It is impossible to understand the relationships in Virginia between English families without understanding the medieval norm of a continuing intermarriage between a small group of (kinship) families. For centuries such families had strengthened their bonds, furthering joint “business ventures”, and had settled side by side. When, in Virginia, the relationship between English neighbours is not known, it is almost entirely due to an ignorance of their English antecedants. They were children of “continually repeating patterns of association”, as outlined in what follows, a particular example of such; that of a family of Harris, the associations of which, almost ad infinitum, confirm the ancestry of Mary and Major William Harris, of Curles Swamp. They were maternally Langford; cousins of the Woodsons; associated with the son of Major William Harris, who adjudicated in the case of “Thomas Langford’s orphan”; and associated with families of Walker and Hyggons/Higgins, of which, Judith m. William Owen. Their son, Thomas, b. 1635, was almost certainly he who m. Jane …, in Virginia, who, as a double-widow, was recorded in the household of William Walker in New Kent Co. These notes give brief notice to the ancestry of the said William Owen, including that of his mother, a desc. of Dafydd Holland ap Robin ap Roger Hoeskin; very likely a desc. of Thurstan Holland.

These notes have relevance to Granville Co. Harris, as repeated patterns of Shropshire associations are there continued.

The Harris family in question, I suggest, were of the family of “de Erdington”, stemming from Henry de Erdington, and a younger son, “John Henr'” – John son of Henry, made to be “Welsh” in contentious pedigrees as “John ap Harry”. Hereinafter, I explain their contentiousness. Henry de Erdington’s heir, Giles, was the great-grandfather of Richard Corbet (d. 1493), who m. Elizabeth Devereux, dau. of Sir Walter Devereux, 1st Lord Ferrers of Chartley, who m., in 1494, (2) Sir Thomas Leighton, Sheriff of Shropshire, who m. (2) Ann, dau. of Roger Baker (Roger ap John); having issue: Margaret Leighton, who m. John Harris, great-grandson of John Henr’. It was a case of a younger branch of a family, deprived of any substantial inheritance, but not of social status, being “allowed” to marry into the elevated circle of their cousins.

The instances of continued Heriz association would need to be explained as a consequence of the descendants of Robert de Heriz, son of Ivo de Heriz II, in Devon and Cornwall, of which a further notice will be given.

DESCENDANTS OF THE PAGANELS/PAYNELS

Mr. Everitt’s account:

“The church of Aston is one of those places seen time after time, but of which comparatively little is known. The church, which is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is situate at the north-western extremity of a very large parish, which in its limits includes Deritend and Bordesley, Nechells, Witton, Erdington, Ward End, Saltley, Castle Bromwich, and Water Orton. …. Referring to Dugdale for its early history, we read that “before the Norman Conquest, Edwine, Earl of Mercia was Lord of this Place; but upon that great Distribution made by King William to his Friends and Followers, it, with other vast Possessions of the disinherited English … was bestowed by William the Conqueror on William Fitz Ansculf (who had his principal Seat at the Castle of Dudley in Staffordshire). This William Fitz Ansculf* was succeeded in the Barony of Dudley, and the possession of his estates by the Paganells, and, according to Dugdale, Gervase Paganell (temp. Henry II) gave the church of Aston to the Monastery of Newport Paganell, commonly called Tickford Priory, in Buckinghamshire. It would seem, however, from a deed printed in the Monasticon (vol. v, p. 203, No. II), that Gervase Paganell merely confirmed (in 33 Henry II) earlier grants of his father Ralph Paganell, and his grandfather Fulk Paganell, the latter of whom had founded the Priory in the reign of William II. But, however this may be, the monks of the Priory, to quote Dugdale again, “thought not their Title very secure till they had got a Ratification thereof from Giles de Erdington in 15 Hen. II. … after which, viz. in 38 Hen. III, there was an Ordination of the Vicaridge here by Roger de Wesham, then Bishop of Coventre and Lichfield …. by which …. it appears that the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield were thenceforth to receive out of the Fruits of the Rectory the sum of xx Marks yearly … There was a previous ratification (temp. Richard I or John) by Ralph de Someri. See Lipscomb’s Buckinghamshire, vol. iv, p. 291”. (Alan. E. Everitt, Birmingham Archaeological Society, pp. 2-4, 1872). *He was the son of Asculf de Picquigny, and father of Beatrix, wife of Fulke Paganell (Paynel), grandfather of Gervase Paynel.

Henry de Erdington, in the reign of Edward II. is supposed to have built the south aisle of the parish church of Aston, and Sir Thomas de Erdington, in the reign of Henry VI. founded a chantry there. An entry in N&Q, vol. v., Jan.-June, 1870, concerning the Hawise, Lady of Cyveiloc, throws light on the relationship between the Erdingtons and their in-laws: “The arms in the first quarter of the first and fourth grand quarters, belonged successively to three families Paganel, Someri, and Erdinton. Hawyse Paganel, daughter* of Gervase Paganel temp. Rich. I., was married to John de Someri. Their great-granddau., Maud de Someri, was the wife of Henry de Erdinton, or Erdington, who died 10 Edw. I. I believe that this descent discloses one of the numerous instances of the assumption of the mother’s arms without change of name. Here is another instance: Paganel bore the coat: Or two lions passant. De Someri marries the heir of Paganel, and takes the Paganel coat, retaining his own name. Erdinton marries the co-heir of De Someri, and does the same thing”.

*She was his sister, a dau. of Ralph Paynel.

(1. William Paynel.
1.1. Fulk Paynel, of Dudley, successor of William, son of Asculf. He may have m. a dau, of William.
1.1.1. Ralph Paynel. “In 5 Steph. this Ralph taking part with Maud the Empress, was by her made Governor of the Castle of Nottingham (William Peverell, then Lord thereof, being taken prisoner in the Battle of Lincoln, fighting for King Stephen); whereupon he instigated Robert, Earl of Glocester to enter Nottingham”. (Dugdale).
1.1.1.1. Gervase Paynel. “The seal of Gervase Paganel, feudal Baron of Dudley, to a charter, dated the 33rd of Henry II., confirming certain grants of his father and grandfather to the monks of Newport, displays two lions passant” (Henry Sydney Grazebrook, The Heraldry of Worcestershire, vol . 2, p. 419, 1873). Gervase d. bef. Dec. 25, 1194; he m.
(1153) Isabelle de Beaumont, dau. of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester.
1.1.2. William Paynel, of Braunton, Devon, per Dugdale.
1.1.2.1. William Paynel, m. a dau. of William Briwere. (Mr. Grazebrook).
1.1.3. Fulk Paynel, held land in La Hérissiere. (Déclaration des fiefs de fabbaye du Mont-Saint Michel).The Heris/Heriz name is a contraction of (Héris)sière, and their armorial of three hedgehogs was a pun of Hérissière, a fort with defensively angled wooden spikes that resembled the spines of a hedgehog; Fr. hérisson being an hedgehog.

DESCENDANTS OF SOMERI, MARSHALL, D’ALBINI, MESCHINES, AND MONTFORT

1.1.1.2. Hawise Paynel. m. John de Someri.
1.1.1.2.1. Sir Ralph de Someri, of Dudley, m. Margaret, dau. of John FitzGilbert, le Marshal.
1.1.1.2.1.1. Roger de Someri, of Dudley (d. 1273) m. (1). Nichole, dau. of William d’Albini (son of William d’ Albini, 2nd Earl of Arundel, and Matilda de Saint-Hilaire de Harcouet), and Mabel de Meschines, dau. of Hugh (Kevelioc) de Meschines, and Bertrade de Montfort, ancestor of Simon de Montfort, br.-in-law of William Crispin I.
1.1.1.2.1.1.1. Maud de Someri, m. Henry de Erdington.

The parish church of St. John the Baptist, Wolvey, “here is also an altar tomb at the west end to Thomas de Wolvey, who d. ca. 1305, and Alice (Clinton) his wife. (Birm. Arch. Soc. Trans. lvii, 119, and pl. xi, 1.) “The visible side is divided into three panels, two with shields and the centre with a defaced inscription and at the end two shields. It has life-sized effigies; the man in chain armour with a shield and sword on his left, his head resting on a cushion and his feet on a lion; the feet are broken. The woman, a much finer piece of work, wears a kerchief and wimple; the drapery of her mantle and cote-hardi is gracefully arranged; in her hands she holds a small heart. She has two cushions under her head and a lion at her feet”. (A History of the County of Warwick, ed. L F Salzman, vol. 6, Knightlow Hundred, pp. 281-287, 1951).

1. Henry de Erdington (fl.1145).
1.1. William de Erdington.
1.1.1. Thomas de Erdington, m. Rohesia de Cokefield, a widow 2 H. 3. From 1194 to 1210, the manor of Wellington, Shropshire (10 miles from Cruckton, a.t.c.f.; 7 mls from Condover), was granted in fee farm to Thomas of Erdington, the sheriff. (V.C.H. Salop. iii. 13). From 1211, Thomas held by serjeanty, and from 1212 by the service of one knight. He died in 1218 and in 1221 his son Giles, d. ca. 1268, was lord. Giles was succeeded by his son Sir Henry, d. 1282. (Eyton, ix. 41–3). Henry m. Maud, dau. and coheir of Roger de Someri (Knights of Edw. I, Harl. Soc. lxxx, 1929, 310), having issue, Giles, b. in 1272, who died young; his heir being his brother, Henry, who receiving his father’s lands in 1295, on coming of age, and those of his mother on her death in 1302.

1.1.1.1. Giles de Erdington, 14 H. 3, br.-in-law of William FitzAlan, as follows.
1.1.1.1.1. Sir Henry de Erdington, m. Maud Someri, great-granddau. of Hawyse Paganel and John de Someri. 7 E. 1. His arms O. two lions passant az.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Henry de Erdington, had built the south aisle, m. Joan Wolvey. 35 Ed. 3. She was the dau. of Sir Thomas de Wolvey (of Wolvey, in com. Warwick), and Alice, dau. of James de Clinton. The overlords of Wolvey were the Earls of Warwick. Earl William in 1166 stated that Ivo de Harecurt* held 7 fees de vetero feffamento, but that his father (Earl Roger) had transferred (the overlordship of) 3½ fees to the Earl of Leicester (Red Book of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 325) — from whom it descended to the Earls of Winchester, so that the overlordship was shared by the two earls.

DESCENDANTS OF CORBET AND HARCOURT

1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Sir Giles de Erdington, m. Elizabeth Tolthorpe. 31 E. 2. Giles de Erdington d. 1n 1363 and his son, Thomas, m. Margaret, dau of Thomas Corbet, of Moreton Corbet, leaving a son, Thomas, aged 23 1n 1395. (G.F. Farnham, Charnwood Manors, Leic. Arch. Soc. p. 141).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Sir Thomas de Erdington, d. 18 R. 2, m. Margaret Corbet.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas de Erdington, m. Ann, dau. of Thomas Harcourt. 18 R. 2. On the S. wall of the chancery was an altar tomb, are two alabaster figures, a man and a woman. He has cropt hair; a gorget of mail, plated armour, mitten gauntlets, studs on the knuckles; a lion looking uo at his feet; under his head a helmet with a lion’s head as crest. She rests her head on a double cushion supported by angels, is habited in a surcoat, belt, pointed headress and veil, long sleeves to wrist. At the N. side of the tomb six angels hold shields. In Dugdale’s time, on these shields were painted: 2 lions passant guardant (Erdington); 2 bars (Harcourt).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Sir Thomas de Erdington, founded the chantry, m. Joyce Burnell (maternally Mohun). 27 H. 6.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2. Henry de Erdington, benefactor of Shrewsbury Church; his gifts being witnessed by Sir Robert Corbet (Haughmond cart., f. 197 b). He m. Matilda, dau. of Roger de Someri, of Dudley, and Nicola d’Albini, heiress of the Albini Earls of Arundel. After her husband’s death, she held the manor of Shrewsbury, and “Roger Pride (Prowde), a burgess of Shrewsbury, holds the vill of Besford of the aforesaid Matilda.” (Eyton viii, 145-9). “It appears that Robert Corbet of Moreton, who died in 1300, had been, jointly with his wife Matilda, enfeoffed, not only in Besford but in something at Shrewsbury. Their Feoffee in each case was Roger Pride (ibid.).

(1. Roger d’Aubigny, b. ca. 1050, St. Martin d’Aubigny, m. Amice, dau. of Roger de Mowbray.
1.1. William “pincerna” d’Aubigni, m. Maud Bigod.
1.2.1. William d’ Aubigni (E. Arundel), m. Adeliza, dau. of Geoffrey, Count of Louvaine, and Ida de Namur, relict of King Henry II.
1.2.1.1. William d’Aubigny, 1139-1193 (2nd E. Arundel), m. Maud, dau. of James de Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët, son of Hasculf FitzEudo de Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët), relict of Roger de Clare.
1.2.1.1.1. William d’Aubigny (3rd E. Arundel), m. Mabel, dau. of Hugh de (Kevelioc) Meschines, E. Chester, and Beatrice de Montfort, dec. of the br-in-law of William Crispin I.
1.2.1.1.1.1. Nicole d’Aubigny, 1210-1230; d. Dudley Castle, Staffs, m. Roger de Someri.
1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Margaret (Margery) de Someri, m. (1) Ralph Bassett; (2) Ralph Cromwell.
1.2.1.1.1.1.2. Joan de Someri, d. 1282, m. John Le Strange, 1st B. Strange of Knockin, Shropshire, 10 mls N. of Cruckton.
1.2.1.1.1.1.3. Maud de Someri, m. Henry de Erdington.

OLD TIES

Blomfiel’s Norfolk, vol. 5, pp. 1037-1038, 1775:

“Ongham – not mentioned in Domesday Book, being part of the great manor of Mileham, and there accounted for. About the end of Henry III’s reign, Isabel L’Estrange held lands here of the fee of the lord of Mileham (of which) at the survey we see that King William was lord of this manor, but soon after Alan, son of Flaald, obtained it by the gift of William the Conqueror, also the castle of Oswaldstrey in Shropshire, with thie territory adjoyning, which belonged to Meredith ap Blethyn, a Welshman or Briton, and marrying the dau. , and heir of Warine, sheriff of that county, had, in her right, the barony of the said Warine. Simon de Norfolk confirmed this gift of Alan, son of Flaald; and Avelina his, mother, of which they were seated the day that Alan purchased the honor of Mileham. William Fitz-Alan was his son and heir, and m. Isabel, dau. and heir of Helias de Say, niece to Robert, earl of Gloucester, lady of Clun, in Shropshire, in whose right he became baron of Clun, by whom he had William his son and successor, who, in the 12 of Henry II. certified his knights fees to be in number 35 and an half, 19 de veteri feoffumento, and 16 and an half de novo; and died about the of that king, leaving William Fitz-Alan his son and heir, who died about the 16 of King John. In this year Thomas de Erdington gave 5000 marks (£2 million today) for the wardship and marriage of his son and heir, William Fitz-Alan, to his dau., but dying soon after, John his brother succeeded. In the close rolls of the of Henry III. William, lately deceased, was said to be lord of Mileham, that he m. Mary, dau. of Thomas de Erdington, and Roesia his wife then his widow. This John Fitz Alan, lord of Clun, m. to his first wife, Isabel, sister and coheir to Hugh, and second daughter and coheir of William de Albiny, earls of Arundel, by whom he had John his son and heir … This John left Richard Fitz-Alan his son and heir, by his wife Isabel de Mortimer; and this manor was found to be “antient demean”, held by one knight’s fee, the custody of it being granted to John L’Estrange, by the king, during the non-age of Richard the heir … This Richard appears to be the first of the Fitz-Alans, who bore the title of earl of Arundel, as lord of that castle.”

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1. Henry de Erdington, “who coming of age in 1295, had livery of his father’s lands, and who succeeded to his mother’s estates in 1302. The said Henry is entered as Lord of Shawbury in the Nomina Villarum of 1316” (Eyton, viii, 145-9).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1. Giles de Erdington, b. ca. 1300-1305.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1. Margaret de Erdington, m. (1353), Roger Corbet (d. 1396).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Roger Corbet (d. 1468), m. Elizabeth Hopton.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Richard Corbet (d. 1493), m. Elizabeth Devereux (1451), dau. of Sir Walter Devereux, 1st Lord Ferrers of Chartley, who m., in 1494, (2) Sir Thomas Leighton, Sheriff of Shropshire, son of John Leighton, Esq. (Sheriff and Escheater of Shropshire, Steward of Bishop’s Castle, Constable of Oswestry Castle), and Ankaret Burgh. Sir Thomas Leighton m. (2) Ann, dau. of Roger Baker (alias Roger ap John. See Harl. MSS. 1977, 50, ‘Roger Baker, ap John ap Jeuan Vychan); having issue: Margaret Leighton, who m. John Harris, designated as “John ap Harry” in the Bromley pedigree, which alluded (in a general sense) to John Harris being a descendant of a “John son of Henry”. (See comments as follows). The grandson of Margaret Leighton and John Harris, John Harris (of Cruckton). m. Eleanor, dau. Thomas Prowde of Sutton. “The family was ancient in this neighbourhood, and has been already noticed as having been tenants of a good part of Sutton under the abbots of Shrewsbury”. (Hugh Owen, A History of Shrewsbury, vol. 1, p. 408, 1825). That is, they were tenants of the tenants of the Erdingtons.

The following is extracted from Shrop. Arch. Soc. 4th Series, vol. 7, pp. 51-2, which quotes manorial court records:

(1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.2. Thomas Henr’ (Thomas, son of Henry). The Harris family were tenants of lands in the manor of Condover, from a very early period. A volume of Condover Court Rolls preserved at Eyton Hall contains a great deal of information about this family. As early as 1363 Thomas Henr’ held two messuages and a noke of land and a quarter of a noke at Condover at the rent of 2s. 3d., and either he or another Thomas held a messuage and a noke of land at Wheatehall at the rent of 2s., whilst John Henr’ held the third part of half a virgate of land at Dodingtonne (Dorrington) at the rent of 13d. Dorrington is 7 mls fr. Cruckton.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3. John Henr’. (John Harreis). (John ap Harry).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1. “Thomas Harrys, the younger of Wheatehal” (20 mls fr. Wellington, 25 mls fr. Condover).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1. Thomas Harrys. In 1453 the township of Wheathill presented that Thomas Harris, who held a messuage and half a yard land there, was dead. Eight years later his lands were surrendered to his son, William.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.1. William Harrys, of Wheatehall, m. a dau. of Hyggons.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.1.1. John Harrys. In 1509, John Harrys of Wheathall had a grant from Sir Thomas Leighton of waste there called Woodlands; he died in 1512, when it was found that his nephew Robert Harrys was his next heir. This Robert Harris was the ancestor of Roger Harries, of Shrewsbury, draper, son of William Harries, of Wheathill, yeoman, who was admitted a burgess of Shrewsbury on Sept. 12, 1581. He was not the father of Thomas Harris of Tong Castle, a common and eroneous assumption, who was a descendant of a br. of Thomas and John Henr’: “Richard Harreis”, who held two messuages and half a yard land in Ryton on May 1, 1394. (See appendix).

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2. John Harris, m. Margaret Leighton, dau. of Sir Thomas Leighton and Anne Baker, dau. of Roger Baker of Shrewsbury. Peter Hyggons, m. Catherine Baker, Anne’s sister, having issue: George Hyggons, who m. Eliz. Farmer; having issue: Edward Hyggons, b. 1562, bur. 1614, St. Julian’s, Shrews., who m. Ann Sherar; the likely parents of Judith Hyggons, b. ca. 1603-1605, who m. William Owen, April 30, 1628, St. Chad. Their first son, Edward Owen, bapt. Feb. 5, 1629, was likely named after Judith’s father. Knight v Newbery. Plaintiffs: Thomas Knight, draper of Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Defendants: Thomas Newbery, William Owen, Thomas Richolt, Richard Jack and James Higgins. 1654. Subject: property in Fernhill, Shropshire (C 2/ChasI/K13/15). Knight v Jones. Plaintiffs: John Knight. Defendants: John Jones, William Owen, John Turbridge, John Trevor, John Sowther and Henry Brookes and others. Subject: property in Fernhill, Shropshire. 1654. (C 9/19/63). Edward Owen’s siblings being: Ann Owen, bapt. Sept. 27, 1632. Thomas Owen, bapt. July 16, 1635. William Owen, bapt. Feb. 2, 1637. Elizabeth Owen, bapt. Feb. 4, 1640.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1. Richard Harris, m. Eleanor Jenyns, dau. of Rowland Jenyns, of Wallybone, Salop.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1. John Harris, esq. (of Cruckton). m. Eleanor, dau. Thomas Prowde/Pryde of Sutton, desc. of Roger Pryde: “After Henry de Erdinton’s death in 1282, the Seigneury of Besford formed part of the dower of his widow Matilda. The Tenure Rolls of 1284-5 say, one of them, that “ Besford is a member of Schaurbur’ and is held of the King in capite, rendering to the King 7d. per annum.” The other Roll states more fully, and, I conceive, more accurately, that “Roger Pryde, a Burgess of Salop, holds Besford, a member of Schawbere, in Pymhull Hundred, under Matilda de Erdinton.” … At the Assizes of October 1292, the Pimhill Jurors presented that “Henry de Erdinton, having been Tenant-incapite of the vill of Basseford, had sold it to Roger Pryde, to hold under himself”, and that “Robert Corbet now held the vill.” (Eyton, 10, pp. 177-9).

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.1. Alice Harris, m. Edward Sherer (Hugh Owen. A History of Shrewsbury, vol 1, p. 355).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Thomas Sherer, merchant (builder of Sherer’s Mansion in Wyle Cop), who m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Adams, of Longdon, and Eleonor Jennyns, dau. of Rowland Jennyns, and sister of Thomas Jennyns, of Wallibone, who m. Kathryn Ottley. Their son,. William Jennyns, of Wallibone, m. Cecilia, dau. of John Leighton, of Wattlesborough, having issue: Eleanor Jennyns, wife of Richard Harris, son of John Harris and Margaret Leighton.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Sherer.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Sherer, m. Elizabeth Harris.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.2. Richard Harris, obit. 1631, m. Anna Smallman, obit. 1650, dau. of Thomas Smallman, of Wilderhope
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.2.1. Mary Harris, second wife of Fleetwood Dormer, son of Sir Fleetwood Dormer, and Mary Isham, aunt of Henry Isham, of Bermuda Hundred, who m. Katherine Banks, relict of Joseph Royal; their issue being: (1) Anne Isham, who m. Col. Francis Eppes, (2) Mary Isham, who m. Col. William Randolph, named as a ‘friend’ in the Will of Major William Harris. Fleetwood Dormer’s first wife was Katherine Ligon, second-cousin of Thomas Ligon, whose son and namesake m. Mary Harris* (second-cousin of Mary Harris Dormer, contemporaries, and undoubtedly close acquaintances); her marriage leading to the Dormer association.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.2.2. “Elizabeth Haries”, m. Thomas Sherer/Sherar, Feb. 24, 1623.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.2.3. Margret Harris, m. Thomas Lewis,* Dec. 7, 1624.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.3. Arthur Harris, m. Jane Newton, of Prescot, Shropshire.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.3.1. Thomas Harris, Esq., of Prescot, m. (1632), Alice Holland, dau. of William Holland, bapt. (1574) at Burwarton, and buried there in 1642 (Will proved P.C.C. 94 Campbell), son of Thomas Holland, bur. (1612) at Stottesden, and Alicia, second-cousin of Richard Cocke, b. 1597, in Pickthorne, Stottesdon; bapt. Dec. 13, 1597 at Sidbury, Shropshire; obit. Bremo Bluff, Henrico, 1665, whose son, Thomas, was named as a “friend” in the Will of Major William Harris. Will dated 22 Feb. 1674. To be buried in the church of Baschurch. “To Edward Donne of Place of Court, Salop, Gent, and Edward Holland junr. of said co. Gent., tythes etc. of land in Little Ness co. Salop etc. etc., for use of my eldest son Arthur Harris … My messuage etc., in Prescot & Eaton etc., after death of my wife Alice, to my said son Arthur in strict tail male, with remainder over .. to my grandson William son of my daughter … West (an interesting surname in conjunction to a Harris family of Virginia). Personal Estate to my Wife. Executors — my Wife Alice and my sons Arthur Harris & Thomas Harris”.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.4. Rowland Harris, of Ludlow, ob. 1605, m. (Sept. 14, 1595), Jane Langford, bapt. Oct. 10, 1567. She m. 2. Edward Lewis, who by a first wife was the father of *Thomas Lewis, (aged 23 in 1623), recorded in a patent of Hannah Boyse, Nov., 1635, 300 ac. in Henrico adj. land of her mother Alice Edlowe; 200 ac. for transportation of servants, viz.: “Thomas Lewis, Robert Hollum, Joseph Royall, Edward Holland, and Oliver Allen” (Virginia Magazine, v., p. 97). By Edward Lewis, Jane Langford had issue: William Lewis, who m. (Aug. 21, 1634), Anne Lutley, of Burwarton, dau. of Robert Lutley and Mary Holland; having issue: William Lewis, bapt. March 16, 1661, in Diddlebury, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Woodson, who gifted Elizabeth’s children 450 ac. patented to me and Richard Farris, Giles Carter, William Harris (son of Major William Harris), and Roger Cummings, on White Oak Swamp”. Rec. May 1, 1707.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.4.1. Captain Thomas Harris, (bapt. Sept. 4, 1603, Ludlow), removed to Virginia, ca. 1650, having land on Curles Swamp, m. Alice, dau. of Evan Lewis, bapt. Nov. 20, 1603.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.4.2. John Harris, bapt. March 5, 1604, Ludlow, d. 1638. He m. (1) Mary Holland, bapt. Sept. 11, 1608, Ludlow, dau. of Roger Holland and Eleanor Lewis, who m. Jan. 13, 1598, Ludlow. Roger Holland was probably a younger son of Thomas Holland and Alice Cocke, second-cousin of Richard Cocke of Bremo.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.4.2.1. *Mary Harris, bapt. April 3, 1625, Ludlow. In 1689, Mary (Harris) Ligon gave a deposition stating her age to be 64; step-dau. of her uncle. She m. Thomas Ligon, son of Thomas Ligon, who was a second-cousin of Katherine Ligon, first wife of Fleetwood Dormer, who m. (2) the second-cousin, and contemporary, of Mary Harris Ligon.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.4.2.2. Major William Harris, bapt. Jan. 13, 1627, Ludlow; held land on Curles Swamp, next to his sister, and John Woodson, br. of Robert Woodson, aforementioned.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.4.2.2.1. William Harris, named in father’s Will of 1678 as an infant. He moved to New Kent Co., as evidenced on Aug. 1, 1694, when Hugh Ligon, son of Mary Harris, witnessed an acknowledgment of debt by William Harris, son of Major William Harris, decd. of New Kent County, to Sarah Knibb of Henrico (B. 5, p. 508.). He was involved in the determination of the lands of Thomas Langford, his kinsman, Feb. 26, 1731. (Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 214-215).

CORBET CONTINUED

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. Robert Corbet (d. 1513) m. (1476) Elizabeth Vernon. To recap: Robert Corbet’s father was the stepson of Sir Thomas Leighton and his second wife, a sister of the wife of John Harris, who was, thus, a “cousin” of Robert Corbet’s father.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Katherine Corbet, m. Thomas Oteley.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. William Oteley, m. Margaret Leighton.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.2. Maria Corbet. m. Thomas Lacon, of Willey. Ranulfus Pevrel tenet Lach. Ednot tenuit in Saxon days. The name of Richard de Lake occurs as early as the Pipe Rolls of the 2nd year of King John (A.D. 1200), and they held their lands under Robert Corbet in the year 1284. (Hon. Mrs. Bulkeley-Owen, Selattyn, a history of the parish, vol. iii, p. 311), from which the following is extracted:
(1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.2.1. John Lacon, whose estate included Constable’s Hall at Porkington (Sellatyn), and Llanddyn, near Llangollen,Denbighshire.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1. Margaret Lacon, m. William Maurice (1542-1622), of Clenennau in Penyfed, Caernarfonshire, eldest son of Moris ap Ellis and Ellen, dau. of Sir John Pulleston, of Anglesey.*
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1. William Wynn Maurice (1559-1598).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1. Ellen Maurice (1578-1626), m. to John Owen of Bodsilin and Fernhill, secretary to Sir Francis Walsingham, and eight children were born prior to his death in 1611).

Thus:

1. Owen ap Robert, of Bodsilin, m. Angharad verch Dafydd ap William ap Griffith ap Robyn.
1.1. Robert Owen, of Bodsilin, co. Carnarvon, and Fernhill, Shropshire, d. aft. 1588, m. (1) Anne Wynne, da. of John Wynne, of Hirdrefaig.
1.1.1. John Owen, d. March 27, 1611, m. Ellin Maurice, dau. of William Wynne Maurice, of Clenneney.
1.1.1.1. Sir John Owen, Royalist commander, b. ca. 1600.
1.1. Robert Owen, m. (2) Lowry (Laura), dau. of William Coetmor.
1.1.1. Robert Owen, m. Judith Holland.
1.1.1.1. William Owen, m. Judith Hyggons, as given. Their son, Thomas, b. 1635, was most likely he who m. Jane …, in Virginia, who, as a double-widow, was recorded in the household of William Walker in New Kent County.

(1. Piers Coetmor, of Coetmor, m. Alice, dau. of Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn, who m. (2) Dafydd Holland of Abergele.
1.1. William Coetmor ‘of Llanllechid’, m. Ellen, dau. of Sir John Puleston, of Anglesey.
1.1.1. William Coetmor, m. (1) Jane, dau. of William Williams, of Cochwillan, d. 1559, son of William ap Griffith, and Angharad, dau. of Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Einion the Lancastrian defender of Harlech between c. 1460-8. He is said to have brought a troop of horse to support Henry Tudor at Bosworth; was appointed sheriff for life of Caernarvonshire in 1485,
1.1.1.1. Lowry Coetmore, m. Robert Owen.
1.1.1.1.1. Robert Owen, m. Judith, dau. of Edward Holland.
1.1.1.1.1.1. William Owen, m. Judith Hyggons).

(1. Dafydd Holland ap Robin ap Roger Hoeskin, m. Dyddgu, dau. of Jenkin ap Dafydd Crach ab Marchudd.
1.1. Gruffydd Holland, of Fairdref, m. Gwerfyl, dau of Howel ap Madog ap Ieuan ab Collwyn ap Tangno.
1.1.1. David Holland, ‘of Abergele’, m. (1) Luce, dau. of Robert Knowesley, of Denbigh.
1.1.1.1. John Holland, of Fairdref, m. Catherine, dau. of Peter Conwy, archdeacon of St. Asaph.
1.1.1. David Holland, ‘of Abergele’, m. (2) Alice, dau. of Sir William Griffith, of Penrhyn.
1.1.1.1. William Holland, of Hendrefawr, m. (2) Catherine, dau. of Thomas Davies, Bishop of St. Asaph, “son of Dafydd ap Robert of Caerhun, a descendant, through Sir Gruffydd Llwyd (lord of Dinorwig), of Ednyfed Fychan”. (Dictionary of Welsh Biography).
1.1.1.1.1. Edward Holland, of Abergele.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Judith Holland, m. Robert Owen.

To quote B.H. Holland, “The Lancashire Hollands”, pp. 313, 314, 1917: It is, however, alleged by reputable authorities that this Roger (Hoesgyn) was the great-grandson of a Sir Thomas Holland who married Joyce daughter of Sir Jasper Croft, and lived in the reign of Edward I. This Sir Thomas was alleged to be a son of the first Sir Thurstan Holland of Upholland, and therefore brother of Sir Robert Holland, father of Robert, first Lord Holland. The name of such a Thomas does not occur in the Lancashire records, but it is perhaps not enough to prove his non-existence. Thurstan had, however, a son named Roger, but nothing is known of him, or any descendants of his. Roger may possibly have gone to Wales”. Thus, it is suggested:

(1. Thurstan Holland.
1.1. Roger Holland.
1.1. Roger Holland, m. Jane, dau. of Sir Roger Troutbeck, son of Sir William Troutbeck and Margaret, dau. of Thomas, 1st Lord Stanley, and Joan Goushill, dau. of Sir Robert Goushill and Elizabeth Fitzalan (dau. of Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel and Elizabeth de Bohun), who m. (1) William de Montacute, son of William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Elizabeth de Mohun, dau. of John de Mohun, of Dunster.

(1. John de Mohun I, of Dunster, m. Joan, dau. of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, and Sibyl Marshal.
1.1. John de Mohun, d. June 11, 1279, m. Alianor, dau. of Sir Reginald FitzPiers.
1.1.1. John de Mohun, 1st Baron Mohun of Dunster).

1.1.1. Roger (alias Hoesgyn) Holland, m. Margaret, dau. of Dafydd Chwith ap Dafydd.
1.1.1.1. Robin Holland, m. Agnes, dau. of Meredydd ap Rhys ap Richard ap Cadwaladr ap Gruffydd ap Cynan.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Dafydd Holland, m. Dyddgu, dau. of Jenkin ap Dafydd Crach).

IVO DE HARECURT cont.

In 1242, Ivo’s great-grandson Sir Richard de Harecurt* held of the Earl of Warwick a half and a fifth of a fee in Wolvey and Copston. (Book of Fees, 95). On the death of the last Quincy Earl of Winchester (1264) his estates were divided amongst his daughters, two of whom, with their descendants, held interests in Wolvey. By the marriage of Margaret to William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, the overlordship of the two Harecurt fees was brought to the Ferrers of Groby, the first of whom was the younger son of the earl.

(This overlordship is recorded down to 1458. (Cal. Inq. p.m. viii, 469 (p. 317). Ivo de Harecurt granted his land in Wolvey to Robert Basset on his marriage with Ivo’s sister Beatrice. (Cott. MS. Vitell. A.I, fol. 89). This was confirmed in 1201 by his son Reynold. He was dead by 1227 and his estates divided between his nephews, Robert de Leycestre and Ivo de Dene. (Cott. MS. Vitell. A.I, fol. 87, 90). in this year his widow Maud exchanged her dower in the two halves of the manor with Robert and Ivo for Reynold’s lands in Scakethorpe and rents in Wolvey. (Feet of F. (Dugd. Soc. xi), 423, 424). In 1256, Robert de Leycestre in was exempted from taking up the arms of a knight, being old and feeble. Thomas de Leycestre, or his heirs, were recorded as holding, with the Abbot of Combe, three-quarters of a fee in 1314 and 1328. (Cal. Inq. p.m. v, 458 (p. 259). Thomas de Leycestre, son or nephew of Robert de Leycestre, was the father of Sir Thomas de Wolvey, whose dau., as shown, m. Sir Henry de Erdington).

(1. William de Ferrers, m. Agnes de Meschines, dau. of Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester, Vicomte of Avranches, and Bertrade de Montfort, descendant of Simon de Montfort, br. -in-law of William Crispin 1.
1.1. William de Ferrers, d. March 28, 1254, in Evington, Leicestershire, m. (1) Sybil Marshall, (2) Margaret de Quincey.
1.1.1. Isabella de Ferrers, by Sybil Marshall, m. (1) Gilbert Basset, (2) Reginald de Mohun,* who m. (2) Hawise, dau. of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Earl of Essex, and Aveline de Clare, by whom:
1.1.1.1. John de Mohun, m. Joan de Ferrers, dau. of William Ferrers and Sybil Marshall.
1.1.1.2. Alice de Mohun, m. Robert de Beauchamp, of Hatch, Somerset, (2) William de Clinton.
1.1.1.2.1. Sir John de Beauchamp, m. Cicely, dau. of William Vivvone (Vivian) of Chewton, and Maud, dau. of William Ferrers and Sybil Marshall.
1.1.1.3. William de Mohun, by Isabel de Ferrers, of Ottery-Mohun, and Stoke Fleming, Devon).

*Reginald de Mohun was the son of Reginald de Mohun, and Alice, dau. of William de Briwere, sheriff de Devon, d. 1226.

(1. Ralph Basset, Justiciar of England (d. 1120).
1.1. Thomas Basset, ‘of Headington’.
1.1.1. Alan Basset, lord of Wycombe (d. 1233).
1.1.1.1. Gilbert Basset, m. Isabella de Ferrers.
1.2. Richard Basset, Justiciar of England (d. 1144).
1.2.1. Ralph Basset of Drayton Basset (d. 1160).
1.2.1.1. Ralph Basset of Drayton Basset (d. 1211).
1.2.1.1.1. Ralph Basset of Drayton Basset (d. bef. 1261).
1.2.1.1.1.1. Ralph Basset, ‘Lord of Drayton’ (1227-1265), m. Margaret, dau. of Roger de Someri, Baron of Dudley.
1.2.1.2. Matilda Basset, m. William de Heriz, son of Ivo de Heriz 11. “Sir Raph Basset, son of Raph Basset, granted to William de Heryez, of Wyverton, in Frank-marriage with Maltilda, his Sister, six Marks of Land in Wyndesclive, as Sir Raph Basset, their Father granted to the said Matilda (Ex Collect. R. Glover, pen. Will. Dugdale, Norroy). This Matildis was Sister of Raph Lord Basset, of Drayton. This Matildis was Sister of Raph Lord Basset, of Drayton, grandfather to the last Lord Basset of that House, who died the 12th of May, 13 R. 2. at which Time Thomas Earl Stafford, aged twenty-four Years, claimed and was found to be one of his Heirs, as son of Hugh Stafford, son of Raph, son of Margaret, sister of the said Raph Lord Basset, his grandfather”. (Thoroton’s History of Nottinghamshire, vol. 1, revised by Throsby, 1790).

(1. Robert de Heriz, ob. ante. 1128, who held Stapleford, Tibshelf, Wingfield, and Oxcroft, was mesne tenant of William Peverel I. Robert was Sheriff of Nottingham, 1110-1122. (Judith A. Green, The Government of England under Henry I., p. 221, 1989). He was a King’s Commissioner who witnessed charters of Robert de Ferrers, 1st. Earl Derbys. 1.1. Ivo de Heriz I, m. Emma de Bilborough, dau. of Herbert de Bilborough, knight of William Peverel I. ‘Erbert, a knight of William Peverel’s. (Thomas Cox, et al., Magna Britannia, p. 104, 1738). 1.1.1. Robert de Heriz II., m. Agnes, dau. of Gilbert Alcher, who held land in Sudbury, Derbyshire, of the Agard family, tenants of the Ferrers. 1.1.1.1. Ivo II de Heriz, b. ca. 1150, d. 1225, m. Hawise Briwere, certainly closely related to William de Briwere, to whom King John gave the forfeited estates of the Peverel family).

FERRERS continued …

1.1.2. Robert de Ferrers, by Margaret de Quincey, m. Eleonor de Bohun.
1.1.2.1. John de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrrers of Chartley”, d. 1312, m. Hawise de Muscegros.
1.1.2.1.1. John de Ferrers, Barron Chartley, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Ralph, Earl Stafford, who m. (2) Fulke le Strange.

(1. John le Strange, of Knokyn (d. 1269).
1.1. John le Strange, of Knokyn (d. 1276), m. Joan,* dau. of Roger de Someri, Lord of Dudley).

(1. John de Someri, m. Hawise Paynel, sister of Gervase Paynel.
1.1. Sir Ralph de Someri, of Dudley, m. Margaret, dau. of John FitzGilbert, le Marshal.
1.1.1. Roger de Someri, of Dudley (d. 1273) m. (1). Nichole d’Albini, dau. of William d’Albini (son of William d’ Albini, 2nd Earl of Arundel, and Matilda de Saint-Hilaire de Harcouet), and Mabel de Meschines, dau. of Hugh (Kevelioc) de Meschines, and Bertrade de Montfort, kin of the Crispin family.
1.1.1.1. Margaret de Someri, m. (1) Ralph Basset, of Drayton (1227-1265). (2) Ralph de Cromwell. “The baronial family of Heriz held this manor under the superior lords at a very early period, and are supposed to have descended from Robert, mentioned in Domesday. The heiress of Heriz married De la Riviere about 1330: a co-heiress of Riviere married Belers, and a co-heiress of Belers married Swillington. In the reign of Henry VI. Ralph, Lord Cromwell, Lord Treasurer, as nearest of kin to Margaret Swillington, acquired this manor by compromise, after a long law-suit with Sir Henry Pierrepont, the heir-at-law of John de Heriz, who died 1330.” — Lysons (Duchess of Cleveland (Wilhelmina Stanhope), Battle Abbey Roll).

FALSE PEDIGREES

Such “associations of antiquity” were the basis of the false pedigrees claimed by various branches of the Harris family of Shropshire, and many others. The Harris of Tong interm. with a branch of the Pierpoints in the 17th century, and henceforth claimed their armorial bearings, which were also adopted by the Harris of Cruckton, their distant cousins, by way of engrandisement. The Harris of Stockton, other distant cousins, “went one better”, adopting the armorial of the Heriz family – three hedgehogs. The Harris of Cruckton followed suit in another versions of their arms (Harl. 1241). The Harris of Stockton claimed descent from a Henry Hull/Hill (of him no record), somewhat predictably, as the Bromleys, interm. with the Harris of Cruckton, and a substantial family, claimed descent from William Bromley and a dau. of Humphrey Hill of Blore, of a very substantial family. It was all a game of one-upmanship, fuelled by the bribery of the heralds of the College of Arms. When such pedigrees are quoted as references of ancestral lines, it should be asked, what is the quality of the reference? The submitters of their family’s “pedigrees” in 1623 had little idea of an ancestor of 1323. An examination of manorial court records is enough to prove this in most cases.

The more ancient connection to Ralph Cromwell was Henry de Erdington, his br.-in-law.

1.1.1.2. Maud de Someri, m. Henry de Erdington. From 1194 to 1210, the manor of Wellington, Shropshire (10 miles from Cruckton, a.t.c.f.; ), was granted in fee farm to Thomas of Erdington, the sheriff. (V.C.H. Salop. iii. 13). From 1211, Thomas held by serjeanty, and from 1212 by the service of one knight. He died in 1218 and in 1221 his son Giles, d. ca. 1268, was lord. Giles was succeeded by his son, Sir Henry, d. 1282. (Eyton, ix. 41–3). Henry m. Maud, dau. and coheir of Roger de Someri (Knights of Edw. I; i, Harl. Soc. lxxx, 1929, 310), having issue, Giles, b. in 1272, who died young; his heir being his brother, Henry, who receiving his father’s lands in 1295, on coming of age, and those of his mother on her death in 1302.
1.1.1.3. *Joan de Someri, m. John le Strange, of Knokyn).

1.1.1. John le Strange, 1st Lord of Knokyn (d. 1310)
1.1.1.1. John le Strange, 2nd Lord of Knokyn (d. 1310).
1.1.1.1.1. John le Strange, 3rd Lord of Knokyn (d. 1323).
1.1.1.1.1.1. Roger le Strange, 4th Lord of Knokyn (1301-1349).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Roger le Strange, 5th Lord of Knokyn (d. 1382).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. John le Strange, 6th Lord of Knokyn (d. 1397), m. Maud, dau. of John de Mohun, 2nd Lord of Dunster.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Eleanor le Strange, m. Edward Burnell.
1.1.1.1.1..1.1.1.1.1.1. Joyce Burnell, m. Sir Thomas de Erdington, sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicester, grandson of Thomas de Erdington and Margaret Corbet.
1.2. Robert le Strange, of Wrockwardine.
1.2.1. Fulk le Strange, 1st Lord of Blackmere (d. 1324).
1.2.1.1. John le Strange, 2nd Lord of Blackmere (d. 1349).
1.2.1.1.1. Fulk le Strange, 3rd Lord of Blackmere, m. Elizabeth, dau of Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford.

WALKERS OF NEW KENT COUNTY

(John de Pype was named as a half-brother by Ralph de Stafford (Wickham’s Reg. I.), 1st Earl Stafford, obit. 1372, who was co-heir in 1347 to the estates of the Corbet family of Caus, in Shropshire. A member of this family, m. either a sister of David or John Walker, of Lichfield, Staffs.

1. David Walker, b. ca. 1370.
1.1. John Walker, b. ca. 1400, of Wallibone, Shropshire.
1.1.1. Roger Walker , “Pipe alias Walker”, b. ca 1430.
1.1.1. “Hugonis’ (Hugh) Pipe alias Walker”. Pipe, of Pipe, azure, crusilly, two pipes, chevronwise, or. (Thomas Moule, Antiquities in Westminster Abbey, p. 40, 1825). Pipe, Pype; dweller by a Pipe or Aqueduct (M.E. pipe, pype, O.E. pipe), in this case, refering to the diverted water-course serving Lichfield, Staffs.
1.1.1.1. Richard Walker, of Leebotwood.
1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Walker, of Stretton.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Ann Walker (b. 1549), m. Richard Hopton.

1. Richard Hopton, m. Joan Langford.
1.1. John Hopton, of Heyton, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Sharpe.
1.1.1. Elizabeth Hopton, m. William Parker.
1.1.2. Anne Hopton, m. Andrew Kirby.
1.2. Alice Hopton, m. “William Higgins of Tripleton” (son of “John Higgins of Tripletona Com. Hereford), the father of John Higgins, father of William: Will of William Higgins,* gentleman of Tripleton, in parish of Leintwardine, Herefordshire, July 1643. May 6. 1728: Arthur Cockram, gent v. Thomas James, gent; Bromwich Pope, esq, & Mary his wife; and John Baldwyn. Re. descent of a messuage and lands called Tripleton (Trippleton in par. Leintwardine near Ludlow) in Heref., from William Higgins (or Higgons) who died about 80 years ago, leaving daus. Mary and Jane as co-heirs; Mary was complt’s g-mother and her heir. (C78/1709, no. 8). Jane Higgins m. John James, a supporter of the Parliamentary cause
1.2. William Hopton, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Fox, of Ludlow.
1.2.1. Richard Hopton, m. Ann Walker.

(1. Hugh Hyggons, of Stretton.
1.1. John Hyggins, m. Alice Middleton.
1.1.1. Thomas Hyggins, m. … Baldwin.
1.1.1.1. John Hyggins.
1.1.1.1.2. Peter Higgins, m. Katherine, dau. of Roger Baker.
1.1.1.1.2.1. Richard Higgons, m. Mary, dau. of John Wilding. Baldwyn v Hayward. Plaintiffs: Edward Baldwyn, his wife Elizabeth, Richard Higgons and his wife Mary. Defendants: Sir Rowland Heyward and Robert Davyes. Subject: bill to establish title by descent; a messuage and 150 acres of land held in the manor of Stretton, Shropshire. (C 2/Eliz/B23/52)
1.1.1.1.2.1.1. George Higgons, bailiff of Shrewsbury, 1584, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Roger Farmer.
1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1. Edward Higgons, entered Shrewsbury School in 1570, m. Ann, dau. of Edward Sherar.
1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Judith Higgins, m. William Owen.
1.1.2. William Higgins, of Tripleton.
1.1.2.1. John Higgins.
1.1.2.1.1. *William Higgins).

1.1.1.2. Joanna Walker, m. (1540). Thomas Ottley, nephew of Richard Ottley, the grandfather of Dorothy Ottley, who m. John Leighton, of Wattlesborough, son of Sir Thomas Leighton and his first wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Walter Devereux. John Leighton was the br. of Richard Leighton, who m. Katherine Harrys, likely sister of John Harrys, who m.a dau. of Sir Thomas Leighton and his second wife.

FERRERS continued

1.1.2.1.1.1. Robert de Ferrers, b. October 31, 1357, Chartley, Staffordshire, d. March 13, 1413, Merevale, Warwickshire, m. Margaret, dau. of Edward le Despenser, ist Baron
1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Edmund de Ferrers, Baron Chartley, d. Dec. 17, 1435.
1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Joan de Ferrers, m. Sir John Clinton,* of Marstoke, 5th baron, d. Sept. 24, 1464, son of Sir William Clinton, 1377-1432, and Anne (relict of Fulke FitzWarin) son of John de Clinton, 3rd Baron Clinton, d. Sept. 6, 1398, son of John de Clinton, 2nd Lord Clinton, and Margery Corbet. *Sir John Clinton was the half-br. of Elizabeth, who m. Sir Richard Hankford. John Harris, 3rd at Radford, ob. ante 1430, m. Katherine Hankford (dau. of Sir William Hankford, of Hankford, in the parish of Bulkworthy, and of Annery, in the parish of Monkleigh, Devon, Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench), sister of Sir Richard Hankford. Francis Harris, grandson of John Harris, aformentioned m. Philippa Grenville, born 1489, sister of Katherine Grenville (1487-1545), the wife of John Arundel, who had issue: John Arundel (d. 1557), who m. Mary (Belknap) Dannet; whose niece, Elizabeth Belknap, m. Sir Philip Cooke (as follows), whose sister, Beatrix Cooke, m. Sir Nicholas Rawson of Aveley, Essex. Their dau., Anne Rawson, m. Michael Stanhope, who was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1552, as was his brother-in-law, Edward Seymour, Protector Somerset.
1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2. Sir William de Ferrers, Baron Chartley, 1412-1450, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Hamon Belknap, and sister of Sir Henry Belnap, father of Elizabeth Belnap, who m. (1) Sir Phillip Cooke, having issue: John Cooke, whose first wife was Alice Saunders (d. 1510), the da. of William Saunders of Banbury, Oxfordshire; having issue: Joanna Cooke, who m. William Harris, b. by 1502, prob. 1st s. of John Harris of Prittlewell. “Wolvey, leicestershire, ar. 3 wolves’ heads erased gu.”. William Harris, son of William Harris, which William d. May 14 1559, bore per pale on a chevron engrailed between 3 wolves heads. Wolvey, Leicestershire, is synonomous with the Wolvey aforementioned, situate on the Warwickshire/Leicestershire border, and the associated armorial was that of the father-in-law of Henry de Erdington, as given.
1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1. Ann de Ferrers, m. Walter Devereux, d. August 23, 1485, Battle of Bosworth
1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.1. Elizabeth Devereux, m. (1) Sir Richard Corbett, (2) Sir Thomas Leighton.

HARRIS

1. Henry de Erdington (fl. 1145).
1.1. William de Erdington.
1.1.1. Thomas de Erdington (m. Rohesia de Cokefield), held the manor of Wellington, juxta Cruckton.
1.1.1.1. Giles de Erdington, 14 H. 3, br.-in-law of William FitzAlan.
1.1.1.1.1. Sir Henry de Erdington, m. Maud Someri, great-granddau. of Hawyse Paganel and John de Someri. 7 E. 1. His arms O. two lions passant az.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Henry de Erdington, had built the south aisle, m. Joan Wolvey. 35 Ed. 3. She was the dau. of Sir Thomas de Wolvey (of Wolvey, Warwickshire/Shropshire border), and Alice, dau. of James de Clinton. Thomas de Wolvey was the son of Thomas de Leycestre, son or nephew of Robert de Leycestre, nephew of Reynold, son of Ivo de Harecurt.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Sir Giles de Erdington, m. Elizabeth Tolthorpe. 31 E. 2. Giles de Erdington d. 1n 1363 and his son, Thomas, m. Margaret, dau of Thomas Corbet, of Moreton Corbet, leaving a son, Thomas, aged 23 1n 1395. (G.F. Farnham, Charnwood Manors, Leic. Arch. Soc. p. 141).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Sir Thomas de Erdington, d. 18 R. 2, m. Margaret Corbet.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas de Erdington, m. Ann, dau. of Thomas Harcourt. (The link being Ferrers).

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2. Henry de Erdington, benefactor of Shrewsbury Church; his gifts being witnessed by Sir Robert Corbet (Haughmond cart., f. 197 b). He m. Matilda, dau. of Roger de Someri, of Dudley, and Nicola d’Albini, heiress of the Albini Earls of Arundel. After her husband’s death, she held the manor of Shrewsbury, and “Roger Pride (Prowde), a burgess of Shrewsbury, holds the vill of Besford of the aforesaid Matilda.” (Eyton viii, 145-9). “It appears that Robert Corbet of Moreton, who died in 1300, had been, jointly with his wife Matilda, enfeoffed, not only in Besford but in something at Shrewsbury. Their Feoffee in each case was Roger Pride” (ibid.).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1. Henry de Erdington, “who coming of age in 1295, had livery of his Father’s lands, and who succeeded to his mother’s estates in 1302. The said Henry is entered as Lord of Shawbury in the Nomina Villarum of 1316” (Eyton, viii, 145-9).

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1. Giles de Erdington, b. ca. 1300-1305. (His great-grandson m. Elizabeth Devereux, wife of Thomas Leighton).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1. Margaret de Erdington, m. (1353), Roger Corbet (d. 1396).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Roger Corbet (d. 1468), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Hopton.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Richard Corbet (d. 1493), m. Elizabeth Devereux, dau. of Sir Walter Devereux, 1st Lord Ferrers of Chartley, who m., in 1494, (2) Sir Thomas Leighton, Sheriff of Shropshire, son of John Leighton, Esq. (Sheriff and Escheater of Shropshire, Steward of Bishop’s Castle, Constable of Oswestry Castle), and Ankaret Burgh. Sir Thomas Leighton m. (2) Ann, dau. of Roger Baker (alias Roger ap John. See Harl. MSS. 1977, 50, ‘Roger Baker, ap John ap Jeuan Vychan); having issue: Margaret Leighton, who m. John Harris.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.2. John Henr’. (John, son of Henry). (John ap Harry). His great-grandson m. a dau. of Thomas Leighton, by his second wife. Ergo, it was not a case of his family having a remarkable rise in status, more a case of him being a younger son of a prestigious family whose descendants intermarried into the circle of the descendants of an older brother. This is synonomous with the younger sons of English landowners, being left with little estate, migrating to Virginia, to “make good”.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1. “Thomas Harrys, the younger of Wheatehal” (20 mls fr. Wellington).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1. Thomas Harrys. In 1453 the township of Wheathill presented that Thomas Harris, who held a messuage and half a yard land there, was dead. Eight years later his lands were surrendered to his son, William.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.1. William Harrys, of Wheatehall, m. a dau. of Hyggons.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.1.1. John Harrys. In 1509, John Harrys of Wheathall had a grant from Sir Thomas Leighton of waste there called Woodlands.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2. John Harris, m. Margaret Leighton, dau. of Sir Thomas Leighton and Anne Baker, dau. of Roger Baker of Shrewsbury. Peter Hyggons, m. Catherine Baker, Anne’s sister.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1. Richard Harris, m. Eleanor Jenyns, dau. of Rowland Jenyns, of Wallybone, Salop.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.3.1.1.2.1.1. John Harris, esq. (of Cruckton). m. Eleanor, dau. Thomas Prowde/Pryde, of Shrewsbury, desc. of Roger Pryde: “After Henry de Erdinton’s death in 1282, the Seigneury of Besford formed part of the dower of his widow Matilda. The Tenure Rolls of 1284-5 say, one of them, that “ Besford is a member of Schaurbur’ and is held of the King in capite, rendering to the King 7d. per annum.” The other Roll states more fully, and, I conceive, more accurately, that “Roger Pryde, a Burgess of Salop, holds Besford, a member of Schawbere, in Pymhull Hundred, under Matilda de Erdinton.” … At the Assizes of October 1292, the Pimhill Jurors presented that “Henry de Erdinton, having been Tenant-incapite of the vill of Basseford, had sold it to Roger Pryde, to hold under himself;” and that “Robert Corbet now held the vill.” (Eyton, 10, pp. 177-9).

Appendix

HARRIS COUSINS

1. Richard Harreis, held two messuages and half a yard land in Ryton on May 1, 1394; and Thomas Harrys, son of Richard, paid fine to have seisin of two messuages and two nokes of land which were his father’s.
1.1. Thomas Harreis, of Condover, yeoman. At a court held in July, 1421, it was found that Thomas Harrys, Alice Harrys, Thomas Harrys the younger of Wheatehall, and Thomas Harrys of Condover, all held lands in the manor.
1.1.1. Richard Harrys and Matilda his wife, who was dau. and heiress of Richard Tomkyns and cousin and heir of John Dager, were admitted to a messuage and noke of land in Condover. Richard died in 1471, and Matilda in 1475; they had issue two sons — John (the father of William Harrys), and Richard, who succeeded to the estate by the custom of the manor.
1.1.1.1. John Harrys.
1.3.1.1.1.1. William Harrys.
1.1.1.2. Richard Harrys, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Walter Hubald of Ludlow, yeoman. (Vincent’s Salop, quotes Coll. of Arms, 134, f. 81).
1.1.1.2.1. John Harrys, of Condover, son and heire, m. Margaret, dau. of Paul Gascoigne, of Dodington, gent.
1.1.1.2.1.1. Richard Harreis, of Condover, per Survey of 1545, “held a messuage, the nether mill, a close by the rnyll lane, and a mese plot by Houghton’s lane”, in Condover.
1.1.1.2.1.2. Roger Harreis, of Condover, m. Ann, dau. of John Gennowe, of Lea, Salop. Blakeway, in his Sheriffs of Shropshire, p. 105, states that Roger Harris, draper, was ” son of Willam Harris, yeoman, of Wheathill, in the parish of Condover”; and this is repeated in a pedigree by the Rev. W. A. Leighton in the Transactions, vol. x., p. 336. But it is undoubtedly erroneous, for the Shrewsbury Burgess Admission Book and the Drapers’ Company Book both state distinctly that Roger Harris was the son of John Harris of Condover, yeoman; and Roger himself, in the pedigree certified by him in 1585, gives his father’s name as John. The mistake no doubt arose from confusing this Roger with another Roger Harrys of Shrewsbury, draper, the son of Willam Harrys of Wheathill, yeoman, who was admitted a burgess on Sept. 12,, 1581, and a combrother of the Drapers’ Company on Nov. 22, 1583.

copyright m stanhope 2020