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Saint Louis took two crusades, one in 1248-1249 and again in 1270. On June 12, 1248, Louis left Paris, accompanied by his wife and three brothers. Their immediate objective was Egypt, whose Sultan, Melek Selah, had been overrunning Palestine. Damietta, at the mouth of one of the branches of the Nile, was easily taken. Louis and the Queen, accompanied by his brothers, the nobles, and prelates, made a solemn entry into the city, singing "Te Deum". The King issued orders that all acts of violence committed by his soldiers should be punished and restitution made to the persons injured. He forbade the killing of any infidel taken prisoner, and gave directions that all who might desire to embrace the Christian faith should be given instruction, and, if they wished it, baptized. Yet as long as the army was quartered around Damietta, many of his soldiers fell into debauchery and lawlessness. The rising of the Nile and the summer heat made it impossible for them to advance and follow up their success. After six months they moved forward to attack the Saracens on the opposite side of the river, in Mansourah. The ranks of the crusaders were thinned more by disease than by combat. In April, 1250, Louis himself, weakened by dysentery, was taken prisoner, and his army was routed.
In Louis IX of France were united the qualities of a just and upright sovereign, a fearless warrior, and a saint. This crusading king was a living embodiment of the Christianity of the time: he lived for the welfare of his subjects and the glory of God. His father was Louis VIII, of the Capet line, and his mother was the redoubtable Queen Blanche, daughter of King Alfonso of Castile and Eleanor of England. Louis, the oldest son,* was born at Poissy on the Seine, a little below Paris, on April 25,1214, and there was christened. Much of his virtue is attributed to his mother's care, for the Queen devoted herself to her children's education. Louis had tutors who made him a master of Latin, taught him to speak easily in public and write with dignity and grace. He was instructed in the arts of war and government and all other kingly accomplishments. But Blanche's primary concern was to implant in him a deep regard and awe for everything related to religion. She used often to say to him as he was growing up, "I love you my dear son, as much as a mother can love her child; but I would rather see you dead at my feet than that you should commit a mortal sin." Louis never forgot his upbringing. His friend and biographer, the Sieur de Joinville,[1] who accompanied him on his first crusade to the Holy Land, relates that the King once asked him, "What is God?" Joinville replied, "Sire, it is that which is so good that there can be nothing better." "Well," said the King, "now tell me, would You rather be a leper or commit a mortal sin?" The spectacle of the wretched lepers who wandered along the highways of medieval Europe might well have prompted a sensitive conscience to ask such a question. "I would rather commit thirty mortal sins," answered Joinville, in all candor, "than be a leper." Louis expostulated with him earnestly for making such a reply. "When a man dies," he said, "he is healed of leprosy in his body; but when a man who has committed a mortal sin dies he cannot know of a certainty that he has in his lifetime repented in such sort that God has forgiven him; wherefore he must stand in great fear lest that leprosy of sin last as long as God is in Paradise." After a reign of only three years, Louis VIII died, and Queen Blanche was declared regent for her eleven-year-old son. To forestall an uprising of restless nobles, she hastened the ceremony of Louis' coronation, which took place at Rheims on the first Sunday of Advent, 1226. The boy was tall, and mature for his age, yet he trembled as he took the solemn oath; he asked of God courage, light, and strength to use his authority well, to uphold the divine honor, defend the Church, and serve the good of his people. The ambitious barons, who were not present at the coronation, were soon making extravagant demands for more privileges and lands, thinking to take advantage of the King's youth. But they reckoned without the Queen; by making clever alliances, she succeeded in overcoming them on the battlefield, so that when Louis assumed control some years later, his position was strong. In May, 1234, Louis, then twenty, married Margaret, the oldest daughter of Raymond Beranger, Count of Provence. They had eleven children, five sons and six daughters. This line continued in power in France for five hundred years. In 1793, as the guillotine fell on Louis XVI, it will be recalled that the Abbe Edgeworth murmured: "Son of St. Louis, ascend to Heaven!" After taking the government of the realm into his hands, one of the young King's first acts was to build the famous monastery of Royaumont, with funds left for the purpose by his father. Louis gave encouragement to the religious orders, installing the Carthusians in the palace of Vauvert in Paris, and assisting his mother in founding the convent of Maubuisson. Ambitious to make France foremost among Christian nations, Louis was overjoyed at the opportunity to buy the Crown of Thorns and other holy relics from the Eastern Emperor at Constantinople. He sent two Dominican friars to bring these sacred objects to France, and, attended by an impressive train, he met them at Sens on their return. To house the relics, he built on the island in the Seine named for him, the shrine of Sainte-Chapelle, one of the most beautiful examples of Gothic architecture in existence. Since the French Revolution it stands empty of its treasure. Louis loved sermons, heard two Masses daily, and was surrounded, even while traveling, with priests chanting the hours. Though he was happy in the company of priests and other men of wisdom and experience, he did not hesitate to oppose churchmen when they proved unworthy. The usual tourneys and festivities at the creation of new knights were magnificently celebrated, but Louis forbade at his court any diversion dangerous to morals. He allowed no obscenity or profanity. "I was a good twenty-two years in the King's company," writes Joinville, "and never once did I hear him swear, either by God, or His Mother, or His saints. I did not even hear him name the Devil, except if he met the word when reading aloud, or when discussing what had been read." A Dominican who knew Louis well declared that he had never heard him speak ill of anyone. When urged to put to death the rebel son of Hugh de la Marche, he would not do so, saying, "A son cannot refuse to obey his father's orders." In 1230 the King forbade all forms of usury, in accordance with the teachings of the Christian religion. Where the profits of the Jewish and Lombard money-lenders had been exorbitant, and the original borrowers could not be found, Louis exacted from the usurers a contribution towards the crusade which Pope Gregory was then trying to launch. He issued an edict that any man guilty of blasphemy should be branded. Even the clergy objected to the harshness of this penalty, and later, on the advice of Pope Clement IV, it was reduced to a fine, or flogging, or imprisonment, depending on circumstances. Louis protected vassals and tenants from cruel lords. When a Flemish count hanged three children for hunting rabbits in his woods, he had the man imprisoned, and tried, not by his peers, as was the custom, but by ordinary civil judges, who condemned him to death. Louis spared the count's life, but fined him heavily and ordered the money spent on religious and charitable works. He forbade private wars between his feudal vassals. In his dealings with other great princes, he was careful not to be drawn into their quarrels. If, when putting down a rebellion, he heard of damage inflicted on innocent people, by his or the enemy's forces, he invariably had the matter examined and full restitution paid. Barons, prelates, and foreign princes often chose him to arbitrate their disputes. A rising of the nobles in the southwest occurred in 1242, but the King's armies quickly put it down, although Henry III of England had come to their aid. After recovering from a violent fever in 1244, Louis announced his long-cherished intention of undertaking a crusade to the East. Although his advisers urged him to abandon the idea, he was not to be moved from his decision. Elaborate preparations for the journey and settling certain disturbances in the kingdom caused him to postpone his departure for three and a half years. All benefices in Christendom were ordered taxed a twentieth of their income for three years for the relief of the Holy Land. Blanche was to be regent during the King's absence. On June 12, 1248, Louis left Paris, accompanied by his wife and three brothers. Their immediate objective was Egypt, whose Sultan, Melek Selah, had been overrunning Palestine. Damietta, at the mouth of one of the branches of the Nile, was easily taken. Louis and the Queen, accompanied by his brothers, the nobles, and prelates, made a solemn entry into the city, singing . The King issued orders that all acts of violence committed by his soldiers should be punished and restitution made to the persons injured. He forbade the killing of any infidel taken prisoner, and gave directions that all who might desire to embrace the Christian faith should be given instruction, and, if they wished it, baptized. Yet as long as the army was quartered around Damietta, many of his soldiers fell into debauchery and lawlessness. The rising of the Nile and the summer heat made it impossible for them to advance and follow up their success. After six months they moved forward to attack the Saracens on the opposite side of the river, in Mansourah. The ranks of the crusaders were thinned more by disease than by combat. In April, 1250, Louis himself, weakened by dysentery, was taken prisoner, and his army was routed. During his captivity. the King recited the Divine Office every day with two chaplains and had the prayers of the Mass read to him. He met insults with an air of majesty which awed his guards. In the course of negotiations for his liberation, the Sultan was murdered by his emirs. The King and his fellow prisoners were released, though the sick and wounded crusaders left in Damietta were slain. With the remnant of his army Louis then sailed to the Syrian coast and remained in that region until 1254, fortifying the cities of Acre, Jaffa, Caesarea, and Tyre, which as yet remained in Christian hands. He visited the Holy Places that were in the possession of Christians, encouraging their garrisons, and doing what he could to strengthen their defenses. Not until news was brought him of the death of his mother did he feel that he must return to France. He had now been away almost six years, and even after his return, he continued to wear the cross on his shoulder to show his intention of going back to succor the Eastern Christians. Their position worsened, and within a few years Nazareth, Caesarea, Jaffa, and Antioch had been captured.
Louis sailed with his forces from Aigues-Mortes, at the mouth of the Rhone, on July 1, 1270, heading for Tunis, where, he had been told, the emir was ready to be converted and join the expedition to win back the Holy Places. The crusade was a dismal failure. On landing at Carthage, Louis learned to his dismay that the information about the emir was false. He decided to wait there for reinforcements from the King of Sicily. Dysentery and other diseases broke out among the crusaders, and Louis' second son, who had been born at Damietta during the earlier crusade, died. That same day the King and his eldest son, Philip, sickened, and it was soon apparent that Louis would not recover. He was speechless all the next morning, but at three in the afternoon he said, "Into Thy hands I commend my spirit," and quickly breathed his last. His bones and heart were taken back to France and kept enshrined in the abbey-church of St. Denis, until they were scattered at the time of the Revolution. Louis was strong, idealistic, austere, just; his charities and foundations were notable, and he went on two crusades. Little wonder that a quarter of a century after his death the process of canonization was started and quickly completed the man who was "every inch a king" became a saint of the Church in 1297, twenty-seven years after his death.
St. Louis's relations with the Church of France and the papal Court have excited widely divergent interpretations and opinions. However, all historians agree that St. Louis and the successive popes united to protect the clergy of France from the encroachments or molestations of the barons and royal officers. It is equally recognized that during the absence of St. Louis at the crusade, Blanche of Castile protected the clergy in 1251 from the plunder and ill-treatment of a mysterious old marauder called the "Hungarian Master" who was followed by a mob of armed men — called the "Pastoureaux." The "Hungarian Master" is said to have died in an engagement near Villaneuve and the entire band of his followers pursued in every direction was dispersed and annihilated.
St. Louis led an exemplary life, bearing constantly in mind his mother's words: "I would rather see you dead at my feet than guilty of a mortal sin." His biographers have told us of the long hours he spent in prayer, fasting, and penance, without the knowledge of his subjects. The French king was a great lover of justice. French fancy still pictures him delivering judgements under the oak of Vincennes. It was during his reign that the "court of the king" (curia regis) was organized into a regular court of justice, having competent experts, and judicial commissions acting at regular periods. These commissions were called parlements and the history of the "Dit d'Amiens" proves that entire Christendom willingly looked upon him as an international judiciary. It is an error, however, to represent him as a great legislator; the document known as "Etablissements de St. Louis" was not a code drawn up by order of the king, but merely a collection of customs, written out before 1273 by a jurist who set forth in this book the customs of Orléans, Anjou, and Maine, to which he added a few ordinances of St. Louis.
St. Louis was a patron of architecture. The Sainte Chappelle, an architectural gem, was constructed in his reign, and it was under his patronage that Robert of Sorbonne founded the "Collège de la Sorbonne," which became the seat of the theological faculty of Paris.
He was renowned for his charity. The peace and blessings of the realm come to us through the poor he would say. Beggars were fed from his table, he ate their leavings, washed their feet, ministered to the wants of the lepers, and daily fed over one hundred poor. He founded many hospitals and houses: the House of the Felles-Dieu for reformed prostitutes; the Quinze-Vingt for 300 blind men (1254), hospitals at Pontoise, Vernon, Compiégne.
The Enseignements (written instructions) which he left to his son Philip and to his daughter Isabel, the discourses preserved by the witnesses at judicial investigations preparatory to his canonization and Joinville's anecdotes show St. Louis to have been a man of sound common sense, possessing indefatigable energy, graciously kind and of playful humour, and constantly guarding against the temptation to be imperious.
St. Louis's canonization was proclaimed at Orvieto in 1297, by Boniface VIII. Of the inquiries in view of canonization, carried on from 1273 till 1297, we have only fragmentary reports published by Delaborde ("Mémoires de la société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ilea de France," XXIII, 1896) and a series of extracts compiled by Guillaume de St. Pathus, Queen Marguerite's confessor, under the title of "Vie Monseigneur Saint Loys" (Paris, 1899).
The above has been excerpted from a paper by Kevin Knight of the New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia, URL http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09368a.htm and from "Lives of Saints", Published by John J. Crawley & Co., Inc.
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Last Instructions to his Eldest Son
Then he [Louis] called my Lord Philip, his son, and commanded him, as if by testament, to observe all the teachings he had left him, which are hereinafter set down in French, and were, so it is said, written with the king's own saintly hand:
"Fair son, the first thing I would teach thee is to set thine heart to love God; for unless he love God none can be saved. Keep thyself from doing aught that is displeasing to God, that is to say, from mortal sin. Contrariwise thou shouldst suffer every manner of torment rather than commit a mortal sin.
"If God send thee adversity, receive it in patience and give thanks to our Saviour and bethink thee that thou hast deserved it, and that He will make it turn to thine advantage. If He send thee prosperity, then thank Him humbly, so that thou becomest not worse from pride or any other cause, when thou oughtest to be better. For we should not fight against God with his own gifts.
"Confess thyself often and choose for thy confessor a right worthy man who knows how to teach thee what to do, and what not to do; and bear thyself in such sort that thy confessor and thy friends shall dare to reprove thee for thy misdoings. Listen to the services of Holy Church devoutly, and without chattering; and pray to God with thy heart and with thy lips, and especially at Mass when the consecration takes place. Let thy heart be tender and full of pity toward those who are poor, miserable, and afflicted, and comfort and help them to the utmost of thy power.
"Maintain the good customs of thy realm and abolish the bad. Be not covetous against thy people and do not burden them with taxes and imposts save when thou art in great need.
"If thou hast any great burden weighing upon thy heart, tell it to thy confessor or to some right worthy man who is not full of vain words. Thou shalt be able to bear it more easily.
"See that thou hast in thy company men, whether religious or lay, who are right worthy and loyal and not full of covetousness, and confer with them oft; and fly and eschew the company of the wicked. Hearken willingly to the Word of God and keep it in thine heart, and seek diligently after prayers and indulgences. Love all that is good and profitable and hate all that is evil, wheresoever it may be.
"Let none be so bold as to say before thee any word that would draw or move to sin, or so bold as to speak evil behind another's back for pleasure's sake; nor do thou suffer any word in disparagement of God and of His saints to be spoken in thy presence. Give often thanks to God for all the good things he has bestowed on thee, so that thou be accounted worthy to receive more.
"In order to do justice and right to thy subjects, be upright and firm, turning neither to the right hand nor to the left, but always to what is just; and do thou maintain the cause of the poor until such a time as the truth is made clear. And if anyone has an action against thee, make full inquiry until thou knowest the truth; for thus shall thy counsellors judge the more boldly according to the truth, whether for thee or against.
"If thou holdest aught that belongeth to another, whether by thine own act or the act of thy predecessors, and the matter be certain, make restitution without delay. If the matter be doubtful, cause inquiry to be made by wise men diligently and promptly.
"Give heed that thy servants and thy subjects live under thee in peace and uprightness. Especially maintain the good cities and commons of thy realm in the same estate and with the same franchises as they enjoyed under thy predecessors; and if there be aught to amend, amend and set it right, and keep them in thy favor and love. For because of the power and wealth of the great cities, thine own subjects, and especially thy peers and thy barons and foreigners also will fear to undertake aught against thee.
"Love and honor all persons belonging to Holy Church, and see that no one take away or diminish the gifts and alms paid to them by thy predecessors. It is related of King Philip, my grandfather, that one of his counsellors once told him that those of Holy Church did him much harm and damage in that they deprived him of his rights, and diminished his jurisdiction, and that it was a great marvel that he suffered it; and the good king replied that he believed this might well be so, but he had regard to the benefits and courtesies that God had bestowed on him, and so thought it better to abandon some of his rights than to have any contention with the people of Holy Church.
"To thy father and mother thou shalt give honor and reverence, and thou shalt obey their commandments. Bestow the benefices of Holy Church on persons who are righteous and of a clean life, and do it on the advice of men of worth and uprightness.
"Beware of undertaking a war against any Christian prince without great deliberation; and if it has to be undertaken, see that thou do no hurt to Holy Church and to those that have done thee no injury. If wars and dissensions arise among thy subjects, see that thou appease them as soon as thou art able. "Use diligence to have good provosts and bailiffs, and inquire often of them and of those of thy household how they conduct themselves, and if there be found in them any vice of inordinate covetousness or falsehood or trickery. Labor to free thy land from all vile iniquity, and especially strike down with all thy power evil swearing and heresy. See to it that the expense of thy household be reasonable.
"Finally, my very dear son, cause Masses to be sung for my soul, and prayers to be said throughout thy realm; and give to me a special share and full part in all the good thou doest. Fair, dear son, I give thee all the blessings that a good father can give to his son. And may the blessed Trinity and all the saints keep and defend thee from all evils; and God give thee grace to do His will always, so that He be honored in thee, and that thou and I may both, after this mortal life is ended, be with Him together and praise Him everlastingly. Amen."
The above sourced in Joinville, "Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Lewis", contained in "Memoirs of the Crusades", Everyman Edition.
The best contemporary account of Louis is contained in the "Memoirs of Sieur de Joinville".
Feastday: August 25 Patron of Third Order of St. Francis, France, French monarchy; hairdressers | Saint Louis IX. King of France (I2062)
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Saint Mathilda (or Matilda) (c. 895 – 14 March 968) was the wife of King Henry I of Germany, the first ruler of the Saxon Ottonian (or Liudolfing) dynasty, thereby Duchess consort of Saxony from 912 and German Queen from 919 until 936. Their eldest son Otto succeeded his father as German King and was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 962. Matilda's surname refers to Ringelheim, where her comital Immedinger relatives established a convent about 940.
The details of Saint Matilda's life come largely from brief mentions in the Res gestae saxonicae of the monastic historian Widukind of Corvey (c. 925 – 973), and from two sacred biographies (the vita antiquior and vita posterior) written, respectively, circa 974 and circa 1003.
St. Mathilda was the daughter of the Westphalian count Dietrich and his wife Reinhild, and her biographers traced her ancestry back to the legendary Saxon leader Widukind (c. 730 – 807). One of her sisters married Count Wichmann the Elder, a member of the House of Billung.
As a young girl, she was sent to the convent of Herford, where her grandmother Matilda was abbess and where her reputation for beauty and virtue (probably also her Westphalian dowry) is said to have attracted the attention of Duke Otto I of Saxony, who betrothed her to his recently divorced son and heir, Henry the Fowler. They were married at Wallhausen in 909. As the eldest surviving son, Henry succeeded his father as Saxon duke in 912 and upon the death of King Conrad I of Germany was elected King of Germany (East Francia) in 919. He and Matilda had three sons and two daughters:
1.Hedwig (910 – 965), wife of the West Frankish duke Hugh the Great, mother of King Hugh Capet of France
2.Otto (912 – 973), Duke of Saxony, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor
3.Gerberga (913 – 984), wife of (1) Duke Giselbert of Lorraine and (2) King Louis IV of France
4.Henry (919/921 – 955) was Duke of Bavaria
5.Bruno (925 – 965), Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lorraine
After her husband had died in 936, Matilda and her son Otto established Quedlinburg Abbey in his memory, a convent of noble canonesses, where in 966 her granddaughter Matilda became the first abbess. At first she remained at the court of her son Otto, however in the quarrels between the young king and his rivaling brother Henry a cabal of royal advisors is reported to have accused her of weakening the royal treasury in order to pay for her charitable activities. After a brief exile at her Westphalian manors at Enger, where she established a college of canons in 947, Matilda was brought back to court at the urging of King Otto's first wife, the Anglo-Saxon princess Edith of Wessex.
Matilda died at Quedlinburg, she outlived her husband by 32 years. Her and Henry's mortal remains are buried at the crypt of the St. Servatius' abbey church.
Veneration:
Saint Matilda was celebrated for her devotion to prayer and almsgiving; her first biographer depicted her (in a passage indebted[citation needed] to the sixth-century vita of the Frankish queen Radegund by Venantius Fortunatus) leaving her husband's side in the middle of the night and sneaking off to church to pray. St. Mathilda founded many religious institutions, including the canonry of Quedlinburg, which became a center of ecclesiastical and secular life in Germany under the rule of the Ottonian dynasty, as well as the convents of St. Wigbert in Quedlinburg, in Pöhlde, Enger and Nordhausen in Thuringia, likely the source of at least one of her vitae.
She was later canonized, with her cult largely confined to Saxony and Bavaria. St. Mathilda's feast day according to the German calendar of saints is on March 14.
Primary sources:
Widukind, Res gestae Saxonicae, ed. Paul Hirsch and H.-E. Lohmann, Die Sachsengeschichte des Widukind von Korvei. MGH SS rer. Germ. in usum scholarum 60. Hanover, 1935. Available online from the Digital Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Vita Mathildis reginae antiquior (c. 974, written for her grandson Otto II), ed. Bernd Schütte. Die Lebensbeschreibungen der Königin Mathilde. MGH SS rer. Germ. in usum scholarum 66. Hanover, 1994. 107-142. Available from the Digital MGH; ed. Rudolf Koepke. MGH SS 10. 573-82; tr. in Sean Gilsdorf, Queenship and Sanctity, 71-87.
Vita Mathildis reginae posterior (c. 1003, written for her great-grandson Henry II), ed. Bernd Schütte. Die Lebensbeschreibungen der Königin Mathilde. MGH SS rer. Germ. in usum scholarum 66. Hanover, 1994. 143-202. Available from the Digital MGH; ed. Georg Pertz. MGH SS 4: 282-302; tr. in Sean Gilsdorf, Queenship and Sanctity, 88-127.
Secondary sources:
Corbet, Patrick. Les saints ottoniens. Sainteté dynastique, sainteté royale et sainteté féminine autour de l'an mil. Thorbecke, 1986.
Gilsdorf, Sean. Queenship and Sanctity: The Lives of Mathilda and the Epitaph of Adelheid. Catholic University of America Press, 2004.
Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik. Böhlau Verlag, 1989. 7-18.
Schmid, Karl. "Die Nachfahren Widukinds," Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 20 (1964): 1-47.
Schütte, Bernd . Untersuchungen zu den Lebensbeschreibungen der Königin Mathilde. MGH Studien und Texte 9. Hanover, 1994. ISBN 3-7752-5409-9.
"St. Matilda". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
Further reading:
Schlenker, Gerlinde. Königin Mathilde, Gemahlin Heinrichs I (895/96-968). Aschersleben, 2001.
Stinehart, Anne C. "Renowned Queen Mother Mathilda:" Ideals and Realities of Ottonian Queenship in the Vitae Mathildis reginae (Mathilda of Saxony, 895?-968)." Essays in history 40 (1998). | Saint Matilda (I11740)
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Samuel was Master and part owner of the ketch barge the LADY SONDES which foundered 14 August 1884 with all hands and considerable loss of life, including his own.
Samuel, born during 1840, was not one to buck the family tradition and eagerly followed in his family's footsteps towards pursuing a life on the sea. Other than as a child, he does not reappear on the census until 1881. Obviously, he spent a great deal of time away from home. However, in 1871 is the fist appearance of his family. He married Mary Ann of Deptford, circa 1864 and had at least ten children. In 1871 Mary Ann and her children were living at 30 South Road.
As at the 1881 census, Samuel and his family were still living at 30 South Road. For the first time, he was at home on census night and gave his occupation as that of mariner.
By 1891 Mary Ann, then a widow, had moved to 7 Whitstable Road. It was most likely necessary for Mary Ann to become resourceful and find remunerative work to support her large brood. On that census she was described as being a laundress. The five youngest children were living her; Frank working also, as a gardener, and Walter as a grocer's assistant. The family had also taken in a boarder, Mary Langabeer who was an elementary school teacher from Thorncliffe. The house on Whitstable Road was described as being larger than 5 rooms so it would seem that Mary Ann did well by her family doing what was required to keep them out of debt and out of the workhouse. No sign of the other children on the 1891 census and most likely the boys had moved awawy or gone to sea. Ada had possibly married.
Frederick is the only child for whom a marriage in Faversham occurs. He married Elizabeth Anne Young, 16 May 1889. At that time, Fred was working as a fireman and living at 8 Victoria Street, Stratford. | MILSTED, Samuel (I2619)
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Sarah died without issue, most likely during pregnancy or childbirth. Unfortunately, there is no entry in the parish registers that suggests that Sarah had been buried with an infant child. | GREGORY, Sarah (I2486)
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Sarah Hodges, according to the Bodeker family Bible kept for the children of Emma Hodges and Wilhelm Heinrich Michael Bodeker, died 22 July 1863 and was buried in Deptford Cemetery. She was 66 years of age at her death, placing her birth circa 1797. It is interesting to note that the original entry of the age appears to have been changed from 67 years to 66 years.
On first page of Bible inscriptions appears:
"Sarah Hills" [at the top of the page]
"October 21, 1823" [immediately beneath the name Sarah Hills but written in a different hand]
The records of the following cemeteries are held at Hither Green cemetery (Hither Green (formerly Lee) cemetery Verdant Lane, SE6 - 1873 to date (indexed from 1920)) and crematorium. The staff there will search the records for a fee. There is no public access.
Brockley (formerly Deptford) cemetery, Brockley Road, SE4 - 1858 to date (indexed from 1920)
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MAIDSTONE and Neighbourhood 1851
Hill Mrs. Ann, ‘Nag’s Head’, Week street
Hills Francis, beer retailer & grocer, Mote road
Hills John Hyde, tailor & woollen draper, Week street
Hills Richard, tailor, Pudding lane
Hills Thomas, ‘Red Lion’, High street
Hills Walter, plumber, Stone street
Hills William B. collector of paving rates, Brewer street
Hodges John, beer retailer, Bower place
Hodges Mrs. Sarah, beer retailer, Jeffrey street
MAIDSTONE and Neighbourhood 1832-1834
Hills, Ann, publican, Nag's Head, Week Street
MAIDSTONE and Neighbourhood 1828-29
HILLS John NAG'S HEAD Week Street
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Maidstone Directory 1839
Hodges, Sarah, licensed beer seller, Jeffrey Street
Hills, Frances, Mote Road,
Hodges Mr. S. S., Boxley
1847
Hodges Sarah, Jeffery st., shopkeeper
Hills Francis, Mote road, shopkeeper
Hills Rd. Pudding lane, shopkeeper
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Maidstone 1850 from Maidstone and Environs directory
Hill, Mrs. A. straw bonnet maker, Brewer street
Hills, John Hyde, tailor and draper, Week Street
Hills, Walter, Clarendon place
Hills, Francis, baker, grocer and licensed beerseller, Mote road
Hills, Richard, grocer and tea dealer, Pudding lane
Hills, George, fishmonger, Stone street and Jeffrey street
Hills, Robert, painter, Week street
Hills, W. B. collector of paving rates, Romney place
Hills & Son, bakers, Stone street
Hills, Thomas Red Lion Inn, High Street
Hills, Walter, painter, plumber and glazier, Stone Street
Hills, Ann, Nag's Head Inn, Week Street
Hills, S. and M. A. Berlin wool repository, Week Street
Hills, Thomas, dairyman, Pudding lane
Hills, Alfred, butcher, West borough
Hodges, Mrs. Knightrider street
Hodges, John, sawyer and licensed beerseller, Bower place
Hodges, John, pork butcher, Sandling road
Hodges, Richard, Union street
Brenchley
Hodges, Wm. saddler (parish clerk)
Hodges, Edward, boot and shoemaker
Hodges, William, carpenter
Hodgers, William, shoemaker
Ulcomb 8 miles from Maidstone
Hodges, Daniel, farmer
Wateringbury 5 miles from Maidstone
Hodge, John, carpenter & farmer
Yalding 7 miles
Hodge, Stephen, bricklayer
Hodge, John, carpenter
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1841
Bearsted
District 1
John Hodge, sawyer, 70
Mary Hodge,
District 2
John Cooper 30, ag lab yes
Ann Cooper 35 yes
James Hodge 15 ag lab, yes
William Hodge 15 ag lab yes
Ann Hodge 17 yes | HILLS, Sarah (I1877)
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Sarah is not mentioned in the settlement order of 1792 and therefore must have died prior to that time. | RUCK, Sarah ^ (I6730)
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Sarah Susannah Seaton, one of the witnesses to the marriage of Charles Vaughan and Virtue Poulsom has now been discovered to have been a Vaughan herself. In all likelihood she had been Charles' sister rather than this mother.
Sarah Susannah Vaughan was married to William Seaton at St. Paul Hammersmith on 30 June 1828. She subsequently died during the December quarter of 1865 in Kensington District (references vol. 1a, page 117).
A reference to a Seaton family has been found on the Kensington Town 1851 census index but as yet no follow up has occurred. | VAUGHAN, Sarah Susannah (I440)
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| 3958 |
Sarah was the first born child of her parents, Emmery and Rebecca. She is also first found in 1851 working as a house servant at the Three Tuns Inn on Tanner Street in Faversham. Eight lodgers in the inn on the night of the census hints that the inn was a popular and bustling place leaving the servants and hired help little time for relaxation or mischief. John Baldock, the victualler there, was her employer. I suspect that she had left her employment before her marriage to George Evernden in 1853. | MILSTED, Sarah Ann (I2683)
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| 3959 |
Sawkins, Nicholas, of Lyminge, g., and
Jane Tylden of Willesborough, w.
At Willesborough. Dec. 5," 1603.
Sawkins, Nicholas, junior, of Wye, g.,
and Jane Tylden, junior, of Lyminge.
v. At Lyminge. April 4,
1607.
Michael Barber of Bonnington, husbandman, in £10, to appear and to keep the peace towards Ralph Knight of Aldington; surety, Nicholas Sawkins of Lyminge, gentleman.
Title: Michael Barber of Bonnington, husbandman, in £10, to appear and to keep the peace towards Ralph Knight of Aldington; surety, Nicholas Sawkins of Lyminge, gentleman.
Reference: QM/SRc/1610/141
Date: 9 Oct. 1610
Held by: Kent History and Library Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/39eaea4d-9e8a-4c0d-bd31-1be82285e733
Inquisitions post mortem
Reference: C 142/661/78
Description:
Sawkins, Nicholas: Kent
Date: 18 James I. [1620/1]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7844558 | SAWKINS, Nicholas (I14301)
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Search Record Details
County Somerset
Place Bradford on Tone
Church St Giles
RegisterNumber 70
MarriageDate 18 May 1858
GroomForename William
GroomSurname BAKER
GroomAge
GroomParish
GroomCondition
GroomOccupation Labourer
GroomAbode
BrideForename Ann
BrideSurname MARKS
BrideAge
BrideParish Taunton
BrideCondition
BrideOccupation
BrideAbode
GroomFatherForename William
GroomFatherSurname BAKER
GroomFatherOccupation Shoemaker
BrideFatherForename Edward
BrideFatherSurname MARKS
BrideFatherOccupation Cattle dealer
WitnessOneForename
WitnessOneSurname
WitnessTwoForename
WitnessTwoSurname
Notes
FileNumber 32706 | Family (F244)
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| 3961 |
Second marriage for Richard Hills confirms father is Francis HIlls and the correct Richard is the tailor.
Married 7 Oct 1856 at Barming to Elizabeth Mitchell, father John Mitchell. This record also confirms that Richard was a widower at the time of this marriage.
***Hills Richard 1833 Apprentice Hills Walter Tailor
Investigate Walter Hills to see if he can lead to Francis Hills, either as a brother, cousin, uncle, et cetera.
The fact that he was apprenticing in 1833 would dictate that this Richard Hills would not appear in electoral registers until his apprenticeship had ended.
Hills Richard 1828 Apprentice Cabbell William Cordwainer
Death
HILLS, RICHARD 75 Order bc 1810
GRO Reference: 1885 M Quarter in MAIDSTONE Volume 02A Page 498
1832
#70 Francis Hills Baker Mote Road
#40 Richard Hill Cordwainer Mote Road
1835
Hills, Francis Moat Road occupation not stated
Hills, Thomas Ditto ditto
1837
Hills, Francis Baker Doctor's fields
*Hills, Richard Cordwainer Mote-road
*Hills, Robert Baker Stone-street
1841
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
***Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor) - this would coincide nicely with the end of his apprenticeship period.
1844
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1845
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1846
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1847
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1849
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1850
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1851
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1852
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1853
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1854
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1855
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1856
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1857
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1858
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1859
Hills, Francis House Mote Road victualler
Hills, Richard House 13 Pudding Lane (tailor)
1860
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
1861
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1862
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1864
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House Pudding Lane (tailor)
1865
Hills, Francis House Mote Road
Hills, Richard House 13 Pudding Lane (tailor)
1868
Hills, Francis House 29 Providence Place
Hills, Richard House 13 Pudding Lane (tailor)
1870
Hills, Francis House Mote Road, late victualler
Hills, Richard (missing 70, 71, 72)
There is difficulty in distinguishing which Richard Hills is the correct one for our family as there are two that consistently appear in census returns from 1851 to 1881. One is a cordwainer and the other is a tailor. The cordwainer lives as a lodger mostly until he appears by himself as a widower in Mote Road. The tailor lives on Pudding Lane and would match the entries in the electoral rolls. The tailor has a family, married twice and remains fairly stable throughout. Additionally, his year of birth does equate to 1810 whereas the birth year of the cordwainer equates to 1807. This now solved (Sep 5, 2018) with the discovery of the second marriage of Richard Hills to Elizabeth Mitchell in 1856. The marriage record confirms that this Richard's father was Francis Hills, and, so, I can now adopt Richard Hills the tailor into my family tree.
1851 Maidstone, Kent, England, HO107/1617, ED 1f, fol. 128, p. 8, FHL film #0193518
Household Sch. #19, High Street
Joseph Relph, head, mar, 50, shoemaker employing 6 men, born Chatham, Kent
Mary Relph, wife, mar, 46, born Rochester, Kent
Walter Relph, son, unm, 20, baker, born Brompton, Kent
James Relph, son, unm, 18, shoemaker, born Chatham, Kent
Phebe Relph, daughter, unm, 12, scholar, born Maidstone, Kent
Richard Hills, lodger, unm, 44, shoemaker, born Maidstone, Kent
1861
Maidstone, Kent, England, RG 9/500, ED6, fol. 130, p. 22, FHL film #0542650
Household Sch. #113, 10 Middle Row:
Joseph Relf, head, mar, 60, boot maker, born Gillingham, Kent
Mary Relf, wife, mar, 55, born Rochester, Kent
Phebe M. Relf, daughter, unm, 21, scholar, born Maidstone, Kent
Mary A. Relf, daughter, unm, 18, born Maidstone, Kent
Richard Hills, lodger, unm, 54, shoemaker, born Maidstone, Kent
1871
Maidstone, Kent, England, RG10/940, ED 6, fol. 97, p. 9, FHL film #0838712
Household Sch. #37, 9 Middle Row, High Street:
Joseph Relf, head, mar, 70, boot maker, born Gillingham, Kent
Mary A. Relf, wife, mar, 64, born Rochester, Kent
Richard Hills, lodger, unm, 64, boot maker, born Maidstone, Kent
1881
Maidstone, Kent, England, RG11/930, ED 3, fol. 41, p. 1, FHL film #1341222
Household Sch. #4, 58 Mote Road:
Richard Hills, head, widower, 74, formerly shoemaker, born Maidstone, Kent
This cordwainer died same year as my Richard
HILLS, RICHARD 78 Order
GRO Reference: 1885 M Quarter in MAIDSTONE Volume 02A Page 504
Only the year of estimate birth decided which entry was correct for each Richard Hills. | HILLS, Richard (I10708)
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| 3962 |
Second Mate's Licence 11-23-1921 | HOARE, Stanley Gordon (I6218)
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| 3963 |
second son | HARRIS, John the younger (I14847)
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| 3964 |
Second son of Edmund Inmith, left two daughters suriving him, one married Rayner, one married Baker who inherited this property.
Inmythe, Edmund, mayor of Folkestone, KAS vol. 29, p. 227;
Cheriton. ..."Item paid unto the said Edmund for plukking down the Chapell late of Seynt Enswyth, and other iii men, vd. Summa xxd." Edmund Inmythe, the overseer of the lime at St. Enswyth Chapel, was afterwards Mayor of Folkestone, and apparently died in his year of office.
The Chapel of St. Eanswithe was in the Manor of Swetton, which adjoined the boundary of Folkestone parish.
Joan wife of Thomas KAS vol. 74, p. 205
Joan Kennet (1594-1626) married Thomas Inmith of Folkestone (1591-1658) as his first wife (M. lic 1621), she was daughter of John Kennett (AC 1609 Will), a jurat of Folkestone.
Martha Andrew (buried 24 March 1642 Folkestone), the daughter of the Mayor and MP also married twice. Firstly at Hougham 31 Jan 1609 to Walter Upton *(1584 Faversham-1629 Folkestone), a son of Nicholas Upton (AC 1596/7 Will), jurat of Faversham and secondly at Folkestone 10 Dec 1629 Thomas Inmith, yeoman and in 1642 Mayor of Folkestone, as his second wife. Her brother Thomas Andrew, who may be the child whose baptism 17 May 1582 is registered without parentage at St. Mary's Dover, was also buried at Folkestone, 5 Aug 1640 administration being granted in the CC of Canterbury 19 Oct 1640, as of Deal, gentleman, to Thomas Inmith, jurat of Folkestone and guardian of his son Richard Andrew, age 13 whose mother was probably Katherine, wife of Thomas Andrew gentleman, burines in january 1637/8 at Deal.
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Folkstone's ROCKHILL School
By Sandy Hargrove, p. 51
"Mr. Griffin was operating a dairy farm on the grounds of the old Broadmead or Bredmar Manor which dated back to the Norman Conquest and was owned by Lord Radnor. ...Broadmead Manor and dairy farm was "about one mile from Folkestone on the road to the Cherry Gardens." [Mackie, Samuel Jopseh, A Handbook for Folkestone Visitors. Folkestone: J. English, 1856. page 98]
*Broadmead Manor was first known as Bredmer Manor. Its name probably originated with the family that built it during the reign of King Edward II (Plantagenet king who reigned from 1307-1327). The manor remained with descendants of the family through several generations until it was "conveyed" to William Bouverie, Earl of Radnor. [Hasted, Edward. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Canterbury: W. Bristow, 1797-1801, p. 166]
If you have sent an email to the opcsubmissions address in error, please carefully review our “Contact Us” page to locate an appropriate link for your email. Please also take the time to carefully review the section on that page titled “Guidance for a successful query - please read before writing" to be sure that we may have some information that can of assistance to you. We are being inundated with emails for every manner of research data to the point that we cannot possible respond to every query. | INMITH, Edmund (I16067)
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| 3965 |
Second son.
This information taken from the Original Visitation of Cornwall 1620, Harl. MS 1162, signed Daniell Searell. The Parish Registers of Antony prior to 1673 have been lost, and the only entry of the name from that date to the end of the century is the burial of Edward Searle on the 26 August, 1683. | SEARLE, Wymond (I15009)
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| 3966 |
Second son. | A’DENNE, William (I13094)
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| 3967 |
Second son. Bishop of Winchester and a Cardinal. | GAUNT, King of England, Henry IV (I8549)
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| 3968 |
Second wife of Richard Boxcawen. Daughter and coheir of Laurence Hallop of Trewonwall, arms: Or, 3 bends sable and Elinor his wife, daughter and heir of William Treville | HALLOP, Maude (I19502)
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| 3969 |
Second wife. | BERKELEY ALIAS FITZNICHOLAS, Catherine (I15125)
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| 3970 |
See Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies 1400-1500, vol 6, p. 874.
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William ap Thomas (died 1445) was a member of the Welsh gentry family his son William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke an ancestor of the current Earls of Pembroke. of Raglan manor, attained through marriage through heiress Elizabeth Bluet.
SIR WILLIAM HERBERT, EARL OF PEMBROKE, was elder son of William Herbert of Raglan Castle, called also William ap Thomas, and in Welsh Margoah Glas, or Gumrhi, who fought in France under Henry V, and was made a knight-banneret in 1415. Herbert's mother was Gladys, daughter and heiress of David Gam, and widow of Sir Robert Vaughan.
Sir Richard Herbert of Colebrook was a younger brother. Sir William's grandfather, Thomas ap Gwillim ap Jenkin (d.1438), secured Raglan Castle on his marriage with Maud, daughter and heiress of Sir John Morley.
The castle was greatly expanded by William and his son, William Herbert, into the well-fortified Raglan Castle, one of the finest late medieval Welsh castles. William served King Henry V of England during his first French campaign and in numerous subsequent capacities and was knighted in 1426.
There was Jane Griffith daughter of Edward Griffith of Penrhyn b: 18 May 1511 Mother: Sian Puleston b: ABT 1520 in Bersham,Wrecsam, Dinbych, Cymru spouse William Herbert of St Julians
THIS William Herbert was the elder brother to George Herbert, of Newport. He inherited the estate of St. Julian's from his father, Sir Walter Herbert. He increased his influence by marrying Jane, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Wm. Griffiths, of Anglesea. The other sister married Sir Edward Stradling, of St. Donat's Castle, and was the friend and patroness of Dr. Shon Dafydd Rhys.
In his youth he, William Herbert, was a wild young fellow, and was one of the chief actors in a famous riot at Newport in 1545, which ended in a long Star chamber hearing. After a squabble over a dog on a certain Sunday morning, he drew a dagger and wounded one of the cadets of the house of Morgan. William Herbert escaped out of the town and fled to the Abbey of Llan-tarnam. This incident led to a general rising of the rival clans of Herbert and Morgan.
His son by Jane was also Sir William Herbert
Marriage 1 Florence Morgan b: ABT 1552
Children
Mary Herbert b: 1579 in St Julian's, Casnewydd, Gwent, Cymru
SIR WILLIAM was the leading man in the district of that time. A man of large possessions, allied to many noble families in England and Cymru. From his mother, who was the Griffiths heiress, of Anglesea, he inherited large estates in North Cymru. He was also the owner of a large estate in Monmouthshire, and besides St. Julian's, had a house at Tintern, also a town house at Mortlake, near London, close to Queen Elizabeth's Palace at Sheen. Added to these, he received a rich grant of lands in the South of Ireland from the Queen, as one of the pacifiers. He was a man full of an overwhelming pride of family, and on the death of his two sons from an accident, he insisted by his will that his only daughter must marry a Herbert or lose the estates. But she kept the estates by marrying Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
The career of Sir William in the county and in Parliament is well sketched by the poet, who must have been very intimate with the fiery knight of St. Julian's, who was certainly a very remarkable character, the author of several curious and interesting works.
There is an ode which sketches the descent of Sir William Herbert from the Herbert line, the white line of the Earls. His grandfather, Sir Walter, and Sir John, son of the old Earl of Pembroke, starting with the golden line of the Saxon, Godwin, from whom Sir William, as descendent of Sir George, the first of the Herberts of St. Julian's, claimed descent, and of Fitz Herbert, the Chamberlain to Henry I.
Sir William is reminded that he is of the blood of David Gam, the Lady Gwladys, David Gam's daughter, being the mother of all the Herberts. He was also of the Morgan family (his grandmother was a Morgan of Pencoed), could claim descent from Ynyr, Prince of Gwent, and was also related to the House of Devereux. Could boast, too, of the blood of Caradoc Fraich Fras, and of Morley of Llansantfraid. Anyone familiar with the pedigree of the Herberts will at once note how correct our poet is in all these details.
[Source: https://sites.google.com/site/pomeroytwig/spouses-other-people/mathew-herbert-connections]
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| 3971 |
See Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies 1400-1500, vol 6, p. 874. | HERBERT, Margred (I15029)
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| 3972 |
See Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies 1400-1500, vol 6, p. 874. | GRIFFITH, Jane (I15034)
|
| 3973 |
See Dorset MSS | DE DENE, Robert (I13150)
|
| 3974 |
See Europäisch Stammtafeln Band I tafel 2. | ARNULF), Arnold (St. Bishop of Metz (I8337)
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| 3975 |
See Higdon - H - 436 - General.pdf collection of files at MUN | HIGDEN, Honora (I599)
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| 3976 |
See Higdon - H - 436 - General.pdf collection of files at MUN | HIGDEN, William (I600)
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| 3977 |
See Higdon - H - 436 - General.pdf collection of files at MUN | HIGDEN, Betty (I601)
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| 3978 |
See Higdon - H - 436 - General.pdf collection of files at MUN | HIGDEN, George (I604)
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| 3979 |
See Higdon - H - 436 - General.pdf collection of files at MUN | HIGDEN, George (I606)
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| 3980 |
See Higdon - H - 436 - General.pdf collection of files at MUN | HIGDEN, William (I607)
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| 3981 |
See Higdon - H - 436 - General.pdf collection of files at MUN | Family (F209)
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| 3982 |
See Higdon - H - 436 - General.pdf collection of files at MUN | Family (F210)
|
| 3983 |
See Higdon - H - 436 - General.pdf of collection at MUN. | HIGDEN, Benjamin (I598)
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| 3984 |
See Higdon - H - 436 - General.pdf of collection in MUN. | HIGDEN, George (I597)
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| 3985 |
See https://www.mun.ca/mha/holdings/keith/pdf/dewey/Dewey%20-%20D%20-%20306%20-%20General.pdf | DEWEY, William (I619)
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| 3986 |
See https://www.mun.ca/mha/holdings/keith/pdf/dewey/Dewey%20-%20D%20-%20306%20-%20General.pdf | DEWEY, John (I620)
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| 3987 |
See https://www.mun.ca/mha/holdings/keith/pdf/laite/Laite%20-%20L%20-%20205%20-%20George.pdf | LAIT AKA LATE, George (I618)
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| 3988 |
See KAS journal http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/005-1863/005-09.pdf
also of Boughton Malherbe and Bayham Abbey.
This Robert de Throwley (born: 1147, Gatton, died: 1190)
Hamo de Gatton (born: 1170, Gatton, died: 1216)
Robert de Gatton and the family lineage are mentioned in Edward Hasted's 1798 History of Kent thus:
In the reign of king Henry III. Robert de Gatton, who took his name from the lordship of Gatton, in Surry [sic], of which his ancestors had been some time owners, was in possession of the manor Thrule, and died in the 38th year of that reign, holding it by knight's service of the king, of the honor of Peverel, by reason of the escheat of that honor, &c. (fn. 2) He was succeeded in it by this eldest son Hamo de Gatton, who resided here, and served the office of sheriff in the 14th year of Edward I. His eldest son of the same name left one son Edmund, then an instant, who afterwards dying under age, his two sisters became his coheirs, and divided his inheritance, of which Elizabeth entitled her husband William de Dene to this manor, and all the rest of the estates in Kent; and Margery entitled her husband Simon de Norwood to Gatton, and all the other estates in Surry. | DE THROWLEY, Robert (I13178)
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| 3989 |
See notes for Elizabeth Ivyson.
Very little is known of this family. The earliest ancestor appears to be this Matthew Herman born circa 1709 and buried at Faversham at the age of 87 years in 1796. The flipflop of the surname spelling between Herman and Harmon certainly hasn't helped smooth the research of this family. No christening has ever been found, despite the search through more than 200 East Kent church registers, for Matthew Hermon or Matthew Harmon. Additionally, even though he was described as "being of" Faversham at the time of his married to Elizabeth Ivyson in 1749, certainly no christening appears for him in the parish register. It is unclear why he and Elizabeth moved to Preston-next-Faversham shortly after their marriage. Neither Matthew nor Elizabeth had been born or christened at Preston.
According to the 1762 land tax assessment of Faversham a Matthew Herman occupied property owned by William Simmons in "Preston Street/Cooks Ditch". Unfortunately, an almost 20 year gap in the records harms the continuity of the tracking of this family. As of 1780 the Faversham Land Tax Assessments record a Matthew Harmon [sic] occupying property owned by Mary Simmons and subsequently Thomas Kennett, Esq. It would seem from surnames of the landlords in 1762 and in 1780 and Matthew did, indeed stay on the same property throughout the period 1763 through 1779. Another gap in the records occurs between 1785 and 1789. The assessment of 1790 indicates that a John Harmon had become co-tenant with Matthew in the same property, through to 1793 when the records cease. Simultaneously, between 1790 and 1793 Matthew Harmon is also shown as tenant of property on West Street, Faversham which belonged to Edward Hills and subsequently to the heirs of Edward Hills. This, no doubt, is the property that is referred to in the manorial court roll seen with the entry for Edward Harmon.
The men of the family all appear to have been dredgers associated with the Faversham Oyster Fishery Company.
Elizabeth, the daughter of Matthew II, married Jesse Rood, great-grandson of Onisepherous Rood who held large tracts of land throughout east Kent. Jesse and Elizabeth moved to the parish of St. Lawrence in the Isle of Thanet and proceeded to have quite a large family. Of the ten children, I have been able to track only the descendants of their son, Jesse, with relative ease. Jesse Jr.'s son, George Frederick, was still living at St. Lawrence at the time of the 1881 census. Living with him and his wife were three daughters, Lillian F., Rose E., and Florence A..
The census of 1841 enumerated a Matthew and Mary Harman living at Drayson Square. Matthew's age was was recorded as 60 years in accordance with the enumerator's instructions. Consesquently, his age would have been between 60 and 64 years. He was employed as a shipwright at that time. I believe this fellow was the son of John and Elizabeth Harman who died during January of 1842.
In 1841 also enumerated was Edward Harmon a mariner aged 45 to 49 years. He was living at the Faversham Arms along with John Milsted. By 1851 Edward, then aged 60, and a widower, was a lodger at a home on Preston Street but still described as being a mariner. I suspect that this Edward was the son of Matthew and Frances. Despite Edward being described as a widower, I have been unable to locate a marriage or children that could be associated with him.
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Joy L. THOMPSON and Susan Dara YOUNG are 6th cousins 1 time removed. Their common ancestors are Matthew HERMAN and Elizabeth IVYSON.
See details under Frances Herman who married James Smithers. | HERMAN, Matthew (I3209)
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| 3990 |
See Nutt family for children and descendants of Sarah Ruck and James Thomas Nutt. | RUCK, Sarah (I2937)
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| 3991 |
See Pedigree of Gatton KAS journal http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/005-1863/005-09.pdf | DE GATTON, Isabella (I13560)
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| 3992 |
See Shelley-Rolls, Bt. in Burke's Peerage, et al. | SHELLEY, Capt. George Edward (I3561)
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| 3993 |
See source information provided with each entry. | Source (S67)
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| 3994 |
See The Visitations of Cornwall: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530 ...
By John Lambrick Vivian, College of Arms (Great Britain), p 379, POMEROY of St Columb.
ARMS: Or. a lion rampant gules within a bordure of the second
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The known Andrew senior had 3 sons and 3 daughters
William who married Mary Bevill and whose tree is known as far as we can tell
Edward who married Julia Forster and had at least one son Mattew who died in 1634
John who married Mary Slanning whose family owned property in the locality of Newton Ferrers and may have owned Collaton manor
The Slannings were Barons Maristow of Plympton and the family we found in Plympton may be from these two.
[Source: https://sites.google.com/site/pomeroytwigs2/devon-manors/the-manor-of-collaton-in-newton-ferrers]
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Andrew Pomeroy DOB still unknown died 1581 IPM
Married Anne Matthews daughter of Sir George Matthews of Rhdyr -
She was one of the 7 children by his first wife Margred Herbert of Coldbrook, her parentage is as a member of the great Herbert family of Raglan Castle, the Earls of Pembroke.
Raglan was built by her grandfather the 1st Earl , during the Wars of the Roses and improved during Tudor Times.
Margred was born about 1480 1500 and married around 1500- 1520 , its very hard to be sure.
Her husband Andrew Pomeroy died in 1581 so her dates are probably the later ones
She is most likely to have lived at Coldbrook House, which is long gone, although
near to Raglan Castle is another property of the same name.
Pennytinney is a farm /hamlet in the north of the parish of St Kew,
Devon Record Office 3799M-0/F/1 1495 Contents: Grant to Richard Pomeray by Margaret, Countess of Richmond ( mother of King Henry VII ) of the wardship and marriage of James Pomeray son of Andrew Pomeray deceased -
NOTE ,Jan 2015 this record relates to a death before 1495 so this is not the Andrew of Collaton mentioned here who died in 1581
Richard would have applied for wardship of James soon after the death of his father Andrew to protect the child and to keep his inheritance safe until James was of age. More here
There are 2 wills for Andrew Pomeroy in the Devon Archive
Pomeroy Andrew Newton Ferris [Newton Ferrers] 1581 W le TOT MISC Dymond 3, Vol. 4, p. 334
& his grandson
Pomeroy Andrew Holbeton 1638 W le TOT MISC Dymond 3, Vol. 4, p. 336 - Holberton is near Newton Ferrers
this might be Andrew who died in St Columb Major in Nov 1639 ???
IPMs were held in all places where they held property
Jan 2015 I found these additional entries in the images of parish record in FMP
a baptism WILLIAM, son of William Pomry, bp Newton Ferrers 28 March 1607.
and a burial Margerie ye daughter of William Pemry buried 9th day of October 1601
POMEROYE Elizabeth Feb 1604 d/o Ellys Pomerye of possibly Berkadon ?
70 years before the Civil War , in 1572 Andrew Pomeroy had dealings with a Henry Dillon of Chingwell
Civil War 1642 -1651
1640 just prior to the beginning of this unhappy time . Strafford. After the Arrival of the King's Army in the County of York a Muster was taken thereof which was as followeth:
A List of the Strength of the King's Majesties Army, both Officers and Soldiers, as they were muster'd. Included: (Officer and of men in his command:)
Col. Lansford 163 men ,
Lieut. Col. Lonsford 71 men, Serg. Maj. Gibbs 72 men, Capt. Powel 62 men, Capt. Lonsford 87 men, Capt. Pomeroy 84 men
Capt. Martin 75 men,
Capt. Dillon 61 men , Capt. Capper 68 men, Capt. Hippisley 72 men
Names of all the Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels, Sergeant Majors, Captains, Lieutenants, Ensigns, Preachers, Chirurgeons, Quarter-masters, Provost Marshals, under his Excellency the Earl of Northumberland, Captain General for this Expedition 1640. Taken according to the Muster Roll after the Armies Retreat from Newcastle into York.
308/178/2 1617 These documents are held at Plymouth and West Devon Record Office ( Andrews name appears , a signature- in the parish records of this year- churchwarden possibly -
Contents: Feoffment and grant
1 William Pomeroy of Collaton, Devon, esq and Andrew Pomeroy, esq, son and heir apparent of the said William
2 Leonard Yeo of Huish, Devon, esq
Capital messuage and mansion house of Collaton, with appurtenances called Collaton alias Colleton in the parish of Newton Ferrers, Devon, and parcels of land called Tadislades alias Slades, Creberscombe alias Clenacombe in the parish of Newton Ferrers
Consideration: £4,400
Other records relating or connecting by marriage to Collaton
FILE [no title] - ref. 308/178/2 - date: 1617
[from Scope and Content] 1 William Pomeroy of Collaton, Devon, esq and Andrew Pomeroy, esq, son and heir apparent of the said William (1)
[from Scope and Content] Capital messuage and mansion house of Collaton, with appurtenances called Collaton alias Colleton in the parish of Newton Ferrers, Devon, and parcels of land called Tadislades alias Slades, Creberscombe alias Clenacombe in the parish of Newton Ferrers
308/178/2 1617 These documents are held at Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Contents: Feoffment and grant
1 William Pomeroy of Collaton, Devon, esq and Andrew Pomeroy, esq, son and heir apparent of the said William
2 Leonard Yeo of Huish, Devon, esq
Capital messuage and mansion house of Collaton, with appurtenances called Collaton alias Colleton in the parish of Newton Ferrers, Devon, and parcels of land called Tadislades alias Slades, Creberscombe alias Clenacombe in the parish of Newton Ferrers
TRETHYNEK ESTATES
FILE [no title] - ref. 107/50 - date: 14 June, 2&3 Philip & Mary (1556)
[from Scope and Content] Quitclaim of eighteen feet of land lying without the "haygge" of Melsburyford, and in the east side of the way from Newton Ferrers to Puslinch, and so eastward through the north end of the north down of Collaton until it comes to the way from Collaton Morton Place to Puslinch Bridge.
[from Scope and Content] William Upton of Puslinch, Esq., to Androwe Pomeroy of Collaton, Esq
SETTLEMENTS
FILE - Feoffment to uses - ref. 3704M/FS3 - date: 1576
[from Scope and Content] To Thomas Carew of Haccombe, Richard Bedlow of Braie and Andrew Pomerie of Collaton esquires.
FILE - Post Nuptial Settlement - ref. 3704M/FS4 - date: 1576
[from Scope and Content] Lewes Incledon, Braunton gent. to Thomas Carew of Haccombe, Richard Bedlow of Braye and Andrew Pomerie of Collaton esquires.
[from Scope and Content] In consideration of marriage of Lewes Incledon and Wilmote Pomerie, daughter of Andrew Pomerie.
1592 Lewes Incledon gent. To William Pomeroy esquire and Philip Wyot gent. All his properties in Incleden, Blackwill and Buckland in Braunton as dower for Wilmote his wife after his decease
Inkledon & Webber family papers ~ DRO
(Wilmot Pomeroy daughter of Andrew Pomeroy of Collaton married Lewis Inkleton & had 10 children)
Feoffment of uses ref 3704/FS5
1592 to William Pomeroy esq.
Younges of Puslinch of Newton Ferrers.
Various entries Plymouth and West Devon Record Office:
Catalogue Ref. 308 Yonge family of Puslinch, Devon
- ref. 308/177/3 - date: 26 June 1514
[from Scope and Content] 2 John Pomeroy
Ref. 308/177/4 - Date: 1514
[From Scope And Content] 1 John Pomeroy, Brother And Heir Of Jacob Pomeroy
ref. 308/177/5 - date: 15 April 1571
[from Scope and Content] 2 Andrew Pomeroy
** ref. 308/178/2 - date: 1617
[from Scope and Content] 1 William Pomeroy of Collaton, Devon, esq and Andrew Pomeroy, esq., son and heir apparent of the said William
**- ref. 308/178/5 - date: 1619
[from Scope and Content] 1 William Pomeroy and Andrew Pomeroy, late of Collaton, Devon, esquires.
FILE [no title] - ref. 308/177/3 - date: 26 June 1514
Messuage at Collaton, in Newton Ferrers
FILE [no title] - ref. 308/178/1 - date: 1617
Mansion House of Collaton and a tenement called Todslade alias Toddeslades and Cr[amicum?] in the parish of Newton Ferrers, Devon
TITLE DEEDS TRETHYNEK ESTATES
FILE [no title] - ref. 107/50 - date: 14 June, 2&3 Philip & Mary (1556)
[from Scope and Content] William Upton of Puslinch, Esq., to Androwe Pomeroy of Collaton, Esq.
this lead definitely needs following
FILE [no title] - ref. 308/178/2 - date: 1617
[from Scope and Content] 1 William Pomeroy of Collaton, Devon, esq and Andrew Pomeroy, esq, son and heir apparent of the said William (1)
[from Scope and Content] Capital messuage and mansion house of Collaton, with appurtenances called Collaton alias Colleton in the parish of Newton Ferrers, Devon, and parcels of land called Tadislades alias Slades, Creberscombe alias Clenacombe in the parish of Newton Ferrers
[no title] 308/178/1 1617
These documents are held at Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Contents: Release
1 William Cavill of Trehavereke, Cornwall, esq, Nicholas Slanninge of Bickleigh, esq and John Vyvian of St Columb Higher, Cornwall esq
2 Leonard Yeo of Huish, esq
Mansion House of Collaton and a tenement called Todslade alias Toddeslades and Cr[amicum?] in the parish of Newton Ferrers, Devon
308/178/2 1617 These documents are held at Plymouth and West Devon Record Office ( Andrews name appears , a signature- in the parish records of this year- churchwarden possibly -
Contents: Feoffment and grant
1 William Pomeroy of Collaton, Devon, esq and Andrew Pomeroy, esq, son and heir apparent of the said William
2 Leonard Yeo of Huish, Devon, esq
Capital messuage and mansion house of Collaton, with appurtenances called Collaton alias Colleton in the parish of Newton Ferrers, Devon, and parcels of land called Tadislades alias Slades, Creberscombe alias Clenacombe in the parish of Newton Ferrers
Consideration: £4,400
which is probably why he went to live with his daughter Anne in St Columb Major after this.. He may have remarried to an Elizabeth – there is a burial in Newton Ferrers around 1602 of Elizabeth Pomeroy gentlewoman .
[Source: https://sites.google.com/site/pomeroytwigs2/devon-manors/the-manor-of-collaton-in-newton-ferrers] | POMEROY, Andrew (I14968)
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See The Visitations of Cornwall: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530 ...
By John Lambrick Vivian, College of Arms (Great Britain), p 379, POMEROY of St Columb.
ARMS: Or. a lion rampant gules within a bordure of the second
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Tree of Andrew Pomeroy of Collaton in Newton Ferrers
according to Powley ‘The House of de la Pomerai’ by Edward Powley.
John Pomeroy, who married a daughter of the wealthy family of Strowde,
and was recorded as being of the armorial Pomeroy family, the barons of Berry Pomeroy. | POMEROY, John (I15027)
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See The Visitations of Cornwall: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530 ...
By John Lambrick Vivian, College of Arms (Great Britain), p 379, POMEROY of St Columb. | STROWD, Miss (I15028)
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See Tree 1E Grills Family vol 2
South Hill GRILLS Sampson 1642 Churchwarden South Hill Protestation Returns
Day Month 18-Jun
Year 1680
Parish Or Reg District South Hill
Forename Mary
Surname GRILLS
Sex dau
Father Forename Samson
Mother Forename
Residence Mornicke
From: "Lynda Mudle-Small"
Subject: RE: [CON-GEN] GRILLS of South Hill
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:03:08 +0100
In-Reply-To: <008501c28fe9$0fd403e0$10d30250@oemcomputer>
According to Richard Grylls two large volumes on the Grills family, Mary
GRILLS married John PARSON yeoman of Downhouse in Stoke Climsland in 1759,
there is a marriage settlement BRA 833/286. He has Mary as the daughter of
Sampson Grills of Trefinnick (South Hill) and Mary SALTREN. Sister of Mary,
Grace, also married a PARSON of Stoke Climsland, this time a George.
Lynda Mudle-Small
OPC for Linkinhorne, St Ive & South Hill
www.lynherparishes.co.uk
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From: Joy Hungerford [mailto:m.hungerford@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 19 November 2002 17:31
To: CORNISH-GEN-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: [CON-GEN] GRILLS of South Hill
Hi Listers
Just when I thought things couldn't get more complicated, I've found a
possible 5GGM, Mary GRILLS, who married John PARSONS about 1761.
I'm hoping there is a GRILLS enthusiast out there who can tell me whether
this particular Mary GRILLS is the daughter of Henry and Mary, and born in
1734, or the daughter of Sampson and Mary of Trefinnick and born in 1735.
Kind regards
Joy
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Bond, Francis Grills, gentleman, Beneathwood, Linkinhorne
3 Feb 1674 | GRILLS, Mary (I15416)
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see Tylden of Milsted and Torre Hill, vol. ii, p. 383 | OSBORNE, Edward (I13619)
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See Visitations of Cornwall 1620, Vivian, p 284, LEIGH or ALEIGH, alias LEIGH of LEIGH.
The first 3 generations of this pedigree is a copy of the Original Visitation of Cornwall 1620,, Harl. MS 1162, signed William Aleigh. This appears to have been a branch of the familiy of Leigh, or Legh, of the East Hall in Highleigh, Cheshire. The arms are identical, but the Editor has been unable to trace the connection In Week St. Mary registers the name is spelt indiscriminately Aleigh, Alleigh, Alee, and Leigh, but since 1700 it has been always Leigh. In January, 1694, Walter Leigh was a party with others to an arrangement for a survey of the parish boundaries to Whitstone.
Pedes Finum, 2nd Edw. VI, Pasch, Humphry Aleigh qu., Thomas Aleigh, Senior, def., lands in Morva and Ladock. Pedes Finum, 3rd Edw VI, Pasch, Francis Mares, qu., Thomas Aleigh, def, lands and tenements in Southleigh. | ALEIGH, Thomas (I14979)
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See Will 1: F308, widow, Treneglos, 1672 (Treneglos)
son Roger Frost, niece Wilmett Colwill; John Colwill, son of John Colwill, my brother. Her son Roger Frost, in his Will 2: F60, 1700 (Treneglos) md John Colwill the elder, of Kitly in Mary Week | COLWILL, Margery (I14945)
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