1. John Fuljames, yeoman, of Weston Zoyland, Somerset. Probate 11/55/485; Nov. 28, 1573.
1.1. John Fuljames, bur. May 10, 1601, in High Ham, Somerset (5 mls fr. Weston Zoyland).
1.2. John Fuljames, bapt. May 22, 1575.
1.2.1. Anthony Fuljames, of Pitminster, m. (2) Martha Greene.
1.2.1.1. John Fulgham, b. 1639, at Pitminster.
1.2.1.2. Michael Fulgham, m. Anne Izzard.
1.2.1.3. Nicholas Fulgham; his grandson and namesake m. a granddau. of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.2.2. Elizabeth Fuljames, bapt. June 11, 1622, in Pitminster.
1.2.3. Sarah Fuljames, bapt. December 21, 1624, in Pitminster, m. (in 1642, in Pitminster) John Cotton of Silverton, Devon. The Reverend William Cotton, Sarah Fuljames’s father-in-law, was Rector of the Weare Family’s church in Silverton. The estates of Counselor John Weare, the head of the Weare family in Silverton, and his eldest son, John, Jr., were sequestered in 1648 by Parliament. By 1650, Counselor John Weare, his wife Margaret (Dart). Weare, John, Jr., Francis, and Katherine, had emigrated to the south side of the eastern branch of the Corotoman River, in Virginia, next to Anthony Fulgham. John Weare Sr. was the son of Humphrey Weare*.

Reverend J. Heald Ward:

“The Weres of Silverton were a branch of the Weres or Weares of Halberton. This family was connected with that of Bishop Gilbert Bourne, sometime Queen Mary’s favourite chaplain, who died at Silverton in 1569, a grandson of Richard, brother of the Bishop, having married a Weare of Halberton (Eliz., b. 1600 at Halberton, dau of Humphrey Weare, m. Gilbert Bourne, ca. 1619).

Another descendant was Humphrey Weare (d. 1625), of Exeter College, Oxford (1585), M.P. for Tiverton (1623-4), and its first Recorder (Diary of Walter Yonge, M,P., p. 26). Counsellor John Were (d. 1676), the first of the Dunsmore line, was the son of the last named, and, like his father, a bencher of the Inner Temple”.

1. John Weare, “listed in the lower ranks of the 1581 Halberton subsidy assessment”.
1.1. Humphrey Weare, “b. c.1569, s. of John Were of Bradworthy and Halberton; educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 1585 aged 16; Lyon’s Inn; I. Temple 1589, called 1597 m. ?(1) 6 June 1597, Margery Whytinge; suc. fa. 1621. (Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, eds., Hist. Parl., 2010).
1.1.1.. Elizabeth Weare, m. Gilbert Bourne*, cousin of Mary Bourne, wife of Edward Bennett, great-uncle of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.1.2. John Weare, emigrated to the south side of the eastern branch of the Corotoman River, in Virginia, next to Anthony Fulgham.

BOURNE, FULGHAM, AND HARRIS

1. …
1.1. Philip Bourne, of Worcestershire.
1.1.1. Bishop Gilbert Bourne, the last Catholic bishop of Bath and Wells, d. Silverton, Devon, Sept. 10, 1569.
1.1.2. Richard Bourne, of Wiveliscommbe, d. 1594, m. Sylvestra Tybolde, who d. bef. Feb. 9, 1593, in Wells, Somerset. Richard Bourne, Will pr. March, 1594. (23 Dixy). To be buried near my wife in the Cathedral of Wells. Gilbert Bourne (eldest son) to be Exr. To him the Demesnes of Wrodiscombe (Wiveliscombe), with the custody of the great house demised to me by my Reverend brother, Bishop Bourne.
1.1.2.1. Gilbert Bourne. Will proved Feb. 3, 1596: To be buried in Wells Cathedral near is wife. Son John Bourne; daus. Mary, Jane, Philippa; brothers John Bourne (Treasurer of Wells Cathedral) and Roger Bourne. He m. Eleanor Smith.
1.1.2.1.1. John Bourne, born in Wiveliscombe. Will proved Oct. 21, 1656. To be buried in Wells Cathedral near his ancestors. Eldest s. Roger, s. Henry, s. *Gilbert, s. Thomas, younger sons under 16 years of age; daus. Mary, Phillippa, Silvestre, Jane, and Frances; sons in law Mr. Stanhope and Mr. Fleming. He m. Elizabeth Weare, d. bef. Aug. 16, 1660, in Halberton, Devon. Elisabeth Bourne, of Gothelney, Som., widow. Will proved by Jane Bourne, Aug. 16, 1660. (163 Nabbs). To be buried at Charlinch. To my eldest son Roger Bourne, my salt that was my cousin Bourne’s, the ring that was my Uncle Jasper’s … My estates in Huish & Langport, to be sould by my son-in-law, Mr Robert Fleming, & my brother-in-law, Mr John Stephens. My son-in-law, John Stanope.

1.1.2.2. Jasper Bourne Sr., m. Joan, relict (not daughter) of James Norwood. Jasper Bourne, of Stanmore Magna, Midd., gent. Will Proved by John Benitt, May 4, 1636. [67 Pile.] My wife Joan. My son (in-law) John Benett, of London, merchant, standeth bound to my nephew John Bourne, of Lincoln’s Inn, in £100. My grandchildren, children of my daughter Elizabeth Benitt … My da. Mary, wife of Edward Benett, merchant … My wife’s grandson, John Norwood, of London. My wife’s da. Elisabeth Ireland, alias Norwood. Overseers. My son John Benitt, Residuary Legatee & Exr.

NORWOOD

1. William Norwood.
1.1. Henry Norwood, bur. April 10, 1618, Dunster, Somerset, 10 mls. fr. Over Stowey; 12 fr. Wiveliscombe.
1.1.1. Charles Norwood, Clerk of Virginia Assembly.
1.1.2. Henry Norwood, Treasurer of Virginia, who held an estate in Bishampton, Worcestershire, 7 miles fr. Bengeworth, the ancestral home of the Brantleys, who had been tenants of the Norwoods of the Manor of Cheltenham.

1.2. Richard Norwood.
1.2.1. William Norwood, bapt. Sept. 6, 1619, Dunster, d. 1702, Virginia. “Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Branch one large pewter dish”. Elizabeth Branch, her Will was probated on March 7, 1703, was the dau. of George Branch, son-in-law of Francis England.
1.2.1.1. Richard Norwood (4th son) – appraisal by Edward Brantley, Oct. 25, 1731, grandson of his namesake, security for the estate of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, farmed 290 ac. in IOW, on the Maherin River and both sides of Herbert’s Branch adj. Edward Brantley, son of Phillip Brantly (son of Edward Brantley Sr.), and Joyce Lewis, and William Simmons line, March 24, 1725. Edward Brantley’s son, John, m. the widow of Thomas Harris. Joyce Lewis was a dau. of Rebecca George and Thomas Lewis, she the dau. of John George, and niece of Nicholas George, thus cousin of the first wife (Eleanor George) of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

1.2.1.2. Sarah Norwood, m. Richard Lewis: Of the Lower Parish. Leg. – wife Sarah; son Richard the plantation on which William Duck lives, said Duck to take in tuition my son Richard; son Thomas the land I have rented James Cullie, Mr. Thomas Giles to take my said son, if Mr. Giles should die then he may be free; daughter Ann, to be placed in the care of Mr. Bressie; daughter Elizabeth in the care of Richard Reynolds and his wife Elizabeth; unborn child. Overseers, Thomas Joyner, Jr. and Richard Reynolds Jr. R. March 26, 1692 Wit. Joshua Turner, Alexander Mathews, Hugh Bressie, Luke Kent. (Chapman, 1, 48).
1.2.1.2.1. Hannah Lewis, n.b.
1.2.2. John Norwood, grandson of the wife of Jasper Bourne, father of the wife of Edward Bennett, great-uncle of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, in Virginia

SIMMONS

1. William Simmons Sr., age about 29, in a deposition in Surry Co., March 5, 1677/8. Will Prob. Oct. 21, 1693. (B. 4, p. 340).

1.1. John Simmons, b. ca. 1675, Will prob. April 19, 1738 (B. 8, p. 836), names sons, William and John; Christopher Mooring appointed guardian. (Surry Court Orders, Lib. of VA, Reel 30, p. 33). (See chap. vi.). “William Powel, the son of Elizabeth Powel widow and Mary Page the daughter of Thomas Page were married in her fathers Thomas Pages house this 14 day of the 2 mo in yeare 1700”. Wit. Thomas Page, Isaac Rickesis. John Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, of Wiveliscombe, and his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Church, were married at “Isaac Reekesis howse on ye eleventh of this second month last, 1689”, the 1st witness being John’s brother, Thomas Harris, d. 1712, and John Rickesis; Jacob Rickesis, and John Simmons.

1.1.1. William Simmons. Thomas Harris, 290 ac. IOW, on the Maherrin River and both sides of Herbert’s Branch adj. Edward Brantley and William Simmons line, March 24, 1725. That is, Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, farmed land adjacent to a son of the witness of the wedding of John Harris, Thomas Harris, d. 1712. William Simmons, d. 1749; Thomas Westbrooke and Charles Barham were appraisers of his estate. (Southampton, B. 1, p. 22). Charles Barham was the grandson of Charles Barham, associated with Thomas Harris, d. 1672, concerning the Will of William Ridley: Mr. Charles Barham Ex., Thomas Harris, d. 1672, and Thomas Tuke overseers, were officers of the Will of William Ridley, who was probably the br. of Elizabeth Ridley, Charles Barham’s wife.

1.2. Edward Simmons, as per mother’s Will (Eliza Timberlake Davis, p. 120). He was first witness of the Will of John Westbrooke, proved July 23, 1733 (W.B. 3, p. 357), which mentions sons: John, Thomas, William, and James. *John Westbrooke’s Will was rec. Jan. 22, 1770 (B.4., p. 272, Southampton Co.), which left a tract of land to (nephew) Samuel Westbrooke, on the N. side of the Meherrin River (bequeathed to him by his father, being a patent formerly granted to James Ramsey about 1725). Wit. Joshua Nicholson, Joshua Claud, who appraised the estate of Joshua Harris,* son of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.

BOURNE cont.

1.1.2.1.1. Elizabeth Bourne, m. John Bennett.
1.1.2.1.2. Sylvester Bourne, m. William Hutchinson.
1.1.2.1.3. Mary Bourne, m. Edward Bennett, b. Feb. 2, 1578, in Wiveliscombe, d. bef. Sept. 30, 1664.
1.1.2.1.3.1. Sylvestra Bennett, m. Nicholas Hill, security (with Edward Brantley Sr.) for the estate of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

by m stanhope, copyright B.T. Shannon 2024