshall on 11 Feb 1677. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Baldwin. John was born in of Milford, New Haven, Connecticut; died before 21 Jun 1681; was buried on 21 Jun 1681 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married Erasmus Phillips about 1 Sep 1660. Erasmus (son of Richard Phillips and Elizabeth Dryden) was born in of Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 18 Jan 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1645

Notes:

Minister at Sudbury, Massachusetts, Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and Salem, Massachusetts.

James married Mary Walker on 13 May 1680 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Thomas Walker and Mary Stone) was born on 9 Aug 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died after 11 Mar 1709. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 14 May 1714, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut

Sarah married Samuel Riggs on 14 Jun 1667 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. Samuel (son of Edward Riggs and Elizabeth) was born about 1642; died in 1734 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 24 Dec 1655, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Sarah married Thomas Abbe on 16 Dec 1683 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts. Thomas (son of John Abbe and Mary) was born between 1650 and 1656; died on 17 May 1728 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rev. married Sarah Hooker before 1649. Sarah (daughter of Rev. Thomas Hooker and Susannah Garbrand) was born before 21 Feb 1630; was christened on 21 Feb 1630 in Broomfield, Essex, England; died on 20 Aug 1725 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Rev. Samuel Danforth on 5 Nov 1651. Rev. (son of Nicholas Danforth and Elizabeth Barber) was born in Sep 1626 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England; was christened on 17 Oct 1626 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England; died on 19 Nov 1674 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed (citation details below), he and Sarah Dudley ultimately divorced "because of Sarah's increasing religious fanaticism".

From The Great Migration Begins (citation details below):

Some considerable pain entered Gov. Dudley's last years as his daughter Sarah and her husband Benjamin Keayne necessitated one of the colony's earliest divorces. Stephen Winthrop says "My she Cosin Keane is growne a great preacher" in a letter from London 27 March 1646. In a letter dated London 18 March 1646/7, Benjamin Keayne writes to Thomas Dudley:

Honored Sir, That you and myself are made sorry by your daughter's enormous and continued crimes, is the greatest cause of grief that ever befell me, and the more because her obstinate continuance in them is now to me by her own letter made as certain...I never gave her the least just cause or occasion to provoke her to them...she has not left me any room or way of reconciliation. And therefore as you desire, I do plainly declare my resolution never again to live with her as a husband. What maintenance yourself expects I know not. This I know (to my cost and danger) she has unwived herself and how she or you can expect a wife's maintenance is to me a wonder...

Ezekiel Rogers passed some of the gossip on to John Winthrop in a letter dated Rowley 8 November 1647:

...I thought myself bound to acquaint you that there is not a little discourse raised, and by some, offence taken, at the late divorce granted by the Court. How weighty a business that is, as I need not tell you, so I would humbly desire that some course may be taken so as to clear the court's proceeding, as that rumors might be stopped, and letters of mistake into England prevented...

The news from England in the words of Brampton Gurdon Sr. put another light on things, as he wrote from Assington 6 June 1649 to John Winthrop:

...Here goes some speech of a N.E. couple that lately came from thence the husband first, and then the wife followed after with what goods she could get together but we heat all her goods miscarried and she escaped only with her life. The man was Cane's son a cloak seller in Birching Lane, whose mother was Mr. Willson's sister. The woman is returned to N.E. and resolves there to take another husband. I hope your laws will not tolerate such wicked actions.

Benjamin married Sarah Dudley before 1639, and was divorced in 1647. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Samuel Allyn on 27 May 1731 in Groton, New London, Connecticut. Samuel (son of Robert Allyn and Deborah Avery) was born on 26 May 1704 in Groton, New London, Connecticut; died in Feb 1762 in Groton, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to have fought in the Revolution.

James married Betty Prat on 21 Dec 1758 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Betty (daughter of Samuel Pratt and Betty Bicknell) was born on 15 Apr 1738 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 24 Oct 1831 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Parsons. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 21 Oct 1747, Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

He was a goldsmith and a storekeeper. According to Tappan-Toppan Genealogy (citation details below), he marched with other volunteers from Northampton to meet the forces of Burgoyne at Saratoga.

Benjamin married Sarah Holmes on 22 Oct 1770 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of William Homes and Rebecca Dawes) was born on 2 Jan 1748 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 21 Mar 1826 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Symmes on 26 Dec 1700 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Capt. William Symmes and Mercy Chickering) was born about 1678 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets; died on 14 Feb 1758 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Joseph Hall on 19 Jul 1693 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Joseph (son of George Hall and Mary) was born in 1642; died on 17 Apr 1705 in Bristol County, Massachusetts; was buried in Neck-o-Land Cemetery, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 16 Nov 1658, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut

Family/Spouse: Samuel Baldwin. Samuel (son of Nathaniel Baldwin and Joanna) was born about 1655 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 12 Jan 1696 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Shorter. John (son of John Shorter, Lord Mayor of London) was born in of Bybrook, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his wife Abigail Stone "settled in Springfield, Mass., where he was a schoolmaster and physician; but about 1722 they removed to the region which in 1731 became the town of Brimfield, where he was a physician, town clerk for thirty successive years, representative three years, and captain of militia." They were married for nearly seventy years.

John married Abigail Stone on 9 Nov 1703 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Daniel Stone and Mary Moore) was born on 13 Feb 1681 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 9 Mar 1772 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 13 Jan 1668, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut

Elizabeth married Robert Bassett about 1687. Robert (son of Robert Bassett and Mary) died on 5 Aug 1710 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hannah Boardman. Hannah (daughter of Daniel Boardman and Hannah Wright) was born on 18 Dec 1693 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was ordained pastor of the Taunton church in 1688. He also practiced medicine and law.

Rev. married Hannah Allen on 4 Oct 1688. Hannah (daughter of Rev. James Allen and Elizabeth Houchin) was born on 22 Jul 1668; died on 3 Dec 1761; was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Groveland, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Prudence married Amos Turner on 1 Jun 1770. Amos (son of Ezekiel Turner and Borodell Denison) was born on 1 Sep 1744 in Groton, New London, Connecticut; was christened on 7 Nov 1745 in Groton, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The published records of Weymouth state that she died "in a fit."

The James Humphrey given on Find a Grave as her father, who died in 1778 and was married to a woman named Thankfull, was not her father.

Mary married David Blanchard on 11 Jul 1782 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. David (son of David Blanchard and Mary Walker) was born on 10 Dec 1759 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 3 Jul 1824 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; was buried in North Weymouth Cemetery, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Fitzwilliam Sargent. Fitzwilliam (son of Winthrop Sargent and Judith Sanders) was born on 14 Aug 1768 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 6 Oct 1822 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[A]n Ohio judge and Democratic politician who served in the Ohio State Senate and the United States Senate. He was an early settler of the Connecticut Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio and was one of the first settlers in Portage County and the founder of the city of Ravenna, Ohio." [Wikipedia]

"TAPPAN, Benjamin, a Senator from Ohio; born in Northampton, Mass., May 25, 1773; attended the public schools; apprenticed as printer and engraver; traveled to the West Indies; studied painting with Gilbert Stuart; studied law; admitted to the bar in Hartford, Conn., and commenced practice in Ravenna, Ohio, in 1799; member, State senate 1803-1805; moved to Steubenville, Ohio, in 1809 and continued the practice of law; served in the War of 1812; held several local offices; county judge; judge of the fifth Ohio Circuit Court of Common Pleas 1816-1823; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1832; United States district judge of Ohio 1833; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1839, to March 3, 1845; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses), Committee on the Library (Twenty-seventh Congress); censured by the Senate in 1844 for breach of confidence for passing copies of a proposed treaty with Texas to the press; died in Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, April 20, 1857; interment in Union Cemetery." [Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress]

An Ohio state historical marker placed in the year 2000 at Ravenna reads: "BENJAMIN TAPPAN, JR. (1773-1857) - The founder of Ravenna Township in 1799, Benjamin Tappan, Jr. led a distinguished life of public service. An aggressive force in local politics, he served in the Ohio Senate from 1803 to 1805, as judge of the fifth court of common pleas from 1816 to 1823, and as a Federal district judge from 1826 to 1833. Tappan served as aid-de-camp to Major General Elijah Wadsworth following the surrender of Detroit in the War of 1812, provisioning and arming local militia units defending the northwest frontier against a possible British invasion."

After his retirement from electoral politics, in 1838 Benjamin Tappan formed a law partnership with Edwin M. Stanton, who would later be Secretary of War throughout the Civil War, under both Lincoln and Johnson. It was Johnson's attempt to fire Stanton that led to his impeachment. Tappan's son Benjamin Stanton, M.D. (1812-1884) married, as his first wife, in May 1838, Oella Stanton, sister of Edwin M. Stanton.

Benjamin married Elizabeth "Betsy" Lord in 1823. Elizabeth (daughter of Abner Lord and Mary Selden) was born on 16 Jul 1784 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut; died on 14 Jun 1840. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]