| | |---4-Amy Evaline Hawkless b: 1881, Gladesville, Sydney, NSW, d: 1947, Petersham, Sydney, NSW
| | | +Laurence Justin O’Donnell b: 1882, Limerick, Ire., d: 1971, Wahroonga, NSW, , m: 1911, Gladesville, NSW
| | | |---5-Thomas Myles O’Donnell b: 1913 m: Dorothea

John Brown, s. John and Sally, Oct. __, 1824

Rachel Starr & Thomas Woodward
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Rachel Jane Starr was daughter of James & Hannah Jones Starr of Ireland and Chester County, Pennsylvania. The Starr ancestory is English.
Thomas Woodward was son of Thomas Woodward, mariner, of England and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There are many fascinating stories about Thomas Woodward, mariner, that researcher Ralph Woodward has collected.
Rachel Jane Starr
born 6/25/1754 Chester Co, Pa
died 9/2/1838 Warren Co, In
burial West Lebanon
Thomas Woodward, Jr.
born at sea (?)
died 1822 Preble Co, Oh
Married: About 1779 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rachel Starr Woodward was dismissed from Bradford Monthly Meeting, Chester County, on 6/18/1779 for marriage out by a Baptist teacher
Children:
Jacob Woodward born about 1780-83, Chester County, Pennsylvania, served War of 1812; married Margaret McCormick, died 1821 Preble Co, Ohio
Polly Woodward married William Hickman, Bourbon Co, Kentucky
Asahel Woodward born 3/24/1791, Rockingham County, Virginia, served War of 1812; married Cathrine Hollett; died 1875 Henry County, Indiana
Phoebe Woodward born 8/8/1792 Virginia; married Josiah Clawson, died 1862, Henry County, Indiana
Eli Woodward born 2/16/1794, Virginia, served War of 1812; married (1) Mary Davis and (2) Cathrine Wolfe, died 1876 Warren Co, Indiana, buried West Lebanon
Thomas B. Woodward born about 1795 Fayette County, Kentucky, died Henry County, Indiana
Nathan Woodward born probably 1797, died 4 March 1832, never married, styled as mentally impaired;
Mahlon Woodward born 3/20/1799, died Warren Co, Indian, never married, styled as mentally impaired
Lydia Woodward
Abigail Woodward
(the children are documented in various records but the complete list is from DAR Record #77480.)
Thomas Woodward, Sr., is well documented in Philadelphia. In 1798 he was living at 236 So. Second Street, in 1802 at 210 Spruce Street, in 1803, 1804, & 1805 at the corner of Pine & 3rd Streets. His occupation is given as Sea Captain in each instance. There are also many maritime records for him from 1798 to 1804 with lists of crews: 1798 Master of Brig Maria for Havana, same brig in 1799 & 1800 for LaGuyra, 1802 ship Wilmington for Lisbon and in 1804 Ship Wilmington for Rotterdam. A notice in "Boulson's American Daily Advertiser," published 25 February 1807, reported his death: Captain Woodward died in the Pongus, Africa in November last. There was also a notice on 3 December 1792 that Captain Thomas Woodward had married Miss Margaret Houston 24 October 1792 at the Second Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.
Captain Thomas Woodward served in the Revolutionary War. In "Mariners of the American Revolution" by Marion Kaminkow: Woodward, Thomas, Mariner, captured on Little Porgey (or Pegey) committed to Old Mill Prison was there April & January 1782. Taught navigation to other prisoners while there."
There are several references that make the tie between Captain Thomas Woodward of Philadelphia and Thomas Woodward of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky and Preble County, Ohio. His tombstone indicates he was born at sea. "Bowen's History" 1902, states "he was first of his line not to follow the sea." And he was called "Captain" sometimes too, although he never officially earned the title. He is known to have received a large inheritance shortly after the death of Captain Thomas Woodward of Pennsylvania. Attempts to discover a will for Captain Thomas Woodward have not been successful. Administration #138 in 1807 and #115 in 1809 for Thomas Woodward are indexed in Philadelphia but both files are missing.
We have added a (?) to the "born at sea" given above even though that information is on his tombstone. Dee Cooper, whose husband is a descendant, located a marriage for Thomas Woodward, Sr. and Mary Gilbert, January 14, 1750 in the Parish church of Stevenage in Hertford County, England. Then there are christenings for Thomas Jr., September 19, 1756 and his known sister Sarah on March 3, 1754, as children of Thomas and Mary in the Parish of St. Mary the Virgin, Little Wymondley, Hertford County. Since these are christening records and not birth records, and since Thomas Sr. led a life on the sea it would still be possible for Thomas Jr. to have been born at sea (if Thomas Sr.'s family accompanied him at sea) and then for a christening to take place in England. Since Thomas's sister was older it is more improbable that the family accompanied Thomas Sr. on sea voyages and the "born at sea" inscribed on the tombstone may simply be from a charming family myth.
Thomas Woodward, Jr. served in the Revolutionary War. "Bowen's History" 1902, calls him a Revolutionary hero. He had learned shoemaking and worked at his trade in Philadelphia. He served in Chester County, Pennsylvania, militia in Colonel Patterson Bell's regiment (verified in Pennsylvania archives). His DAR papers state he was in Captain George Garst's Company. He was captured at Germantown October 4, 1777, but escaped from a rail pen jail. There is family lore that Thomas got involved in Chester County because he visited his brother Jacob there who was a regular soldier in the war. Thomas fought at the Battle of Brandywine September 11, 1777, which would have been directly in the area where the Starr family lived. We know from records of Quaker sufferings that families living in the area were required to billet soldiers regardless of pacifist feelings. This is perhaps how Thomas and Rachel met. There was some strong connection there as a T. Woodward owned land directly adjacent to James Starr after the war.
Rachel Starr Woodward received her five pound inheritance from her father about 1786 and it was about this time that the family went to Virginia. Son Asahel's birth in Rockingham County, Virginia, in 1791, is documented in "Hazzard's Military History of Henry County, Indiana" which was written by Asahel's grandson.
"Bowen's History" continues that Thomas and family moved to Kentucky about 1802 and lived in Woodford County at Versailles but lived his later years in or near Eaton, Preble County, Ohio. Thomas actually purchased land in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on 7/23/1800. On the same date land was purchased there by Abel Griffith, the Reverend of the 7th Day Baptist Church in Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. This might have been the "Baptist teacher" who married Thomas & Rachel in 1779, since ministers often led entire congregations westward for settlement, but if so their place of marriage was probably Chester County and not Philadelphia.
Thomas Woodward is found in the tax lists for Bourbon County from 1800 through 1807. Son Jacob was listed separately in 1806 indicating he had probably turned 21. A Jacob Woodward is found in the tax lists in the 1790's. This may have been Thomas's brother and may have been why Thomas moved to Kentucky.
David Purviance, elder at Cane Ridge Church in Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, went to Ohio in 1807 or 1808 and took part of his flock with him. This probably included the Woodwards as Purviance was the minister who married Jacob's son Eli in Ohio. We know Thomas & Rachel were gone by 1809 as when their daughter Polly married William Hickman in Kentucky, her parents were "out of the state."
From "Early Ohio Settlers- Southwest Ohio 1800-1840": Thomas Woodward purchased Sec 4, Township 7, Range 2 in Preble County on 15 April 1812. The same notation is made for April 12, 1814 (these may have been tax lists and not purchases). Thomas made a two year payment on his land entered in Preble County, Ohio, and two years later also made a double payment. An affidavit from his son Eli in a lawsuit in 1850 in Preble County, says his father received and spent a considerable inheritance. The money was probably spent on the extra land payments.
Thomas Woodward wrote his will in Preble County on October 11, 1821. "In the name of God amen. I Thomas Woodward of the County of Preble and the state of Ohio, being weak in body but of sound mind and memory, do make this my last Will and Testimony in manner following to wit: I do give to my wife Rachel all the profits arising from the plantation on which I now live, the stock of every kind, household furniture and farming utensils during her life, except one Buroe, which I do give to my granddaughter Polly Woodward, at the death of her grandmother, to be deposited in the hands of my son Eli until she comes of age. I do give my sons Eli, Nathan and Mahlon, at the death of my wife, the part of said plantation that lies on the east side of fourmile creek, to be equally divided amonst them. I do give to my son Mahlon the part of said plantation that lies on the west side of fourmile, and one hundred dollars - I do give to my son Nathan one quarter section of land that I own in the Indiana State. At the death of my wife, I do give the stock of every kind, and moveable property to my sons Nathan & Mahlon, except fifty dollars that I give to my son Asahel, and sixteen dollars I do give to my granddaughter Rachel Hickman, which is to be made out of apart of said property.
I do appoint my sons Asahel & Eli to execute this, my last Will and also to take the full guardianship over my sons Nathan & Mahlon, and the full management of their property accompanied with my sincere wish that you will not see them changed in any respect if they or either of them have any lawful issue, I allow them to inherit their estate, and if not, I allow said estate to be equally divided amongst all the grandchildren that I may have at that time, in witness whereof, I here unto set my hand and seal this eleventh day of October, in the year of our Lord 1821 (seal). I do not allow any of the property left in the hands of my sons Asahel & Eli, and desired for the use of Nathan & Mahlon, to be taken for military fines.
/s/Thomas Woodward X his mark (seal)
Test: Audley Taylor and Joseph Smith"
A law suit was filed in Preble County Ohio in September 1850 which contains much genealogical information about the Thomas Woodward Family. The participants in the law suit were Isaac & Rebecca Clawson; George and Rachel Hickman; Stephen and Thirza McWhinney; Evan, Levi, and Eli Woodward vs. Asahel and Eli Woodward; Voemma and Samuel Hazzard; Thomas B., Pyrus, and Franklin Woodward; Andrew G. Clawson; Fidellia and William Wayman; James and Rachel Clawson; Nathan & Assa Clawson; Ezrelda, Josiah, George K., Bethena and Ann Woodward. The deceased, Thomas Woodward was listed as the grandfather of the petitioners. The old document is very hard to read but the gist of it is that Thomas, "in his lifetime was seized and possessed in fee simple of large real estate and was also possessed of a large amount of personal estate." The document then quotes the will. Apparently the grandchildren were attempting to obtain a share of the estate. John Laird, a Clawson descendant, also sent us an abstract of the filing of this court case on June 7, 1849. This tells us still more about the relationships: Nathan woodward died in 1832 without issue; Asahel Woodward of Henry County, Indiana, his children - Vienna, wife of Samuel Hazzard, Thomas B. Woodward, Pyrus Woodward, Franklin Woodward, all of Henry County, Indiana; Phebe wife of Josiah Clawson and hr children - Andrew G. Clawson, Delaware County, Indiana, Fidelia, wife of William Wayman, James Clawson, Rachel Clawson, Nathan D. Clawson, and Asa G. Clawson, all of Henry County, Indiana; Eli Woodward of Warren County, Indiana, his children - Ezrquelda, Melissa, Josiah, George W., Bethena, and Ann Woodward, all of Warren County, Indiana. The grandchildren whose parentage is not given above are children of Jacob and Margaret McCormick Woodward: Rachel Hickman (b. abt. 1807), Thirza McWhinney (b. abt. 1809), Evan (born abt. 1810), Levi (born abot 1814), and Eli Woodward.
From County histories we have extracted the following information on Pyrrhus Woodward, son of Asahel and Catherine Hollett Woodward: Pyrrhus Woodward, born 8/1/1822, near New Castle, Henry County, Indiana; married 1/7/1850 in Wayne County, Indiana, Mary E. Hawkins, daughter of Isabel M. and William Hawkins. Pyrrhus died 12/27/1898 in Henry County, Indiana. Mary was born 10/20/1825 and died 1/17/1899 in Henry County, Indiana. Children were Cordelia J. Woodward; Isabel Woodward Springer; George W. Woodward; Leonora Woodward m. John Hoham; and Charles F. Woodward.

Thomas Woodward b in William Parish, England m 1750 Mary Gilbert in Hertford County, England, emigrated to the Colonies with his family, served as sea Captain in the American Revolution, was captured and imprisoned by the English, and later came back to Philadelphia and his family
Thomas Woodward b 1756 at sea m ca 1778 Rachel Jane Starr probably in Pennsylvania
Jacob Woodward b ca 1785 probably in Rockingham County, Virginia m ca 1807 Margaret McCormick probably in Kentucky
Eli Woodward b 1818 in Preble County, Ohio m 1837 Eliza Jane Ammerman in Preble County, Ohio
Septimus Lafayette Woodward b 1856 in Jefferson Twp, Sullivan County, Indiana m 1889 Susannah Mason in Greene County, Indiana
Ira Woodward b 1896 in Greene County, Indiana m 1917 Lillie Estella Griffith in Sullivan County, Indiana
Ralph Mason Woodward b 1919 in Sullivan County, Indiana m 1941 Winifred E. Thompson in Wells County, Indiana
ames Woodward settled and married Mary Walker in 1728 in Hanborough, Oxfordshire, England. Hanborough is a village located within a few miles of the Blenheim Palace. Most of James' many descendents remained in Hanborough until the late 1800s. However, those descendents of James who have taken a serious interest in their genealogies, have failed so far to pinpoint his origins. Blenheim Palace was constructed in the early 1700s following the granting of the Royal Manor of Woodstock by Queen Anne to the Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill--from whom Winston descended, following the Duke's success over the French-led forces in 1704 near the small village of Blenheim on the Danube. Construction of the Palace was completed in 1722. James Woodward was probably drawn into the area to help in the development or upkeep of the Palace and its gardens--he lived in a cottage that was owned by the estate. Searching the archives of the Palace to unearth possible information on James is planned. Meanwhile, exploration of genetic information is seen as an alternate line of research--the intent being to identify genetic connections to other Woodward family groups whose origins are English, and so identify possible origins for our James. Source: Christopher J. Woodward.

SAMUEL LEWIS - Kit# 44048
1st Generation: SAMUEL LEWIS, b June 22,1801 NC, d March 26, 1863 Washington County, AR, m July 31, 1823 to Bricey Holt, b 1804 TN d November 26, 1873. Known Ch: (1) Alvis Gatson Lewis b Feb 22, 1827 d Feb 26, 1916 m July 12 1851 Rebecca Black b Jan 15, 1832 d May 11,1885; (2) Sally Ann Lewis b 1831 d 1904 m 1851 Henry Alberty; (3) Moses Vandever Lewis b 1833 d 1905 m 1855 Sarah Catharine Rhoades; (4) Amanda E Lewis b 1836 d 1937 m 1st 1858 Nathan Green 2nd ? Rhodes; (5) George Washington Lewis b 1841 d 1896 m 1866 Mary Ann Brooks.
2nd Generation:ALVIS GATSON LEWIS, b Feb 22 1827 d Feb 26 1916 m(1) July 12 1851 Evansville AR Rebecca Catherine Black b Jan 15 1832 d May 11 1885, had 11 children, m(2) Sarah Henry November 1885, 2 children.
3rd Generation:ALVIS EDWIN LEWIS, b Dec 15 1853 d July 23 1945 Evansville AR m(1) April 21 1886 Martha Ann Greig b 1861 d 1889 Ch: 1) William Greig Lewis b May 13 1889 Evansville AR d Sept 7 1946 Watts OK, 2) Blanche Lewis b March 10 1887 Evansville AR d Jan 25 1972; m(2) Feb 1892 Charlotte Denton b 1870 d 1904 Ch: Dan, Gatts, Kate; m(3) June 26 1910 Clara Mae Mount b Feb 18, 1884 d1969 ? Ch: Oleta ,Gus, Bob.
4th Generation:WILLIAM GREIG LEWIS, b May 13 1889 Evansville AR d Sept 7 1946 Watts OK
5th Generation:FRENCH GREIG LEWIS, b Aug 18, 1916 Stilwell Ok, d Nov 27 2004 EL Paso TX, m Aug 30 1950 Lois Proctor.
6th Generation:LIVING
Paternal lineage of Participant #44048: Samuel Lewis (1801 - 1863 > Alvis Gatson Lewis (1827 - 1916) > Alvis Edwin Lewis (1853 - 1945) > William Greig Lewis (1889 - 1946) > French Greig Lewis (1916 - 2004) > Living

AN/PB 315/12/1319.5.1637Flintham
Easter 1637
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Hall for withholding from the church 4s 6d due for the necessary repair of it; the vicarage buildings are out of repair in the default of Mr Daniell Odingsells.
Written in another hand, 'emat 5o 7bris 1637'.

AN/PB 315/9/1627.4.1635Flintham
Easter 1635
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Hall, son of Francis Hall, for fornication with Elizabeth Hall of Carcolston [Car Colston].
Place name partially obscured by damage; '[-]inthame' can be read.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 15 7bris 1635'.

AN/PB 315/9/94.1635Car Colston
Easter 1635
Churchwardens present the following: the chancel is out of repair, but we know not in whose default; the church wall on the north side is in great defect; Elizabeth Hall for fornication with Richard Hall of Flinton [Flintham]; Mrs Scroope for a popish recusant.
Place name given as Carcolston.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 15 7bris 1635'.

Ann,Richard HALL,1635,Jun,14,Durham,Durham

Duncan Stuart
Threlfall 50 p.465-66: Quarterly Court, Ipswich MA, March 1654:
Duncan Stewartt and An Winchest were sentenced to be whipped for fornication, the man that afternoon and the woman when she should be called out by the magistrates, after she was delivered. Together they were to bring up the child and pay the charges.
He was probably one of the Scot prisoners taken at the Battle of Dunbar on 3 Jun 1650 by Cromwell's forces. Many of these unfortunate men were shipped off as indentured servants and sold to the colonists for an arbitrary term of servitude. ... Duncan Stuart had a house lot in Ipswich in 1656. About 1659 he and his family moved to Newbury. ... Shortly after Aug 1688 he moved to Rowley ... In an Essex county deed in 1698 he is called "laborer". ...
He was living on 16 Mar 1702/3 "northwest of Rye Plain Bridge and Long Hill" ... Of two deeds he acknowledged in 1708, he was called Planter in one and Husbandman in the other.

m.14 Apr1646 Richard HALL /Ellen HEALD/ LAN Manchester LINKLDS A455243 & batch 6930475

The hospital was being built in the early 1570s, (Footnote 29) children from the poorhouse were baptized at St. Mary's-at-the-Walls in 1574, and in 1579 Richard Hall, proctor of the Colchester poorhouse, was granted protection to gather contributions in Essex and Hertfordshire. (Footnote 30)

ID: I1015
Name: Richard Hall
Given Name: Richard
Surname: Hall
Sex: M
Birth: Bef 1570 in Arkley,Yorkshire,England
IDNO: 9050
LDS Baptism: status: LIVE
Change Date: 13 JAN 2002 at 09:55:55
Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown
Children
Anne Hall b: Bef 1586 in Arkley,Yorkshire,England

73In all nine fellows and deacons of the college were named in 1548. The story of Vaux has been given above; that of John Cuppage, his friend, is in many ways similar; he refused to appear at the Visitation of 1559, suffered persecution for adhering to the old faith, and is supposed to have died in Salford prison about 1584; Vaux, Catechism, 75–8, 84 note (introd.).
In 1559 four of the fellows—Edward Pendleton, Robert Prestwich, Richard Hart, and Richard Ford—appeared, but Hart refused to subscribe; Prestwich was warned against frequenting taverns; Ch. Goods, 7 (quoting S.P. Dom. Eliz. x, 101); Gee, Eliz. Clergy, 81. In 1562 Vaux, who had been ordered to live in Worcestershire, and Hart in Kent or Sussex, were 'thought to behave themselves very seditiously and contrary to their recognizances, secretly lurk in Lancashire and are thought to be maintained there by rulers and gentlemen of that county'; ibid. 181. In 1574 three of the old clergy (1548) were receiving pensions—John Cuppage, Edward Pendleton (then vicar of Eccles), and Robert Prestwich; of the rest Collier, Johnson, Ryle, Woodall, and Wolstoncroft had died be fore the accession of Elizabeth, and Ralph Hunt and James Barlow died about 1571; Ch. Goods (quoting Spec. Com. 16 Eliz. no. 3258). John Glover, as above shown, also conformed under Elizabeth.
In 1570 Roger Cooksey, clerk, made claim to an annuity of £6 13s. 4d., for service and prayer, against Thomas Herle, warden, Richard Hall, paymaster, and Edward Holt, receiver; Ducatus Lanc. (Rec. Com.), ii, 389.
At an inquiry in 1571 Warden Herle confessed that he had been absent for two years and more, having a dispensation. Neither he nor the fellows were bound to preach. The only ornament the church possessed was a broken chalice; the building was in decay and the 'painted pictures' had not been defaced. Nicholas Daniell, one of the fellows, averred that Edward Holt, another fellow, kept an alehouse and frequented such places, being a drunkard. Richard Hall, another fellow, practised medicine, 'and when he should serve God he runneth after his physic and surgery'; Raines, Wardens, xv. The Bishop of Chester refused Hall's pension in 1581; Acts of P.C. 1581–2, p. 266.
A little later it was stated that the clergy had been beaten and one of their preachers attacked and wounded.
The loss of the old hospitality was a grievance with the tenants; Newton Chapelry (Chet. Soc.), ii, 51.

1030. ROBERT SMITH (Source: transcription by the Wilmslow Historical Society of documents filed at the Chester Record Office as: "WS 1696, Robert Smith of Styall, yeoman."), born Jun 1638 in lived in Cheshire; died 01 Apr 1696 in Morley MM, Cheshire, England. He was the son of 2060. WILLIAM SMITH and 2061. Ann RYLANSE. He married 1031. ELLEN WILLIAMSON 18 Feb 1683 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England.
1031. ELLEN WILLIAMSON (Source: Transcription by Paul C. Palmer Original filed at Chester Record Office as: "WS 1724, Ellen Smith of Pownall Fee, widow."), born 02 Nov 1628 in Pownall Fee, Cheshire, England; died 09 Feb 1724. She was the daughter of 2062. John WILLIAMSON and 2063. Jane HARROP.
Notes for ROBERT SMITH:
Robert Smith, yeoman of Stiall in the parish of Wilmslow
Will dated July the 18th, 1689
Appraised by Jeffery Alcock and Reynald Kelsall 9th April, 1696
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transcription by the Wilmslow Historical Society of documents filed at the
Chester Record Office as: "WS 1696, Robert Smith of Styall, yeoman"
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July the 18th 1689
In the name of God amen: I Robert Smith of Stiall in the parish of Wilmslow and
County of Chester yeoman beinge booth in good health and memory blessed bee the Lord
for it. Yet knowinge the certenity of death and the uncertinty of the time when do
make this my last will and testiment for the prevention of differences which might
arise amongst my wife and children about those good which the Lord in his mercy hath
lent mee is as followeth viz:
Imprimis It is my will and mind and I doe give and bequeath unto my sonne
William Smith the some of one shilling knowinge that what my father
and I have given to him formerly is more then I am able to give to
any of my other children.
Item I doe give unto my gransonne Robert Smith cobbbord the disboard the
table in the house falle bord the coch cheave the bedstid in the
cross parlor and all the buttrey bords at the Lode hill house to be
for Eare Loomes
Item I doe give unto my sonne John Smith the cubbord the table the
bedstid in the parlor below and all the bords both in the house and
buttrey to bee for Eare Loomes to Ha[o]ughgreene houses.
Item I doe give unto my soninlaw Nathan Button and his wife other of
them the sum of one shilinge
Item I doe give unto my soninlaw John Hall and his wife other of them the
some of one shilinge.
Item I doe give unto my daughter Martha Smith to some of eight pound
beinge part of that 40 pound which I have received from my sonne
Robert.
Item It is my mind and will and I doe give and bequeath that fifty pound
which is due to mee from my sonne William Smith at such dayes and
times as the deede and assigement will make appeare to theise
persons heare after named that is to say the feirst ten pound to
may daughter Margery the ten pound to my daughter Mary the theird
ten pound to my Executor heire after named for the use of my
daughter Ellen or her issue if any theire bee to boye her clothes or
other nesacarys for them when hee shall thinke fit and convenient
and the forth ten pound to my daughter Jane and the fifth and last
ten pound beinge the ressedue of the fifty pound to my daughter
Martha : theise forementioned somes I give to my daughters and their
Issdues and if my daughter Ellen dye and leave no issue the remander
of that some to bee devided amongst her sister or theire issue.
Item I doe give unto my sonns Robert Smith and John Smith all my wearinge
apparill
Item I do give unto my wife Ellen Smith and my two soons Robert and John
all my husbandrey ware to bee used joyntly amongst them.
Item I do give unto Johnathan Pownall the some of ten shillings
Item at affrere my debts and funarall expences and theise before
mentioned legisies are all discharged it is my will and mind and I
do give and bequeath the one halfe of my goods to my wife Ellen
Smith and the other halfe beinge the resedue and remander of all my
goods I do give unto my daughter Martha Smith and I do renounce and
make voude all former wills and doe constitute and ordeane my trusty
and well beloved friend Johnathan Pownall who I do repose great
trust and confidence in to bee my soule Executor to see this my last
will and testament truly performed and I do desire my well beloved
friend John Corbishley and my wife to be as over seers to advise or
assist this my executor before named to see this my will truly
performed given under my hand and seale the day and year above
written.
Robert Smith

In about 1655, a Thomas Blagg was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire. He married (20 May, 1680) Mary Hall at Prestbury in Cheshire. A later generation Smyth (John H. Smyth, father of Dame Ethel Smyth) had the second name Hall. Mary Hall was born in Macclesfield in about 1659. A Search for a male Blagg descended from this marriage with a daughter Elizabeth Blagg would provide the answer to that lineage link!

Upon entering England with the Norman Conquest, the Hall's were actually 'FITZ WILLIAM'S', they being settled in Greatford Hall in Lincolnshire, and being directly descended from Wentworth, Earl FitzWilliam. The younger son of this noble house, Arthur FitzWilliam, was called 'Hall', to distinguish him from his senior brother. Hence Arthur Hall would be the first on record about the year 1090 AD. The line continued in Lincolnshire, and intermarried with the Crispins, and the Earls of Chester. In Cheshire [England], the Hall's were a cadet branch of the Kingsley Hall's of that county. By 1340 AD, the name had moved northward at the invitation of Earl David of Huntingdon, later to become King David of Scotland. In Scotland, they were granted lands in Berwickshire, specifically the lands of Glenryg in the barony of Lesmahagow.

Little Baddow, Essex United Kingdom

Subject: Lost Church in Essex
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Hi,
I wonder if SKS can help me.
I'm searching for any information on a Church that was destroyed by fire
with all records lost sometime after the late 1890's. The area is around
the centre of Essex, eg. Boreham, Hatfield Peverel, Langford to Witham.
After the fire the Church was bulldozed and the land is now part of a
highway. The Church was in a town/village and there was a dam close by.
Where would I obtain this information? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Michael Battishill, Lake Macquarie area of New South Wales, Australia
Researching: Battishill, Keen, Westcott, Mansell

1657 The local Haverhill puritans continued to harass the Quakers. John Sewell, a local Quaker was put in the stocks. His brother Ambrose and John Hall were seen speaking to him, and were sent to Bury goal as punishment. Anthony Appleby had goods distrained for refusing to pay his £20 tithe to repair the parish church.

WESTON-UPON-AVON
FILE [no title] - ref. D2957/334/1 - date: 6 July 1639
[from Scope and Content] Witnesses: Richard HALL, William BREGG, Margaret UNDERHILL

THOMAS FERYBY, Mercer of Cirencester
Thomas Feryby (d.1611) was the founder of the family in the county of Gloucester. His parentage is not known in 2003, but he was probably a close relative of the John Ferybe of Poulton listed in the local muster roll of 1539.
The marriage of Thomas Fereby to Elizabeth Hopkins in 1566 in Cirencester (parish register begins in 1560). Smith's Men and Armour of 1608 lists three members of the family in Glos. - Anthony Fereby, mercer of Cirencester, George Fereby, mercer of Cirencester and Edmund Fereby his servant.
Thomas Feryby was one of Cirencester's merchants led by Giles Selwyn that tried to establish a guild in this important Cotswold market town as the two following law suits in the PRO show;. SP 46/32/fo 133d., 134 Petition to Burghley, Mildmay, Manwood and the other barons of the Exchequer by Giles Selwyn, Roger Donne, Richard Hall and Thomas Feryby of Cirencestre to reform the order of Feb. [1583] (see E.123/10, fo. 7) requiring them to submit to Sir John Danvers and pay his costs; [1583].
SP 46/15/fo 64 Burghley and Mildmay to Robert Straunge, (--) Oldsworth, Christopher George and John Cockeswell: To examine the pretended title of Giles Selwyn, Roger Donne, Richard Hall and Thomas Shereby (sic !) of Ciceter by an old charter; London 29 May 1572.

Gloucestershire Parish Deeds
Catalogue Ref. D2957
Part 3: Parish Deeds
MAISEYHAMPTON
FILE [no title] - ref. D2957/197/2 - date: 13 and 14 September 1681
[from Scope and Content] Witnesses: Robert BRERETON; Richard HALL; Sarah SWANLEY
FILE [no title] - ref. D2957/197/3 - date: 14 September 1681
[from Scope and Content] Witnesses: Robert BRERETON; Richard HALL; Sarah SWANLEY, Thomas STONE, Thomas DUREDEN; Edward TOWSE; Richard KEMBLE, John COX
NORTHLEACH
FILE [no title] - ref. D2957/217/7 - date: 26 December 1699
[from Scope and Content] Witnesses: Richard BRANSDON, Richard HALL; William POWELL; Judith VEN; George VEN
TODENHAM
FILE [no title] - ref. D2957/309/10 - date: 2 January 1749
[from Scope and Content] (2) Richard MORRIS of Little Wolford, co. Warwick, yeoman; John FREEMAN of Toddenham, butcher
WESTON-UPON-AVON
FILE [no title] - ref. D2957/334/1 - date: 6 July 1639
[from Scope and Content] Witnesses: Richard HALL, William BREGG, Margaret UNDERHILL

EXTRACTS of
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES & DEATHS
Transcript taken from :GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES, VOL. IV, 1890.
Edited by REV. BEAVER H. BLACKER, M. A. Published in 1890. London, England.
Transcribed by Brenda Pickard (Starweaver) http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/2100/index.htm
The registers of the parish of Coaley commence in the year 1581, but the first volume which extends from that year until 1738, is extremely irregular, and in many cases badly written. Evidently the entries were often made by the incompetent hand of a parish clerk. Curiously enough, the period during which the register was best kept was that from 1650 to 1660, and the parish was clearly very fortunate at that time in obtaining the services of a competent registrar. Except to genealogists, there are comparatively few entries of general interest, and most of them are given in the following extracts. We may draw attention to the reference to the baptism of Quakers and a few entries of excommunication and absolution thereupon in the last century. They were evidently for offences against morals.
In the succeeding extracts which include the period 1582-1812, all the entries which relate to the names of Browning, Harding, Clutterbuck, Trotman, Kingscote, Purnell, Vizard, are given. Save of the first two, few instances of any of them occur, which is somewhat remarkable; for two of them, Clutterbuck and Trotman, abound in the immediate neighbourhood; indeed, as our readers are aware, the Trotmans simply swarm in the adjoining parish of Cam. All through the registers are numerous entries of the families of Cam and Mabbett, who are still well-known in this district, and are of considerable antiquity, the former taking their name from the adjoining parish of Cam. Other names which are found more or less frequently, are Veizey, Pegler, Drinkwater, Sherwood, Longden, Oatridge, Gunter and Ginter, Dangerfield, Essington and Estington, Washburn, Seliman and Jelliman, Longstreth and Longstreet, Veribey, Flatcher, and Hulbro. Some of these names are obvious misspellings, or corruptions. The educational condition of the parish was certainly low, if we may judge from the marriage register of the latter half of the eighteenth century, for the majority perhaps of the entries are signed with marks. This was doubtless due to the isolated position of the parish in ancient times, for it lies off any of the main roads, and it always appears to have been chiefly if not entirely engaged in agricultural pursuits. For permission to make the following extracts we are indebted to the present vicar of Coaley, the Rev. W. J. Evans.
Book A commences in 1582, and the earliest existing entry is:-
"Isabell Curnocke, daugh. of Ri., bap. March ye iijd, 1581" [i.e., 1582].
Joane Harding, dau. of Maurice, bapt., 10 March, 1582.
William Longden and Mary Forde, mar. 1625.
Richard Browning, son of William, bapt. 23 June, 1585.
Elizabeth Harding, dau. of Maurice, bapt. 24 April, 1586.
Mary Browning, dau. of John, bapt. 30 April, 1587.
John Harding, son of Maurice, bapt. 22 Dec., 1589.
Jane Browning, dau. of William, bapt. 15 May, 1590.
Richard Browninge, son of John, bapt. 9 Jan., 1592.
Richard Harding, son of Maurice, bapt. 16 July, 1593.
John Harding, son of John, bapt. 23 April, 1623.
Richard Browning, son of John, bapt. 4 Jan., 1623.
William Browning, son of William, bapt. 12 Jan., 1595.
Martha Harding, dau. of Maurice, bapt. 16 March, 1595.
Ursula Browning, dau. of John, bapt. 28 Jan., 1598.
Anna Browning, dau. of John, bapt. 27 Jan., 1601.
John Browning, son of John, bapt. .....Aug. 1605.
Samuel, son of John Browning, bapt. 2 Dec., 1628.
Mary, dau. of John Harding, bapt. 30 Dec., 1628.
Maurice Harding, son of John, bapt. 1 Jan., 1630.
Thomas Browning, son of John, bapt. 24 March, 1630.
Anna, dau. of John Harding, bapt. 25 Nov., 1632.
Daniel, son of John Browning, bapt. [2?] Dec., 1632.
James Purnell and Mary Beard, mar. 3 Nov., 1632.
John [Sawe ?] and Mary Purnell, mar. Nov., 1635.
John Browning the elder, bur. 9 Aug., 1628.
"Daniel Stayno, Master of Artes, sumtime
"fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford, dyed
"Vicar of this parish, and was buried the xxvith
"day of Aprill, Anno Dni 1630, by mr.
"James Dalton, Parson of Uley."
Edith Browning, wife of William, bur. 26 Oct., 1630.
Margaret Browning, bur. 26 June, 1573.
Agnes Harding, dau. of Maurice, bur. 11 June, 1577.
Joane Harding, bur. 12 July, 1585.
Richard Browning, bur. 11 Dec. 1595.
Jane, dau. of William Browning, bur. 27 June, 1605.
Richard Browning, son of John, bur. 8 June, 1609.
Richard, son of John Harding, bapt. 16 Jan., 1635.
Joseph, son of John Harding, bapt. 13 Aug., 1633.
Nathaniel, son of John Browning, and Joane, his wife, bapt. 16 May, 1642.
Elizabeth, dau. of John Harding, and Sarah, his wife, bapt. 19 Aug., 1642.
Mary, daughter of Richard Harding, bapt. ......, 1643.
Josua, son of John Browning, and Joan, his wife, bapt. 4 Feb., 1644.
[Anne?], dau. of John Browning, and Joan, his wife, bapt. .......1644.
John, son of John Harding, and Idith, his wife, born..Dec., and bapt. 13 Jan., 1647.
Deborah, dau. of Richard and Joan Trotman, born 19 June, bapt. 4 July, 1649.
Joanna, dau. of John and Joanna Browning, born 24 Sept., bapt. 26 Sept., 1649.
Edith, dau. of Idith Harding, widow, born 2, bapt. 10 Dec., 1649.
Thomas, son of John and Joan Browning, born 15, bapt. 27 March, 1651.
Mary, dau. of John and Dorcas Harding, born 14, bapt. 28 Feb. 1651.
Ann, dau. of William and Elizabeth Trotman, of Slimbridge, born 23 Aug., bapt. 3 Sept., 1652.
William, son of William and Joan Harding, of Cam, born 29 Jan., bapt. ....1652.
Dorcas, dau. of John and Dorcas Harding, born 19, bapt. 26 Feb., 1653.
"Hereafter follow the names of them who were baptized in ye time of Samuel Winney, who had possession of ye Vicaridge of Cowley, January 1st, 1654/5."
Martha dau. of Mr. Samuel Winney, born 3, bapt. 15 Aug., 1655.
"Those two sons of Thomas Merricky were not baptized by any lawful minister, but by the father forenamed, the father being a Quaker, so certified by Richard Longstreth, minister of this parish."
Abigail, dau. of Richard Longstreth, minister of this parish, and Judith, his wife, born 25, bapt. 29 Sept., 1659.
Mary, dau. of John Browning, jun., gent., and Mary his wife, born and bapt., 11 Feb., 1659.
John, son of Richard Longstreth, minister of this parish, and Judith, his wife, born 7th, bapt. 12 Sept. 1661.
Jonathan, son of Thomas Clutterbucke, and Martha, his wife, bapt. 4 Jan., 1661.
John, son of John Browning, jun., and Mary, his wife, bapt. 9 May, 1662.
John, son of John Kingscote, and Sarah, his wife, bapt. 9 May, 1663.
Robert, son of John Browning, gent., and Mary, his wife, bapt. 14 June, 1664.
Elizabeth, dau. of John Kingscote, and Sarah his wife, bapt. 8 Oct., 1665.
Elizabeth, dau. of John Browning, jun., and Mary, his wife, bapt. 4 Jan., 1664.
Thomas, son of John Whorston, als. Elliots, and Anna, his wife, bapt. 14 Jan., 1665.
Robert Trotman, of Cam, and Mary Plummer, of Nibley, married 1648. [date not given].
Joseph, son of John Harding, buried 24 Sept., 1638.
Katherine, dau. of John Harding, buried 9 Jan., 1638.
John Harding, buried 20 July, 1643.
John, son of John Harding, buried, 13 Feb., 1647.
Nathaniel son of John Browning, gent., bur. 17 Sept., 1648.
Elizabeth, dau. of John Browning, gent., 17 bur. Sept., 1648.
John Harding, bur. 9 March, 1648.
An infant of Mr. John Browning, buried 26 Sept., 1648.
Mary, dau. of John Browning, Esq., bur. 15 June, 1651.
Daniel, son of John Browning, Esq., bur. 19 June, 1651.
Thomas, son of John Browning, Esq., bur. 11 Sept., 1651.
Richard Harding, bur. 22 April 1652.
Judith, wife of Richard Longstreth, minister of this parish, bur. 5 July, 1664.
John, son of Richard Longstreth, bur. 25 July, 1664.
Henry Dansy, of Uley, and Bridget Mayer, of this parish, married 9 Sept., 1661.
Richard Mayer, of this parish, and Sarah Ind, of Nibley, mar. 26 Dec., 1661.
Daniel Smith, of Uley, and Sarah Elliots, married 2 July, 1664.
Richard Longstreth and Mary Browne, married 1 May, 1666.
John, son of Maurice Harding, and ......his wife, bapt. 7 June, 1666.
Richard, son of Richard Longstreth, and Elizabeth, his wife, bapt. 7 March. 1666.
Sarah, dau. of John Kingscote, and Sarah, his wife, bapt. 5 May, 1667.
Richard, son of John Browning, gent., and Sarah, his wife, bapt. 7 June, 1668.
Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Longstreth, and Elizabeth, his wife, bapt. 15 Nov., 1668.
Richard, son of John Fordes, als. Elliots, and Joane, his wife, bapt. 4 March, 1669.
Anne, dau. of John Browning, gent., and Mary, his wife, bapt. 8 October, 1670.
Jonadab, son of Richard Longstreth, minister of this parish, and Elizabeth, his wife, born 19, bapt. 21 May, 1671.
John, son of Walter Longden, and Ann, his wife, bapt. 18 July, 1672.
John, son of John Browning, jun., gent., and Mary his wife bapt. 23 May, 1673.
Mary and Elizabeth, daughters of Arthur Cam; their mother this day also buried; bapt. 31 May, 1673.
Thomas, son of Walter Longden, and Anne, his wife, bapt. 27 Feb., 1673.
Anne, dau. of Arter Cam, and Anne, his wife, bapt. 10 May, 1674.
John, son of Stephen Browning, and Elizabeth, his wife, bapt. 7 Jan., 1675.
Joana, dau. of John Browning, and Mary, his wife, 7 Feb., 1676.
Joseph, son of Joseph Browning, and Elizabeth, his wife, bapt. 7 May, 1677.
Hester, dau. of James Jyner [Joyner?], and Sarah, his wife, bapt. 19 October, 1679.
Joshua, son of Joseph Browning, and Elizabeth, his wife, bapt. 20 Feb., 1679.
Richard Hall, vicar, 1680.

1611
MOREMAN, Anne - of Pucklechurch, Gloucs, widow, 22 Aug 1610.
To parish church of Pucklechurch, and the poor of Pucklechurch - each 2s.
to CLEMENT of the Parke, Robert LONGE, Edward BARCLY, John FREAME and Frauncis HISKOCKE - 2 chests apiece, and one chest to Mathewe DAVIS; to my servant and kinswoman Anne TOGHILL - £18, at 21, in the meantime to be employed by Walter STRANGE of Sison, gent. If she should die before then £10 to An PHIPS (daughter of Robert HOSKINS) and Anne BULLOCK (wife of Robert BULLOCK) the increase thereof to remain to Walter MOOREMAN, Johane LUTON, and Charitie PASCOLL; to Margaret LUTON (daughter of Edward LUTON) - £12 and various furniture.
Whereas my late husband, in his last will and testament, bequeathed to Anne MOOREMAN (daughter of Richard MOOREMAN deceased), £3, which is not yet delivered, I add 20s. more; to Elsabeth STRANGE (daughter of the said Walter STRANGE) - £4; to Joane STRANGE (wife of Anthony STRANGE) - 20s.; to Elsabeth TUCKER and Anne PHIPS beforesaid - 20s. apiece; to Ann WILLIS (daughter of Edmond WILLIS) - £4; to Agnys WILLIS and Thomas WILLIS (likewise son and daughter of the said Edmond WILLIS) - (each) 40s.; to Anne TYLER (daughter of John TYLER) - 40[s.]; to Elsabeth MOOREMAN the now daughter-in-law to John REEDE - 40s; to Richard HALL, John HALL, and Susan HALL - 20s. apiece; to Suzan YONGE - a flock bed, flock bolster, blanket, etc., all now in the inner chamber also 20s. in money; to my godchildren Anne PONTINGE and John PONTINGE the younger - 30s. apiece; to Anthonie TOGHILL - £3; to John BARTLY - 20s.; to Charitye PASCOLL - 20s.; to Anthonie SMITH - 20s.; to Johane LUTON (wife of Edward LUTON) - my 2nd best cow, etc.
Executor: Edmond WILLIS beforenamed - to have the rest.
Overseers: Walter STRANGE and Edward LUTON.
Witnesses: George EDWARDS, vicar; Walter STRANGE.
[Proved at London 19 Jul 1611 by Edmund WILLIS, executor named in this testament. PRO Ref: PROB 11/118]

William Epes, born after 1457"
John Epes of old Romney, Kent, was born after 1457 since he was under the age of 14 when his father made his will. He was a jurat for Old Romney in January 1520/1, along with his son John, Junior, and is probably the John mentioned as jurat in July 1521 without other designation. His will, made 3 December 1524 as John Eps the elder of the Parish of St. Clement, Old Romney, and proved 8 February 1525/6, provided:
"To be buried in the church in the Aysle part before the Rood. To high altar of St. Martens in New Romney and to high altar of St. Laurence of New Romney. To each of my godchildren 12 pence. To John Epse my godson of Yvechurche, ewes. To Alice Roger my daughter. To John Epps my son. Joan Epps my wife. Agnes, Elizabeth, Cicely and John the children of John Roger. John Garrard my daughter Agnes’ son. Agnes Huggelyn, the daughter of James Huggelyn. Joan my daughter, Anne my daughter, when they reach the age of discretion. Residue to John Epse my son. To Elizabeth Roger.
"Will. Youngest daughters Johane, Amye, Johane when 20. A parcell of land and 16 Acres called Long beche, and the barn with 4 acres lying there, 7 Acres of Land called Brettes, 13 Acres of Land called Daddes, 7 Acres of Land called quarterlandes, 6 ½ Acres of Land which I late purchased of John Arnell. 20 shillings yearly to John for rent, Alice and John Roger to have tenement and garden where they now dwell at rent of 2 shillings to John for their lives. 22 Acres of Land in Hope All Hallows called Seven hay that is to say to the Lands of Allsouls College of Oxenford towards the West and to the land of Richard Hall to the east. Land in Old Romney, St. Martens and St. Laurence, New Romney, Hope, Brookland and Brenzett.
"An undated inscription in St. Clement’s Church names John Ips and his wife Margaret.

1611
MOREMAN, Anne - of Pucklechurch, Gloucs, widow, 22 Aug 1610.
To parish church of Pucklechurch, and the poor of Pucklechurch - each 2s.
to CLEMENT of the Parke, Robert LONGE, Edward BARCLY, John FREAME and Frauncis HISKOCKE - 2 chests apiece, and one chest to Mathewe DAVIS; to my servant and kinswoman Anne TOGHILL - £18, at 21, in the meantime to be employed by Walter STRANGE of Sison, gent. If she should die before then £10 to An PHIPS (daughter of Robert HOSKINS) and Anne BULLOCK (wife of Robert BULLOCK) the increase thereof to remain to Walter MOOREMAN, Johane LUTON, and Charitie PASCOLL; to Margaret LUTON (daughter of Edward LUTON) - £12 and various furniture.
Whereas my late husband, in his last will and testament, bequeathed to Anne MOOREMAN (daughter of Richard MOOREMAN deceased), £3, which is not yet delivered, I add 20s. more; to Elsabeth STRANGE (daughter of the said Walter STRANGE) - £4; to Joane STRANGE (wife of Anthony STRANGE) - 20s.; to Elsabeth TUCKER and Anne PHIPS beforesaid - 20s. apiece; to Ann WILLIS (daughter of Edmond WILLIS) - £4; to Agnys WILLIS and Thomas WILLIS (likewise son and daughter of the said Edmond WILLIS) - (each) 40s.; to Anne TYLER (daughter of John TYLER) - 40[s.]; to Elsabeth MOOREMAN the now daughter-in-law to John REEDE - 40s; to Richard HALL, John HALL, and Susan HALL - 20s. apiece; to Suzan YONGE - a flock bed, flock bolster, blanket, etc., all now in the inner chamber also 20s. in money; to my godchildren Anne PONTINGE and John PONTINGE the younger - 30s. apiece; to Anthonie TOGHILL - £3; to John BARTLY - 20s.; to Charitye PASCOLL - 20s.; to Anthonie SMITH - 20s.; to Johane LUTON (wife of Edward LUTON) - my 2nd best cow, etc.

Thomas Feryby was one of Cirencester's merchants led by Giles Selwyn that tried to establish a guild in this important Cotswold market town as the two following law suits in the PRO show;. SP 46/32/fo 133d., 134 Petition to Burghley, Mildmay, Manwood and the other barons of the Exchequer by Giles Selwyn, Roger Donne, Richard Hall and Thomas Feryby of Cirencestre to reform the order of Feb. [1583] (see E.123/10, fo. 7) requiring them to submit to Sir John Danvers and pay his costs; [1583].
SP 46/15/fo 64 Burghley and Mildmay to Robert Straunge, (--) Oldsworth, Christopher George and John Cockeswell: To examine the pretended title of Giles Selwyn, Roger Donne, Richard Hall and Thomas Shereby (sic !) of Ciceter by an old charter; London 29 May 1572.

BERKELEY Parish Register
(Uniquely, I have included PONTIN(G) and GAZARD entries because later
on in the 19c there was a considerable amount of intermarrying
between these families and some of the HALE families in this area)
BAPTISMS 1560 - 1652
1571 Mar? so Thomas Hale (?)
1578 18 Oct Matthew so William Haull
5 Nov William so " "
1579 27 Dec Alice do Edward Haull
1580 6 Nov Judith do " " Jnr
1584 20 May Thomas so Margery Haull
8 Nov Edith do Edward Haull
20 Dec Johan do Dani(ell) Halle
1585 16 Feb Thomas so Richard Hill (?)
6 May William? so Edward Haull Ham
Aug Henrye so " " "
1587 30 Aug ? so Edward Haull
1590 15 Feb Abraham so Richard Haull
22 Feb Elizabeth do Edward Haull
1591........ye do Edward (Hale?)
1595 19 Jan Margaret so William Hill
17 Jul Robert so Richard Haull
1605 26 Jan George so John Hall
1608 4 Sep Edward so " "
1616 28 Mar Thomas so Richard Haule
1620 21 May Katherine do Richard Hall Ham
1623 11 Jan Thomas so Richard Haule
1631 10 Sep Anne do Willi Hale Sanniger
1632 26 Jan William so Edward Hill Hinton
26 Jun William so Mourice Hill " in BT's
1633 4 Jun Mary do William Haele Sanniger
1636 1 May Thomas so Morrice Hill Clapton
28 May Francis so William Hale Saniger
9 Oct Sarah do Edward Hill Histefield
1636 28 May Francis so " Hale Sanniger
1641 22 Aug John so William Hale Brownsend
1643 18 Dec Richard so " "

Site namePound Cottage/Post Office/Chapel
ParishBODENHAM
NGRSO 5348 5117
DescriptionThe deeds begin in 1655 when the house was sold by Richard Hall of London to Thomas and Mary Wright, a Bodenham family. It was later sold as a 'messuage with barn called the chapel' and the barn was developed into 2 cottages. the whole property was sold to Richard Arkwright in 1829. The original cottage was replaced by a new one and the 2 cottages were altered and repaired.
CompilerBurdon, Lindy
Date of record16/9/2004
Period and site typePost MedievalHOUSE

Halfhide or Westmill
The manor of HALFHIDE or WESTMILL is said to have been held by a family of Halfhide, (fn. 265) of whom a pedigree is given by Chauncy, who, moreover, wrongly identifies it with the Westmill held by Ralph de Tany in 1086. (fn. 266) In 1483 this manor was in the possession of Richard Bull and his wife Anne in right of Anne, (fn. 267) and they conveyed in that year to Robert Gobye and Thomas Bacon. In 1651 George Bromley was holding it. (fn. 268) According to Chauncy, George son and heir of George Bromley sold it to Thomas Feltham, and it descended to Ralph Feltham, who was holding in 1722. (fn. 269) In 1743 Ralph Feltham conveyed the manor to Crowley and John Hallet, (fn. 270) trustees, apparently in trust for Thomas Hall, (fn. 271) whose brother and heir Humphrey Hall was holding in 1766. (fn. 272) It is said by Cussans to have been sold in 1770 to John Scott, the Quaker poet, and after the death of his daughter Maria de Horne Scott, who married Joseph Hooper, to have been sold by trustees to Robert Hanbury. (fn. 273) After Robert Hanbury's death in 1884 it descended to his son Mr. R. C. Hanbury, whose son Mr. E. S. Hanbury is the present owner. The manor-house of Westmill was near the Watton Road. (fn. 274)

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DODMAN sweeps
From Eric Dodman, Ottawa, Canada
I am a descendant of the DODMAN chimney sweep family who lived in Town Street, Brandon from before 1881 through to 1901 and would like any further information on the Dodman Sweeps.
FIELD
From Darlene Mulvihill, Ottawa, Canada
I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and have just started researching my family tree but one line has lead me to Brandon. My great-grandfather, Walter Robert SNELL married Sarah Eliza FIELD in Montreal, Quebec (1893). I found their marriage record and it showed her parents were Charles FIELD and Mary Ann SHEARING. I have now received a copy of their marriage certificate (1858 in Santon Downham) showing that Charles lived in Brandon and his father was Robert FIELD, flint maker. On the "familysearch.org" website I found a Charles FIELD, father Robert (mother Phoebe) christened on Nov 7, 1834 in Brandon so I think I have a match.
RISSBROOK/SPENDLOVE
Paul Aston has sent in the following query...
My interest with Brandon lies with my great - great - great grandfather, Louis Richard RISSBROOK, who along with his brother, Richard, moved to Willenhall and Wednesfield in Staffordshire during the 1830's. Louis set up a successful lock making business in Willenhall which continued until his death in 1886. There is still a business in Willenhall called Knowles & Rissbrook, however, there is no longer a family interest in the business.
Louis was christened in Brandon on the 26 December 1813 to Louis Alexander RISSBROOK and Frances SPENDLOVE who were married in Brandon on the 30 January 1813. I believe Louis Alexander was working in Brandon as a flint maker. I can find no further information regarding Louis Alexander but Frances SPENDLOVE was christened in Brandon on the 19 June 1793 to James SPENDLOVE and Susannah HYETT. James and Susannah were married in Thetford on the 16th July 1775. James died in Brandon on the 27th November 1831 but I have no information regarding his birth except that is was circa 1753. Susannah also died in Brandon on the 3rd September 1817, she had been christened in Chelsea in 1755 to William HYETT and Ann.
I am therefore really looking for the birth of Louis Alexander around about 1790 and James SPENDLOVE circa 1753.
Whilst the RISSBROOK name appears to be reasonably common in East Anglia anybody with the name RISSBROOK in this area is almost certainly descended from Louis Alexander.
RUDLAND/SPENDLOVE
From Paula Musgrove
I am tracing my family history, and have connections with Brandon through my paternal great grandmother. She was born Ella Maud SPENDLOVE, on 20 April 1881. The birth location given on the birth certificate is Cold Stone [Coulson] Lane, Brandon.
Ella Maud's parents were James Simpson SPENDLOVE (Stationary Engine Driver in 1881 census) and Eliza nee BOWERS, who for reasons unknown were married in Hitchin, Herts in July 1880. I wonder if they might both have been in service there - but it seems strange that they did not get married in the parish that was home to both of them. James was born to William SPENDLOVE and Sally RUDLAND on 12 December 1851 in Lode Street. Eliza was born on 4 July 1857 in London Street, Brandon to William BOWERS and Martha nee KNOWLES.
ROYAL, GATHERCOLE, NORTON
From Ian Royal
My ancestors were from Brandon and moved to the North East of England around 1900. The names that I am intersested in are .......
ROYAL, GATHERCOLE and NORTON.
I am also intersested in the town of Weeting.
WILLETT
From Alice Wilke (nee WILLETT)
I have a Will showing my WILLETT family living at Brandon Ferry in 1629. My family lived there till 1847. Are there any Willetts living in Brandon now? Four of one family came to Australia. Sarah Ann had married John MAIZEY in Yorkshire and came to Victoria in the 1840's. My great grandfather Robert WILLETT married Rebecca CRANE (from Crimplesham) and settled in South Australia at Kapunda in 1849. Alice WILLETT arrived in South Australia in the 1860's and married Alfred DELISSER in 1864 and eventually moved to Brisbane Queensland and passed away in the early 1900's. James WILLETT arrived in Victoria in 1870's and married Agnes DOWLING at Hamilton Victoria. It is said their sister Mary married name was BESTON or BEASTON and went to America, which we have not been able to trace. I have wills dating from 1586 of the WILLETT in Little Saxham and then in Brandon Ferry from 1629.
JUDD
From Shirley Smith (nee Judd)
I was looking for information on the early JUDD family of Brandon in Suffolk. In the Alumni Cantabrigienses it shows a Robert JUDD son of Robert JUDD graduated 1705/6 from Cambridge Robert JUDD Jnr born Brandon approx 1688 and Robert Senior his father may also have been born there? Access to archives on line show Robert as a merchant and gentleman. He was said in the record to be a trustee of the will of the late Humphrey Hall of Brandon 1675 gent.

The Knapp
FILE [no title] - ref. A95/1/65 - date: 1636
[from Scope and Content] Marriage between Richard Hall, son and heir of John, and Sybil, dau. of William Traunter, dec.
FILE [no title] - ref. A95/1/66 - date: 3 April 1655
[from Scope and Content] (1) John Hall, sen. of the Knapp, yeo. and Richard Hall his son and heir apparent.
FILE [no title] - ref. A95/1/70,71 - date: 24/25 January 1687
[from Scope and Content] (1) Richard Hall of The Knapp, yeo., Anne Hall of same. widow, and Charles Hall, son and heir of Anne and John Hall, dec.

1581
BRIGEWATER, John - of Pembridge, 1581.
wife Margaret*; sons George, Walter and Thomas; daus Margaret, Mary and Anne.
Beneficiaries: Jevan ap GRIFFITH, Richard HAULE, Johan HOPLEY, Thomas HOPLEY, Als BRIGWATER.
Debtors: Ales {?}, Thomas HIGGINS of Monkland, William CORDOGAN.
Witnesses: {?}d STEADE clerk, Roger HOALL, William CORDOGAN, Thomas BRIGWATER, Harry BRIDGEWATER.
Contact: Marion B Wilkinson

1580
HALLE, Richard - of Stretton Grandsome, 3 Oct 1580.
daur Margaret; my son Walter; my son John; lease I have of Thomas ROCKS lands; John LOVELL of Ashpton; cowe in custody of John JANCYE; my son in law Willm GORWEYE; my son in law Thomas GORWEYE; my brother Thomas; my daur Anne; my brother Peter HALLE; my brother Hughe HALLE; Anne my brother Roger's daur; godson Ric HALLE son of Roger HALLE.
Witnesses: Thoms DAVYS clerk, Richard GRIFFYTH, Jhon HALLE, Richard ..
Debts I owe: Richard LYLL, gent; James YONGER; Wm DEVEREUX; RAVENHILL of Cowarne; my son in lawe John GORWEYE; my brother Thomas HALLE, my daur in law Alyce GORWEY; Elynor daur of Thomas SHEWARDE given her by Willm WODLEYE; one EVANS daur of Castle Morton godaur to William WODLEYE; Willm GORWEYE and his wife.
[Proved 1580 - Hereford; Ref FHL#91653]
Contact: Steve Kelsey

FILE [no title] - ref. AL40/52 - date: 1678, the octave of St. Martin.
[from Scope and Content] Final Concord in a fine between William Mathewes, gent., plaintiff, and Richard Hall, John Hall and Anne, his wife, Charles Hall, and Thomas Tomkyns and Mary, his wife, deforciants, of one messuage, etc., and 39 acres of land in Hope, Hopeswood, Lyonhalls, Bury, Weston, Broxwood, and Pembridge [co. Hereford].

1600
SKINNER, Anthony - of Ledbury, clothier, 16 Mar 1599.
daughter Isable SKINNER - 40£ (when 18); wife Mary (now maybe with child - a daur); sister WOOD - 20s.
Witnesses: Stephen SKYNNER, William SKINNER, Richard MULEY, Jo: LAWRANCE, Richard SKINNER.
Debts: Richard HALL, gent / 10£ 10s.; father Wm BRADFORD / 10£ 10s.; father in law, and brother in law Thomas AGG; mother in law Isable MORLEY, brother in law William MORLEY.
[Proved 10 Apr 1600 - PCC; Ref FHL#92007 - PCC 26; Wallopp]
Contact: Steve Kelsey

1600
SKINNER, Anthony - of Ledbury, clothier, 16 Mar 1599.
daughter Isable SKINNER - 40£ (when 18); wife Mary (now maybe with child - a daur); sister WOOD - 20s.
Witnesses: Stephen SKYNNER, William SKINNER, Richard MULEY, Jo: LAWRANCE, Richard SKINNER.
Debts: Richard HALL, gent / 10£ 10s.; father Wm BRADFORD / 10£ 10s.; father in law, and brother in law Thomas AGG; mother in law Isable MORLEY, brother in law William MORLEY.
[Proved 10 Apr 1600 - PCC; Ref FHL#92007 - PCC 26; Wallopp]
Contact: Steve Kelsey

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ID: I03872
Name: Richard Hall
Sex: M
Birth: JAN 1644/45 in Folkestone, Kent, England
Christening: 12 JAN 1644/45 St Mary and St Eanswythe, Folkestone, Kent, England
Note:
Richard Hall Compact Disc #12 Pin #200781
Sex: M
Christening: 12 Jan 1645 Place: Folkestone, Kent,England
Marriage(s):
Spouse: Ann Mummery Disc #12 Pin #200782
Marriage: 27 Apr 1671 Place: St.Georges, Canterbury, Kent, England
Submitter:
John GAFFEY
10 Torbert Avenue Quakers Hill NSW Australia
Submission Search: 308922-0328100223728
CD-ROM: Pedigree Resource File - Compact Disc #12
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RICHARD HALL
Male
Marriages:
Spouse: ANN MUMARY
Marriage: 27 APR 1671 Saint George The Martyr, Canterbury, Kent, Engla nd
Messages: Extracted marriage record for locality listed in the record. T he source records are usually arranged chronologically by the marriage da te.
IGI Source Information:
Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:
M015161 1538 - 1800 0973137 IT 2 Film 6906394 Film
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RICHARD HALL
Male
Marriages:
Spouse: ANN MUMARY
Marriage: 27 APR 1671 Folkestone, Kent, England
Messages: Record submitted by a member of the LDS Church. The source fil ms cannot be sent to family history centers and have limited access at th e Family History Library. A family group record for this family may be i n the Family Group Record Collection; Archive Section. (See the Family Hi story Library Catalog for the film number.) These records are alphabetica l by name of the father or husband.
IGI Source Information:
Batch Number: A184637
Sheet: 00
Source Call No.: 184637,184638 Type: Book
IGI Source Information:
Film Number: 1239590
Page Number:
Reference number: 5702
IGI Source Information:
Film Number: 184308
Page Number: 353
Reference number: 7982
Father: Robert Hall b: ABT 1610
Mother: Joan Hunt b: ABT 1620
Marriage 1 Ann Mummery b: ABT 1650 in Folkestone, Kent, England
Married: 27 APR 1671 in St. George the Martyr, Canterbury, Kent, England
Married: 27 APR 1671 in Folkestone, Kent, England
Children
Ann Hall b: ABT 11 MAY 1672 in Folkestone, Kent, England c: 11 MAY 1672 in St Mary and St Eanswythe, Folkestone, Kent, England

Hall Richard Erith 1625/6p |R 21.186 27 | husbandman
Hall Richard Frindsbury 1489pa |R 5*.17 | m;
Hall Richard Sevenoaks 1634 |S AB 6 Oct | m;
Hall Richard (Halle) Brenchley 1482d |R 5.29 | m; 1483pa - 5*.7

ID: I03872
Name: Richard Hall
Sex: M
Birth: JAN 1644/45 in Folkestone, Kent, England
Christening: 12 JAN 1644/45 Folkestone, Kent, England
Marriage 1 Ann Mummery b: ABT. 1650 in Folkestone, Kent, England
Married: 27 APR 1671 in St. George's, Canterbury, Kent, England
Children
Ann Hall b: MAY 1671 in Folkestone, Kent, England

Gilbert HALE
Born about 1598 of Staplehurst, Kent, England. Married about 1622 Fridswith ... She was born about 1600 of Staplehurst, Kent, England. She was buried 21 FEB 1638 at Staplehurst, Kent, England.
Children:
F- Mercy HALE; buried JAN 1623 at Staplehurst, Kent, England.
M- Richard HALLE; christened 21 NOV 1624 at Staplehurst, Kent, England.
M- James HALE; christened 24 AUG 1626 at Staplehurst, Kent, England.
M- Samuel HALE; christened 6 APR 1628 at Staplehurst, Kent, England.
M- Thomas HALE; christened 13 FEB 1629 at Staplehurst, Kent, England.
F- Anne HALE; christened 13 FEB 1629 at Staplehurst, Kent, England.
U- . . . . HALE; buried 13 FEB 1629 at Staplehurst, Kent, England.
F- Elizabeth HALE; christened 17 APR 1631 at Staplehurst, Kent, England.
F- Jane HALE; christened 2 APR 1633 at Staplehurst, Kent, England.
M- Sylvester HALE; buried 21 JAN 1638.
F- Susannah HALE; buried 28 FEB 1638.
M- John HALE; buried 16 MAR 1638.
Gilbert HALES
Born 1637/38 at Leeds, Kent, England the son of Richard HALES and Elizabeth ...

Starr Samuel Woodward (1) was born Private. He Fact 1 (2) Private.
He was married to Colleen Duffy Private.
Susanna Woodward(71) was born on 30 Sep 1651 in Watertown, Mddlsx, Sma. She died on 19 Dec 1671. Parents: George Woodward and Mary Mrs Woodward.
Susanna Woodward(1) was born on 30 Sep 1651 in Watertown, Mddlsx, Sma. She died on 19 Dec 1671. Parents: George Woodward and Mary \\.
Thankful Woodward(110) was born WFT Est. 1627-1648. She died WFT Est. 1667-1736. Parents: Henry Woodward and Elizabeth Tynen.
She was married to John Taylor on 18 Dec 1662 in Northampton, Ma.
William Woodward(7) (9) was born WFT Est. 1623-1649.(8) (27369) He died WFT Est. 1674-1736. (8)(27370)
He was married to Mary Brown on 21 Jun 1669.(8) (3262)
William Woodward(71) was born between 1559 and 1569 in Childwell, Lancashire, England. He died WFT Est. 1592-1655.
He was married to Elizabeth WFT Est. 1580-1612. Children were: Richard Woodward.
William Woodward(1) was born about 1559 in Childwell, Lancashire, England. He died WFT Est. 1592-1650.
He was married to Elizabeth WFT Est. 1580-1610. Children were: Richard Woodward.
William Woodward(2) was born WFT Est. 1629-1649. He died WFT Est. 1663-1735.
He was married to Mary Brown WFT Est. 1660-1693.
Gregory Woodword(84) was born WFT Est. 1520-1563. He died WFT Est. 1564-1642.
He was married WFT Est. 1544-1600. Children were: Joan Woodword.
Joan Woodword(84) was born WFT Est. 1564-1591 in Bromyard. She died WFT Est. 1584-1674. Parents: Gregory Woodword.
She was married to John Baker WFT Est. 1584-1624.

Burial: 13 May 1638 All Hallows, Mitton, Lancashire, England
Richard Hall - Son of Thomas Hall

Monson small deed boxes. 1 - 38.
FILE - Title deeds etc., Lincolnshire - ref. MON 3/28 - date: 1400-1700
item: Notification of a grant - ref. MON 3/28/4 - date: 2 July 1526
[from Scope and Content] James Canby or Candy son and heir of Geoffrey Canby or Candy of Coningsby and of Agnes his wife who was daughter and heir of William Brikwood to Robert Whetecrofte citizen and cellarer of London and merchant of the staple, Richard Whetecrofte of Coningsby, merchant of the staple, Richard Hall, citizen and merchant, tailor of London, Thomas Cutt and William Mason merchants of the staple of Calais.

Feb. 7.
Westminster.54. Warrant to pay to Rich. Hall, merchant, in consideration of his great losses, 160£. 11s. as abatement of his impost on tobacco, from moneys paid by the farmers of that impost.

8......Agnes m (a) Henry PRENTICE 21 Apr 1595 (issue:William d 1601) (b) Richard HALL 1598

Richard Hall paid the rent from 1592 to 1604, and John Aubrey, citizen and girdler, his assign, from 1604 to 1632. Aubrey occupied 10A, known as the Broad Arrowhead, in 1612. He paid a fine of £350 for a new lease in 1616-17 and 1621-2; the lease was for 30 years from 1624. The tenement was referred to as the Three Broad Arrowheads in 1625-6 and again as the Broad Arrowhead later.

CTH 2/59
Fine made at Chester l April, 9 James I [1611], before Sir Richard Lewnkenor, kt, and Sir Henry Townsend, kt, justices of the king for the county aforesaid, between Richard Hall and Thomas Cartewright, querents, and Francis Holte and Elizabeth his wife, deforciants, of two messuages, two burgages, two gardens, 4 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, 4 acres of pasture, and common of pasture for all beasts and common of turbary in Congleton alias Congulton, which the said Francis and Elizabeth acknowledge to be the right of the said Richard and Thomas, they giving for the acknowledgement, one hundred pounds of silver.

Henry d'Oilly, probably the second of that name (d. 1196), gave a chapel at FRIES to Oseney abbey, and c. 1200 Thomas of St. Valery added the adjoining house, a grant confirmed by Richard, earl of Cornwall, before 1235. (Footnote 3) That house, which lay in Yarnton parish, apparently passed from Oseney to Rewley abbey and descended thereafter with Rewley's Yarnton lands. (Footnote 4) Oseney abbey retained its Fries estate until the Dissolution when it was granted, with Water Eaton, to the bishopric of Oxford and then to William Bury. (Footnote 5) A later grant, by Elizabeth I in 1574 to Christopher Fenton and Bernard Gilpin of London, (Footnote 6) does not seem to have taken effect. Bury sold Fries in 1551-2 to George Owen of Godstow, (Footnote 7) but before 1570 the estate had passed to John Keate of Hagbourne (Berks.), who died that year; he was succeeded by his son John (d. 1618) and then by Leonard Keate (d. 1623). Leonard's heir was his daughter Mary who with her husband Anthony Libbe in 1648 surrendered Fries to Leonard's brother John Keate of Checkendon. (Footnote 8)
The descent of the estate in the next 120 years is obscure. Thomas Stapler was recorded at Fries in 1665 and, with Richard Hall, in 1674, but both may have been tenants. John Rowland seems to have owned the estate in 1760, (Footnote 9) but in 1783 Fries was among the lands settled on William Fuller of Salisbury and his wife Mary. (Footnote 10) He or another William Fuller held it in 1826, but by 1849 it had passed to Francis Fuller, who sold it in 1863 to Exeter College, the owners in 1983. (Footnote 11)

Passengers on Ship Assurance of London from London England to Virginia 1635
Theis men and women are to be transported to Virginea imbarqued in the Assurance of London
Isack Bromwell & Geo: Pewsie Master examined by the minister of the Towne of Gravesend of their conformitie in Or. Religion, the men have taken the oath of Alliegeance & Supremacie.
First Name ; Surname ;Years
Robert Brian 27
Maudlin Jones 60
Ann Shawe 32
Jo: Duncombe 46
Sith Haleward 30
Richard Hamey 36
Wm. Holland 35
Henry Snow 26
Marie Southwood 22
Francis Roweson 29
Richard Glover 24
Tho: Pagett 41
Mathew Holmes 21
Elias Harrington 22
Richard Smith 35
Tho: Robinson 24
Evan ap Evan 18
Jo: Browne 21
Robert Frithe 28
James Southern 19
Margerie Baker 39
Sara Rayne 18
Andrew Underwood 22
Philip Johns 22
Henrie Marshall 35
Henry Heiden 30
Elizabeth Sherlocke 29
Thos. Hurlock 40
Samuel Handy 25
Jo: Gater 36
Joan Gater 23
Wm. Leo 35
Josua Titlow 19
Jo: Middleton 23
Robert Howard 22
Samuel Powell 19
Wm. Robbell 19
Robert Wyon 22
Mathew Dixon 18
John Wheeler 23
Jo: North 24
Mountford Newman 27
Robert Steere 37
Wm. Lake 35
Humfrey Wilkins 19
Ann Stilgo 21
Tho: Deacon 19
Robt. Rigglie 19
Beniamin Pillard 18
Robert Davies 28
Jo: Smith 20
Walter Meridith 33
Tho: Phillips 21
James Klingsmill 18
Jo: Bowton 20
Walter Chapman 44
James Arnold 37
Richard Leake 18
Tho: Edwinn 13
Hundgate Baker 22
Jo: Abrock 20
Tho: Hall 15

Passengers on Ship from London England to Virginia 1635
24 Oct 1635
Aboard the Constance, Clement Campion Master bound to Virginea.
First Name ; Surname; Years [Age]
John Wade 21
Garret Nicholson 23
John Burrows 18
Wm Belt 21
Thomas Simpson 24
Tho: Patrick 22
John Till 20
Joseph Pricherd 17
Wm Bannerman 18
Rich. Tayler 18
John Griffin 26
Samuel Jackson 21
Geo: Atkinson 16
Robt Sexton 24
Tho: Prucell 26
David Lupton 23
Henrie More 20
Michell Suckliff 38
George Atterborne 20
Rich: Steere 24
Tho: Leer 18
Wm Prichard 24
James Cotes 22
James Revell 20
Wm Andrewes 20
Lymon Jerr 14
Wm Hunt 21
Tho: Jackson 23
Miles Coke 23
Chris Chambers 24
Davis Williams 24
Nicho Huggins 24
Jo; Davies 20
Willm Jones 25
Henrie Richardson 21
Roger Williams 19
Jo: Wythins 24
Tho: Jay 25
Elizabeth Brewer 17
Isack Bever 24
Alice Brass 15
Tho: Moore 26
Wm King 21
Jo: Mitchell 24
Tho: Hall 21

Defense June 1635
xxth June, 1635.
In the Defence do Lond. Mr Pearce vers New England p'r Cert. Fro two Justices of Peace and minister of Towcester in com. Northampton:
Joh: Gould 25 Husbandman
Grace Gould 25 Wife
7 July 1635
. In the Defence de Lond: Mr Edmond Bostocke vrs. New England p'r Cert. fro ij Justices of Peace and Minister fro Dunstable in Com. Bedfordshire:
Robert Longe 45 Inholder
Eliza: Longe 30 Wife of Robert
Luce Mercer 18 Servant
Michell Mercer 20 Child of Robert
Sarra Mercer 18 Child of Robert
Robert Mercer 16 Child of Robert
Eliza: Mercer 12 Child of Robert
Anne Mercer 10 Child of Robert
Mary Mercer 9 Child of Robert
Rebecca Mercer 8 Child of Robert
Joh: Mercer 8 Child of Robert
Zachary Mercer 4 Child of Robert
Joshua Mercer 9mo. Child of Robert
between 2-4 July 1635
Theis vnder written names are to be transported to New England imbarqued in the Defence, Tho: Bostock Mr the p'tie hath brought testimony from the Justices of Peace and Ministers in Cambridge of his comformitie to the orders and discipline of the Church of England: He hath taken ye oaths of Alleg: and Suprem"
Adam Mott 39 A Taylor
Sarah Mott 31 Vxor
Henry Steevens 24 Mason
John Sheppard 36 Husbm:
Margaret Sheppard 31
Tho: Sheppard 3mo.
Jo: Mott 14 Child
Adam Mott 12 Child
Jonathan Mott 9 Child
Elizabeth Mott 6 Child
Mary Mott 4 Child
4 July 1635
In the defence p'rd.
Elizabeth ffrench 30
Elizabeth ffrench 6
Marie ffrench 2yr.6mo
ffrancis ffrench 10
Jo: ffrench 5mo
iiij July, 1635
In the Defence de Lond. Mr Thomas Bostocke, vre New England p'r Cert: from the minister and Justices of peace of his Conformitie to ye Govmt. of Church of Engl. and no Subsedy man.
Roger Harlakenden 23 toke oathe of Allegance and Supremacie
Eliza Harlakenden 18 Wife of Roger Harlakenden
Mable Harlakenden 21 Sister of Roger Harlakenden
Anne Wood 23 Servant of Roger Harlakenden
Samuell Shepherd 22 Servant of Roger Harlakenden
Jospeh Cocke 27 Servant of Roger Harlakenden
Geo: Cocke 25 Servant of Roger Harlakenden
Wm ffrench 30 Servant of Roger Harlakenden
Eliza ffrench 32 Wife of Wm, servant of of Roger Harlakenden
Robert, a man Servant of Roger Harlakenden
Sarra Simes 30 Servant of Roger Harlakenden
6th July 1635
. In the Defence de Lond Mr Tho: Bostocke vre New England.
Joh: Jackson 30 wholesale man in Burchen Lane
P'r Cert. From St. Geo: Whitmore and minister of ye p'ish.
x July 1635
In the Defence p'rd p'r Cert from the Justices and minister of his conformitie in the church of England:
James ffitch 30 A Taylor
Abigall ffitch 24 Vxor
Die July 1635
Theis vnder written names are to be transported to New England imbarqued in the Defence of London, Edward Bostock Mr p'r certificate of his conformitie in Religion and that he is no Subsedy man.
Richard Perk 33 A Miller
Margery Perk 40
Henry Duhurst 35
Isabell Perk 7
Elizabeth Perk 4
14 July 1635
In the Defence de lond. Mr Edmond Bostocke vre New England p'r Cert. from the Minister:
Robert Hill 20 Servant To Mr. Craddocke
July 1635
Theis vnder written names are to be transported to N. England imbarqued in the defence p'red. P'r Cert: from the ministers and Justices of their conformitie and ye they are no Subsedy men:
Sara Jones 34
Sara Jones 15
Jo: Jones 11
Ruth Jones 11
Theophilas Jones 3
Rebecca Jones 2
Elliz: Jones 6 mo.
Tho: Donn 25
Suzanna ffarebrother 25
Eliza ffennick 25
Wm Sawkynn 25
W. Hubbard 40 Husbm:
Judith Hubbard 25
John Hubbard 15
Wm Hubbard 13
Wm Head 48
Mabell Head 30
George Head 6
Ralph Head 5
Justice Head 18mo.
Dorothie Knight 30
Nathaniell Hubbard 6
Richard Hubbard 4
Martha Hubbard 22
Mary Hubbard 20
Robert Colburne 28
Edward Colburne 17
Dorothie Adams 24
ffrancis Nutbrowne 16
Wm Williamson 25
Marie Williamson 23
Luce Mercer 19
Jo: ffitch 14
Penelope Darno 29
Martha Banes 20
Jasper Gunn 25
Ann Gunn 25
ffebe Maulder 7
Sym: Roger 20
Jo: Jenkynn 26
Robert Keyne 40
Eliz: Steere 18
Sarah Knight 50
Anne Keyne 38
Ben: Keyne 16
Jo: Bartes 29
Mary Bentley 20

Hanley Court Estate (Worcestershire) archive
Catalogue Ref. MS 3312
[from Scope and Content] Deeds and other documents of title concerning Eastham (Worcs) and Hanley William [alias Downton] (Worcs), n.d. [13th cent] -1741; Broadway (Worcs), 1537-1789; and Stratford-on-Avon (Warks), 1537-87 (including documents concerning Richard Hall); marriage settlement of Richard Pardoe of Ombersley (Worcs) and Marjorie Parker of Chaddesley Corbett (Worcs), 1588; marriage settlement of John Nashe of Ombersley (Worcs) and Isabell Taylor of Church Lench (Worcs), 1589; declaration respecting a watercourse at Broadway (Worcs), 1591; probate copy will of Edward Newport of Hanbury William (Worcs), 1608; marriage settlement of Richard Hunt and Alice Fidoe concerning property at Eastham (Worcs), 1630; marriage settlement of James Nash and Mary Bromwich of Bewdley, 1635; marriage settlements of John Newport and Elizabeth Hamond, 1663, 1667; tax assessment for Hanley William (Worcs), 1643 and complaint of unequal assessments to military taxes, 1645; will of William Weaver of Over Hanley (Worcs), 1685; miscellaneous household bills, 1722-35; will of John Newport of Hanley William (Worcs), 1760; rental of John Newport's estate, taken at his death, 1760; inventory of household furniture of James W. Newport of Hanley Castle, Hanley William (Worcs), 1787; weekly statements of production at Broadway Mill (Worcs), 1635-36; copy will of Walter Savage of Broadway (Worcs), esq., 1640; marriage settlement of Walter Savage and Elizabeth Skynner of Ledbury (Herefs) re land at Broadway (Worcs), 1654; inventory of the possessions of Mary Savage of Broadway (Worcs), 1658; household bill of Walter Savage of Broadway (Worcs), 1668; estate accounts and rental of Mrs. Cecilia Savage of Broadway (Worcs), 1711-23; copy will of Walter Savage of Broadway (Worcs), 1719; legal papers including inventory of goods of John Stephens of Broadway (Worcs), 1747; marriage settlement of Thomas Bury junior and Cecilia Mary Newport re lands at Broadway and Hanley William (Worcs), 1768; copy will of Anne Newport of Hanley William (Worcs), 1738; copy will of Anne Archer of Fladbury, widow, 1772; draft foundation charter of Crypt School, Gloucester, 1540; miscellaneous legal papers concerning estate and testamentary matters, 1583-1708; probate copy will of John Hamond of Hanbury William (Worcs), 1687; probate copy will of John Newport of Hanley William (Worcs), 1693; sale particulars of farms in Herefs and Worcs belonging to Gilbert Nicholetts, esq., 1768; valuations of farms in Eastham (Worcs), 1786; terrier of Newport family estate in Eastham (Worcs), 1794; lay subsidy roll for the Hundred of Kineton (Warks), 1567-68; inventory of goods of Robert Burbage of Idlicote (Oxon), 1536; probate copy will of Christopher Clyffe of Idlicote (Oxon), 1567; inquisition post mortem of Humfrey Holden of Erdington, 1601; probate copy will of Walter Wysham of Lyonshall (Herefs), 1617; marriage settlement of Walter Savage and Cecilia Oldys, 1713; quietus granted to Thomas Bury junior as sheriff of Worcestershire, 1768; miscellaneous estate, legal and family correspondence of the Bury family of Abberley (Worcs), 1778-1819; sacrament certificate of John Newport of Hanley Court (Worcs), 1735; political songs, n.d. [c1740]; sale particulars and plan for Strensham estate (Worcs), 1815, Lea Green estate, Sapey (Herefs), 1818, and Hill Farm, Hanley Child (Worcs), 1818; legal papers concerning the manor of Hanley William (Worcs), 1565-1625; sheriff's orders, high constable's orders etc. concerning taxation and the supply of troops etc. in Doddingtree Hundred (Worcs) during the Civil War, 1642-51; papers of Court of Oyer of Eastham (Worcs), 1626-60, 1738; Bury family housekeeping accounts, 1750-52, 1786-94, 1795-99; recipe book, 17th-18th cent.; estate ledgers, Bury family, 1713-69; estate ledgers, Newport family, 1701-1785; estate ledger of Walter Savage of Broadway (Worcs), 1653-1706; transcripts of documents relating to Broadway (Worcs), 1927
MISCELLANEOUS; BURY PAPERS; etc.
FILE - Draft. The answer of Edwarde Bentley, gentleman, one of the defendants to the Bill of Complaint of Richard Hall, gentleman, complainant. See also MS 3312/397230. - ref. MS 3312/395930 - date: 4 Feb 1590-1
FINAL AGREEMENTS
FILE - Trinity Monday. Between Roger Edgeworthe and another; and Richard Hall and another. - ref. MS 3312/396810 - date: 1556
MISCELLANEOUS
Idlicote, co. Oxon
FILE - Indenture between Richard Hall, of Idlycote, gent, and Anthony Throckmorton, esquire, and Thomas Wynehester. Property at Utlycote alias Idlicote, Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick; and Swarford and Hokenorton, co. Oxon. Signature of Rycharde Haulle. - ref. MS 3312/396879 - date: 1 Jan 1557-8
FILE - Will, and Probate (25 June 1567), and Inventory of Christopher Clyffe, husbandman of Udlycotte. Richard Hall, a witness and appraiser. - ref. MS 3312/396880 - date: 25 March 1567
FILE - Letter from William Somerville addressed to Richard Hall, Idlicote. - ref. MS 3312/398711 - date: 2 Aug 1586
FILE - Counterpart of assignment of lease between William Sheldon of Broadway, and Walter Savage, deceased, of Broadway; and Symon Underbill, of Idlicott alias Uttlicott, co. Warwick, esquire. Land at Idlicott. Mentions Richard Hall, deceased. Signed by Simon Underhill. Fragment of seal. - ref. MS 3312/396882 - date: 30 Sep 1632
Swerford
FILE - Richard Hall, of Idlycote, co. Warwick, gent, and Joyce, his wife; and Richard Osbaldeston of Swarward, co. Oxford, gent. Counterpart of lease by Richard and Joyce Hall of a capital messuage called Lyons place, at Swarward, now in the tenure of George and Mary Osbaldeston, father and mother of Richard Osbaldeston; [Signed] Rychard Osbaston. - ref. MS 3312/397217 - date: 3 Oct 1563
FILE - Richard Hall, of Idelcote, co. Warwick, gent. and Joyce, his wife and others as in (1). Livery of seisin, Lyons Place, etc., as above. Unsigned. - ref. MS 3312/397220 - date: 1592-3
Miscellaneous
FILE - Receipt by John Orwelle from Richard Hall of Sowth Newnton [South Newington]. - ref. MS 3312/397224 - date: 26 Sep 1463
FILE - [Copy of Indenture Tripartite] William Banwell and Agnes, his wife, John Kendale and Elizabeth, his wife. Concerns land etc. in Halford, co. Warwick, etc. etc; Certificate (c. 1590) that it is a "trew copie" is signed by Richard Hall; Nichs. Deringe; Nichs. Fuller; Arthure Blunte - ref. MS 3312/397225 - date: 10 May 1495
FILE - Counterpart of indenture between Richard Hall, of Idlycote, co. Warwick, gent., and Walter Savage, of Brodwaye, co. Worcester; and Richard Lane, of Bridgetown, co. Warwick, gent; Recites deed dated 6 Sept. 1581-2, of marriage settlement of said Richard Hall and Joice, his wife, etc.; Conveyance of lands at Aulston and Tyddington, co. Warwick, to Richard Lane, of Aulston; Signed by Richard Lane. Tag but no seal. - ref. MS 3312/397228 - date: 15 Aug 1587
FILE - Fragment of draft of Indenture between Raffe Sheldon of Be[oley] co. Worcester, esq., and John West, of Honington, co. Warwick, woolwinder; and Richard Hall, of Idlecote, co. Oxon, and Walter Savage, of Broadway, co. Worcester, esq. - ref. MS 3312/398711 - date: Circa 1587-8
FILE - Inquisition Post Mortem of Humfrey Holden, of Erdington, co. Warwick, gent. Mentions Richard Hall, of Idlicott, co. Warwick, gent. Lands at Aston, Erdington, Saltley, etc. - ref. MS 3312/397232 - date: 26 Sep 1601
STRATFORD-ON-AVON.
FILE - Richard Hall, of Idlecote, co. Warwick, gent. Marriage settlement of said Richard and Joyce Hall, and also of Walter Savage, one of the sons of Anne Daston, widow, wife of Anthony Daston, esquire, deceased, and formerly the wife of Francis Savage, esquire, also deceased - and Elizabeth Savage, now wife of the said Walter Savage and one of the daughters and heiress apparent of the said Richard Hall; Conveyance by Richard Hall to Anne Daston, William Savage, esquire, and Anthony Savage, gent., two of the sons of said Anne, and brothers of the said Walter, of a farm in Swarforde, co. Oxon, called Lyons Place, and a close called New Close and two other closes called Lyons closes; with land etc. in Hooke Norton, co. Oxon, and Awlston, co. Warwick; and two messuages and three closes in Stretforde-upon-Avon. To have and to hold etc. etc. - ref. MS 3312/397343 - date: 6 Sep 1582
[from Scope and Content] From Richard Hall to John Loxley of a messuage in Stretford-upon-Avon.
[from Scope and Content] [Signed] Richard Hall.
FILE - Depositions taken at Stratford-on-Avon before Edward Boshell, Richard Hall and Robert Wincott, gents, by commission, on behalf of John Beedon alias Mason and William Hawke, defendants. - ref. MS 3312/397344 - date: 20 May 1583
[from Scope and Content] Robert Hill, parson of Barcheston, co. Warwick, aged 41, answers to some of the interrogatories which are not attached. He deposes that he knows Thomas Mason late of Willington, co. Warwick, father to the said William and John. The said Thomas Mason on his death bed sealed and delivered a certain deed of one yard land and three quarters to the use of John Mason, his younger son, as his will and testament, but he cannot say whether or not it was to Blackford; Thomas Blackford, aged 37, corroborates Robert Hill, and adds further particulars. Mentions Sir Thomas Lucie and Humfrey Petoe, esquire, Justices of Assize; John Thornett, aged 60. Mentions a certain Nicholas Tooley; William Hauckes, of Cibvube Gore [Sibford Gower]. co. Oxford, aged 30; The depositions are signed by Richard Hall.
FILE - Indenture (damaged) Richard Hall, of Idlecote, gent, and Walter Savage, of Brodway; and Anthony Nasshe, of Welcombe, in the parish of Stretford-upon-Avon, gent. This indenture is not signed or witnessed; Recites deed of feoffment as in 386. Lease to Anthony Nasshe. - ref. MS 3312/397345 - date: 15 Aug 1587

1. Name Richard HALL Alias – Buried 29 Jul 1693 aged – Abode – in county of – status – buried at Alderminster in county of WAR
Amount paid £0.05
2. Name Richard HALL Alias – Buried 23 Oct 1610 aged – Abode – in county of – status – buried at Birmingham St Martin in county of WAR
Amount paid £0.05
3. Name Richard HALL Alias – Buried 10 Feb 1634 aged – Abode – in county of – status – buried at Aston in county of WAR
Amount paid £0.05
4. Name Richard HALL Alias – Buried 10 Mar 1693 aged – Abode – in county of – status – buried at Kingsbury in county of WAR
Amount paid £0.05
5. Name Richard HALL Alias – Buried 18 Jul 1699 aged – Abode – in county of – status Son buried at Kingsbury in county of WAR
Amount paid £0.05

213. MARY HALL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 1683 Wolford, Warwick, England
214. ELIZAB. HALL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 18 JUN 1686 Wolford, Warwick, England
215. JOHES. HALL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 19 JAN 1688 Wolford, Warwick, England
216. JOHANNES HALL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 29 MAR 1696 Wolford, Warwick, England
217. MARGRET HALLE - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 20 FEB 1612 Wolford, Warwick, England
218. GUIL. HALL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 10 APR 1688 Wolford, Warwick, England
219. GUILIELMUS HALL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 04 OCT 1693 Wolford, Warwick, England
220. SARAAH HALL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 08 NOV 1670 Wolford, Warwick, England
221. SARAH HALL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 17 MAR 1690 Wolford, Warwick, England
222. ROBTUS. RICARDUS HALL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 04 OCT 1693 Wolford, Warwick, England
223. JONA HALL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 11 APR 1682 Wolford, Warwick, England
224. RICHARDUS HALL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 31 MAR 1685 Wolford, Warwick, England
225. DOROTHEA HALL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 19 JAN 1688 Wolford, Warwick, England
226. ANTONIUS HAMAN - International Genealogical Index

Name Relationship Mar Age Sex Occupation Birthplace
Richard HALL Head W 65 M Shoemaker Little Tew-Oxf
William HALL Son U 40 M Shoemaker Little Wolford----
Thomas HALL Son U 38 M Shoemaker Little Wolford----
Ann HUNT Hskp U 25 F Serv Little Wolford----
Elizabeth HALL --- - 13 F Scholar -------
Address: ---, Little Wolford
Census Place: Lower Lemington Gt&Lt Wolford Shipston On Stour, Warwickshire
PRO Reference: HO/107/2076 Folio: 345 Page: 19 FHL Film: 0087345

11,Lone Cottage,1,Joseph Hall,Head,M,30,,Farm Labourer,Employed,Little Wolford Warwickshire,,
,,,Sarah Hall,Wife,M,,34,,,Honington Warwickshire,,
,,,John Hall,Son,S,10,,,,Brailes Warwickshire,,
,,,Alice Hall,Dau,S,,9,,,Brailes Warwickshire,,
,,,Joseph Hall,Son,S,6,,,,Brailes Warwickshire,,
,,,Mary Ann Hall,Dau,S,,3,,,Brailes Warwickshire,,
,,,Fanny Hall,Dau,S,,2,,,Brailes Warwickshire,,

Records of the Stratford-upon-Avon Corporation
Catalogue Ref. BR
Creator(s):
Stratford-upon-Avon Corporation
Records of transferred organizations
Records of the Stratford-upon-Avon Borough Sessions - ref. BRT4
General records of the court
FILE - Papers - ref. BRT4/1/1 - date: c 1602-1706
item: [no title] - ref. BRT4/1/1/35 [n.d.]
[from Scope and Content] Indictment preferred against Richard Hall, chandler, for selling candles too light by a farthing candle in each pound January [1647]
Records of the Borough Vestry - ref. BRT8
Records of Poor Law Administration
FILE [no title] - ref. BRT8/205 - date: 1750-1841
item: [no title] - ref. BRT8/205/196 - date: 3.7.1788
[from Scope and Content] Settlement Certificates, Settlement = Gt.Wolford, Residence = Borough, Name = Timothy Edwards, Family = Elisabeth, Document = Certificate
Records of the Old Stratford Parish Vestry - ref. BRT9
Old Stratford and Drayton Valuation Lists
FILE [no title] - ref. BRT9/189 - date: 1740-1846
item: [no title] - ref. BRT9/189/82 - date: 15.3.1803
[from Scope and Content] Old Stratford Settlement papers. Parish of Settlement = Little Wolford, Parish of arrival = Old Stratford, Name = Richard Shirley, Family = Hannah, Document = Removal
item: [no title] - ref. BRT9/189/137 - date: 6.1.1830
[from Scope and Content] Settlement papers, parish of Old Stratford. Parish of Settlement = Old Stratford, Parish of arrival = Gt. Wolford, Name = Thomas Walker, Family = Jane; Thomas 3, John 1, Document = Removal
item: [no title] - ref. BRT9/189/197 - date: 7.3.1840
[from Scope and Content] Settlement papers, parish of Old Stratford. Settlement = Old Stratford, Parish of Arrival = Gt. Wolford, Name = John Walker, Family = Ann; Jane 8, John 6, Elizabeth 4, Thomas 2, Sarah 3 mths., Document = Removal

Records of the Stratford-upon-Avon Corporation
Catalogue Ref. BR
Creator(s):
Stratford-upon-Avon Corporation
Records of transferred organizations
Records of the Guild of the Holy Cross - ref. BRT1
FILE [no title] - ref. BRT1/2/437 - date: 14 May, 1428
[from Scope and Content] Power of attorney from Thomas T[r]out of Morton Bagote to John Sclatter and William Beeley to deliver seisin to Richard Hall, Hugh Salford and master John Harrys, chaplain of Stratford upon Auen, of a messuage with a curtilage adjoining in Stratford in Merestrete, between the messuages formerly of William Carpenter and William Fekenham
FILE [no title] - ref. BRT1/2/455 - date: [25 March] 1432
[from Scope and Content] Fragment of an indenture of lease from Richard [Hall] master, and John Wyke and Thomas Clyfford, proctors of the Gild of the Holy Cross etc. of Stratford upon Aven, to Robert Mathewes, carpenter, of a tenement in Stratford in Shepustrete between a tenement of the said Gild [and property of ---] Vlbarow, for 50 years at an annual rent of 8 shillings
Other documents mainly concerning the Guild of the Holy Cross
Guild Accounts
FILE [no title] - ref. BRT1/3/27 - date: 1412-1413
[from Scope and Content] (Thomas Chacomb and his wife, Lucy Brasyer, Margery Smyzth, Hugh Salford and his wife, Thomas Reynold and his wife, John Mayel, "Barker" and his wife, William Taylur and Julia his wife, Richard Hall and his wife, Alice Carter, William Carter, Roger Chilcote and his wife, Thomas Grene and his wife, John Pound and his wife, Is' Plowmaker, Margery Ilmyngdon, Thomas Torpley, Richard Torpley and his wife, John Smyzth, of Brayles, and his wife, the wife of William Sallow, Richard Crispe and his wife, Hugh Baly and his wife, William Baly, Chaplain, Peter Sloley, John Rose, Chaplain, Thomas Whelar, Chaplain, William Whelar of Clifford, William Wayt, Rector of Clifford, Roger Hosyer and his wife,... Hicokkes of Campete and his wife, Solomon... senior, of Hudcote, and his wife, Warren Richards of Lokesley and his wife, John Jowkyns, Vicar of Alveston, Peter Lynedraper and his wife, John Crowenhall and his wife, John Ingement and his wife, Thomas Halford, Chaplain, John Couper, "Corvycer," and his wife, William Clerke of Bisshopuston, John Bromman of Alveston and his wife, John Broke, and Richard and John the sons of Richard Broke, John Iremonger of Shepuston and Felicia his wife, Thomas Chaundeler of Bannebury and his wife, John Newman and his wife, Henry Bromman, John Palmer and his wife, Richard Sheperd and Alice his wife, William Boveton, Chaplain, the wife of William Lokyer; John Salamon, junior, and his wife, John Salamon his brother, Henry Smyzth of Segbarowe and his wife, John Magote, junior, and his wife, William Clayn and his wife, and John Richardes and his wife.)
FILE [no title] - ref. BRT1/3/42 - date: 1431-1432
[from Scope and Content] Fines. (The fines of Reginald Fletcher and Alice his wife; Edward Taylour, of Stratford, and Alice his wife; John Towkesbury, "Syngulmon," of Stratford; John Walkeco[le], the servant of Richard Halle; William Newport, of Shepuston, and Margery his wife; Thomas Horsman, of Welcoumb, and [ ] his wife; Geoffrey Taylour of Alincestre, and [ ] his wife; Richard Hall, of Alincestre, and [ ] his wife; William Baret, of Drayton, and Jane his wife; Simon Bryane, of Longdon, and Emma his wife; Petronilla Frerre, widow, of Admuscote, and the soul of Simou Frerre, her late husband; Silvester Halle, of Idlycote; William Kypar, of Idlicote, and [ ] his wife; Roger Smyzth, of Idlycote; William Wager, of Alveston, and Emmota his wife; Thomas Brugeman, of Alveston, and Jane his wife; John Heyne, of Alveston, and Isabella his wife; William Townesend, of Stratford, "Syngulmon" (13s 4d, and when he has a wife she shall be a sister of the Guild); Robert Glover, of Shepuston, and [ ] his wife; Robert Bragg and Margery his wife; William Glover, of Stratford, and Alice his wife; John Milleward, of Stratford, "Barbour," and Juliana his wife (to be paid by four quarterly instalments); John Philip, of Stratford, "Barbour," "Syngulmon"; Robert Taylour, alias Thatcher, of Stratford, and the soul of Jane his late wife; Richard Young, of Stratford, and Margery his wife; and John Cowley, the servant of John Walsch, of Lodyngton.)
FILE [no title] - ref. BRT1/3/112 - date: 1501-1502
[from Scope and Content] (The fines of Richard Colchester, "Dominus" John Wryzth, the Warden of Knoll; Richard Cheket; Richard Biker; Thomas Hurdes, of Stratford; John Wagstaffe, of Shepston; Richard Grene, of Wolford; William Massenger, of the same place; William Corte, of Armestote; Richard Webb, of chepyngnorton; John Howchyns, of the same place; Thomas Beryman, of the same place; Simon Ede, of Stodley; John Boner, of Campden; John Fysher; Thomas Marells, of Honyborne; John Yonge, of Lodyng; the soul of Richard Gardener, the servant of William Parsonnes; the soul of John Barker; the soul of Agnes Phelipus, the daughter of William Phelipus; the souls of Thomas Botteler, and Elizabeth Kyrby of Stratford; Lady Jane Harewell, "Dominus" Thomas Mawdeley, and Roger Harewell; also 26s 8d, the arrears of John Baker.)

ARCHER OF TANWORTH
Catalogue Ref. DR 37
Creator(s):
Archer family of Tanworth, Warwickshire
54 boxes of estate, legal, personal and official papers
FILE [no title] - ref. DR 37/2/Box 83 - date: 1387-c1660
item: [no title] - ref. DR 37/2/Box 83/27 - date: n.d [c 1516]
[from Scope and Content] List of those empannelled in John Archer, esq. v. Baldwin Hethe. viz: Thomas Shukborowe, esq; John Dyxwell, esq; John Dorsett, esq; John Lytley of Rugby ('Rukby'), Roger Wygeston, esq; Henry Warde of Pillerton; John Harper of Walton; Thomas Gylbert of Stratford; John Edward of Hatton (crossed through); John Ingram of Wolford; Walter Rose of Wolford; Roger Hull of Henley; John Harper of Henley; John Bromege of Lawford; Thomas Hall of Lawford; Richard Wright of Happisford; John Thirkell of Stratton; John Bynley of Stratton; Richard Goode of Stratton; William Myddleton of Tysoe ('Tysowe'); Robert Toly of Birmingham; Thomas Westocte of Tanworth; Henry Hosyer of Stratford; Christopher Sadeller of Wolvershill; Robert Bate of --neton; John Everard of the same; John Byrde of Rowington; Sanders Acton of Baddesley Clinton. (3 names have + by them and a further 10 are pricked).
FILE [no title] - ref. DR 37/2/Box 85 - date: 1620-1777
item: [no title] - ref. DR 37/2/Box 85/6/49 [n.d.]
[from Scope and Content] Great Wolford
item: [no title] - ref. DR 37/2/Box 85/6/50 [n.d.]
[from Scope and Content] Little Wolford
item: [no title] - ref. DR 37/2/Box 85/6/51 [n.d.]
[from Scope and Content] Little Wolford; aleshousekeepers.
FILE [no title] - ref. DR 37/2/Box 89 - date: 1412-1742
item: [no title] - ref. DR 37/2/Box 89/115 - date: 20 August 1638
[from Scope and Content] T: John Fetherston, Richard Hall, Robert Walter, William Wise, John Somerville, E. Ashenhurst.

WESTON-UPON-AVON
FILE [no title] - ref. D2957/334/1 - date: 6 July 1639
[from Scope and Content] Witnesses: Richard HALL, William BREGG, Margaret UNDERHILL

Deeds
Ludlow
FILE [no title] - ref. 5075/39 - date: 3 September 12 Charles I (1637)
[from Scope and Content] 2. Richard Hall of the same, gent.
[from Scope and Content] The meadow and orchard called the Lords Orchard in the liberties of the town between the River Teme on the S. side and the town wall of the town of Ludlow on the N. side and extending in length fromwards a way leading to the Castle Mills on the N.W. part, on the lands of Richard Edwards on the E. part, now in the tenure of Richard Hall.
[from Scope and Content] To Richard Hall from now for 31 years @ 20s a year.

FILE - Stratford-upon-Avon - ref. ER 2/80 - date: 23 September 1672
[from Scope and Content] Deed of sale by Thomas Reddle, of Southwark, waterman, William Hall of London, clothworker, and Susanna, his wife, to Susanna Gunne, of Stratford upon Avon, widow, for £20, of a messuage in Stratford in 'the Swine streete', late in the tenure of Richard Hall, glover, and lying between tenements of William Myles and of Anne Myles, widow.
FILE - Stratford-upon-Avon - ref. ER 2/81 - date: 23 October 1672
[from Scope and Content] Deed of sale by Susanna Gunne, of Stratford upon Avon, widow, to Mary Gunne, of the same, spinster, for £20, of a messuage in Swyne Street, late in the tenure of Richard Hall, glover, lying between tenements in the tenure of William Myles on the west, and Anne Myles on the east, to be held of the Crown as of the manor of East Greenwich at a yearly rent of 8 shillings.
FILE - Stratford-upon-Avon - ref. ER 2/83 - date: 18 September 1674
[from Scope and Content] Assignment by Henry Yearwood, of Warwick, gent., to William Evans, of Snitterfield, clerk, for £120, of two messuages in Bridge Street, one known by the name of the George and the other, adjoining, in the tenures of Robert Sharpe and Richard Hall and lying between tenements in the tenure of Michael Palmer on the east and Francis Cleaver on the west and extending from the street on the south to the highway called Gillpitts on the north, the same being built on the site of two messuages originally leased as above (no. 33) by John Browne to John Ingram and since destroyed by fire.
FILE - Stratford-upon-Avon - ref. ER 2/88, 89 - date: 15 October 1677
[from Scope and Content] Lease (by way of settlement after the marriage of the undernamed Francis Evans and Elizabeth his wife) from William Evans, of Snitterfield, clerk, and Francis Evans, of the same, yeoman, to John Townsend of Warwick, gent., and George Harris, of Snitterfield, clerk, of the two messuages in Bridge Street (as above, 83, 84) now or late in the occupation of Robert Sharpe and Richard Hall between a tenement in the occupation of Michael Palmer on the east and a tenement in the occupation of Francis Cleaver on the west, for 500 years, to the use of William Evans, Francis Evans, and Elizabeth, daughter of John Meads, of Snitterfield, yeoman, and wife of Francis Evans, successively, for life, with remainder to the issue of the said Francis and Elizabeth and, in default, to the executors etc. of Francis Evans.

FILE - ALVECOTE, WARWICKSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, HAMPTON-IN-ARDEN - ref. DR 3/448 - date: 1 August 1601; 26 May 1611; copy made mid 17th century
[from Scope and Content] Mid 17th century copy of a lease from Queen Ann to Thomas Wynate and Humphrey Coles of a water mill, meadow land, one croft and two acres of arable land in the common field in the tenure of Edward Howard [in Hampton-in-Arden]. To hold for 99 years or for the lives of John Faireclough, son of Thomas Faireclough of Faireclough in Weston, co. Hereford gent., John Harmer of Weston, co. Hereford gent. and Richard Hall of Hoggington [?Hockington], co. Cambridge for the annual rent of £6 13s. 4d., Robert Loggins being the present tenant.

FILE [no title] - ref. BRT1/2/455 - date: [25 March] 1432
[from Scope and Content] Fragment of an indenture of lease from Richard [Hall] master, and John Wyke and Thomas Clyfford, proctors of the Gild of the Holy Cross etc. of Stratford upon Aven, to Robert Mathewes, carpenter, of a tenement in Stratford in Shepustrete between a tenement of the said Gild [and property of ---] Vlbarow, for 50 years at an annual rent of 8 shillings

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Catalogue Ref. MS 3312
[from Scope and Content] Deeds and other documents of title concerning Eastham (Worcs) and Hanley William [alias Downton] (Worcs), n.d. [13th cent] -1741; Broadway (Worcs), 1537-1789; and Stratford-on-Avon (Warks), 1537-87 (including documents concerning Richard Hall); marriage settlement of Richard Pardoe of Ombersley (Worcs) and Marjorie Parker of Chaddesley Corbett (Worcs), 1588; marriage settlement of John Nashe of Ombersley (Worcs) and Isabell Taylor of Church Lench (Worcs), 1589; declaration respecting a watercourse at Broadway (Worcs), 1591; probate copy will of Edward Newport of Hanbury William (Worcs), 1608; marriage settlement of Richard Hunt and Alice Fidoe concerning property at Eastham (Worcs), 1630; marriage settlement of James Nash and Mary Bromwich of Bewdley, 1635; marriage settlements of John Newport and Elizabeth Hamond, 1663, 1667; tax assessment for Hanley William (Worcs), 1643 and complaint of unequal assessments to military taxes, 1645; will of William Weaver of Over Hanley (Worcs), 1685; miscellaneous household bills, 1722-35; will of John Newport of Hanley William (Worcs), 1760; rental of John Newport's estate, taken at his death, 1760; inventory of household furniture of James W. Newport of Hanley Castle, Hanley William (Worcs), 1787; weekly statements of production at Broadway Mill (Worcs), 1635-36; copy will of Walter Savage of Broadway (Worcs), esq., 1640; marriage settlement of Walter Savage and Elizabeth Skynner of Ledbury (Herefs) re land at Broadway (Worcs), 1654; inventory of the possessions of Mary Savage of Broadway (Worcs), 1658; household bill of Walter Savage of Broadway (Worcs), 1668; estate accounts and rental of Mrs. Cecilia Savage of Broadway (Worcs), 1711-23; copy will of Walter Savage of Broadway (Worcs), 1719; legal papers including inventory of goods of John Stephens of Broadway (Worcs), 1747; marriage settlement of Thomas Bury junior and Cecilia Mary Newport re lands at Broadway and Hanley William (Worcs), 1768; copy will of Anne Newport of Hanley William (Worcs), 1738; copy will of Anne Archer of Fladbury, widow, 1772; draft foundation charter of Crypt School, Gloucester, 1540; miscellaneous legal papers concerning estate and testamentary matters, 1583-1708; probate copy will of John Hamond of Hanbury William (Worcs), 1687; probate copy will of John Newport of Hanley William (Worcs), 1693; sale particulars of farms in Herefs and Worcs belonging to Gilbert Nicholetts, esq., 1768; valuations of farms in Eastham (Worcs), 1786; terrier of Newport family estate in Eastham (Worcs), 1794; lay subsidy roll for the Hundred of Kineton (Warks), 1567-68; inventory of goods of Robert Burbage of Idlicote (Oxon), 1536; probate copy will of Christopher Clyffe of Idlicote (Oxon), 1567; inquisition post mortem of Humfrey Holden of Erdington, 1601; probate copy will of Walter Wysham of Lyonshall (Herefs), 1617; marriage settlement of Walter Savage and Cecilia Oldys, 1713; quietus granted to Thomas Bury junior as sheriff of Worcestershire, 1768; miscellaneous estate, legal and family correspondence of the Bury family of Abberley (Worcs), 1778-1819; sacrament certificate of John Newport of Hanley Court (Worcs), 1735; political songs, n.d. [c1740]; sale particulars and plan for Strensham estate (Worcs), 1815, Lea Green estate, Sapey (Herefs), 1818, and Hill Farm, Hanley Child (Worcs), 1818; legal papers concerning the manor of Hanley William (Worcs), 1565-1625; sheriff's orders, high constable's orders etc. concerning taxation and the supply of troops etc. in Doddingtree Hundred (Worcs) during the Civil War, 1642-51; papers of Court of Oyer of Eastham (Worcs), 1626-60, 1738; Bury family housekeeping accounts, 1750-52, 1786-94, 1795-99; recipe book, 17th-18th cent.; estate ledgers, Bury family, 1713-69; estate ledgers, Newport family, 1701-1785; estate ledger of Walter Savage of Broadway (Worcs), 1653-1706; transcripts of documents relating to Broadway (Worcs), 1927
EASTHAM, HANLEY WILLIAM, etc.
FILE - Indenture between Walter Savage of Broadway, and William Stratford of Berton-on-the-Heath, and Millicent Savage, spinster, sister of the said Walter, to secure the portion of the said Millicent. - ref. MS 3312/394774 - date: 10 May 1666
MISCELLANEOUS; BURY PAPERS; etc.
FILE - Draft. The answer of Edwarde Bentley, gentleman, one of the defendants to the Bill of Complaint of Richard Hall, gentleman, complainant. See also MS 3312/397230. - ref. MS 3312/395930 - date: 4 Feb 1590-1
FINAL AGREEMENTS
FILE - Trinity Monday. Between Roger Edgeworthe and another; and Richard Hall and another. - ref. MS 3312/396810 - date: 1556
MISCELLANEOUS
Idlicote, co. Oxon
FILE - Indenture between Richard Hall, of Idlycote, gent, and Anthony Throckmorton, esquire, and Thomas Wynehester. Property at Utlycote alias Idlicote, Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick; and Swarford and Hokenorton, co. Oxon. Signature of Rycharde Haulle. - ref. MS 3312/396879 - date: 1 Jan 1557-8
FILE - Will, and Probate (25 June 1567), and Inventory of Christopher Clyffe, husbandman of Udlycotte. Richard Hall, a witness and appraiser. - ref. MS 3312/396880 - date: 25 March 1567
FILE - Letter from William Somerville addressed to Richard Hall, Idlicote. - ref. MS 3312/398711 - date: 2 Aug 1586
FILE - Counterpart of assignment of lease between William Sheldon of Broadway, and Walter Savage, deceased, of Broadway; and Symon Underbill, of Idlicott alias Uttlicott, co. Warwick, esquire. Land at Idlicott. Mentions Richard Hall, deceased. Signed by Simon Underhill. Fragment of seal. - ref. MS 3312/396882 - date: 30 Sep 1632
Swerford
FILE - Richard Hall, of Idlycote, co. Warwick, gent, and Joyce, his wife; and Richard Osbaldeston of Swarward, co. Oxford, gent. Counterpart of lease by Richard and Joyce Hall of a capital messuage called Lyons place, at Swarward, now in the tenure of George and Mary Osbaldeston, father and mother of Richard Osbaldeston; [Signed] Rychard Osbaston. - ref. MS 3312/397217 - date: 3 Oct 1563
FILE - Richard Hall, of Idelcote, co. Warwick, gent. and Joyce, his wife and others as in (1). Livery of seisin, Lyons Place, etc., as above. Unsigned. - ref. MS 3312/397220 - date: 1592-3
Miscellaneous
FILE - Sunday after the Feast of St Denis [9 October] Lease by John Kylby, and Alice, his wife, to Thomas Burdet, knight, Richard Halle, of Stratford-on-Avon, and John Tymmes, Rector of Chyryton. Property at Whattccote. - ref. MS 3312/397222 - date: 1412
FILE - Receipt by John Orwelle from Richard Hall of Sowth Newnton [South Newington]. - ref. MS 3312/397224 - date: 26 Sep 1463
FILE - [Copy of Indenture Tripartite] William Banwell and Agnes, his wife, John Kendale and Elizabeth, his wife. Concerns land etc. in Halford, co. Warwick, etc. etc; Certificate (c. 1590) that it is a "trew copie" is signed by Richard Hall; Nichs. Deringe; Nichs. Fuller; Arthure Blunte - ref. MS 3312/397225 - date: 10 May 1495
FILE - Counterpart of indenture between Richard Hall, of Idlycote, co. Warwick, gent., and Walter Savage, of Brodwaye, co. Worcester; and Richard Lane, of Bridgetown, co. Warwick, gent; Recites deed dated 6 Sept. 1581-2, of marriage settlement of said Richard Hall and Joice, his wife, etc.; Conveyance of lands at Aulston and Tyddington, co. Warwick, to Richard Lane, of Aulston; Signed by Richard Lane. Tag but no seal. - ref. MS 3312/397228 - date: 15 Aug 1587
FILE - Fragment of draft of Indenture between Raffe Sheldon of Be[oley] co. Worcester, esq., and John West, of Honington, co. Warwick, woolwinder; and Richard Hall, of Idlecote, co. Oxon, and Walter Savage, of Broadway, co. Worcester, esq. - ref. MS 3312/398711 - date: Circa 1587-8
FILE - Inquisition Post Mortem of Humfrey Holden, of Erdington, co. Warwick, gent. Mentions Richard Hall, of Idlicott, co. Warwick, gent. Lands at Aston, Erdington, Saltley, etc. - ref. MS 3312/397232 - date: 26 Sep 1601
STRATFORD-ON-AVON.
FILE - Indenture between Edward Hawl, of Swarford, co. Oxford, and Elizabeth, his wife; and William Phyllypps, and Anna his wife, of Stratford-uppon-Avyn, co. Warwick. Lease for 40 years at 23/6 per year, of a close at Stratford towne now in the tenure of said William Phyllypps, between a close of Henry Dawtar and a close of said William Phyllypps. - ref. MS 3312/397340 - date: 20 May 1537
FILE - Richard Hall, of Idlecote, co. Warwick, gent. Marriage settlement of said Richard and Joyce Hall, and also of Walter Savage, one of the sons of Anne Daston, widow, wife of Anthony Daston, esquire, deceased, and formerly the wife of Francis Savage, esquire, also deceased - and Elizabeth Savage, now wife of the said Walter Savage and one of the daughters and heiress apparent of the said Richard Hall; Conveyance by Richard Hall to Anne Daston, William Savage, esquire, and Anthony Savage, gent., two of the sons of said Anne, and brothers of the said Walter, of a farm in Swarforde, co. Oxon, called Lyons Place, and a close called New Close and two other closes called Lyons closes; with land etc. in Hooke Norton, co. Oxon, and Awlston, co. Warwick; and two messuages and three closes in Stretforde-upon-Avon. To have and to hold etc. etc. - ref. MS 3312/397343 - date: 6 Sep 1582
[from Scope and Content] From Richard Hall to John Loxley of a messuage in Stretford-upon-Avon.
[from Scope and Content] [Signed] Richard Hall.
FILE - Depositions taken at Stratford-on-Avon before Edward Boshell, Richard Hall and Robert Wincott, gents, by commission, on behalf of John Beedon alias Mason and William Hawke, defendants. - ref. MS 3312/397344 - date: 20 May 1583
[from Scope and Content] Robert Hill, parson of Barcheston, co. Warwick, aged 41, answers to some of the interrogatories which are not attached. He deposes that he knows Thomas Mason late of Willington, co. Warwick, father to the said William and John. The said Thomas Mason on his death bed sealed and delivered a certain deed of one yard land and three quarters to the use of John Mason, his younger son, as his will and testament, but he cannot say whether or not it was to Blackford; Thomas Blackford, aged 37, corroborates Robert Hill, and adds further particulars. Mentions Sir Thomas Lucie and Humfrey Petoe, esquire, Justices of Assize; John Thornett, aged 60. Mentions a certain Nicholas Tooley; William Hauckes, of Cibvube Gore [Sibford Gower]. co. Oxford, aged 30; The depositions are signed by Richard Hall.
FILE - Indenture (damaged) Richard Hall, of Idlecote, gent, and Walter Savage, of Brodway; and Anthony Nasshe, of Welcombe, in the parish of Stretford-upon-Avon, gent. This indenture is not signed or witnessed; Recites deed of feoffment as in 386. Lease to Anthony Nasshe. - ref. MS 3312/397345 - date: 15 Aug 1587

FILE [no title] - ref. ER5/1103 - date: 5 April 1677
[from Scope and Content] Probate of the will of John King of Pailton, yeoman, whereby he devised to his 'brother in law' William Iliffe of Lutterworth, co. Leics., apothecary, and to his kinsman Andrew Kinge of Whetston, co. Leics., yeoman, and their heirs, his messuage in which he then dwelt with all appurtenances and all his three quarters of one yard land in Pailton to hold the same to the use of testator's mother, Mary Iliffe, for her life and thereafter to use of Richard Hall and Alice his wife (testator's brother-in-law and sister) until George Hall their son attained 26 years and afterwards upon certain other Trusts therein specified, and he bequeathed to George Iliffe and Thomas Iliffe, children of William Iliffe £6 each, to Andrew King and Ann King his sister £3 each, to Richard King and Elizabeth King his sister £2 each and he appointed his mother Mary Iliffe his sole executrix and residuary legatee.

item: [no title] - ref. BRT4/1/1/35 [n.d.]
[from Scope and Content] Indictment preferred against Richard Hall, chandler, for selling candles too light by a farthing candle in each pound January [1647]

Stratford-upon-Avon - ref. ER 2/88, 89 - date: 15 October 1677
[from Scope and Content] Lease (by way of settlement after the marriage of the undernamed Francis Evans and Elizabeth his wife) from William Evans, of Snitterfield, clerk, and Francis Evans, of the same, yeoman, to John Townsend of Warwick, gent., and George Harris, of Snitterfield, clerk, of the two messuages in Bridge Street (as above, 83, 84) now or late in the occupation of Robert Sharpe and Richard Hall between a tenement in the occupation of Michael Palmer on the east and a tenement in the occupation of Francis Cleaver on the west, for 500 years, to the use of William Evans, Francis Evans, and Elizabeth, daughter of John Meads, of Snitterfield, yeoman, and wife of Francis Evans, successively, for life, with remainder to the issue of the said Francis and Elizabeth and, in default, to the executors etc. of Francis Evans.

Stratford-upon-Avon - ref. ER 2/83 - date: 18 September 1674
[from Scope and Content] Assignment by Henry Yearwood, of Warwick, gent., to William Evans, of Snitterfield, clerk, for £120, of two messuages in Bridge Street, one known by the name of the George and the other, adjoining, in the tenures of Robert Sharpe and Richard Hall and lying between tenements in the tenure of Michael Palmer on the east and Francis Cleaver on the west and extending from the street on the south to the highway called Gillpitts on the north, the same being built on the site of two messuages originally leased as above (no. 33) by John Browne to John Ingram and since destroyed by fire.

FILE - Stratford-upon-Avon - ref. ER 2/80 - date: 23 September 1672
[from Scope and Content] Deed of sale by Thomas Reddle, of Southwark, waterman, William Hall of London, clothworker, and Susanna, his wife, to Susanna Gunne, of Stratford upon Avon, widow, for £20, of a messuage in Stratford in 'the Swine streete', late in the tenure of Richard Hall, glover, and lying between tenements of William Myles and of Anne Myles, widow.

Sources for Stratford Family History
Church and Chapel Registers, Stratford-upon-Avon
Since the Registration Act of 1836 all particulars of births, marriages and deaths have been recorded at the General Registry Office in London and, for the South Warwickshire area, at the local Registrar's office (7 Rother Street, S/A: tel 293711). Before this date, local church and chapel registers are the main source for baptisms, marriages and burials, although even after 1836 it is often more convenient for the genealogist to abstract data from these records. The Records Office holds the following:
Church of England
Holy Trinity Church
Baptisms: 1558-1946
Marriages: 1558-1970
Burials: 1558-1962
St. James the Great, built as a chapel of ease, 1855
Baptisms: 1856-1967
Marriages: 1942-1966
Banns: 1942-1952
St. Andrew's, Shottery, built as a chapel of ease, 1871
Baptisms: 1919-1976
Marriages: 1891-1984
Banns: 1956-1987
St. Peter's, Bishopton (old chapel)
Baptisms, marriages & burials: 1590-1749
St. Peter's, Bishopton, rebuilt on new site, 1836
Baptisms: 1843-1966
Marriages: 1845-1966
Burials: 1844-1943
Banns: 1864-1960
All Saints Chapel, Luddington (built 1872)
Baptisms: 1872-1993
Marriages: 1912-1968
Burials: 1873-1993
Banns: 1971-1980
Congregational Church
Rother Street Independent Chapel
Births, Baptisms & burials: 1786-1836 (microfilm & index)
Baptisms: 1864-1875
Marriages: 1870-1988
Methodists
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Birmingham Road
Baptisms: 1849-1956
Roman Catholic
St. Gregory's, Warwick Road
Baptisms: 1852-1952
Marriages: 1873-1952
Burials: 1865-1977
Baptists
Payton Street Chapel
Baptisms: 1832-1881
Marriages: 1912-1956
Burials: 1841-1888
Census Records
From 1801 a national census has been taken every ten years and, from 1841, the returns provide information as to numbers in households and, for each individual, his or her age, sex, occupation, relationship to the head of the household and (from 1851) place of birth. The original census records are in the Public Record Office but xerox, microfilm or microfiche copies of the returns for the Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and the Parish of Old Stratford are available for use here. The years held are 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901.
We also hold:
a local census of 1765 for the borough of Stratford, giving heads and size of households, and also place of legal settlement, often useful for establishing parish of origin: ref. ER 1/8, but an indexed photocopy is available in the Reading Room.
a rare local survival of the 1831 census, when the enumeration was the responsibility of the Overseers of the Poor, listing heads and sizes of household, with occupations, for the borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and the parish of Old Stratford: ref: BRT 8/274 & BRT 9/234, but an indexed photocopy is available in the Reading Room.
Local Census Holdings
Wills
Wills of Stratford people were generally proved in one of three places:
If the will dealt with property in more than one diocese, or if it was disputed, it would probably have been proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. These wills are now deposited in the Public Record Office in London, but you can refer here to volumes of printed indexes to find out if wills you are trying to trace are located there. These at present cover the years 1383-1800.
If the will dealt with property in more than one parish it would probably have been proved in the Diocesan Court of Worcester. These wills are now deposited at the Worcester County Record Office but there are printed indexes for the years 1451-1652 which can be consulted here.
If the will dealt only with property in Stratford it would probably have been proved in the local Peculiar Court, and will be deposited here. The records comprise:
389 wills and administrations, 1685-1849, at DR 148/1
150 wills and inventories, 1559-1721, with a register of wills proved, 1658-1699, now forming part of the records of the Stratford Corporation.
Please ask for lists or indexes of these wills.
N.B. Most pre-1700 Stratford wills proved at Canterbury or Worcester are available at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in copy form. In addition, many probate and other office copies of wills survive in bundles of deeds and other collections. These can all be traced through the general person-name index.
Other sources
Local commercial directories, published with increasing frequency from the third quarter of the 19th century. Directories including Stratford cover the years 1792, 1828-30, 1835, 1839-41, 1850-1, 1854, 1862, 1872, 1874-6, 1883-87, 1892, 1898-1902, and thereafter at regular intervals until 1971. These give addresses and occupations at least from the 1870s of most householders. Trade Directories
Burgess rolls & electoral registers, 1835-1914, 1920-35, 1939-40, 1974-2001. These give the names and addresses of those entitled to vote in local elections, based originally on a property qualification. The poorer classes are therefore excluded in the early period.
Rate books, 1774-1971, giving heads of household and (from 1838) owners of all houses in the borough. See also a copy of the 1801 ratebook, annotated by a local resident with fascinating biographical details: ref. ER 1/8, but an indexed photocopy is available in the Reading Room.
Settlement certificates and registers, 18th and early 19th century, giving evidence of the last parish of residence for newcomers to the town of the poorer classes.Poor Law Records
Obituary notices in the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, indexed from 1860 to 1914.
Surveys of monumental inscriptions in the churchyards of Holy Trinity Church ; St. Peter's, Bishopton; St. Gregory's and the Baptist Chapel.

STRATFORD UPON AVONB 1558-1652/3 [27]; C 1558-1652 B 1558-1653 [26]; C 1558-1652 [26]; M 1558-1651 1660-1812 [28]
STRATFORD UPON AVON
Holy Trinity C 1558-1901 M 1558-1902 B 1558-1900 [Mf 2954-59]; M 1558-1812 [Mf 2093]

Herbal Medicine in Shakespeare's England
from Dr. John Hall's Case Studies
Dr. Michael Tierra L.AC., O.M.D.
Who was John Hall: A most renowned 16th century physician-herbalist, born approximately 1575 and died in 1635. He moved to Stratford upon Avon, forever to be renowned as the home of William Shakespeare and the internationally renowned Globe theater. Around 1600, he established himself as a doctor in Stratford and as we all know, in those days, doctor really meant professional, clinical herbalist. John Hall was intimately bound up with his community (Stratford at that time had a population of only 2000) as a physician, citizen and a son-in-law of Shakespeare. At the age of 32, he married the eldest of Shakespeare’s two daughters, Susanna who was then aged 24. Since Hall was only 11 years the junior of his celebrated father in law, married his most favored daughter and lived immediately next door as neighbors, with all the positive allusions to doctors and herbs throughout Shakespeare’s plays, it is reasonable to assume that the two had a close friendship.
Shakespeare’s "Pericles" was written in his last great creative phase around 1607 and around the time that Hall became a part of the Shakespeare family. In it he has a doctor character, Lord Cerimon who at one point states his creed of life as follows:
I hold it ever
Virtue and cunning were endowments greater
Than nobleness and riches. Careless heirs
May the two latter darken and expend,
But immortality attends the former,
Making a man a god. ‘Tis know I ever
Have studied physic, through which secret art,
By turning o’er authorities, I have
Together with my practice, made familiar
To me and to my aid the blest infusions
That dwells in vegetives, in metals, stones;
and I can speak of the disturbances
That Nature works, and of her cures;
which doth give me
A more content in course of true delight
Than to be thirsty after tottering honour ......
John Hall’s father, William Hall was a man of some means, owning land in various areas. He was a Protestant by religion and a physician by profession. He had a large library of books on "physicks" and alchemy. It is surmised that he was trained by an Italian astrologer and physician who believed the origin of life was connected with the stars. In any case, his son, John who because a staunch Christian Puritan, had much discord with his father. This is adjudged by the fact the in his will, the father bestowed the books on "physicks’ to John, but his books on astrology, astronomy and alchemy to his friend, Mathew Morris. The will specifically states that if John showed any interest in these subjects, Mr. Morris was to instruct John accordingly. As it turned out, Mathew Morris accompanied John to Stratford when they both moved to Stratford.
Medical practice during the Renaissance period was bound up with superstition, herb-doctoring and pure unabashed quackery. Considering the body of knowledge in his day, Hall evidences a high degree of therapeutic skill and care in his work. The names of specific diseases were not so well recognized at that time and so Hall reports cases in a complexity of signs and symptoms characteristic of the highest level of traditional herbalism. His therapeutic remedies consisted of various and elaborate prescriptions utilizing over one hundred separate botanicals. Hall’s therapeutic armamentarium was typical of normal medieval and Renaissance medical practice that used leeches, bloodletting, elaborate herbs, minerals, purges, laxatives and a physiology based upon the Hippocratic humoral concept.
Despite this, Hall manifested a considerable degree of independent thought and judgment that elevated his standards above the medical practice of the day. He may have been a follower of Dr. Jacques Pons (1538-1612) of Lyons, who wrote a dissertation dedicated to Henry IV on the current abuse of blood-letting.
In his cases, Hall shows a high degree of compassion and sensitivity to emotional and psychological factors. His cures reflect the complicated pharmacy of the day, a materia medica that would rival or certainly be comparable to a Traditional Chinese Medical pharmacy today. We find him prescribing offensive animal matter (bat dung which is particularly high in vitamin A), webs of spiders, powder of nut shells, excreta, dried windpipes of cocks, etc.
Scurvy, a common disease of the day because of the prevalent diet of salt meat, salt fish, few vegetables and limited seasonal fruits was described by Hall as "general lassitude, filthy yellow jaundice, pains in the loins, weakness of legs, frequent changes of urine, tumors of the gums, swelling of the fingers, sweating and wandering pains." He treated his scorbutic patients with a mixture of plant and vegetable juices made from water cress, brooklime, scurvy grass, all herbs rich in ascorbic acid. Sometimes he made these into a beer, flavored with sugar, cinnamon or juniper berries or an infusion. Hall’s treatment of scurvy was well in advance of his time and a hundred years before James Lind’s use of lime juice for scurvy had caused a similar cure to Hall’s.
Hall visited patients as far as forty miles from Stratford. Considering that horseback riding was the only means of transportation at the time, this evidenced quite a high level of commitment and care. On one occasion, Hall missed the Stratford council meeting and was duly fined because of choosing to answer the need of one of his patients.
Hall directed his son-in-law, Thomas Nash, to burn his manuscripts of dispose of them as he pleased. Apparently Nash and Susanna did not wish to burn them. A Dr. Cooke reports in the preface to the first edition of the "Select Observations" that in 1644 he was able to obtain two notebooks from Hall’s widow.
The notes were abbreviated in Latin, Cooke them to London to be evaluated by "an able doctor". The opinion was that the abbreviations would cause the translator considerable difficulty. Cooke assumed the task of translating Hall’s notes from the condensed Latin. He did this with the help of Hall’s apothecary, Richard Court, and in 1657 one of the notebooks appeared as "The Select Observations on English Bodies." Cooke’s judgment was vindicated by Dr. John Bird who stated unequivocally that the cases "were equal to the best published." The range of conditions reported in the Casebook were incredibly wide and some of extreme gravity and complexity. These included abortion, asthma, dropsy, sterility, cancer, dysmenorrhea, melancholy, empyema, worms, and jaundice to name only a few.
The reprint of the 2nd edition of Hall’s "Select Observations" was purchased by at Hall’s Croft (home) in Stratford a few years ago. It was published with introduction and historical commentaries by Harriet Joseph, in 1964 on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth. Harriet Joseph was Associate Professor of English Literature at Pace University, Westchester, New York.
The Since that time the manuscript passed through the hands of several collectors and now suitably kept in the British museum.
OBSERVATION XV
Mr. Hunt of Stock-green, aged about 46. Labouring of a grievous Scab and Itch, was thus helpt: prescription Fumitory, Borage, Bugloss, Scabious, Wormwood, of each a like quantity, as much as you please; draw out the juices, of which take boiling it in whey to the consumption of the whey, always scumming of it; after it is boiled suffer it to settle. Drink every day a good draught of it cold, with sugar. This is Syrup of Scabious by Johannes Anglici, and a secret by which he cured many of the Scab and which I have cured also.
Commentary: I have chosen this, one of the simplest of the 178 cases presented, first because I would like to learn more about John Hall and share a remarkable Western herbalist document, unique in my experience to the herbal literature and extremely valuable for those who can find the persistence and patience to overcome the quaint spellings, olde English and other charming antiquarian peculiarities, second because of its brevity; third, because it describes herbs and a treatment modality that are both highly informative and accessible to contemporary herbalists. Last but not least is my search for remedies to give to my beloved 8 month old Labrador who seems to have some kind of allergic dermatitis which may just respond to this 16th century herbal remedy. This is obviously a very important 16th century formula from which contemporary herbalists can derive a good deal of knowledge and benefit not only to their human patients but also for pets with skin allergies which is an extremely common problem.
Following is a description of each of the herbs used in the formula:
Fumitory Fumaria officinalis
N.O. Fumariaceae
Saturn owns this herb and presents it to the world as a cure for his own disease, and strengthener of the parts of the body he rules. If, by my astrological Judgment of diseases, from the decumbiture, you find Saturn author of the disease or if by direction from a nativity you fear a Saturnine disease approaching, you may be this herb prevent it in the one, and cure it in the other, and therefore it is fit you keep a syrup of it always by you. The juice or syrup made thereof, or the decoction made in whey by itself, with some other purging or opening herbs and roots to cause it to work the better (itself being but weak) is very effectual for the liver and spleen, opening the obstructions thereof, and clarifying the blood from saltish, choleric, and adult humours, which cause leprosy, scabs, tetters, and itches, and such like breakings-out of the skin; and, after the purgings, strengthens all the inward parts. It is also good against the yellow jaundice, eradicating it by urine, which it procures in abundance. The powder of the dried herb, given for some time together, cures melancholy, but the seed is strongest in operation for all the former diseases. The distilled water of the herb is also of good effect in the former diseases, and conduces much against the plague and pestilence, being taken with good treacle. The distilled water also, with a litter water and honey of roses, helps all the sores of the mouth or throat, being gargled often therewith. The juice dropped into the eyes, clears the sight, and takes away redness and other defects in them, although it procures some pain for the present, and causes tears. Dioscorides says, it hinders any sreth springing of hears on the eye-lids (after they are pulled away) if the eye-lids be anointed with the juice hereof with gum arabic dissolved therein. The juice of Fumitory and docks mingled with vinegar, and the places gently washed or wet therewith, cures all sorts of scabs, pimples, blotches, wheals, and pushes which rise on the face of hands, or any other parts of the body.
Commentary: This is a primary ancient herb for blood purification through liver detoxification. The name derives from the Latin "Fumu" which means smoke, and refers to the fact that this common European weed is irritating to the eyes when it is burned. It is a member of the poppy family which is particularly rich in alkaloids the major one in this family being fumarine. The irritant principle is fumaric acid.
Recent studies have shown that fumitory has remarkable effects on the bile ducts. It seems that a water infusion of the plant given intravenously increased bile flow where bile secretion was low prior to the injection. Conversely, if the gall bladder was hyperactive, bile flow was reduced. With no effect on a normal gallbladder. Thus it has a unique regulating effect on the bile system. French authors have coined this as an ‘amphicholeretic agent’. Contemporary clinical trials have confirmed the biliary activity of fumitory in the treatment of acute conditions such as biliary colic as well as chronic dyskinesia (pain that occurs with movement). It is especially effective of course for pain in the liver and chest. especially over the right epigastrium. It is specific for migraine and other related headaches caused by liver and gastrointestinal malfunction. Fumitory can be used to increase one’s tolerance of rich foods, to treat headaches, nausea and vomiting.
Its use in this formula points out the strategy of treating allergic dermatitis and other chronic skin disorders with an effective liver and bile regulating approach.
Borage Borago officinalis
N.O. boraginaceae
It is an herb of Jupiter, and under Leo. The leaves are accounted cordial, good to comfort the heart, and remove faintness and melancholy, and for that purpose the tops are frequently put into wine and cool tankards; by which light cold infusion, its virtues are completely obtained. A conserve of the flowers, with the flowers of bugloss, is good in white wine to bring down the menses. some make a syrup of the flowers, which is very good for coughs, short breaths, or to sweeten herb-teas for feeble, weak, and consumptive persons. distilled water of borage or Bugloss flowers, for their virtues are similar, are good for inflammations of the eyes; and, inwardly, may be given in fevers with safety.
Commentary Jupiter is hot and moist and Leo assigns it to diseases of the heart. The astrological assignment, however is not because it is because of the expansive quality that is associated to these signs and not their customary atmospheric properties. From its indications as a demulcent cooling agent for fevers and lung inflammations, it certainly could not be considered to be hot and moist.
Borage is specific as a cordial which according to Parkinson is used "to expel pensiveness and malanchollie." It has diuretic, demulcent and emollient properties. According to Grieve, it seems to contain potassium and calcium, combined with mineral acids. The fresh juice supplying 30 percent potassium and the mucilage a good amount of niter and sodium. It is from the presence of these saline qualities along with calcium that its benefit on the heart derives. Because of the presence of nitrate of potash, it will emit sparks with a slight explosive sound when burnt.
The saline constituents promotes kidney activity and helps it to filter and carry off toxins. The high amount of potassium, calcium and other salts is what makes this herb uniquely of benefit to the heart.
Bugloss (Garden bugloss) (Buglossum hortense) (Viper’s bugloss) Echium vulgare
N.O. Boraginaceae
It grows under the dominion of Jupiter in Leo; like Borage, is accounted cordial, and serviceable to raise the spirits, and are therefore good in hypochondriac, hysterical, and all disorders arising from lowness of spirits. The flowers are ranked among the cordial flowers. The leaves and roots are to Very good purpose used in putrid and pestilential fevers, to defend the heart, and help to resist and expel the poison, or the venom of other creatures; the seed is of the like effects: and the seed and leaves are good to increase milk in women’s breasts; the leaves, flowers, and seed, all, or any of them, are good to expel pensiveness and melancholy; it helps to clarify the blood, and mitigate heat in fevers. The juice made into a syrup, prevails much to all the purposes aforesaid, and is put with other cooling, opening, and cleansing herbs, to open obstructions, and help the yellow-jaundice; and, mixed with fumitory, to cool, cleanse, and temper the blood thereby; it helps the itch, ringworm’s, and tetters, or to either spreading scabs and sores. The flowers candied or made into a conserve, are helpful in the former cases, but are chiefly used as a cordial, and are good for those that are weak in long sickness, and to comfort the heart and spirits of those that are in consumption, or troubled with often swoonings, or passions of the heart: the distilled water is no less effectual to all the purposes aforesaid, and helps the redness and inflammations of the eyes, being washed therewith; the dried herb is never used, but the green; yet with ashes thereof, boiled in mead, or honied water, is available against the inflammations, and ulcers in the mouth or throat to gargle it therewith: the roots of Bugloss are effectual, being made into a licking electuary for the cough, and to condensate thick phlegm, and the rheumatic distillations upon the lungs.
Commentary Jupiter is by nature hot and moist. It is described in Grieve’s as diuretic, demulcent and pectoral. It has very similar to properties as borage. Both herbs seem to have beneficial effect on the emotions, heart and for sadness, melancholy and sadness. It is also highly regarded as an anti-poison herb which is what makes it particularly useful in this formula.
Scabious, Devil’s Bit
N.O. Compositae
Scabious of which Culpepper describes three varieties known at the time as Scabiosa Arvensis (Field scabious), S. succisa (Devil’s bit Scabious), Scabiosa columbaria (Lesser Field Scabious)
Only the properties of the last variety are described and one can only assume that all three are similar. He says it is different from the previous two in that it is smaller. He says there are actually many varieties of Scabious and that at least at that time it grew in dry fields and meadows around London, everywhere (imagine that!).
He says it is ruled by Mercury. Very effective for coughs, shortness of breath and all other diseases of the breast and lungs, ripening and digesting cold phlegm, and other tough humours, voiding them forth by coughing and spitting: it also ripens all sorts of inward ulcers and imposthumes, pleurisy also, if the decoction of the herb dry or green be made in wine, and drank for some time together. Four ounces of the clarified juice of Scabious taken in the morning fasting, with a dram of Mithridate or Benice treacle, frees the heart from any infection of pestilence, if after the taking of it, the party sweat two hours in bed, and this medicine be again and again repeated, if need require. The green herb bruised and applied to any carbuncle or plague-sore, is found by certain experience to dissolve and break it in three hours space. The same decoction also drank, helps the pains and stitches in the side. The decoction of the roots taken for forty days together, or a dram of the powder of them taken at a time in whey, does (as Matthiolus says), wonderfully help those that are troubled with running or spreading scabs, tetters, ringworms, yea, although the proceed from the venereal disease, which, he says, he tried by experience. The juice of decoction drank, helps, also scabs and breakings out of the itch, and the like. The juice also made up into an ointment and used, is effectual for the same purpose. The same also heals all inward wounds by the drying, cleaning, and healing quality therein: and a syrup made of the juice and sugar, is very effectual to all the purposes aforesaid, and so is the distilled water of the herb and flowers made in due season, especially to used when the green herb is not in force to be taken. The decoction of the herb and roots outwardly applied, does wonderfully help all forts of hard or cold swellings in any part of the body, is effectual for shrunk sinews and veins, and heals green wounds, old sores and samphire, cleanses the skin of the face, or other parts of the body, not only from freckles and pimples, but also from morphew and leprosy; sores, itch, and the like, used warm. The herb bruised and applied, does in a short time loosen and draw forth any splinter, broken bone, arrow-head, or other such thing, lying the flesh.
Commentary: Mercury is by nature cold and dry in the first and second degrees. According to Grieve, the name Devil’s bit comes from the appearance of the root which when fully grown, nearly to the thickness of a middle finger, ends so abruptly that it appears to have been mysteriously bitten off.
Gerard says:
"The greater part of the root seemeth to be bitten away; old fantastick charmers report that the divel did bite it for envie, because it is an herbe that hath so many good vertues and it is so beneficial to mankinde.’
Obviously from the above, scabious is expectorant, alterative, vulnerary and astringent. It is particularly effective for all skin problems as well as the lungs. It is an herb with closely synergistic properties to borage but with stronger purifying and detoxifying effects.
Wormwood (Artemisia vulgaris is common mugwort) while Artemisia absynthium is common wormwood)
It is a martial herb, under the dominion of Mars. This is generally believed to be the absynthium ponticum of the ancients, the best Wormwood being supposed to grow in Pontus, a country of the Lesser Asia. the tops of the plat are to be used fresh gathered; a very slight infusion of them is excellent for all disorders of the stomach, and will prevent sickness after meals, and create an appetite; but, it is made too strong, it will revolt and disgust the taste. The tops with the flowers on them, dried and powdered are good against agues, and have the same virtues with wormseed in killing worms: in fact, they are much better than the wormseed that is commonly sold in the shops, which is generally too much decayed. The juice of the large leaves of Wormwood, which grow from the root, before the stalk appears, is the best against the dropsy and jaundice, for it opens obstructions, and works powerfully by urine. It is good in all agues, for which it is given in decoction, or infusion, in water, ale, wine, or in the juice only; but its infusion in wine or ale (if disease will allow of malt liquors) is an easy, and as good a preparation as any. Its simple distilled water is good for little. There is little more in its salt obtained by incineration, than in any other lixivial salt. Its decoction, wine, extract, and both oils, are good, and its compound water not bad. Its juice is more water and detergent the herb more astringent, only the dried herb should be infused in wine or ale. The infusion, drank evening and morning for some time, helps hysterics, obstructions of the spleen, and weakness of the stomach. Its oil, taken on sugar, and somewhat drank after, kills worms, resists poison, and is good for the liver and jaundice. The use of the herb checks the head and eyes, like the leaves; hence the root should be accounted among the best stomachics. Oil of the seed, given from half a scruple to half a dram, in some liquor, or a spoonful of juice in some wine, taken before the fit comes on, and the person is put to bed, cures quotidians and quartans. In a looseness from eating too much fruit (after the use of rhubarb) wormwood wine is excellent. A woman raised spread, and maintained her reputation for the cure of a megrim, by only using a fomentation of the part, of green roots of wild cucumber sliced, and wormwood, of each alike, boiled in two parts water and strained, has been successfully applied to a spreading gangrene. Green wormwood, worn in the shoes, has ben found useful in cold distempers of the stomach. Its ashes, infused three hours in white wine, strained, and drank often, cures and anasarca. Whenever you have any great expectation from the use of Wormwood, always order the common sort, for the roman comes far short of it in virtue. That hot rheum which runs down from the eyes, and excoriates the skin of the cheeks, is cured by juice of wormwood beaten up with the white of an egg, and applied. A too habitual and free internal use of the herb dims the sight for some hours. Poultices of wormwood boiled in grease, barm, or wine, may be applied with good success to white swellings. Being boiled in lard, and laid o swellings of the tonsils and quinsy, is serviceable. a poultice of the soft leaves, beaten up with whites of eggs, is good in a strain; or if it is boiled in ale, and laid on; or a poultice of wheat-bran boiled in vinegar; or a tincture of dried roses in vinegar, used with wet clothes to the part. Its internal use is good in such diseases as come from a gross blood, or obstructions in the capillaries, or in viscidity’s, or phlegm, which line the insides of the stomach, bowels or vessels, or in too great a sharpness of the blood, by its opening obstructions, cleansing, bracing, and promoting perspiration and urine. It is admirable against surfeits. It not only cures pain of the stomach, weakness, indigestion, want of appetite, vomiting and loathing, but hard swellings of the belly. This, with rosemary, saffron, and turmeric root infused in rhenish wine, is a cure for the jaundice, and brings down the menses; or a decoction of it, broom tops, greater celandine, white horehound, lesser centaury, flowers of hypericon, barberry bark, turmeric, and madder roots, strained, and hog-lice wine added, is not ill in a jaundice. wormwood and vinegar are an antidote to the mischief of mushrooms and henbane, and to the biting of a shrew, and of the seafish called Draco marinus, or quaviver; mixed with honey, it takes away the blackness after falls, bruises, etc. All other wormwoods, the nearer the approach and taste to pleasant or palatable, they are so much the worse, for they are weaker, their use requires so much longer time, larger doses, and yet less success follows. The herb and pellitory of the wall boiled in water till soft, then strained, and a fomentation of the liquor used, and the herbs laid on after in a poultice, ease all outward pains; or the herb boiled in oil till almost the oil is wasted, strained, and anointed, cures the pain of the back, placed among woolen cloths, it prevents and destroys moths.
Commentary
Its assignment to Mars describes it as archetypically hot and dry to the 3rd and 4th degrees. The description of Wormwood (actually mugwort) reminds us of the power of the simplest of herbs. To paraphrase, "the better it tastes, the weaker and more ineffective it is".
Chinese medicine describes mugwort as bitter, acrid, warm, entering the Spleen, Liver and Kidney. It is used to warm the womb and stop bleeding, for prolonged menstrual bleeding and uterine bleeding caused by cold and deficiency.
It quiets the fetus, lower abdominal pain, vaginal bleeding as in threatened miscarriage and also for threatened infertility caused by a cold womb.
It disperses cold and relieves pain: for cold abdominal pain and menstrual pain.
The Chinese stated uses very much conform to Culpeppers description and uses. However, the primary Chinese use is concerned with menorrhagia and threatened miscarriage. The description of it entering the channels of the spleen, liver and Kidney encompass a much wider area all of which is expressed in Culpepper’s description above.
The fact that it is used for scab, itch and what we might call allergic dermatitis, suggests that it’s ability to speed up the formation and elimination of bile which is its liver activity together, increase urine output all this along with its blood circulating properties makes it particularly useful for treating chronic, acute skin disorders. This is a use not directly suggested by its Chinese description in Bensky.
Still more, it gets rid of worms and other parasites and is regarded by Culpepper as being one of the best herbs to take for this, better than wormseed.
Wormwood reminds us that there must always be a time of atonement (‘at one ment’) or reuniting with our true inner nature and that it is the bitter taste that engenders the physiological response of detachment from outer worldliness that is one of the primary causes of disease.

ANNE TYE M RICHARD HALL 1631 MELTON

Creator(s):
Arundel Borough, 1539-1835
[from Administrative History] At the election for the mayor in 1671 the Presbyterian faction tried to regain control of the corporation. They entered a presentment at the Court Leet that their own supporters should be burgesses and that John Pellett should be mayor. The existing mayor and burgesses withdrew from the court and John Pellett was duly elected mayor. There followed a legal dispute between the new mayor and burgesses and the ex-mayor, Richard Hall, in which the mayor and burgesses brought a bill into Chancery to oblige Richard Hall to deliver the seal, records and brooks belonging to the corporation, to them. The decision was in Richard Hall's favour and he was elected mayor in 1675 (12).
[from Administrative History] The legal case, mayor and burgesses vs. Hall, did not settle the question of how burgesses should be elected, but decided only on the narrow question of the surrender of corporate property. This was decided by a feigned action brought by Richard Hall against John Pellett in which the former affirmed that the mayor should be chosen out of the burgesses and that the burgesses should be chosen out of the inhabitants by the mayor and majority of burgesses. The decision was embodied in the exemplification of 12 February 1677 which re-affirmed the ancient custom of electing burgesses by the mayor and burgesses (13).
[Note]
Edited by Ian Mason, Assistant Archivist

"Summarization of the will of Richard Makepeace
31 october 1584 Richard Makepeace of Cheppynge Warden
To be buried in parish church
To church for repair and burial 20 shillings
The parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Chipping Warden is pictured right.
To Dorothy my daughter 100 marks paid within one year or onmarriage
To Henry my sonne 20 pounds
To Dorothy my wife all lands and tenements during her life,making no waste of timber trees
Also all goods
Dorothy my wife to be executrix
Abell Makepeace, William Makepeace and Richard Hall of Edgecrate to be overseers
The witnesses were the overseers";

FILE - Sessions Papers - ref. Q/SB/5 - date: 1654-5
item: Depositions - ref. Q/SB/5/42 - date: 28 March 1655
[from Scope and Content] a) Matthew Norwood, borsholder of West Wickham who went to John Martin's house with a warrant to apprehend his servant Samuel Hall, who is named by Anne Sparke as the father of her bastard child. He suspects that Hall was hidden by Martin and Katherine Haycocke, his servant, in a large chest which Martin refused to unlock. b) Further deposition of 1 April 1655, that Hall was thought to have escaped from the house after Norwood left

WESTON-UPON-AVON
FILE [no title] - ref. D2957/334/1 - date: 6 July 1639
[from Scope and Content] Witnesses: Richard HALL, William BREGG, Margaret UNDERHILL

An Extract from Jones`s History of Bradford on Avon:
This is the oldest family connected with Bradford-on-Avon of which we have anything like a detailed account. Allusion has been already frequently made to various members of it, and, in an early number of the Wiltshire Magazine, in a paper by Canon Jackson, on 'Kingston House,' a mansion built most probably by John Hall, the head of the family at the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century, much information is supplied on this subject. All that we need attempt, therefore, is a brief summary of their history, adding what supplemental matter we have been able to glean from subsequent research.
The earliest deed that has yet been met with, relating to the "Hall" family, is one which bears date in the reign of Henry III,Its contents imply, that, for some time previously to that period, the family had belonged to the class of wealthy gentry.
The Herald's Visitations carry back the pedigree only to Thomas " Halle " or " De la Sale " who lived at the close of the fourteenth century, (But in the Hundred Rolls, (about 1280), Eeginald de Aula and Adam de Mokesham appear as Jurors for the Hundred of Melksham, not being given separately; and the name of Thomas at Halle, of Bradford, appears as witnessing a deed, now at Lacock Abbey, and dated 1320, The same name occurs in deeds dated 1357 and 1361.) More than a hundred years, however, before that time, the Abbess of Shaftesbury, as Lady of the Manor, had exacted her rights of wardship and marriage from the representatives of Eeginald de Aula. ' Thomas' the first-named in the ordinary pedigrees, was the great-grandson of ' Eeginald,' and married, about the year 1390, Alice, daughter and, by the death of her brother Peter, sole heir of 'Thomas Atte-Forde,' (afterwards written ' Atford') from whom, no doubt, he obtained the property which is still called Ford Farm, and which evidently furnished a surname to its previous owner. The same Alice was also, through her mother, the ultimate heiress of Nicholas Langridge, described as of 'Bradford.' If a conjecture may be formed from the pedigree, especially the account given of it in one of the Harleian manuscripts,(In the Harl. MS. No. 888 we have this nc count of the earliest alliances of the Hall family.- "Thomas Halle, of Bradford the County of Wiltes, Esquire, married Alice, sister and heir of Peter Atford, and heirs to to Thomas at forde at Bradford, and of Edith his wife, daughter and heire of Roger .... and Ales his wife, daughter of Nicholas Langridge, "' Blandford, which Roger, was son to Roger .... and Joan his wife, daughter to Thomas Lyttleton, next Bland ford, sonna And heire of Peter) in which we have the various family connexions related narratively, it would seem that some share of the property originally belonging to Peter Lyttleton (described as living " nest Blandford," and whose date must be certainly before the commencement of the thirteenth century,) must have come to Alice At-ford, and augmented the goodly portion which she brought to the ' Hall ' family.
There is still to be seen, carved in oak, over the chimney-piece of a panelled room at the Hall, a shield bearing several quarterings which seem to record the various early alliances made by members, of the Hall family. An engraving of this shield has been given in the Wiltshire Society's Magazine (i. 268.) Amongst the quarterings to which without difficulty a name can he assigned are those of ' Atford ' and ' Basil,' Of two, however, - the one, ' A bend between three leopard* ' (or lions') heads erased,' the other, ' An eagle sable, preying on a fish azure,' - it is not easy to give an accurate account. Much of very early heraldry is traditional, and though, in books of authority, we find no such coats given to the names of ' Langridge ' or ' Littleton,' it is not impossible that these may have originally belonged to them. This however is simple conjecture, for KB the shield contains the cent of Besill, it may also include that of the mother of Nicholas Hall who married Margaret Besill, of whose name and family as yet we are ignorant.
Alice Hall survived her husband and died in the year 1426. By the failure of issue to her eldest son Reginald, who endowed a " chaplain to serve at the altar at St. Nicholas " in the Parish Church, the representation of the family devolved on her second son Thomas, who was thirty years old at the time of his mother's decease. Nicholas, the son of the last-named Thomas Hall, further increased the wealth of the family by marrying Margaret one of the daughters and co-heiresses of William Besill of Bradford; the other co-heiress, Cecilia, marrying Anthony Rogers, the founder of another family in this town. Three generations pass away, during which alliances were made with the families of Bower of Wilton,-Tropnell of Chaldfield,-and Mervyn of Fonthill, -and we find the representative of the family, John Hall, described as ' of Forde,' marrying, about the middle of the sixteenth century, Dorothy only daughter and heiress of Anthony Rogers, the last male representative of the elder branch of that family in Bradford-on-Avon, and thus acquiring the other moiety of the Besill estate, together with her own patrimony, part of which seems to have lain at Holt.
One of the members of this family, to which a passing reference has just been made, Thomas Hall, who married Alice Bower, seems to have got himself into trouble on one occasion, by something like what is now called "contempt of Court." Summoned before the King's Justices with reference to a debt of £100 owing to Sir John Turberville, Kt. he did not make his appearance; the penalty of ' outlawry' soon followed. He subsequently surrendered himself to justice, and for a time was an inmate of the Fleet prison. Amongst the deeds and other documents found at the Hall a few years ago, during the progress of repairs, was one, dated 18 Henry VII., which contains a "Royal Pardon and Revocation of Outlawry for Thomas Hall, lately of Bradford, Co. Wilts, Gentleman, now in the Meet Prison." It does not appear from the document that the debt was paid at the time of his release from durance vile; the condition of his liberation being that he should appear in Court "if the said John [Turberville] should desire to speak with him touching the debt above mentioned."
Of the others just alluded to, either 'William Hall," who married Elizabeth Tropnell, of Chaldfield, or ' Thomas Hall,' owho married Eliza Mervyn, of Fonthill, was probably the builder of the Chantry Chapel, of which, in our account of the Parish Church, we have already taken notice, and which, now for many years, has been usually termed,-"The Kingston Aisle." [Thomas executed a bond to John Dauntsey, the date of which is interesting reading-" in the fifth and sixth years of King Philip and Mary, by the Grace of God King and Queen of England, the Spains, France, both Sicilies, Jerusalem and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Burgundy and Brabant, Counts of Hapsbury, Flaunders and Tyrol"]
The second son of the John Hall that married Dorothy Rogers, bore the same Christian name as his father, and succeeded, by the decease, it is presumed, of his elder brother Thomas, at the close of the sixteenth century to the representation of the family. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Brune of Athelhampton, Co. Dorset, and was probably the builder of the large and beautiful mansion,-described, by Aubrey, as "the best built house for the quality of a gentleman in Wilts,"-which, since the days of Evelyn Pierrepont, has commonly been termed the "Duke's House" or "Kingston House,". An older house probably stood previously on much the same site, which Leland mentions as having seen when he visited Bradford (c. 1540) and describes as " a pratie stone house at the este ende of the toune on the right bank of Avon." A full account of the present house has been given in the pages of the Wiltshire Society's Magazine (vol. i. pp. 265, &c.) and many of its details have been described and illustrated by Mr.C. J. Richardson in his " Observations on the Architecture of England during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I." and by Mr. G. Vivian in a volume of " Illustrations of Claverton and the Duke's House." Within the last few years the house, having fallen into a sadly dilapidated condition, has been, to a great extent, rebuilt by the present proprietor, Mr. Stephen Moulton, with so faithful an adherence to its original plan, as enables us, whilst we acknowledge the sound judgment and correct taste of its restorer, to appreciate fully the intentions of its first designer.1
SIR THOMAS HALL, Knt. son of the last-named John Hall, married Catharine daughter of Sir Edward Seymour, Bart., great-grandson of the Protector Somerset. Faithful to the cause of his King and master, Charles I., Sir Thomas was, with many other Wiltshire gentlemen, compelled when the Parliament triumphed to compound for his estates, and was, in 1649, fined £660.2 (See p. 53). He lived to see the ultimate success of the cause for which he suffered. The old Royalist died in 1663, at the advanced age of eighty-one years.
His son,-JOHN HALL,-the last male representative of his family, was an active magistrate in this town and neighbourhood. His name, together with that of his brother-in-law Thomas Thynne,-called, from his presumed wealth, "Tom of Ten Thousand,"-occurs very frequently in legal and other documents of his period. [He was executor to that singular example of the fickleness of fortune, arid is said by Britton to have erected the monument to him in Westminster Abbey at his own cost and expense.} His wife was Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Thomas Thynne, of Longleat, the ancestor of the noble family of ' Bath.' He seems to have added largely to his patrimony by the purchase of other estates. From Sir Edward Hungerford, of Farleigh Castle, he bought, in 1665, the Storridge Pastures, part of the Brooke House estate, near Westbury; and from Sir John Hanham (who had become possessed of it in right of his wife, a daughter of Sir William Eyre) he purchased the Manor and Advowson of Great Chaldfield. He seems to have exercised the right of presentation to the last named living in 1678,-1689,-and 1707.
Towards the close of his life, John Hall built the Alms-houses for four old men, of which we have spoken in an account of the ' Charities of Bradford-on-Avon.' In front of them, cut in stone, are still to be seen the arms and crest of 1 Hall.' Underneath the shield is the date 'A.D. 1700' and the inscription ' Deo et pauperibus.'
He was the last of his family, and died in 1711. According to some authorities, he left one daughter, Elizabeth, who became the wife of Thomas Baynton, Esq., of Chaldfield. The issue of that marriage, Rachel, was the inheritor of John Hall's large estates. Walker, in his history of Great Chaldfield, gives, on the authority of an old manuscript, a somewhat different account, and represents ' Rachel Baynton ' as having a yet stronger claim to be the inheritor of the ' Hall' property.

HallWill of John Hall of Bradford, Wiltshire07 May 1631PROB 11/159
HallWill of Richard Hall, Yeoman of Bradford, Wiltshire14 November 1729PROB 11/633
HallWill of John Hall of Bradford, Wiltshire05 September 1711PROB 11/523
HalleWill of William Halle of Bradford, Wiltshire27 January 1551PROB 11/34

Hall's of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
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Arms and Crest of the Hall's of Bradford: Arms, Sable, three poleaxes argent.; Crest, an arm embowed in armour proper, garnished or, holding a poleaxe argent. The poleaxe symbolizes readiness for the ordeal of battle and the defence of purpose through allegiance to the sovereign; loyalty, conviction, and unconquerable will A staff weapon used by Knights. The blade was an axe-head, usually balanced by a hammer-type head, and surmounted by a steel spike. Used from the fifteenth century for foot combats. The shaft was of ash other hardwood, mounted by an axe blade that had a forward point for thrusting and a thin projection on the back for piercing armour or pulling a horseman off balance. The poleaxe and halberd were specialized weapons for fighting armoured men-at-arms and penetrating knightly armour. It is said that pole in the name refers not to the staff, but to the Old English word poll which meant head. Betoken on one of dignity and repute.
At the website http://www.freshford.com/hall_estate.htm two Hall Pedigree's are shown from the book, Jones History of Bradford on Avon, 1907 stating, Halus Manor or the Manor of Bradford was an estate held by the Abbess of Shaftesbury as part of her manor of Bradford. The Hall family was prominent in Bradford from the 14th-18th century. William de Aule, wife Katherine, and son Thomas were there early in the reign of Edward II. In 1324 Reynold de le Sale of Bradford was granted land by a charter in which he referred to his brother Thomas, Rector of Portishead (Somerset). William, son of John de Aule, was presented in 1350 to the chapel of Barley in Bradford parish. Thomas atte Halle, alive in 1360, was succeeded by son Thomas of age in I373. The younger Thomas was alive in 1408 Alice, relict of Thomas Halle, died 1427, holding land in Bradford Leigh and South Wraxall of the Abbess of Shaftesbury. Alice, sister and heir of Peter Atford, of Atford. In 1420 Reynold Halle, who endowed a charity in the parish church of Bradford, was the eldest son of Alice and Thomas. He predeceased his mother, for her heir was son Thomas Hall, alive in I450. Nicholas, his son and heir died 1478 leaving to his son and heir, Henry, lands, houses, and mills in Bradford held of the Abbess of Shaftesbury. Henry died soon after his father, being omitted from the 1565 pedigree in the Herald's Visitation. The estates passed to Thomas, Henry's brother, who died 1515 seized of Hall's Manor of Bradford. Thomas was succeeded by son William, who died in 1550. Leland, in 1542, noted that William Hall lived 'in a pretty stone house at the east end of the town' and that he was 'a man of £100 lands by the year'. William's son and heir was Thomas Hall, whose son John died in 1597. A 1575 lawsuit states John, son of Thomas Hall esq. dec'd is, and his ancestors have for a long time been seized of water mills and other lands' in the manor of Bradford, held by the abbey of Shaftesbury. John Hall was succeeded by son, John, builder of the present mansion, the Hall. The younger John died 1631, leaving son and heir, Thomas. Thomas Hall, later knighted, was a Royalist and compounded for his estates in 1647. He was succeeded in 1663 by his son John, the last of his line, who died in 1711."
The Wiltshire County Council has kindly provided on-line images of the book, "Bradford-on-Avon: a history and description by W. H. Jones,." brought up-to-date by J. Beddoe in 1907. To view on-line images of this book, go to www.wiltshire.gov.uk and select Community History (upper right), select Text Images (lower left), enter Search Key Word - Bradford - (lower left), this will bring a list of the on-line images, one of which will be the above document which provides a rich history of the Hall's of Bradford and their ancient ancestors. These documents were found while renovations were being made at Hall Manor, now knows as the Kingston house.
HALL MANOR BRADFORD
As shown by these documents, at the end of the 15th century as appears by a deed dated 21st Edward IV Henry Hall of this family had lands in Bradford, Lye, Troll Parva, Slade, Ford, Wraxhall, Holt, Broughton, Marlborough, Okebourn Meysey, Wilts, Freshford, Iford, Mitford, Frome, Fleete, Widcombe, Portishead and other placed in Somerset. Henry was son an heir of Nicholas Hall and Margaret Besill. He died soon after his father without heirs so these lands passed to his brother Thomas Hall, who passed them to son William. William's son Thomas acquired the lands after his father and was the builder of Kingston Aisle, a small Chantry Chapel twelve and a half feet in width and sixteen in length at the south-east angle of the Nave. It was renamed Kingston Aisle from the Hall maternal ancestors, the Dukes of Kingston. After Thomas Hall's decease, these land passed to his son and heir known as John Hall of Forde who married Dorothy Rogers, daughter of Anthony Rogers who died 25 April 1581. Dorothy was heir to her father's estate and John Hall his executor. Their son John Hall married Elizabeth Brune of Athelhampton, Co. Dorset, daughter of Henry Brune. It is believed that this John Hall was the builder of Kingston House, formerly known as The Hall , he is also the father of William and John Hall who eventually settled in Newport, Rhode Island after arriving in the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1635.
It is not likely that there was any connection between the Hall's of Salisbury and the Hall's of Bradford as the arms used by the Salisbury Hall's are shown as: Argent, on a Chevron between the Columbines azure, a mullet of six points, which are entirely different from those of the Hall's of Bradford. The Bradford Hall's were considered antiquity, the name being met within very early deeds as "de Aula" or "de la Sale," (salle being the French word for Hall). William de Aula de Bradford is often mentioned among Wiltshire gentlemen witnessing documents during the reign of King Edward I (1273 - 1307), belonging to the wealthiest of residents of Wiltshire. The married into families of wealth and quality as can be seen from the extract from their pedigree, which refers to the elder branch, successively owners of the Bradford house, taken principally from the visitation of 1565.

HallWill of John Hall of Bradford, Wiltshire07 May 1631PROB 11/159
HallWill of Richard Hall, Yeoman of Bradford, Wiltshire14 November 1729PROB 11/633
HallWill of John Hall of Bradford, Wiltshire05 September 1711PROB 11/523
HalleWill of William Halle of Bradford, Wiltshire27 January 1551PROB 11/34

HallWill of Richard Hall, Yeoman of Bradford, Wiltshire14 November 1729PROB 11/633

Martha WoodmanB: 12 Mar 1654/1655
Hampton,Massachusetts
John Woodman, Capt. B: Abt 1634
Corsham,Wiltshire,England
M: 15 Jul 1656
Durham (then Oyster River),Strafford,New Hampshire,or, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
D: 17 Sep 1706
Dover,Stafford,New Hampshire
Edward W. II Woodman, Lt. B: Bef 27 Dec 1606
Corsham,Wiltshire,England
M: 1628
Malford,Wiltshire,England
D: Between 1688 AND 1694
Newbury,Essex,Massachusetts
Edward Woodman B: Bef 9 Oct 1574
Corsham,Wiltshire,England
M: 30 Jun 1600
Corsham,Wiltshire,England
D: Bef 16 Jul 1654
Corsham,Wiltshire,England
Olive MallotB: 1579
Corsham,Wiltshire,England
M: 30 Jun 1600
Corsham,Wiltshire,England
D: 5 Jul 1611
Corsham,Wiltshire,England
Joanna Salwey B: Malford,Wiltshire,England
M: 1628
Malford,Wiltshire,England
D: Aft Feb 1687/1688
Newbury,Essex,Massachusetts
Arthur Salwey B: Abt 1530
Standford,Worchestershire,England
M: Abt 1601
Worcestershire,England
D: Bef 1613
Mary Searle B: 17 Sep 1592
Papworth,Cambridgeshire,England
M: Abt 1601
Worcestershire,England
Mary Field B: 1631
Dover,Stafford,N.h.
M: 15 Jul 1656
Durham (then Oyster River),Strafford,New Hampshire,or, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
D: 6 Jul 1698
Dover,Stafford,Nh
Darby Field B: Boston,Linconshire,England
M: Abt 1630
D: 1649
Dover,Strafford,N.h.
John Field B: 1579
St Giles,Cripplegate,London,England
M: 13 Aug 1609
Boston,Linconshire,England
D: Boston,Lincolnshire,England
Elen HutchinsonB: Abt 1579
Of Boston,Lincoln,England
M: 13 Aug 1609
Boston,Linconshire,England
D: Boston,Linconshire,England
AgnesB: 1612
Boston,England
M: Abt 1630
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SHIP MONEY LIST

KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED

1635


This document is taken from an article which appeared in the newspaper "THE
SWINDON Advertiser" on 7th and 14th November 1885.

An explanation of the tax called Ship Money and the schedules printed here,
may be found in the article, which is reproduced in full on the following two
pages. The original article grouped people within parishes - here they are
listed alphabetically by name, with their parish listed to their right. The
far right column gives the amount of tax (in pounds, shillings and pence) they
were charged.