1… 1.1. William and John Harry, tenants of Waltham Holy Cross. 1413. (SC 8/149/7449).
1.1.1. “Thomas Harry of Spryngefeld”. Mar 20, 1436. (E 40/7734).
1.1.1.1. … Harry, b. ca. 1420, m. Thomas Salmon/Salman, br. of Robert Salmon, as follows, d. 1472. 1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Harry, b. ca. 1440, alias Thomas Salmon, of Spryngefeld, m. a dau. of William Smyth. Inquisition returned June 13, 1479, taken at Barking in Essex. William Smyth was seized in demesne on the day of the recognisance of a messuage and 60 acres of land in Waltham Holy Cross. Memorandum: on May 1, 1479 he handed it over to Richard Bull. (His grandson). Another dau. of William Smyth m. Thomas Bull; they the parents of Elizabeth Bull* and *Richard Bull.
1.1.1.1.1.1. John Salmon (alias Harris, of Prittlewell) m. (1) *Elizabeth Bull, (2) Jane …
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. John Harris, of Bristol, by Elizabeth Bull. Harrys v Bele. Plaintiff: John Harrys, of Bristol, grocer, son of John Harrys, of London. 1504-1515. (C 1/320/92). Hence:

HARRIS FAMILY OF VIRGINIA

1.1.1.1.1.1.2. William Harris, by Jane. “John Smyth, sheriff of the counties of Essex, and Hertford In 1539 purchased a chantry in the church of Long-Ashton, in Somerset …also all the guild, or fraternity, in Great-Walden, lately dissolved, with divers other lands and tenements, in Essex, and London. He m. Agnes, dau. of — Charnock, of Lancashire, Esq. (English Baronatage, 1721). His dau., Joan Smyth, m. her kinsman, William Harris, b. ca. 1495, a son of John Harris of Prittlewell (others being Richard and Henry). William Harris
received interest from the Dunmow estate, being paid 32 shillings by the Royal Commissioners from monies owed to him by the estates tenants, which they had recovered (E. Oxley, The Reformation of Essex, 1965, p. 112).
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1. William Harris.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1. Christopher Harris, bapt. Jan. 26, 1568, Great Dunmow.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1. William Harris, m. Maria Loveday, Sept. 23, 1589; she bapt. Sept. 3, 1564, dau. of John Loveday and Maria Bernard/Barnarde.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1. William Harris, m. Elizabeth; perhaps Eliz. Burrell, bapt. July 8, 1599, in Great Dunmow.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. John Harris, bapt. May 23, 1619.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2. Samuel Harris, bapt. March 18, 1620, bur. Nov. 18, 1644. (Plague)
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.3. Thomas Harris, bapt, March 3, 1623, bur. Nov. 18, 1644. (Plague).
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.4. Edmond Harris, m. Alice …
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.4.1. Samuel Harris, bapt. Oct. 18, 1655.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.4.2. Thomas Harris, bapt. June 20, 1659.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.5. Ann Harris, m. Thomas Barker, Oct. 20, 1657; he bapt. Nov. 30, 1629 (son of George Barker) and probable nephew of Joan Barker, sp. of Humphrey Bernard, br. of Sybil bernard, who m. William Burrell, Nov. 11, 1639, in Great Dunmow.

1.1.1.1.1.1.3. Richard Harris, b. ca. 1510. (Vis. Essex, 1552). (Great Burstead).
1.1.1.1.1.1.3.1. Bridget Harris, m. Henry Rawlyn. The sister of William Harris and Richard Harris was Margaret Harris, who m. Richard Rawlyn, having issue: (1) John Rawlyn, father of Thomas Rawlyn, bapt. Aug. 7, 1558, in Great Dunmow; William Rawlyn, bapt. May 4, 1562. (2) Henry Rawlyn, sp. of Bridget Harris. The Elizabeth Averell who m. Edward Waldegrave, Sept. 10, 1565, in Boxted, was probably of this family.
1.1.1.1.1.1.3.2. William Harris, m. Ann Tyrrel, Sept. 9, 1574. Sir Thomas Arundel of Lanherne and Katherine Dinham had issue: Anne Arundel, who m. Sir James Tyrrel, son of William Tyrrel of Gipping, and Margaret Darcy, the dau. of Sir Robert Darcy, who bore: Arg. 3 cinquefoils Gu.; assumed by the Harris family. Sir Robert Darcy, of Danbury, Essex (younger br. of Thomas Darcy, b. c. 1459, who m. Margaret Harleston, see TNA PROB 11/7/329), who held ‘Crixheth, Crixseth, Criksea’ manor: ‘Distant from Maldon nine miles, and from London, forty-two. In 1498, Thomasine Hopton held it of Thomas Darcy, esq., and Robert Darcy died possessed of it in 1516. The Harrys or Harris family had a large brick mansion here, pleasantly situated and enclosed in a park, well stored with timber. Some remains of the outer court, and the site of the building, and of fish-ponds, are yet to be seen’ (Hist. Essex, Cricksea Hall.
1.1.1.1.1.1.3.2.1. John Harris, m. Dorothie Norris, June 25, 1599; probable sister of Faith Norris, who m. Simon Barker, Oct. 29, 1599.
1.1.1.1.1.1.3.2.1.1. William Harris, bapt. Oct. 7, 1602, perhaps “the surveyor”, and father of James Harris of York Co. VA.
1.1.1.1.1.1.3.2.1.2. James Harris, m. Elizabeth James, Nov. 5, 1638, sister of John James, who m. Marie Thresher, May 30, 1634.
1.1.1.1.1.1.3.2.2. Benjamin Harris, m. Margaret Clark, July 25, 1613.
1.1.1.1.1.1.3.2.2.1. John Harris, bapt. Sept. 16, 1614.
1.1.1.1.1.1.3.2.2.2. Samuel Harris, m. Marie Kitrige, March 13, 1654. Keterige/Keteriche.
1.1.1.1.1.1.3.2.2.3. William Harris, bapt. Aug. 30, 1618.
1.1.1.1.1.1.3.2.2.4. James Harris, bapt. April 15, 1621.
1.1.1.1.1.1.3.3. James Harris, Will probated Aug. 5, 1594, makes substantial bequests; mentions sons: William, John, and James; he d. 1606.

SALMON/SALMAN

The name was not confined to any particular group of people, being used by both Christians and Jews; several Christian priests and abbots bore the name, it denoting wisdom; a biblical name brought over by the Normans.

The antiquarian sources quoted hereinafter, when refering to the antiquity of the Salmons around Prittlewell, are alluding to a deed of 1347, preserved here: Parties: John son of John Salman of Great Sutton & William de Hertecoumbe and Alice his wife. Place or Subject: Great Sutton (1 ml. fr. Prittlewell). 1347. (E 326/8460). There are several generations between John Salmon the younger and Robert and Thomas Salmon, heretofore given, that can not be accounted for, yet the John Salmon who fought at Agincourt (1415) may have been a link.

Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, vol. 3, p. 192, 1865:
The Will of Thomas Cock (Cooke), “yeman of the Kings Majestys most honorable Guard, late of Prittlewell, in the county of Essex”, proved Feb. 12, 1545, read in the presence of John Smith and Thomas Byrch, yeomen of the Kings Majestys honorable Guard, Thomas Salmon of Lye (Leigh)*, and Wyllyam Salmon of Prittlewell, and others”.

“Thomas Cocke held the lease of the farm called Shelford and Bredworth in Foulness, well stocked with sheep and oxen; owned a farm called Reynolds in Shopland; oyster layings in Little Wakering; many houses and shops in the town of Prittlewell; and other houses, woods, crofts, and the son of John Cocke the elder, and anciently descended by proof of sundry evidences (from one Ranulphus Cocus) dated in reign of Hen. III., Edw. III., Hen. IV., Hen. I., &c.” Then follows the blazon: “Sables and gould indented per pale. Crest a unicorn’s head coupé per pale, gould and sables upon a chapeau Royall gules, lined ermine”. (Harl. M.S., 1507). A grant also appears to have been made to John Cocke, of Little Stambridge, in 1588, “Sa. three bends arg.,” by Cooke, Clarenceux, Both coats are quartered on the monument of Mary, wife of Richard Davies, and cldest daughter of John Cocke and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Lord Wentworth. Mary Davies died Sept. 2, 1623.

“Thomas Salmon, of an ancient family, resident there for three centuries. He died Aug. 5, 1576, aged 70, and was interred in the Church with an inscription in brass, now lost. Other sepulchral memorials of the family, however, remain, including a mural monument of Robert Salmon, Esq., Master of the Trinity House in 1617; one of his sons, Peter Salmon, was an eminent physician in the 17th century; educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge; and a graduate in Arts and Medicine of the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Padua. (Ped. penes me. Dr. Monk’s “Hist. of the Coll. of Physicians”). Several valuable and most interesting monuments in Leigh Church were destroyed or removed during the restorations about the year 1837. Iconoclasm and vandalism are not confined to 17th century Puritans.

The Salmons are also recorded by Mr. Benton, Hist. Rochford Hundred, vol. 1., 1867:

“There are several monuments and inscriptions in this church to the Salmon family, who resided here for three centuries, and were an opulent mercantile and maritime family. The first notice of them was on a stone in the north chapel, which contained a brass having the effigies of a man, and this:— “Hic jacet Robertus Salman, Alicia, & Johana uxor ejus. Robertus, ob. 15 Sept. 1472″. This historic relic is supposed to have disappeared at or about the restoration in 1837–8. The next is for Thomas Saman, who was churchwarden in 1552. It was formerly in the north chapel, but is now on the pavement of the south aisle, and on a brass plate is inscribed, “Thomas Saman, of the age of 70 years, a man worthy of praise, Frende unto the Frendles, a Father to this Town, Styll maintain good things and evill to throwe downe; Grandfather unto Thomas Saman, of the age of fourteen yeres, who both in one Day departed this Life 5 Aug., 1576”. On the floor of the north chapel is a blackstone, upon which is engraven on a brass plate, “Here lyeth Robert Salman, who took to wife Agnes, with whom he lived thirty-two years, and had issue by her, sixe Sonnes and foure Daughters. Ob. 6 Sept. 1591, aet. 58”. Upon the wall of this chapel is a black mural monument with a finely executed bust of Robert Salmon, Esq.”. This monument has been moved a few feet further to the east than it was originally erected. A stone on the floor below shows the place of his sepulture, and records he was born in this town in 1566, and buried 18th June, 1641. Upon the monument are his arms:— Sa. 3 Salmons haurient in fess Or.; impaling Or., on a bend engrailed between 2 cottises sa., three mullets of the field — Andrews”.

“To ye Memory of ye Right Worthy & Worll. Robert Salmon, Esquire, That great instrument of God’s glory and ye commonwealths good, ye restorer of Navigation almost lost 1614. Mr. of ye Trinity house 1617 & the glory of it 24 yeares, chosen Sheriff of London 1640 whose solid Judgement, Acute Witt, Uprightness to all, true piety to God, require Admiration & Imitation. Hee died to ye loss of all but his great comfort, June 18th, 1641 in his 74 yeare; was interred with his ancestors of above 300 years continuance in ye grave of his Father in this Chancell, where hee expecteth a joyfull Resurrection. One of his sons died during the life-time of his father, and his grand. son Robert, of Leigh, was amerced by the parliament committee in the sum of £120 for his loyalty to Charles I. Another son, Peter Salmon, was an eminent physician in the 17th century; educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge, and a graduate in arts and medicine of the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Padua”.

Further elaboration is given in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, p. 50, 1878:

The tower of the Church of S. Peter, South Weald, is justly described by Mr. Buckler as “noble in design and a master-piece of masonry in the Perpendicular style of Henry the Seventh’s period”. Morant, citing Dr. Bridge’s MS. collections, has already told us that this tower was built in the beginning of that reign and for that purpose a rate was granted for five years on which were collected £289 5s. 10d. In addition. I subjoin the following evidence that William Salmon of Brentwood, who by Will proved March 5, 1506, desired to be buried “in the pysshe church of Southwold in the small south dore of the same church in the aleye before the Roode,” gave “to the werke of the steeple v mres to be paid yerely as the werke of the said steple is areysed and goeth forward”. Farther he says “I wyll do make and glase the wyndowe of the steple at myn own charge, reasonably, whatsoev’ the said wyndow coste”.

Transactions, v. 4, p. 169

“When Samuel Purchas took up his residence at Eastwood (2 ml. W. of Prittlewell), it threw him into the society and into the very midst of a set of remarkable men, great voyagers and travellers … mariners and seamen were visiting France, Spain, Portugal and the Canaries, the Mediterranean, the Coast of Barbary, the River Plate, the East and West Indies, and the Greenland Sea. Cotemporary with Purchas, and living there, were the Moyers, the Salmons, the Goodlads, the Haddocks, the Bonners, the Harrises; the Hares, the Cockes: and many others, some of whose names as well as their letters and journals, are mentioned in the “Pilgrimage”. And it was there that he obtained from the lips of the narrator, one very remarkable and interesting narrative, entitled “The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Essex, sent by the Portugals prisoner to Angola, who lived there, and in the adjoining regions, neer 19 yeares”. “This narrative” says Purchas, “is out of his own reports to myself; other like things you may find from his relation scattered in my ‘ Pilgrimage’. The cotemporary of Purchas was Robert Salmon, a wealthy Merchant and Mariner, afterwards Master of the Trinity House. Died 18th June, 1641, and was buried at Leigh. Purchas refers to his letters. Robert Bonner, Master of the Dragon, whose Journal is mentioned by Purchas, was, at the time of his death, of Bristol. The Bonners were a maritime family at Leigh in the time of Purchas, and continued so for several generations. Richard Harris of Leigh, an Elder Brother of the Trinity House, died and was buried at Leigh in 1628, bequesting “To my sons Richard and William all my apparel, sea-plots, books, and instruments, with my rings and whistle and silver plate belonging to the sea”.

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