Walter FitzGilbert de Hamilton

A branch of a Harris family of Somerset and Virginia can be traced to a William Harris, who m. Dorothy Westbrooke, on Aug. 31, 1562, in Wiveliscombe. He was most likely a tenant of “The Farm of Wiveliscombe”, held under the “Lord Farmer” (leasee of the Bishop of Bath and Wells), who, in 1600, was Humphrey Windham, 3rd. son of Sir John Windham, of Orchard Windham, in Somerset.

Wiveliscombe is situated eleven miles West of Taunton. In a charter of 1256, Wiveliscombe is spelt Wynelescombe, and was variously, Wenelliscombe, Wynescombe, and Wivescombe. It is now commonly pronounced Wilscombe. Antiquaries refer to medieval court records which show the main agricultural activities centred on cattle and sheep farming, and cider making, regarding which, by the 17th century, it was recorded that local farmers were “unkindly kind with their cider”, leading to the inebriation of visitors.

These notes do not record this family ‘in the round, but, rather, concentrate on the descendants of a Thomas Harris, b. ca. 1600, d. 1672, in Virginia. His branch of this family naturally, as the custom of the time, shared many connections to other families with their cousins, as part of the same kinship network. This has made it difficult to discern between them in Virginia. Basically, any branch of a family of this time sought foremostly its own prosperity through a ‘continuation of association’ with families that brought economic advantage to them. Cousins may have shared such associations as ‘secondary’ recipients, but did not have the closest of ties.

In what follows, the very closest and continious of ties of the family of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, to the families of Blake, Brantley, Bridger, Scott, and Westbrooke (n.b., ties shared by the sons and grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30), are given; which strongly suggest that Thomas Harris was the father of the Thomas Harris who d. in 1672; he the father of the Thomas Harris who d. in 1712; and he the father, by a first wife, of the Thomas Harris who d. in 1729/30.

1. William Harris, m. Dorothy Westbrooke, Aug. 31, 1562, in Wiveliscombe.
Dorothy Westbrookes was probably a sister of Henry Westbrooke, who m. Joan Upham, on Dec. 10, 1569. This connection provides a confirmaton of the “upward mobility” of those familial to the Harris family. As the Bennetts and Edneys, the Uphams were of the more “substantial” class of Wiveliscombe. They intermarried with the families of Hill and Boddy/Boddie. Elizabeth Hill m. Andrew Upham on January 29, 1575, and perhaps the same Elizabeth Hill m. John Upham on April 28, 1588.

On July 3, 1588, Thomas Upham m. “Jane Boddy”; who was probably closely related to “John Boddie”,* father of “John Body”, who married Christian Harkswell, on September 19, 1621; they the parents of John Boddie, baptised April 9, 1624. *Body v Yong. Plaintiffs: John Body of Wiveliscombe (Wylsecombe), husbandman, kinsman and heir of Luce Comberhedd alias Body. Defendants: John Yong and John Taylor. 1595-1596. (C 3/204/170). These Boddys were almost certainly the antecedents of those of Virginia.

William Harris and Dorothy Westbrooke had issue: William Harris, father of: 1stly, Richard Harris, bapt. Jan. 28, 1595, father of John Harris, bapt. Feb. 18, 1624; 2ndly, Robert Harris, who m. Eleanor Bennett in 1594, having issue: Edward, Thomas, and, probably, Robert Harris.
A Westbrooke descendant in VirginIa:

John Westbrooke, m. Amy, dau. of Christopher Foster, and Alice Forte (desc. of Elias Forte, of Wiveliscombe, who witnessed the Will of William Groves, with John Harris, son of Thomas, d. 1672), br. of John Foster, father of Sarah Foster, who m. Walter Gilliam. Their dau., Lydia Gilliam, m. John Watkins; their dau., Millie Watkins, m. Solomon Harris,*grandson of Thomas Harris, d, 1729/30.

John Westbrooke, appraisal by Nathaniel Ridley, Edward Brantley (his son, John, m. the widow of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30), and Thomas Cook; wit. by John Person, Oct. 28, 1734. (B. 4, p. 25). Thomas Cook and Henry Harris (br. of the said Thomas Harris), appraised the estate of the said Edward Brantley.

1.1. Richard Harris, m. Elianor Bennett, in 1594, in Wiveliscombe, Somerset.
1.1.1. Thomas Harris, m. Judith Blake, Nov. 20, 1623, in Wivelscombe, He was a business partner of Joseph Bridger and John Scott, in Bristol. A Blake descendant in Virginia: Thomas Blake; he to (br.-in-law) Joshua Claud, March 8, 1753, 290 ac. adj. the N. side of Cocklins Pocoson and sd. Claud. Wit. Thomas Blake, John Parson (Person), Thomas Day (familial to the Bennetts), and Joshua Harris (pp. 463-466), son of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.

Judith Blake’s nephew, Thomas, held land in Virginia adj. that of Edward Brantley Sr. Simply put, Edward Brantley Sr. very likely m. a sister of Thomas Moore (b. 1632), who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Giles Elbridge, security given by George Moore (cousin of Thomas), and Edward Brantley Sr., thereby being br.-in-law of Priscilla Moore, wife of Edward Champion (the br.-in-law of Thomas Blake, neighbour of Edward Brantley Sr. in Virginia, and cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, whose estate was ‘secured’ by the said Edward Brantley, and John Newman, the br.-in-law of Thomas Harris. Thus securities were provided within a kinship setting, and associations were repeated over successive generations:

1.1.1.1. Thomas Harris, b. ca. 1625, d. 1672, in Virginia, m. 1stly, Eleanor George, cousin of Rebecca George, mother of Joyce (2nd cousin of Thomas Harris*, d. 1712), who m. Philip Brantley* (son of Edward Brantley Sr.); issue; Edward Brantley; issue: John Brantley, who m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.

Thomas and Eleanor Harris were in Surry Co. in 1658, where Thomas Taberer witnessed the selling land to Christopher Benn. Thomas Harris m. 2ndly, Alice Newman, by whom:

1.1.1.1.1.*Thomas Harris*, b. ca. 1655,* d. 1712., m. istly, Hannah Browne (J.H, may you r.i.p.): (1) aunt of Mary Browne, who m. John Drake, son of Ann Griffin and Thomas Drake; Ann Griffin being the uterine half-sister of Judith Edwards (2nd wife of the said Thomas Harris). (2) Cousin of Jane Browne (m. 1st., Robert Spencer and 2nd., Thomas Jordan), the latter being “friend” of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. (3) Second-cousin of Hester Browne, who m. John Brantley, son of John Brantley Sr., br. of Philip Brantley, aforesaid. (See Browne notes, as follow).
*He would have been of full age when he and his half-br., John, bought land from Joseph Bridger (in 1679) that had been that of their father.

Consequently, it would beggar rational belief if he had not had a 1st wife before marrying Judith Edwards, after 1701.

John and Thomas Harris, 365 ac., Upper Parish of IOW Co.; on N. side of the Ashen Swamp, near the head and on west side of Seaward’s Creek, April 20, 1685, p. 441. 250 ac., part granted Nathaniel Floyd, Nov. 20, 1637, and conveyed to said Harris’ father by Captain Francis Hobbs and his wife, who was the relict and administratrix of said Floyd, Jan. 13, 1659; and among other lands found to escheate; granted to Honorable Colonel Joseph Bridger, July 22, 1678, who sold to said John and Thomas Harris the Feb. 6, following (1679).

(1. Richard Bennett, who m. Charles Barham’s sister, was a close kinsman of Elianor Bennett, who m. Richard Harris, in 1594, in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, see previous notes. 1.1. James Bennett, witnessed the Will of Joseph Bridger. 1.2. Ann Bennett, d. 1708, m. John Goode. 1.3. Richard Bennett. “Deborah Portis, widow of John Portis, appoints Richard Bennett, son of Richard Bennett, Sr. and *Thomas Harris, her attorneys”).

1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Harris,* b. ca. 1685, d. 1729/30. He witnessed the Will of John Scott, b. in 1682 (grandson of the business partner of Thomas Harris, d.1672, and Joseph Bridger), who m. Joan, dau. of James Tooke, son of Thomas Tooke. (R. July 28, 1729. Wit. *Thomas Harris, p. 171). “Mr. Charles Barham” Exor, Thomas Harris (d. 1672), and Thomas Tooke overseers, witnessed the Will of William Ridley, who was the br. of Elizabeth Ridley, Charles Barham’s wife. Thomas Harris, son of Thomas Harris, is recorded as attending Quaker meetings at Chuckatuck with his br., John, Simmons (neighbour of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30), and Thomas and Mary Tooke.
The continued association between these families points to an almost certain familial connection. The (almost certainly) many unrecorded sisters of these families m. within their kinship circle. John Scott witnessed a deed of March 26, 1711 (with William Bridger, son of Joseph Bridger Sr.), whereby John and Thomas Harris of the Upper Parish, sons of Thomas, d. 1672, divided the land they held in jointure, that being 250 ac. inherited from their father, and 115 ac. they had acquired from Joseph Bridger.

As given, John Scott’s Will was wtnessed by Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30; strongly suggesting that he was the grandson of his namesake, who d. in 1672, and that John Scott was a kinsman.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Harris, m. Sarah (dau. of Theophilus Goodwin and Elizabeth Wyche), and granddau. of Col. Thomas Goodwin and Martha Bridger, dau. of Joseph Bridger. Elizabeth Wyche was the 1st cousin of Sarah Wyke, who m. Richard Avery, of Bristol.
He m. 2ndly, Fortune Burrow (granddau.of Edward Brantley Sr.), and sister of John Burrow, who m. Johan Cooke, sister of Thomas Cooke, who, with Henry Harris, br. of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, appraised the estate of Edward Brantley, grandson of Edward Brantley Sr., and father of John Brantley, who m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Solomon Harris, m. Millie Watkins, on March 11, 1778, dau. of John Watkins and Lydia Gilliam, dau. of Walter Gilliam and Sarah Foster, dau. of John Foster:

The test results for a descendant with Family Tree DNA are a perfect match with Harris Group 4 males.

John Foster’s dau., Elizabeth Foster, m. John Watts; having issue: Agatha Watts, who m. James George, great-grandson of John George, uncle of the first wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

GILLIAM
1. Hinchea Gilliam, m. Fortune Flood (1678-Oct. 20, 1753, Surry Co.), dau. of Walter Flood and Anne, dau. of William Browne, and: (1) sister of Priscilla Browne, who m. Thomas Blount; (2) cousin of Hannah Browne, 1st wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1712, great-grandfather of Solomon Harris.*
1.1. John Gilliam, m. Sarah, dau. of Samuel Briggs, and sister of Anne Briggs, wife of Edward Goodrich.The Brantleys of Virginia stemmed fro a Goodrich heiress, see previous notes.
1.2. Walter Gilliam.
1.2.1. Lydia Gilliam, m. John Watkins.
1.2.1.1. Millie Watkins, m. *Solomon Harris.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2. *Joshua Harris. Thomas Blake to Joshua Claud, March 8, 1753, 290 ac. adj. the north side of Cocklins Pocoson and sd. Claud. Wit. Thomas Blake, John Person, Thomas Day, and Joshua Harris. (pp. 463-466).
1.1.1.1.1.1.2. Henry Harris. Richard Norwood – appraisal by Edward Brantley, Oct. 25, 1731). Richard Norwood was the husb. of Elizabeth, whose estate was appraised by by *Henry Harris and Thomas Cook (rec. Jan. 28, 1733, p. 386); the latter’s Will was witnessed by John Brantley (rec. Nov. 22, 1736, p. 186); who m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30. On July 25, 1737,

Thomas Burrow and Henry Harris appraised the inventory of Edward Brantley. Thomas Barrow Jr. was the son of Thomas Barrow Sr. and Elizabeth Brantley.

Families of this time can only be understood in the context of other families that they were connected to, usually as some form of kin, albeit the evidence of this in some instances as not survived. It is a case of ‘known unknowns’.

Connections to Bristol, with some repetition of the above.

THE SCOTT FAMILY OF BRISTOL
1.
1. Zachary Scott was of the Scott family of Kent, who became enfoeffed of the Gorges family. He, Samuel Boys and Edward Henden, esquires, were three justices of the peace, at Biddenden, 1n 1609. (QM/SI/1609/5/6). He was the br. of a Reginald Scott, father of Stephen Scott. (E 134/22Jas1/East34). In 1618, Zachery Scott’s son, John Scott, received his father’s tenantship. (Deeds of the Gorges family, May 18, 1618, Brist. Arch., 26389/7).

Other tenants of the Gorges included Maurice Rodney: recorded in a gift of William Gorges of Bristol, Esq. to his br. Tristram, of land on St. Michael’s Hill, formerly Maurice Rodney’s, Sept. 19, 1596 (ibid. 26389/2). Sales of land on “Mighell Hill”, by William Gorges, show tenants included John Cooke (ibid. 28960/1), Roger Watkyns, gent, and Hugh Watkyns, gent, in 1607 (26389/412).

The Watkyns were originally of Chepstow, Monmouth, Wales (ibid. 26389/530), and their family may have been from whence came a Watkins family of Virginia,* associated with those of this account, as follow.

William Gorges, Esq., of Bristol, was the son of Sir Edward Gorges (d.1565), and Mary, dau. of Sir Anthony Poyntz, of Iron Acton; and br. of Nicholas Gorges, Admiral (d. 1594).

1.1. “John Scott ,of Bristol”. His Will was prob. July 4, 1628, naming sons: John, Abraham, William, and Thomas.
1.1.1. William Scott. His Will names sons John and William, br.-in-law of Charles England, sister Mary Bull. Charles England was almost cetainly related to Francis England,* of Bristol and Virginia.
1.1.1.1. William Scott. Conveyance from Richard Young and Sarah his wife to Samuel Hunt* and William Scott: 3 messuages, part of the manor of Barton Regis. 1695. (Brist. Arch., 13900/12). Hunt v Hunt. Plaintiffs: Thomas Hunt,* Joseph Hunt, Sarah Hunt, *Samuel Hunt, and Anne Hunt. Defendants: Michael Hunt and others. Subject: personal estate of Michael Hunt (Bristol. 1690. C 8/417/57 ).
1.1.2. John Scott, bur. Jan. 23, 1682, was a business partner of Thomas Harris* and Joseph Bridger, in Bristol. (Bristol Record Office, Depositions). Joseph Bridger and William Scott were noted as being engaged in the Virginia trade here: Shippers by the Unicorn bound from Bristol for Virginia: Richard Finch, Roger Nevill, David Parry, James Millard, Richard Harris,* Richard Bickham, John Boucher, William Scott, Joseph Bridger. (PRO E190/829/9). *Brother of Thomas.
John Scott m. Mary Hickes, on Feb. 2, 1639, in Bristol, who was probably closely related to this John Hicks: Brist. Arch. 25641/2, 1663, Release and surrender of property in Bristol from Sarah Jenkins (now resident in Maryland) to John Hicks. Richard Harris was the br. of the said Thomas Harris.
1.1.2.1. Walter Scott, tailor, of Henrico Co., m. Ursula, “widow of Samuel Branch, and now the wife of Walter Scott”. This is Samuel Branch Jr. (Henrico Orphans’ Court, 1707). She was the dau. of John Goode and Ann, dau. of Richard Bennett, close kinsman of the Harris family. Samuel Branch was the br. of George Branch, who m. a dau. of *Francis England and Joyce, dau. of Katherine Moore, sister of Thomas Moore, the probable br.-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr.

The said “Mr. Brantley” was the father of Philip Brantley Sr., father of Edward Brantley Jr., who, on Oct. 25, 1731, appraised the estate of Richard Norwood, husband of Elizabeth, whose estate was appraised by by Henry Harris and Thomas Cooke (rec. Jan. 28, 1733, p. 386), who can be suggested to be Thomas Cooke’s sister, Elizabeth, who d. in 1732.

The Brantleys were tenants of the Norwoods in the Manor of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and, as pevious notes example, members of the Brantley family were of the Quaker fraternity. Richard Norwood was the son of William Norwood and Lydia, and, as such, was the br. of Elizabeth, wife of Francis Branch, br. of Samuel and George Branch.

1.1.2.2. John Scott, a Chuckatuck Quaker. In 1682, John Scott, son of William Scott of Chuckatuck in Nansemond Co., m. Elizabeth Belson, witnessed by John’s brother, William Scott.
1.1.2.2.1. William Scott, m. Christian, dau. of Robert Jordan, and Christian Taberer.
1.1.2.3. William Scott. Post-nuptial settlement of Wm. Scott, Bristol, mariner, and Anne Garland als Tovey, Long Ashton, Somerset, 1677, concerning (n.b) Brown’s tenement, part of Ridgeway Farm, previously held by the Moore family. (Glouc. Arch., D2700/NR1/19). William Scott m. 2ndly, Elizabeth … , having issue:
1.1.2.3.1. John Scott, b. in 1682, m. Joan, dau. of James Tooke, son of Thomas Tooke. Names children and gift to them by uncle James Tooke. (R. July 28, 1729. Wit. Thomas Harris, p. 171).

This was probably the Thomas Harris who d. 1729/30.

William Scot “the elder” condemned his connection with the disorderly marriage of his son John, to Joan Tooke in Levy Neck Meeting House, she not as yet being a “Friend”. (US Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935). “Mr. Charles Barham” Exor, Thomas Harris (d. 1672), and Thomas Tooke overseers, witnessed the Will of William Ridley, who was the br. of Elizabeth Ridley, Charles Barham’s wife. Charles Barham’s sister m. Richard Bennett, d. 1709, close kinsman of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Thomas Harris, son of Thomas Harris, is recorded as attending Quaker meetings at Chuckatuck with his br. John, Thomas Tooke, and Thomas Jordan Sr. (White, p. 11).

1.1.2.3.1.1. James Tooke Scott, m. Christian, dau. of Col. George Norsworthy, and Sarah, dau. of John Pitt and Olive, dau. of John Hardy, and relict of Giles Driver, headright of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, who held 1,000 ac. in Nansemond in 1658, which was “by him deserted” and granted anew on July 6, 1668 to Joseph Bridger. (W&MQ, vol. 7, no. 4, 1899).

John Scott witnessed a deed of March 26, 1711 (with William Bridger, son of Joseph Bridger Sr.), whereby John and Thomas Harris of the Upper Parish, sons of Thomas, d. 1672, divided the land they held in jointure, that being 250 ac. inherited from their father, and 115 ac. they had acquired from Joseph Bridger. As given, John Scott’s Will was wtnessed by Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30; strongly suggesting that he was the grandson of his namesake, who d. in 1672.

1.1.2.3.1.1.1. Thomas Scott.
1.1.2.3.1.2. Thomas Scott, names as leg. Thomas and George Norsworthy Scott, sons of my brother James Tooke Scott. R. August 3, 1749.
1.1.2.3.1.3. William Scott.
1.1.2.3.1.3.1. William Scott, account estate examined by James Bridger. R. July 7, 1763, p. 260.
1.1.2.3.1.4. Robert Scott, names sister *Katherine Watkins, cousin James Took Scott, cousin Elizabeth Bacon, cousin William Scott, son of my brother, William Scott. (R. Oct. 24, 1743, p. 480).

THE HUNT FAMILY OF BRISTOL
1. William Hunt.
1.1. Michael Hunt, soapmaker, of Bristol.
1.1.1. Mary, Sarah, and Anne Hunt.
1.2. *Samuel Hunt.
1.3. *Thomas Hunt.
1.4. William Hunt Jr., m. Sarah Knott, d. March 20, 1711, Surry Co.
1.4.1. Thomas Hunt, m. 1stly, Fortune Jordan (d. Oct. 15, 1671, Surry Co.), sister of Lydia Jordan, wife of William Norwood, parents of Elizabeth Norwood (Branch) of this account. He m. 2ndly, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Judkins and Elizabeth Taylor. William Norwood and Lydia had issue: Richard Norwood, and Elizabeth, wife of Francis Branch, br. of Samuel and George Branch.

1.4.2. William Hunt.
1.4.2.1. William Hunt, m. Sarah Wyke.* The Wyke family in question are not likely to be those ‘fabled’ as deriving from a Cambridge educated rector of Sutton, whose son, Henry, coincidentally, had the same name as the Virginia settler. The Wykes were more likely those of the merchant class of Bristol, as all those associated with them. Those closely associated in Virginia almost invariably came from the same English ‘orchard’.
1.4.2.1.1. George Wyke.
1.4.2.1.1.1. Elizabeth Wyke, m. Theophilus Goodwin, Sr.
1.4.2.1.1.1.1. Sarah Goodwin, m. Thomas Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/ 1730, the br. of Henry Harris.
1.4.2.1.2. William Wyche, m. Judith Maybury.
1.4.2.1.2.1. Sarah Wyke, m. Richard Avery, who m. (2) Fortune Burrow, sister of John Burrow, issue of Thomas Burrow and Elizabeth, dau. of John Brantley, son of Edward Brantley Sr. John Burrow m. Johan Cooke, sister of Thomas Cooke*, associate of Henry Harris.*

1.5. Joseph Hunt, he and br. Michael held land in Jamaica. Abstract of the title of Joseph Hunt of Port Royal, Jamaica, merchant, to lands in Jamaica, Nov. 21, 1662. (Brist. Arch., AC/WO/16/1). These lands were part of the “Spring Plantation”, owned by John Elbridge, br.-in-law of Thomas Moore, the probable br.-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr.

1.6. Mary Hunt, m. Robert Edwards, as his 2nd wife. She m. (2) (Owen Griffin, having issue: Ann Griffin, who m. Thomas Drake. Her Will of 1727 gave her son-in-law, Thomas Drake, her whole estate. She m. (3) William Boddie (d. 1712), who, by a 1st wife, Anna, had issue: Mary Boddie, who m. John Browne.* (Mr. Boddie). Their son, Thomas Browne, had issue, Mary, who m. John Drake.

(1. Robert Edwards, m. istly, Judith Burton.
1.1. Frances Edwards, m. Henry Wyche.
1.1.1. Sarah Wyke, m. William Hunt.
1.1.1.1. William Wyche, m. Judith Maybury.
1.1.1.1.1. Sarah Wyke, m. Richard Avery, who m. (2) Fortune Burrow, sister of John Burrow, issue of Thomas Burrow and Elizabeth, dau. of John Brantley, son of Edward Brantley Sr. John Burrow m. Johan Cooke, sister of *Thomas Cooke.

1.1.1.2. George Wyke.
1.1.1.2.1. Elizabeth Wyke, m. Theophilus Goodwin, Sr.*
1.1.1.2.1.1. Sarah Goodwin, m. Thomas Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/1730).

1.6.1. Judith Edwards, m. (1) Thomas Harris, as his 2nd wife. (2) John Clarke. Thomas Harris was the son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, and Eleanor George.
1.6.2. Sarah Edwards, m. Thomas Joyner.

(1. John Crews, d. bef. 1684, IOW. 1.1. … Crews, m. Mary Tooke. 1.2. Susannah Crews, d. aft. 1704, m. Richard Blunt, Sr. 1.2.1. Richard Blunt, Jr. m. Mary Browne, dau. of Wm. Brown and … Briggs. 1.2.1.1. John Blunt, Sr. b. 1712 IOW, d. 1751, m. Ann …1.2.1.1.1. John Blunt. 1.2.1.1.2. William Blunt. 1.2.1.1.3. Alice Blunt, m. Thomas Joyner, 1756, in NC.).

(Many of the associations witnessed in Virginia were of long-standing origin, and some records from the parish of St. Augustine The Less, in Bristol, may be pertinent:
Elizabeth Harris, m. John Jones, Aug. 10, 1600.
Susan Jones, m. Richard Hill, Nov. 4, 1599.
Edward Jones, m. Anne Harris, June 10, 1604.
Martha Jones, m. Christopher Edwards, Dec. 13, 1635.
Sarah Joanes Thomas Row, Feb. 10, 1649
Thomas Jones, m. Elizabeth Crew, April 30, 1666.
Robert Harris, m. Mary Watkins, Aug. 25, 1603.
John Watkins, m. Judith Ragland, Jan. 28, 1612.
John Watkins, m. Elizabeth Hodges, May 11, 1641.
John Harris, m. Elsabeth Drewe, April 10, 1616.
Edward Harris, m. Francis Lane, Jan. 6, 1648.
George Edwards, m. Joane Phillips Nov. 9, 1607
Robert Edwards, m. Margret Howell, Aug. 10, 1628
Joan Howell, m. John Scott, Sept. 1, 1659
Ann Howell, m. Griffyn Brown, Aug. 30, 1659.
William Edwards, m. Elyzabeth Reeves, Feb. 24, 1660
George Edwards, m. Sarah Brown, Sept. 7, 1630).

1.6.2.1. William Joyner, m. Mary, dau. of William Boddie and his 1st wife, Anna. She m. 2ndly John Browne Jr.* She was the relict of William Joyner, son of Thomas Joyner and Sarah Edwards, dau. of Robert and Mary (Hunt) Edwards. William Joyner was the br. of Thomas Joyner, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of George Williamson (br. of Ann Williamson Boykin), and Hester, dau. of Joseph Bridger: The business partner of the Harris family in Bristol, the conveyor of their father’s land in Virginia to John and Thomas Harris, d. 1712).

Thomas Joyner and Elizabeth Williamson had issue: Elizabeth Joyner, who m. William Kinchin Sr. Elizabeth Kinchen deeded land to her son, William Kinchen Jr., and grandson, William, In Nov., 1740. (Bertie Co., NC., B. F., pp. 176, 204). William Kinchen Jr. m. a dau. of John Gibbins, and his father, William Kinchen Sr., was exec. of John Gibbins Will, rec. Sept. 25, 1721, IOW: Leg. Mr. William Kinchen (Sr.), Henry Harris (etc., sundry members of the ‘wider’ Harris family, about which relationships can not be adduced).

William Kinchen Jr. was the br. of Matthew Kinchen, whose Will names ‘uncle Thomas Joyner’ (probably his mother’s br.), and his nephews Goodwin, sons of his sister, Sarah Goodwin, wife of James Goodwin, son of Thomas Goodwin* (d. May 27, 1714), son of Col. Thomas Goodwin (gent, of Somerset), and Ann Tabererer, sister of Thomas Taberer. *Br. of *Theophilus Goodwin. Ann Taberer was the relict of Robert Spencer ( “friend” of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), mother of Elizabeth Spencer, who m. John Watkins. Their dau. Elizabeth Watkins, m. Robert Ruffin. Thomas Harris (d. 1712), witnessed an indenture between Robert and William Ruffin to William Edwards, on March 1, 1708, cousin of his second wife.

Thomas Taberer, m. Ann Bennett, probable sister of Governor Richard Bennett, close kin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. He patented land adj. *Francis England in 1652. He witnessed a land deed in 1658 between “Thomas Harris of Chipoaks (d. 1672) in the County of Surry” and Christopher Benn. He was the father-in-law of John Newman, husband of Ruth Taberer, and John Newman was the future br.-in-law of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, who m. (2), Alice, dau. of John Newman Sr. He was the father of Christian Taberer, who m. (Dec. 9, 1687), Robert Jordan (Quaker minister), p. 213. The sons of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, attended his Quaker meetings at Chuckatuck. Christian Jordan, dau. of Robert Jordan and Christian Taberer, m. William Scott.
The son of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, Thomas Harris, m. Sara Goodwin, dau. of Theophilus Goodwin and Elizabeth Wyche, and granddau. of Col. Thomas Goodwin and Martha Bridger, dau. of Joseph Bridger (business partner Thomas Harris, d. 1672, etc.

Thus:
1. Thomas Harris, d. 1672, br.-in-law of John Newman (a Chuckatuck Quaker), whose father-in-law was Thomas Taberer, whose sister, Ann, m. Col. Thomas Goodwin (gent, of Somerset), having issue: Theophilus Goodwin, who m. Elizabeth Wyche; their dau., Sarah, m. Thomas Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.* Thomas Taberer’s dau. m. William Scott, br. of John Scott, b. in 1682, who m. Joan, dau. of James Tooke, son of Thomas Tooke. John Scott’s Will names children and gift to them by uncle James Tooke. (R. July 28, 1729. Wit. *Thomas Harris, p. 171).

(1. Richard Bennett, who m. Charles Barham’s sister, was a close kinsman of Elianor Bennett, who m. Richard Harris, in 1594, in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, having issue: Thomas Harris (business partner of John Scott and Joseph Bridger), who had issue: Thomas Harris, b. ca, 1625, d. 1672, who had issue: John Harris, and Thomas Harris,* d. 1712, who. m. (1) Hannah Browne, (2) Judith Edwards. 1.1. James Bennett, witnessed the Will of Joseph Bridger. 1.2. Ann Bennett, d. 1708, m. John Goode. 1.3. Richard Bennett. “Deborah Portis, widow of John Portis, appoints Richard Bennett, son of Richard Bennett, Sr. and *Thomas Harris, her attorneys”).

1.1. *Thomas Harris, d. 1712, m. 1stly, Hannah Browne, cousin of John Browne, Sr., who m. Bridget Lewis, having issue: Hester Browne, who m. John Brantley; and *John Browne, who m. Mary, dau. of William Boddie and his 1st wife, Anna, relict of William Joyner, son of Thomas Joyner and Sarah (dau. of Robert and Mary (Hunt) Edwards), and sister of Judith Edwards, 2nd wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1712. John Brantley was the br. of Edward Brantley Jr. (as follows), whose son m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.

1.1.1. Thomas Harris,* d. betw. July 28, 1729 and Feb. 22, 1731 (old cal.), when his estate was appraised by Edward Brantley Jr. and John Thorpe. (B. 3., p. 245). Thomas Harris farmed 290 ac. in IOW, on the Maherin River and both sides of Herbert’s Branch adj. John Simmons and Edward Brantley Jr., son of Phillip Brantly (son of Edward Brantley Sr., who stood security, with John Newman, for the estate of Thomas Harris, rec. Nov. 3, 1672), and Joyce Lewis.

Edward Brantley Jr’s son, John, m. the widow of Thomas Harris. Joyce Lewis was a dau. of Rebecca, dau. of John George, and probable cousin of *Eleanor George, 1st wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. John Simmons was a fellow Quaker, who attended meetings at Chuchatuck with such as John and Thomas Harris, d. 1712.

The said Edward Brantley Jr., on Oct. 25, 1731, appraised the estate of Richard Norwood, husband of Elizabeth, whose estate was appraised by by *Henry Harris (br. of the said Thomas Harris), and Thomas Cooke (rec. Jan. 28, 1733, p. 386), who can be suggested to be Thomas Cook’es sister, Elizabeth, who d. in 1732. John Scott (b. 1682) m. Joan, granddau. of Thomas Tooke, who, with Thomas Harris, d. 1672, was an overseer of the Will of William Ridley, with Charles Barham (William Ridley’s br-in-law) being the executor. Charles Barham’s sister was the wife of Richard Harris, close kinsman of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. John Scott, b. in 1682, m. Joan, dau. of James Tooke, son of Thomas Tooke. John Scott’s Will names children and gift to them by uncle James Tooke. (R. July 28, 1729. Wit. *Thomas Harris (p. 171).

1.1.1.1. Thomas Harris and his wife, Hannah, had issue:
1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Harris, who m. Sara Goodwin, dau. of Theophilus Goodwin and Elizabeth Wyche, and granddau. of Col. Thomas Goodwin and Martha Bridger, dau. of Joseph Bridger.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Solomon Harris, m. Millie Watkins, on March 11, 1778. The test results for a descendant (with Family Tree DNA) are a perfect match with Harris Group 4 males.

1.1.1.2. Henry Harris. Richard Norwood – appraisal by Edward Brantley, Oct. 25, 1731). Richard Norwood was the husb. of Elizabeth, whose estate was appraised by by *Henry Harris and Thomas Cook (rec. Jan. 28, 1733, p. 386); the latter’s Will was witnessed by John Brantley (rec. Nov. 22, 1736, p. 186); who m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30. On July 25, 1737, Thomas Barrow and Henry Harris appraised the inventory of Edward Brantley. Thomas Barrow Jr. was the son of Thomas Barrow Sr. and Elizabeth Brantley.

BROWNE
1.
1.1. William Browne, b. ca. 1630.
1.1.1. Jane Browne (m. 1st., Robert Spencer and 2nd., Thomas Jordan).
1.1.2. William Browne Jr., m. Jane Meriwether.
1.1.3. Anne Browne, m. Walter Flood.
1.1.3.1. Fortune Flood, m. Hinchea Gilliam.
1.1.3.1.1. Walter Gilliam.
1.1.3.1.1.1. Lydia Gilliam, m. John Watkins.
1.1.3.1.1.1.1. Millie Watkins, m. *Solomon Harris.

1.2. George Browne.
1.2.1. Hannah Browne, m. Thomas Harris, d. 1712, as his 1st wife. Alexander Webster – Leg. George Bell Jr., John Harris (br. of the said Thomas), Hannah Brown, ‘the daughter of George Brown’. Proved by George Bell Sr., Nov. 1, 1688. She was the sister of Thomas Browne, whose dau., Mary, m. John Drake, son of Ann Griffin and Thomas Drake; Ann Griffin being the uterine half-sister of Judith Edwards (2nd wife of the said Thomas Harris), who m. 2ndly, John Clarke. She was the niece of Edward Browne and Elizabeth Sampson, dau. of James Sampson and Elizabeth Barcroft, sister-in-law of George Moore, cousin of Thomas Moore, probable br.-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr. George Bell …

1.2.2. Thomas Browne.
1.2.2.1. Mary Browne, m. John Drake.

1.3. Edward Browne, m. Elizabeth Sampson; she m. (2) Thomas Clarke. Peter Deberry – Will rec. March 28, 1712. Legatee: daughter Sarah wife of John Warren part of Piland’s patent; son John bed where I now lie at house of James Sampson; wife Elizabeth (Brantley) exc. with brother (in-law) John Brantley.* Witness Nathaniel Ridley, James Sampson, Mary Sampson. (B. 2, p. 554). Elizabeth Sampson was the dau. of James Sampson (‘of Stevenheath Parish in County Middlesex, Shipwright’, p. 213 ), and Elizabeth Barcroft, sister-in-law of George Moore. James Sampson’s will was probated April 9, 1689, bequesting to ‘Mr. George Moore and his wife … ‘my daughter Clarke’ … .’John Browne’ … ‘Samuel Browne’.
1.3.1. *John Browne, Sr., m. Bridget Lewis.
1.3.1.1. Hester Browne, m. John Brantley.
1.3.1.2. John Browne, m. Mary, dau. of William Boddie and his 1st wife, Anna,, relict of William Joyner, son of Thomas Joyner and Sarah, dau. of Robert and Mary (Hunt) Edwards.
(George Williamson (br. of Ann Williamson Boykin), February 6, 1655 – October 28, 1721 m. Hester, dau. of Joseph Bridger, and had issue, Elizabeth, who. m. Thomas Joyner. Their dau. m. William Kinchin Sr.).
1.3.2. Samuel Browne (ca. 1670–1740), who m. (as 2nd wife) Mary Jones, sister of Matthew Jones. Children by 2nd wife:
1.3.2.1. Dr. Jesse Browne, ca. 1700 – Dec. 3, 1770, SH Co.; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Nathaniel Ridley.
1.3.2.1.1. Elizabeth Browne, m. (Jan. 16, 1768), Kinchen Taylor.
1.3.2.1.2. Mary Browne, d. Dec. 1809, Person Co. NC., m. (Oct. 6, 1766), Robert Dickens, d. April 4, 1804 Person Co.
1.3.2.2. Mary Browne, m. John Drake.
1.3.2.2.1. Penelope Drake, m. James Barrow.
1.3.2.3. Martha Browne (b. ca. 1710, d. 1790), m. Henry King. The Will of Jesse Browne – prob. June 23, 1740, B 4, p. 274 – ‘Item – I give unto Samuel King my grandson the son of Henry King and Martha King’. ‘Item – I give unto my daughter Mary Drake wife of John Drake’. Test: Hardy Councill, Jr.

CLARKE FAMILY OF BRISTOL
1. John Clarke (d. 1620), m. Joanne Cogan, Oct. 14, 1611, in Chedzoy, juxta Wiveliscombe.
1.1. John Clarke, bapt. May 25, 1617.
1.1.1. Katherine Clarke, b. ca. 1640-45, m. Henry King. Surry Co. B. 3, p. 13: John Clarke to Henry King, son-in-law, carpenter, I.O.W. Co., and his wife Katherine King my daughter …. 100 ac. in Surry Co. bounded by Edward Browne. Grandsons William and Henry King. In 1689, Henry King (in Charles City Co.), admin. the estate of David Williams, having m. David’s widow, Sarah Williams. Henry King witnessed John Bond selling to Thomas Harris (d. 1672) a corn mill at the head of Pagen Creek. “Thomas Harris, 650 acs. on the N. side of the head of Puscaticon Cr., Lancaster Co., adj. land of Oliver Seger, & opposite an Indian Field, Trans. of 13 pers”.
1.1.1.1. Jan. 1, 1726, Surry Co., B. 7: Henry King Jr. of Brunswick Co, sold 100 ac. in Lawnes Parish, Surry Co, bounded by Edward Browne and John Atkins.

1.2. Thomas Clarke, b. ca. 1615, m. (1) Katherine Moore, Sept. 22, 1638. She was a dau. of John Moore, who m. Mary Gosse, April 22, 1616, and sister of William Moore, bapt. Feb. 23, 1617, who m. Ann Tomlin, witnessed as “Anne Moore, widow”, whose estate was subject to a lawsuit instigated by Andrew (her father) and William Tomlin. 1677. (C 5/634/13).
1.2.1. Thomas Clarke, m. (2), ca. 1660, Elizabeth Sampson, relict of Edward Browne Jr.
1.2.1.1. John Clarke, bapt. March 10, 1640.
1.2.1.1. John Clarke, m. Judith Edwards, relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1712.
1.2.1.1.1. Elizabeth Clarke, m. Robert Barham; hence to the wife of Joel Harris.

COOKE FAMILY OF BRISTOL
1. Philip Cooke, mariner, b. 1589.
1.1. William Cooke, bapt. March 25, 1613, St. Augustine Parish, Bristol; d. Nov. 10, 1679, in Surry Co., Virginia.
1.1.1. William Cooke, bapt. Aug. 9, 1633 (St. Aug.); d. Aug. 6, 1698, IOW.
1.1.1.1. Reuben Cooke, m. Hannah, dau. of John Atkinson Sr. and Ann, dau. of Christopher Holleman. John Atkinson Sr. was the son of Thomas Atkinson and Martha … who m. (2) Thomas Pitman, (3) Thomas Gwaltney. Hannah Atkinson was the sister of Ann, wife of Thomas Jarrell, having issue: Thomas Jarrell, who m. Martha, dau. of William Kinchen and Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Ruffin, the father of Elizabeth Ruffin, who m. Mathew Kinchen, br. of William Kinchen Jr., heir (as son-in-law) in the Will of John Gibbins; the first named legatee in which was Henry Harris.
1.1.1.2. Johanna Cooke, m. John Burrow, son of Thomas Burrow, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Brantley, son of Edward Brantley Sr., whose estate was appraised by Henry Harris and Thomas Barrow, on July 25, 1737. (B. 4., p. 176). John Burrow was the br. of Fortune Burrow, wife of Richard Avery, whose relict was Sarah, dau. of William Wyke, son of Henry Wyche and Frances Edwards*, half- sister of Judith Edwards, the 2nd wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1712.

1.1.1.3. John Cooke Sr., d. June 20, 1711, m. Hannah, dau. of James Jones, and Rebecca (d. 1719), dau. of Christopher Lewis, and cousin of a (n.b.) Richard Jones.
1.1.3.1. Henry Cooke, m. Mary, dau. of Samuel Clarke.
1.1.3.1.1. Elizabeth Clarke, m. David Peebles Jr. (d. Jan. 1, 1796, Greene Co., Georgia), son of David Peebles and Ann (d. March 28, 1756, St Andrew’s Parish, Brunswick Co.); dau. of Francis Maybury Sr. (and Elizabeth, dau. of John Gilliam), and sister of Francis Maybury Jr., who m. Eleanor, dau. of Henry Wyche and Frances Edwards, half-sister of Judith Edwards, 2nd wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1712. Eleonor Wyche was the sister of Sarah Wycke, wife of (1) William Hunt, d. April 20, 1727; (2) John Goodwyn, son of Col. Thomas Goodwyn Sr., the br, of Theophilius Goodwin ….

1.1.4. Thomas Cooke, associate of Henry Harris.* Thomas Cooke Sr – Will rec, Nov. 22, 1736. Legatees: children Thomas, (son) Jones, Sarah, Susannah, Benjamin, John, Rebecca, and Arthur. Exc. sons Thomas and Jones Cook; witness John Brantley and Valentine White. (B. 4, p. 149).
1.1.5. Frances Cooke, m. John Person.
1.1.5.1. John Person.
1.1.5.1.1. … Person, m. William Tooke, son of John Tooke, son of Thomas Tooke Sr., and br. of Mary Tooke, wife of Edmund Belson, their issue being: Mary Belson, who m. Abraham Ricks.
In 1684, among the Society of Friends in Nansemond County the marriage of Mary Crew, dau. of Mary Tooke of Isle of Wight, to Edmond Belson, son of Elizabeth Belson of Nansemond County, was witnessed by John Scott and Elizabeth Scott, among many others.

THE EDWARDS FAMILY OF BRISTOL
1. Robert Edwards
1.1. Robert Edwards, m. Mary, sister of Michael Hunt, soapmaker, of Bristol.
1.1.1. Judith Edwards, m. Thomas Harris, almost certainly as 2nd wife.
1.2. Thomas Edwards, m. (1) Elizabeth, dau. of William Newitt, and half-sister of Frances, wife of Edward Drewe Sr., grandf. of Mary Drew, who m. a Henry Harris. (2) the widow of James Piland Sr.
1.2.1. “Mr. Thomas Edwards”, m. a dau. (Mary, Sarah, or Anne) of Michael Hunt, in whose Will, probated June 12, 1684, he is designated as “cousin”, and overseer. Thomas Edwards was a business partner of John Clarke in Bristol. (Bristol Arch., ref. 046, 1684).
1.2.2. Mr. William Edwards (“William Edwards, Bristol merchant, destination Virginia”), granted granted 290 ac. in Lower Par. of Surry Co., on heads of Blackwater branches … adj. Mr. Richard Bennett (April 23, 1688, p. 214), close kinsman of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Mr. William Edwards, granted 410 ac., in Lower Par. of Surry Co., on E. of Greene’s Swamp, on Oct. 20, 1691, p. 204. … Granted John Clarke, April 24, 1684, by him deserted. Imp. of Richard Holman … Thomas Harris (d. 1712).

Realistically, it was something like this.

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The parents of Thomas Harris who died in 1729/30 in Virginia were probably (not proven) the Thomas Harris who died in 1712 and a 1st wife. The notes that follow put this proposition within the framework of early Quaker records in Virginia. He was related to Harris cousins that also shared similar connections, but these do not detract from the proposition. Much Harris research of late has been placed with a “box” that is claimed to “prove” that the ancestor of the Thomas of 1729/30 was so-and-so. No such proof exists, nor any records in the (n.b.) public domain that substantiate this contention, which, however often repeated as contention is not transmuted to fact. Any meaningful research into this subject must be based on “thinking outside of the box” that has been imposed, for, unless that, the “box” becomes a “coffin”.

This account begins with what regular readers of this blog might consider to be a much repeated viewpoint as to the relationships within the Harris family of Wiveliscombe. The exact relationships suggested are not necesarily ones I share in all instances, but are deemed to be the most likely by other “Harris Hunters”. If forebearance is given, these notes, after giving a context in which people can be generally placed, do lead to Quaker records that strongly suggest the validity of the opening proposition.

These notes suggest that the most common recent ancestor of the family of Harris of Wivelisombe was born ca. 1540.

i.

HARRIS

1. Richard Harris, m. (1594) Elianor Bennett, in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, sister of Edward Bennett, the Virginia coloniser.
1.1. Edward Harris, held land patented by his cousin, (Governor) Richard Bennett, on Nov. 4, 1642. This was adj. land held by Wm. Newsome, April 6, 1653, p. 51.
1.1.1. Edward Harris, d. 1677. The estate accounts of Edward Harris Jr. inc. “100. Payd Coll. Bacon for rent” (land bought from Thomas Harris, d. 1672, Edward’s uncle).
Edward Harris ii. was a son-in-law of George Hardy, whose wife, Mary Jackson, was a great-granddau. of Edward Bennett, uncle of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, and Edward Harris I.
George Hardy’s land bounded that of Nicholas Hill (who m. a dau. of Edward Bennett), who, with Edward Brantley Sr., witnessed the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Edward Brantley Sr., had issue, Phillip, who m. Joyce Lewis, dau. of Thomas Lewis and Rebecca (George) Pardoe, half-sister of Phillip Pardoe, security for the estate of Edward Harris, d. 1677. Phillip Brantley had issue: Edward Brantley, whose son, John, m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.
1.1.1.1. Edward Harris, b. 1664.

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1.2. Robert Harris, m. Mary Crumpe (cousin of Richard Crump, b. 1628, sheriff of Bristol, merchant).
1.2.1. Martha Harris, m. John Jennings, of Bristol, merchant. His Will, rec. March 10, 1679, mentions daus. Martha and Mary, son John. Overseers, George and Thomas Moore (probable br.-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr.).
1.2.1.1. John Jennings, m. Mary Hill, dau. of Sylvester Bennett, cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.2.1.2. Martha Jennings, d. 1702, m. Thomas Thorpe Sr. (d. 1711, in IOW Co.), bef. 1686. Thomas Thorpe was the br. of Timothy Thorpe Sr., who had issue (1) Joseph Thorpe, who had issue: Mary, who m. James Barham; their dau., Martha Barham, m. Joel Harris, son of John Harris and Avis White (granddau. of George Moore); son of Robert Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. George Moore was the cousin of Thomas Moore, probable brother-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr.
1.2.1.2.1. Sarah Thorpe (by first wife), m. (1) William George, son of John George, and nephew of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.2.1.2.2. John Thorpe, appraisee of estate of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, with Edward Brantley, whose son, John, m. the relict.

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1.3. Richard Harris.
1.3.1. John Harris,* bapt. Feb. 18, 1624, (“son of Richard”), d. 1687.
1.3.1.1. Elizabeth Harris, b. ca. 1662, m. Samuel Lancaster, son of Robert Lancaster Sr. and Sarah, widow of her 2nd husband, Richard Bennett Sr., d. 1710; second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.3.1.2. John Harris, b. ca. 1663. On Nov. 9, 1708, Samuel Lancaster was granted the administration of the estate of John Harris, his br.-in-law.
1.3.1.3. William Harris, b. ca. 1664, m. Margaret, the widow of (1) Edward Taylor. His Will (rec. April 19, 1721, in Surry) named wife, Margaret, granddau., Mary, who m. Thomas Taylor, son of Margaret and Edward Taylor, and grandson, Harris Taylor, great-grandson of William Harris. The Will of Margaret Taylor Harris was proved Sept. 20, 1721, naming dau. Margaret, wife of Bartlett Moreland, who had m. (1) William Judkins, they the parents of Hannah and Elizabeth Judkins.
1.3.2. Thomas Harris, d. 1668.
1.3.2.1. William Harris. Jan. 4, 1685: William Harris and wife Mary Harris, to William Newsum … 220 ac. now in the tenure of *Mr. John Harris. July 30, 1680: Indenture, William Harris only son of Thomas Harris, dec’d of Lawnes Creek Parish and his wife Mary to Thomas Jarrell.* 120 ac., part of the Harris 850 ac.. Witnesses: Robert Ruffin, William Newsum. Surry Co.
1.3.3. Thomas Harris, ca. 1630-1688. An orphan of his was assigned to Bridgeman Joyner, the uncle of Benjamin Joyner, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Pittman and Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Lancaster Jr., and niece of Samuel Lancaster, who m. Elizabeth Harris, dau. of John Harris, bapt. Feb. 18, 1624, nephew of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Robert and Samuel Lancaster were sons of Robert Lancaster Sr. and Sarah, widow of 2nd husband Richard Bennett Sr. (d. 1710. B. 5, p. 224), second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.3.3.1. Robert Harris. His descendants had strong links to the Lancasters, see previous notes.
1.3.3.2. John Harris. Nicholas Tyner’s dau., Sarah, was his mistress. His estate papers include a court record of 1727, of a legal dispute between Edward Harris (br. of John) and John Robertson. John and Edward Harris were brs. of Jane, who m. Richard Jones, Will probated on May 22, 1721, which mentions as legatees, daughter, Ann Bell, and her husband, William. It is witnessed by a Thomas Harris, probably another of Jane’s brothers. William Bell was baptised in Christ Church Parish, on Feb. 26, 1692, son of John Bell, d. 1713, and Ann Bennett,* dau. of Richard Bennett Sr., named in the latter’s Will of Aug. 30, 1694, he being a second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, and whose relict m. Robert Lancaster Sr., as given. Hence, there was a very close connection between the children of Thomas Harris, d. 1688, and his namesake, d. 1672. Richard Jones named a dau., Elizabeth, in his Will, and she was possibly the wife of John Robertson, named in his Will of 1756.
1.3.3.3. Edward Harris.
1.3.3.4. Thomas Harris.
1.3.3.5. Jane Harris, m. Richard Jones.
1.3.3.5.1. Ann Jones, m. (1721, G.B. 2, p. 84), William Bell.
1.3.3.5.2. Elizabeth Jones, probably m. John Robertson.

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1.4. Thomas Harris, m. Judith Blake, on Nov. 20, 1623, in Wivelscombe, a cousin of Thomas Blake, who held 400 ac. to the west of Seward’s Creek in 1670, bordering the land of Thomas Tooke to the east, and Edward Brantley, Sr. to the north; his land bordering that of John and Thomas Harris (sons of Thomas, d. 1672), to the east. Mr. Jno. Marshall, 700 ac. IOW, July 12, 1665, p. 252. W. side of the Wester Sw., beg. at lower cor. tree of Capt. (John) Fulgham’s land, extending down Sw. to land of Tho. Harris. John Fulgham was overseer of the Will of Thomas Harris, 1688, who beq. Robert Harris (his son) “may dwell with John Fulgham three years”.

1.4.1. Thomas Harris, b. ca. 1625, d. 1672, in Virginia.

1.4.1.1. Thomas Harris, m. (2) Judith Edwards, she m. (2) … Clarke. By a first wife, in agreement with Mr. Bodie:
1.4.1.1.1. Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, who 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 who m. (2) Phillip Pardoe, security for estate of Edward Harris, d. 1677. In his Will, Thomas names a brother, Henry Harris, son Joshua, and also an ‘unborn child wife now goes with’. (Thomas).
1.4.1.1.1.1. Thomas Harris, m. Sara Goodwin, dau. of Theophilus Goodwin and Elizabeth Wyche, and granddau. of Col. Thomas Goodwin and Martha Bridger, dau. of Joseph Bridger (business partner Thomas Harris, d. 1672).
1.4.1.1.1.1.1. Solomon Harris, m. Millie Watkins, on March 11, 1778. The test results for a descendant (with Family Tree DNA) are a perfect match with Harris Group 4 males.
1.4.1.1.1.2. Joshua Harris. Joshua Claud, estate appraised Dec. 14, 1775, by Samuel Westbrooke Sr., Samuel Westbrooke Jr. Joshua Harris: Estate appraised by Joshua Claud, Thomas Day (of Bennett association), and Samuel Westbrooke, June 14, 1770, p. 324. Samuel Westbrooke: Estate appraised by Samuel Blake (son of Thomas Blake, per estate appraisal, rec. Feb. 12, 1789), who appraised the estate of John Foster, in 1773.

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EDWARDS – a Bristol family, which can only be understood in the context of records of that place.

1. … Edwards.
1.1. Robert Edwards, m. Mary, sister of Michael Hunt. Ancient lease: Corporation of Bristol to Michael Hunt. March 30, 1678. (Bristol Arch., 13461/1). Mary Hunt m. (3) William Boddie.
1.1.1. Judith Edwards, m. Thomas Harris*, by a first wife:
1.1.1.1. Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, his relict m. a descendant of Edward Brantley Sr.
1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Harris, m. Sarah Goodwin.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Solomon Harris.
1.1.2. Frances Edwards, m. Henry Wyche.
1.1.2.1. George Wyche.
1.1.2.1.1. Elizabeth Wyche, m. Theophilus Goodwin.
1.1.2.1.1.1. Sarah Goodwin, m. Thomas Harris.
1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Solomon Harris. The test results for a descendant (with Family Tree DNA) are a perfect match with Harris Group 4 males.

1.1.1.2. Henry Harris, m. Mary Drewe.
1.2. Thomas Edwards, m. (1) Elizabeth, dau. of William Newitt, and half-sister of Frances, wife of Edward Drewe Sr., dau.* of Mary Drewe, who m. a Henry Harris. (2) the widow of James Pyland Sr., of Bristol. Thomas Greenwood’s Will (whose relict m. James Pyland), was witnessed by Joseph Bridger, business partner of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, John George, and Nicholas Hill (their relationship to the said Thomas is explained herein). The Will of Edward Drewe Sr. clearly names Mary as “my daughter Mary Harris, wife of John Harris”.
1.2.1. “Mr. Thomas Edwards”, m. a dau. (Mary, Sarah, or Anne) of Michael Hunt, soapmaker, of Bristol, in whose Will, probated June 12, 1684, he is designated as “cousin” and overseer; Sarah Jordan witnessed his Will. unspecified “plantations”, which can be taken as those he held jointly with his brother, Joseph, in Jamaica. (Abstract of the title of Joseph Hunt of Port Royal, Jamaica, merchant, to lands in Jamaica, Nov. 21, 1662. (Brist. Arch., AC/WO/16/1). These lands were part of the “Spring Plantation”, owned by John Elbridge, br.-in-law of Thomas Moore, the probable br.-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr. Thomas Edwards was a business partner of a John Clarke in Bristol (Bristol Arch., ref. 046, 1684).
1.2.2. Mr. William Edwards* (“William Edwards, Bristol merchant, destination Virginia”), was granted 290 ac. in Lower Par. of Surry Co., on heads of Blackwater branches adj. Thomas Lane, a branch dividing this from land of Mr. Robert Ruffin* … adj. Mr. Richard Bennett (April 23, 1688, p. 214), 2nd cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Mr. William Edwards, granted 410 ac., in Lower Par. of Surry Co., on E. of Greene’s Swamp, on Oct. 20, 1691, p. 204. … Granted John Clarke, April 24, 1684, by him deserted. Imp. of Richard Holman … *Thomas Harris (d. 1712), who, with William Drewe Sr., witnessed an indenture between Robert and William Ruffin to *William Edwards, on March 1, 1708. Robert Ruffin was the father of Elizabeth Ruffin, who m. Mathew Kinchen, br. of William Kinchen Jr., heir in the Will of John Gibbins: Prob. rec. Sept. 25, 1721, IOW.).

1.4.1.2. Henry Harris*.
1.4.1.2.1. Henry Harris, d. 1791, m. Mary Drewe*.

This was the Henry Harris associated with the Brantley/Norwood families:

1. Henry Norwood, bur. April 10, 1618, Dunster, Somerset, 10 mls N. of Wiveliscombe, abode of the Bennett/Harris families.
1.2. Richard Norwood.
1.2.1. William Norwood, bapt. Sept. 6, 1619, in Dunster, d. 1702, in Virginia.
1.2.1.1. Richard Norwood (4th son) – appraisal by Edward Brantley, Oct. 25, 1731). Richard Norwood was the husb. of Elizabeth, whose estate was appraised by by *Henry Harris and Thomas Cook (rec. Jan. 28, 1733, p. 386); the latter’s Will was witnessed by John Brantley (rec. Nov. 22, 1736, p. 186); who m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30. The Brantleys were tenants of the Norwoods in the Manor of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Thomas Cooke was the grandson of William Cooke, of Bristol, Quaker, who d. in 1679, in IOW, father of William Cooke (father of the said Thomas), who patented, Feb. 3, 1664, 360 ac. at the head of a branch of the Blackwater. William and his wife, Joan (of Burnham, Somerset) were Quakers. They are recorded (White, p. 14) as attending “Friends” meetings at Chuckatuck, with (1) Thomas Jordan Sr., Thomas and Mary Tooke, and John Harris, son of Thomas Harris, and probable uncle of Henry Harris. (See Taberer notes, as follow). (2) Elizabeth Church, wife of the said John Harris, Thomas Harris, her br.-in-law, Thomas Jordan Sr., Thomas and Mary Tooke, and isaac Rickes, ibid., p. 11. (3) Thomas Jordan, Joseph Jordan (son of Robert Jordan; a sister of whom may have m. John Gibbins, as follows), and John Harris, ibid., p. 15. Henry Harris, in the context of (quite rigid) intra-Quaker bonds, was very probably the son of Thomas Harris, d. 1712, and a first wife. It can be added that The Brantleys were also Quakers, see previous notes, associated with the West Country Quaker Movement of George Foxe, a strong follower of whom was Isaac Rickes Sr.

1.4.1.3. John Harris, m. Mary Drewe, aunt of *Mary Drewe.

1.4.2. John Harris, m. (2) Elizabeth Church, on April 13, 1689.
1.4.2.1. Isabel Harris, b. April 17, 1695, m. Nicholas Fulgham, son of Nicholas Fulgham, d. 1736, and Martha Pitt; the latter Nicholas being the nephew of John Fulgham, overseer of the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.

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I suggest that considerable weight ought be given to the Harris family of Cheddar/Wedmore when considering associations in Virginia. This family of Harris shared associations in common with those of their Somerset neighbours of Wiveliscombe, not surprisingly, considering the Bennett connections of the latter family, making them a magnet of advantageous intermarriage. From this, the concept of “close association but thinner than blood” might be considered. One example of this, and perhaps the most significant one, is based on the following rearrangement of my “Counsell” notes, which include a suggestion of a connection to the Tomlin family of Chedzoy.

COUNSELL

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 Millard, Sept. 9, 1611, in Wedmore. John Harris was named as a ‘Servant’ of Robert Sherwell’ (gent). John Harris was the father of Thomas Harris, who m. Joan Gardner, bapt Apr. 6, 1617, in Cheddar, sister of John Gardner Jr.*, bapt. there on Nov. 1, 1621, issue of John Gardner, d. 1677. Joan (Gardner) Harris and her son, Thomas* (b. 1637, in Cheddar) are witnessed here: Boultinge v Harris. Plaintiffs: John Boultinge. Defendants: Joan Harris, Thomas Harris and Thomas Hill. Subject: property in Blackford, Somerset. 1658. (C 10/48/20).
3. Margery Counsell (also designated “cousin” in said Will), m. John Hodges.
3. John Counsell, m. Mary Coomer, Nov. 26, 1631; the aunt of Mary Coomer, who m. John Gardner Jr.*, on Oct. 24, 1664, in Cheddar, uncle of Elizabeth Gardner, who m. George Tibbits, May 1678, in Cheddar, sister of Hester Tibbits, who m. *Thomas Harris (Apr. 24, 1679), in Cheddar. *John Gardner, dying intestate admin. requested by relict, Mary. Security Thomas Joyner (br. of Bridgeman Joyner), James Gardner (1684, p. 56), nephew of John. This Thomas Harris may or may not have gone to Virginia, some argue.

4. John Counsell, m. Alice, the relict of Richard Jeffries: Richard Jeffries, dying intestate, administration requested by John Counsell, who married the relict of the said Jeffries, Aug. 9, 1666. Security, Mr. (Francis) England, husband of Joyce, niece of George Moore, and cousin of Ann Moore, mother of Avis White, wife of a grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. Deborah Joyner, wife of Bridgeman Joyner (guardian of William Harris, orphan of Thomas Harris, d. 1688).
5. Hodges Counsell, d. 1699, Virginia, stepson of Alice, dau. of (it is suggested) of Mathew Tomlin, who gave “daughter Alce” a heiffer, on Nov. 9, 1674, withessed by Anthony Fulgham. Hodges Counsell m. Lucy, dau. of John Hardy, and sister of Debora Hardy, wife of Bridgeman Joyner. John Hardy may have been the uncle of the wife of Edward Harris, d. 1677, whose estate included: “100. Payd Coll. Bacon for rent” (land bought from Thomas Harris, d. 1672, Edward’s uncle. Edward Harris was a son-in-law of George Hardy, whose wife, Mary Jackson, was a great-granddau. of Edward Bennett, uncle of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. George Hardy’s land bounded that of Nicholas Hill (who m. a dau. of Edward Bennett), who, with Edward Brantley Sr., witnessed the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Edward Brantley Sr., had issue, Phillip, who m. Joyce Lewis, dau. of Thomas Lewis and Rebecca (George) Pardoe, half-sister of Phillip Pardoe, security for the estate of Edward Harris, d. 1677. Phillip Brantley had issue: Edward Brantley, whose son, John, m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30. Alice (as Tomlin) would have been the sister of Mary Tomlin, wife of John Turner (of Wedmore, as previous notes), and aunt of Mary Turner, the wife of Edward, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.

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CHEDZOY (15 ml. fr. Wiveliscombe).

The entirety of those recorded as named Tomlin in Somerset came from Chedzoy. Such records are far from complete, being patchworks of various manuscripts, leaving substantial gaps in the records, so, it is not surprising to not find a Mathew Tomlin listed (later of Virginia). People of this era married those known to them, 90% of which lived within 20 mls of each other. Marriages were arranged betw. families for mutual benefit – financial and protective. In effect, they mated within (their Darwinian) kinship species, not to strangers. If looking for English ancestors, look for a cluster of surnames in England which later occur as a cluster in Virginia.

1. John Clarke (d. 1620), m. Joanne Cogan, Oct. 14, 1611.
1.1. John Clarke, bapt. May 25, 1617.
1.1.1. Katherine Clarke, b. ca. 1640-45, m. Henry King. Surry Co. B. 3, p. 13: John Clarke to Henry King, son-in-law, carpenter, I.O.W. Co., and his wife Katherine King my daughter …. 100 ac. in Surry Co. bounded by Edward Browne. Grandsons William and Henry King. In 1689, Henry King (in Charles City Co.), admin. the estate of David Williams, having m. David’s widow, Sarah Williams. Henry King witnessed John Bond selling to Thomas Harris a corn mill at the head of Pagen Creek. “Thomas Harris, 650 acs. on the N. side of the head of Puscaticon Cr., Lancaster Co., adj. land of Oliver Seger, & opposite an Indian Field, Trans. of 13 pers”.
1.1.1.1. Jan. 1, 1726, Surry Co., B. 7: Henry King Jr. of Brunswick Co, sold 100 ac. in Lawnes Parish, Surry Co, bounded by Edward Browne and John Atkins.
1.2. Thomas Clarke, b. ca. 1615, m. Katherine Moore, Sept. 22, 1638: it would seem – a dau. of John Moore, who m. Mary Gosse, April 22, 1616, and sister of William Moore, bapt. Feb. 23, 1617, who m. Ann Tomlin, witnessed as “Anne Moore, widow”, whose estate was subject to a lawsuit instigated by Andrew (her father) and William Tomlin (1677. C 5/634/13). Thomas Clarke, m. (2) ca. 1660, Elizabeth Sampson, relict of Edward Browne Jr., their issue being: (1) Samuel Browne (ca. 1666–1740), who m. Mary Jones, sister of Richard Jones, husb. of Jane, dau. of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. (2) John Browne, whose issue included, Elizabeth Browne, wife of John Joyner, Hester Browne, wife of John Brantley; and Grace Browne, wife of John Warren, and Sylvester Browne. John Warren and Grace Warren, his wife, and Sylvester Brown, ‘all children of John Brown’, convey to Elizabeth Joyner ”their sister” 256 ac formerly belonging to our father John Brown dec’d … (being a patent) of July 28, 1713 to John Brown on W. side of Chowan River, adj. J. Curlee, J. Smith, Wit: Fincher Hayne, Charles Brown” (per Court).
1.2.1. Thomas Clarke, bapt. Dec. 15, 1638.
1.2.2. John Clarke, bapt. March 10, 1640.
1.2.3. William Clarke, bapt. Aug. 27, 1643.

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TURNER

1. John Turner, m. Mary Tomlin.
1.1. Mary Turner, m. Edward Harris*.
1.2. John Turner. *John Robertson, David Atkins, and John Turner witnessed a deed betw. James Blount (and Katharine his wife) to Samuel Woodward, for 200 ac. on SS of Chowan River, adj. Wm Maule, betw. a river pocosin and Blount’s Spring Branch. (D.B. B, p. 308, July 30, 1716). John Turner witnessed the Will of Samuel Adkins, rec. Feb 12, 1746, p. 43, who may be assumed to be the brother of John Adkins.
1.3. James Turner. Land grant near Maherrin River joining S. E. side of Cypress Swamp joining Thomas Turner,* a river pocoson,and the countyline, dated March 1, 1720
1.4. *Thomas Turner. James and Thomas Turner were neighbours of Thomas Jarrell (d. Feb. 22, 1741), whose dau., Ann, m. James Turner, who was, thus, brother-in-law of Col. Thomas Jarrell, husb. of Martha, dau.of William Kinchen and Elizabeth Ruffin, sister of Patience, wife of Ethelred Taylor. Thomas Jarrell, d. 1741, was the son of this namesake: May 7, 1678, indenture betw. William Harris, only son of Thomas Harris of Surry Co., and Thomas Jarrell for 1500 pounds of tobacco, 100 ac. on College Run bounding with William Newsum and Robert Ruffin, on William Newett’s line. Nov. 6, 1683: Thomas Jarrell and William Newsum witnessed William Harris selling land, adj. Thomas Jarrell, to Robert Ruffin. Surry.

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TABERER – a Quaker family. The following can only be undestood in the context of the brutal suppression of Quakers in England, at the behest of a ruling class that controlled the State religion, which propagandised every Sunday morning the God-ordained right of the ruling class to rule. Dissent could not be tolerated, which was a catapult of much migration to Virginia. In England, a person expected of being a Quaker could lose their home and tenancy, much of the threat they presented to the establishment being a result of their staunch opposition to paying tithes (underlying economic factors often shape ‘surface’ attitudes). In New England, Quakers were subject to more extreme reactions by Protestant zealots, resulting in (for both men and women), whippings, beatings, torturing, and execution. Hence, in a society that was already based on marriages within a cousinship (consanguineous and non-consanguineous) kinship system, the bond of Quakerism tightened such knots. Quakers tended to marry and have business dealings with other Quakers. This is the context in which the kinship group of this account should be seen. (The Holywood portrayals of early Virginia history, the haphazard coming together of totally unconnected people is but cinematic hogwash). Those of this account were both physically and (more importantly) mentally of the toughest of breeds, a factor of pride for any descendant

1. … Taberer.
1.1. Thomas Taberer, m. Ann Bennett, probable sister of Governor Richard Bennett, 2nd cousins of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. He patented land adj. Francis England in 1652. In his Will, proved Feb. 9, 1694, he mentions his plantation of “Basses Choice”, bought from John Bland, br. of Theoderick Bland, husband of Governor Bennett’s dau., Ann. Governor Richard Bennett, bapt. Aug. 6, 1609, d. 1675, in Virginia, his Will bequesting “two thousand pounds of tobacco to the wife of Mr. Thomas Taberer”. Thomas Taberer witnessed a land deed in 1658 between “Thomas Harris of Chipoaks in the County of Surry” and Christopher Benn. This is Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Thomas Taberer was the father-in-law of John Newman, husband of Ruth Taberer, and John Newman was the future br.-in-law of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, who m. (2), Alice, dau. of John Newman Sr. in
1.1.1. Christian Taberer,* m. (Dec. 9, 1687) Robert Jordan (Quaker minister), p. 213. He was b. July 11, 1666. She was the relict of Thomas Outland. He m. (2) Mary Belson, In John Scott’s* home, in May 1690, at Chuckatuck, Nansemond Co., dau of Edmund Belson. “Abraham (Rickes), s. Isaac, of the western branch of Nansemond River; m. at our publick MH in the western branch of Nansemond, Mary Belson, dt Edmond”. (Ency. of American Quaker Genealogy, vol. vi., p. 35, 1950).
1.1.1.1. Christian Jordan, m. William Scott.
1.1.2. Ruth Taberer, m. John Newman, 1692, p. 350, br. of the 2nd wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

1.2. Anne Taberer, m. Robert Spencer.
1.2.1. Elizabeth Spencer, m. John Watkins.
1.2.1.1. Elizabeth Watkins, m. Robert Ruffin (as given, Thomas Harris (d. 1712), witnessed an indenture between Robert and William Ruffin to William Edwards, on March 1, 1708, cousin of his second wife. George Watkins: Est.- Inventory presented by Mrs. Eliza. Watkins, late wife and Exerx. App. by William Thomson, Randall Holt, and Francis Mason, Jan. 7, 1673. Feb. 7, 1675, admin. of est. was presented by Mr. Robert Ruffin, ‘who married ye Relict ‘. 1674. Guardian Acts, Surry Co. B. 2, 1674, p. 63: David Williams presents Capt Charles Barham and Robert Caufield as securities for estate of William Harris, orphan, neph. of John Harris, d. 1687.
1.2.1.1.1. Elizabeth Ruffin, m. William Kinchen Sr.
1.2.1.1.1.1. William Kinchen, heir in the Will of John Gibbins: Prob. rec. Sept. 25, 1721, IOW. He m. Mary Gibbins, dau. of John Gibbins, and relict of James Adkins

In 1707, the confirmation of the marriage of William Scott, son of John Scott, deceased, to Christian Jordan, dau. of Robert Jordan was witnessed at her grandmother’s home by members of the Jordan family, which are difficult to distinguish, as the many intermarriages betw. Jordan cousins was a source of the same Christian names being repeated at successive generations. They repeatedly interm. with such as the Bridger, Bressie, Goodwin, and Ricks families. What is witnessed is a continuation in Virginia of the business/Quaker bonds of families established in Bristol. The family of Thomas Harris, d. 1672 were certainly Quakers (as the Fulghams), with Isabel Harris, granddau. of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, being recorded as being born April 17, 1695, and marrying Nicholas Fulgham (son of Nicholas Fulgham, nephew of John Fulgham, overseer of the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1688), in Chuckatuck, Quaker records. The Bridger connections were ongoing: 1. Joseph Bridger. 1.1. Joseph Bridger Jr., 1656-1713. 1.2. Hester Bridger, m. George Williamson. 1.2.1. Ann Williamson, m. John Boykin, son of William Boykin, son of Edward Boykin and Ann Gwaltney, inferring that the families of Williamson and Boykin were of the Quaker fraternity.

Rowland Searchfield released Col. Joseph Bridger of Virginia from all claims of three-eighths of a cargo of wines etc. shipped on the Success of London (master William Goodland) in 1654, to Virginia, in the presence of William Scott, Thomas Harris (d. 1672), Christopher Pitt, James Bridger. William Reaper. (Bristol Record Office, Depositions). Thus, the witnesses, as partners, accounted for the remaining five eighths. John Scott (b. rec. April 3, 1682, Chuckatuck), grandson of William, son of William Jr., witnessed a deed of March 26, 1711 (with William Bridger, son of Joseph Bridger Sr.), whereby John* and Thomas Harris* of the Upper Parish, sons of Thomas, d. 1672, divided the land they held in jointure, that being 250 ac. inherited from their father, and 115 ac. they had acquired from Joseph Bridger. These lands were on the N. side of the Ashen Swamp (adjoining “Dry Bridge Branch”); near the head and on W. side of Seward’s Creek. The 250 ac. had been given to *Thomas Harris by his father-in-law, Francis Hobbs, and had been held by Nathaniel FLoyd, Nov. 20, 1637, the first husband of Francis Hobb’s wife. These lands were near those of Col. Bacon, who had bought them from Thomas Harris, d. 1672, and who rented them to Edward Harris, d. 1677.

Robert Jordan’s br., John, published his marriage to Margaret Burgh at “a meeting of friends” which included Elizabeth Scott and Katheren Rickes. This was Isaac Rickes Jr., the husband of the said Katheren, who, as “Clerke of ye yearly meeting”, recorded “friends suffering” in Nansemund; inc. Margaret Jordan, mother of Robert and John, who had 120lb. of tobacco confiscated, on March 25, 1701. The marriage of *John Harris to Elizabeth Church was announced at the house of Isaac Ricks; she attended meetings which included Isaac Ricks, Thomas Newman (husband’s cousin), and Alice Blake (husband’s kinswoman). (M. White, Early Quakers Records).

“John Gibbins married into the Jordan family“. “The Gibbins and Kinchen families were neighbours”. These are extracts from the book, ‘Boone Family Immigrants to Virginia’, by Mr. Jim White, 2013. Mr. White was categorical about the wife of John Gibbins being a Jordan, “but we could not prove which, therefore, we could not prove her mother” – John Gibbin’s dau., who m. (1) James Adkins, d. 1723, (2) William Kinchin Jr., whose father, William Kinchen, was executor of John Gibbin’s estate. This would place John Gibbins in the same Quaker fraternity as Robert Jordan, who m. Christian Taberer (Dec. 9, 1687, as given); niece of Ann Taberer (dau. of Thomas Taberer), ancestress of William Kinchen Jr.

If John Gibbins m. a sister of Robert Jordan, then he was br.-in-law of Ruth Taberer, wife of John Newman, br. of the 2nd wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1672., whose son, Thomas, by a 1st wife, may have been the father of the Henry Harris, named as 2nd legatee in the Will of John Gibbins.

William Kinchen Jr. and … Gibbins had issue: (1) Elizabeth Kinchen, 1705-April 19, 1764 (Edgecombe Co.), who m. (1) Joseph Jones, 1698- probate, Dec. 25, 1727, IOW – “br.-in-law, Henry King”. (2) Martha Kinchen, m. Thomas Jarrell, having issue: (1) Thomas Jarrell, b. 1727, m. Elizabeth Thorpe (Feb. 4, 1752); b. May 19, 1733.

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GIBBINS

1. John Gybbens, m. Joan Bartlett, Jan. 27, 1559, Taunton, 10 mls from Wiveliscombe.
1.1. John Gibbens, m. Grace Kynnick, Oct. 29, 1589.
1.1.1. John Gibbins.
1.1.1.1. John Gibbens, bapt. Oct. 17, 1611.
1.1.1.1.1. John Gebbens, bapt. May 16, 1652, “f. John”.
1.1.1.1.1.1. John Gibbins, b. ca. 1675, m. … Jordan, a sister of Robert Jordan? “John Gibbins – Leg. Mr. William Kinchen; Henry Harris, Mary Adkins, the daughter of James Adkins, John Jackson,* Thomas Harris the son of Edward Harris”, Robert Harris. Ex. Mr. William Kinchen”. N.B. Henry Harris is not stated to be a brother of “Thomas Harris the son of Edward Harris”, who may have been a son of Edward Harris Sr., who died before 1734, and not mentioned in his father’s Will, as such, a nephew of Robert Harris of the Gibbins Will. The naming of “Thomas Harris the son of Edward Harris”, per English custom, would be to demarcate him from another, related, Thomas.

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GEORGE

1. … George.
1.1. John George, Will rec. Jan. 9, 1678, p. 170, overseer Thomas Taberer.
1.1.1. Isaac George, b. Feb. 20, 1635.
1.1.1.1. “Thomas George the son of Isaac George, decd., is bound to Mr. Thomas Drew till hee shall arrive to the age of twenty one yeares”, March 1702 (Haun, v.6, p. 14).
1.1.1.2. Robert George.
1.1.1.2.1. John George, m. Mary Jordan, dau. of Josiah Jordan and Mourning Ricks.

(1. Isaac Ricks, d. Nov. 23, 1723.
1.1. Isaac Ricks, b. June 17, 1669, m. Kathren.
1.2. Abraham Ricks, b. Oct 3, 1674, d. June 24, 1746, m. Mary Belson
1.2.1. Mary Ricks, b. July 1, 1704, d. Oct. 6, 1767, m. Joseph Jordan, d. 1752 –

1.1.2. Sarah George, m. Morgan Lewis, Will rec. June 9, 1677, wit. George Hardy, Philip Pardoe, p. 148.
1.1.3. Rebecca George, m. (1) Thomas Lewis. Col. John Lear’s 1689 will; Rebecca was the stepdaughter of his 2nd wife Ann. John Lear had earlier married Rebecca Pardoe’s step-mother, Ann George, the widow of Rebecca’s father, John George. Phillip Pardoe was indentured by the Bristol tobacco factor, John Scott (business partner of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, for four years, on October 9, 1665, probably in Bristol England, his destination Virginia. Rebecca Pardoe was “ye poor widow Perdue” named in the will of John Lear in Nansemond Co., in 1695.
1.1.3.1. Joyce Lewis, m. Philip Brantley, son of Edward Brantly Sr. Phillip Brantley had issue: Edward Brantley, whose son, John, m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.
1.1.3. Rebecca George, m. (2) Philip Pardoe.
1.1.3.1. Philip Pardoe, security for the estate of Edward Harris, d. 1677.
1.1.4. William George, m. Sarah Thorpe, sister of John Thorpe, appraisee of the estate of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.
1.2. Nicholas George.
1.2.1. Eleonor George, m.Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.2.1.1. Thomas Harris, by a first wife:
1.2.1.1.1. Henry Harris? (per Boddie).
1.2.1.1.2. Thomas Harris? (per Boddie).

The W.M.Q., vol. 7, p. 240, mentions that John Lear’s sister was probably Martha, wife of Robert Pitt; hence to the mother of Nicholas Fulgham, husband of Isabel Harris.

Mr. Boddie’s proposition can not be dismissed on the grounds that it disagrees with a different (also unproven) narrative.

These were of a particularly physically and mentally hardy breed, from whose ranks came a Governor of Virginia, and from which any descendants can be justifiably proud.

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p.s. If Thomas Harris, d. 1712, was a “friend” of Robert Jordan, his 1st wife may have been Robert Jordan’s sister.

1. Ralph, Rou, Rollo de Bec-aux-Cauchois. Ralph’s family held two lordships: Bec-aux-Cauchois and Bec-de-Mortagne, both fiefs of the ducal domain of Fecamp, held by the bailiff of Caux, which was a Giffard prerogative. Walter II Giffard was the leading magnate in the pays de Caux (his grandmother was a sister of the Duchess Gunnora), and Ralph’s family held under him. (Med. Pros. v. 24-5, p. 176, 2003).
1.1. Walter de Bec. Walter de Bec aux-Cauchois and Turstin de Bec aux-Cauchois (Turstin Filius Rolf Norman, from Le Bec-aux-Cauchois, Seine-Maritime, cant. Valmont, standard bearer of the Normans at the battle of Hastings (Ord. Vit. iii 172-3), were (joint) benefactors (of lands in Amfreville-Gueuteville; Yvetot) to Ralph de Tancarville’s foundation of St. Georges de Boscherville. (R.A.D.N. 197). (Bec-aux-Cauchois was synonomous with Bec-de-Caux, see Toussaint Du Plessis, ‘Description géographique’, p. 325, 1740).
1.1.1. Robert de Bec. Bardeville is 5 miles from Bec-aux-Cauchois, and was in possession of Robert de Bec, the brother of Walter 11., from 1087-1097.

It is highly probable that the Robert of Domesday was synonomous with the Robert who was a tenant of Henry de Ferrers of the manor of Hilton (Appletree Wapentake), which was afterwards in the family of de Bec (Dugdale’s Monasticon, vol. ii. p. 622): Ernald de Bec (son of Walter II.) was enfeoffed of half a knight’s fee by Robert de Ferrers, Ist. Earl Derbys between 1135-1139 (R.B., 338). Ernald was still living in 1177 (P.R. 23, Henry II., 61). He donated two parts of his tithe in Hilton to Tutbury (D.M O. Ed. i. 354, 33a), founded by Henry de Ferrers. His son, Geoffrey de Bec gave notice to his lord, William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, that he has given one carucate of land in Hatton (adjoining Hilton) in Marston upon Dove, Derbys., to William Calchon, betw. 1177-1195 (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc., vol. 15, p. 144, 1950).

He was probably the “Robert of Domesday”, known also as Robert ‘de Dun’, who held Edensor of Henry de Ferrers, and Bourg-Dun in Offranville, Dieppe, of the same lord, and his son was synonomous with Robert de Heriz I., who also held Edensor; who donated to Lenton as ‘Caucis’. (The manor of Hilton was held at the time of taking the Domesday, Survey by one Robert, under Henry de Ferrars. It was afterwards in the family of De Bec, par Dugdale, 355).

He m. the relict of Goisfrid (Geoffrey) Halselin, lord of Shelford (1035-1108).

1.1.1.1. Robert de Caux (Heriz), held a moiety of the land of Geoffrey Halselin in 1109, the other moiety was held by Geoffrey Halselin, son of Ralph, nephew of the said Geoffrey; an association noted (in part) thus: ‘Rodbertus de Chalz et Goffridus Halselinus in Wragebi 4 carrucatas, et 5 bovatas, et tertiam partem unius bovate, under Jerburc wapentacha’. It is commonly and wrongly ascerted that Robert de Caux had m. the dau. and heiress of Geoffrey Haselin (De Antiquis Legibus liber, p. 94, 1846). To borrow from Mr. Yeatman (‘Lost certificates of Knight’s fees’), “It would seem from the expression, ‘Robert de Calz received this land with his mother’, that he obtained her marriage and dower (twelve and half fees being exactly one-third of Goisfred Hanselin’s fees), and this fee, notwithstanding its illegality, remained in the possession of the family of de Calz. It is nearly certain from this that this lady was the widow of Goisfred Hanselin.

Robert de Caux (Heriz) m. Isabel, dau. of Robert de Ferrers (son of Henry de Ferrers, who jointly led a charge at Hastings with William Crispin), and Hawise, dau. of Andre de Vitre and Agnes, dau. of Robert, Count of Mortagne, the Conqueror’s half-brother, and Maud de Montgomery. *Her sister m. Ralph Paynel of Dudley, a near relative, a nephew of Ralph Paynel (as suggested, “le Rous”, of this account).

By this interpretation, Robert de Caux (Heriz) was synonomous with Robert de Heriz, Sheriff of Nottingham, 1110-1122 (Judith A. Green, The Government of England under Henry I., p. 221, 1989), and tenant of the Ferrers, whose son, Ivo, was also Sheriff of Nottingham. As Robert de Heriz, ob. ante. 1128, he held Stapleford, Tibshelf, Wingfield, and Oxcroft, as mesne tenant of William Peverel I.
Robert de Caux (Heriz) and Isabel de Ferrers had issue:

1.1.1.1.1. “Robert de Caus”, who m. Matilda Basset: In 4 John (R.C.R. No. 17), Matilda, widow of “Robert de Caus”, as appears by the Lady’s Roll of 33 Henry II., was the dau. of Richard Basset, Chief Justicar of England.
1.1.1.1.2. Geoffrey de Caus, m. (bef. Nov. 12, 1177), as her 3rd husband, Albreda, dau. of Robert de Lisoures. “The Barons of Lisoures, Normandy, were a branch of the Bassetts. Hugh de Lisures granted lands to Thorney Abbey, t. Hen. I. (Mon. i. 247), and in 1128 witnessed a charter of Jocelyn Crespin in Normandy (La Roque, ii. 1816). She m. istly, Richard FitzEustace, son of Eustace FitzJohn and his second wife, Agnes, (bef. 1163); 2ndly, William de Clairfait (bef. 1168); 4thly (1178) William FitzGodric.

‘This Robert de Lusoris, 5. Steph. gave account of vijl. vis. viiid. that he might marry the sister of Ilbert de Lacy. Ilbert Lacy who lived in the Conquerours time, begot – of his wife Havisia: Robert Lacy,* who by Matilda his wife had Ilbert and Henry (and a dau., m. to Robert de Lisoures), and founded a monastery at Pontefract, their principal place of residence, where he was buried in the time of William Rufus. Ilbert his son had to wife Alicia Gaunt (dau. of Walter), but no issue; Henry his other son married (Albreda it seems) the sister of William Vesci governour of Berwic, and by her had Robert Lacy his son and heir, who died about 4 R. 1. 1193, and having no issue by Isabell his wife, Albreda, the dau. of Robert de Lisoures, his (niece) by the mother’s side, became his heir’.

*Robert de Lacy granted Ralf le Rous several manors of his Honour of Clitheroe in a charter dated Nov. 23, 1102. Robert de Lacy’s eldest son, Ilbert de Lacy, confirmed his father’s grants of Ralph’s lands in 1135, the charter reading: “eidem Radulfo fratri meo”, not necessarily the same as “to my brother Ralph”, but, possibly, as examples of this time show, meaning “to my br.-n-law Ralph”; consider John de Stuteville’s gift (ca. 1160) to his br.-in-law, named as “Johanni fratri meo”. (The above account of Mr. Thoroton).

The said Ilbert de Lacey d. bef. May 1147, when Roger de Mowbray (a niece or sister m. Thomas de Colville), and his wife Alice (Ilbert’s widow) donated property to the abbey of St. Mary, Hood. Alice was the dau. of Walter de Gand, who donated property to Pontefract Priory, for the souls of “prioris domini mei Ilberti de Lascy” and with the consent of “Henricus de Lascy”. “Rogerus de Molbrai” confirmed the donation by “uxor mea … pro anima prioris domini sui Ilberti de Lasci”, witnessed by “Willielmus Peverel”. (Dugdale Monasticon v., Pontefract Priory, xiii, p. 1250). Henry de Lacey m Aubreye,* dau. of Eustace FitzJohn and Beatrice de Vescy. Their son, “Robertus de Lasci” granted property Great Marsden to “Willelmo filio Eustachii avunculo meo”. (Early Yorkshire Charters v. iii., 1513, p. 203). The name of Henry de Lacy’s wife was not cited before the 16th century. (B.M. MS. Harley 2101, fo. 229).

One possibility:

1. Eustace FitzJohn, lord of Knaresborough, d. 1157.
1.1. William FitzEustace (de Vesci) of Alnwick, Sheriff of Northumberland, and then Lancashire, m. Berga de Stutteville.
1.2. Richard FitzEustace, m. Albreda, dau. of Robert de Lisours, and a sister of Henry de Lacy; she m. (3) Geoffrey de Caus.
1.3. Albreda, m. Henry de Lacy. There has been a tradition of confounding Henry de Lacey’s wife and sister, of the same or near name (Albreda/Aubrey).
1.4. … m. Ralf le Rous, br.-in-law of Henry de Lacy.

Another possibility is suggested if allowing Ralph Paynel, Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1088, to be of approximate age 30 at this time. This would allow for the contention that he (as Ralph le Rous), m. a dau. of Robert de Lacy (she b. ca. 1075); he, thus, being a son-in-law of Robert, who granted him manors of his Honour of Clitheroe, and a br.-in-law of Ilbert de Lacy, who confirmed the grant. Earlier suggestions (Clay, 114), noting landed associations betw. the Lacys and Paynels, suggested Ralph Paynel to be a br.-in-law of Robert de Lacy, but chronologies suggest the latter case more likely. Ralph de Paynel d. betw. 1118-1124.*

 By a ist wife, Ralph had issue, William Paynel of Drax, who m. Avice, dau of William Meschin, having issue: Alice Paynel, b. ca. 1135, who m. as his 1st wife, Robert de Gand, his 2nd wife being Gunnora d’ Albini Brito. A charter of King Richard I dated Sept. 7, 1189 confirmed donations to Vaudey abbey among which by “Roberti de Gant et Gundredæ uxoris eius”. (Domesday Descendants, p. 271). (Gunnora m. 2ndly Nicholas de Stuteville). Her sister, Matilda, was the wife of William de Colville. Gunnora was the step-mother of Gilbert de Gand, Earl of Lincoln, b. ca. 1175., father of Juliana d’Armenters.

*Ralph le Roux d. 1120, on the Blanche Nef. Ralph Paynel m. 2ndly Matilda, dau. of Ralph de Sourdeval (Thoresby), whose sister m. Robert Brus II. of Skelton. They had issue: Jordan Paynel. “W. de Gaunt” donated land at Besingby to Bridlington priory, witnessed by “Jordan Painel (d. ca. 1147), Hugh his brother, W. de Mundevill his nepote”. He may have been the Jordan le Rous mentioned on the account of Thomas Dunham Whitaker (An History of the Original Parish of Whalley, 1872), extracts being:

“Robert de Laci was certainly lord of Blackburnshire … as he confirmed the original charter of Merlay, granted by Ilbert, his son, to Jordan le Rous … Little Mitton was granted by charter of Robert de Lacy, in the 3d of Henry I. to Ralph le Rous, progenitor of the family who were afterwards denominated from the place Ralph le Rous, the grantee under these charters, had Jordan, who granted the manor of Merlay to one Stephen, afterwards called de Merlay, and he had a daughter who married Adam de Nowell. The facts are proved by the following abstract of an Inquisition in the same collection: “Stephanus de Merlay proavus Adæ Nowell (the second; he is elsewhere called father in law of the first) seizitus fuit in feodo de et in manerio de Merlay (not by descent, as the Lancashire pedigrees have it) but ex dono et feoffamento Jordani f. Rad. le Rous, habuit etiam Chaceam infra Sapeden Broke et Rimington Broke exceptis dominicis Haiis et ad feras in dicta chaceà sequendas infra haias prædictas sine arcubus et sagittis longum jactationis unius teli”. This was the origin of the Nowells in the parish of Whalley, of whom there is no evidence to prove where they were settled before this alliance. Their descent will be more fully traced under Read, and it will suffice for the present to exhibit the following genealogy, which relates to the time of their residence at Little Merlay … By inquisition post mortem Henry de Lacy, it was found that William de Heriz held one carucate in Little Merlay, by the service of the eighth part of a knight’s fee.

1. Stephen de Merlay, m. a dau. of Adam de Nowell.
1.1. Roger de Nowell.
1.1.1. Adam de Nowell.
1.1.1.1. Richard Nowell.
1.1.1.1.1. Laurence Nowell, who, about 38th Edward III. exchanged the chace and manor of Merlay for a moiety of the manor of Read, with Sir Richard de Greenacres, (vide Read), whose younger daughter and coheir Agnes, marrying William de Radcliffe, of Todmorden, brought the estate into that family.
1.1.1.2. Adam Nowel. Petition concerning Nowel’s rights in the manor of Great Mearlay.Nature of endorsement: Let him show his charter in chancery and an inquiry will be ordered.
Places mentioned: Great Mearlay, [Lancashire]. People mentioned: Jordan [le Rows (Rous)], son of Ralph le Rows; Ralph le Rows (Rous); Stephen de Merlay (Mearlay), great-grandfather of the petitioner; Thomas [of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster.1326. (SC 8/205/10219).


HERIZ cont.

1.1.1.2. Goisfrid/Geoffrey de Heriz, donated to the said William Peverell’s foundation of Lenton (between 1103-1108), two-thirds of his tithes in Stapleford (Mon. Anglic. v. 111b), as one of his feudatories in Avranches. (Société d’archéologie et d’histoire de la Manche, p.56, 1992). The Heriz took this particular toponym from their fief in Avranches, Herissiere (cant. Haye-Pesnel, from whence the Paynels).
1.1.1.2.1. Robert de Heriz, sans issue.
1.1.1.2.2. Alice (or Agnes)) de Heriz. The family of Heriz continued to hold in Stapleford (that is, the descendants of Alice de Heriz, sister of her childless brother, Robert, who m. … de Eccleston, untill 11 Edward III., when Richard de Heriz settled his estate on John de Bughton, his brother-in-law, but, he dying of the plague, the estate eventually descended to Idonea de Heriz, his sister, wife of John de Furmery.

Then, which de Eccleston? After the defection of Roger de Poictou, Eccleston was divided between Albert de Gresley and Roger de Busli. Warin Bussel, the first Baron of Penwortham, gave two carucates of land in Hoton and Eccleston with his daughter, in free marriage to Hamo Pincerna, whose son William was styled Lord of Eccleston, and his son Adam assumed the surname of Houghton. Therefore, if styled “de Eccleston”, it may be she m. a br. of William de Eccleston:

1. Hamon le boteler, m. Maud, dau. of Warin Bussel, the first baron of Peuwortham, held under Roger de Poictou, son of Roger Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. 
1.1. Richard, m. Alice de Heriz.
1.1.1. “Adam filius Ricardi, filii Hamonis Pincernæ” (“Adam de Hocton”), b, ca, 1160. He held the ploughland in Heaton 1n 1212 (Lancs. Inq. amd Ext., i. 30,1.). William son of Uctred confirmed agrant of half an oxgang of land made by Adam son of Richard de Eccleston, betw. 1210 to 1230.
1.1.2.1.1. Adam de Eccleston, b. ca. 1190, held of William de Lancaster by knight’s service, having m. one of his daus.
1.1.2.1.1.1. Roger, b. ca. 1220.
1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Sir Richard Houghton, b. ca. 1250, sheriff of Lancs. in 1298.
1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Richard, who m. Sybil, dau. of Sir William de Lee, Baron of Kendal.
1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. Alice de Houghton, m. Richard Stanhope.
1.1.2.1.2. Ralph de Eccleston. In 1066, Earl Tostig held Great Eccleston of his Preston lordship (which was later included in the Garstang fee of the Lancaster family), and the immediate tenants in 1212 included Ralph de Eccleston, by tenure described as knight’s service.

1.1.1.2.2.1. Geoffrey (Galfrid) de Eccleston, als Heriz.
1.1.1.2.2.1.1. Richard de Stapleford, son of that Galfr. de Heriz, had a son and heir called Hugh de Heriz, who 2 E. 1. claimed the advowson of the Church of Stapleford, whereof his ancestor was seised in the time of King John, and afterwards passed it 8 E. 1. to john the Prior, as that which Eustachius the Prior his Predecessour had of the gift of Avicia de Heriz, cousin of the said Hugh; and by the confirmation of Galfr. de Eccleston, grandfather of the said Hugh, whose heir he also was.
1.1.1.2.2.1.1.1. Hugh de Heriz, left Richard de Heriz his son and heir fifteen years old, 25 E. 1. Richard de Heriz left a son also of his own name, his heir under age, whom the said Book of Newstede mentions to be granted to Sir John de Mounteney, by the King, and that Sir John sold his Wardship and marriage to one John de Bughton who married him under age to his daughter Elizabeth, in the time of the Eyre, 3 E. 3.
1.1.1.2.2.2. Hugh de Stapleford, br. of Geoffrey Eccleston (de Heriz), who held the Capital Mess. of Stapleford, with Hugh holding that part which John de Stapleford, called le Ward, and his heirs held, “but they both joyned and gave two Bovats, in almes, to the Priory of Newstede: And Richard the son and heir of the said Galfrid gave four. Nicolas son and heir of Hugh gave two. Which Nicolas was father of John le Ward, whose son, John, married Elena, sister of Sir William Grey of Sandiacre: and both of them died in the pestilence, in the year 1349”. (Mr. Thoroton).

HALSELIN

1.
1.1. Geoffrey Halselin, whose relict m. Robert de Caux.
1.2. …. m. Ralph FitzHubert de Rye, of Criche (Derbys.), Castellan of Nottingham; who held 47 lordships at Domesday.
1.2.1. Matilda, m. (1) Ralph FitzEudo. (2) Ralf de Aincourt. By a ist wife Ralf de Aincourt had issue: Walter de Aincourt, who m. Agnes Bassett. Ralf de Aincourt was the son of Walter de Aincourt, Domesday tenant-in-chief, from Ancourt, Seine-Maritime, arr. Dieppe, cant. Offranville; that is, the Aincourts held land of the Ferrers in Offranville, as did the Robert de Caux.
1.2.1.1. Hubert FitzRalph. “Son of Ralph fitz Odo, lord of Crick, Derbyshire”. He came of age c. 1164, having succeeded his father as a minor by c. 1154″ (Foulds, Cart. Thurgarton, pp lviii-ix.). He m. Edeline, dau. of William FitzRalph, the Norman Justiacary, son of Ralph FitzGeremund. William FitzRalf made grants out of Hubert FitzRalf’s estate, as did Ralf FitzStephen; who may be conjectured to have descended maternally from the Rye family. Mr. Yeatman also conjectured that John and William de Caux, ‘doubtless, were relatives of Ralf FitzStephen’s wife’, and, ‘were tenants of the same place’ – William fitz Ralf’s fief of Alwoldeston. King Henry H. confirmed the grant of Wachelin of Derby, and Goda, his wife, of the mill in Derby, which he bought of William de Heriz, and the grant of Ralf FitzStephen and Hubert FitzRalf of Crich. William de Heriz, with his br., Robert de Heriz, and Wacheline and Goda de Derby gave Thurlecroft to the Abbey. (Walkelin de Ferrers, son of Robert de Ferrers and Margaret Peverel, son of Henry de Ferrers).
1.2.1.2. William FirzOdo (de Hibaldeston), to whom William Halselin, according to the Rufford Cartulary, gave a bovate of land in Walesby in marriage with Cecilia, his dau.
1.2.2. Geoffrey Halselin, d. by 1129; witnessed a conventio of Henry de Ferrer’s son, Robert, ca. 1125.
1.2.2.1. William Halselin.

1.2.2.2. ‘Ralph Alselinus’. ‘In 1131, Ralph Alselin rendered account of 200 marks of silver, and one mark of gold, for the relief of the land of his father, Geoffrey’. The Charter of Ralf Anselin: precis of John Pym Yeatman’s, The Feudal History of the County of Derby, p. 313, 1886: Health and faithful service. Know ye that in the time of King Henry your grandfather (d. 1135) I had the following knights of the old feoffment:
1.-Will Ansel de Walesby, held two knights’ fees. Part of this manor was soke to Roger de Busli’s Manor of Tuxford, some to Goisfred de Hanselin’s soc of Laxington. Wm. Lanceline’s manors seem to have been in all these parishes. Wm. Lanceline (Ansel) gave to Wm. fitz Eudo de Hibaldeston with Cecilia his daughter in frank marriage i bovat in Walesby. Alan fil Wm. Lancelin, of Kirkton, gave his woods there to Robert de Laxington. 6 Edward II. Robt., son of Robert Lanceline, still held land in Kirkton.
2. Ralf fil Geremond held two fees, lord of half Ockbrook and of Alvaston cum soca. Ockbrook was clearly one of Geoffrey Ascelin’s manors, and it seems to have passed to the Bardolfs as heirs of Ralf Hanselin. This must, therefore, have been one of his fees, and as Alvaston was also a fee of Geoffrey Ascelin’s, it was, no doubt, the other.
3. Henry and Roger de Westburg held two parts of one-fifth of one fee. Westburg is a manor in Lincolnshire which became the property of Robert de Caux, the successor to part of the manors of Geoffrey Hanselin.
These are the new feoffments made in the time of Henry your father:
4. Alexr. de Cressi held half a fee. Roger de Cressi died 3 John. Cecilia, his widow, the dau. of Gervase de Clifton, claims dower against his son William. Wm. Cressi, of Markham (seal, three crescents and a bend), settled the manor of Saxelby and advowson of Brodholm on her. Roger de Cressi m. Isabella, sister and heir of Wm. fil Wm. fil Roscilin (de Rye), who granted a mill in Huntingfield to Sibton Priory. (Harl MS. 2044).
5. Ralf fil Roger de Bileston, held half a fee. Hugh fitz Roger was on the jury concerning the Forest rights with Ralf Hanselin early in Henry II.’s reign. He was seneschal of Philip de Strelley, 4 Henry III.
6. Galfry de Fulbec held half a fee – (he was) probably of the family of Magnaville, or Stuteville. They were closely connected with the Albinis of Belvoir, and attested many of their charters. Roald, son of this Galfry, and his father, for they were of the same name, was constable of Newark, and Alan de Bosco, son of Roald, was a frequent witness to the charters of Leonia, the widow of Robert de Stuteville, the heiress of half the barony of Hubert fitz Ralf’.

Thus, it was, a mess of property descent through non-consanguineous cousinships – “Foedus inter consobinos heredes” – inheritance (and close tenurial association) passing down non-consanguineous lines of cousins; a necessary element of survival as kinship in a hostile environment, whether in post-Conquest England or in 17th century Virginia. When in doubt as to ancestry, follow the path that most provided survival (in Darwinian terms); the first principle, the underlying motive of those being studied.

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Several centuries of printed supposition as to the origins of the Hamilton family can be summarised in terms of their proposed social, military, and concomitant kinship associations. The Hamiltons were: (1) Of a knightly class who were equipped by military training and a network of kin who could be called upon to defend the possessions of each other. They would have served in the ‘Scottish Wars’, and would have chosen to ally themselves with the Brus family. (2) Of a kinship group including: a. The Brus. b. The Comyns. c. The Lindsays. d. The Quinceys. The Colvilles had familial and feudal associations with these families, as hereinafter given. e. The Umfravilles. Of the Hamiltons: A “sensible proposition is that they were kin, or vassals of the Umfraville lords of Redesdale and the earls of Angus”. “The Umravilles bore a single cinquefoil on their shield. A vassal adopting this would add a number of charges, and here is possibly the origin of the three cinquefoils in the Hamilton escutcheon”. The Colvilles were kin and vassals of the Umfravilles of Normanton and Hameldun, one of them is recorded as “Walter de Hameldun” in 1328, he almost certainly the son of Gilbert de Colville, summoned to military service in Scotland. Genealogical enquiry into the medieval origins of the Hamilton, or any other such family, can only be grounded in a understanding of the social/economic/military imperatives of their time, essentially, their tight binds of kinship by which they defended their mutual interests. Enquiry outside these bounds is not academic in nature.

THE COLVILLES

1. William Crispin II., an Anglo-Norman lord, was a tenant of William de Percy I., in Yorkshire, who had succeeded to a Malet fee. His son, Adam de Percy, m. Emma de Gand. The association of the Colvilles and the Percys was a feature in Scotland.

2. ‘Lord Thomas de Colvyle gave to God and the appertenances of the vill of Coxwold’. (Excerpt from Foundations of Bylands Abbey, Gentleman’s Magazine, 1843). He was a tenant of Roger de Mowbray, having m. his niece, who was also lord of Epingham, situated on the road from Oakham to Stanford, juxta Normanton and Hameldun. Temp. Domesday, Empingham was held as two manors by Gilbert de Gand. (V.C.H. Rutl. i, 142). Roger Mowbray probably acquired Epingham by marriage to Alice de Gand, who was related to Gilbert de Gand, Earl of Lincoln, grandson of Gilbert de Gand, the Domesday holder. (Cal. Pat. R. 1494–1509, p. 268. Dict. Nat. Biog. Roger Mowbray; G.E.C. Complete Peerage, v, 672). Sir Roger de Mowbray, great-grandson of the said Roger, held the manor in 1259, and the overlordship descended with one fee in the manor of Hameldon. (Cal. Inq. Hen. III, no. 421. Ibid. 24 Hen. VI, no. 41).

1. Gilbert de Gand, m. Alice, dau. of Hugh de Montfort, and Alice de Beauffou.
1.1. Walter de Gand.
1.1.1. Gilbert de Gand, Earl of Lincoln.
1.1.2. Robert de Gand, m. istly, Alice Paynel (half-sister of William de Courcy iii).
1.1.2.1. Gilbert de Gand, Earl of Lincoln, m. Alice d’Albini, second-cousin of Gunnor d’Albini, as follows.
1.1.2.1.1. Juliana de Gand, m. Geoffrey d’Armentiers.
1.1.2. Robert de Gand, m. 2ndly Gunnor d’Albini (Brito), and became br.-in-law of William de Colville.
1.2. Emma de Gand, m. Alan de Percy. Witnessesh to the Charterof King Henry I., whereby he confirmed the Foundation of Bardney Abbey in Com. Linc. by Walter de Gand.
1.2.1. Henry de Percy.
1.2.2. Geoffrey de Percy. “Alanus de Perci” donated property in Hetoun to Whitby Abbey, for the souls of “Alani de Perci patris mei et matris meæ”, witnessed by
Henrico de Perci fratribus meus, who confirmed the donation made by Dominus Alanus de Perci frater meus … Gaufridus frater meus”. Philip de Coleville donated land in Heton, Roxburgh, to Dryburgh monastery, formally gifted by Henry and Geoffrey de Percy

(1. Thomas de Colville.
1.1. Philip de Colville.
1.1.1. Philip de Colville, accepted an invitation of King Malcolm IV. to settle in Scotland.
1.1.1.1. Philip de Coleville, donated land in Heton, Roxburgh, to Dryburgh monastery, formally gifted by the Percys; he seems to have m. into the Percy family.
1.1.1.1.1. Thomas de Colville (cognomento ‘the Scot’), obit. 1219.
1.1.1.1.1.1. John de Colville, of Oxnam.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. William de Colville, of Spindlestone, Northumberland, held under the Brus fee.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas de Colville, ob. ante 1280.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Robert de Colville, b. ca. 1275.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Robert de Colville, b. ca. 1300.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Robert de Colville, b. ca. 1325, obit ca. 1363. He may have been the 1st husband of Janet Keith, with some sons being adopted by David Hamilton, Janet Keith’s 2nd husband).

1.1.1.2. William de Colville,* m. Maud d’Albini (Brito). He was the br.-in-law of Robert de Gand.
1.1.1.2.1 Thomas de Colville, m. Asceline, half-sister of Robert de Quincy, son of Saher de Quincy. Robert de Quincy’s son, Saher de Quincy, bore or, a fesse gules, the exact arms that the Colvilles assumed. Asceline’s sister, Hawise, m. Baldwin Wake, grandf. of Margaret Wake, wife of John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, the forfeited lands of his family devolving to Walter FitzGilbert de Colville, as follows.
1.1.1.2.2. William de Colville.
1.1.1.2.2.1. Hawise de Colville, m. Hugh de Berc., tenant of the Colvilles. His great-great grandson, William de Berc, witnessed a grant with Walter de Hameldon (both of Stanford, Rutland) of a garden situated between the town wall and the garden of the prior of St Leonard, near Stanford, in 1328. (N. A., C 146/3891).
1.1.1.2.2.2. Roger de Colville, of Bytham Castle, Lincolnshire.
1.1.1.2.2.2.1. Walter de Colville (b. ca. 1225, d. 1276), m. Isabel, dau. of Odenel d’Albini, son of William d’Albini I. and Matilda, dau of Odonel de Umfraville.
1.1.1.2.2.2.1.1. Roger de Colville of Bytham Castle (b. 1251. d. 1287), m. Margaret, dau of Richard de Braose, of Stinton, Norfolk, and Alice de Ros, dau. of William de Ros, 2nd Baron Ros of Helmsley, and Margaret de Badlesmere, dau. of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, and Margaret, relict of Gilbert de Umfraville. Bartholomew de Badlesmere became holder of the Umfraville fiefs Normanton and Hameldun; thus becoming overlord of the Colvilles in those places.
1.1.1.2.2.2.1.1.1. Gilbert de Colville, b. ca. 1255. The Writs of Military Service show (1292) Gilbertus Coleville performing military service in Scotland due from Gilbertus de Neville, his kinsman, through the Merlays. Gilbert de Neville (elected a Knight of the co. of Lincoln in 1290) performing such service in 1277 due to Gilbert de Gand (br. of Juliana d’Armenters), son of Gilbert de Gand, Earl of Lincoln and Alice d’Albini.
1.1.1.2.2.2.1.1.1.1. Walter FitzGilbert. (i.e. Walter de Hameldon, see (1.1.1.2.2.1., previous).

1.1.3. Alice de Gand, m. Roger de Mowbray, uncle of Thomas de Colville’s wife. She had m. istly Ilbert de Lacy, sans issue.
1.1.4. Walter de Lindsay
1.1.4.1. William de Lindsay
1.1.4.1.1. Walter de Lindsay, feudal Lord of Crawford. Justiciar of Scotland, after 1174.
1..1.4.1.1.1. William de Lindsay, nephew to King David I.
1.1.4.1.1.1.1. Walter de Lindsay, of Lamberton.
1.1.4.1.1.1.2. David de Lindsay, of Luffness. Charter by *William de Colville, witnessed by “Domino David de Lynddessay, Domino de Luffenauch, Willielmo de Lynddessay, Domino de Lamberton”. (Chart. Newbattle MS)
1.1.4.1.1.1.2.1. David de Lindsay, of Crawford, d. 1246/7.
1.1.4.1.1.1.2.1.1. David de Lindsay, of Crawford, d. 1241.
1.1.4.1.1.1.2.1.1.1. David de Lindsay.
1.1.4.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1. David de Lindsay, m. Mary Abernethy.
1.1.4.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. James Lindsay, of Crawford, m. Egidia Stewart, April 11, 1326. She m. (3) in 1378, Sir James Douglas, of Dalkeith.
1.1.4.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. James de Lindsay, m. Margaret Keith; her sister, Janet Keith, m. David, son of David, son of Walter de Colville de Hameldun.
1.1.4.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Margaret de Lindsay, m. Thomas Colville. He was a distant (in blood) relative of David, husband of Janet Keith.

COLVILLES AS CRISPINS

The Colvilles as Crispins became tenants of the “Comes Albemarlae”, and their mesne lord, Alan de Muncells, in both Coxwold and Keleby, Humberside. “Ex Rotulo Hundr., 3 Edw. I. Comes Albemarlae (William de Forz) tenet in Kelebi dimidium feudi unius militis de domino rege in capite de conquesta. Ingeramus de Munceus tenuit illud de dicto comité; et domus de Cotun fuit fundata in eodem ex dono dicti Ingerami (Alan’s son) in elemosina. Universis sanctae matris ecclesiae filiis tam praesentibus quam futuris notum sit, me Alanum de Muncells dédisse, et concessisse … Et ecclesiam de Cuchewald, cum duabus bovatis terrae de dominio meo, et pasturam ducentarum ovium in eadem villa de Cuchewald … Hiis testibus, Rogero Crispin de Keleby, father of Thomas Crispin, and Walter Crispin (clericus de Keleby). Alan de Muncells held the advowson of the church of Cuxwold, and two bovates of land in the same village. (English Episcopal Acta, vol. 20, p. 127). Roger Crispin exchange land in Cnocculeran and Kinemund (Cumbria) with Robert de Brus, 13th century. (DL 41/104).

The abbey of Melsa in Humberside was founded in 1150 by the Earl of Albemarle, William d’Aumale, lord of Holderness (Chron. Mon. de Melsa (Rolls Ser.), i, p. xiii.), son of Stephen d’Aumale and Hawise, dau. of Ranulph de Mortimer, from whom by heirs female the earldom descended to William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle (d. 1260, lord of Skipsea Castle, in Holderness), who m. Christina, dau. of Alan of Galloway.

(What immediately follows demonstrates that overlord and mesne tenants invariably shared familial links. It was not the case, as in modern-day landlordism, of accepting strangers with funds to rent. The safety of your family depended on a deep and intricate network of feudally-oblidged kinsfolk that formed a protective wall around you. From within them could be mustered a military force that was summoned by the King to serve in such as the ‘Scottish Wars’. The Gilbert de Colville of this account performed military service in Scotland in the retinue of Gilbert de Neville, his kinsman, who was a man of Gilbert de Gand, son of Gilbert de Gand, Earl of Lincoln and Alice d’Albini, the sister of Maud d’Albini Brito, wife of William de Colville, the br.-in-law of Robert de Gand, and ancestor of Gilbert de Colville, as hereinafter detailed. Alice and Maud were ist cousins of William Albini I. (Brito), who m. Matilda, the dau. of Odonel de Umfraville (grandfather of Gilbert de Umfraville I), whose family armorial was gules, 3 cinquefoils or, as the Hamiltons: to repeat, “A sensible proposition is that they were kin, or vassals of the Umfraville lords of Redesdale and the earls of Angus” (Bruce A. McAndrew, Scotland’s Historic Heraldry, p. 235, 200). The Colvilles were tenants of the Umfravilles in Hameldon, Rutland, and Gilbert’s son, it can be assumed with a degree of certainty, Walter de Hameldun (so named in 1328, as follows), named after his grandfather, was he granted lands in Machan by Robert de Brus, whose uncle was the guardian of Gilbert’s nephews, sons of his brother, Roger. These lands were dispossessed from the Comyns, to which the Colvilles were closely associated; the medieval norm being to grant lands to those familial to those dispossessed).

OVERLORDS

1. Alan, Lord of Galloway, Constable of Scotland 1215-34, m. 1. … de Lacy. 2. Helen FitzAlan, m. Roger de Quincey, son of Saher de Quincy, one of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta. The arms of Saher de Quincy are described as or, a fesse gules, as adopted by the Colville family. He was the son of Robert de Quincey, whose half-sister, Asceline, m. Thomas de Colville, br. of William de Colville, who m. Maud d’Albini Brito. Asceline’s sister, Hawise de Quincy, m. Baldwin Wake, parents of John Wake, whose dau., Margaret Wake, m. John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch (d. Bannockburn 1314). The Colvilles of Rutland held of the Wake barony, one of whom, “Walter de Hameldun”, was given land forfeited in Scotland by John Comyn. 3. Elizabeth de Quincey, m. Alexander Comyn, 2nd Earl Buchan. 4. Margaret Comyn, m. (2) William de Lindsay, d. aft. 1310, in Symontoun, Ayshire.
This is but one interpretation: Margaret, could have been an unrecorded second wife of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan, the father of John Comyn, who died in 1290; thus being “countess of Buchan” in her own right. She could also have been an elder sister of John Comyn, she making making claims to the earldom of Buchan after the death of her brother as his oldest surviving heir. 4. … Comyn, m. Gilbert de Umfraville, 8th Earl of Angus, who d. 1307/8, son of his namesake, who m. Mathilda, relict of John Comyn, Earl of Angus. He was the son of Richard de Umfraville, br. of Matilda de Umframville, wife of William Albini I. (Brito), whose cousin, Maud d’Albini (Brito), m. William de Colville The Colvilles held of their Umfraville kinsmen in Normanton, juxta Hameldun, in Rutland.

1. Alan FitzRoland m. (2) Margaret of Huntingdon. 2. Devorguilla of Galloway, m. (1233) John Balliol, Regent of Scotland. 3. Ada Baliol, m. (1266) William de Lindsay, son of Walter de Lindsay, and half-br. of Margaret de Lindsay*. 3. … de Baliol, m. John Comyn “the Black”, Lord of Badenoch. 4. John Comyn (“the Red), stabbed to death by Robert Brus before the altar at the church of the Greyfriars at Dumfries. He m. Joan de Valence. 5. Joan Comyn, m. David de Strathbogie II, who claimed half of the Comyn estates in right of his mother. 6. Aymer de Strathbogie, m. Mary, probable dau. of Walter Steward, thus, sister of Egidia Steward*. 6. Isabel de Strathbogie, mistress of Edward Brus, Earl of Carrick, br. of Robert Brus (grantor of Walter FitzGilbert); great- nephews of William Brus, who was granted wardship (May 8, 1288) of the lands late of Roger de Coleville (son of Walter, tenant in chief of Bytham), and br. of Gilbert de Colville, father of Walter de Colville.* 5. Margaret Comyn, possibly m. Walter de Colville/Hameldun; styled “de Hameldun” in 1328, see anon. 6. David de Colville. 7. David de Hamilton, was the first of the family recorded as formally using the surname Hamilton, appearing in a writ of 1375 as ‘David de Hamylton, son and heir of David FitzWalter’. His title presumably stemmed from his grandfather’s estate, see anon. 5. John Comyn, Lord Badenoch, d. June 24, 1314, m. Margaret Wake, dau. of John Wake, son of Balwin Wake and Hawise de Quincy, who was the sister of Asceline de Quincy, who m. Thomas de Colville.

LINDSAY A

1. The 1187/88 Pipe Roll records “William de Lindeseia owes 40 marks for having the right in the K’s court against the Countess of Albemarle, and Nicholas de Stuteville, in Uckemanebi etc. in Cumberland. (Nicholas de Stuteville, half-brother of Beatrice de Stuteville, wife of William de Colville). The Lindsay family of Lincolnshire followed the same path into Scotland as their neighbours, the Colvilles. it was not happenchance that that they intermarried in Scotland, such was the result of more ancient associations, as most such alliances. It is an understanding of such ‘continuations of association’ that forms the first principle of unravelling medieval ancestries. The propertied class of this time married within their kinship circle, repeatedly, over succeeding generations.

1.1. Walter de Lindsay, d. bef. 1221, Lord of Lamberton. “Sir Walter bestowed the churches of Fordington and Ulseby, in Lincolnshire, on Croyland Abbey before 1202”. (Alexander Crawford Lindsay, Lives of the Lindsays, v. i.). “The Ulceby estate was perhaps brought by Agatha Trusbut to the de Albinis. William de Albini, Agatha’s husband, dying in 1236, was succeeded by his eldest son, by Margery Umframville his first wife, William de Albini, who at his death in 1247 left (by his wife Albreda, daughter of Henry lord Biseth) an only daughter and heiress Isabel. She perhaps carried the Ulceby property into the Ros family, by her marriage with Robert lord Ros of Hamlake, who was a great grandson of Everard lord Ros and Rose Trusbut … (His descendant), William, 3d baron Ros, succeeded to the Ulceby estate: he married Margery, eldest sister and co-heir of Giles de Badlesmere, a great feudal baron; and at his death, Feb. 14, 14, 1343, it was found that he held Ulceby as one of the fees of Trusbott. (Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. III., No. 60.) (G.H. Burton, ‘Old Lincolnshire’, p. 74. 1885). Giles de Badlesmere succeeded to the Umfraville fief of Hameldon.

1. Odonel de Umframville.
1.1. Matilda de Umframville, m. William Albini I. (Brito), whose cousin, Maud d’Albini (Brito), m. William de Colville.*
1.2. Richard de Umframville, Lord of Redesdale, Baron of Prudhoe, did homage for his father’s lands in 1226.
1.2.1. Gilbert de Umframville, succeeded to his father’s titles and lands. John Comyn m. Matilda, Countess of Angus, and became in her right Earl of Angus. Matilda m., 2nd, Gilbert de Umfraville, Lord of Redesdale, &c., who also became in her right Earl of Angus.
1.2.1.1. Gilbert de Umframville, m. Elizabeth Comyn, dau. of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan – Wyntoun, vol. ii. p. 55.

1.1.1. William de Lindsay, Lord of Lamberton. Charter by *William de Colville, witnessed by “Domino David de Lynddessay, Domino de Luffenauch, Willielmo de Lynddessay, Domino de Lamberton”. (Chart. Newbattle MS). 1.1.1.1. Walter de Lindsay (1232-Nov.2, 1271). His Inquisition p.m. named “William his son, aged 21 as his heir, who married “5 years ago Ada daughter of John de Balliol”. (Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. I, Henry III, 820, p. 283).

She m. 2nd (bef. Sept. 23, 1274) Walter Percy, brother of Henry de Percy, sons of “Willielmus”, son of “Henricum” (Dugdale Monasticon v., Sawley Abbey, Yorkshire XXII, Genealogia Perciorum, p. 516), and his wife, Isabel de Brus). 1.1.1.1.1. William de Lindsay, m. Ada, dau. of John de Balliol and Devorguilla of Galloway. 1.1.1.1.2. Alice de Lindsay m. (as his second wife), John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, son of Richard Comyn, d. bef. 1277. The said “Henricum” being the overlord of Phillip de Colville.

LINDSAY B

1.2. William de Lindsay, d. bef. 1247. 1.2.1. David de Lindsay. His father donated “terre mee de Cruford” to Newbattle priory, witnessed by “David herede meo”, whose confirmation charter was witnessed by David de Quincey, presumably a kinsman of the Colvilles. 1.2.1. Walter de Lindsay, m. Christiana. 1.2.1.1. *Margaret de Lindsay. 1.2.2. David de Lyndesey confirmed the donation of “terre mee in territorio de Crauford” to Newbattle priory, for the soul of “Willi fratris mei”. (Newbattle, 139, p. 105). 1.2.2.1. William de Lindsay. 1.2.2.1.1. “David de Lindes patr fil Willi”. 1.2.1.1.1. David de Lindsay. Regent of Scotland in 1255. “Davide de Lindesai juniore”, m. *Margaret Lindsay, dau. of Walter de Lindsay and Christiana. 1.2.1.1.1.1. Sir Alexander Lindsay, d. 1308, a supporter of Robert de Brus; captured at the fall of Kildrummy Castle on Sept. 13, 1306. He m. istly, a dau. of Alexander Stewart, High Steward of Scotland. 1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Sir David Lindsay, of Crawford, m. Maria Abernethy. 1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. Sir James Lindsay, of Crawford, m. *Egidia Stewart, April 11, 1326. She m. (3) in 1378, Sir James Douglas, of Dalkeith.

1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. James de Lindsay, m. Margaret Keith; her sister, Janet Keith, m. David, son of David, son of Walter de Colville de Hameldun. 1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Margaret de Lindsay, m. Thomas Colville. He was a distant relative of David, husband of Janet Keith, but through their marriages to the Keiths became ‘more closely’ associated; ‘more closely’ in the context of ‘already close’, as G. Barrow (The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History, 1980), pointed out: ‘Thomas de Colville, the constable of Dumfries Castle, gave land in Galloway to Vaudey Abbey, to pray for the souls of dead Scottish Kings. The fact that a Lincolnshire Abbey received land in Galloway for the souls of Scottish Kings is only explicable because of the existence of an aristocratic family with (very closely associated) members in both kingdoms’. 1.2.1.1.1.2. William de Lindsay, donated revenue in 1293 to Newbattle priory, for the souls of “dni David de Lydesay patris mei et Margarete de Lyndesay matris mee”. (Newbattle, 172, p. 137). He m. 2ndly, as her 2nd husband, Margaret, dau. of Alexander Comyn, bef. 1310; who, as given heretofore, may have been an unrecorded wife of Alexander Comyn.

THE COLVILLES cont.

COLVILLE A

3. Thomas de Homeldun, was perhaps the father of Roger de Homeldun; a Melrose charter being witnessed by ‘Roberto de Hameldun’ (probable son of Roger) and his son ‘Rogero de Hameldun’, who witnessed the gift of Alan de Percy II. to Whitby of lands in Oxenham, given to him by Henry and Geoffrey de Percy, his brothers, their tenant in Hetoun being ‘Philippus de Colvill’. As a correction of previous notes, Thomas de Hameldun took his name from the fief of Hameldon, situated near the Mowbray manor of Epingham, as given heretofore. In 1209, Roger and Robert de Hameldon are named in a charter of Roger and Saher de Quincey (nephews of Saher de Quincey*) in Northumberland (Cal. Doc. relating to Scotland, vol. 1, introd. xxv, no. 452). “The Umravilles bore a single cinquefoil on their shield. A vassal adopting this would add a number of charges, and here is possibly the origin of the three cinquefoils in the Hamilton escutcheon” (ibid.). *Roger de Hameldun stood security for the Abbot of Kelso in the plea betw. him and the Prior of Kirkam (ibid., xxxi.).

1. Saher de Quincey, from Cuinchy in the arrondissement of Béthune. 1.1. Saher de Quincey, m. Matilda de Senlis (relict of Robert FitzRichard de Clare, d. 1140); stepdau. of King David I of Scotland and Maud, dau. of Simon de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon. 1.1.1. Robert de Quincey. He was granted the castle of Forfar and land in Haddington by King William of Scotland, his cousin. Thomas de Colville, m. Asceline, half-sister of Robert de Quincy, son of Saher de Quincy. Robert de Quincy’s son, Saher de Quincy, bore or, a fesse gules, the exact arms that the Colvilles assumed. 1.1.1.1. Saher de Quincey. 1.1.1.2. Robert de Quincey. 1.1.1.2.1. Roger de Quincey. 1.1.1.2.2. Saher de Quincey.
Thomas de Colville was witness to a gift of Roger de Mowbray I. (whose wife was the cousin of Alan de Percy II.), of land in Stainton which was confirmed by Henry II. (1155-1157). His testibus were Nigelo de Mowbrai (son), Rogeri de Mowbrai (son), Thoma de Colevilla, Thomas de Hamelduna. It is very probable that Thomas de Hameldun was a Colville, a son of Thomas. Whether he was an ancestor of any latter-day Hamiltons is not to be known.

COLVILLE B, in more depth

3. Philip de Colville, held land in Thimbleby and Sigston, Yorkshire. He m. Engelisa, dau. and heir of Robert Ingram, a tenant of the Brus fee in Heslerton. ‘Philip de Colleville, from whom descended the Lords Colville of Scotland’. (E. A. Freeman, The Norman People, pp. 405-406, 1874).
4. Philip de Colville, accepted an invitation of King Malcolm IV. to settle in Scotland, and founded the baronies of Culross and Ochiltree.
5. Philip de Coleville, of Heton and Oxenhame, in the county of Roxburgh. ‘Philippus de Colvill’ donated ‘terre in Hetoun ex dono Galfridi (Geoffrey) de Percy et Henrici patris sui’ to Dryburgh monastery. (Cart. de Dryburgh). ‘Henry de Percy has granted to Whitby Abbey in perpetual alms those donations by which Alan de Percy II., his brother, gave two ploughgates of land, one in Oxnam and the other in Heiton , and that donation of one ploughgate of land in Oxnam which Geoffrey, his brother, gave to the same church in perpetual alms ‘ (Whitby Cart., no. 60, May 24, 1153). These were grandsons of William de Percy I., by his son, Adam de Percy I. and Emma de Gand, dau. of Gilbert de Gand.
5. Thomas de Colville (cognomento ‘the Scot’), obit. 1219. ‘Thomas de Colville, the constable of Dumfries Castle, gave land in Galloway to Vaudey Abbey, to pray for the souls of dead Scottish Kings. The fact that a Lincolnshire Abbey received land in Galloway for the souls of Scottish Kings is only explicable because of the existence of an aristocratic family with members in both kingdoms’. (G. Barrow, The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History, 1980).
6. John de Colville, of Oxnam. His parentage is confirmed by the attestation (1316) of his granddaughter, ‘domine Eustachie Lachene’, relating to ‘ecclesie de Oucheltrye’ (Melrose Liber, t. ii., 400, p. 363).
7. William de Colville, of Spindlestone, Northumberland. The aforementioned attestation of ‘domine Eustachie Lachene’, states that ‘avus suus dominus Johannes de Colville’ was succeeded by ‘filius suus legitimus Willelmus’, who married ‘filiam domini Johanis de Normanville’.
8. Thomas de Colville, ob. ante 1280 (Melrose Liber, t. ii., 400, p. 363).

The demarcation between various Robert de Colvilles is somewhat blurred, with fathers being confounded with sons, but a reasonable construction may be as follows.

9. Robert de Colville, b. ca. 1275, “commanded, and establishing his quarters in the neighbourhood of Rokesburgh, began to make preparations for beasieging Berwick. Just after the return of Balliol, Archibald Douglas, with 3000 men, invaded England on the side of the western marches, wasted the whole diftrict of Gillesland, and brought off much booty, and many prisoners. It is probable that the person here meant is Robert Colville of Ochiltree, and the castle, Oxnam in Teviotdale, which belonged to him. Knyghton, p. 256, says, ‘Ceperunt unam forsulam, in qua invenerunt Dominum Robertum de Colvyll cum X. armatis, cum multis dominabus et feminis de patria, et plures alios homines ;’ which passage Barnes, Edward III. p. 73. thus paraphrases: ‘They took a certain fortress, wherein they found the Lord Robert Colvile prisoner, whom they released, with many other English gentlemen, and several great ladies of the country, all whom they released’. (Sir David Dalrymple, Annals of Scotland, p. 160, 1779).

10. Robert de Colville, b. ca. 1300. Privy Seals, 15 Edw. III., File 7, 1341: The K. signifies to the Chancellor that he has given leave to April 2. Katerina widow of Robert de Colville, to marry with a liegeman only, and also the ward of his lands in Scotland till the majority of the heir, and the marriage of the latter without disparagement, paying as much as any one else would give; she finding good and sufficient security by Englishmen; and to issue letters to her under the seal of Scotland.

11. Robert de Colville, b. ca. 1325, obit ca. 1363. He may have been the 1st husband of Janet Keith. In 1357, he received an annuity of 20 marks till the recovery of his father’s Scottish lands, ibid. “In 1361, Edward III. commanded the sheriff of Roxburgh to assist Robert de Colvill in destroying the fortalice of Dolfyneston which, after its destruction by William de Bohun, earl of Northampton, Edward’s lieutenant in Scotland, had been partially rebuilt by the Scots to the grievous injury of the whole country.” (Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, vol 11, p. 96, 1887).

12. Thomas de Colville, heir, m. Margaret de Lindsay. He witnessed a charter by Margaret, Countess of Douglas, in 1384.
12. Robert de Colville, witnessed a charter of John Turnbull of Minton to Sir William Stewart, May 8, 1390, witnessed by his brother, Thomas.
12. Andrew de Colville/Hamilton.
12. William de Colville/Hamilton, adoptees of David Hamilton and Janet Keith.

Mr. Andrew Stewart gives extracts of two charters, by which Dame Janet Keith grants the lands of Brentwood to her son, Andrew Hamilton, and the lands of Bathgate to her son, William Hamilton, but he denies her having been the widow of Sir David Hamilton, of Cadzow, and supposes her to have “been first married to an unknown person of the name of Hamilton”. (Sir William Stewart, An abstract of the evidence, pp. 31-32, 1801). This is less likely than Andrew and William being adopted by David Hamilton. The same author continues: “It appears evident from the confirmation of a charter, by Janet Keith, after the death of her last husband, dated December 11th, 1406, that the names of two of her sons, the fruit of her former matrimonial connection, were Andrew and William. For, in a deed of that date, she grants the lands of Galliston to her son Andrew de Hamilton, and the grant is witnessed among others by her son William de Hamilton. William Hamilton was witness, along with Andrew Hamilton of Brentwood, his br. and Sir John Hamilton of Cadyow* (br. of their stepfather, it is supposed), to a charter of Andrew de Moravia to Janet de Kirchalche, of her liferent of the lands of Touchadam in Stirlingshire, dated May 14, 1392. *”Johes de Hamylton de Cadyou de Scotia miles cum viginti & duobus & equitibus in comitiva suas. 1396” (Rotuli Scotiae, v. 2).

Andrew and William Hamilton shared a most recent common ancestor with their proposed step-father who was born in ca. 1150. Andrew and William Hamilton (and their descendants) may be classed as Hamilton Group B, as distinct from Hamilton Group A, descendants of Walter FitzGilbert. The problem with any such classification is that very few living Hamiltons can authentically trace their ancestry to the 14th/15th centuries, so it becomes classification by claim. As Mr. Barrow, supra, explained, the Colvilles were an aristocratic family with closely associated members in both England and Scotland. The coming together of these members in marriages to the Keith family were not random events, rather, they were designed to further bind the Colville clan, and enhance its influence. The adoption of children of one Colville branch by members of the other Colville branch would have been a normal event, and would have been viewed as a further strengthening and “re-unification” of the Colvilles.

(1. Sir William Keith, m. Margaret Fraser.
1.1. Margaret Keith, m. James de Lindsay.
1.1.1. Margaret Lindsay, m. Thomas de Colville, her (maternal) cousin. “Salvi conductus pro Thoma de Hamylton et aliis ejusdem cognominis … Thomas de Hamylton de Scotia armigum”, ibid. Ejusdem cognominis, bearing the same name, not synonomous with bearing the same blood, n.b.
1.2. Janet Keith, b. ca. 1335, m. (2) David Hamilton, ca. 1360.
1.2.1. John Hamilton, uterine half-brother of Thomas, Andrew, and William.
1.2.1.1. James Hamilton. “Salvus conductus pro Jacobus de Hamylton et aliis … et David de Hamylton fratrem ejus … de Scotia … in defensionem … castrum de Cathorp in com Lincoln. 1414”, ibid. Caythorpe was a fort situate 20 mls N. of Castle Bytham, being part of its defenses.
1.2.1.2. David Hamilton).

COLVILLE C, in more depth

4. William de Colville , m. Maud d’Albini (Brito). He was the br.-in-law of Robert de Gand. She was the cousin of William Albini I. (Brito), who m. Matilda, the dau. of Odonel de Umfraville (grandfather of Gilbert de Umfraville I), whose family armorial was gules, 3 cinquefoils or, as the Hamiltons: “A sensible proposition is that they were kin, or vassals of the Umfraville lords of Redesdale and the earls of Angus” (Bruce A. McAndrew, Scotland’s Historic Heraldry, p. 235, 200).
5. Thomas de Colville, m. Asceline, half-sister of Robert de Quincy, son of Saher de Quincy. Robert de Quincy’s son, Saher de Quincy, bore or, a fesse gules, the exact arms that the Colvilles assumed.
5. William de Colville, m. Beatrice de Stuteville, sister of Alice de Stuteville, who m. Roger de Merlay, son of Ralph de Merlay, Lord of Morpeth. The Close Rolls of 1230 contain a writ addressed to the Sheriff of Lincoln stating that Will. de Coleville de Bytham was dead and ordering that his heir Roger de Coleville be put in seisin of his estates. (Cambridge Antiquarian Soc., 1901, pp. 381-383).
6. Hawise de Colville, m. Hugh de Berc. Hugh de Berc, recorded in Rutland in 1176 and 1180 (Pipe R. Soc. xxv, 185; xxix, 88). In 1197, he acknowledged that gave to Roger de Colville all his lands in Berc which he held of William Colville, which lands were to be held of Hugh by the service of a sixth part of a knight’s fee. The grant was confirmed by Thomas, eldest son of Hugh de Berc. The family made various grants in Wenton to St. Michael’s Priory, Stanford (Anct. D. (P.R.O.), B. 1202, 1214; D. 172, 194, 165). In 1206, Hawise, the widow of Hugh de Berc, conveyed her dower in Stanford (4 virgates) to Roger de Colville Sr. (Cur. Reg. R. iv, 232, 283; cf. ibid. 306; Feet of F. Rutl. Trin. 9 John).
7. William de Berc. Barrow (Berc) (Rutland).
8. Richard de Berc. Grant by Richard son of William de Berc’, to the nuns of St Michael’s, Stanford, for eighteen years, of land in Wenton. Sept. 29, 1238, which he held of the Colvilles.
9. Robert de Berc.
10. William de Berc. Walter de Hameldon; who with William Berc (both of Stanford) granted a garden (to Raymond le Spicer), situated between the town wall and the garden of the prior of St Leonard, near Stanford, in 1328. (N. A., C 146/3891).

6. Roger de Colville of Bytham Castle, Lincolnshire.
7. Walter de Colville (b. ca. 1225, d. 1276), m. Isabel, dau. of Odenel d’Albini, son of William d’Albini I. and Matilda, dau of Odonel de Umfraville. Walter de Coleville as an undertenant of Roger de Coleville at Auburn (p. 326).
8. Roger de Colville of Bytham Castle (b. 1251. d. 1287), m. Margaret, dau of Richard de Braose, of Stinton, Norfolk, and Alice de Ros, dau. of William de Ros, 2nd Baron Ros of Helmsley, and Margaret de Badlesmere, dau. of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, and Margaret, relict of Gilbert de Umfraville. Bartholomew de Badlesmere held Normanton and Hameldun; his tenants being the Colvilles in the former place, and very likely in the latter.
William de Brus (br. of Sir Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale; father of Robert de Brus, King of Scotland, b. 1274, d. 1329, grantor to Walter FitzGilbert), was granted wardship on May 8, 1288 of the lands late of Roger de Coleville, son of Walter, tenant in chief of Bytham and other places in co. Lincoln, reserving to the King the marriage of the heirs during their minority (Calendar of the Patent Rolls, 1272-1281, p. 247).

William Page, Victoria History of the Co. of Rutland, vol. 2, p. 22, 1908: ‘Normanton is not mentioned in Domesday Survey (1086), but it probably formed one of the berewicks of the king’s manor of ‘Hameldune Cherchesoch.’ It was acquired by the Umfravilles at an early date, and in 1183 the sheriff rendered account of 25s. 8d. from Normanton, the land of Odinell de Umfraville. (See Pipe R. 29 Hen. II, m. 4 d.). Hamelyton near Normanton, on the road to Okeham, is in the maps and some descriptions spelt Hambleton, or Hamelden. In the R. of Edw. II. this manor bel. to Bartholomew Ld. Badlesmere, who obtained a Mt. here on M. and a Fair Aug. 23, 24, and 25′. (Stephen Whatley, England’s Gazetteer, 1751).

The tithes of Hamilton included revenue from Normanton: ‘Cujus quidem verus tenor sequitur et est talis. Ecclesia de Hamildon que est de Communa Ecclesie Lincolniensis omnia inferius contenta a prima sua fundatione percepit et percipit de villatis subscriptis, videlicet de Normanton’ (Journal of the Rutland Record Society, vols. 15-23). The feudal lord of one was often that of the other: Bartholomeo de Badlesmere et Margareta, uxore ejus, pro j. f. in Hameldon et Normanton’ (Inquisitions and Assessments Relating to Feudal Aids, 1284-1431, vol. 4).

Mr. Page continued: ‘From this date the overlordship of Normanton followed the descent of Hambleton (q.v.) until the death of Sir Giles de Badlesmere in 1338 … Early in the 13th century Normanton was subinfeudated (to) Robert d’Albini, son of William d’Albini. Maud, dau. of Odinell de Umfraville (d. 1182), m. William d’Albini, and the d’Albinis may have obtained Normanton through her’. (As given, William d’Albini was the cousin of William de Colville’s wife). ‘Robert d’Albini presented to the church in 1227, and he or his son Robert presented in 1234. (Rot. Hug. de Welles, Cant. and York Soc., ii, 180). ‘Eustachia, probably the second wife of Robert, however, seems to have held Normanton in her own right. It may have been she who, as Eustachia, widow of Robert de Sancto Albano, claimed a third of 20 virgates and 5 acres of land in Normanton against Gilbert de Umfraville in 1237 ( seeCal. Close R. 1234–7, p. 517). The Colvilles held other property in Rutland and elsewhere. In the 12th century the family of Barrow or Berc is found in Rutland. In 1197, Hugh de Berc acknowledged that he had given to Roger de Colville all his lands in Barrow (Berc) which he held of William Colville of the Wake barony’.
8. Gilbert de Colville, b. ca. 1255. The Writs of Military Service show (1292) Gilbertus Coleville performing military service in Scotland due from Gilbertus de Neville, his kinsman, through the Merlays. Gilbert de Neville (elected a Knight of the co. of Lincoln in 1290) performing such service in 1277 due to Gilbert de Gand (br. of Juliana d’Armenters), son of Gilbert de Gand, Earl of Lincoln, and Alice d’Albini (Brito).
9. Walter FitzGilbert. (i.e. Walter de Hameldon, see (10), previous).

Robert de Brus (nephew of the guardian of Roger de Colville’s children), granted to Walter FitzGilbert the whole tenement of Machan which belonged to John Comyn in 1320. Walter’s descendants bore gules, 3 cinque foils or. The earliest representation of the Hamilton arms appears on the Bute Mazer were Gules, three cinquefoils ermine, presumably for Walter FitzGilbert. To repeat: ‘(A) sensible proposition is that they were kin, or vassals of the Umfraville lords of Redesdale and the earls of Angus’ (Bruce A. McAndrew, Scotland’s Historic Heraldry, p. 235, 2006).

10. David de Hameldun, m. Mary, dau. of Sir Adam Gordon, who received from Robert de Brus a grant of the forfeited estate of David de Strathbogie, Earl of Athole.
11. David de Hamilton, m. Janet Keith. In 1378, a charter of King Robert IId. of that date, preserved in the public archives, of the resignation of David Hamilton, and his wife Janet, of the lands of Drumcore, in the barony of Bathkeit, in the con. stablery of Linlithgow, in favour of Sir James Douglas, of Dalkeith.

GAND/WAKE/QUINCEY

Temp. Henry I., Hugh le Wake, m. Emma, dau. of Baldwin Fitz-Gilbert, uncle of Gilbert de Gand, 1st Earl of Lincoln. 1. Gilbert de Gand I, overlord of the Armentieres family of Whatton (thence of Wormley). 1.1. Hugh de Gand, m. Adeline de Beaumont, dau. of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester. 1.1.1. Gilbert de Gand, 1st earl of Lincoln, obit. c. 1156, m. Rohese de Clare, dau. of Richard de Clare. 1.1.2. Robert de Gand, m. Gunnora de Albini Brito, dau. of Ralph de Albini Brito (English Baronies’, I. J. Sanders, OUP, 2nd ed, 1963); she m. (2), Nicholas de Stuteville. A sister of Gunnora de Albini Brito, Maud, m. William de Colville. William held one night’s fee of Robert de Gand in Lincs, his br.-in-law. William de Colville agreed to pay the king a fine of 20 mares and one palfrey, to have seisin of Normanton, Rutland, held in chief by the de Umframvilles. 1.1.2.1. Gilbert de Gand, Earl of Lincoln, obit. 1241, father of Juliana de Gand, who m. Geoffrey d’Armentières, son of Henry d’Armentières, descendant of Robert de d’Armentières. Hugh le Wake’s descendant, Hugh Wake, m. Joane, dau. of Nicholas de Stuteville, Lord of Liddell (the half-brother of Beatrice de Stuteville, wife of *William de Colville, as given).
This Hugh Wake was the father of Baldwin Wake, who m. Hawise de Quincy, dau. of Robert de Quincy, dvp. (son of Saher de Quincey). Thomas de Colville (br. of the said *William de Colville), m. Asceline, half-sister of Robert de Quincy, son of Saher de Quincy. Robert de Quincy’s son, Saher de Quincy, bore or, a fesse gules, the exact arms that the Colvilles assumed.

Baldwin Wake was the father of John Wake, 1st Baron Wake of Liddel; the father of Margaret Wake, the wife of John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch (d. Bannockburn 1314), br. of Joan Comyn (d. bef. 1326), who m. David de Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl (d. 1326), whose dau., Isabel, was the mistress of Edward Brus, Earl of Carrick, br. of Robert Brus (grantor of Walter FitzGilbert); great- nephews of William Brus, who was granted wardship on May 8, 1288 of the lands late of Roger de Coleville, son of Walter, tenant in chief of Bytham, as given.

COLVILLE/COMYN/QUINCY

1. Saher de Quincey.
1.1. Robert de Quincy.
1.2. Asceline de Quincy, m. Thomas de Colville.
1.3. Hawise de Quincy, m. Baldwin Wake.
1.3.1. John Wake.
1.3.1.1. Margaret Wake, m. John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch (d. Bannockburn 1314).

COLVILLE/COMYN/UMFRAVILLE

1. Odonel de Umframville.
1.1. Matilda de Umframville, m. William Albini I. (Brito), whose cousin, Maud d’Albini (Brito), m. William de Colville.
1.2. Richard de Umframville, Lord of Redesdale, Baron of Prudhoe, did homage for his father’s lands in 1226.
1.2.1. Gilbert de Umframville, succeeded to his father’s titles and lands. John Comyn m. Matilda, Countess of Angus, and became in her right Earl of Angus. Matilda m., 2nd, Gilbert de Umfraville, Lord of Redesdale, &c., who also became in her right Earl of Angus.
1.2.1.1. Gilbert de Umframville, m. Elizabeth Comyn, dau. of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan – Wyntoun, vol. ii. p. 55.

QUINCEY/COMYN

1. Saher de Quincy, m. (after 1136) Matilda de Saint Liz, relict of Roger FitzGilbert de Clare, and mother of Matilda FitzRobert de Clare, wife of William d’Albini Brito II., their son marrying Maud de Umframville, their granddau. being the wife of Walter de Colville.
1.1. Saher de Quincy II., m. (1162) Asceline, relict of Geoffrey de Waterville.
1.1.1. Robert de Quincy, granted the ancient castle of Forfar by his cousin, William I of Scotland, m. Orabella. His half-sister, Asceline, m. Thomas de Colville, br. of William de Colville, who m. Maud d’Albini Brito, niece of William d’Albini Brito II.
1.1.1.1. Saher de Quincy, one of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta. The arms of Saher de Quincy are described as or, a fesse gules, as adopted by the Colville family. Saher de Quincy m. Margaret de Beaumont, dau. and heir of Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester.
1.1.1.1.1. Roger de Quincy.
1.1.1.1.1. Elizabeth de Quincey, m. Alexander de Comyn, 6th Earl of Buchan, Constable of Scotland (obit. 1290), son of William Comyn and Margaret, Countess of Buchan. Alexander Comyn was uncle of John Comyn.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Elizabeth Comyn, m. Gilbert de Umframville II., Earl of Angus.

This is the Hamilton “haystack” and the “needle” within, and if seeking another “needle”, search the same “haystack”. There are no certainties. There are no new documents to discover. DNA testing will never fully penetrate the mists of time. Janet keith’s first husband could have been a Lindsay, with a most recent common ancestor, if any, with the Colvilles dating to the 9th century. There are no certainties, so do not trouble your mind to seek them.

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Many assumed English genealogies in Virginia are like a hand of cards, chosen from a pack. The choice is guided by a handfull of Wills, in which some relationships are stipulated. It is the interpretation of such data that ‘constructs’ lineages claimed by those living now. Once constructed, they are repeated so often so as to gain an aura of fact, which they are not, and defended against other ‘constructs’ which rival them and cast doubt on them.

In the case of Thomas Harris who died in 1672 in Virginia, his two sons, Thomas and John, named in his Will, are ‘constructed’ to have issue whose lineage terminate, and as such do not threaten rival constructs.

(So some Harris researchers of old would have it).

Genealogical enquiry is nothing if not about questioning that which is claimed from a particular construct. It is nothing if it merely defends cherished beliefs, and refutes rival ones.

The following construct is, in my opinion, the only feasible way that two by name Thomas Harris (d.1672, d. 1688) can be linked in any consanguineous way. It has the advantage of males sharing the same DNA profile having a number of different ancestors stemming from the same family. However that may be:

BARHAM

1.Charles Barham. 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

1.1. Robert Barham, m. Elizabeth Clark.

1.1.1. John Barham, b. bef. 1711 in Surry Co., m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Edwards and his second wife, Elizabeth Newsom. His Will was probated on July 16, 1771.

EDWARDS

1. … Edwards.

1.1. Robert Edwards, m. Mary, sister of Michael Hunt. Ancient lease: Corporation of Bristol to Michael Hunt. March 30, 1678. (Bristol Arch., 13461/1).

1.1.1. Judith Edwards, m. (1) Thomas Harris, (2) … Clarke.

1.2. Thomas Edwards, m. (1) Elizabeth, dau. of William Newitt, and half-sister of Frances, wife of Edward Drewe Sr., grandf. of Mary Drew, who m. a Henry Harris. (2) the widow of James Piland Sr.

1.2.1. “Mr. Thomas Edwards”, m. a dau. (Mary, Sarah, or Anne) of Michael Hunt, soapmaker, of Bristol, in whose Will, probated June 12, 1684, he is designated as “cousin” and overseer. His Will mentions unspecified “plantations”, which can be taken as those he held jointly with his brother, Joseph, in Jamaica. (Abstract of the title of Joseph Hunt of Port Royal, Jamaica, merchant, to lands in Jamaica, Nov. 21, 1662. (Brist. Arch., AC/WO/16/1). These lands were part of the “Spring Plantation”, owned by John Elbridge, br.-in-law of Thomas Moore, the probable br.-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr. Copy of a recovery: (1) John Lilly and Thomas Coules, petitioners: (2) Thomas Edwards and John Clarke (Bristol Arch., ref. 046, 1684). Deed to make a tenant to the precipe and lead the uses of a recovery to be suffered, Joseph Jackson to Thomas Edwards. May 16, 1684. (Bristol Arch., 09457/4c, May 16, 1684).

1.2.1.1. Thomas Edwards, m. (1) the relict of Thomas White, (2) Elizabeth, dau. of William Newsom, and sister of John Newsom, who m. Martha Holt, dau. of Thomas Holt, parents of William Newsom, who m. Elizabeth Gray. Thomas Edwards was the stepfather of the Thomas White, who m. Ann Moore, as given, and the second-cousin of Judith Edwards, wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1712.

1.2.1.1.1. Elizabeth Edwards, m. John Barham.

1.2.2. Mr. William Edwards (“William Edwards, Bristol merchant, destination Virginia”), granted granted 290 ac. in Lower Par. of Surry Co., on heads of Blackwater branches … adj. Mr. Richard Bennett (April 23, 1688, p. 214), 2nd cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Mr. William Edwards, granted 410 ac., in Lower Par. of Surry Co., on E. of Greene’s Swamp, on Oct. 20, 1691, p. 204. … Granted John Clarke, April 24, 1684, by him deserted. Imp. of Richard Holman … *Thomas Harris (d. 1712).

1.2.2.1. John Edwards.

HARRIS

1. Richard Harris, m. (1594) Elianor Bennett, in Wiveliscombe, Somerset. He was the son of William Harris, who m. Dorothy Westbrooke, Aug. 31, 1562, in Wivelscombe. Somerset.

1.1. Edward Harris, held land patented by his cousin, (Governor) Richard Bennett, on Nov. 4, 1642. This was adj. land held by Wm. Newsome, April 6, 1653, p. 51.

1.1.1. Edward Harris, d. 1677. The estate debts of Edward Harris, d. 1677, included: “100. Payd Coll. Bacon for rent” (land bought from Thomas Harris, d. 1672, Edward’s uncle). Edward Harris was a son-in-law of George Hardy, whose wife, Mary Jackson, was a great-granddau. of Edward Bennett, uncle of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. George Hardy’s land bounded that of Nicholas Hill (who m. a dau. of Edward Bennett), who, with Edward Brantley Sr., witnessed the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Edward Brantley Sr., had issue, Phillip, who m. Joyce Lewis, dau. of Thomas Lewis and Rebecca (George) Pardoe, half-sister of Phillip Pardoe, security for the estate of Edward Harris, d. 1677. Phillip Brantley had issue: Edward Brantley, whose son, John, m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.
1.1.1.1. Edward Harris, b. 1664. It is at least problematical that he was the father of this Thomas: “Thomas Harris, the son of Edward Harris”, mentioned as such in the Will of John Gibbins, rec. Sept. 25, 1721, IOW. This could have been a son (d.v.p.) of Edward Harris, d. 1730. The emphasis: “son of Edward Harris” seems to demarcate him from a close kinsman, i.e. Thomas Harris, the son of …? (Thomas Harris, d. 1712?). Neither can any statement that the Henry Harris mentioned in the Gibbins’ Will was a br. of “Thomas Harris, the son of Edward Harris”, be supported – it is but supposition, designed to propose a connection to the Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, whose Will mentions a br., Henry. The said Will mentions, as a legatee, Robert Harris, br. of Edward Harris, and Robert’s son, Mathew. The Exor. was Mr. William Kinchen. His connection:

1. Robert Ruffin, m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Watkins and Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Spencer and Anne Taberer, thus explaining the close association between Thomas Harris, d. 1672, and his “loving friend”, Robert Spencer. 1.1. Elizabeth Ruffin, m. Mathew Kinchen, whose Will was probated Aug. 23, 1736, Account estate signed by Ethelred Taylor and John Ruffin, Nov. 29, 1743, ibid., p. 482. Mathew Kinchen was the br. of William Kinchen Jr., heir in the Will of John Gibbins: Prob. rec. Sept. 25, 1721, IOW. William Kinchen Jr. m. Mary Gibbins, dau. of John Gibbins, and relict of James Adkins.

In other words, these people were entwined within the Bennett/Harris kinship network. Mathew Kinchen’s wife was a granddau. of Ann, dau. of Thomas Taberer Taberer, and sister of Ruth, wife of John Numan, br. of the 2nd wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

Richard Bennett’s* bequest to “the wife of Mr. Thomas Taberer”* was probably to a sister or cousin. The Will of John George, recorded Jan. 9, 1678, names friend Thomas Taberer as exec. John Dalton was transp. by Nicholas George, Thomas Taberer, and Humphry Clarke. Thomas Harris, d. 1672, m. (1) a dau. of Nicholas George. *Richard Bennett’s first wife was Anne, who was Charles Barham’s sister (see Douglas Richardson, ‘Plantagenet Ancestry’). 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. *Thomas Taberer’s dau., Ruth, m. John Numan, br. of the 2nd wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Robert Spencer m. Taberer’s sister, Ann.
William Kinchen: Leg. Son Mathew, dau. Patience Taylor and her husband Ethelred Taylor; probated July 28, 1735. (B.4., p. 72). Ethelred Taylor and Patience Kinchen had issue: (1) William Taylor, who m. (2) Temperance Kinchen, dau. of William Kinchen Jr. (2) Kinchen Taylor, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Jesse Browne, and Elizabeth, dau. of Nathaniel Ridley and Elizabeth, dau. of James Day, son of John Day and Mary Bennett (dau. of Edward Bennett, uncle of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, etc.), and sister of Sylvestra, who m. Nicholas Hill, who witnessed the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672 (cousin of his wife), and whose land adj. that of Edward Harris, d. 1677. (3) Ethelred Taylor Jr., whose dau., Nancy, m. Henry Peebles.

ROBERT HARRIS

1.2. Robert Harris, m. Mary Crumpe (cousin of Richard Crump, b. 1628, sheriff of Bristol, merchant).

1.2.1. Martha Harris, m. John Jennings, of Bristol, merchant. His Will, rec. March 10, 1679, mentions daus. Martha and Mary, son John. Overseers, George and Thomas Moore (probable br.-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr.).

1.2.1.1. John Jennings, m. Mary Hill, dau. of Sylvester Bennett, cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

1.2.1.2. Martha Jennings, d. 1702, m. Thomas Thorpe Sr. (d. 1711, in IOW Co.), bef. 1686. Thomas Thorpe was the br. of Timothy Thorpe Sr., who had issue (1) Joseph Thorpe, who had issue: Mary, who m. James Barham; their dau., Martha Barham, m. Joel Harris, son of John Harris and Avis White (granddau. of George Moore); son of Robert Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. George Moore was the cousin of Thomas Moore, probable brother-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr.

1.1.2.1. Sarah Thorpe (by first wife), m. (1) William George, son of John George, and nephew of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

1.1.2.2. John Thorpe, appraisee of estate of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, with Edward Brantley, whose son, John, m. the relict.

RICHARD HARRIS

1.3. Richard Harris.

1.3.1. John Harris.

1.3.1.1. Elizabeth Harris, b. ca. 1662, m. Samuel Lancaster, son of Robert Lancaster Sr. and Sarah, widow of her 2nd husband, Richard Bennett Sr., d. 1710; second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Samuel Lancaster was the br. of (1) Robert Lancaster, father of William Lancaster, who m. Mary Moreland, having issue: Lawrence Lancaster.*

1.3.1.2. John Harris, b. ca. 1663. On Nov. 9, 1708, Samuel Lancaster was granted the administration of the estate of John Harris, his br.-in-law.

WILLIAM HARRIS, d. 1721

1.3.1.3. William Harris, b. ca. 1664, m. Margaret, the widow of (1) Edward Taylor, (2) William Judkins. His Will (rec. April 19, 1721, in Surry) named wife, Margaret, granddau., Mary, who m. Thomas Taylor, son of Margaret and Edward Taylor, and grandson, Harris Taylor, great-grandson of William Harris. The Will of Margaret Taylor Harris was proved Sept. 20, 1721, witnessed by William Gray, William Seward, and Thomas Edwards. It named son, Edward Taylor, dau. Margaret,* wife of Bartlett Moreland, daughter Hannah, wife of Christopher Clinch. The latter Edward Taylor: Estate admin, July 19, 1727, by Thomas Holt, Christopher Clinch, Thomas Edwards. (B. 7, p. 740). Christopher Clinch was the father of John Clinch.*

Margaret Taylor Moorland had m. (1) William Judkins, they the parents of Hannah and Elizabeth Judkins, as follow.

MICHAEL HARRIS, d. 1744

1.3.1.3.1. Michael Harris, witnessed the Will of John Gray, “to sister Lidie”; rec. Nov. 9, 1708. B. 5., p. 403; br. of Thomas Gray and William Gray, siblings of Lucy Gray, wife of John Edwards, son of William Edwards, cousin of Judith Harris, wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1712. The Gray siblings were issue of William Gray and Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Jarrett, and sister of Charles Jarrett, who m. (1) Sarah, dau. of George Hardy, and sister of the wife of Edward Harris, d. 1677, (2) Mary, dau. of Moses Peters, relict of Thomas Hardy. Charles Jarrett was the probable cousin of Ferdinand Jarrett, whose Will was witnessed by Michael Harris, in 1720. Michael Harris witnessed the Will of Charles Judkins, in 1709. He was the step-brother of Margaret Taylor, thus, step-uncle of Hannah and Elizabeth Judkins, daus. of William Judkins, br. of Charles Judkins.

Michael Harris died in 1744, when *John Clinch, Thomas Warren , Robert Gray, and John Nicholson, or any three of them, do appraise the personal estate of Michael Harris deced. His Will was presented to Court by the executors, son John, wife Catherine.

Michael Harris was the step-brother of Margaret Taylor, thus, step-uncle of Hannah and Elizabeth Judkins.

1.3.1.3.1.1. Mary Harris, m. Thomas Taylor.

1.3.1.3.1.1.1. Taylor Harris.

Christopher Clinch was the half-br. of John Seward (B. 6, p. 126), son of William Seward and his 2nd wife, Ann Clinch. William Seward was the grandson of John Seward, the Bristol sea captain and merchant, who ‘claimed’ the headright of Edward Brantley Sr., who was not an indentured servant, being of equal (Mr.) social standing of the Sewards, Moores, and Barhams.

THOMAS HARRIS, d. 1688

1.3.2. Thomas Harris, d. 1688.

1.3.2.1. Robert Harris. His descendants had strong links to the Lancasters:

Recorded: March 14, 1760: Charles Harris – warrant of 450 ac. in Granville Co. (parish of St. John, on the branches of Aaron’s Creek), adj. Jones Corner and Wades line: Signed Charles Harris. Witnesses: William Hurst, Lawrence Lancaster.

Bute (Warren) Co., NC. Book A, p. 77. R. Jan. 23, 1765: *Lawrence Lancaster to Len Henley Bullock … sold 330 ac. on Fishing Creek, Elbe’s Branch, where I now live adj. West Harris, Lewis Patterson, William Rowland, John Burch. Wit: Samuel Lancaster, Britton Harris, and John Lancaster. Proved by Britton Harris. Lawrence Lancaster (and Mary Williams) had issue: Lucy Lancaster (1743-1826), m. Britton Williford; Moses Lancaster (d. 1793), m. Martha Harris.

Warren Co. Court Minutes, Feb. 17, 1780, p. 16: Ordered that Matthew Harris be overseer of the road form the Fork of Bobbitt’s Road to the Creek below Nathaniel Harris, and the land of *Lawrence Lancaster, Joseph Harris, Charles Harris, James Harris, John Lancaster, Nathaniel Harris, Lawrence Lancaster Jr., Joel Lancaster, and Sterling Harris.

Aug. 28, 1792, ibid., p. 230: The last will and testament of Lawrence Lancaster, deceased was proved in open Court by the oath of James Harris, Morris Harris, and Lawrence Lancaster Jr.; William Lancaster and John Lancaster, executors.

Bute, August Court, 1800: ‘Account in Estate of Laurence Lancaster deceased by William, Laurence & John Lancaster executors. Paid: for coffin and sickness John Hall (fee), B. Moss (taxes & sale), Samuel Williford, John Lancaster, Claiborne Harris, Len Kimball, Ben Kimball, R. Bobbitt, Geo. Pegram, H. Harris (son of James Harris), Jesse Bell, Wm. Johnson and executors of Harton. Recorded from sale, etc. & balance to be divided among twelve legatees’.

LANCASTERS OF BRUTON, SOMERSET

Richard Lancaster, Margarett Barber, June 22, 1573. 1.1. John Langcaster, m. Susan Mogg, Oct. 30, 1609. 1.1.1. Robert Langcaster, m. Susannah Penny, Oct. 1, 1632; he bur. Oct. 3, 1674. 1.1.1.1. Robert Lankester, bapt. Jan. 26, 1634. 1.1.1.2. John Lanchaster, bapt. Nov. 17, 1639. 1.1.1.3. Thomas Langcaster, bapt. April 14, 1643. 1.1.1.4. Richard Lancaster, bapt. Feb. 26, 1646. 1.1.1.5. Susanna Lancaster, bapt. April 14, 1649.

1. Richard Bennett, d. December 9, 1709 Surry Co., m. (i) Ann Barham, sister of Charles Barham. (2) Sarah, who m. (2) Robert Lancaster

1.1. Richard Bennett Jr. d. March 30th 1720 Surry Co.

1.2. Susannah Bennett, dau. of Richard Bennett and Ann Barham, m. Daniel Lewis.

1.2.1. Mary Lewis, m. Thomas Thorpe.

1. Robert Lancaster, m. Sarah, relict of Richard Bennett. Robert Lancaster , m. (1) Lettis White, sister of Thomas White, Will pr. May 7, 1694: “Mr. Robert Lancaster to have the care of my son Thomas”, who m. Ann, dau. of George Moore, having issue, Avis White, wife of John Harris, grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. Ann Moore was the sister of Eleanor Moore, who m. Richard Piland (the son of James Piland, bapt. on Aug. 30, 1604, in St Mary’s Le Porte, Bristol, headright of Francis England, in 1642), having issue: James Piland, who appraised the estate of John Brantley, on April 26, 1725.

The said James Piland’s son, also James, m. Elizabeth Brantley, dau. of Phillip Brantley (son of Edward Brantley Sr.) and Joyce Lewis; dau. of Rebecca George; dau. of John George, br. of Nicholas George, father-in-law of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, whose estate was appraised by Edward Brantley Sr. Ann and Eleanor Moore were second-cousins of Thomas Moore, whose surety for his marriage was given by Edward Brantley Sr., his very probable br.-in-law, and George Moore, his cousin. Robert Lancaster appraised the estate of Peter Deberry, April 27, 1713, husband of Mary, dau. of Edward Brantley Sr. Thomas White’s relict, Phyllis, m. (2) Thomas Edwards. Sept. 1694. Phyllis the relict of Thomas White who by the said White in his last will appointed sole Executrix thereof being summoned by Robert Lancaster one of the overseers of the said will to prove the same.

1.1. Robert Lancaster, Will witnessed by James Piland, estate appraised by by John Brantley and Richard Gray, on June 27, 1720.

1.1.1. Robert Lancaster, d. 1783, m. Judith Pitt (maternally Clary). Thomas Clary: Leg.- niece Judith, wife of Robert Lancaster Jr., pewter dishes.

1.1.1.1. William Lancaster, m. (1) Mary, dau. of Edward Moreland.

1.1.1.1.1. Lawrence Lancaster, d. 1792, Warren Co., m. Mary Williams. May 9, 1751, Lawrence Lancaster of Nottoway Parish and Solomon Delke of same to divide land that formerly did belong to Edward Moreland, decd.

MOORLAND

1. Edward Moorland, d. 1713.
1.1. Bartlett Moorland, d. 1725. in Surry Co., m. Margaret, dau. of Edward Taylor and Margaret, who m. (3) William Harris.
1.2. Edward Moorland, 1676-1722; d. in IOW.
1.2.1. Mary Moorland, m. William lancaster.
1.2.1.1. Laurence Lancaster, b. 1712.

JOHN HARRIS

1.3.2.2. John Harris. Edward Padget’s Will, proved Feb. 27, 1727, names wife Margaret, dau. of Nicholas Tyner, witnessed by John Robertson, and son-in-law, William Ashley. Feb. 27, 1727, Chowan Co. NC. Nicholas Tyner’s dau., Sarah, was the mistress of John Harris, whose estate papers include a court record of 1727, of a legal dispute between Edward Harris (br. of John) and John Robertson. John and Edward Harris were brs. of Jane, who m. Richard Jones, Will probated on May 22, 1721, which mentions as legatees, daughter, Ann Bell, and her husband, William. It is witnessed by a Thomas Harris, as “friend”, which is suggest as synonomous with “brother”, as William Bell, the other witness, was also so designated, he being an in-law. William Bell was baptised in Christ Church Parish, on Feb. 26, 1692, son of John Bell, d. 1713, and Ann Bennett,* dau. of Richard Bennett Sr., named in the latter’s Will of Aug. 30, 1694, he being a second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, and whose relict m. Robert Lancaster Sr., as given. Hence, there was a very close connection between the children of Thomas Harris, d. 1688, and his namesake, d. 1672. Richard Jones named a dau., Elizabeth, in his Will, and she was possibly the wife of John Robertson, named in his Will of 1756. *Step-sister of Samuel Lancaster, and step-sister-in-law of Elizabeth Harris.

EDWARD HARRIS

1.3.2.3. Edward Harris.

1. Thomas Joyner, br. of Bridgeman Joyner, guardian of an orphan of Thomas Harris, d. 1688, m. Elizabeth, wife of William Kinchen Sr. As given, the Kinchens were of the Bennett/Harris kinship network. 1.1. Martha Joyner, m. Thomas Turner, br. of Mary Turner, who m. Edward Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. These Turners were children of John Turner and Mary Tomlin, dau. of Mathew Tomlin Sr., and sister of Mathew Tomlin Jr., father of John Tomlin. 1.2. Benjamin Joyner, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Pittman and Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Lancaster Jr., and niece of Samuel Lancaster, who m. Elizabeth Harris, as given. Robert and Samuel Lancaster were sons of Robert Lancaster Sr. and Sarah, widow of 2nd husband Richard Bennett Sr. (d. 1710. B. 5, p. 224), second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

1.3.2.4. Thomas Harris.

THOMAS HARRIS, d. 1672

1.4. Thomas Harris, d. 1672, m. Judith Blake, on Nov. 20, 1623, in Wivelscombe. His second-cousin, Richard Bennett Sr., to repeat, m. a sister of Charles Barham, who was exec. of the Will of William Ridley, who was probably the br. of Elizabeth Ridley, Charles Barham’s wife. Judith Blake was a cousin of Thomas Blake, who held 400 ac. to the west of Seward’s Creek in 1670, bordering the land of Thomas Tooke to the east, and Edward Brantley, Sr. to the north; his land bordering that of John and Thomas Harris (sons of Thomas, d. 1672), to the east.

Thomas Harris, d. 1672, is witnessed here: Mr. Jno. Marshall, 700 ac. IOW, July 12, 1665, p. 252. W. side of the Wester Sw., beg. at lower cor. tree of Capt. (John) Fulgham’s land, extending down Sw. to land of Tho. Harris. John Fulgham was overseer of the Will of Thomas Harris, 1688, who beq. Robert Harris (his son) “may dwell with John Fulgham three years”.

THOMAS HARRIS, d. 1712.

1.4.1. Thomas Harris, m. (2) Judith Edwards. By a first wife:

1.4.1.1. Henry Harris. This was the Henry Harris associated with the Brantley/Norwood families: 1. Henry Norwood, bur. April 10, 1618, Dunster, Somerset, 10 mls N. of Wiveliscombe, abode of the Bennett/Harris families. 1.2. Richard Norwood. 1.2.1. William Norwood, bapt. Sept. 6, 1619, in Dunster, d. 1702, in Virginia. 1.2.1.1. Richard Norwood (4th son) – appraisal by Edward Brantley, Oct. 25, 1731). Richard Norwood was the husb. of Elizabeth, whose estate was appraised by by Henry Harris and Thomas Cook (rec. Jan. 28, 1733, p. 386); the latter’s Will was witnessed by John Brantley (rec. Nov. 22, 1736, p. 186); who m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30. The Brantleys were tenants of the Norwoods in the Manor of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

1.4.1.1.1. Henry Harris, m. Mary Drew, granddau. of Edward Drewe Sr., whose wife was the half-sister of the wife of Thomas Edwards, uncle of the said Judith Edwards.

1.4.1.2. Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30. Thomas Harris 290 ac. IOW, on the Maherin River and both sides of Herbert’s Branch adj. Edward Brantley (son of Phillip and Joyce Lewis), and William Simmons line, March 24, 1725. In his Will, Thomas names a brother, Henry Harris, son Joshua, and also an ‘unborn child wife now goes with’. (Thomas).

The family of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, continued the close links of the family of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, to the families of Blake, Westbrooke, Bridger, and Fort, etc.

1.4.1.2.1. Joshua Harris: Estate appraised by Joshua Claud, Thomas Day (of Bennett association), and Samuel Westbrooke, June 14, 1770, p. 324. Samuel Westbrooke: Estate appraised by Samuel Blake (son of Thomas Blake, per estate appraisal, rec. Feb. 12, 1789), who appraised the estate of John Foster, in 1773.

1.4.1.2.2. Thomas Harris, m. Sara Goodwin, dau. of Theophilus Goodwin and Elizabeth Wyche, and granddau. of Col. Thomas Goodwin and Martha Bridger, dau. of Joseph Bridger (business partner of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), and Hester Pitt.

1.4.1.2.2.1. Solomon Harris, m. Millie Watkins, on March 11, 1778, dau. of John Watkins and Lydia Gilliam, dau. of Walter Gilliam and Sarah Foster, dau. of John Foster, son of Christopher Foster Jr. and Mary Fort. John Foster’s dau. Elizabeth Foster, m. John Watts; having issue: Agatha Watts, who m. James George, great-grandson of John George, uncle of the first wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. A descendant of Solomon Harris has test results with Family Tree DNA which are a perfect match with Harris Group 4 males.

JOHN HARRIS, d. 1713

1.4.2. John Harris of the Upper Parish: Leg. – dau. Alice; dau. Elizabeth; dau. Isabel; land given me by Hugh Campbell; wife Mary; dau. Susanna; dau. Anne; dau. Mary; dau. Martha. Wife Executrix. Overseers, Mathew Jordan and John Scott. Rec. May 25, 1713. Witness: Judith Harris, William Story, Matthew Jordan.* He had m. a dau. of Francis Hobbs.

John Scott was the grandson of a partner of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

Rowland Searchfield released Col. Joseph Bridger of Virginia from all claims of three-eighths of a cargo of wines etc. shipped on the Success of London (master William Goodland) in 1654, to Virginia, in the presence of William Scott, Thomas Harris, Christopher Pitt, James Bridger. William Reaper. (Bristol Record Office, Depositions). Thus, the witnesses, as partners, accounted for the remaining five eighths. William Scott was the father of a namesake, the father of John Scott, who m. Joan Tooke; dau. of James Tooke, son of Thomas Tooke.

Thomas Harris, d. 1688, held land in lower par. IOW Co. on borders of Blackwater to the bottom of Pig Neck (B. 7, p. 510), which had been granted to Mr. John Seward, on April 16, 1648, who had patented land in 1638 “upon Warresquioke River”, against the land of Nathaniell Floyd, whose widow m. Francis Hobbs, whose dau. m. John Harris.

Thomas Harris, d. 1672, held 1,000 ac. in Nansemond in 1658, which was “by him deserted” and granted anew on July 6, 1668 to Joseph Bridger. (W&MQ, vol. 7, no. 4, 1899).

John Scott, son of William Jr., witnessed a deed of March 26, 1711 (with William Bridger, son of Joseph Bridger Sr.), whereby John and Thomas Harris of the Upper Parish, sons of Thomas, d. 1672, divided the land they held in jointure, that being 250 ac. inherited from their father, and 115 ac. they had acquired from Joseph Bridger.

Mathew Jordan was the stepson of William Rose Jr.

1.Thomas Jordan Sr. m. Lucy (Corker) Rose. She m. (2) William Rose Jr., brother of .(1) Jane Rose, who m. (1) Richard Avery; who departed from Bristol, in 1665. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, vol. 1, p. 56: Capt. Anthony Fulgham, 1600 ac. IOW, July 12, 1665, for transportation of 30 people, inc. Richd. Avery. (B. 5, p. 253; (2), after 1685, Edward Booky. (2) Ann Rose, m. Thomas Flood Jr., the first-cousin of Fortune Flood, wife of Hinchea Gilliam. Fortune Flood and Hinchea Gilliam’s son, Walter, m. Sarah, dau. of John Foster; their dau., Lydia, m. John Watkins; their dau., Millie, m. Solomon Harris, on March 11, 1778, grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30. 1.1. Mathew Jordan.

1.4.1.1. Isabel Harris, b. 1696, m. Nicholas Fulgham, grandson of a br. of John Fulgham. To repeat: Mr. Jno. Marshall, 700 ac. IOW, July 12, 1665, p. 252 … beg. at lower cor. tree of Capt. (John) Fulgham’s land, extending down Sw. to land of Tho. Harris (d. 1672). John Fulgham was overseer of the Will of Thomas Harris, 1688.

BARHAM cont.

1.1.1.1. Jesse Barham.

1.1.1.2. Benjamin Barham, m. Mary, relict of Benjamin Judkins.

1.1.2. Robert Barham, Will probated on July 17, 1770, in Surry Co.

1.1.2.1. Thomas Barham, d. 1764, m. Lucy, dau. of Benjamin Holt, mentioned in his Will of 1770 as Lucy Barham, with siblings Ann Bell, Joseph, Michael, and Phillip Holt.

1.1.3. Thomas Barham, d. 1784, m. Sarah Newsom.

1.1.4. Benjamin Barham, his Will was probated in Southampton Co., on June 10 1779, probably m. Mary, dau. of John Judkins, of Surry Co.

1.1.5. Charles Barham, b. 1706. In 1738, he was deeded land by Thomas Holt Jr. (B. 5, P. 239). His Will was probated on June 9, 1791.

1.1.5.1. James Barham, b. 1730, d. June 1, 1791, m. Mary, dau. of Joseph Thorpe, son of Timothy Thorpe Jr., son of Timothy Thorpe Sr.

1.1.5.1.1. Martha Barham, m. Joel Harris.

JUDKINS

1. Samuel Judkins.

1.1. Robert Judkins, d. Jan. 2, 1693

1.1.1. Robert Judkins, m. Faith Maggett, who who m. (2) Jesse Barham, d. 1780, having issue: Burwell Barham, who m. Sylvia Pyland.

1.1.2. William Judkins, m. Margaret, dau. of Edward Taylor, whose estate, on May 4, 1708, was presented by Margaret Taylor. William Gray, Timothy Thorpe Sr., and William Harris.

1.1.2.1. Hannah Judkins m. Thomas Harris, d. 1729; she m. (2) John Brantley.

1.1.2.2. Elizabeth Judkins, m. John Berryman Jr.

1.2. Samuel Judkins, probably m. Elizabeth Petway.

1.2.1. Samuel Judkins, m. Ann, dau. of Benjamin Champion and Priscilla Moore, probable sister-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr.

1.3. John Judkins, m. Martha, dau. of John Holt.

1.3.1. Sarah Judkins, m. Charles Barham

1.3.1.1. James Barham, m. Mary, dau. of Joseph Thorpe.

1.3.1.1.1. Martha Barham, m. Joel Harris.

1.3.1.1.1.1. William Harris, b. April 28, 1784; d. May 28, 1820, in Lincoln, Howell, Tennessee

1.3.1.1.1.1.1. John Harris, 1812-1843.

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Emperor Charlmagne, m. (3) Hildegarde of Vinzgau.
Emperor Louis I., m. Judith of Bavaria.
Charles II King of France, m. Richilde of Provence.
Judith Carolingienne, m. Baldwin I., Count of Flanders.
Baldwin II, Count of Flanders, m. Aelfthryth of Wessex.
Arnulf the elder, 897-964, Count of Flanders, m. Adele de Vermandois..

1. Boudewijn (“von Flanderen”), count of Flanders, m. Ælfthryth, dau. of Alfred “the Great”, king of the Anglo-Saxons, and Ealhswith.
1.1. Arnulf I. (“the Great”), count of Flanders (897-965), b. in Ghent, East Flanders; m. Adele of Vermandois, dau. of Héribert II, count of Vermandois, and Adèle, dau. of Robert I, King of France, and Aélis. His southern expansion led to conflict with the Normans, who were trying to secure their northern frontier, resulting in the 942 murder of William Longsword at the hands of Arnulf’s confederates.
1.1.1. Baldwin III., Count of Flanders, m. Matilda, dau. of Hermann I, duke of Saxony, and Hildegard von Westerburg.
1.1.1.1. Arnulf (961-March 30, 987), Count of Flanders, m. Rozala, dau. of Berengar II., king of Italy.
1.1.1.1.1. Baldwin (Jan. 8, 980–May 30, 1035), Count of Flanders, m. (2) Elenore, dau. of Richard II, of Normandy, half-br. Geoffrey, father of Gilbert de Brionne.

1.1.2. Hildegarde, m. Dietrich I., Count of West Frisia. (Theoderich/Dietrich, a name popular among the elite).
1.1.2.1. Hildegarde, m. Theoderick von Ghent. According to Europäische Stammtafeln, Hildegard was the dau. of Count Arnulf and his wife Adela de Vermandois and born in 934 (ES II., 5). Adela’s sister, Luitgarde de Vermandois, m. William Longsword.

(Chronology suggests that if Hildegard was the dau. of Count Arnulf, she was issue of an earlier marriage. The fact of her naming two sons Arnulf and Egbert suggests an affiliation to Count Arnulf. She may have been his niece, for instance. The Annales Egmundani name “Hildegardis comitissa” as wife of “Theodericus comes secundus ” but do not give her origin).

(1. William Longsword and his mistress, Sprota (Scand. Sprottr), described as ‘nobilissima‘ (Frodoard, 933, MGH SS III, p. 381). She was not a Breton. Eric Christiansen’s (History of the Normans, note 234, p. 199, 1998), explains that in 934 William Longsword was given Breton lands by King Ralph as a bulwark against the Vikings to the west of them. These Vikings were led by Ragnall, and Sprotta was likely allianced with William as a peace-weaving exercise, giving William an uncontested (by Ragnall) claim to the Cotentin and Avranchin. The Loire Vikings held sway in Brittany between 919 and 936. 1.1. Richard, “the Fearless”. 1.1.1. Geoffrey, Count d’Eu. 1.1.1.1. Gilbert de Brionne).

(1. Sprota, m. (2) Esperlenc. 1.1. Rodolph d’Ivri, born ca. 943. 1.1.1. Emma d’Ivri, Abbess of St Amand. 1.1.2. … d’Ivri, m. Richard de Beaufou. 1.1.2.1. … de Beaufou, b. ca. 1085, m. Erchembald, vicecomes of Rouen).

1.1.3. Luitgarde, m. Wichman von Hamaland, “burggraaf von Ghent”.
1.1.3.1. Theodric von Ghent, count in West Frisia (Ouest-Frise). Frisé, frisée. adjective: curly-haired; latin crispus, frisé, from which crispinus is a diminutive. He m. Hildegarde, dau. of Dietrich 1, Count of West Frisia, and Hildegarde, of some relation to Arnulf I. (“the Great”), count of Flanders.
1.1.3.1.1. Arnoul von Ghent, m. Liefgarde.
1.1.3.1.1.1. Adalbert von Ghent, m. Ermengarde.
1.1.3.1.1.1.1. Rolph von Ghent, m. Giselle, dau.of Gislebert of Luxemburg, who made a gift to St. Peter’s, ca. 1058, naming her three sons: “Balduuini filii ipsius Gislæ, item filiorum eius Rodulfi, Gisleberti”.
1..1.3.1.1.1.1.1. Gislebert von Ghent (Gilbert de Gand). The first record of him is that he was left conjointly in command of York with William Malet (as sheriff) and Robert FitzRichard in 1068.

1.1.3.1.2. Heloise, second-cousin of Baldwin (Jan. 8, 980 – May 30, 1035), Count of Flanders, who m. (2) Elenore, dau. of Richard II, of Normandy, half-br. Geoffrey, father of Gilbert de Brionne. She was also the second-cousin of Elstrude, Baldwin’s sister, who m. Siegfried, Count of Guines

She m. Ansgot. ‘Au commencement du onzième siècle, Bonneville appartenait à un chevalier de race normande, nommé Ansgot, vassal de Gislebert, comte de Brionne, et allié, par sa femme Hellois, aux puissants comtes de Flandres’* (Alfred Canel, Essai historique, archéologique et statistique sur l’arrondissement de Pont-Audemer, p. 314, 1834). *Will. Gem. vi. 9. ‘Mater proximam Ducum Morinorum, quosmoderni Flandros cognominant, consanguinitatem attigit’.

Ansgot et Héloïse eurent trois autres enfants, savoir: Eudes, Roger et une fille mariée à Balderic de Servaville; ils paraissent leur avoir laissé en héritage, outre le fief de Bonneville, le Petit-Quevilly, le Pré, près de Rouen, Surcy-en-Vexin, Cernay, et un manoir à Malleville (Charpillon, Dict. Hist. vol. i., 1868). … Gilbert, comte de Brionne, donna aux religieux la pêche de Pont-Autou, les prés d’Antouel, la forêt et la terre de Malleville et le moulin de Norman. La grande charte de Guillaume le Conquérant mentionne en ces termes les donations de Gilbert de Brionne: Gislebertus comes, servitia alodiorum fratrum Herluini abbatis, aquani Rislae a vadis usque sub Ponte-Autou, quod habebat in Malavilla, molendinum Normanni. (Bibl. nat. lat. 13905. fo 115).

One of the most erroneus and repeated myths of Norman genealogy makes Gilbert Crispin I. synonomous with Gilbert, Count of Brionne. Prévost, in his commentaries on Rom. de Rou, t. ii., in MSAN, 1828-1829, gives the source of this misconception, which should not be necessary if the slightest attention is given to the unlikely event of a governor of the castle of Tillières being also the Count of Brionne.

1.1.3.1.2.1. Herlwin. Annales ordinis s. Benedicti occidentalium monachorum patriarchae, in quibus … By Jean Mabillon … Notum fit omnibus christianæ religionis cultoribus , quòd ego abbas Herluinus, filius Ansgoti; astantibus & laudantibus fratribus meis, Odone Rogerio, jubente Gilleberto comite, & Alberto & Ranulfo, consentiente Roberto comite & Roberto arcbiepiscopo, donavi Sanctæ Mariæ tertiam partem terræ de Burnevilla, & hoc quod pertinet ad illam ; & Tavilleio & Surceio , & quod pertinet ad est , & terram de Sernaio, & hoc quod pertinet ad eam, quæ Ansgotus pater meus in vita sua habuit: dorem quoque matris meæ , jubente patre meo ex integro mibi datam. Coram testibus Fulberto, Vitale, Rainaldo, et aliis multis.
1.1.3.1.3. Erchembald von Ghent, vicecomes (in this instance, sheriff) of Rouen, m. a dau. of Richard de Beaufou and a sister of Emma d’Ivri, Abbess of St. Amand (wife of Osbern the dapifer); granddau. of Sprotta and Esperlenc, thus consanguineous of the Norman ‘dukes’.

BEAUFOU
1. Richard de Beaufou, m. a sister of Emma d’Ivri (wife of Osbern the dapifer, by whom she had issue; William FitzOsbern.

Thus, he must have been of a family of the highest rank. Beaufou/Beaufai is situated in the parish of Ballon (arr. Beaumont-le-Vicomte, ca. 10 mls fr. le Mans); a fief in the posession of Herbert, Count of Maine in 1031, which later passed to the family of Cadurces (Chaworth). This might suggest the ancestry of Richard de Bello-Fago, who, if he was a younger son of Hugh II, Count of Maine, and br. of Herbert, Count of Maine (in 991), then, the social qualification is met, and, as importantly, also a political/familial one: Herbert’s wife was probably the sister of Judith de Rennes, the wife of Richard II, Duke of Normandy, son of Richard I.

Rolf d’Ivri’s son, Hugh, Archbishop of Bayeux, between 1042 and 1049), gave Celloville, that is Serlos villa (Seine-Maritime, cant. de Boos), and Sahurs (Seine-Maritime, cant. Grand-Couronne), to St Amand. (See Pierre Bauduin, ‘La première Normandie’, p. 206, 2004). His dau., Aubree, m. Albert de Cravant, having issue:

(1) Raoul, who died in the lifetime of his father, who had him buried at Ouche, gifting his tithe at Lommoi, with the permission of his lord, Raoul Mauvoison, father-in-law of William Crispin II. This gift was confirmed by Albert’s heirs, one of which was Raoul de Connelles/Cunelle.

(2) … de Cravant, m. Rodolf “de Connelles”,* alias Raoul d’Astin. The fortress of Dastin (d’Astin) was situated in the parish of Duranville (Durandivilla), Lisieux, the caput of the Crispin family; its castelans being the family of Astin, as vassals of the Crispins. Raoul d’Astin witnessed (ca.1050), the charter by which William Crespin I gifted land in Blangy to the abbey of Bec, a gift later ratified by his son, Gilbert Dastin, alias Gilbert de Cunelle. The family of Dastin were “seigneures de Vezins” (a mot vicinium), of canton d’Isigny, in Maine.

1.1. … m. “Vicecomes Erchembald“, b, ca. 1075-1080, who, on entering La Trinité du Mont, gave to the house his meadow in Sahurs, and all that he held by “hereditary right” in Celloville (RADN, no. 82, 1030-1035), that is, his wife’s gift from her uncle.

1.1.1. Erchembald de Faverolles, canton Thiberville, b. ca. 1015-1020. This fief had a common boundary with Bournainville. Erchembald de Faverolles was a vassal of the Crispin family (Prevost, M and N, ii, 78). Bournainville/Faverolles was held by “Guillaume Crespin le jeune”, his son, William, his son, William., his son, Goscelin (1155) . “Milon Crespin”, son of “Guillaume Crespin le jeune”, donated land in Bournainville to the Abbey of Bec. (Charpillon, D.H. i, 526). William d’ Echauffour held Giverville, canton Thiberville, his sister becoming inheritor, situate 5 niles fr. Fresne-Cauverville. (Reginald Allen Brown, Anglo-Norman Studies. p.99, 1985). William’s father, Giroe, was a vassal of Gilbert Crispin I. (Faroux/Musset, p. 558). Fresne-Cauverville (Cauverville-en-Lieuvin) was probably synonomous with Colleville. “Colleville, comm. du Fresne-Cauverville, cant . de Cormeilles, Eure”. (Nomina Germanica, Arkiv för Germansk Namnforskning, 11, 408, 1954).

1.1.2. Croco, b. ca. 1010. A sobriquet; cric/croc, hair like a lion’s mane, en flamande.

1.1.2.1. Rainald filius Croco, follower of William FitzOsbern, and sub-tenant in 6 manors held by Milo Crispin of the Hon. of Wallingford, Domes. The King holds Wilmingham in demesne, and it was held in parcenary by Ulviet. It was then as now assessed at 1 hide. Here is 1 ploughland, and 3 villeins with 2 ploughlands and half an acre of meadow. Its value was and is 20s. Rainald the son of Croc holds 1 yardland of this manor, and says that Earl Roger gave it to his father. It was worth 5s. but it is now waste. Held Wainhill in Oxfordshire under the FitzOsborns – ancestor of the Foliots.

1.1.2.1.1. Gilbert filius Rainaldus, vassal of the Crispins, b. ca. 1045, donated 80 ac., with Emma de Conde, sister of William and Gilbert Crispin II., in La Tillaye,* to Bec Abbey. *Canton Christophe-sur-Conde, Eure, which is ca. 10 mls N.E. of Thiberville.

1.1.3. Gilbert Crispin ((alias Collavilla), b. ca. 1005), m. Gunnora d’Anet (born 1009). He was a vassal of Gilbert de Brionne. Milo Crispin, his kinsman, cantor of Bec Abbey, wrote of him: ‘Because of the shape of his hair was to be known as Crispin. For in his early youth he had hair that was brush-like and stiff and sticking out, and in a manner of speaking bristling like the needles of a pine tree. This gave him the name of Crispin, from ‘crispus pinus, ‘pine hair’. Gilbert Crispin I. was also noted by Milo Crispin as being ‘of renowned origin and nobility’ (Milo Crispin, How The Holy Virgin Appeared To William Crispin The Elder And On The Origin Of The Crispin Family, ed. Migne, cols. 735-744, 1856). Duke Robert I. established Gilbert Crispin at Tillières to defend this important border castle for him. The Normans had a fondness for word-play that exploited multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, or of different words of the same meaning, thus crispus, frisé; Gilbert of renowned Frisian origin and nobility. He was Gilbert son of Erchembald, named in a charter as Gulbertus – It is a creation of old orthographical speculation that Gulbertus stems from Gosbertus; it, rather, is a derivative of Guilbert, of which is the form Guilbertus, as trancribed in med. latin as Gisiebertus, more commonly, Gilbert.

BEAUFOU cont.
1.2. …, m. Hugh de Montfort-sur-Risle, who by a second wife, was the father of Adeline de Montfort-sur-Risle, who m. William of Breteuil, eldest son of William FitzOsbern.
1.2.1. Alice de Montfort-sur-Risle (by … de Beaufou), m. Gilbert de Gand, overlord of Robert de Armentieres (Crispin).
1.3. Robert de Beaufou (the missing generation).
1.3.1. Robert de Beaufou, ‘sire de Belfou’, named by Wace as a companion of William Crispin at Hastings.

(1. Rolph d’Ivri. 1.1. Emma d’Ivri, m. Osborn the dapifer. Cart. St. Amand: “We donate from the area of Rothornagensi our mill in Rauleni villa, and our fields in Chevilly. In addition we give our cultivated land, which is near the valley Erchembald and the mountain called Cochetel”. Erchembald’s son Gislebert Crispin attempted to defend Osborn during the successful attempt to kill him in 1040. Gislebert made a gift to St. Amand to honour Osmund’s memory).

1.1.1. William FitzOsbern.
1.1.2. … de Crepon, m. Osmund de Centville.
1.1.2.1. Foulques d’Anet, from the vil of Anet, south of Ivry. He was not Foulques d’Aunou. There was a close and ongoing association between the Crispins and the d’Anets. The latin ‘ Aneio’, was wrongly translated as d’Aunou. The Norman Exchequer accounts give Simon d’Aneio as being synonomous with Simon d’Aneto, descendant of Foulques d’Anet.
1.1.2.1.1. Gunnora d’Anet, m. Gilbert Crispin I. “Nous ignorons à quel titre Gislebert Crespin etait appele à ratifier cette donation; mais nous supposons que ce pouvait être à raison de quelque alliance avec la famille d’Ivri, dont le souvenir est perdu” (‘Ordericus Vitalis’, ed. le Prevost et. al., p. 398, 1840). Gilbert Crispin’s mother was a descendant of Raoul d’ Ivri.
1.1.2.1.1.1. Gilbert Crispin, held the fortress of Damville as a vassal of Gilbert de Brionne’s son, Richard FitzGilbert (de Clare).
1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Gilbert Crispin, m. Hersende de Brezolles, and became enfeoffed in Armentières-sur-Avre.

1.1.2.1.1.1. Robert Crispin (de Armentières-sur-Avre), held under his kinsman, Gislebert von Ghent, in 1086.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. William de Whatton, m. … de Newmarch. A son, taking the name of Newmarch, which family held the fief of Womersley, was the ancester of the family of Wormley, this being a derivative of Womersley.
1.1.1.2. William Crispin. The ancestor of the families of Stanhope and Hamilton, on which subject Nick Wormley is invited to comment.
1.1.1.2.1. Milo Crispin, overlord of Rainald filius Croco, his second cousin.
1.1.1.3. Robert Crispin.
1.1.1.4. Hesilia (Helewise/Heloise) Crispin, m. William Malet; he receiving Conteville by dower.

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NICK WORMLEY’S COMMENTS

Many thanks to Michael for asking me to contribute some notes on the Y-DNA evidence linking these families. I am pleased to do so, but firstly I would just like to say I was very interested in his research finding that the Stanhope ancestor and probable Hamilton ancestor William de Coleville, is likely to have taken his toponym ‘surname’ from an 11th century spelling of the village nowadays called Fresne-Cauverville, between Lisieux and Brionne in Normandy. This feels a better fit with the contention that early English de Colevilles were descendants of the Norman Crispin family than previous ideas that they might have been tenants at a different village called Colevile elsewhere in the Duchy.

Cauverville (medieval spelling Calvilla) was right in the heart of the Crispins’ own territory and very likely their property. I feel that this helps to strengthen Michael’s proposal of a shared Crispin-Coleville ancestry for both the Hamiltons and Stanhopes – and, if he is right about Erchembald being their slightly earlier ancestor, maybe even a mutual descent from King Alfred the Great and several other crowned heads of 10th Century Europe.

Anybody interested can read more about the suggestion of Coleville being Cauverville at: Anglo-Norman Studies VII – Google Books. See pages 97 t0 102. Note Coleville on the map.

DNA testing does appear to support Michael’s hypothetical historical case that the noble British Hamilton and Stanhope families, and the Wormley family that can be traced to medieval Yorkshire, all shared a male ancestor roughly around a thousand years ago. Comparing Y-DNA test results of modern descendants of these families shows that their scientific DNA numbers are exceptionally similar in ways that are very unlikely to be coincidental.

It isn’t possible to discern exact historical dates from this analysis in the same way as radio-carbon dating, because similarities and differences between DNA test results are the consequence of small, random natural mutations that have happened within family lineages over long spans of time. It is a tiny form of evolution. However, although they happen randomly, such mutations always occur within definable time band limits, so it seems a reasonable time span estimate to think these families probably branched apart from their original ancestral family in or around Norman times – approximately during the 900s to 1100s. This, in itself, does not prove that Michael’s theoretical pedigree construction is accurate, but it is perfectly compatible with it, and currently there are no known alternative versions of historical events in competition that might differently explain these families’ very close Y-DNA matches with each other.

There are two methods of Y-DNA testing, both of which suggest modern families’ generalised ancestries, and roughly at what stage and in which order their ancestors were once brothers or close cousins. The simple, basic method is to compare minor mutational differences between testees’ STR numbers – the fewer the number of mutation steps between them the more recently they are likely to have shared a common ancestor, and vice versa.

The so-called Group B Hamiltons, who are known to have had direct medieval ancestors living at Cadzow in central Scotland, almost all share a unique combination of STR marker numbers – 22 at marker DYS390 , 7-9 at DYS459, 18-21 at YCAII, and 12 at DYS640.

Wormley and another family surnamed Deatherage are the only other DNA testees presently known who also have this unique combination of marker numbers, but are not descended from the Group B Hamilton ancestor in Scotland around the 13th or 14th century. These two families branched off from a mutual shared ancestor maybe about three or four centuries before the early Hamiltons started their descendant lineages at Cadzow, in Lanarkshire. This is proved by the second form of Y-DNA testing, which is more detailed and records a testees’ SNP codes. It reveals that all of the Group B Hamiltons share three extra unique SNPs that Wormley and Deatherage lack, but otherwise their many thousands of SNP numbers are identical. That indicates these three SNPs developed after the pre-Hamilton and Wormley lines separated, but before today’s Hamilton families were derived from their Scottish initiator. Once again, there is no possibility that this could be a coincidence and it is fully compatible with Michael’s hypothesis.

A Y-DNA testee who is known to be directly descended from the earliest members of the noble Stanhope family has almost identical STR marker numbers to these Hamilton and Wormley families, but not quite, which is a little puzzling. This gentleman has the 22 and 7-9,which are exceptionally rare occurring together. The mathematical chances of anybody in the world having both of these numbers at those particular markers must be extremely minute. This strongly suggests that all of these families are closely related to each other in historical terms. However, the Stanhope testee had the numbers 19-21 at DYS459 instead of the others’ 18-21.

The large majority of people in the I haplogroups have 19-21. Presumably a random mutation must have occurred from 19 to 18 among very early ancestors of the Hamiltons, Wormleys and Deatherages, but we cannot know exactly when. If Michael’s deduction is correct that Stanhope and Hamilton both descended from a shared ancestor named de Colevile in Norman England, but Wormley branched off maybe a generation or two earlier than that from their predecessor family named Crispin, then all of these families can be expected to have had 18-21 at that time and fairly certainly still today.

There seems to be an anomaly here between these results, but the question is: which of the STR marker numbers is the anomalous one?

Taking into consideration the extraordinary unique closeness of them all sharing the first two defining numbers, combined with the strength of Michael’s historical and association evidence, my guess is that a reversion mutation has probably happened at some time during the past 1,000 years within the Stanhope lineage and that family has returned to the much-more-common marker numbers 19-21. Such a mutation is only likely to happen very rarely, but it is possible, as is shown by the fact that two similar mutations have occurred among the 118 Hamilton Group B men whose results are recorded by the testing company Family Tree DNA. Instead of 18-21, one Hamilton has 18-19 and another has 18-20, so a Stanhope reversion to 19-21 is not out of the question.
Unluckily, we do not have an SNP test result for the Stanhopes, which would provide more clear-cut scientific detail and solve this uncertainty. Hopefully, one day we might have, as this could provide a definitive answer.

Nevertheless, within the scientific limitations of the DNA comparisons currently available to us, I would say that DNA strongly appears to support the suggestion that we are all directly descended from the Crispin family of the early 11th century. If the test similarities that we can see were simply coincidence, I would be truly astonished!

Based on the presumption that those living today can authentically trace their ancestry to Thomas Harris, d. 1688, and Edward Harris d. 1677:

* Their most recent common ancestor, Richard Harris, was born ca. 1563.
* They were first-cousins.
* Thomas Harris, d. 1688, was the son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
* Edward Harris II., d. 1677, was the son of Edward Harris I., d. ca. 1662, who settled on land patented by his cousin, Richard Bennett in 1642.
* The estate accounts of Edward Harris Jr. inc. “100. Payd Coll. Bacon for rent” (land bought from Thomas Harris, d. 1672, Edward’s uncle).
* Edward Harris ii. was a son-in-law of George Hardy, whose wife, Mary Jackson, was a great-granddau. of Edward Bennett, uncle of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, and Edward Harris I.
George Hardy’s land bounded that of Nicholas Hill (who m. a dau. of Edward Bennett), who, with Edward Brantley Sr., witnessed the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Edward Brantley Sr., had issue, Phillip, who m. Joyce Lewis, dau. of Thomas Lewis and Rebecca (George) Pardoe, half-sister of Phillip Pardoe, security for the estate of Edward Harris, d. 1677. Phillip Brantley had issue: Edward Brantley, whose son, John, m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.
*Edward Harris II. was the father of Edward Harris III., b. 1664.
*Edward Harris II. was the likely father of Thomas Harris, mentioned as the Will of John Gibbins, as ‘Thomas son of Edward’, to distinguish him, per English custom, from another closely related Thomas. The Henry Harris mentioned in the same Will is not designated as a br. of Thomas Harris; such a relationship is assumption.
*Thomas Harris, d. 1688, was the father of Thomas Harris, d. 1712,* who m. Judith Edwards, dau. of Robert Edwards

* 1. … Edwards.
1.1. Robert Edwards, m. Mary, sister of Michael Hunt. Ancient lease: Corporation of Bristol to Michael Hunt. March 30, 1678. (Bristol Arch., 13461/1).
1.1.1. Judith Edwards, m. (1) Thomas Harris, (2) … Clarke.
1.2. Thomas Edwards, m. (1) Elizabeth, dau. of William Newitt, and half-sister of Frances, wife of Edward Drewe Sr., grandf. of Mary Drew, who m. a Henry Harris. (2) the widow of James Pyland Sr. (Alexandria), b. 1604.
1.2.1. “Mr. Thomas Edwards”, m. a dau. (Mary, Sarah, or Anne) of Michael Hunt, soapmaker, of Bristol, in whose Will, probated June 12, 1684, he is designated as “cousin” and overseer. Michael Hunt was a parishioner of St. Thomas, Bristol, to the poor of which he bequested £20. He bequested property to his “loving wife, Judith”; sons, Michael, Thomas, John, and Joseph, and Samuel, and to his said daus.; also to his brother, Joseph. Thomas Day, his “loving br.-in-law” was appointed executor of his Will, Sarah Jordan being a witness. His Will mentions unspecified “plantations”, which can be taken as those he held jointly with his brother, Joseph, in Jamaica. (Abstract of the title of Joseph Hunt of Port Royal, Jamaica, merchant, to lands in Jamaica, Nov. 21, 1662. (Brist. Arch., AC/WO/16/1). These lands were part of the “Spring Plantation”, owned by John Elbridge,* br.-in-law of Thomas Moore, the probable br.-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr. Michael Hunt’s estate went to litigation: Hunt v Hunt. Plaintiffs: Thomas Hunt, Samuel Hunt, Joseph Hunt, Sarah Hunt and Anne Hunt. Defendants: Judith Hunt, widow, Thomas Day, Francis Phillips, Thomas Edwards, James Millard, Michael Hunt, George Freeman and Mary Freeman his wife. 1691. C 8/417/55. Thomas Edwards was involved in litigation by Richard Crump*: Edwards v Crump. Plaintiffs: Thomas Edwards. Defendants: Richard Crump and others. Place or subject: property in Bristol. 1669. (C 7/113/53). *Memo. concerning land held by Joseph Hunt in the parishes of St. Andrew, St. Elizabeth and St. Thomas, Jamaica, and descent of the title to George Freeman and John Elbridge. N.D. (Brist. Arch., AC/WO/16/2).
1.2.2. Mr. William Edwards* (“William Edwards, Bristol merchant, destination Virginia”), who was granted 290 ac. in Lower Par. of Surry Co., on heads of Blackwater branches adj. Thomas Lane, a branch dividing this from land of Mr. Robert Ruffin* … adj. Mr. Richard Bennett (April 23, 1688, p. 214), 2nd cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Mr. William Edwards, granted 410 ac., in Lower Par. of Surry Co., on E. of Greene’s Swamp, on Oct. 20, 1691, p. 204. … Granted John Clarke, April 24, 1684, by him deserted. Imp. of Richard Holman … *Thomas Harris (d. 1712). Mr. William Edwards, granted 750 ac. in Surry Co., adj. George Jordan … granted to Ralph Creed, March 14, 1666. The designation of ‘Mr.’ means that those bearing it were of families of good social standing in English society. Copy of a recovery: (1) John Lilly and Thomas Coules, petitioners: (2) Thomas Edwards and John Clarke (Bristol Arch., ref. 046, 1684). Deed to make a tenant to the precipe and lead the uses of a recovery to be suffered, Joseph Jackson to Thomas Edwards. May 16, 1684. (Bristol Arch., 09457/4c, May 16, 1684).

*John Davis, with Timothy Fenn, and William Lewer (witnessed the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), witnessed a conveyance of land held by Thomas Greenwood, deceased, whose widow m. James Pyland. The delivery of this conveyance was witnessed by Joseph Bridger (business partner of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), Nicholas Hill (m. a cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), and John George (uncle of the first wife of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), April 9, 1675, p. 552.

*John Davis, grandson of his namesake, aforesaid, b. ca. 1695, Will dated July 2, 1750, m. Ann Drewe, dau. of William Drewe Sr., who, with Thomas Harris (d. 1712), witnessed an indenture between Robert and William Ruffin to William Edwards,* on March 1, 1708.
*Robert Ruffin was the father of Elizabeth Ruffin, who m. Mathew Kinchen, whose Will was probated Aug. 23, 1736, appraised by Francis Williamson,* Thomas Joyner, and John Dunkley. (B.4., p. 126). Mathew Kinchen was the br. of William Kinchen Jr., heir in the Will of John Gibbins: Prob. rec. Sept. 25, 1721, IOW. William Kinchen Jr. m. Mary Gibbins, dau. of John Gibbins, and relict of James Adkins. William and Mathew Kinchin’s sister, Elizabeth, m. Joseph Jones, whose estate inventory was presented by William Kinchen on Sept 28, 1730. (B.3, p. 232), and whose Will mentioned “friends”, (n.b.) Francis Williamson and John Dunkley.
*Judith Edwards, probably m. Thomas Harris, d. 1712, as his 2nd wife. She m. (2) … Clarke, perhaps the son of *John Clarke, aforesaid.

I do not agree that Thomas Harris, d. 1688, of this account was a son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
I believe that the Thomas Harris who d. in 1729/30 was an ancestor of Segeant John Harris.
These notes are for those of different opinion, which will be included in my genealogical notes in book form, as “alternative narratives”.

It is impossible to understand English ancestries in Virginia without understanding their kinship context. What is the nature of what you study? The listing of multiple relationships between English colonists in Virginia is merely a consequence of what they did to survive (kinship intermarriage and consequent business alliance), to advance as the fittest to survive; the most adapted to their most challenging of environments, as in England of old, as in Virginia of new.

KINSHIP CONTEXT

TOOKE

1. …
1.1. William “Tucke”, m. Christian Holman, July 18, 1571, in Barwick, Somerset, the manor held by the Symes family, landlords of the Fulghams.
1.1.1. Thomas “Tucke”, m. Mary Collins, Jan. 24, 1604, in Barwick.

ii.
JAMES TOOKE.

1.1.1.1. James Tooke. Dec. 1634: William Lacey leased James Tooke 500 ac. on the east side of Lawne’s Creek, on Oct. 1646, James Tooke to Robert Harris,* all my right and title to this lease.
1.1.1.1.1. William Tooke, b. 1626, by deposition given on Nov. 29, 1672. He sold 900 ac. in IOW Co. on Jan. 3, 1661, land patented by James Tooke on Nov. 11, 1640.
His Will (rec. Feb 8, 1675), names wife Jane, step-dau. of William Ridley. “Mr. Charles Barham” Exor, Thomas Harris (d. 1672), and Thomas Tooke overseers, witnessed the Will of William Ridley, who was the br. of Elizabeth Ridley, Charles Barham’s wife. Charles Barham’s sister m. Richard Bennett, d. 1709 (second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672).

William Ridley was the br. of Nathaniel Ridley, husband of Elizabeth Day, granddau. of Mary Bennett, cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Nathaniel Ridley’s son, Nathaniel Ridley Jr., witnessed the Will of Edward Harris Jr., grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. Nathaniel Ridley Jr. was the br. of James Ridley (d. 1781), who m. Jane Smith, dau. of Arthur Smith and Mary, dau. of John Bromfield and Olive, dau. of John Hardy, relict of Giles Driver, headright of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Arthur Smith was a nephew of James Benn, exor. of his father’s Will (rec. June 10, 1697), witnessed by Henry Applewhaite. James Benn was the son of Christopher Benn: “Leg.- son James the plantation which I bought of Thomas Harris on Pagon Creek” (rec. Sept. 26, 1659), this being Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

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1.1.1.1.1.1. John Tooke. of Surry Co. (Will proved Feb. 15, 1720), appointed John Parson and William Ezell executors, and John Parson and James Pyland Jr. as trustees. A codicil named William Ezell as guardian of his son, John. James Piland Sr., bapt. on August 30, 1604, in St Mary’s Le Porte, Bristol, headright of Francis England, in 1642, m. the widow of Thomas Greenwood, who m. (2) Thomas Edwards, who claimed Greenwood’s land, and sold 150 ac. of it to John Jennings Sr.,* overseer of the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. On April 28, 1720, James Piland Jr. witnessed the Will of Robert Lancaster, whose son, Samuel, m. Elizabeth Harris, dau. of John Harris, of him anon, nephew of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

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John Jennings Sr., of Bristol, was the husband of Martha, dau. of *Robert Harris. His Will, rec. March 10, 1679, mentions daus. Martha and Mary, son John.* Overseers, George and Thomas Moore. Witness George Lewer (witness of Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672). George Moore was the grandfather of Avis White, wife of a grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1688; his cousin, Thomas Moore, was highly likely the br.-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr. * John Jennings, son of his namesake, aforesaid, m. Mary Hill, dau. of Sylvester Bennett, cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Their dau. Martha Jennings, d. 1702, m. Thomas Thorpe, br. of Timothy Thorpe, whose granddau. m. James Barham, desc. of “Mr. Charles Barham”, aforementioned.

v.
MICHAEL EZELL.
1.1.1.1.1.2. Elizabeth Tooke, m. Michael Ezell.
1.1.1.1.1.2.1. William Ezell.
1.1.1.1.1.2.2. Elizabeth Ezell (Apr. 25, 1688-Feb. 13, 1750), m. John Atkinson Jr.* (July 28, 1681-Nov. 26, 1736), son of John Atkinson and Ann Holman. June 1669, Robert Flake gives his stepdau., Sussannah Atkinson, dau of Katherine Moore,* 300 ac. on Blackwater, p. 558. Sussannah m. Thomas Atkinson, br. of John Atkinson. By Katherine Moore, Robert Flake had issue: (1) Katherine Flake,* who m. (1) William Evans, who witnessed the Will of Edward Brantley Sr. Katherine Pierce, exrs of Wm. Evans, aged 25, said that her former husband Wm. Evans said that 400 ac. belonged to James Benn.* Thomas Moore said that he wrote Wm. Evan’s will and that he gave his remaining land at Kinsale to his son Thomas Evans. *Br. of Joseph Atkinson*, whose dau., Mary, m. Jacob Person, in 1761. (B. 12, p. 201).
1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1. Absalom Atkinson, b. Dec. 21, 1713.
1.1.1.1.1.2.2.2. John Atkinson, b. Oct. 1, 1716.
1.1.1.1.1.2.2.3. Aaron Atkinson, b. May 11, 1719. West Harris and Joseph Green of Granville Co., N.C, for £40, paid by John Atkinson and Aaron Atkinson of Brunswick Co., on S. side of Fountains Creek, 300 ac., and is part of 900 ac. granted to John Bradford on Oct. 13, 1727, and afterwards granted to Joseph Turner of Brunswick Co., St. Andrew Parish, by Deeds of Lease & release, dated April 2, 1735, and afterwards given by Will to the daus. of the said Joseph Turner (Mary and Ann), which are now the wives of the said West Harris and Joseph Green, dated May 5. 1748. Signed West Harris, Joseph Green, Mary Harris, Anne Green. Witnesses: Absalom Atkinson, William Ezell Jr., p. 414.
1.1.1.1.1.2.2.4. Amos Atkinson, b. July 31, 1724 (dates as per Atkinson-Nettle Family Bible Records, 1681-1793, State Archives, North Carolina Digital Collections). He m. Jane, dau. of Charles Judkins and Sarah Jones.
1.1.1.1.1.2.2.4.1. Margaret Atkinson, m. Jesse Drake, Dec. 2, 1770 in Edgecombe, N.C. He appraised the estate of Joseph Thorpe, rec. Aug. 12, 1762, p.508.
1.1.2. John Tooke, m. Mary Pardoe, in Pitminster, in 1645, home of the Fulgham family, possibly related to Judith Pardoe, who m. William Hering, Sept. 28, 1646, in Pitminster.

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THOMAS TOOKE
1.1.1.3. Thomas Tooke, bapt. Feb. 10, 1622. He witnessed the Will of William Ridley,* with Thomas Harris, d. 1672 (probable br. of *Robert Harris), husband of Judith Blake, aunt of Thomas Blake Sr.

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THOMAS BLAKE.
1. Thomas Blake Sr., bapt. 1626.
1.1. Thomas Blake, bapt. Feb. 2, 1649, d. 1709, IOW, m. Alice Champion, dau. of Edward Champion and Elizabeth Atkins, and sister of Phyllis Fort, m. to Elias Forte. (The Will of Thomas Moore, dated Sept. 28, 1696 (B. 2, p. 371), ‘imprimis, I give to Edward Champion Jr. (wife of Thomas Moore’s granddau), my land I bought of Edward Cobb to hold to him and his heirs forever’. Wit. Thomas Giles, Phillip Brantly, John Bell (husband of Ann Bennett). April 10, 1704: Deed of Thomas Blake Jr. of Upper Par., to son William Blake and Mary his wife, 100 ac. in Upper Parish, IOW Co. (Alice Blake signs dower) Wit: Thos. Tooke Jr., John Smith, p. 653.

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1.1.1. William Blake, Will probated 1746, in IOW, m. Mary Sessums, dau. of Nicholas Sessums* (headright of Arthur Allen, transported from Bristol, between 1663-1679 . (“Bristol and America”, p. 117). Nicholas Sessums m. Hannah, dau. of Thomas Culmer (reasonably supposed to be a son of Laurence Culmer, as follows). ‘Know all men present that I Thomas Harris in the county of IOW for many considerable caused me thereunto moving have and do by the srest constitie and ordeyne my be beloved friend Mr. Thomas Culmore of the county of Surry my true and lawfully attorney for me and to my ame and use to ask leavy recover of receive of Robert Spencer of the County of Surry all such somes of tobacco as shall appear due unto me within the county aforesaid also giving and by the prests granting to my attorney full power to perform for me in all causes touching ye premised for revcovery of the same as if my self ever personnal present. Tho Harris. Witness, Wm Lewer, Samll Haswell‘. R. 1660. (B. 1, p. 149).

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1. *Robert Harris, m. Mary Crumpe (cousin of Richard Crump, b. 1628, sheriff of Bristol, merchant), sister of Richard Crumpe. Jennings v Crumpe. Plaintiffs: John Jennings and Martha Jennings his wife. Defendants: John Crumpe, Richard Crumpe, Nathaniel Saunders,* and Mary West. Subject: property in Rodley, and Westbury, Gloucestershire. 1656. (C 6/150Pt2). *He owned land in Arracaico Creek, King and Queen Co.
1.1. Martha Harris, m. John Jennings, of Bristol, merchant. His Will, rec. March 10, 1679, mentions daus. Martha and Mary, son John. Overseers, George and Thomas Moore (probable br.-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr.). Witness George Lewer (witness of Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672). A codicil was witnessed by Nicholas Smith, Thomas Taberer, and Martha Fones. Thomas Taberer …
1.1.1. John Jennings, m. Mary Hill, dau. of Sylvester Bennett, cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

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1.1.2. Martha Jennings, d. 1702, m. Thomas Thorpe (d. 1711, in IOW Co.), bef. 1686. He m. (2) Mary Lewis. He was the son of Joseph Thorpe and Dorothy Fenn, dau. of Timothy Fenn, Sr. Thomas Thorpe was the br. of Timothy Thorpe Sr., who had issue (1) Joseph Thorpe, who had issue: Mary. (1. Charles Barham, his sister m. second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. 1.1. Robert Barham. 1.1.1. Charles Barham, m. Sarah Judkins. 1.1.1.1. James Barham m. Mary, granddau. of Timothy Thorpe. Southampton Co. Court Order Book 1768 – 1772; John Ferguson was appointed guardian to orphans of Joseph Thorpe: John, Ann, Mary Harris, Nathaniel, p. 307. 1.1.1.1.1. Martha Barham, m. Joel Harris, son of John Harris and Avis White (granddau. of George Moore); son of Robert Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.

xi.
The said Timothy Thorpe, with Nathaniel Ridley, witnessed the Will (rec. Sept. 22, 1740) of Edward Harris* (which named sons, Joel, Amos, and Hardy). Tomothy Thorpe’s Will, rec. March 14, 1751, was witnessed by Edward Harris, presumably the son of the former mentioned namesake. (2) Mary Thorpe, wife of *Edward Harris, grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Mary Thorpe, wife of Edward Harris, m. (2) Owen Myrick. William Person, executor of Timothy Thorpe, to James Jones. Aug. 14, 1766, pp. 408-409. … acres adj. Thomas Smith, John Myrick, James Barham, and Three Creeks. John Myrick, eldest son and heir-at law to Owen Myrick to Mary Myrick, relict of sd. Owen dated. May 7, 1765, p. 345. Release of all obligations and commitments, S: John Myrick, W: James Jones, Bromfield Ridley, and Elizabeth Jones. Mary Myrick, relict of Owen Myrick, to son-in-law Benjamin Lewis. May 27, 1765, pp. 366-7. Sell slaves, S: Mary Myrick, W: James Jones, Henry Applewaite, Nathaniel Howell, and Hardy Thorpe. James Atkinson and wife Mary of IOW Co. to Timothy Thorpe of same. June 1, 1748, pp. 420-421. … ac. S. of Three Creeks adj. John Irby etc., S. James Atkinson and Mary Atkinson, Wit. M. Thorpe, Edward Harris, and Joseph Thorpe.

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1.1.2.1. Sarah Thorpe (by first wife), m. (1) William George,* son of John George. *William George was probably the nephew of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.1.2.2. John Thorpe, appraisee of estate of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, with Edward Brantley.
1.2. Mary Harris, m. Mathew Swann.
1.2.1. Elizabeth Swann, m. John Drew.
1.2.1.1. Mary Drew, m. *Nicholas Smith, son of Richard Smith, and his second wife, Mary Tooke. By his first wife, Margaret, Richard Smith, had issue: Elizabeth, who m. Thomas Sessums, son of *Nicholas Sessums. Nicholas Smith witnessed a deed from William Drewe of Surry Co. to William Fort for 640 ac. on Kehukee Swamp.

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BLAKE cont.
1.1.1.1. William Blake, member of Granville Co., NC militia, in 1755. Newitt Drew and wife Mary to Jeremiah Drew. Oct. 10, 1765, p. 396. 300 ac. on W. side of Angelica Swamp adj. Thomas Williamson, William Blake, Abraham Johnson, and Nathaniel Ridley, S. Newitt Drew and Mary Drew. Southampton Co.: John and William Jackson to John Clayton, Jan. 8, 1756, pp. 86-88: 145 ac, on the N. of the main Blackwater Swamp adj. the E. side of Meadow Branch and William Kinchen (land taken up by John Jackson), S: John Jackson and William Jackson, W: Richard Kello, Thomas Williamson, and Richard Baker. Ethelred Taylor* (m. Elizabeth Duke Taylor), left land on Lightwood Swamp to his son Ethelred Taylor II, who m. Patience Kinchen. Thomas Williamson was the son of George Williamson Sr. and Hester Bridger, dau. of Joseph Bridger and Hester Pitt. Joseph Bridger – a business associate of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, in Bristol, see previous notes.

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1.1.1.1.1. William Blake, d. 1798, fought at Valley Forge.
1.1.1.1.2. Sessums Blake. Thomas Baron Jr. of Edgecombe Co. to John Myrick, dated Jan. 31, 1749, 50 ac. on N. of the Maherrin River adj. William Lee and John Peterson. Wit: Daniel Barron, Newitt Drew, and Sessums Blake, pp. 93-96.

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1.1.1.2. Thomas Blake. Thomas Blake to Joshua Claud,* March 8, 1753, 290 ac. adj. on the N. of Cocklin’s Pocoson and sd. Claud. Wit. Thomas Blake, John Person, Thomas Day, and Joshua Harris.* (pp. 463-466). Thomas Day to son-in-law, Thomas Francis, Aug. 14, 1760, 243 ac. adj. Richard Taylor, side of Cockes Swamp, *Joshua Claud, Thomas Blake. Wit. Thomas Day. Thomas Blake, Will R. Feb. 12, 1789. Wit. Burwell Westbrooke, p. 296. Thomas Day was the son of a namesake, son of James Day and Mary Bland, dau. of Thomas and Mary (Bennett) Bland; and nephew of Silvestra Hill. *Joshua Harris can be taken to be the son of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.

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1.1.1.3. Mary Blake, m. William Pope, son of Henry Pope, and br. of Jane Braswell. William Pope, of the Parish of St. Luke … exs. wife, and friend, Simon Harris. Wit. Rebecca Harris. R. Feb. 12, 1789, p. 294. John Harris, leg. sons Drew, Nathan, and John. Exs., son Nathan, and Edward Drew. Wit. Simon Harris. R. Dec. 13, 1764.
Will of William Short, probated Sept. 1741, in Surry Co., mentioning his wife, Susannah, his sons William and Thomas Short, dau. Mary Harris, grandchildren William, Sarah, Martha (children of William Short); granddau. Susanne (child of Thomas Short); son-in-law William Harris; William and Thomas Harris (grandsons). William Harris to son Simon Harris. April 4, 1764, p. 331. Sells slave, S: William Harris, W: Henry Pope, Hardy Pope, and Salathel Lewis. It is suggested that “son-in-law William Harris” was the son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.

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1.1.1.4. Hannah Blake, m. *Joshua Claud.
1.1.1.5. Benjamin Blake, m. Martha Jones.
1.1.1.5.1. Martha Blake, m. Elisha Cain, son of William Cain and Sarah Braswell, dau. of James Braswell.

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1.2. Johann Blake, m. Simon Hill, Sept. 6, 1623, probable br. of (1) Elizabeth Hill, who m. Laurence Colmer (Culmer), Feb. 3, 1620; and aunt of Thomas Culmer. (2) Nicholas Hill, d. 1675 (John Jennings overseer), appraiser of estate of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.3. Judith Blake, m. Thomas Harris, Nov. 20, 1623, grandson of William Harris, who m. Dorothy Westbrooke, Aug. 31, 1562. These Westbrookes migrated to Virginia: John Westbrooke, appraisal by Nathaniel Ridley, Edward Brantley (his son, John, m. the widow of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30), and Thomas Cook; signed by John Person, Oct. 28, 1734. (B. 4, p. 25). John Westbrooke m. Amy Foster, da. of Christopher Foster and Alice Forte.

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WESTBROOKE.
Many Harris families are descendants of a Westbrooke heiress.
1. …
1.1. John Westbrooke, m. Margaret Davie, Sept. 19, 1573. The Davie family intermarriages linked into the kinship network of the Harris, Person, and Forte families of Wiveliscombe.
1.1.1. John Westbrooke, m. Christian Gille, June 9, 1600.
1.1.1.1. John Westbrook, b. 1601.
1.1.1.1.1. John Westbrooke, bapt. Feb. 16, 1623.
1.1.1.1.1.1. John Westbrook – appraisal by Nathaniel Ridley Jr., as given.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. James Westbrooke (Will rec. April 13, 1749), names “friend” Joshua Claud, and brother, Thomas. James Westbrooke and wife Diana to John Thorpe. (Jan. 9, 1764, pp. 258-9). 200 ac. adj. Edward Mathews, Schoolhouse Branch, William Johnson, Georges Branch, John Turner, and sd. James, S: James Westbrook and Diana Westbrooke. 1.1.1.1.1.1.2. Thomas Westbrooke. Henry Westbrook and wife Priscilla to William Taylor. (Jan. 17, 1764, pp. 259-62). 470 ac. on S. side of Three Creeks adj. Henry Ivey and Burwell Atkinson (patent to Thomas Westbrook, father of sd. Henry, on May 19, 1757 and by sd. Thomas a gift to sd. Henry on Jan. 12, 1759). S: Henry Westbrook and Priscilla Westbrook, W: James Ridley, Henry Taylor, James Jones, and John Simmons. John Simmons was the son of John Simmons* (Will rec. April 19, 1738), br. of William Simmons, whose land was adj. Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30. *Mary Simmons, wife of John Simmons, was granted administration, but resigned and administration requested by her son, Benjamin Simmons. Appraisers: Thomas Westbrook and Charles Barham. (Southampton, B. I, p. 22). Benjamin Simmon’s sisters, Lucy and Anne, respectively m. the brs. Benjamin and Edmund Ruffin, sons of Robert Ruffin and Elizabeth Watkins. Bemjamin’s br., John, m. Patty Hamlin.

1.2. Dorothy Westbrooke, m. William Harris, Aug. 31, 1562, in Wiveliscombe.

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THOMAS TOOKE cont.
1.1.1.3.1. Judith Tooke,* m. Francis Hobbs, 1669, Henstridge, Somerset.
1.1.1.3.2. *Thomas Tooke Jr.
1.1.1.3.3. *Mary Tooke, m. *Nicholas Sessums.
1.1.1.3.4. Joan Tooke, m. John Scott (bef. Sept. 12, 1706, in Levy Neck, Nansemond), son of William Scot “the elder”, who condemned his connection with the disorderly m. of his s. John, to Joan Tooke in Levy Neck Meeting House, she not being a Friend. (US Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935).
1.1.1.3.4.1. James Tooke Scott, 1718-1763. John Brantley to *Joseph Atkinson, track of land lying and being on the East Side of the first Swamp of the Black Water containing by examination 100 ac. which was by the last and will and testament of Edward Brantley deceased devised to his grandson Edward deceased, father of the said John Brantley, beginning at James Tooke Scott’s line. John Brantley m.

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HOBBS.
1. Thomas Hobbs, b. ca. 1480, Will of Thomas Hobbs, husbandman of Henstridge, Somerset, prob. April 23, 1641.
1.1. Francis Hobbs, Will of Francis Hobbs, of Henstridge, prob. June 30, 1657.
1.1.1. Jane Hobbs, m. John Harris, executor of his father-in-law’s Will.
1.1.1.1. John Harris,* m. Margaret Hobbs.
1.1.2. John Hobbs.
1.2. William Hobbs
1.2.1. Francis Hobbs, who sold Edward Brantley 675 ac. adj. Thomas Tooke, in 1669.
1.2.1.1. Margaret Hobbs, m. *John Harris.
1.2.1.2. Francis Hobbs, m. *Judith Tooke.

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ROBERT BENNETT.
1. Robert Bennett, a tanner, of Wivelscombe, m. (advantageously) Elizabeth Edney.
1.1. Edward Bennett, bapt. Feb. 2, 1577, in Wivelscombe.
1.1.1. Alice Bennett, m. John Hardy, uncle it is suggested, of George Hardy.
1.1.2. … Bennett, m. Richard Jackson.
1.1.2.1. Mary Jackson, m. Capt. George Hardy, father-in-law of Edward Harris, d. 1677.
1.1.3. Sylvester Bennett, m. Nicholas Hill, who apprased estate of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, with Edward Brantley Sr. Will of Major Nicholas Hill, dated Jan. 1, 1674, bequeathed to his wife “Silvester for life my plantation in Isle of Wight … bounded betwixt the cart path that goes from the mill belonging to Mr. George Hardy”.
1.1.3.1. Mary Hill, m. John Jennings, son of John Jennings.

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THOMAS BENNETT.
1.2. Thomas Bennett, bapt. April 2, 1570.
1.2.1. Thomas Bennett, bapt. Nov. 5, 1603, headright of his br., Richard, in 1636.
1.2.1.1. Richard Bennett Sr., whose relict m. Robert Lancaster Sr., whose ist wife was possibly the aunt of Thomas White, who m. Ann, dau. of George Moore, parents of Avis White, who m. John Harris, son of Robert Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.
1.2.2. Governor Richard Bennett, bapt. Aug. 6, 1609, d. 1675, in Virginia, his Will bequesting “two thousand pounds of tobacco to the wife of Mr. Thomas Taberer (possibly his sister), whose dau., Ruth, m. John Numan, br-in-law of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.2.2.1. Ann Bennett, m. (2) Theoderick Bland.
1.2.2.1.1. Giles Bland, whose attorney was Robert Kae (of Bristol), p. 98, son-in-law of George Bechinoe, whose father, Edward, appraised the estate of Edward Harris, d. 1677,

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ELIANOR BENNETT.
1.3. Richard Harris, m. (1594) Elianor Bennett, in Wiveliscombe, Somerset. He was the son of William Harris, who m. Dorothy Westbrooke, Aug. 31, 1562, in Wivelscombe. Somerset
1.3.1. Richard Harris.
1.3.1.1. John Harris, bapt. Feb. 18, 1624, (“son of Richard”).
1.3.1.1.1. Elizabeth Harris, m. Samuel Lancaster, son of Robert Lancaster Sr. and Sarah, widow of her 2nd husband, Richard Bennett Sr., d. 1710; second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Samuel Lancaster was the br. of (1) Robert Lancaster, father of William Lancaster, who m. Mary Moreland, having issue: Lawrence Lancaster. Bute (Warren) Co., NC. Book A, p. 77. R. Jan. 23, 1765: *Lawrence Lancaster to Len Henley Bullock … sold 330 ac. on Fishing Creek, Elbe’s Branch, where I now live adj. West Harris. Warren Co. Court Minutes, 17 Feb. 1780, p. 16: Ordered that Matthew Harris be overseer of the road form the Fork of Bobbitt’s Road to the Creek below Nathaniel Harris, and the land of Lawrence Lancaster, Joseph Harris, Charles Harris, James Harris, John Lancaster, Nathaniel Harris, Lawrence Lancaster Jr., Joel Lancaster, and Sterling Harris.
1.3.1.1.2. John Harris.

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EDWARD HARRIS, d. 1677.
1.3.2. Edward Harris, held land patented by his cousin, (Governor) Richard Bennett, on Nov. 4, 1642. This was adj. land held by Wm. Newsome, April 6, 1653, p. 51.
1.3.2.1. Edward Harris, d. 1677. The estate debts of Edward Harris, d. 1677, included: “100. Payd Coll. Bacon for rent” (land bought from Thomas Harris, d. 1672, Edward’s uncle); “Payd Mrs. Davis – 877”. The said Thomas Harris received a grant of 40 ac. in IOW, on Aug. 14, 1652, at the head of Pagan Creek, bounded by the land of John Davis, husband of Mary Green (Mrs. Davis). The Will of John Davis of the Upper Parish, dated Dec. 31, 1712, named as “friend”, Nathaniel Ridley (half-br. of Elizabeth Ruffin*), br. of William Ridley and Elizabeth Ridley, Charles Barham’s wife, as given. Edward Harris was a son-in-law of George Hardy, whose wife, Mary Jackson, was a great-granddau. of Edward Bennett, uncle of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. George Hardy’s land bounded that of Nicholas Hill (who m. a dau. of Edward Bennett), who, with Edward Brantley Sr., witnessed the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Edward Brantley Sr., had issue, Phillip, who m. Joyce Lewis, dau. of Thomas Lewis and Rebecca (George) Pardoe, half-sister of Phillip Pardoe, security for the estate of Edward Harris, d. 1677. Phillip Brantley had issue: Edward Brantley, whose son, John, m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.
1.3.2.1.1. Edward Harris, b. 1664.
1.3.2.1.1.1. Thomas Harris, very likely he who is mentioned in the Will of John Gibbins.

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THOMAS HARRIS, d. 1668.
1.3.1.2. Thomas Harris, d. 1668.
1.3.1.2.1. William Harris. Jan. 4, 1685: William Harris and wife Mary Harris, to William Newsum … 220 ac. now in the tenure of Mr. John Harris.* July 30, 1680: Indenture, William Harris only son of Thomas Harris, dec’d of Lawnes Creek Parish and his wife Mary to Thomas Jarrell. 120 ac., part of the Harris 850 ac.. Witnesses: Robert Ruffin, William Newsum. Surry Co.

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ROBERT HARRIS.
1.3.3. Robert Harris.
1.3.3.1. Martha Harris, m. John Jennings, of Bristol, merchant. His Will, rec. March 10, 1679, mentions daus. Martha and Mary, son John. Overseers, George and Thomas Moore. Witness George Lewer (witness of Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672). A codicil was witnessed by Nicholas Smith,* Thomas Taberer, and Martha Fones.
1.3.3.1.1. John Jennings, m. Mary Hill, dau. of Sylvester Bennett, cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

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THOMAS HARRIS, d. 1672.
1.3.4. Thomas Harris, d. 1672, m. Judith Blake, on Nov. 20, 1623, in Wivelscombe. His second-cousin, Richard Bennett Sr., m. a sister of Charles Barham, who was exec. of the Will of William Ridley, who was probably the br. of Elizabeth Ridley, Charles Barham’s wife. Thomas Harris and Thomas Tuke were overseers. Judith Blake was a cousin of Thomas Blake, who held 400 ac. to the west of Seward’s Creek in 1670, bordering the land of Thomas Tooke to the east, and Edward Brantley, Sr. to the north; his land bordering that of John and Thomas Harris (sons of Thomas, d. 1672), to the east. Thomas Harris, d. 1672, is witnessed here: Mr. Jno. Marshall, 700 ac. IOW, July 12, 1665, p. 252. W. side of the Wester Sw., beg. at lower cor. tree of Capt. (John) Fulgham’s land, extending down Sw. to land of Tho. Harris. John Fulgham was overseer of the Will of Thomas Harris, 1688, who beq. Robert Harris (his son) “may dwell with John Fulgham three years”. Thomas Harris was also a security of the estate of Samuel Griffin (rec. March 26, 1666), with John Monger, p. 12, father of Elizabeth Monger, a legatee of Daniel Boucher (of Bristol), Will rec. May 1, 1668, with Hodges Council (son-in-law of John Hardy), this Will having as overseers, “Friends” John Hardy and Thomas Taberer. John Hardy was the likely father of (1) Debora Hardy, wife of Bridgeman Joyner; (2) Lucy Hardy, wife of Hodges Council Jr. Bridgeman Joyner was the guardian of an orphan of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. A desc. of John Monger, Henry Monger, m. Elizabeth Harris, dau. of Henry Harris, Jan. 8, 1767, in Southampton Co.; son of Edward Harris, d. 1739 (and Mary Thorpe), son of Edward Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.

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JOHN HARRIS.
1.3.4.1. John Harris, m. Jane Hobbs.
1.3.4.1.1. John Harris, m. (1) Margaret Hobbs, second-cousin of his mother, and sister of Francis Hobbs, husband of a dau. of Thomas Tooke.
1.3.4.1.1. John Harris, m. (2) Elizabeth Church, on April 13, 1689.
1.3.4.1.1.1. Isabel Harris, b. April 17, 1695, m. Nicholas Fulgham, son of Nicholas Fulgham, d. 1736, and Martha Pitt; the latter Nicholas being the nephew of John Fulgham, overseer of the Will of Thomas Harris, 1688.

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THOMAS HARRIS, d. 1688.
1.3.4.2. Thomas Harris, d. 1688, held land in lower par. IOW Co. on borders of Blackwater to the bottom of Pig Neck (B. 7, p. 510), which had been granted to Mr. John Seward, on April 16, 1648, who had patented land in 1638 “upon Warresquioke River”, against the land of Nathaniell Floyd, whose widow m. Francis Hobbs, whose da. m. John Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.3.4.2.1. Edward Harris.
1.3.4.2.2. Robert Harris.
1.3.4.2.1.1. John Harris.
1.3.4.2.1.2. Robert Harris.

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THOMAS HARRIS, d. 1712.
1.3.4.2.3. Thomas Harris,* m. (2) Judith Edwards, after 1701.

There is no reason why this Thomas Harris was not the father of Henry Harris and Thomas Harris (d. 1729/30), by a first wife. Attempts to confine his offspring to the issue of Judith Edwards is as shallow as it is predictable.

To repeat, somewhat. The Will of Thomas Greenwood (R. April 9, 1658, B. 1, p. 571) names son Thomas Greenwood, whose wid. m. James Pyland, then Thomas Edwards (who had m. 1stly, Elizabeth, dau. of William Newitt, and half-sister of Frances, wife of Edward Drewe. Edward Drew, m. Frances Newett, dau. of William Newitt and Elizabeth Jones, having issue: (1) Thomas Drewe, whose dau., Mary Drew, m. a Henry Harris. (2) William Drew, who m. Judith, dau. of Thomas Wood. Their son, William, gave an entitlement to John Ruffin for land bought in the lifetime of William Drew Sr. (B. 6, p. 647). John Davis, b. ca. 1695, Will dated July 2, 1750, m. Ann Drew, dau. of William Drew Sr., who, with Thomas Harris, witnessed an indenture between Robert and William Ruffin to William Edwards,* on March 1, 1708.

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THOMAS HARRIS, d. 1729/30.
1.3.4.2.3.1. Mr. Bodie’s contention: Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30 (by his father’s ist wife) who 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 who m. (2) Phillip Pardoe, security for estate of Edward Harris, d. 1677. *In his Will, Thomas names a brother, Henry Harris, son Joshua, and also an ‘unborn child wife now goes with’. (Thomas).
1.3.4.2.3.1.1. Thomas Harris, m. Sara Goodwin, dau. of Theophilus Goodwin and Elizabeth Wyche, and granddau. of Col. Thomas Goodwin and Martha Bridger, dau. of Joseph Bridger (business partner Thomas Harris, d. 1672). This Thomas Harris d. in 1761, and has been confused with a namesake, who d. in 1770, as a result of a shared connection to Abraham Greene, which was coincidental to Abraham marrying into the kinship group of Thomas Harris, d. 1761.
1.3.4.2.3.1.1.1. Solomon Harris, m. Millie Watkins, on March 11, 1778. The test results for a descendant (with Family Tree DNA) are a perfect match with Harris Group 4 males.

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JOSHUA HARRIS, d. 1770.
1.3.4.2.3.1.1. Joshua Harris. Joshua Claud, estate appraised Dec. 14, 1775, by Samuel Westbrooke Sr., Samuel Westbrooke Jr. Joshua Harris: Estate appraised by Joshua Claud, Thomas Day (of Bennett association), and Samuel Westbrooke, June 14, 1770, p. 324. Samuel Westbrooke: Estate appraised by Samuel Blake (son of Thomas Blake, per estate appraisal, rec. Feb. 12, 1789), who appraised the estate of John Foster, in 1773. Joshua Claud m. Ann, dau. of William Blake, and Mary, dau. of Nicholas Sessums and Hannah, dau. of Thomas Culmer, relict of Robert Lane. (B. I., p 198). “Eliza Lane having been delivered of two mulatto bastard children which she confesseth were begotten by Nicholas Sessoms’ Negro man, it is ordered that the sheriff during the setting of this court (January, 1690) give her ten lashes on her bare back well layed on and at the next court he give her ten lashes more.” (Order Book 1671-1691, p. 77). Eliza Lane was living in the household of Nicholas Sessums and most probably was the dau. of his first wife, Hannah Culmer Lane.

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HENRY HARRIS.
1.3.4.2.3.2. (Mr. Bodie’s contention: Henry Harris. This was the Henry Harris associated with the Brantley/Norwood families:
1. Henry Norwood, bur. April 10, 1618, Dunster, Somerset, 10 mls N. of Wiveliscombe, abode of the Bennett/Harris families.
1.2. Richard Norwood.
1.2.1. William Norwood, bapt. Sept. 6, 1619, in Dunster, d. 1702, in Virginia.
1.2.1.1. Richard Norwood (4th son) – appraisal by Edward Brantley, Oct. 25, 1731). Richard Norwood was the husb. of Elizabeth, whose estate was appraised by by Henry Harris and Thomas Cook (rec. Jan. 28, 1733, p. 386); the latter’s Will was witnessed by John Brantley (rec. Nov. 22, 1736, p. 186); who m. the relict of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30. The Brantleys were tenants of the Norwoods in the Manor of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

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HARRIS, RUFFIN, AND GIBBINS.
1. William Ruffin. Edward Chetwin, IOW probate rec. Sept. 27, 1649: Robert Watson and Henry Pitt, exors. William Ruffin m. Elizabeth Atwell, Sept. 23, 1614, in Rotterdam.
1.1. William Ruffin, m. Elizabeth Pitt.
1.1.1. Robert Ruffin Sr., b. in 1644, in Amsterdam. He m. Elizabeth Prime, bef. Nov. 2, 1673, in Surry Co.; dau. of Edward Prime and his wife, widow Ann Ridley, nee Pitt, wife of Peter Ridley, of IOW.
1.1.1.1. Robert Ruffin, m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Watkins and Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Spencer and Anne Taberer, thus explaining the close association between Thomas Harris, d. 1672, and his “loving friend”, Robert Spencer.
1.1.1.1.1. John Ruffin, m. Martha, dau. of Richard Hamlin and Ann Harrison.
1.1.1.1.1.1. John Ruffin, d. July 9, 1777, m. Sarah Williamson.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Francis Ruffin, d. Mar. 13. 1805, m. (1) Hannah Cocke (Nov. 2, 1782), (2) Susanna Harris, d. 1825, dau. of William Harris and Mary Short (Davis, Tidewater Virginia Families, pp. 502-540).
1.1.1.1.1.2. William Ruffin, m. (1) Mary Bland. Thus, the Ruffin’s connections to the Ridleys and Blands made them a part of the Bennett/Harris kinship network.

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1.1.1.1.2. Edmund Ruffin, b. Prince George Co., m. Anne Simmons.
1.1.1.1.3. Elizabeth Ruffin, m. Mathew Kinchen, whose Will was probated Aug. 23, 1736, appraised by (n.b.) Francis Williamson, Thomas Joyner, and John Dunkley. (B.4., p. 126). Account estate signed by Ethelred Taylor and John Ruffin, Nov. 29, 1743, ibid., p. 482.
1.1.1.2. William Ruffin.

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Mathew Kinchen was the br. of William Kinchen Jr., heir in the Will of John Gibbins: Prob. rec. Sept. 25, 1721, IOW. William Kinchen Jr. m. Mary Gibbins, dau. of John Gibbins, and relict of James Adkins. William and Mathew Kinchin’s sister, Elizabeth, m. Joseph Jones, whose estate inventory was presented by William Kinchen on Sept 28, 1730. (B.3, p. 232), and whose Will mentioned “friends”, Francis Williamson and John Dunkley.

John Gibbins: Prob. rec. Sept. 25, 1721, IOW. Leg. Mr. William Kinchen, Henry Harris, Matthew Harris, Mary Adkins, the daughter of John Adkins, John Jackson, Thomas Harris, the son of Edward Harris, Robert Harris. Exor. Mr. William Kinchen. William Kinchen: Leg. Son Mathew, dau. Patience Taylor and her husband Ethelred Taylor; probated July 28, 1735. (B.4., p. 72.

John Boykin died intestate, as an inventory of his estate was appraised by (his possible br.-in-law) Francis Williamson, John Dunkley, and Edward Harris, and rec. Feb. 23, 1729 (B. 3, p. 255)

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RIDLEY
1. Peter Ridley.
1.1. Nathaniel Ridley, m. Elizabeth Day, dau. of James Day and Mary Bland, dau. of Thomas and Mary (Bennett) Bland.
1.1.1. Nathaniel Ridley Jr., witnessed the Will of Edward Harris Jr. (grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1688), who had m. Mary Thorpe, sister of Timothy Thorpe Jr., father of Martha Thorpe.*
1.1.1.1. Daniel Ridley, m. *Martha Thorpe, first-cousin of (1) John Thorpe, apraisee of the estate of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/1730, (2) Sarah Thorpe, who m. (1) William George, son of John George, thus kin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, whose first wife was a dau. of Nicholas George, br. or cousin of John.
1.1.1.2. Mathew Ridley. William Rose of Bute Co., N.C. to Mathew Ridley. Nov. 1, 1764, pp. 346-7. 195 ac. on N. of the Maherin River adj. Thomas Blake, John Turner, and Samuel Westbrook, S: William Rose, W: James Jones, Day Ridley, Arthur Ridley, and Thomas Ridley.
1.1.2. James Ridley, d. 1781, m. Jane Smith, dau. of Arthur Smith and Mary, dau. of John Bromfield and Olive, dau. of John Hardy, relict of Giles Driver, headright of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Arthur Smith was a nephew of James Benn, exor. of his father’s Will, rec. June 10, 1697, witnessed by Henry Applewhaite. James Benn was the son of Christopher: Leg.- son James the plantation which I bought of Thomas Harris on Pagon Creek, rec. Sept. 26, 1659. James Ridley to Newitt Drew. Dec. 10, 1763, pp. 252-253. 40 ac. on the S. side of Garners Branch adj. sd. Ridley, Angelica Swamp, and sd. Drew (part of a patent to William West who sold to Hugh Mathews who devised to Jonas Mathews and descended to him as heir-at-law. S: James Ridley, W: Edmund Tyler, Edward Drew, and Thomas Day.
1.1.2.1. Bromfield Ridley, m. Frances Keeling, dau. of George Keeling and Agnes Bullock, dau. of Richard Bullock, who witnessed the Will of William Short, probated Sept. 1741, in Surry Co., mentioning his wife, Susannah, his sons William and Thomas Short, dau. Mary Harris, grandchildren William,* Sarah, Martha (children of William Short); granddau. Susanne (child of Thomas Short); son-in-law William Harris; William and Thomas Harris (grandsons). *William Harris to son Simon Harris. April 4, 1764, p. 331. Sells slave, S: William Harris, W: Henry Pope, Hardy Pope, and Salathel Lewis.
Charles Barham Exor, Thomas Harris (d. 1672) and Thomas Tooke overseers, witnessed the Will of William Ridley, who was the br. of Elizabeth Ridley, Charles Barham’s wife. Charles Barham’s sister m. Richard Bennett, d. 1709 (second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672).
1.1.2.1.1. James Ridley. James Ridley to Newitt Drew. Dec. 10, 1763, pp. 252-253. 40 ac. on the south side of Garners Branch adj. sd. Ridley, Angelica Swamp,
and sd. Drew (part of a patent to William West who sold to Hugh Mathews who devised to Jonas Mathews and descended to him as heir-at-law. S: James Ridley, W: Edmund Tyler, Edward Drew, and Thomas Day.
1.1.3. Elizabeth Ridley.
1.2. William Ridley. Mr. Charles Barham Exor, Thomas Harris (d. 1672) and Thomas Tooke overseers, witnessed the Will of William Ridley, who was the br. of Elizabeth Ridley, Charles Barham’s wife. Charles Barham’s sister m. Richard Bennett, d. 1709 (second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672).

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MOORE.
1. Edward Moore.
1.1. Thomas Moore.
1.1.1. Thomas Moore (b. 1632), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Giles Elbridge, security given by George Moore* and Mr. Edward Brantley.
1.1.2. Priscilla Moore, m. Edward Champion. Thomas Blake (neighbour of *Edward Brantley Sr. in Virginia), m. a sister of Edward Champion, and was, thus, br.-in-law of Elias Fort and Edward Brantley Sr.).
1.1.3. (Mary? Moore), m. Edward Brantley Sr. I suggest this is highly probable.
1.2. George Moore, d. Aug. 11, 1643; m. Magdalena.
1.2.1. George Moore.
1.2.1.1. Ann Moore, m. Thomas White, nephew, it is suggested, of Robert Lancaster Sr., by his first wife, who m. (2) the relict of Richard Bennett Sr. (second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), having issue: Robert and Samuel Lancaster; the former’s grandson, Lawrence, being strongly associated with the descendants of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.; the latter m. Elizabeth Harris, as given.

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1.2.1.1.1. Avis White, m. John Harris, son of Robert Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.
1.2.1.2. Eleanor Moore, m. Richard Piland, the son of James Piland, bapt. on Aug. 30, 1604, in St Mary’s Le Porte, Bristol.
1.2.1.2.1. James Piland, appraised the estate of John Brantley, on April 26, 1725.
1.2.1.2.1.1. James Piland, m. Elizabeth Brantley, dau. of Phillip Brantley (son of Edward Brantley Sr.) and Joyce Lewis; dau. of Rebecca George; dau. of John George, br. or cousin of Nicholas George, father-in-law of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, whose estate was appraised by Edward Brantley Sr.
1.2.2. Magdelena Moore, m. Thomas Carter, son of Thomas Carter and Eleanor Cooke, relict of William Groves (of Bristol); whose estate appraisal was by John Harris,* Edward Brantley Sr., and Elias Fort.
1.3. Katherine Moore, m. (2) Robert Flake.
1.3.1. Katherine Flake, m. (1) William Evans, who witnessed the Will of Edward Brantley Sr. Katherine Pierce, exrs of Wm. Evans, aged 25, said that her former husband Wm. Evans said that 400 ac. belonged to James Benn. Thomas Pierce and Kath. his wife deed the said 400 ac. to James Benn. Thomas Moore said that he wrote Wm. Evan’s will and that he gave his remaining land at Kinsale to his son, Thomas Evans.
1.3.2. Robert Flake, m. Margaret Marriot.
1.3.2.1. Alice Flake, m. William Gwaltney.
1.3.2.1. Anne Gwaltney, m. John, son of Edward Boykin Sr. Their dau., Anne, may have m. Robert Harris. (IOW. D.B. 5, p. 252, 1737-1738): ‘Edward Boykin of NC to Robert Harris Jr. of IOW for 5lbs about 50 ac, on S. of Balckwater, and bounded on east side by Berbeckew branch, line between Robert Harris Jr. and part of patent of 325 ac granted to he said Boykin, Aug. 1731.

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A kindly researcher supplied me with additions to my previous notes, and, having been requested to make those notes more concise as to the interconnections of the families of Harris and Lancaster, i have incorporated them in what follows. The families in question would have been much aware of their close relationship, and would have had family bibles and passed-down memories that substantiated these relationships. We are much in the dark. However, what is clear is that both families were linked to that of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. This family for years has been manipulated out of the ‘Harris story’, denied their place on the Blackwater; their lineages being given ‘dead ends’, and for what? – so as not to challenge the assumed accounts of living Harris claimants. Quite simply, one way or the other, the family of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, were central to many Harris genealogies in Virginia. The challenge has always been one of moving on from old prejudices. (Another one is to consider if John Harris, d. 1708, left any issue situated around Fishing Creek).

1. Richard Harris, m. Eleanor Bennett, Oct. 8, 1594, in Wiveliscombe; the sister of Edward Bennett, business partner of Edward Robins (whose attorney was Thomas Joyner, whose son was the guardian of an orphan of Thomas Harris, d. 1688, and father of Silvestra Bennett, who m. Nicholas Hill, who witnessed the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

1.1. Richard Harris.

1.1.1. John Harris bapt. Feb. 18, 1624.

1.1.1.1. Elizabeth Harris, m. Samuel Lancaster, son of Robert Lancaster Sr. and Sarah, widow of her 2nd husband, Richard Bennett Sr., d. 1710; second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Samuel Lancaster was the br. of (1) Robert Lancaster, father of William Lancaster, who m. Mary Moreland, having issue: Lawrence Lancaster.* (2) A sister who m. Thomas Pittman. Wiliam Lancaster was willed his grandfather’s plantation on Blackwater Swamp. His wife, Mary, was given the administration of his estate on Jan. 21, 1740. D.B. 3, p. 10: To Joseph Holloman … ac. bounded by Blackwater Swamp, Thomas White,* and John Champion, being land sold on Aug. 20, 1712 by John Allen, Gent., to Robert Lancaster, the grandfather of the sd. William.

Bute (Warren) Co., NC. Book A, p. 77. R. Jan. 23, 1765: *Lawrence Lancaster to Len Henley Bullock … sold 330 ac. on Fishing Creek, Elbe’s Branch, where I now live adj. West Harris,* Lewis Patterson, William Rowland, John Burch. Wit: Samuel Lancaster, Britton Harris, and John Lancaster. Proved by Britton Harris. Lawrence Lancaster (and Mary Williams) had issue: Lucy Lancaster (1743-1826), m. Britton Williford; Moses Lancaster (d. 1793), m. Martha Harris.*

Recorded: March 14, 1760: Charles Harris* – warrant of 450 ac. in Granville Co. (Parish of St. John on the branches of Aaron’s Creek), adj. Jones Corner and Wades line: Signed Charles Harris. Witnesses: William Hurst, Lawrence Lancaster.

Warren Co. Court Minutes, 17 Feb. 1780, p. 16: Ordered that Matthew Harris be overseer of the road form the Fork of Bobbitt’s Road to the Creek below Nathaniel Harris,* and the land of Lawrence Lancaster, Joseph Harris,* Charles Harris,* James Harris,* John Lancaster, Nathaniel Harris, Lawrence Lancaster Jr., Joel Lancaster, and Sterling Harris.

Aug. 28, 1792, ibid., p. 230: The last will and testament of Lawrence Lancaster, deceased was proved in open Court by the oath of James Harris, Morris Harris, and Lawrence Lancaster Jr.; William Lancaster and John Lancaster Executors.

Bute, August Court, 1800: ‘Account in Estate of Laurence Lancaster deceased by William, Laurence & John Lancaster executors. Paid: for coffin and sickness John Hall (fee), B. Moss (taxes & sale), Samuel Williford, John Lancaster, Claiborne Harris,* Len Kimball, Ben Kimball, R. Bobbitt, Geo. Pegram, H. Harris (son of James Harris*), Jesse Bell, Wm. Johnson and executors of Harton. Recorded from sale, etc. & balance to be divided among twelve legatees’.

1.1.1.1.1. Catherine Lancaster, m. Joseph Crocker; Will R. Feb. 5, 1761, appraised by Thomas Holleman.

1.1.1.1.2. Henry Lancaster, m. Martha. John Holloman,* and Jesse Crocker witnessed his Will.

1.1.1.1.3. Martha Lancaster, m *John Holliman, son of Christopher Holliman Jr. Sept. 25, 1739: From Christopher Holliman of Bartee precinct, NC, and John Holliman of Newport parish in IOW, to Arthur Crocker* of same, 300 ac. on the E. side the main Swamp, bounded by the mouth of the Fishing Branch, the head of the Miery Branch, p. 413.

1.1.1.2. John Harris. On Nov. 9, 1708, Samuel Lancaster was granted the administration of the estate of John Harris, his probable br.-in-law.

1.2. Edward Harris, held land patented by his cousin, Richard Bennett, on Nov. 4, 1642. This was adj. land held by Wm. Newsome, April 6, 1653, p. 51.

1.2.1. Edward Harris, d. 1677.

1.3. Thomas Harris, d. 1672, m. Judith Blake, Nov. 20, 1623, in Wivelscombe. His second-cousin, Richard Bennett Sr., m. a sister of Charles Barham, who was exec. of the Will of William Ridley, who was probably the br. of Elizabeth Ridley, Charles Barham’s wife. Thomas Harris and Thomas Tuke were overseers. Charles Barham’s great-great granddau., Martha, m. Joel Harris.

1.3.1. Thomas Harris, d. 1688.

1.3.1.1. Edward Harris.

1.3.1.1.1. *West Harris.

1.3.1.1.2. *Nathaniel Harris.

1.3.1.1.3. *James Harris, Will dated April, 10, 1800. Book 11, p. 44.

1.3.1.1.3.1. Henry Harris.

1.3.1.1.3.2. *Claiborne Harris.

1.3.1.2. Robert Harris, d. 1740. On April 20, 1715, he aquired 150 ac. from his br. Edward Harris, on the south side of the main Blackwater Swamp, beginning at the fork of Warrick Branch.

1.3.1.2.1. John Harris, m. Avis, dau. of *Thomas White, and grandau. of George Moore, of Bristol.

1.3.1.2.1.1. Harmon Harris, appraised the estate of (1) James Lancaster, with John Williamson, rec. Oct. 16, 1797, p. 15; (2) *Arthur Crocker, rec. Oct. 10, 1703, p. 574.

1.3.1.2.1.2. Joel Harris, m. Martha Barham, in Southampton Co.

1.3.1.2.1.2.1. John Harris, d. 1792, aged 23.

1.3.1.2.1.2.2. Charles Barham Harris, d. 1860, in Summerfield, Guilford, North Carolina, aged 84.

1.3.1.2.1.2.3. Avis Harris, b. 1783.

1.3.1.2.1.2.4. Sarah Harris, d. December 11, 1843, in Iuka, Marion, Illinois, aged 64; m. William Middleton, in Guildford, in 1800.

1.3.1.2.1.2.5. William Harris, d. May 25 1820, in Howell, Lincoln, Tennessee, aged 36.

1.3.1.2.2. Robert Harris, d. 1772/3, received with his br.. John, a patent from their father of 150 ac. south of the main Blackwater Swamp, on Barbeque Swamp, IOW. next to the lands of Arthur and Joseph Williamson.

1.3.1.2.3. *Joseph Harris.

1.3.1.2.3.1. Martha Harris, d 1797, m. Moses Lancaster, son of Lawrence Lancaster.

1.3.1.2.4. *Charles Harris, d. Nov 4, 1786.

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When it is given that the Lancaster family of Milverton, Somerset, bore for their arms Argent, two bars gules, on a canton of the second a lion passant guardant or, some qualification needs to be made, as, as was common, arms were not representative of direct male descent, mostly being the result of a family’s intermarriage with a heiress. So, although these arms are associated with the Lancasters, Barons of Kendall, they stem from such intermarriages.

William Duncombe Pink, Alfred Beaven, The Parliamentary Representation of Lancashire, p. 17, 1889: “John de Lancaster returned also in 1322 and 1330. He was eldest son of John de Lancaster, by Alice dau. of Sir Richard Hoghton.* By his wife Margery, dau. and co-heiress of Sir Richard Molineux of Rainhill, he became possesed of that estate, where his descendants were still seated in the last century”. (The Molineuxs of Rainhill became possessed of that estate (and of the manors of Sutton and Eccleston) by marriage into the family of Norres/Norrys).

John Lancaster (de Lancastr’). Places: Property in Helton Tarn, Lancashire. Shield of arms: two bars, on a canton a lion passant. Size: 20 mm, Shape: round, Colour: brown, Legend: S. JOH’IS DE LANC’STRE. 1324.

In 1242, Adam de Eccleston held of William de Lancaster by knight’s service, having m. one of his daus. (Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 154). His successors were probably Roger, and his son, Richard.* Warin Bussel’s dau. m. Hamon le Boteler, he receiving two carucates of land in Heaton in Lonsdale, and in Little Eccleston in Amounderness (Testa ii., f. 816). Hamon’s son, Richard, had issue: Adam, who as “Adam filius Ricardi, filii Hamonis Pincernæ,” granted one moiety of his estate in Heaton to Augustine, son of Ughtred of Ulverston, father of Roger de Heaton of Brune, to hold of Adam by the ninth part of one Knight’s fee (Dodsworth MS., lxxxviii., f. 7). In the Survey of 1212, under the Barony of Penwortham, “Adam de Hocton” is recorded as holding in Heton, one carucate,” i.e., that moiety of Heaton, of which his grandfather had been enfeoffed in the reign of King Stephen. The Adam de Hocton of this concord was probably the son of Adam, son of Richard, son of Hamon le Boteler.

*Sir Richard Hoghton was sheriff of Lancs. in 1298. He settled his manor on his son, Richard, who m. Sybil, dau. of Sir William de Lee, Baron of Kendal, and Clemence, dau. Sir Robert de Banastre. His descendant, Richard Lancaster, died in 30 Henry VIII. (Edward Baines History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, vol. 3, p. 715, 1836. His inquest shows that he had held the moiety of the manor of John Eccleston by fealty and a rent of 18d.; a messuage in Rainhill of the king, by a rent of 8d. paid to the bailiff of West Derby; also lands in Buxton and in Appleton; his son and heir, Richard Lancaster, m. Alice dau. of Bartholomew Hesketh, in 1530, was seventeen years of age in 1538; Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. vii, n. 11. Licence of entry, without proof of age, was granted to Richard son and heir of Richard Lancaster, Nov. 20, 1543; Dep. Keeper’s Rep. xxxix, App. 555. Lancashire Feet of Fines, m. 118. (March 28, 1552). Between Thomas Eccleston, esq., and Richard Lancastre, gent., plaintiffs, and Roger Colley, gent., deforciant of 8 messuages, 4 cottages, 4 tofts, a wind-mill, 10 gardens, 10 orchards, 200 a. of land, 60 a. of meadow, 100 a. of pasture, 20 a. of wood, 100 a. of moor, 100 a. of marsh, 100 a. of turbary, 100 a. of furze and heath, and 3s. 4d. of rent in Windle, Sutton, and Melling.

It can not be adduced at which juncture the Lancasters of Milverton, Somerset, stemmed from those of Lancashire, nor whether the Lancasters of Bruton, Somerset, were of the same family, yet the latter family intermarrying with a family of Penny may afford a clue.

1. Richard Lancaster, Margarett Barber, June 22, 1573.
1.1. John Langcaster, m. Susan Mogg, Oct. 30, 1609.
1.1.1. Robert Langcaster, m. Susannah Penny, Oct. 1, 1632; the probable dau. of Robert Penny and Susan Collier m. Oct. 20, 1611. 1652 Surry Co., B. I, p. 4. November 7, 1652: Mr. John Dibdall did at Court held in this place volunteer and made in open court a petition signed by himself, Robert Lancashire and seventy others, and John Collier without timely redress to petition, etc. Penny Family: In the Heralds’ Office it is recorded that a grant of arms was made to Thomas Penny, Doctor of Physic, London, in 1574. In the same office is a pedigree which shows that Dr. Thomas Penny was the son of John Penny or Penne of Gressingham, near Lancaster, Lancashire. The coat in question is Erm. 2 greyhounds courant, per pale gu. and sa. In the present day I find in the counties of Somerset, Dorset, and Devon, four families of the name of Penny — not known to be very nearly related — who use this coat of arms, and have been using it for some generations past. (Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset, vol. 2, p. 158, 1891).
1.1.1.1. Robert Lankester, bapt. Jan. 26, 1634. He probably m. (1) a sister of Thomas White, Will proved Sept. 4, 1694 (“Mr. Robert Lancaster to have the care of my son Thomas and daughter Mary and their estate”). (2) Sarah widow of 2nd husband Richard Bennett Sr. (second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672). Thomas White’s widow m. (2) Thomas Edwards. A commission of administration is granted William Edwards (as greatest Creditor) of the Estate of Thomas White, deceased (with the Will Annexed) (the said Will being proved in Court by the oath of Mr. John Thompson and ordered to further proved at the next court ye, other evidence to the said Will not being now present) the said Edwards giving security according to law. Robert Lancaster, entering himself in Court security for William Edwards due performance of his Administration on the Estate of Thomas White with annexed is accepted and ordered that they give bond accordingly. It is probable that Thomas White was a headright of William Edwards and Rice Davis in James City, in 1648.

There is some passing connection to the family of Heriz:

1. Geoffrey de Herriz, b. ca. 1110.
1.1. Alice de Heriz., b. ca. 1140, m. Richard, son of Hamon le boteler, b. ca. 1110.
1.1.1. Geoffrey de Eccleston (Heriz), b. ca. 1160, who held Stapleford, and with the consent of his mother, Alice, gifted to Lenton. Galfridus de Eccleston’ debet x li. pro habenda saisina de terra quam Avicia (Geoffrey’s aunt) que fuit uxor Ricardi de Camera. (Pipe Roll, 1224).
1.1.1.1. Richard de Heriz (de Stapleford), b. ca. 1190, held that manor in 1250, his son, Hugh, being aged 25 years.
1.1.1.1.1. Hugh de Heriz, b. 1225, died seized of this fee in 1297.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Richard de Heriz, b. ca. 1270, d. bef. 1316.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Richard de Heriz, b. Nov. 7, 1307. The book of Newstede mentions to be granted to Sir John de Mounteney, knight, by the King, and that Sir John sold his Wardship and Marriage to one John de Bugton of Wellum, who married him under age to his daughter Elizabeth, in the time of the Eyre, 3 E. 2. Richard de Heriz, and Elizabeth his wife, by a Fine levied at York the day after St. John Baptist, 11 E. 3. passed two parts of this Mannor, and the third part which Margery, the wife of Thomas Dayvill of Egmanton, had then in Dower, after her decease, to Richard de Bughton, and his heirs, paying them 40l. per annum, during their lives. he Book of Newstede saith, this Richard de Bughton was an Ecclesiastical person, and that the said Richard de Heriz gave this Mannor to Richard, the brother of his wife, who first died, and then his said wife, in the aforesaid Pestilence, and that after their deaths he the said Richard de Heriz enfoeffed William de Wakebrigge, and others, to give to the Priory of Newstede, to make and found Chantries; but having a sister called Idonea, the wife of John del Furmery, who had both sons and daughters, he was by her, and other friends, within three days after persuaded to revoke that, and settle it on Robert del Furmery her son, who was to have married Cecily, the sister of Elizabeth, before named, but he did not; so dying without issue, it remained to the said Idonea, and her heirs, who gave only two bovats to Newstede.

1. Hamon le boteler.
1.1. Richard, m. Alice de Heriz.
1.1.1. “Adam filius Ricardi, filii Hamonis Pincernæ” (“Adam de Hocton”), b, ca, 1160. Held the ploughland in Heaton 1n 1212 (Lancs. Inq. amd Ext., i. 30,1.).
1.1.2.1.1. Adam de Eccleston, b. ca. 1190, held of William de Lancaster by knight’s service, having m. one of his daus.
1.1.2.1.1.1. Roger, b. ca. 1220.
1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Sir Richard Houghton, b. ca. 1250, sheriff of Lancs. in 1298.
1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Richard, who m. Sybil, dau. of Sir William de Lee, Baron of Kendal.
1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. Alice de Houghton, m. Richard Stanhope.

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Some researchers of old see a strong link between the family of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, the Lancaster family, and the family of John Harris, son of Robert Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.

1. Richard Harris, m. Eleanor Bennett, Oct. 8, 1594, in Wiveliscombe; the sister of Edward Bennett, business partner of Edward Robins (whose attorney was Thomas Joyner, whose son was the guardian of an orphan of Thomas Harris, d. 1688, and father of Silvestra Bennett, who m. Nicholas Hill, who witnessed the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. 1.1. Richard Harris. 1.1.1. John Harris bapt. Feb. 18, 1624. 1.2. Edward Harris of St. Dunstan in the East, London, merchant, aged 45, named in the Hubberday v. Penniston court case of 1641, which stated he received tobacco from Virginia with Captain Thomas Cornwallis, associate of Richard Bennett. Edward held land patented by his cousin, Richard Bennett, on Nov. 4, 1642. This was adj. land held by Wm. Newsome, April 6, 1653, p. 51. 1.2.1. Edward Harris, d. 1677, m. Martha Hardy, probable niece of John Hardy.

1.3. Thomas Harris, d. 1672, m. Judith Blake, Nov. 20, 1623, in Wivelscombe. His second-cousin, Richard Bennett Sr., m. a sister of Charles Barham, who was exec. of the Will of William Ridley, who was probably the br. of Elizabeth Ridley, Charles Barham’s wife. Thomas Harris and Thomas Tuke were overseers. (1. Charles Barham. 1.1. Robert Barham. 1.1.1. Charles Barham. 1.1.1.1. James Barham. 1.1.1.1.1. Martha Barham, m. Joel Harris).

1.3.1. Thomas Harris, d. 1688. 1.3.1.1. Edward Harris.* 1.3.1.2. Robert Harris, d. 1740. On April 20, 1715, he aquired 150 ac. from his br. Edward Harris, on the south side of the main Blackwater Swamp, beginning at the fork of Warrick Branch. 1.3.1.2.1. John Harris, m. Avis, dau. of Thomas White,* and grandau. of George Moore, of Bristol. 1771: “I give and bequeath to my loving wife Avis Harris … my six children namely Harmon Harris, Howel Harris, Lucy Harris, Elizab. Harris, Joel Harris and Benjamin Harris. Harmon Harris appraised the estate of (1) James Lancaster, with John Williamson, rec. Oct. 16, 1797, p. 15; (2) Arthur Crocker, rec. Oct. 10, 1703, p. 574. Joel Harris, m. Martha Barham . 1.3.1.2.2. Robert Harris Jr., d. 1772/3, received with his br.. John, a patent from their father of 150 ac. south of the main Blackwater Swamp, on Barbeque Swamp, IOW. next to the lands of Arthur and Joseph Williamson. February 28, 1759. Southampton Co.: ‘Robert Harris & wife Ann of North Carolina to Burwell Williamson of Southampton Co.’. Deed of Bargain & Sale, proved October 11, 1759, ‘125 acres adj. John Harris, Thomas Holloman, Banbergan Branch, and Joseph Williams, a certain tract or parcel of land containing one hundred & twenty five Acres S: Robert Harris and Ann Harris, Witnesses James Harris,* John Kitchen, Matthew Harris, and Mary Harris‘ (D.B.2, 1753-1760, pp. 289-290).

*1. Thomas Joyner. 1.1. Thomas Joyner, d. December 10, 1694. 1.1.1. Elizabeth Joyner, m. William Kinchen. 1.1.2. Thomas Joyner. 1.1.2.1. Martha Joyner, m. Thomas Turner, br. of Mary Turner, wife of Edward Harris. Thomas and Mary Turner were grandchildren of John Turner, bapt. May 14, 1618, in Wedmore, a neighbour and contemporary of Thomas Pittman, and the family of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. 1.1.2.2. *Thomas Joyner. 1.1.2.2.1. … Joyner, m. John Dunkley. 1.1.2.2.2. Benjamin Joyner, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Pittman (October 6, 1736 – April 24, 1812), son of Robert Pittman, son of Thomas Pittman and Elizabeth Lancaster, son of Thomas Pittman Jr. 1.1.2.2.2.1. John Joyner. James Joyner. 1.1.2.2.2.2. Bridget Joyner, m. Anthony Herring. 1.1.3. Bridgeman Joyner.

George Moore. 1.1. George Moore, of Bristol, b. ca. 1630. 1.1.1. Ann Moore, m. Thomas White. 1.1.1.1. Avis White, m. John Harris, son of Robert Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. 1.2. Eleanor Moore, m. Richard Piland, the son of James Piland, bapt. on Aug. 30, 1604, in St Mary’s Le Porte, Bristol, headright of Francis England, in 1642. 1.2. Katherine Moore, m. (1) … 1.2.1. Joyce … m. . (1) Francis England. 1.2.1.1. Katherine Moore, m. (2) Robert Flake.

Katherine Flake, m. William Brady,* 1718. (Chapman Marriages). B. 6, p. 240, Apr. 23, 1743: Willam Brady to Benjamin Ward …. 50 acres on Blackwater (being land given on 21 Jul 1718 by Robert Flake to his dau., Katherine Brady. 1.2.2.1. William Brady, m. (2) Olive Pittman. Brady, William. Account estate, to maintaining four small children. Signed Olive Brady. Examined by Jordan Thomas, James Bridger. R. June 9, 1748, p. 120.

Robert Flake, d. 1697, m. Katherine Moore. 1.1. Elizabeth Flake, m. Thomas Hayes. 1.1.1. Arthur Hayes, d. 1776. 1.1.1.1. Mary Hayes, m. James Pitman Jr. 1.2. Robert Flake Jr., m. Margaret Marriott. 1.2.1. Alice Flake, m. William Gwaltney. 1.2.1.1. Ann Gwaltney, b, ca. 1690, m. John Boykin, whose estate was appraised by (uncle) Francis Williamson , John Dunkley, and Edward Harris, and recorded Feb. 23, 1729 (B. 3, p. 255).

Arthur Allen, m. Alice Tucker. 1.1. Joan Allen, m. Robert Williamson. 1.1.1. Ann Williamson, m. Edward Boykin, d. 1728. 1.1.1.1. John Boykin, m. Ann Gwaltney. 1.1.1.2. Edward Boykin, d. 1745. IOW. D. B. 5, p. 252, 1737-1738: ‘Edward Boykin of NC to Robert Harris Jr. of IOW for 5lbs about 50 acres on ss Balckwater and bounded on east side by Berbeckew branch, line between Robert Harris Jr. and part of patent of 325 acres granted to he said Boykin, Aug 1731; witness: John Washington, Arthur Williamson, Joseph Williamson. 1.1.2. Francis Williamson. 1.1.2.1. Arthur Williamson. 1.1.2.2. Joseph Williamson.

Alice Tucker m. (2) John Hardy, headright of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. March 2, 1658 – Thomas Harris, 1000 ac., IOW Co., upon a swamp running into the W. branch of Nansamond Riv., including 2 Indian fields. Trans. of 20 persons: John Hardy … (B.4., p. 256).

Ruth Gwaltney, half-sister of Ann, by ist wife, m. Robert Pitway. 1.1. Robert Pitway. 1.1.1. Ann Pitway, m. (2) Richard Lanier Jr., son of Sampson Lanier and Elizabeth (Washington) Lanier (Tyler’s Quarterly, v. i., p. 572). 1.1.1. John Lanier, m. (1) Katherine Sampson, in Charles City County, dau. of John Sampson. 1.1.1.1. Sampson Lanier Sr., b. 1682, Charles City, obit. May 5, 1743, Brunswick County, VA., m. Elizabeth Washington, dau. of Richard Washington and Elizabeth Jordan. 1.1.1.1.1. Sampson Lanier, d. Sept. 2, 1757, Brunswick Co., m. Elizabeth Chamberlain. 1.1.1.1.1.1. Rebecca Lanier, b. Dec. 16, 1744, d. Jul. 1818 in Green Co., Georgia, m. Walton Harris, great-grandson (it is claimed) of Thomas Harris, obit. 1688.

Robert Pitway, m. Mary Chamberlin, on July 7, 1629, in Shipston-on-Stour. Mary is claimed as a headright of her husband in 1638, in Charles River territory. 1.1.2.1. Edward Pitway, claimed as a headright of his father, same year and location. Robert Pitway was claimed as a headright in 1637 by Edward Travis (in James City territory), father of Edward Travis. Jr. 1.1.2.1.1. Elizabeth Pitway, m. Samuel judkins. 1.1.2.1.1.1. Mary Judkins, m. Charles Champion, son of Benjamin Champion Jr., son of Benjamin Champion Sr., son of Edward Champion and Priscilla Moore . 1.1.2.1.2. *Robert Pitway, m. Ruth Gwaltney.

Patrick Brady, appointed Eliazabeth Braddy, his relict, Extx. April 10, 1665. R. June 21, 1665. Security, Mr. Taberer, George Moore, p. 9. 1.1. Patrick Braddy. Robert Hodges and wife, Ann Hodges, of Isle of Wight to Patrick Bradys of Surry County …. 50 acres in the upper parish between the swamp (being land taken up by John Oliver who willed it to his two daughters who sold it to Gearge Branch, the father of the said Ann Hodges. Oct. 25, 1725, p. 719. 1.1.1. Elias Brady. Chapman, p. 173: Elias Brady: Leg. – daughter Elizabeth, my land in North Carolina; daughter Mary; son Elias; wife Margaret. Exs., son Elias and son-in-law Henry Crafford. R. July 25, 1737. Wit: John Joyner, James Joyner. 1.1.2. William Brady, m. Katherine Flake. 1.1.2.1. William Brady. 1.1.2.2. Patrick Brady. 1.1.2.3. Joseph Brady. June 11, 1661: Joseph Dixon of Halifax Co., NC to Patrick Brady of Edgecombe Co., planter, for £4 Proc. money a tract of 175 acres on the north side of Fishing Creek adjoining William Kinchen, p. 231.

Thomas Pittman. 1.1. Thomas Pittman, d. 1730, in the Meherrin River area, aged 75. He m. (1) unknown; (2) Mary (Chambers) Holman, widow; (3) Elizabeth Lancaster, d. 1728 (See Chapman, p. 37). On July 6, 1680, Thomas Pittman Sr. made a deed of gift to William Pittman, son of Thomas Pittman Jr. (B. 4, p. 107). Alexander Irvine’s Survey of the North Carolina/Virginia boundary, March 5, 1728 – October 26, 1728, vol. 2, p. 808. From this Line Tree 35 chains and Tho: Pitman’s bore north ⅛ of a mile. At 139 chains and 50 links is a path leading to Willm Kinchen’s which crossed the line. 1.1.1. William Pittman. 1.1.1.1. Olive Pittman. 1.1.1.2. James Pittman.

1.2. John Pittman. “John Pitman of Southampton Co. VA to Harmon Taylor of Northampton Co. 14 May 1765. 28 pounds VA money for 200 ac. which was part of 3 patents (50 acres part of a patent to Benjamin Joyner Apr 1723; the other 150 ac. part of 2 patents to Robert Smelly, 1 for 520 acres 1745, the other for 600 acres 1749, on west side of Kirbys Creek, joining Roanoak Branch, John Adkinson, John Smelly, School House Branch, John Pitman, Elizabeth Pitman. Wit: Joseph Pope, Theopus. Tharp, Wm. Strickland. May Ct. 1765.” 1.2.1. William Pittman. Oct. 8, 1765. William Pittman of Edgecombe Co. to Nathan Harris, for 46/13/4 current money a tract of 210 ac. on the north bank of White Oak Swamp in two patents: (1) 150 ac. granted to Joseph Wall; (2) 60 ac. granted to Wright McLemore by a patent dated June 28, 1760. Wit: Arthur Philips, Mark Mason. B. C, p. 360: Estate records of Edgecombe Co. NC, 1820-1850, v. ii., pp 109-110: Harris, Nathan, division of negroes agreeable to the Will into five lots for his grandchildren to wit: 1. Frances Dicken who is of age 2., etc. May Ct. 1821.

Lancasters of Bruton, Somerset:

Richard Lancaster, Margarett Barber, June 22, 1573. 1.1. John Langcaster, m. Susan Mogg, Oct. 30, 1609. 1.1.1. Robert Langcaster, m. Susannah Penny, Oct. 1, 1632; he bur. Oct. 3, 1674. 1.1.1.1. Robert Lankester, bapt. Jan. 26, 1634. 1.1.1.2. John Lanchaster, bapt. Nov. 17, 1639. 1.1.1.3. Thomas Langcaster, bapt. April 14, 1643. 1.1.1.4. Richard Lancaster, bapt. Feb. 26, 1646. 1.1.1.5. Susanna Lancaster, bapt. April 14, 1649.

1.3.2. John Harris. On Nov. 9, 1708, Samuel Lancaster was granted the administration of the estate of John Harris, his probable father-in-law. 1.3.2.1. Elizabeth Harris, m. Samuel, son of Robert Lancaster Sr. and Sarah, widow of her 2nd husband, Richard Bennett Sr., d. 1710. 1.3.2.1.1. Catherine Lancaster, m. Joseph Crocker; Will R. Feb. 5, 1761, appraised by Thomas Holleman. 1.3.2.1.2. Henry Lancaster, m. Martha. John Holloman, and Jesse Crocker witnessed his Will. 1.3.2.1.3. Martha Lancaster, m .John Holliman, son of Christopher Holliman, Jr. Sept. 25, 1739: From Christopher Holliman of Bartee precinct, North Carolina, and John Holliman of Newport parish in IOW, to Arthur Crocker of Newport Parish in IOW … 300 ac. on the E. side the main Swamp in Newport Parish … bounded by the mouth of the Fishing Branch, the head of the Miery Branch, John Holliman, Samuel Taylor. S. Christopher Holliman, John Holliman. Wit. Arthur Hayes, p. 413.

Robert Lancaster Sr. 1.1. Robert Lancaster, Will rec. June 27, 1720. Witnesses: James Piland, Benjamin Hodges, appraisal by John Brantley, and Benjamin Hodges. 1.1.1. Robert Lancaster, d. 1783, m. Judith Pitt (maternally Clary). Thomas Clary: Leg.- niece Judith, wife of Robert Lancaster Jr., pewter dishes. 1.1.1.1. William Lancaster, m. (1) … Moreland, (2) … Wombwell. 1.1.1.1.1. Lawrence Lancaster, d. 1792, Warren Co., m. Mary Williams. May 9, 1751, Lawrence Lancaster of IOW in Nottoway Parish and Solomon Delke of same to divide land that formerly did belong to Edward Moreland, decd … wit: Robert Lancaster, Samuel Lancaster, Joseph Pittman, Arthur Williams. Robert Lancaster Jr’s sister m. Thomas Pittman. Wiliam Lancaster was willed his grandfather’s plantation on Blackwater Swamp. His wife, Mary, was given the administration of his estate on Jan. 21, 1740. D.B. 3, p. 10: To Joseph Holloman … ac. bounded by Blackwater Swamp, Thomas White, and John Champion, being land sold on Aug. 20, 1712 by John Allen, Gent., to Robert Lancaster, the grandfather of the sd. William. 1.2. Samuel Lancaster, m. Elizabeth Harris. *

*Bute (Warren) Co., NC. Book A, p. 77. R. Jan. 23, 1765: *Lawrence Lancaster to Len Henley … sold 330 ac. on Fishing Creek, Elbe’s Branch, where I now live adj. West Harris, Lewis Patterson, William Rowland, John Burch. Wit: Samuel Lancaster, Briton Harris, and John Lancaster. Proved by Briton Harris.

Warren Co. Court Minutes, 17 Feb. 1780, p. 16: Ordered that Matthew Harris be overseer of the road form the Fork of Bobbitt’s Road to the Creek below Nathaniel Harris, and the land of Lawrence Lancaster, Joseph Harris, Charles Harris, James Harris, John Lancaster, Nathaniel Harris, Lawrence Lancaster Jr., Joel Lancaster, and Sterling Harris. Clear and keep the same in repair.

28 Aug. 1792, ibid., p. 230: The last will and testament of Lawrence Lancaster, deceased was proved in open Court by the oath of James Harris, Morris Harris, and Lawrence Lancaster Jr.; William Lancaster and John Lancaster Executors.

Will of James Harris, Sr., 10 April 1800, proved in November Court. Book 11, p. 44: To son Claiborne, half my land, to be laid off on the upper part of the tract next to John Egerton, and part of which he has sold by my consent to his brother James … To son James Harris – the other half of my land … Daughter Celah Bobbitt. Wit: James Frame, William Miller. 20 March 1801; Aug. Ct. Henry Harris to William Malone. Mortgage on a negro to secure debt to James Frame & Co. of 40 Pds. Va. money. James Harris Sr., son of Robert Harris, m. Mary Cole Claiborne in 1753, in Granville, NC. Their son was James Henry Harris, born 1758, who m. Mary Smilley, born in 1767, in Warren County, NC.

Major Lancaster connections.

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PITWAY
1. …
1.1. John Pitway, m. Anne Robins, sister of Edward Robins Sr., who m. Joan Pitway, Nov. 25 1583, in Shipston-on-Stour, and aunt of Edward Robins Jr., and Elizabeth Robins, who m. Stephen Pitway. Edward Robins Sr. was the son of Thomas Robins, who had “customary lands holden of the manor of Lindridge”, claimed by his son, Edward. (C 2/Eliz/R8/35).
1.1.1. John Pitway, m. Elizabeth Tisdall, Oct. 20 1622, in Shipston-on-Stour. Presentment of Thomas Hunt, Constable of Shipston upon Stour: “Anthony Gune and Jane Treble keep unlicensed victualling houses. John Pitway for keeping company drinking in his house at times not fitting besides disorder”. 1635. (Worc. Arch., 1/1/34/115).
1.1.2. Robert Pitway, m. Mary Chamberlin, on July 7, 1629, in Shipston-on-Stour. Mary is claimed as a headright of her husband in 1638, in Charles River territory.
1.1.2.1. Edward Pitway, claimed as a headright of his father, same year and location. Robert Pitway was claimed as a headright in 1637 by Edward Travis* (in James City territory), father of Edward Travis. Jr.
1.1.2.1.1. Elizabeth Pitway, m. Samuel Judkins, son of Samuel Judkins and Lydia … who m. (2) Thomas Pittman, Sr., of Wedmore, Somerset.
1.1.2.1.1.1. Mary Judkins, m. Charles Champion, son of Benjamin Champion Jr., son of Benjamin Champion Sr., son of Edward Champion and Priscilla Moore. Charles Champion was the br. of Ann Champion, Will probated Sept. 23, 1777, wife of Benjamin Bell, son of John Bell, b. 1696 in Spring Swamp IOW, and Hannah, sister of Peter Jefferson, it is commonly assumed; son of John Bell, and Ann, dau. of Richard Bennett Jr., whose father was the second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672; whose cousin, Thomas Blake, m. a sister of Edward Champion.

1.2. Edward Pitway, m. Elizabeth Cotterel,* Nov. 30, 1587. Probate of “Edward Pitwaie of Shipston on Stour, Worcestershire”, May 15, 1613. Will names sons, Stephen, and Edward, and William Pitway, daus. Christian and Sarra. Elizabeth Cotterell was highly likely to have been related to John Cotterell, who m. Alice Raulins, On July 30, 1573, in Bengeworth; and she to Thomas Rawlins, who m. Elizabeth Wilson, on Feb. 7, 1579, in Shipston-on-Stour, the probable parents of Richard Rawlins, who m. Jane Gunne, on Aug. 3, 1606, in Shipston-on-Stour; and they the parents of Roger Rawlins of Virginia. (See as follows – William Pitway, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Roger Rawlings, b. 1634, d. bef. March 5, 1695, and Alice, dau. of William Newsome* and Elizabeth Wilson.
1.2.1. Stephen Pitway, m. (1) Elizabeth Robins*, (2) Kathryn, in Bengeworth. Will of Stephen Pitway, Innkeeper of Bengeworth, Worcestershire, probate March 19 1631, requests burial in Bengeworth, bequests to the poor of that parish, names son, Stephen, “now an apprentce in London” and bequests him his house in Shipston and other estates; names son, William, and bequests him “the house that I bought of William Tandye”; names four daus., Elizabeth, Kathryn, etc., bequesting them £30 and household goods.
1.2.1.1. Stephen Pitway, m. Ann Carter, on Oct. 24, 1641, in Shipston-on-Sour. Cotterell v Pitway. Plaintiffs: Thomas Cotterell and Alice Cotterell his wife. Defendants: Stephen Pitway. Subject: property in Little Hampton, Worcestershire. 1680. (C 10/138/70).
1.2.1.1.1. Edward Pitway, m. Alice ‘Jobson’, Feb. 6, 1656. This appears to be a trancription error (the name Jobson not otherwise appearing in relevant records), and should read ‘Jonson’.
1.2.1.2. Elizabeth Pitway, m. Thomas Marshall, Nov. 29, 1647, in Shipston-on-Sour.
1.2.2. Edward Pitway,* m. Bridget Carter, May 2, 1629, in Shipston-on-Stour. These Carters were desc. of William Carter, who m. Joan Lockley (Loxley), Oct. 14, 1576, in Shipston-on-Stour.

*”Edward Pittway appears to have been one of the leading Quakers of the district, and a man of good position, having been Mayor of Evesham in 1648. When George Fox, in 1655, obtained information that the magistrates of Evesham had put several of his followers in prison … Pittway informed him that the rumour was quite correct, and at night both set out for the town, and in the evening there was “a large and precious meeting” of Friends. The following entry occurs in one of the books of the Evesham Corporation, “5th Oct. 1655. This day Edward Pitway, the capital burgess was removed therefrom; being indicted at the sessions for publishing a scandalous paper against the magistrates; for abusing Mr. Robert Martin ; for his rude behaviour in court; and for his evil behaviour toward Mr. Recorder. A short time after this several of the most prominent Quakers of the district were imprisoned, and others persecuted; but their numbers rapidly augmented. They met at Pittway’s house, afterwards the Red Lion Inn … and subsequently the Northwick Arms. By the year 1675 the Quakers had obtained a distinct burial place at Bengeworth, behind the dwelling-house of Pittway, which, says May, in his “History of Evesham,” remains the property of the society, though at present cultivated as a garden. This piece of land, by feoffment dated 16th July, 1675, was, in consideration of five pounds, conveyed by Edward Pittway, of Bengeworth — and again, by feoffment of 19th March, 1678, by Stephen Pittway — unto trustees (being Quakers), their heirs and assigns“. (William Alfred Cotton, The Coins, Tokens, and Medals of Worcestershire, p. 52, 1885).

“During the Heat of this Persecution (against Quakers) at Worcester, the Mayor and other Magistrates of the Borough of Evesham proceeded with like Severity, for on the 16th of the Month called January 1660, Joshua Frensham, Edward Pitway the Elder, and James Wall, were taken out of their own Houses, and for refusing to Swear, committed to Prison; as were on the next Day twenty others, who were taken at a Meeting there, (inc. John Tandy, Joseph Tandy) … On the 20th of the same Month were taken out of the Meeting at Evesham forty five Persons, and by the Mayor and Recorder committed to Prison (inc. Francis Pitway, Joan Tandy, Anne (Tandy) Brantly, wife of John Brantley, Edward Pitway jun., and Elizabeth Pitway) … And on the 27th, the following fourteen were taken out of a Meeting, and also committed, (inc. Anne Brantly, Francis Pitway, Elizabeth Pitway, and Margaret Tandy). (Joseph Besse, A Collection of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers, v. ii., p. 62, 1752).

CARTER
1. William Carter, m. Joan Lockley, Oct. 14, 1576.
1.1. William Carter.
1.1.1. William Carter (b. ca. 1600), m. (1) Ann Mathis, (2) Avice Turtley, (3) Alice Croxon (relict of Edward Warren, whose previous wife was Grace, relict of Raphael Creed, bapt. Aug. 1605 in Westbury-On-Trym, Gloucester).
1.1.1.1. William Carter Jr., m. Elizabeth, who m. (2) Edward Pitway. May 20. 1668: Edward Petway assigns to Mrs. Alice Carter and (her son) George Carter his right in the land where Mrs. Carter lives, during the life of Elizabeth, wife of Edward Petway, except for fruit; recorded at the request of Edward Warren. Signed; Edward Petway, Alyse Carter, Geo. Carter. Indenture between Mrs. Alice Carter and Edward Warren for 2,500 lb of tob., land from the cart path from the Great Swamp to Chippoakes, formerly left to Peter Adams, adj. William Newsome, to William Harris,* belonging to William Carter, late husband of Alice Carter. Wit. George and Gertrude Watkin, relict of *William Newsome, p. 203. *For his connection to the family of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, see previous notes.
1.1.2. Anne Carter, m. Stephen Pitway.
1.1.3. Bridget Carter, m. Edward Pitway.

JOHNSON
1. Walter Johnson, b. ca. 1485, bur. July 12, 1542, Bengeworth. (All Saints, Evesham with Bengeworth, Worcester).
1.1. Thomas Johnson. *Cottrell v Johnson. Plaintiffs: Stephen Cottrell and Eleanor his wife, daughter and heir of Anne Whateley. Defendants: Thomas Johnson, apothecary of Worcester. Subject: Household goods. 1538-1544. (C 1/972/58). The Johnsons were very likely familial to the Pitways.
1.1.1. Robert Jonson, bapt. March 9, 1543, Feb. 11, 1559.
1.1.2. William Johnson, bapt. Aug. 6, 1547, bur. June 11, 1572.
1.1.3. John Johnson, b. ca. 1548, m. Ann Whittle, May 8, 1571.
1.1.3.1. Robert Johnson, bapt. Dec. 29, 1575. Godfather, Robert Haye. (The Brantleys had Haye Godparents of his family).
1.1.3.2. John Johnson, highly probably, b. ca. 1585.
1.1.3.2.1. Ann Johnson, b. 1620, m. *Edward Travis Sr. He was almost certainly of the Travis family who were tenants of Tredington Manor, 2 mls fr. Shipston-on-Stour. (C 3/448/47).
1.1.3.2.1.1. Edward Travis Jr. William and Mary Quarterly: “Edward Travis (Jr.) married, it is believed, Elizabeth Champion, for a power of attorney was recorded in 1678 in Surry Co. by Edward Travis and Elizabeth, his wife, witnessed by John Champion and William Harrison. (Surry Co. Records.) This John Champion was probably the John Champion, who was living in Isle of Wight County about 1687. (Quarterly, VII., 244.) His tombstone is in the Travis burial ground at the East end of Jamestown Island, according to which he was born November 10, 1660, and died December 16, 1700. He was doubtless a brother of Mrs. Travis”.
1.1.3.2.2. John Johnson.
1.1.3.2.2.1. Robert Johnson, m. Katherine, dau. of Arthur Allen (a Bristol merchant), and Alice, dau. of Gov. Daniel Tucker, b. Droitwich, Worcestershire (20 mls fr. Shipston-on-Stour, a.t.c.f.), who m. (2) John Hardy. ‘Chapman Wills’, 2, p. 146 – “John Hardy: Leg. dau. Olive Driver, wife of Giles Driver (headright of Thomas Harris, d. 1672) … dau. Lucy Councill, wife of Hodges Councill; dau. Debora Hardy; dau. Olive Driver’s two children; dau. Lucy Councill’s three children; my wife’s grandchild John Johnson”. D. Oct 7, 1675. By his first wife, John Hardy was father of Olive and Lucy Hardy.
1.1.3.2.2.2. Thomas Johnson, m. Alice Bennett (dau. of Edward Bennett, and second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), who m. (2) John Hardy, having issue: Lucy Hardy, who m. Hodges Council.
1.1.3.2.2.1. Catherine Johnson, m. Robert Counsell, son of Hodges Counsell and Lucy Hardy.
1.1.3.3. Alice Jonhson, headright of William Carter, 1635, in James City.

It was always relatively simple. Claims of the living just muddied the waters.

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1. Boudewijn (“von Flanderen”), count of Flanders, m. Ælfthryth, dau. of Alfred “the Great”, king of the Anglo-Saxons, and Ealhswith.
1.1. Arnulf I. (“the Great”), count of Flanders; born in 889, in Ghent, East Flanders, d. 965; m. Adele of Vermandois, dau. of Héribert II, count of Vermandois, and Adèle, dau. of Robert I, King of France, and Aélis. His southern expansion led to conflict with the Normans, who were trying to secure their northern frontier, resulting in the 942 murder of William Longsword at the hands of Arnulf’s confederates.
1.1.1. Baldwin III., Count of Flanders, m. Matilda, dau. of Hermann I, duke of Saxony and Hildegard von Westerburg
1.1.1.1. Arnulf (961-March 30, 987), Count of Flanders, m. Rozala, dau. of Berengar II., king of Italy.
1.1.1.1.1. Baldwin (Jan. 8, 980 – May 30, 1035), Count of Flanders, m. (2) Elenore, dau. of Richard II, of Normandy, half-br. Geoffrey, father of Gilbert de Brionne.
1.1.2. Luitgarde, m. Wichman von Hamaland, “burggraaf von Ghent”.
1.1.2.1. Theodric von Ghent, m. Hildegarde.
1.1.2.1.1. Heloise, m. Ansgot. ‘Au commencement du onzième siècle, Bonneville appartenait à un chevalier de race normande, nommé Ansgot, vassal de Gislebert, comte de Brionne, et allié, par sa femme Hellois, aux puissants comtes de Flandres’* (Alfred Canel, Essai historique, archéologique et statistique sur l’arrondissement de Pont-Audemer, p. 314, 1834). *Will. Gem. vi. 9. ‘Mater proximam Ducum Morinorum, quosmoderni Flandros cognominant, consanguinitatem attigit’.

Ansgot et Héloïse eurent trois autres enfants, savoir: Eudes, Roger et une fille mariée à Balderic de Servaville; ils paraissent leur avoir laissé en héritage, outre le fief de Bonneville, le Petit-Quevilly, le Pré, près de Rouen, Surcy-en-Vexin, Cernay, et un manoir à Malleville (Charpillon, Dict. Hist. vol. i., 1868). … Gilbert, comte de Brionne, donna aux religieux la pêche de Pont-Autou, les prés d’Antouel, la forêt et la terre de Malleville et le moulin de Norman. La grande charte de Guillaume le Conquérant mentionne en ces termes les donations de Gilbert de Brionne : Gislebertus comes, servitia alodiorum fratrum Herluini abbatis, aquani Rislae a vadis usque sub Ponte-Autou, quod habebat in Malavilla, molendinum Normanni. Bibl. nat. lat. 13905. fo 115.

One of the most erroneus and repeated myths of Norman genealogy makes Gilbert Crispin I. synonomous with Gilbert, Count of Brionne. Prévost, in his commentaries on Rom. de Rou, t. ii., in MSAN, 1828-1829, gives the source of this misconception, which should not be necessary if the slightest attention is given to the unlikely event of a governor of the castle of Tillières being also the Count of Brionne.

1.1.2.1.1.1. Herlwin. Annales ordinis s. Benedicti occidentalium monachorum patriarchae, in quibus …By Jean Mabillon … Notum fit omnibus christianæ religionis cultoribus , quòd ego abbas Herluinus, filius Ansgoti; astantibus & laudantibus fratribus meis, Odone Rogerio, jubente Gilleberto comite, & Alberto & Ranulfo, consentiente Roberto comite & Roberto arcbiepiscopo, donavi Sanctæ Mariæ tertiam partem terræ de Burnevilla, & hoc quod pertinet ad illam ; & Tavilleio & Surceio , & quod pertinet ad est , & terram de Sernaio,* & hoc quod pertinet ad eam, quæ Ansgotus pater meus in vita sua habuit : dorem quoque matris meæ , jubente patre meo ex integro mibi datam. Coram testibus Fulberto , Vitale , Rainaldo , et aliis multis.

1.1.2.1.2. Erchembald von Ghent, vicecomes (in this instance, sheriff) of Rouen, m. a dau. of Richard de Beaufou and a sister of Emma d’Ivri, Abbess of St. Amand (wife of Osmund the dapifer); granddau. of Sprotta and Esperlenc, thus consanguineous of the Norman ‘dukes’.
1.1.2.1.2.1. Gislebert Crispin, m. Gunnora de Conteville (born 1009), granddau. of Osmund de Conteville, and a sister of Osmund the dapifer, who Gislebert Crispin attempted to defend during the successful attempt to kill him in 1040. Gislebert made a gift to St. Amand to honour Osmund’s memory. He was a vassal of Gilbert de Brionne.

1.1.2.1.1.2.1. Hesilia (Helewise/Heloise) Crispin, m. William Malet; he receiving Conteville by dower.

Sometimes – a lot in a name.

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The Harris families of Bishop’s Hull and Taunton, Somerset, were probably the same family. They were seperated by a distance of 1 mile, and each branch of this family intermarried into the same families – a clear signal of them being synonomous. There were no such familial connections to other Harris families in their vicinity – those situated at Wiveliscombe (8 miles westward), and Cheddar/Wedmore (35 miles north east); a signal of them not being synonomous. The latter two Harris families did share associations with other families, but that was a result of the Wiveliscombe Harris being kin of two very important families in the Virginia/Bristol tobacco trade, those of Bennett and Bland, the result of which was that families local to them sought association. In the same manner, the Harris family of Bishop’s Hull/Taunton would have also sought association. They were already associated with the Herring family of Bishop’s Hull/Taunton, and it was a ‘continuation of association’ – the key element of the English kinship system – that was probably witnessed in 18th century North Carolina, where Harris and Herring families intermarried.

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1.1. John Hearinge (as follows, standardised to Herring), m. Alice Peret, July 18, 1565, Bishops Hull, Somerset.
1.1.1. Mathew Herring.
1.1.1.1. George Herring.
1.1.1.2. John Herring, bapt. April 21, 1583, m. Tamsyn Brynsmead, April 11, 1608, relict of Thomas Harris (m. June 25, 1601). He was bur. July 25, 1607; she was bur. Feb. 19, 1625. By her former husb., she had issue, (1) John Harris, who m. Anstis Kittner, April 19, 1624; they having issue, Tansyn Harris, bapt. Nov. 27, 1624, and John Harris, bapt. Oct. 30, 1626. (2) William Harris, bapt. Aug. 5, 1604. (3) Mary Harris, m. George Mussgrove, Jan. 2, 1619. Thomas Harris probably had brothers, Robert Harris, who m. Catherine Brynsmead, Jan. 16, 1598; and William Harris, noted in his burial entry of Oct. 1, 1606, as a servant of Thomas Harris. These Brynsmeads may have been maternally Browne, as the only extant record which fits on a chronological ground is one of George Brinsmead marrying Alice Browne, Nov. 30, 1570. It is not possible to determine a direct link between this Harris family and the William Harris who d. in 1817 in Muhlenberg Co., NC. – the registers are sparse – yet, he may have had connection to John Harris, a miller, who m. Mary Parsons on Feb. 12, 1701, in Taunton; their issue being John Harris, bapt. March 5, 1705. It can never be known.

1.1.1.3. Nicholas Herring, bapt. Jan. 21, 1588.
1.1.1.3.1. John Herring, bapt. Aug. 11, 1616. He is given as a Herring ancestor in Virginia, a reasonable supposition in that Herring associations in Virginia centred around families local to Bishops Hull.
1.1.1.3.1.1. Anthony Herring. On April 28, 1694, Anthony Herring of Lower Parish, IOW, bought 200 ac. from William West Sr. and his wife, Rebecca. To repeat a common speculation, Rebecca is seen as a dau. of Robert Brasswell Sr., thus, a half-sister of Robert Braswell Jr., who received one-half of his father’s 1,300 ac. estate, and who m. Suzanne Burgess. The Will of Joyce Cripps (1679) named Susan Braswell “my sister’s daughter”, who she ‘Cut off with a shilling’. Robert Braswell’s estate was appraised on May 11, 1668 by Gyles Driver (B. 2, p. 55), headright of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Bridgman Joyner (guardian of an orphan of Thomas Harris, d. 1688); appraised by Thomas Mandew, Giles Driver, Andrew Griffin. R. Dec. 4, 1719. Witnessed by Ann Joyner. (G.B. 23). Robert Braswell’s son, Richard, lived on the plantation of Mathew Tomlin Sr., p. 325, a headright of Nathaniel Floyd (1637), whose relict m. Francis Hobbs, father-in-law of John Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

1.1.1.3.1.1.1. John Herring. B. 3, p. 19, April 5, 1720, Chowan Pct.: held land. adj. Wm. West and Robert Turner.
1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1. Simon Herring. Granted 200 ac. in Johnston Co. NC. (B. 4, p. 1043). October 2, 1751, Granted 600 ac. in Duplin Co. NC. d 1769, Dobbs Co., NC.
1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1.1. Simon Herring, d. 1819, Craven Co. NC.
1.1.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.1. Sussanah Herring, m. John Harris.
1.1.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.1.1. John Harris, d. 1829.
1.1.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. John Harris. 1.1.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.1.2. Daniel Harris, bought from the estate sale of Micajah Casey in Oct. 1800; m. Abbe Sanders in Duplin Co., NC, April 21, 1801. 1.1.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.1.3. William Harris m. Mary Casey (d. 1800, Wayne Co., NC), dau. of Micajah Casey and Sarah Herring, dau. of Benjamin Herring and Mary Bright. William Harris of Muhlenberg Co. deeded to John Casey for his interest in land of which Micajah Casey Jr. died possessed: said Harris an heir-at-law in right of his wife Mary.
1.1.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.2. Mourning Herring, m. John Lewis.
1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1.1.3. James Herring, b. June 15, 1777, Indian Springs, Wayne Co. Will probated in 1845, m. Elizabeth Reeves.
1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1.1.3.1. Elizabeth Harris, mentioned in father’s Will, m. (Oct. 21, 1822), *John Harris, b. Nov. 12, 1800, Wayne Co.; d. Oct. 29, 1893.
1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1.1.3.1.1. James Harris, b. March 20, 1833.
1.1.1.3.1.1.1.2. *Benjamin Herring, m. Mary Bright.

(1. William Harris, b. ca. 1745, d. 1817, Muhlenberg Co., NC.
1.1. William Harris, m. Mary Casey.
1.2. John Harris, m. Sussanah Herring.
1.2.1. John Harris, m. Elizabeth Herring).

1.1.1.3.1.1.2. Anthony Herring Jr. (d. ca. 1760, Johnston Co., NC), m. (1724) Bridget Joyner.

(1. Thomas Joyner, br. of Bridgeman Joyner, guardian of an orphan of Thomas Harris, d. 1688, and Elizabeth, wife of William Kinchen Sr.
1.1. Martha Joyner, m. Thomas Turner, br. of Mary Turner, who m. Edward Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. These Turners were children of John Turner and Mary Tomlin, dau. of Mathew Tomlin Sr., and sister of Mathew Tomlin Jr., father of John Tomlin*.
1.2. Benjamin Joyner, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Pittman and Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Lancaster Jr., and niece of Samuel Lancaster, who m. Elizabeth Harris, dau. of John Harris, bapt. Feb. 18, 1624, nephew of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Robert and Samuel Lancaster were sons of Robert Lancaster Sr. and Sarah, widow of 2nd husband Richard Bennett Sr. (d. 1710. B. 5, p. 224), second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.2.1. Bridget Joyner, m. Anthony Herring. Thomas Turner Sr. sold to Robert Council, 100 ac. on the south side of the Meherrin River. (NC. B.1 p. 17).

1.1.1.3.1.1.3. *Abraham Herring, m. (1718, IOW), Mary, dau. of John Williams, b. March 9, 1691, in Chowan Co., NC.
1.1.1.3.1.1.3.1. Daniel Herring, m. (March 1, 1749 in Wayne Co., NC), Sarah Whitfield.
1.1.1.3.1.1.3.1.1. Benjamin Herring, 1756-1814, m. (Sept. 18, 1780, in Richmond, NC), Mary Shotwell.
1.1.1.3.1.1.3.1.1.1. Daniel Herring, 1782-1839, m. (1804, Duplin) Jane, dau. of Ezekiel Creech.
1.1.1.3.1.1.3.1.1.1.1. Ezekiel Herring (b. Dec. 12, 1809, Duplin -1866), m. (July 22, 1831), Rhoda Suratt, who had previously had a child by a Harris Group 4 male?; if so, which?
1.1.1.3.1.1.3.1.1.1.1.1. Jehu Herring. “On Family Tree DNA’s chart of Harris Group 4 testees, who all appear to be descended through a male line/lines from Harris ancestors in Somerset, is a man with the surname Herring. He says his earliest-traced ancestor was Jehu Herring, born Feb. 25th 1830 in North Carolina. Mr Herring has been tested as far as 111 STR markers. Genetically, he is a perfect Group 4 Harris, with no differences at all to the Harris Group 4 mode (ie. average STR result among 52 testees). His test result numbers are identical to those of a descendant of Solomon Harris, which only go as far as 37 markers, but that is quite sufficient to show that they both stem from a shared family root within a timescale relevant to genealogy, and very probably post-medieval”. (Nick Wormley).
(Test results for a descendant of Jehu Herring: 13 23 14 11 13 14 11 14 11 12 11 28 16 7 9 8 11 23 16 20 29 12 14 15 15 10 10 19 21 14 14 16 20 35 37 12 10.

1.1.1.3.1.1.4. Daniel Herring, witnessed the Wills of (1) John Tomlin (son of Mathew Tomlin Jr.), with John Harris, and Martha Tomlin. R. Feb. 6, 1752. He and Ann Harris witnessed the Will of Mary Fulgham (rec. Feb. 7, 1760), which mentioned her br. John Fulgham, and cousin Anthony Fulgham Jr. March 1, 1769: Godfrey Powell of Newport Par. to Thomas Powell of the same … 150 ac. adj. Moses Eley, the Indian Swamp, William Bullock, John Marshall, and John Burt (being all of the land of Godfrey Powell). Wit: Jethro Gale, Martha Tomlin, John Marshall, and James Hall. Rec: 7 Sept. 1769. Godfrey Powell brought suit against his mother and John Marshall, who appears to be his mother’s uncle. (ibid. p. 305). The said Martha Tomlin was the wife of *John Tomlin Sr. *John Harris appraised the estate of John Tomlin Jr., rec. 1 Feb. 1759. John Tomlin Sr. was the son of Matthew Tomlin Jr., br. of Mary (Tomlin) Turner, wife of Edward Harris Sr.
1.1.1.3.1.1.4.1. Martha Herring, m. Daniel Batten. June 12, 1746: Edward Harris III. and wife Elizabeth to John Batten and Daniel Batten, 240 ac., being part of a patent to Thomas Harris, on Apr. 27, 1686 (B.7, p. 511). Witnesses: William Eley, Daniel Herring, John Harris. This is the land that Thomas Harris left his son, Edward Harris I – 240 ac. in IOW, adj. John Johnson and John Turner.
1.1.1.3.1.1.4.2. Ann Herring, m. John Harris, it is suggested. He was most likely the second-cousin of Edward Harris III, and a son of John Harris, br. of Edward Harris I.

This Indenture made the first day of December 1763 between Jacob Stevens Jun. and Martha his wife of the Co. of Isle of Wight of the one part and William Westray of the same Co. of the other part … to sell unto the said William Westray a certain tract of land containing eightyt acres, beginning at the mouth of a small branch that makes out of the great Neck Branch, up the small branch to a pine, a corner tree of Robert Tomlin’s, along a line of marked trees joining William Rand to a Corner Tree, a hickory joining to John Harris line at the great Neck Branch, down the said branch to the beginning, which said land was by the last Will of Matthew Tomlin deceas’d given to Martha Tomlin his daughter now wife of the said Jacob Stevens (B. 11, pp. 192-194).

I have, it seems countless times, documented the many perplexing relationships between such families of Harris (of which Thomas, d. 1688); Pittman and Turner, all of Cheddar/Wedmore (as the Councils); and the association of this Harris family with that of Moore and Cripps, etc.; and to that of Bennett/Bland/ Harris of Wiveliscombe (of which Thomas d. 1672). Any reader can search this site for recent posts on this subject.

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1. Robert Bennett.
1.1. Edward Bennett.
1.1.1. Alice Bennett m. (1) Thomas Johnson,* (2) John Hardy.
1.1.1.1. Lucy Hardy, m. Hodges Council.
1. Walter Johnson, b. ca. 1485, bur. July 12, 1542, Bengeworth. (All Saints, Evesham with Bengeworth, Worcester). 1.1. Thomas Johnson. Cottrell v Johnson. Plaintiffs: Stephen Cottrell and Eleanor his wife, daughter and heir of Anne Whateley. Defendants: Thomas Johnson,, apothecary of Worcester. Subject: Household goods. 1538-1544. (C 1/972/58). The Johnsons were very likely familial to the Pitways. 1.1.1. Robert Jonson, bapt. March 9, 1543, Feb. 11, 1559. 1.1.2. William Johnson, bapt. Aug. 6, 1547, bur. June 11, 1572. 1.1.3. John Johnson, b. ca. 1548, m. Ann Whittle, May 8, 1571. 1.1.3.1. Robert Johnson, bapt. Dec. 29, 1575. Godfather, Robert Haye, a Godfather of The Brantley family. 1.1.3.2. John Johnson, it is assumed, highly probably, b. ca. 1585. 1.1.3.2.1. Ann Johnson, b. 1620, m. Edward Travis Sr. He was almost certainly of the Travis family who were tenants of Tredington Manor, 2 mls fr. Shipston-on-Stour. (C 3/448/47).

1.1.3.2.1.1. Edward Travis Jr. William and Mary Quarterly: “Edward Travis (Jr.) married, it is believed, Elizabeth Champion, for a power of attorney was recorded in 1678 in Surry Co. by Edward Travis and Elizabeth, his wife, witnessed by John Champion and William Harrison. (Surry Co. Records).

1.1.3.2.2. John Johnson. 1.1.3.2.2.1. Robert Johnson, m. Katherine, dau. of Arthur Allen (a Bristol merchant), of Bacon’s Castle, and Alice, dau. of Gov. Daniel Tucker, b. Droitwich, Worcestershire (20 mls fr. Shipston-on-Stour, a.t.c.f.), who m. (2) John Hardy. ‘Chapman Wills’, 2, p. 146 – “John Hardy: Leg. dau. Olive Driver, wife of Giles Driver; dau. Lucy Councill, wife of Hodges Councill; dau. Debora Hardy; dau. Olive Driver’s two children; dau. Lucy Councill’s three children; my wife’s grandchild John Johnson; son-in-law Robert Burnett; William Mayo. Wife Alice Extx. D. Oct 7, 1675. By his first wife, John Hardy was father of Olive and Lucy Hardy. His Will was witnessed by William Jennings.* R. June 9, 1677.

1.1.3.2.2.2. Thomas Johnson, m. Alice Bennett (dau. of Edward Bennett, and second-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), who m. (2) John Hardy, having issue: Lucy Hardy, who m. Hodges Council. 1.1.3.2.2.1. Catherine Johnson, m. Robert Counsell, son of Hodges Counsell and Lucy Hardy. 1.1.3.3. Alice Jonhson, headright of William Carter, 1635, in James City).

1.2. Thomas Bennett.
1.2.1. Alice Bennett, m. Richard Jackson.
1.2.1.1. Mary Jackson, m. Capt. George Hardy, father-in-law of Edward Harris, d. 1677.
1.2.2. Governor Richard Bennett.
1.2.2.1. Ann Bennett, m. (2) Theoderick Bland.

1.2.2.1.1. Richard Bland, m. Elizabeth (dau. of William Randolph and Mary, dau. of Henry Isham), sister of Isham Randolph, whose dau., Jane, m. Peter Jefferson (having issue: (1) President Thomas Jefferson, (2) Mary Jefferson;* children of Captain Thomas Jefferson, br. of Mary Jefferson, b. ca. 1679, wife of Thomas Harris.*

1.3. John Bennett. 1.3.1. Thomas Bennett, stepfather Elizabeth Pierce (dau. of his wife Alice), who m. (2) Richard Jackson; having issue: Mary, wife of George Hardy, and mother-in-law of Edward Harris, d. 1677.
1.3.1. Richard Bennett Sr., m. (1) Charles Barham’s sister.
1.3.1.1. James Bennett, witnessed the Will of Joseph Bridger, business partner of Thomas Harris. d. 1672.
1.3.1.2. Ann Bennett, d. 1708, m. John Goode.
1.4. Elianor Bennett, m. Richard Harris, son of William Harris, who m. Dorothy Westbrooke, Aug. 31, 1562, at Wivelscombe, Somerset.
1.4.1. Thomas Harris, m. Judith Blake, November 20, 1623, at Wivelscombe.
1.4.1.1. Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.4.1.1.1. *Thomas Harris, m. Mary Jefferson. Deborah Portis, widow of John Portis,* appoints Richard Bennett, son of *Richard Bennett, Sr. and Thomas Harris, her attorneys.
1.4.1.1.1.1. Ann Harris, m. John Goode,* son of John Goode and Ann Bennett, dau. of Richard Bennett Sr.

1.4.1.1.1.2. William Harris m. Frances Goode, sister of *John Goode, and Samuel Goode: Samuel Goode, m. Martha, dau. of Philip Jones of Henrico, whose gift to his son-on-law was witnessed by Francis Eppes. William Harris of Lunenburg Co., Va. to William Tibbs of same for 10 pds, 100 acres, part of 1000 acre tract William Harris since sold to William Reade. Witness: William Jones. Frances, wife of William Harris, relinquished her right of dower. (D.B. 4, p. 209, 1755). “The Deposition of Samuel Good taken for William Marble in a Suit of Chancery now Depending in Lunenburgh County betwixt the said Marable Complainant and William Harris Defendant. This Deponent being of the Age of Thirty years or there abouts being first sworn Doth say That he had of the said Harris Ten Barrells of Corn (as he believes) for a horse. That he was to have had the ten Barrells made up Fifteen but that he never received more than two or three Barrells more”. (1746/7).

1.4.1.1.1.3. John Harris, m. Ursula Jordan. “I bequeath and dispose of in the manner following Imprimis I give and Bequeath unto my Brother Benjamin Harris and his heirs forever Fifty four Acres of Land be the same more or Less being part of a Tract of Land (granted unto me by an Excheat patent from Jacob Maton) the Southside the main Road in King William Parish. item I give and Bequeath unto my Brother William Harris all the Lands I purchased of Susanna Carner being Sixty Acres more or Less also forty Acres of Land be the same more or less purchased of Thomas Richardson and Inventory two Acres of Land be the same more or Less purchased of Henry Trent Unto the Said William Harris and his Heirs forever … Item I give and Bequeath unto my son John Harris all that Tract or parcel of Land Lying on both sides of Jones’s Creek and Adjoining Robert Good and Cap’t Thomas Porter Unto my said son John Harris and his heirs Lawfully begotten of his Body forever … Item I give unto my son John Harris to him and his heirs forebear all the Remainder of my Estate both Real & Personal Item My Will is that if my said Daughter Elizabeth Flournoy and my said son John Harris should depart this Life and leave no Issue that my Manner Plantation be Equally divided between my two Brothers Benjamin Harris and William Harris … And Lastly I do hereby constitute and Appoint my three Brothers James Harris, Benjamin Harris William Harris and Samuel Flournoy to be the Executors of this my last will and Testament as Witness my hand & Seal This 28th day of March, 1749, In presence of us Bennet Goode, John Harris, Charles Clarke.

1.4.1.1.1.3.1. John Harris, m. a daughter of Thomas Turpin and *Mary Jefferson.

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Simply put, did Edward Brantley Sr. m. a sister of Thomas Moore (b. 1632), who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Giles Elbridge, security given by George Moore (cousin of Thomas), and Edward Brantley Sr., thereby being br.-in-law of Priscilla Moore, wife of Edward Champion (the br.-in-law of Thomas Blake, neighbour of Edward Brantley Sr. in Virginia, and cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672). Did he m. a sister of George Moore?, being br.-in-law of Katherine Moore, and uncle of Katherine Flake, whose husband, William Evans, of Bristol, withessed his Will. Or, did he m. a sister of Edward Champion, being br.-in-law of both Thomas Blake and Elias Fort.

Also put simply, English settlers in 17th century Virginia abided by the English custom of marriages within their kinship group, living next to each other, and witnessing each others Wills, as sons-in-law, brothers-in-law, etc. In this context, although it may not be possible to identify exact relationships where written proof does not exist, it is certain that close kinship is identified.

1. Robert More of Lincoln, Secretary to Anne Boleyn, ma. Joane da. and one of the coheirs of John Gent of Crimplesham in Norf., gent. 1.1. Thomas Moore, “of ye City of Bristoll Esq., sometime Sheriffe there”. 1.1.1. John Moore. 1.1.2. Edward Moore, of Shoreditch. Gr . by R. Cook , Clar., July 14, 1593: Arg., two greyhounds courant Sa. 1.1.3. Thomas Moore.
1.1.3.1. Edward Moore. “Edward Moore of Bristoll Esq., sonne and heire”: adm. freeman Aug. 27, 1617, having served his apprenticeship with John Fones (Burgess Book. 1607–1651, fo. 84); m. Mary, dau. of John Cullimore, of Bristol, son of Thomas Colymore, of Bristol, gent, and a sister of Margery, wife of Thomas Aldworthe.
Thomas Aldworthe of the city of Bristol, alderman and merchant, Will proved March 5, 1598. To my brother Richard Aldworthe of London twenty pounds, and to my cousin Robert Aldworthe, his son, two hundred pounds. To John Aldworthe, my brother Richard’s son, two hundred pounds. “Giles Elbridge, son of William Elbridge, apothecary, of the City of Gloucester, was bound apprentice to Robert Aldworth and Martha his wife, of Bristol, 13 June, i6o8, and was admitted a Burgess 1 Oct., 1615, in virtue of this service, Robert Aldworth being then an Alderman of the City, and whose partner he subsequently became. His first wife was Elizabeth Aldworth, daughter of John Aldworth, the brother of his former master, to whom he was married before 1624. He married, secondly, at St. Stephen’s, Bristol, 30 April, 1635, Mrs. Mary Hooke, daughter of Humphrey Hooke, merchant and Alderman of Bristol. She was buried 30 Nov., 1637, in the Aldworth Family vault in the Church of St. Peters, Bristol. Giles Elbridge died in 1643 and was buried, 25 Feb., of that year, in the same vault with his wife. His will was probated in the Prerogative Court at London, 19 March, 1643-4”. Clues from English Archives Contributory to American Genealogy, The New York Genealogical and Biographical record, vol. 91).

Elizabeth Aldworth’s sister, Martha, m. Thomas Barker, of Bristol, who was, thus, the uncle of Elizabeth Elbridge, who m. Thomas Moore, security being Edward Brantley Sr. and George Moore, cousin of Thomas, and possible br.-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr. The marriage of Thomas Barker accounts for the connection of the Brantleys in Virginia with the Harris family of Blagdon, familial to the Barkers.

1.1.3.1.1. Thomas Moore, travelled to Virginia in 1635, with cheese, butter, and cloth; his sponsor being John Digby, 1st Earl Bristol (1622); a member of the Virginia Company. (Various PRO). 1.1.3.1.1.1. Thomas Moore (b. 1632), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Giles Elbridge, security given by George Moore* and Mr. Edward Brantley. 1.1.3.1.1.2. Priscilla Moore, sister, on chronological grounds, of Thomas Moore, m. Edward Champion, br.-in-law of Thomas Blake, neighbour of Edward Brantley Sr. in Virginia, and cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. 1.1.3.1.2. George Moore, d. Aug. 11, 1643; m. Magdalena … 1.1.3.1.2.1. *George Moore, of Bristol, b. ca. 1630, m. Jane Barcroft, dau. of Charles Barcroft (Bearcroft), whose family held land in Chard, Somerset. 1.1.3.1.2.1.1. Ann Moore, m. Thomas White. ( Their estate eas appraised by John Goodrich Jr., and Edward Brantley. (Chapman, Wills, p. 142). 1.1.3.1.21.1.1.1. Avis White, m. John Harris, son of Robert Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. 1.1.3.1.2.1.2. Eleanor Moore, m. Richard Piland, the son of James Piland, bapt. on Aug. 30, 1604, in St Mary’s Le Porte, Bristol, headright of Francis England, in 1642. 1.1.3.1.2.1.2.1. James Piland, appraised the estate of John Brantley, on April 26, 1725. 1.1.3.1.2.1.3. Magdalene Moore, m. (1673) Thomas Carter, son of Thomas Carter and Eleanor Groves, of Bristol, relict of William Groves, whose estate was appraised by John Harris (son of Thomas, d. 1672), Edward Brantley, and Elias Fort. R. Feb. 9, 1678. (B. 2, p. 172). 1.1.3.1.2.2. Katherine Moore, m. (1) … 1.1.3.1.2.2.1. Joyce …* m. (1) Francis England, (2) George Cripps. 1.1.3.1.2.2. Katherine Moore, m. (2) Robert Flake. Katherine Flake, m. (1) William Evans, who witnessed the Will of Edward Brantley Sr.

BRANTLEY
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1.1. John Brantley, bur. Oct. 5, 1592, m. a sister of Thomas Haye, June 26, 1563, in Bengeworth, Worcestershire. The Haye family were frequently Godparents of Brantley children.
1.1.1. Alice Brantley, bapt. July 17, 1564.

1.1.2. John Brantley, bapt. Oct. 1, 1566.

1.1.2.1. Robert Brantley, m. Joan Goodrich, Oct. 16, 1589, in St. Mary, Cheltenham, 15 mls fr. Evesham, dau. of Robert Goodrich, whose family are recorded in Cheltenham Manorial Court records: On Sept. 8, 1610, before *Henry Norwood, a record was made if the death of “Elianor Gooderich relict of Walter Gooderich late tenant in base tenure of 2 messuages with appurtenances lying in Ham in Charlton Kings has died since the last court”. Joan Goodrich was certainly closely related to Richard Goodrich (probably sister), father of Roger Goodrich, bapt. Feb. 9, 1606, and Richard Goodrich, bapt. Jan. 24, 1608, in Charlton Kings, the incomplete records of which probably hide: John Goodrich, 1616-1698, by deposition. He witnessed the Will of *Joyce Cripps, recorded June 9, 1679 (W&D B. 2, p. 202), which mentioned: “the lands and tenements given me by my former husband, Francis England. Joyce Cripps was possibly a niece of Edward Brantley Sr.

(1. Robert Goodrich. 1.1. Joan Goodrich, m. Robert Brantley. 1.1.1. Edward Brantley. 1.1.1.1. Edward Brantley, of Virginia. 1.1.1.1.1. John Brantley Sr. 1.1.1.1.1.1. John Brantley Jr., his estate was appraised by James Piland, on April 26, 1725).

(1. Henry Norwood,* bur. April 10, 1618, Dunster, Somerset. 1.2. Richard Norwood. 1.2.1. William Norwood, bapt. Sept. 6, 1619, Dunster, d. 1702, in 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). 1.2.1.2. Lydia Norwood, m. John Sowerby. 1.2.1.2.1. Jane Sowerby, m. John Deberry, br.-in-law of John Brantley, son of Edward Brantley Sr).

1.1.2.1.1. Edward Brantley, b. ca. 1590. Tickeridge v Staples. Plaintiffs: Thomas Tickeridge, younger son of Thomas Tickeridge, son and executor of Nicholas Tickeridge, gent. Defendants: … Robert Brantly, yeoman, Edward Brantly, his son. Subject: Forcible entry and damage at Evesham by colour of a sham Chancery injunction. 1607. (STAC 8/283/22). Edward Brantley, m. (Aug 1, 1610), “Ann Graveston”, in Saint Swithin, Worcester, 13 mls. fr. Evesham, the dau. of John Gravison: Writ to the Sheriff to arrest Thomas Price of Ribbesford, Andrew Dallowe, John Gravison of Evesham, and Robert Dylworth, of Hanbury. June 1, 1602 . (Worc. Archive, 1/1/15). They probably fell foul of the law for “keeping an alehouse without license”, as charged against “Andrew Dallowe of Rocke Husbandman”. (1609, ibid. 1/1/73).

1.1.2.1.1.1. Edward Brantley, of Virginia, b. ca. 1615; this being one conjecture, and probably the most realistic one. It can not be taken as granted, though, that his father was not he noted in Virginia in 1638.

1.1.2.2. Thomas Brantley, m. (1587) Christian Burley, dau. of “Gyles Byrleye”, bapt. July 16, 1542, in Bengeworth.
1.1.2.2.1. Thomas Brantley, bapt. Dec. 31, 1587.
1.1.2.2.2. Edward Brantley, d. inf. 1.1.2.2.3. John Brantley, m. Ann Tandy, dau. of Robert Tandy Sr. Boswood v Horne. Plaintiffs: John Boswood. Defendants: John Horne, Elizabeth Horne his wife, Robert Francklyn, John Brantly, and Edward Field. Subject: personal estate of the deceased Robert Tandy, of Worcestershire. 1657. (C 6/137/7).
1.1.2.2.4. Robert Brantley. This is highly likely he whose Will is documented as ‘Will of Robert Brantley, Yeoman of All Saints Worcester, Worcestershire’, dated April 10, 1659, in which he describes himself “of Evesham”, and names wife, Johan, sons Edward and John. The Will is of the highly conditional type, with clauses as to the devolvement of bequests in the event of the death of legatees. Edward’s portion was to devolve to his sisters. John, evidently the younger son, was given £400 to be paid within a year of Robert’s death. it is evident that Robert Brantley was wealthy.

1.1.2.2.4.1. Edward Brantley, b. ca. 1615. (Must be of interest).

1.1.2.2.4.2. John Brantley.
1.1.2.2.4.2.1. William Brantley, bapt. Jan. 17, 1640, All Saints, Evesham.

English Kinship groups were a bit like small haystacks, with relatively few combinations of needles within them. It most comes down to which needle you bet on.

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The Thomas Harris of Cheddar designated as 1.4 hereinafter was not a br. of John Harris of Blagdon. They were kinsmen (of the “Harris of Bristol”), and lived with a few miles of each other. The notation given him is for the illustrative purpose of denoting close kinship, and shows that a member of his family did not intermarry with a descendant of the Moores until ca. 1715. The Barker connection to the Moores, and hence the connection of the Harris family of Blagdon, greatly pre-dated this, and so, consequently, did their connection to the Brantleys. A connection of a Harris family connected to the Barkers in Virginia would result in a strong connection to the Brantleys. Harris of Bristol = Salmon.

1. John Harris, bapt. April 7, 1558, d. 1633. (Blagdon).
1.1. Joan Harris, bapt. May I, 1603. Her second husband, John Osen, was the father-in-law of James Derrick, cousin of Francis Derick Jr., bapt. March 10, 1607, in Long Ashton (9 mls N. of Blagdon), who bought land from Dorothy, “daughter of the late deceased Sergeant John Harris”, p. 113.
1.2. William Harris, m. Dorothy Bath, Nov. 17, 1628.
1.2.1. John Harris, bapt. 1633.
1.2.1.1. Thomas Harris, bapt. Jan. 26, 1654.
1.2.2. Dorothy Harris, bapt. June 1, 1636, d. June 3.
1.2.3. William Harris, bapt. Oct. 4, 1640, m. Judith …
1.2.3.1. William Harris, bapt. April 13, 1665.

1.3. Sergeant (probably) John Harris, bapt. 1589/90, in Blagdon, (of the “Harris of Bristol”, see previous notes), possibly m. Dorothy Poule (Poole/Poolie/Pooley), bapt. July 20, 1595, in Loxton (7 mls W. of Blagdon); daughter of Thomas Poule, and sister of Christopher Poule, bapt. Sept. 19, 1585, and Matthew Poule, bapt. Oct. 7, 1592; and presumably related to William Poule, who m. Rebecca Hatchet, Jan. 10, 1586, in Loxton, which is situated 6/7 mls fr. Cheddar/Wedmore.

It was in this latter place that a branch of the Poule family were situated, and where these marriages took place: Thomas Poole, m. Susanna Lyde, May 2, 1596; Henry Poole, m. Christian Counsell, Oct. 31, 1636, thus, having links to the Hodges family (intermarried with Lydes), and the Counsells, intermarried with the Hodges, from whence Hodges Counsell of Virginia.

Reverend Greville Pooley, age 46, in 1623, in Virginia, made a complaint in the House of Burgesses, on June 4, 1623, against Cecily Jordan. On June 14, 1623, Captain Issac, Mary Maddison, and “Sargeant John Harris” were summomed before the Council of Virginia regarding the supposed contract of marriage between Mr. Greville Pooley and Mrs. Cecily Jordan a few days after the death of her husband. “John Harris sworne and examined saith that he heard Mrs. Jordan say that Mr. Pooley “aught thank himself for he might fared the better but for his own words”.

Mr. Pooley’s Christian name may have been corruption of Gravell; a family of that name being established in Bishopsworth, in Bedminster (10 mls N. of Blagdon), being tenants of lands from 1566 owned by “Henry Mansuer of Inner Temple, London, and Smyth and Pigott families of Long Ashton”, along with “the Harris of Bristol“. (S.H.C. DD\X\CC/1). The Derricks were tenants of the Smyths of Long Ashton, and the Smyths were familial to “the Harris of Bristol”, again, see previous notes. The relevant parish registers are fragmentary, and therefore can not preclude Mr. Pooley being related to Dorothy Poule, his mother being of the Gravell family, and he being a kinsman of Sergeant John Harris.

1.3.1. Dorothy Harris. Sold land to Francis Derrick Jr. She probably m. John Barker, b. 1613.
1.3.2. John Harris, infant in 1624, witnessed a bond of Robert Mosley to John Felton in 1654, concerning land “joyneing upon the lands which was John Harryes lyeing in the County of Surry in Virginia commonly called Upper Chippoakes”. (V.C.R, v. xi, p. 31). William Lea sold this land to William Simmons Sr.* May 2, 1654.
1.3.2.1. John Harris, d. 1697/8. The estate of John Harris, d. 1697/1698, was administered by John Barker Jr.
1.3.2.2. William Harris, d. 1711. Either he or his br., John, m. sister of John Barker Jr., or a dau. of Thomas Busby, whose son and namesake m. Mary Simmons, dau. of *William Simmons Sr., and sister of William Simmons Jr.,* whose land adjoined that of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30. John Barker Jr. m. a dau. of Thomas Busby.
1.3.2.2.1. Henry Harris, b. ca, 1685, admon. of mother’s estate. R. June 16, 1711. Wit. John Barker Jr. He appraised the estate of Elizabeth, relict of Richard Norwood, of Dunster, Somerset, (his appraisal by Edward Brantley, Oct. 25, 1731); with Thomas Cook (rec. Jan. 28, 1733, p. 386); the latter’s Will was witnessed by John Brantley (rec. Nov. 22, 1736, p. 186). Richard Norwood’s niece, Jane Sowerby, m. John Deberry, br.-in-law of John Brantley, son of Edward Brantley Sr. (For Brantley relationships, see previous notes).
1.3.2.2. Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30. His relict m. Edward Brantley, nephew of Edward Brantley Sr. whose estate was appraised by Henry Harris and Thomas Barrow, July 25, 1737(B. 4., p. 176), husband of Elizabeth Brantley, dau. of John Brantley, son of Edward Brantley Sr. In his Will, Thomas Harris names a brother, Henry Harris, son Joshua, and also an ‘unborn child wife now goes with’. (Thomas).

The farm of Thomas Harris was shown by his patent to have been adj.  “William Simmon’s line”, on March 24, 1725, and “adj. Herbert’s branch”, and on “both sides of the Meherrin river”.

1.4. Thomas Harris, m. Joan Gardner, bapt. Apr. 6, 1617, in Cheddar (4 mls fr. Blagdon), sister of John Gardner, bapt. Nov. 1, 1621, in Cheddar, who m. (2) Mary Coomer, on Oct. 24, 1664. John Gardner, dying intestate admin. requested by relict, Mary. Security Thomas Joyner,* James Gardner, 1684, p. 56. *Br. of Bridgman Joyner, guardian of an orphan of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. These families had strong connections to the Counsell family.
1.4.1. Thomas Harris, bapt. 1637, d. 1688.
1.4.1.1. Robert Harris, b. ca. 1665. (The only certain son).
1.4.1.1.1. John Harris, b. ca. 1690, m. a granddau. of George Moore, of Bristol, who stood surety, with Edward Brantley Sr. (his possible br.-in-law) for the marriage of his cousin, Thomas Moore, to Elizabeth, dau. of Giles Elbridge, of Bristol, and Elizabeth Aldworth (dau. of John Aidworth), and sister of Martha, who m. Thomas Barker.*

It is not possible to understand anything connected to the most likely candidate for being Sergeant John Harris without understanding his likely connection to the Derrick and Barker families. It is very likely the case that Dorothy Harris sold land to a kinsman, the usual avenue of this time.

The farm of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, was very likely that of Sergeant John Harris. There is a clear connection between the John Harris who witnessed the transaction in 1654, concerning land “joyneing upon the lands which was John Harryes”, and the farm of Thomas Harris, who d. in 1729/30; and an equally strong connection between the John Harris who was baptised on Blagdon in 1589/90 and the Derrick and the Barker families; one of the latter having owned the farm of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.

It is not strain to join these dots. The descendants of this distinct branch of a Harris family of Somerset, descendants of Solomon Harris, can suggest their ancestor was Sergeant John Harris with some creditability, without anything like the mental gymnastics associated with other claims.

CONDENSED BARKERS

1. William Barker, of Hopton Castle, Salop.
1.1. John Barker, d. 1607.
1.1.1. John Barker, of Bristol, merchant, bapt. Nov. 30, 1584 On Nov. 22, 1627, he is recorded as the owner of the Mary Rose as Baker query Barker.
1.1.1.1. Elizabeth Barker, m. John Goninge, merchant partner of Francis Derrick Sr., who probably m. John Goninge’s sister.
1.1.1.2. John Barker (Baker), b. 1613, m. Dorothy Harris.
1.1.2. Thomas Barker, m. Martha, dau. of John Aldworth, and sister of the wife of Giles Elbridge: their dau. m. Thomas Moore, security being Edward Brantley Sr. and George Moore, cousin of Thomas, and possible br.-in-law of Edward Brantley Sr.
1.2. Richard Barker, d. 1614, m. Sarah, b. ca. 1570. Her Will, proved Aug. 25, 1637, bequeathed property in Bristol to her son, William.
1.2.1. William Barker, bapt. on May 7, 1592, in St. Werburgh’s, Bristol; merchant and mariner, who deposed his age to be 37 in 1629.
1.2.1.1. Sara Barker, m. Richard Taylor, Oct. 27, 1646, in Rappahannock, who owned land adj. that of Sergeant John Harris, which enentually devolved to William Simmons Jr., neighbour of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30. “William Lea and Alice (Feltham), his wife, to William Heath, 150 acres … formerly Thomas Felton’s … joyneing upon the lands which was John Harryes lyeing in the County of Surry in Virginia commonly called Upper Chippoakes”. Ordered that Wm. Lee pay unto Richard Taylor 350 lbs of good tobacco and cask due per a bill of his predecessor, Thomas Felton”. As given previously, the Taylors were tenants in Long Ashton, as the Derricks, of the Smith family, and originally were tenants of the Smiths in Bedminster.
1.2.1.2. John Barker, settled on Chippoakes, in 1649.
1.2.1.2.1. *John Barker Jr., m. Grace Busby, sister of Thomas Busby Jr., who m. Mary Simmons, dau. of *William Simmons Sr., and sister of William Simmons Jr., whose land adjoined that of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, ancestor of Solomon Harris, whose proven descendant has a standard HG4 DNA profile.

When I ask some ‘Harris researchers of old’, if you had yor time of conjecture again, would you choose a different Harris ancestor? the reply is mostly in the affirmative.

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No one will ever know for sure the identity of Sergeant John Harris of Virginia, who had deceased by Oct. 14, 1638, yet the conjecture that he was he was baptised in the Somerset village of Blagdon in 1589/90 has many merits. An even stronger case can be made for him being a kinsman of the Thomas Harris (father of Thomas Harris, d. 1688), who m. Joan Gardner, bapt. Apr. 6, 1617, in Cheddar (4 mls fr. Blagdon), sister of John Gardner, bapt. Nov. 1, 1621, in Cheddar, who m. (2) Mary Coomer, on Oct. 24, 1664. John Gardner, dying intestate admin. requested by relict, Mary. Security Thomas Joyner,* James Gardner, 1684, p. 56. *Br. of Bridgman Joyner, guardian of an orphan of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.

This Thomas was the grandfather of John Harris, who m. a granddau. of George Moore, of Bristol, who stood surety, with Edward Brantley Sr. (his possible br.-in-law) for the marriage of his cousin, Thomas Moore, to Elizabeth, dau. of Giles Elbridge, of Bristol, and Elizabeth Aldworth (daughter of John Aidworth), and sister of Martha, who m. Thomas Barker,* whose relationship to Barker and Harris families in Virginia is detailed hereinafter. What can be stressed here is the shared (Brantley) association of the Harris families of Cheddar and Blagdon, thus, it is rather more to be expected as not that a descendant of Sergeant John Harris, or of his family, Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, had close associations to the Brantleys.

Neither will anyone know who Francis Derrick Jr. married, yet, in the context that nearly all Bristol seafaring, merchant partners of similar age were brs.-in-law, it is reasonable to suppose his wife was a sister of his partner, John Goninge Sr., whose son and namesake m. a dau. of John Barker (br. of *Thomas Barker); his son, Francis Derrick Jr., who bought land from the dau. of Sergeant John Harris, on Oct. 14, 1638, thus, being kinsman of these Barkers. The said. dau. of Sergeant John Harris m. John Barker (Baker), b. 1613 (it is strongly suggested, these Barkers being variously known as Baker, see as follows); br. of Elizabeth Barker (who m. the said John Goninge, son of John Goninge, part owner in 1629, with Francis Derrick Sr. and Humphrey Hooke, of the ships ‘The Hope’, ‘The Little Charles’, and ‘The Fortune’); nephew and niece of *Thomas Barker.

Claiming descendancy from Sergeant John Harris has attracted contrived accounts which are not worth repeating, which are necessarily devoid of the fact that a John Harris in 1654 witnessed a transaction of land that bordered that of Sergeant John Harris. This John Harris seems to have been the father of John and William Harris, whose grandson, Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, owning land adjoining that of the 1654 transaction; that is, most probably, the farm of Sergeant John Harris.

To the conjecture that Solomon Harris, great-grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, was a descendant of Sergeant John Harris, a caveat could be added – if the ‘Sergeant’ was he born in Blagdon, it should be noted that he had two nephews, John and William.

In what follows, I have incorporated the view of some researchers, who suggest that either John or William Harris, probably the latter, m. a sister of John Barker Jr., rather than a sister of John Barker Jr’s wife (my view).

SERGEANT JOHN HARRIS

1. John Harris, bapt. April 7, 1558, d. 1633. (Blagdon).
1.1. Joan Harris, bapt. May I, 1603. Her second husband, John Osen, was the father-in-law of James Derrick, cousin of Francis Derick Jr., bapt. March 10, 1607, in Long Ashton (9 mls N. of Blagdon), who bought land from Dorothy, “daughter of the late deceased Sergeant John Harris”, p. 113.
1.2. William Harris, m. Dorothy Bath, Nov. 17, 1628. He was involved in litigation with John Osen in 1649. Harris v Osen. Plaintiffs: William Harris. Defendants: John Osen and Joan Osen his wife. Subject: property in Blagdon, Somerset. (1649. C 6/132/98).
1.2.1. John Harris, bapt. 1633.
1.2.1.1. Thomas Harris, bapt. Jan. 26, 1654.
1.2.2. Dorothy Harris, bapt. June 1, 1636, d. June 3.
1.2.3. William Harris, bapt. Oct. 4, 1640, m. Judith …
1.2.3.1. William Harris, bapt. April 13, 1665.

1.3. John Harris, bapt. 1589/90, in Blagdon. Sergeant John Harris, 90%.
1.3.1. Dorothy Harris. Sold land to Francis Derrick Jr., inherited from George Cockett (her probable uncle), a reasonably common name around Blagdon, and, in the Bristol basin patois of the time, similar to Caucot, etc. See as follows for the Derricks.
1.3.2. John Harris, infant in 1624, witnessed a bond of Robert Mosley to John Felton in 1654, concerning land “joyneing upon the lands which was John Harryes lyeing in the County of Surry in Virginia commonly called Upper Chippoakes“. (V.C.R, v. xi, p. 31). William Lea sold this land to William Simmons Sr.* May 2, 1654. “These presents shall engage us, William Lea and Alice Lea assignes to deliver to Thomas Busby (father-in-law of John Barker Jr.), one grey mare presently downe, for him to posess & his heires, greatly to enjoy for ever. And wee the said William & Alice Lea doe rattifie & confirme, by the virtue of this our act & deed, peaceable possession of the said Mare with her increase unto the said Busby & his heires as aforesaid. Further wee doe bind ourselves & our heires to warrant the sale of the said mare to defend forever in law and to acknowledge the sale to be lawfull in Surry County Court (Surry Co. Deeds, 1, p. 162).
1.3.2.1. John Harris, d. 1697/8.
1.3.2.2. William Harris, m. Elizabeth,* a possible sister of John Barker Jr.,* son of John Barker Sr., son of William Barker, bapt. on May 7, 1592, in St. Werburgh’s, Bristol; merchant and mariner. Thomas Busby’s son and namesake m. Mary Simmons, dau. of *William Simmons Sr., and sister of William Simmons Jr.,* whose land adjoined that of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30. *Her widow’s estate admon. by (eldest son) Henry Harris. R. June 16, 1711. Wit. John Barker Jr.*

BARKER

(1. John Barker Sr.
1.1. *John Barker Jr., m. Grace Busby, sister of Thomas Busby Jr., who m. Mary Simmons, dau. of *William Simmons Sr., and sister of William Simmons Jr., whose land adjoined that of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30
1.1.1. Sarah Barker, m. Robert Lanier Jr.
1.1.2. Elizabeth Barker, m. Christopher Foster, d. 1710.
1.1.2.1. Christopher Foster, d. 1776, m. Alice Fort. (She was of a family strongly associated with the Brantleys).
1.1.2.1.1. Amy Foster, m. John Westbrook. (The Harris of Cheddar descended from a Westbrook heiress).
1.1.2.1.2. John Foster.
1.1.2.1.2.1. Sarah Foster, m. Walter Gilliam, parents of Lydia Gilliam, who m. John Watkins. Their dau., Millie Watkins, m. Solomon Harris, great-grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.
1.1.3. John Barker, m. Mary Mooring, dau. of Christopher Mooring and Mary Simmons, sister of *William Simmons Jr., whose lands, to repeat adjoined those of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.
1.1.3.1 Joshua Barker.
1.1.3.2. John Barker.
1.1.4. Hannah Barker, m. Walter Lashley.
1.1.4.1. Patrick Lashley. The estate of John Harris, d. 1697/1698, was administered by John Barker Jr. and Patrick Lashley.
1.2. Joel Barker.
1.2.1. Joel Barker.*
1.3. On July 6, 1685, Jethro Barker, on july 6, 1685, sold to John Harris 120 ac. located N. of his land).

1.3.2.2.1. Henry Harris. This was the Henry Harris associated with the Brantley/Norwood families: 1. Henry Norwood,* bur. April 10, 1618, Dunster, Somerset. 1.2. Richard Norwood. 1.2.1. William Norwood, bapt. Sept. 6, 1619, Dunster, d. 1702, in 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). Richard Norwood was the husb. of Elizabeth, whose estate was appraised by by Henry Harris and Thomas Cook (rec. Jan. 28, 1733, p. 386); the latter’s Will was witnessed by John Brantley (rec. Nov. 22, 1736, p. 186). 1.2.1.2. Lydia Norwood, m. John Sowerby. 1.2.1.2.1. Jane Sowerby, m. John Deberry, br.-in-law of John Brantley, son of Edward Brantley Sr. (For Brantley relationships, see previous notes). This Henry Harris was born no later than 1690. He owned land on Flatt Swamp, as his br., Thomas.
1.3.2.2.1.1. Benjamin Harris, d. 1774, m. Faith Smith, dau. of Lawrence Smith and Jane Regan.
1.3.2.2.1.1.1. Absolom Harris, m. Elizabeth Tarver, dau. of Andrew Tarver and Elizabeth Jordan, the sister of Priscilla Browne, who m. (2) Thomas Blunt, whose first wife was Mary Gilliam, by whom they had a dau. m. to *Joel Barker.

1.3.2.2.2. Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30, m. Hannah Judkin, d. April 10, 1739, who m. 1. Thomas Harris. 2. Christopher Clinch, d. Dec. 13, 1736, 3. Edward Brantley, nephew of Edward Brantley Sr., estate appraised by Henry Harris and Thomas Barrow, July 25, 1737. (B. 4., p. 176). In his Will, Thomas Harris names a brother, Henry Harris, son Joshua, and also an ‘unborn child wife now goes with’. (Thomas). Thomas Barrow m. Elizabeth Brantley, dau. of John Brantley, son of Edward Brantley Sr.

The farm of Thomas Harris who d. in 1729/30 was shown by his patent to have been adj. this latter “William Simmons line”, on March 24, 1725, and “adj. Herbert’s branch”, and on “both sides of the Meherrin river”. Its location is described here: A General Assembly, House of Delegates, report of 1828 gives indication of this: “That the petition of divers inhabitants of the county of Southampton, praying that all that part of the said county within the following bounds, to wit: by a line beginning at Taylor’s bridge on Meherrin river, including the said bridge; thence along the main road leading to Southampton (formerly IOW) courthouse, to the Flat Swamp; thence up the meanders of the said swamp to Harris’s old mill-pond; thence up the south fork of the said swamp known by the name of Herbert’s branch, to a black gum; thence along a line of marked trees, to a pine in Thorp’s old mill-run; thence down the said mill-run, to the Three creeks; thence up the said creek, to the Sussex line; thence along the said line, to Meherrin river; thence down the said river to the beginning, may be added to the county of Greensville, be rejected”.

1.3.2.2.2.1. Joshua Harris.
1.3.2.2.2.1.1. Thomas Harris.
1.3.2.2.2.1.1.1. Solomon Harris. The test results for a descendant (with Family Tree DNA) are a perfect match with Harris Group 4 males.

DERRICK

Francis Derrick Sr., of Long Ashton, Somerset, d. 1637,in 1632 gifted bread to the poor of St. Stephen’s, in Bristol. The same year he granted to Humphrey Hooke and others, parishioners of St Stephen’s, a yearly rent of 52s out of his tenement there. Francis Derrick Sr. was part owner in 1629 (with John Goninge and Humphrey Hooke), of the ships ‘The Hope’, ‘The Little Charles’, and ‘The Fortune’. It was almost invariably the case that merchant partners of Bristol were in-laws. John Goninge’s wife was Elizabeth, dau. of John Barker,* of Bristol, merchant. John Barker bapt. Nov. 30, 1584, 1st s. of John Barker, merchant, of Hopton Castle, Salop, m. (1) Aug. 30, 1607, Elizabeth, da. of William Spicer, merchant, of Exeter, Devon, 2s. 5 da.; (inc. Elizabeth Goninge) (2) Apr. 10, 1626, Mary, da. of John Fownes (Fones), merchant, of Bristol, wid. of Matthew Rogers of Alderley, Glos., 1s.; bur. 8 Apr. 1636. Humphrey Hooke’s dau. m., Apr. 30, 1635, Mr. Giles Elbridge, of Bristol, merchant, “a pioneer colonist in Virginia” along with Robert Aldworth. (R. Hargreaves-Mawdsley, A Record of the First Settlers in the Colonies of North America, 1654-1685).

“Giles Elbridge, son of William Elbridge, apothecary, of the City of Gloucester, was bound apprentice to Robert Aldworth and Martha his wife, of Bristol, 13 June, i6o8, and was admitted a Burgess 1 Oct., i6i5, in virtue of this service, Robert Aldworth being then an Alderman of the City, and whose partner he subsequently became. His first wife was Elizabeth Aldworth, daughter of John Aidworth, the brother of his former master, to whom he was married before 1624. He married, secondly, at St. Stephen’s, Bristol, 30 April, 1635, Mrs. Mary Hooke, daughter of Humphrey Hooke, merchant and Alderman of Bristol. She was buried 30 Nov., 1637, in the Aldworth Family vault in the Church of St. Peters, Bristol. Giles Elbridge died in 1643 and was buried, 25 Feb., of that year, in the same vault with his wife. His will was probated in the Prerogative Court at London, 19 March, 1643-4”. Clues from English Archives Contributory to American Genealogy, The New York genealogical and biographical record, vol. 91

Giles Elbridge’s son, Aldworth Elbridge, “of the city of Bristol, merchant”, Sept. 1, 1653: “Imprimis, to my cousin Thomas Moore (his executor), twenty punds of lawful English money”; meaning his br.-in-law, wife of his sister, Elizabeth, as specified in the Will. He identifies himself as son of “Giles Elbridge merchant deceased”. The securities for the marriage of Thomas Moore and Elizabeth Elbridge were George Moore, cousin, whose granddau. m. a grandson of Thomas Harris, d. 1688, and Mr. Edward Brantley, possible br.-in-law of George Moore. *John Barker’s probable brother was William Barker, bapt. on May 7, 1592 in St. Werburgh’s, Bristol; merchant and mariner, who deposed his age to be 37 in 1629, and mate of the Hopewell, which sailed fom Virginia on New years Eve of that year for England, under Captain Richard Russell. (P.W. Coldham, English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660, p. 23, 1984). William Barker was a partner of Francis Derrick Jr: April 13, 1639: Bond of Francis Derrick (the younger), of Bristol, and William Barker, of Ratcliffe, Middlesex, to the King, in 1,000l. conditioned for the appearance of Derrick before the Council, to answer an accusation of piracy pretended to have been committed by him upon a Spanish ship in a voyage to Virginia, ca. Oct. 11, 1636’. Francis Derrick Jr.was mentioned as being in Virginia in 1639 (Passenger and Immigration List), and as dying there in 1640. His estate inventory describes him as a merchant venturer ‘who dyed beyound the Seas’ (Bristol Record Office; appraised May 7, 1640). He bought land that had been given by George Cawcott to Dorothy Harris, dau. of Sergeant John Harris, from Dorothy and her husband, John Baker, on October 14, 1638, p. 668. Given that ship manifests sometimes recorded the Barkers as Bakers, see previous notes, it is not unreasonable to conjecture that Dorothy Harris had m. a Barker.

BARKER

1. William Barker, of Hopton Castle, Salop., m. Elizabeth, sister of William Tittely, of Salop.
1.1. John Barker, d. 1607, m. Edith, da. of John Blanchard.
1.1.1. John Barker was also recorded as John Baker. In Cal. State Papers, Charles I., p. 291, he is recorded as owning “the Mary Rose of Bristol” in partnership with John Taylor and William Pitt, Jan. 2, 1627; the same for June 2, 1626. On Nov. 22, 1627, he is recorded as the owner of the Mary Rose as Baker query Barker. Earler ships manifests record him as Barker or Baker.
1.1.1.1. Elizabeth Barker, m. John Goninge, son of John Goninge, part owner in 1629 (with Francis Derrick Sr. and Humphrey Hooke), of the ships ‘The Hope’, ‘The Little Charles’, and ‘The Fortune’.
1.1.1.2. John Barker (Baker), b. 1613, m. Dorothy Harris.
1.1.2. Thomas Barker, m. Martha, dau. of John Aldworth, and sister of the wife of Giles Elbridge: their dau. m. Thomas Moore, security being edward Brantley Sr.

1.2. Richard Barker, d. 1614, m. Sarah, b. ca. 1570. Her Will, proved Aug. 25, 1637, shows her owning properties in Redcliffe Street, and the playhouse in Wine Street, which she bequeathed to her son, William. (Mark Cartwright Pilkinton, Rec. of Early Eng. Drama, Bristol, p. 40, 1997.
1.2.1. William Barker, bapt. on May 7, 1592, in St. Werburgh’s, Bristol; merchant and mariner, who deposed his age to be 37 in 1629.
1.2.1.1. John Barker, settled on Chippokes Creek in 1649. . “William Lea and Alice (Feltham), his wife, to William Heath, 150 acres … formerly Thomas Felton’s … joyneing upon the lands which was John Harryes lyeing in the County of Surry in Virginia commonly called Upper Chippoakes”. Ordered that Wm. Lee pay unto Richard Taylor 350 lbs of good tobacco and cask due per a bill of his predecessor, Thomas Felton”. Richard Taylor was the br.-in-law of John Barker Sr., having married his sister, Sara, Oct. 27, 1646, in Rappahannock. He was the probable son of Richard Taylor,* son of Richard Taylor, evidenced here: Counterpart lease. 1. Hugh Smythe of Long Ashton, esquire. (Landlord of the Derrick family of that place). 2. Richard Taylor of Bedminster, sailor, and Katherine his wife. *Richard Taylor m. Mary Woodward, Sept. 2. 1602, in Long Ashton, aunt of Martha Woodward, who m. Richard Bradford, Aug. 15, 1632, in Easton in Gordano, 5 mls fr. Long Ashton; having issue: Richard Bradford (bapt. Nov. 23, 1634, in Easton in Gordano, who d. after July 14, 1716, in Westover Parish, Charles City), who m. Frances Taylor, dau. of Sara Barker and Richard Taylor.
1.2.1.1.1. John Barker Jr., the br.-in- law of John Harris. Will probated May 19, 1714. Some researchers maintain that John Harris m. a sister of John Barker Jr.
1.2.1.1.1.1. John Barker, m. Mary, dau. of Christopher Mooring and a dau. of William Simmons Jr.; the neighbour of Thomas Harris, d. 1729/30.

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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.

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