Monthly Archives: January 2020

1. John Harrys, of London. Jan. 21, 1470. Protection for John Harrys of London in the retinue of George duke of Clarence, lieutenant of Ireland. (C.S.P.). Debtor: William Skyby, clerk, John Harris, citizen and grocer [merchant] of London. Creditor: Thomas … Continue reading →

EDWARD BRANTLEY OF VIRGINIA The only thing that can be said of Edward Brantley of Virginia is that the vast majority of his and his family’s connections were originally of the vicinity of Bristol, England, as this account shows. There … Continue reading →

England is small. Somerset is a small part of England. The part of Somerset from which came many settlers of early Virginia comprised of a number of villages through which all roads went to Bristol; a magnet of opportunity, especially … Continue reading →

Rodney Stoke (4 mls. fr. Cheddar, 12 mls fr. Mells and West Pennard, from whence the Kitchen/Kinchen family probably originated; where Joan, a sister of William Kitchen, m. Thomas Pearce, Nov. 24, 1586. 1. John Kitchen, m. Grace Cade, Aug. … Continue reading →

The question of “the Sergeant” stretches the mind, and much imagination has gone into “proving” descent from him. Such is required, for the spider’s web of Harris families in and around Cheddar and Wedmore in Somerset can not be disintangled … Continue reading →

1. 2. John Harris, m. Jone … Jone Harrys of Badgworth. May, 10, 1541. To be bur. in churchyard of Bagworth (5 mls Cheddar/juxta Wedmore). Ch. of Wellys 4d. Ch. of B. I2d. Izabell Stebbes a cow, my second kyrtell, … Continue reading →

1. … 2. Richard Counsell, bapt. Apr. 4, 1568, held one third of the manor of Mudgley, names as “cousin” in the will of Marie (Beard) Sherwell, widow of Robert Sherwell, of Blackford, Somerset. John Harris, d. 1625, m. Penelope … Continue reading →

Thomas Joyner, who died in 1694, in Virginia, was highly likely to have been born in the London area of England,and have been of a prosperous land-owning family of Dorchester-on-Thames, Berkshire; the son of a Thomas Joyner, an attorney in … Continue reading →