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| | (.... - 1176) m 1138
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|_Nicole D'AUBIGNY ___|
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(1155 - 1227) m 1169 (.... - 1215)
[23707] {"Medieval English Ancestry of Certain Americans," Carl Boyer III (2001), p. 12, and "Ancestral Roots..." 7th Edition (Balt., 1992) 55-30 give Hawise as the wife of Ralph Basset(t).}
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[11878] http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/cp/p_welles.shtml offers in 2003: "corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 12, Part 2: Welles - Volume 12, part 2, page 441: He [John (de Welle), Lord Welles (d. 1361)] m. (post-nuptial settlement Quin. of Hil. 1344/5) Maud, probably da. of William (DE ROS), 2nd LORD ROS (of Helmsley), by Margery,(g) sister and coh. of Giles (DE BADLESMERE), 2nd LORD BADLESMERE, 1st da. of Bartholomew, 1st LORD BADLESMERE. Note g: Her wardship of John is a pointer to Maud's parentage. See note "d" above. Douglas Richardson, in June 2002, pointed out heraldic evidence supporting a Welles-Ros marriage [citing Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 5th series, vol. 9, pp. 84-87 (1935-1937)], and evidence from a late-15th-century pedigree that William, Lord Ros, did have a daughter Maud [citing Surtees Society, vol. 144, pp. 161-164 (1930)]. Volume 12, part 2, pages 442, 443: He [John (de Welle, afterwards Welles), Lord Welles (d. 1421)] m., (?) 1stly,(i) before May 1386, Eleanor,(j) sister of John (DE MOWBRAY), EARL OF NOTTINGHAM, and of Thomas (DE MOWBRAY), DUKE OF NORFOLK and EARL MARSHAL, 1st da. of John, 4th LORD MOWBRAY, by Elizabeth, suo jure (according to modern doctrine) BARONESS SEGRAVE, da. and h. of John (DE SEGRAVE), 4th LORD SEGRAVE. She, who was b. shortly before 25 Mar. 1364, may have been living in 1399. Page 442, note i: According to G.E.C., in the 1st edn. of this work, citing R. E. Chester Waters (N. and Q., 6th Ser., vol. vii, p. 287), who, however, gives no evidence, he m., in or before 1366, Cicely, who was then living. No confirmation has been found of this. Cf. Misc. Gen. et Her., 5th Ser., vol. ix, p. 48. Page 442, note j (continued on page 443): Idem, pp. 46-48, citing in extenso Harl. Ch. 55, B.24, whereby the manor of Welle, &c., was conveyed by feoffees to John de Welle and Eleanor, da. of John de Mowbray, his wife. Although this charter is dat. 1361-68 in B.M. Index to Charters and Rolls, vol. i, p. 793, Eleanor was not b. until 1364. The limit used to date the charter is apparently the death of Eleanor's father in 1368. Douglas Richardson, in February 2002, provided confirmatory evidence that the charter should be dated before about 1369 [citing Surtees Society, vol. 108, pp. lxvi-lxix (1903), to show that Richard de Ravenser, mentioned in the charter as provost of Beverley, resigned that office about 1369]. The statement that Eleanor was born in 1364 is based on a grant to a servant for bringing the news of her birth [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1367-70, p. 237], but possibly this may have been given at a later date, rather than immediately after the birth. [This question was also discussed, in February and May 2002, by Brad Verity.] Volume 12, part 2, page 443: He [John (de Welle, afterwards Welles), Lord Welles (d. 1421)] m., (?) 2ndly, before 13 Aug. 1417, Margery.(b) Note b: Misc. Gen. et Her., 5th Ser., vol. ix, pp. 46-47; Cal. Close Rolls, 1419-22, p. 189. Douglas Richardson, in July and August 2002, posted evidence suggesting that Margery held half the advowson of Saltfleetby St Peter, Lincolnshire [citing Canterbury and York Society, vol. 73, p. 18 (1984)], and that she died in or before 4 Henry VI [1425 or 1426], when an inquisition post mortem was taken [citing P.R.O. C 139/23/30]." See also NEHGR 156:137.
_Ninian DUNBAR ______+
| (1575 - ....)
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| (1701 - 1737) m 1736|
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| | _Thomas HATCH ________________|_Lydia GYLES ________
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| (1673 - 1743) m 1699|
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| (1645 - 1722) m 1663
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_John HARRINGTON ____+
| (1470 - 1524)
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| (1525 - 1582) m 1554 |
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[35532] This person is from the unverified Mason Herrington tree in Ancestry.com in 2013 and requires further documentation. Edward arrived in MA in 1634.
[47731] Jacob was the son of Henry Haupt and Catharine Gearhart.
[50340] Ella is said to be daughter of Independence Norton (1827-1889).
[36754] This person's information is from the unverified Alexander Family Tree in Ancestry.com in 2014. Ancestry.com offers: "Norton Name Meaning - English: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English norð 'north' + tun 'enclosure', 'settlement'. In some cases, it is a variant of Norrington. Irish: altered form of Naughton, assimilated to the English name."
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| | (1774 - 1851) m 1820
| _Moody Ashael FOSTER __|_Lucy CROSBY ____________
| | (1823 - 1894) m 1851 (1793 - 1861)
| _Eugene D. FOSTER ____|
| | (1869 - 1923) m 1891 |
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| | |_Martha Jordan BUNKER _|_Martha (Patty") JORDAN _
| | (1833 - 1872) m 1851 (1797 - 1870)
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| | |_Flora E. MCLAUGHLIN _|
| | (1866 - 1956) m 1891 |
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| | | | (1813 - 1893) m 1839
| | |_Susan Emily WILLIAMS _|_Lucinda JAQUES _________
| | (1846 - 1924) m 1865 (1818 - 1884)
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| _David O. FROST _________+
| | (1783 - 1844) m 1810
| _Thomas FROST _________|_Joanna HARPER __________
| | (1823 - 1895) m 1846 (1783 - 1844)
| _Frank Walter FROST __|
| | (1855 - 1927) m 1887 |
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| | (1826 - 1905) m 1846
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| (.... - 1774) m 1716
_Richard SCRUGGS ____|_Martha DRURY _______
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| | | (1761 - 1835) m 1784 |
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| (1805 - 1863) m 1827 |
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| (1767 - 1823) m 1784 |
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[44375] Forest m. (2) 10 March 1951 Bessie Irene Dartis (see Find A Grave memorial 26457815 for her information).
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_Thomas DESPENCER ___|_Joan POLARD ________
| (1366 - 1435) m 1391 (1344 - ....)
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| (1392 - 1476) m 1417|
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[23848] For his ancestry, see http://www.althorp.com/spencer-family/familytree.pdf and http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ss4as/spencer01.htm. Sir William is son of Sir John Spencer (b. by 1490; married Isabel Grant, daughter of Walter Grant, before 1506; John d. 14 April 1522. On 3 September 1506 he acquired the Wormleighton estate in Warwickshire, as well as the Althorp estate in Northamptonshire. [- Charles Kidd and David Williamson, editor, "DeBretts Peerage and Baronetage" (London, U.K.: DeBrett's Peerage, 1999), volume 2, page 1870.] Find A Grave memorial 13869984 offers: "Sir William Spencer Kt, of Wormleighton & Althorp, Northants was the son of Sir John Spencer, Kt, of Snitterfield & Wormleighton and Isabel (Graunt) and was born before 1516. He married Susan, daughter of Sir Richard Knightley, of Fawsley, Northamptonshire. To this union six children were born; Sir John Spencer, Kt, of Wormleighton & Althorp, Isabel, Jane, Dorothy, Anne, and Mary. Sir William Spencer was invested as a Knight at York Palace (Now Whitehall) in 1529 by Henry VIII. He held the office of High Sheriff of Northamptonshire from 1531 to 1532."