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William Heron

Male 1397 - 1428  (30 years)


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  • Name William Heron 
    Alternate birth 1396  Ford, Glendale, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Birth 12 Mar 1397  Whittingham, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Baptism 12 Mar 1397  Whittingham, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    Death 15 Jan 1428  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Person ID I9037  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of LMW
    Last Modified 6 Sep 2023 

    Father John Heron,   b. of Thornton, Whittingham, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Oct 1408 
    Mother Katherine   d. Aft 5 Oct 1408 
    Family ID F3066  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Isabel 
    Marriage Bef 1418  [3
    Children 
    +1. John Heron,   b. Abt 1418, of Ford, Glendale, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Mar 1461, Towton, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 43 years)
    Family ID F6343  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Sep 2023 

  • Notes 
    • Killed while leading a force attacking the house of John Manners of Etal, near Ford.

      "On 1 September 1425, Sir William Heron of Ford, the second cousin of William Heron of Thornton, died leaving as his heir a daughter Elizabeth, aged three and no male heirs. In 1337, Sir William Heron of Ford had entailed Ford on his male heirs. William Heron of Thornton [the subject of this page --PNH] was Sir William’s closest male relative and thus inherited the manor and castle of Ford. Between late 1425 and his death in early 1428, he became known as William Heron of Ford, a source of confusion in many histories of the family. He was however, never knighted." [John Watson, citation details below]

  • Sources 
    1. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008.

    2. [S809] Chris Phillips, "Some corrections and additions to The Complete Peerage: Volume 6: Heron.".

    3. [S6914] John Watson, "Heron of Thornton and Ford." Genealogical Rambling, 18 Jul 2014.

    4. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., month and year only.

    5. [S810] Tony Ingham, Chris Phillips, and Rosie Bevan, "Additions and Corrections to the Complete Peerage." Foundations 1:132, 2003., year only.

    6. [S789] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry by Vernon James Watney. Oxford, 1928., says 20 Jan, but this is an error.

    7. [S354] Chris Phillips, 23 Jan 2003, post to soc.genealogy.medieval., year only.