Joan Bellers

Notes:

Also called Jane; also called Belers, Bellairs, etc.

Several sources, including Royal Ancestry (vol. 1, p. 351), have Joan/Jane, daughter of James Beler and Margaret de Bernake, as having been married to Simon Digby and Thomas Seyton. But:

"Everard Seyton was the son of Sir John Seyton by his second wife a daughter of Digby. He died in 16 Edward IV [1477] leaving two infant daughters Joan and Anne. Everard Seyton received the estate of Maidwell, Northamptonshire as his inheritance. He is not mentioned in Vincent's pedigree of the family but his daughter Joan married Francis Metcalfe and upon her husband's demise conveyed the manors of Maydewell to John Seyton, esq. Her uncle had received the estate of Seyton in Rutlandshire upon his father's death in 1396. In 6 Henry VIII [1515] a fine was levied between Joan Metcalfe, widow, daughter to Everard Seyton, Esq. and John Seyton, Esq. This John Seyton was the second son of Thomas Seyton, Esq.; eldest son to John Seyton, Esq. by Jane Bellers his first wife." [The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, Compiled from the Manuscript Collections of the Late Learned Antiquary John Bridges, Esq. by Peter Whalley. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1791]

"Though the pedigree of the Seytons given in the visitation of Northamptonshire shows that John Seyton had a son Thomas and three grandsons, Martinsthorpe is said to have passed to William Feilding by his marriage with Agnes, daughter and heir of John de St. Liz or de Seyton." [VCH Rutland 2:84-85]

"John de Seyton [...] died at Jerusalem in 1396 and was succeeded by his son John. The latter held the manor until his death, which took place about 1436-7. His son Thomas de Seyton assigned it at that date in dower to his father's widow Joan." [VCH Buckinghamshire 2:334-35]

Just as a side note, the late Leo van de Pas's Genealogics site shows Joan/Jane Beler as having married Simon Digby and John Seyton (alias St. Liz).

Family/Spouse: Simon Digby. Simon (son of Richard Digby and Katherine de Pakeman) was born in of Tilton, Leicestershire, England; died before 1422. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Seyton alias St. Liz. John (son of John de Seyton and Joan Longueville) was born in of Martinsthorpe, Rutland, England; died between 1436 and 1437. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Killed at the Battle of Towton, fighting on the Lancastrian side.

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

Family/Spouse: William Fielding. William (son of John Fielding and Margaret Purefoy) was born in of Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England; died on 4 May 1471 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Rutland, 1485, 1486, 1499. Said to have fought on the victor's side at the battle of Bosworth Field.

Family/Spouse: Jacquetta Ellis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Humphrey Grey. Humphrey (son of Robert Grey and Eleanor Lowe) was born about 1448 in of Enville, Staffordshire, England; died on 11 Dec 1499. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Skeffington. William (son of Thomas Skeffington and Mary) was born before 1467 in Skeffington, Leicestershire, England; died on 31 Dec 1535 in Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland; was buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Rutland, 1529.

Everard married Margery Heydon before 1518. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Saint Barbe. Richard (son of John Saint Barbe and Jane Sydenham) was born between 1470 and 1480 in of Ashington, Somerset, England; died on 10 Dec 1530. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anthony Colley. Anthony (son of John Colley and Isabell Palmer) was born about 1503 in of Glaston, Rutland, England; died on 27 Nov 1574. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Stamford, 1539, and for Rutland in 1545, 1547, Mar 1553, Oct 1553, 1555, 1558, 1559, 1571, 1572, and 1584. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and at the Middle Temple. Sheriff of Rutland 1541-42, 1549-50, 1553-54, 1561-62, 1567-68, 1575-76, and 1585-86.

"Whatever knowledge of the law Digby had acquired at the Middle Temple, an inn with which he retained a connexion for many years, was put to both public and private use: regularly named to commissions of oyer and terminer for the midlands, he was also consulted on legal matters by his friends and relatives, for whom he often acted as a feoffee. It was perhaps his legal bent which in 1572 prompted his demand to see the 3rd Earl of Huntingdon’s patent of lieutenancy before acknowledging Huntingdon’s standing in the county, a piece of officiousness which incensed the earl. With so ardent a Puritan as Huntingdon, however, Digby can have felt little at ease: in 1564 he was reported to be ‘indifferent’ in religion but towards the end of his life he was described as unsound in faith and one of his sons was a notable Catholic." [History of Parliament]

Family/Spouse: Anne Cope. Anne (daughter of Anthony Cope and Jane Crewes) died after 1591. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Third son of Richard Saint Barbe and Margery Grey. He was a member of Henry VIII's privy council, and one of the witnesses who signed that king's will.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1510, of Homington, Wiltshire, England

Notes:

Second son of Richard Saint Barbe and Margery Grey. He was a merchant based in Salisbury. In 1547 he purchased the manor of Homington, Wiltshire and the vicarage of Compton Chamberlaine from his brother William Saint Barbe, who was a member of Henry VIII's privy council.

Thomas St. Barbe (d. 1563) = Joan (d. 1573)
George St. Barbe = Mary Warburton
Ursula St. Barbe = William Ussher (d. 1671)
Adam Ussher, Archdeacon of Clonfert (1650-1713) = Rebecca Wye (d. 1694)
William Ussher, Archdeacon of Clonfert (1680-1744) = Mary Jenney
Mary Jenney Ussher = Richard Molesworth (d. 1758)
Henrietta Molesworth = John Staples (1736-1820)
Elizabeth Staples = Rev. Hugh Hamilton
Rev. Thomas Hamilton (1826-1905) = Mary Warren (1826-1916)
Florence Augusta Hamilton (1862-1908) = Albert James Lewis (1863-1929)
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963)

Making TWK a ninth cousin twice removed to C. S. Lewis.

Family/Spouse: Joan. Joan died after 17 Jan 1573. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Flower. John (son of Richard Flower and Alice Harington) was born in 1535 in of Whitwell, Rutland, England; died on 30 Apr 1620. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maria Neale. Maria (daughter of Francis Neale) died after 1592. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Alice Symbarbe.

Alice married Christopher Batt on 8 Jul 1568 in St. Martin's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Christopher (son of John Batt and Margaret Thistlethwaite) was born between 1538 and 1540; died before 31 Aug 1581; was buried on 31 Aug 1581 in St. Martin's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Kaye. Robert (son of John Kaye and Dorothy Mauleverer) was born in of Woodsome, Yorkshire, England; died before 5 Dec 1620 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 5 Dec 1620 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Attainted and hanged for high treason for allegedly taking part in the Gunpowder Plot.

Family/Spouse: Mary Mulsho. Mary (daughter of William Mulsho) died before 1653. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Joane Byley on 29 Sep 1600 in St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Joane (daughter of Henry Byley and Alice Holmes) died before 24 Dec 1623; was buried on 24 Dec 1623 in St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 8 Aug 1579, All Hallows', Almondbury, Yorkshire, England´

Grace married Richard Saltonstall on 28 Nov 1609 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. Richard (son of Samuel Saltonstall and Anne Ramsden) was born before 4 Apr 1586; was christened on 4 Apr 1586 in Rookes Hall, Highcliffe in Hipperholme, Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died before 25 Oct 1661 in Crayford, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Wikipedia: "Sir Kenelm Digby (11 July 1603 – 11 June 1665) was an English courtier and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed natural philosopher, and known as a leading Roman Catholic intellectual and Blackloist. For his versatility, he is described in John Pointer's Oxoniensis Academia (1749) as the 'Magazine of all Arts and Sciences, or (as one stiles him) the Ornament of this Nation'."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 10 Aug 1661, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors." He and his family emigrated in 1638 on the Bevis. First at Newbury, then Salisbury, then Boston about 1651.

He was a tanner, then, in Boston, a merchant. Died after being accidentally shot by his son. Ian Watson (citation details below) notes that "the additional detail that the son was 'firing at a mark in his orchard' was reported as early as 1845 by Tristram Coffin and has been repeated many times since, but we are not aware of a reliable contemporary source for it."

Christopher married Anne Baynton on 12 Oct 1629 in St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Anne (daughter of Ferdinando Baynton and Jane Weare alias Browne) was born on 23 Sep 1602; was christened on 30 Dec 1602 in St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died between 14 Mar 1679 and 21 May 1679 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]