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Comment by Steve Baldock on October 23, 2009 at 5:30pm

Help?
Is anyone willing to offer to transcribe a couple of C16th wills for me?
I visited the Centre for Kentish Studies at Maidstone last week to copy a couple of BALDOCK wills. Can decipher the first 2 or 3 lines then it gets difficult!
Can scan & email to the willing volunteer!
Thanks

http://baldockfaggfamily.org.uk

Comment by Anne Cole on October 17, 2009 at 9:52am

A plea for help! I have just collected, through the inter Library loan system, the book that contains the evidence given for Grosvenor in the Scrope/Grosvenor case 1385-1390. A Thomas Duncalf gave evidence to the trial and this is in the book. However, the book is in French!!! Can anyone help with a translation? I can grasp a few bits of information - for instance Thomas was 58 years old. Duncalf was my maiden name, and is my One-Name Study. This is the second volume of evidence; the first is on the Web, in English, and gives the evidence for the Scrope side. This second volume is not however available on the web. I will be happy to pass on details (in French) of any other people who gave evidence who are in this book. I note that John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster gave evidence, also for Grosvenor.

Comment by Ruby Coleman on September 3, 2009 at 12:57pm

Christy ... thanks so much. Will check them out. Ruby Coleman

Comment by Christy K Robinson on September 2, 2009 at 11:31am

@Ruby Coleman: I found Middle Ages info on Mesnilwarin/Mainwaring on these sites:
http://www.deloriahurst.com/deloriahurst%20page/3951.html
http://cybergata.com/roots/3832.htm
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jamesdow/s042/f751134.htm
My last Mainwaring, Bertred, granddaughter of Hugh Kevelioc, Earl of Chester, married Henry de Aldithley/d'Audley and died after 1249, so I have no info on Mainwarings after that.

Comment by Ruby Coleman on September 2, 2009 at 9:42am

My 11th great grandfather was Sir Richard Mainwaring who married Dorothy Corbet. He died at St. Albans, Hertfordshire on or about 30 September 1558. My notes indicate: He was knighted before 28 September 1536 when he took a lease from John, late Abbott, and the convent of St. Mary, Combermere, Chester. He served as Commissioner of Peace in May of 1538 and was among the nights who welcomed Anne of Cleves to England on 3 January 1539-1540. In 1544 and other times he served as Sheriff of Shropshire.

His parents were Sir John Mainwaring and Joan Lacon. I am interested in obtaining more information, particularly historical, about the Mainwarings.

Comment by Pamela Cargo Harris on August 28, 2009 at 7:42am

In reply to Stacy Wade Harris II, comment of August 22:

Yes! As a matter of fact, I have seen a translation of Sir Francis Barnum's will! It does not mention Thomas at all, but there were also a couple other of the 15 children who weren't mentioned, either, and there appears to be no explanation for these ommissions, either. I also know that Thomas "sailed for the New World" in 1640, but didn't arrive in New England until about 1657. There appears to be no record of what he was actually doing for those 17 years. Sir Francis's will was dated 1642, two years after Thomas's departure. Maybe Sir Francis believed his son was dead, and that might account for why Thomas wasn't mentioned? Only my speculation :)

Comment by Alexandra Gloria Nichols on August 28, 2009 at 6:53am

Hi
I am a new member, researching my Nichols family of Buckinghamshire. I have got back to around 1450 and am now stuck. My earliest ancestors, William and Thomas Nichols (+ variants) were yeoman farmers and seemed to have owned quite a lot of land. Can anyone help me get moving again ?

Comment by Stacy Wade Harris II on August 22, 2009 at 2:14pm

Have you seen Sir Francis Barnum's will? It may or may not verify the relationship. If Thomas was not disowned then he would very likely hav been mentioned in the will if indeed he was the son. Many times if a son was disowned it was mentioned in the will.

Comment by Pamela Cargo Harris on August 22, 2009 at 10:01am

Greetings All! I just found this group and am really excited about joining! I am descended from one, Thomas Barnum (b. 1625, Hollingbourne, Kent, England), a colonial immigrant to America, who (supposedly) was the son of Sir Francis Barnham and Elizabeth Lennard (these two were married 1598/9, in Kent England, and Elizabeth was the daughter of Samson Lennard and Margaret Fiennes, Baroness Dacre). If Thomas was indeed the son of Sir Francis and Elizabeth, than it means that I can take this line waaaaay farther back, and it connects to a great many royal and notable personages of the middle ages (and earlier!). By the way, Thomas changed the spelling of the name, when he came to America. Now, the trouble is, I can't actually verify that Thomas actually was their son. Most of the references I've found ( have them, just to much to list here) say that he 'likely' was, or that it is 'presumed' that he was. One even suggested that he may have been a nephew, raised by Sir Thomas. So what I'd like to ask is, whether or not anyone else may have found Thomas Barnum in their family history, and have you actually been able to confirm his parentage?
Thanks!
Pam

Comment by TJ Gaylord on August 20, 2009 at 9:06am

Hi Debbie, I am researching the family of Blount of Elvaston through Thomas Blount (Treasurer of Normandy) and his parents Walter Blount (died at Battle of Shrewsbury) and Sancha De Ayala. I am also researching the families of Gresley and Shirley from the Derbyshire area.

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