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Robert Smith

Male - 1510


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  • Name Robert Smith 
    Gender Male 
    Death Between 6 Oct 1510 and 20 Oct 1510  [1
    Siblings 1 sibling 
    Person ID I28711  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 13 Jun 2020 

    Father William Smith,   b. Abt 1438   d. Between Oct 1492 and Feb 1493 (Age ~ 54 years) 
    Mother Katherine Brown   d. Between 24 Sep 1511 and 12 Jan 1512 
    Family ID F11444  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Called Sir Robert Smith, he was parson and curate of Erwarton. From his will, quoted by Myrtle Stevens Hyde (citation details below):

      . . . pson & curat of Erwarton . . . to be buryed in the channsel of Erwarton . . . londs and tenements lyeng in Erwarton which my father gaff me by testament aftr ye decease of my mother Dame Kateryn Smyth . . . be sowld . . . the money ther of . . . First I gyff to the church of Erwarton A cape And vestement rede velvet p’ce x li [ten pounds] Also I wol have A honest p’st And a bul’[?] to go to Rome to Syng for me at Scalo[?] coll[?] v massys And he to have for hys labours x li Also I bequeth to owr holy father the pope of Rome to ye maynteynyng of his warrs x li lowly besechyng hym of Absoluton of my Synnys And trespass . . . Al my greynnys in the bernys . . . & all my catell wt al my moveable goods be sowld . . . & the money ther of to pay my Detts fyrst to the bushop for my frutts . . . executours . . . Dame Katherin Smyth my mother Thom’s Hal’ of Ippeswich and John Palmer of Erwarton . . .

  • Sources 
    1. [S4240] Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "The English Ancestry of Elizabeth Smith, Whose Husband was Samuel1 Smith of Hadley, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 174:141, Spring 2020; 174:247, Summer 2020.