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YOUNG

2010-08-21T18:28:00.000-07:00

TITLE: One of the Wilkins family making biscuits for dinner on corn shucking day
at Mrs. Fred Wilkins' home near Tallyho, Granville County. North Carolina

CALL NUMBER: LC-USF34- 052728-D [P&P]
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1939 Sept.
CREATOR: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.
NOTES:
Title and other information from caption card.
Annotation on caption card identifies woman making biscuits as Mary Wilkins.
SUBJECTS:
United States--North Carolina--Granville County--Tallyho.
PART OF: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of
Congress)
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
CONTROL #: fsa2000033164/PP
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Thursday, August 13, 2009

WINGFIELD

2010-08-21T18:26:00.000-07:00

"The Industrial Revolution led to the building of slums in industrial Yorkshire"

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16:32, 27 August 2008 Mtaylor848

WILLIAMSON

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WILLIAMS

2010-08-21T18:22:00.000-07:00

"Speleothems in Hall of the Mountain King'

Ogof Craig a Ffynnon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
CyrilB (talk | contribs) 19:35, 7 May 2006

WHITE - LINE 3

2010-08-21T18:20:00.000-07:00

Carew Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
02:37, 10 April 2006 Econrad

WHITE - LINE 2

2010-08-21T18:18:00.000-07:00

The iconic image of the Hand of God giving life to Adam
Sistine Chapel, fresco Michelangelo 1509

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06:30, 11 January 2007 TTaylor

Exterior of the Sistine Chapel

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07:39, 20 May 2005 File Upload Bot (Eloquence) Leslie

Fresken in der Sixtinischen Kapelle in Rom, Szene: Die Jugend des Moses
Botticelli, Sandro 1481-1482

The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002.
ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

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03:53, 19 May 2005 File Upload Bot (Eloquence)

Fresken in der Sixtinischen Kapelle in Rom, Szene: Die Bestrafung der Leviter,
Botticelli, Sandro 1481-1482

The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002.
ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

Fresken in der Sixtinischen Kapelle in Rom, Szene: Die Versuchung Christi
The Temptation of Christ by Sandro Botticelli
Botticelli, Sandro 1481-1482

The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002.
ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

The left half of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, as painted by Michelangelo in 1508 and restored in 1994.

Michelangelo's The Last Judgment

Sistine Chapel, the prophet Daniel before and after Restoration
Michelangelo 1505

WHITE - LINE 1

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Sunset over florence 1.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
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Sherseydc 15:03, 30 October 2008

Mulberry Street NYC c1900

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19:05, 25 October 2007 Chabacano

WELCH

2010-08-21T17:51:00.000-07:00

The Landing, Ipswich, MA.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

14:22, 24 October 2006 Hugh Manatee

A map of Ontario highlighting Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties
16 October 2007
Author Vidioman

WEEKS

2010-08-21T17:48:00.001-07:00

Hardanger - by Hans Gude 1847

wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway
21:17, 23 December 2005 Atamar

Christiana, Norway

John Fredriksons (1905-1908)

WEARE

2010-08-21T16:55:00.001-07:00

"Remains of Tintagel Castle, legendary birthplace of mythical King Arthur"

Cornwall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
18:49, 17 January 2006 Archibald Tuttle

2010-08-21T16:52:00.001-07:00

Bernard of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
G.dallorto 20:45, 7 November 2007

VERMANDOIS - LINE 2

2010-08-21T16:49:00.001-07:00

"Charlemagne with some of his children and their Scholars"

"Charlemagne had seventeen children over the course of his life, with eight of his
ten known wives or concubines, and unlike the customs of the day, all of his
children attended school, boys and girls alike. "He was so careful of the training of
his sons and daughters that he never took his meals without them when he was at
home, and never made a journey without them; his sons would ride at his side, and
his daughters follow him, while a number of his body-guard, detailed for their
protection, brought up the rear." Indeed Charlemagne himself spent most of his
adult life studying as well - "rhetoric, dialectics, and especially astronomy; he
learned to reckon, and used to investigate the motions of the heavenly bodies most
curiously, with an intelligent scrutiny. He also tried to write, and used to keep tablets
and blanks in bed under his pillow, that at leisure hours he might accustom his
hand to form the letters."
Featured Story:
Charlemagne... the man, the myth, the legend by Rick Devin
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
http://www.treesinthewoods.com/featured_story_07.htm
Monday, December 28, 2009

9th Century Family Tree

Emperor Charlemagne

"A 9th century tapestry shows Charlemagne crowning his son, Louis The Pious, as Emperor just
prior to his death"

Vermandois - LINE 1

2010-08-21T16:46:00.001-07:00

"Hugh was one of the knightly leaders of the First Crusade"

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19:56, 11 August 2007 W. C. Minor

Robert I of FRANCE
866 - 923

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06:06, 28 April 2008 Claus

UNDERWOOD

2010-08-21T16:43:00.001-07:00

"Old Va. farmer coming from mill. Rappahannock Station, Va"

Prints and Photographs Digital Item Display - 2004661551:
Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895, artist.
TITLE: Old Va. farmer coming from mill. Rappahannock Station, Va.
CALL NUMBER: DRWG/US - Forbes, no. 120 (A size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-20595 (digital file from original item)
LC-USZ62-15655 (b&w film copy neg.)
NOTES:
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.121)
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?fsaall,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,
var,cai,cd,hh,yan,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc,iucpub,tgmi,lamb,hec,krb:1:./temp/~pp_lqg
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mb,hec,krb
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Aristophot 1902-1910
11 Southampton Row, London, England

"A publisher of postcards in series. They had an office in New York City
and produced a U.S. Series of Eastern views in halftone lithography
that were printed in Leipzig, Saxony. They also produced a number of
fine continuous toned artist signed cards as Aquarellchroms. After they
closed their remaining stock was distributed by Misch & Company"

TREVET

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Somerset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
19:13, 12 December 2009 Wsupermain2

TREGOZ

2010-08-21T16:36:00.001-07:00

Hereford Cathedral and Wye Bridge

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Constable, John 1823
Source The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002.
ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH

OF TOURS

2010-08-21T16:35:00.001-07:00

Alsace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
T.o.m 19:25, 23 October 2005

THREKELD

2010-08-21T16:33:00.001-07:00

North York Moors.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
07:02, 14 June 2006 Wigulf

North yorks moors.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
15:24, 27 May 2009 File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske)

TARLETON

2010-08-21T16:29:00.001-07:00

The Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas is known
locally as 'The Sailors' Church' and simply 'St Nick's'.

:Liverpool St Nicholas.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
David Humphreys 16:02, 11 May 2006

SYNDER

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Burbach, North Rhine-Westphalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
TUBS 09:08, 29 August 2008

STUERMER

2010-08-21T16:26:00.001-07:00

GROSSESTRASSE FLENSBURG GERMANY POSTCARD

DEUTSCHLAND GERMANY DE CARTE POSTALE TARJETA POSTAL
POSTKARTE ANSICHTSKARTE CARTOLINA POSTALE BREVKORT POST
CARD POSTCARD PC

BONN GERMANY KAISERPLATZ POSTCARD ANSICHTSKARTE c1900

STUCKLY

2010-08-21T16:23:00.001-07:00

Throwleigh: Priest's Door

SOME OLD DEVON CHURCHES
[A richly illustrated trilogy by John Stabb; published
by Simpkin et al., London, 1908-1916; transcribed
and edited by Dr. Roger Peters.]
PREFACE. [VOL. I]

Exeter Cathedral: Rood Screen

Ashprington: Lychgate
[VOL. I: Supplemental]
SOME OLD DEVON CHURCHES,
THEIR ROOD SCREENS
PULPITS, FONTS, ETC.
BY JOHN STABB
PREFACE. [VOL. II]

Exeter Cathedral: Rood Screen

SOME OLD DEVON CHURCHES
[A richly illustrated trilogy by John Stabb; published
by Simpkin et al., London, 1908-1916; transcribed
and edited by Dr. Roger Peters.]
PREFACE. [VOL. I]

Colebrook: Parclose ScreenSOME OLD DEVON CHURCHES,
THEIR ROOD SCREENS
PULPITS, FONTS, ETC.
BY JOHN STABB PREFACE. [VOL. III]

Huntingdon town centre, looking North along the High Street towards All Saints' Church

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19:18, 29 August 2006 Wjfox2005

STEWART

2010-08-21T16:17:00.001-07:00

Stirling Castle - Scotland

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Finlay McWalter 18:41, 17 July 2005

"The Prospect of their Ma'ties Castle of Sterling", engraving by John Slezer. Stirling Castle, Scotland, from the south-east."

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
21:21, 23 February 2009 Jonathan Oldenbuck From John
Slezer's THeatrum Scotiae 1693

Queen Margaret of Scotland (1456-1486),
daughter of King Christian I of Denmark,

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23:02, 7 May 2009 ImageLib

James III, King of Scotland

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20:48, 31 December 2008 Cavaliers

James IV of Scotland

wikipedia - 20:48, 31 December 2008 Cavaliers

STERMER

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Frankfurt Institute of Photolithography (1990’s-1903)

Bruno Antelmann (1897-1908)
Berlin, Germany

"A trading company specializing in items from German colonies. They
published many chromolithographic view-cards of these colonies and of
Europe as well. They are noted for a private printing of official postal cards
issued from German colonies in 1899. This company actively lobbied the
German government to increase its overseas presence in Africa and the Pacific".

Bruno Antelmann (1897-1908)

HORSE WATTWAGEN NORDSEEBAD CUXHAVEN-DUHNEN GERMANY

STEINMETZ

2010-08-21T15:55:00.001-07:00

WILDBAD GERMANY NEUE MILCHKUR-ANSTALT POSTCARD 1904

1
Joseph Donald BANNER
Margaret Alicia LILLIS
2
Mathias Paul BANNER
Mary Eva KLEIN
3
Mathias KLEIN
Kathryn STERMER
4
Mathias STUERMER
Anna Elizabeth KLEIN
5
John Joseph KLEIN
Susanna SCHUNCK
6
Mathias SCHUNCK
Anna Elizabeth ERTZ
7
Mathias ERTZ
Catherine STEINMETZ
8
John George STEINMETZ
Anna Mary

CLAUSTHAL GERMANY DEUTSCHLAND BERG-UND-ERZSTRASSE 1908

7
Mathias ERTZ
born - Germany - Hoxel, 30 Jan 1769
died - Germany -
married - 30 Jul 1752
Catherine STEINMETZ
born - Germany -
died - Germany - Hoxel, 1 May 1780
1. Anna Elizabeth ERTZ

Dick and Jane Travel:
Sat Jul 04 11:09:57 1998 Dick Schmitt, Houston, TX
http://www.dickschmitt.com/famtree/d0000/g0000031.html#I0756
Sunday, January 10, 2010

8
John George STEINMETZ
born - Germany - AROUND 1721
died - Germany - Hunolstein, Rheinland
married -
Anna Mary
born - Germany - Hunolstein, Rheinland 30 Dec 1747
died - Germany -
1. Catherine STEINMETZ

Dick and Jane Travel:
Sat Jul 04 11:09:57 1998 Dick Schmitt, Houston, TX
http://www.dickschmitt.com/famtree/d0000/g0000034.html#I0759
Sunday, January 10, 2010

STAPLETON - LINE 2

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"St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, 1831"

The Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the
Knights of the Garter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
23:33, 23 February 2006 David Nelson

"The Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter is a constituent group of the Foundation of the College of St George, Windsor Castle which is a national charity in England. The society includes more than 5,100 members worldwide (including more than 900 AmFriends members of the American Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter Inc.) to "protect, preserve and enhance" the college, its St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle and the royal chivalric knighthood, the Order of the Garter.

In addition to the many enhancement projects that the society helped fund since its creation, several major preservation projects were also completed. The ongoing project for 2009 is to clean and restore the chapel West Window which is one of the largest in any English church with its collection of late-medieval stained-glass. The project for 2007 was to clean and repair the chapel West Front including its 16th century stonework, turrets and flying buttresses.

People interested in the society and its traditions and service may join as its members.

A group known as the Association of the Descendants of the Knights of the Garter was founded in the 1920s, composed of knights (KG) and ladies (LG) of the order, and their descendants. Another group known as the Friends of St George's was founded in 1931 to support the college by raising funds to "protect, preserve and enhance" the chapel as the physical and spiritual center of the order. The two
groups accomplished their missions separately until 1934 when they merged as The Society of the Friends of St George's with which is amalgamated the Association of the Descendants of the Knights of the Garter.

The society was founded with the mission to continue the support of the college and historic chapel. The society shares with the order its patron Saint George the Martyr, the motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense (Shame whoever thinks it evil)," and the insignia of the garter.

The society changed its name a last time in 1966 when it was designated by the Charity Commission for England and Wales as a charity. After celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2006, the society became a constituent group of the foundation in 2007 when it completed its change in corporate governance.

A separate Philadelphia-based group, the Society of Descendants of Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter [1] [2], was founded in 1929 according to the group, the Hereditary Society Blue Book and the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America"

The Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Friends_of_St_George%
27s_and_Descendants_of_the_Knights_of_the_Garter
Thursday, January 07, 2010

STAPLETON - line 1

2010-08-21T15:48:00.001-07:00

England, English Counties, Channel Isles -

Beeches in Autumn, Pictograph Publishing Co

"Stapleton is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It is
close to the River Tees and Darlington.

Stapleton, Richmondshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stapleton,_Richmondshire
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Yorkshire - The Moors, - E.T.W.Dennis

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St Wilfred's Parish Church - Calverley

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11 February 2009 Chemical Engineer

SINCLEAR - line 4

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"Reconstruction drawing, by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, of the Norman
Château de Coucy, which probably influenced the design of Dirleton"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirleton_Castle

The main gate, built by the Haliburtons

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
13:21, 7 April 2008 Jonathan Oldenbuck

SINCLEAR - line 3

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Rosslyn Chapel
J S & S "St Giles" series of card

Châteaux en Ecosse (Girnigoe et Sinclair)

wikipedia - 13:42, 2 February 2007 Bilou

Sinclair castles
"Castles that were either built by the Sinclairs or came
into their possession include:

* Roslin Castle, in Midlothian, is considered to be the
earliest seat of the Sinclairs in Scotland. It was
probably begun by Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney
(c.1345-c.1400).[10] His family also built the famed
Rosslyn Chapel nearby.

* Castle Sinclair Girnigoe is perhaps the best-known
Sinclair Castle. It was dramatically situated on the cliffs
just outside Wick. Although now ruined, it is well worth
a visit and it still contains both a secret chamber in the
vaulting of the kitchen ceiling and a grim dungeon
where, it is said, the 4th Earl of Caithness imprisoned
his son and heir and fed him salt beef so that
eventually he died mad with thirst.

* Castle of Mey is another former Sinclair property
which although was originally known as the Castle of
Mey, its name was changed for a time to Barrogill
Castle. It was built by George Sinclair, 4th Earl of
Caithness. In 1952 the castle was purchased by HM
The Queen Mother who changed its name back to
Castle of Mey.

* Sinclairs have owned, at one time or another, a great
many Scottish castles, including Ackergill Tower, Braal
Castle, Brims Castle, Dunbeath Castle, Keiss Castle,
and the Castle of Old Wick."

Clan Sinclair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Sinclair
Saturday, December 12, 2009

SINCLEAR - line 2

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Rosslyn Chapel.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
02:52, 3 November 2005 BLueFiSH.as

RosslynInterior.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
03:57, 5 February 2006 JeremyA

"Rosslyn Chapel, properly named the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew, was
founded on a small hill above Roslin Glen as a Roman Catholic collegiate church
(with between 4 and 6 ordained canons and two boy choristers) in the mid-15th
century. Rosslyn Chapel and the nearby Roslin Castle are located at the village of
Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland.

The chapel was founded by William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (also spelled
"Sainteclaire/Saintclair/Sinclair/St. Clair") of the Sinclair family, a noble family
descended from Norman knights, using the standard designs the medieval
architects made available to him. Rosslyn Chapel is the third Sinclair place of
worship at Roslin - the first being in Roslin Castle and the second (whose
crumbling buttresses can still be seen today) in what is now Roslin Cemetery.[1]

The purpose of the college was to celebrate the Divine Office throughout the day
and night and also to celebrate Holy Mass for all the faithful departed, including
the deceased members of the Sinclair family. During this period the rich heritage
of plainsong (a single melodic line) or polyphony (vocal harmony) would be used
to enrich the singing of the liturgy. An endowment was made that would pay for the
upkeep of the priests and choristers in perpetuity and they also had parochial
responsibilities.

After the Scottish Reformation (1560) Roman Catholic worship in the Chapel was
brought to an end, although the Sinclair family continued to be Roman Catholics
until the early 18th century. From that time the Chapel was closed to public
worship until 1861 when it was opened again as a place of worship according to
the rites of the Scottish Episcopal Church.

In later years the Chapel has featured in speculative theories regarding
Freemasonry and the Knights Templar.

Architecture
The original plans for Rosslyn have never been found or recorded, so it is open to
speculation whether or not the chapel was intended to be built in its current layout.
Its architecture is considered to be some of the finest in Scotland.[2]

Construction of the chapel began on 20 September 1456, although it is often been
recorded as 1446. The confusion over the building date comes from the chapel's
receiving its founding charter to build a collegiate chapel in 1446 from Rome.
Sinclair did not start to build the chapel until he had built houses for his craftsmen.
Although the original building was to be cruciform in shape, it was never
completed; only the choir was constructed, with the retro-chapel, otherwise called
the Lady Chapel, built on the much earlier crypt (Lower Chapel) believed to form
part of an earlier castle. The foundations of the unbuilt nave and transepts
stretching to a distance of 90 feet were recorded in the 19th century. The
decorative carving was executed over a forty-year period. After the founder's death,
construction of the planned nave and transepts was abandoned - either from lack
of funds, disinterest, or a change in liturgical fashion. The Lower Chapel (also
known as the crypt or sacristy) should not be confused with the burial vaults that
lie underneath Rosslyn Chapel.[1]

The chapel stands on fourteen pillars, which form an arcade of twelve pointed
arches on three sides of the nave. At the east end, a fourteenth pillar between the
penultimate pair form a three-pillared division between the nave and the Lady
Chapel.[3] The three pillars at the east end of the chapel are named, from north to
south: the Master Pillar, the Journeyman Pillar, and most famously, the Apprentice
Pillar. These names for the pillars date from the late Georgian period — prior to
this period they were called The Earl's Pillar, The Shekinah and the Prince's pillar.

Apprentice Pillar
The "Apprentice Pillar", or "Prentice Pillar", gets its name from an 18th century
legend involving the master mason in charge of the stonework in the chapel and
his young apprentice. According to the legend, the master mason did not believe
that the apprentice could perform the complicated task of carving the column,
without seeing the original which formed the inspiration for the design. The
master mason travelled to see the original himself, but upon his return was
enraged to find that the upstart apprentice had completed the column anyway. In a
fit of jealous anger the mason took up his mallet and struck the apprentice on the
head, killing him. As punishment for his crime, the master mason's face was
carved into the opposite corner to forever gaze upon his apprentice's pillar.[4]

The pillar is also referred to as the "Princes Pillar" in An Account of the Chapel of
Roslin (1778). On the architrave joining the pillar, there is the inscription Forte est
vinum fortior est rex fortiores sunt mulieres super omnia vincit veritas: "Wine is
strong, a king is stronger, women are stronger still, but truth conquers all" (1
Esdras, chapters 3 & 4)

Author Henning Klovekorn has proposed that the pillar is representative of one of
the roots of the Nordic Yggdrasil tree, prominent in Germanic and Viking
Mythology. He is of the opinion that the dragons at the base of the pillar are also
found eating away at the base of the Yggdrasil root, and the top of the pillar is
carved tree foliage, and argues that the Nordic/Viking association is plausible
considering the many auxiliary references in the chapel to Celtic and Nordic
mythology.[5]
[edit] 'Musical' boxes

Among Rosslyn's many intricate carvings are a sequence of 213 cubes or boxes
protruding from pillars and arches with a selection of patterns on them. It is
unknown whether these patterns have any particular meaning attached to them —
many people have attempted to find information coded into them, but no
interpretation has yet proven conclusive.

One recent attempt to make sense of the boxes has been to interpret them as a
musical score. The motifs on the boxes somewhat resemble geometric patterns
seen in the study of cymatics. The patterns are formed by placing powder upon a
flat surface and vibrating the surface at different frequencies. By matching these
Chladni patterns with musical notes corresponding to the same frequencies, the
father-and-son team of Thomas and Stuart Mitchell produced a tune which Stuart
calls the Rosslyn Motet.
Green Men
Another notable feature of Rosslyn's architecture is the presence of 'Green Men'.
These are carvings of human faces with greenery all around them, often growing
out of their mouths. They are commonly thought to be a symbol of rebirth or fertility,
pre-Christian in origin. In Rosslyn they are found in all areas of the chapel, with
one excellent example in the Lady Chapel, between the two middle altars of the
east wall. The green men in Rosslyn symbolise the months of the year in
progression from East to West in the Chapel. Young faces are seen in the East
symbolising Spring and as we progress towards the setting sun in the west the
carvings age as in autumn of man's years. There are in excess of 110 carvings of
Green men in and around the Chapel.
[edit] 'Ears of corn'

In addition to the boxes, there are carvings of what the authors Robert Lomas and
Christopher Knight believe could be ears of new world corn or maize in the chapel.
[7] This crop was unknown in Europe at the time of the chapel's construction, and
was not cultivated there until several hundred years later. Knight and Lomas view
these carvings as evidence supporting the idea that Henry I Sinclair, Earl of
Orkney, travelled to the Americas well before Columbus. Mediaeval scholars
interpret these carvings as stylised depictions of wheat, strawberries or lilies

Crypt

The Chapel has also acted as a burial place for several generations of the
Sinclairs — a crypt was once reachable from a descending stair at the rear of the
chapel. This crypt has for many years been sealed shut, which may explain the
recurrent legends that it is merely a front to a more extensive subterranean vault
containing (variously) the mummified head of Jesus Christ,[9] the Holy Grail,[10]
the treasure of the Templars,[11] or the original crown jewels of Scotland.[12] In
1837 when the 2nd Earl of Rosslyn died, his wish was to be buried in the original
vault; exhaustive searches over the period of a week were made, but no entrance
to the original vault was found and he was buried beside his wife in the Lady
Chapel.[13]

Templar and Masonic connections

The chapel, built 150 years after the dissolution of the Knights Templar,
supposedly has many Templar symbols, such as the "Two riders on a single
horse" that appear on the Seal of the Knights Templar.

The claim that the layout of Rosslyn Chapel echoes that of Solomon's Temple [14]
has been analysed by Mark Oxbrow and Ian Robertson in their book, Rosslyn and
the Grail:

Rosslyn Chapel bears no more resemblance to Solomon's or Herod's Temple
than a house brick does to a paperback book. If you superimpose the floor plans
of Rosslyn Chapel and either Solomon's or Herod's Temple, you will actually find
that they are not even remotely similar. Writers admit that the chapel is far smaller
than either of the temples. They freely scale the plans up or down in an attempt to
fit them together. What they actually find are no significant similarities at all. [...] If
you superimpose the floor plans of Rosslyn Chapel and the East Quire of
Glasgow Cathedral you will find a startling match: the four walls of both buildings
fit precisely. The East Quire of Glasgow is larger than Rosslyn, but the designs of
these two medieval Scottish buildings are virtually identical. They both have the
same number of windows and the same number of pillars in the same
configuration. [...] The similarity between Rosslyn Chapel and Glasgow's East
Quire is well established. Andrew Kemp noted that 'the entire plan of this Chapel
corresponds to a large extent with the choir of Glasgow Cathedral' as far back as
1877 in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries. Many alternative history
writers are well aware of this but fail to mention it in their books.[15]

With regards to a possible connection between the St. Clairs and the Knights
Templar, the family testified against the Templars when that Order was put on trial
in Edinburgh in 1309.[16] Historian Dr. Louise Yeoman, along with other
mediaeval scholars, says the Knights Templar connection is false, and points out
that Rosslyn Chapel was built by William Sinclair so that Mass could be said for
the souls of his family.[17]

It is also claimed that other carvings in the chapel reflect Masonic imagery, such
as the way that hands are placed in various figures. One carving may show a
blindfolded man being led forward with a noose around his neck—similar to the
way a candidate is prepared for initiation into Freemasonry. The carving has been
eroded by time and pollution and is difficult to make out clearly. The chapel was
built in the 15th century, and the earliest records of Freemasonic lodges date back
only to the late 16th and early 17th centuries.[18] A more likely explanation
however is that the Masonic imagery was added at a later date. This may have
taken place in the 1860s when James St Clair-Erskine, 3rd Earl of Rosslyn
instructed Edinburgh architect David Bryce, a known freemason, to undertake
restoration work on areas of the church including many of the carvings.[19]

William Sinclair 3rd Earl of Orkney, Baron of Roslin and 1st Earl of Caithness,
claimed by novelists to be a hereditary Grand Master of the Scottish stone
masons, built Rosslyn Chapel.[14] A later William Sinclair of Roslin became the
first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland and, subsequently, several
other members of the Sinclair family have held this position.[20]

These connections, to both the Templars and the Freemasons, mean that
Rosslyn features prominently in romantic conjectures that the Freemasons are
direct descendants of the Knights Templar.
[edit] Alternative histories

Alternative histories involving Rosslyn Chapel and the Sinclairs have been
published by Andrew Sinclair and Timothy Wallace-Murphy arguing links with the
Knights Templar and the supposed descendants of Jesus Christ. The books in
particular by Timothy Wallace-Murphy Rex Deus: The True Mystery of Rennes-le-
Château And The Dynasty of Jesus (2000) and Custodians Of Truth: The
Continuance Of Rex Deus (2005) have focused on the hypothetical Jesus
bloodline with the Sinclairs and Rosslyn Chapel. On the ABC documentary Jesus,
Mary and Da Vinci aired on 3 November 2003 Niven Sinclair hinted that the
descendants of Jesus Christ existed within the Sinclair families. These alternative
histories are relatively modern - not dating back before the early 1990s. The
precursor to these Rosslyn theories is the 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy
Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln that introduced the
theory of the Jesus bloodline in relation to the Priory of Sion hoax - the main
protagonist of which was Pierre Plantard, who for a time adopted the name Pierre
Plantard de Saint-Clair.

Fictional references

The Chapel is a major feature in the last part of Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da
Vinci Code, though many incorrect assertions were made about the structure. For
example, Brown's book states that the Chapel was built by the Knights Templar,
and contains a six-pointed Star of David worn into the stone floor although no
such star is present. Many sources say that Brown never visited the Chapel until
after the publication of his book, and most of his material came from previously
published material.

Another claim from The Da Vinci Code is that the name "Rosslyn" is a form of the
term Rose Line, and that a line starting in France also runs through the Chapel,
however scholars point out that the name "Rosslyn" is most likely derived from
two Celtic words: "ros", meaning promontory or point, and "lyn", meaning waterfall.
[21]
See also

* Clan Sinclair;
* Sinclair (surname);
* Earl of Caithness;
* Sinclair & Girnigoe Castle;
* Roslin Castle;
* Castle of Mey."

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Sunday, December 06, 2009

SINCLEAR - line 1

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Roslin Castle over the bridge - ruined gatehouse.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
10:14, 16 March 2007 Supergolden

SCHUNCK

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Berlin, Germany

Thomas Wendisch (1895-1900)

Munich, Germany

Ottmar Zieher (1897-1908)

FOLKS STORES @ KAISERSTRASSE KARLSRUHE GERMANY POSTCARD

SCHREINK

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Leipzig, Bavaria

Wezel & Naumann (1885-1923)

Munich, Bavaria

Uvachrom AG (1913-1950)

SCHOSSLER

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Strassburg, Germany

Felix Luib (1899-1906)

Rothenburg, Bavaria

Mahler & Ressel (1905-1907)

Nuremberg, Bavaria

Hermann Martin (1899-1945)

SCHOEMER

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Leipzig, Saxony

Dr. Trenkler Co. (1904-1914)

KONIGSTEIN A ELBE GERMANY
DAMPFSCHIFFLANDERPLATZ

SCHOLEDER

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Leipzig, Saxony

Winkler & Voigt (1896-1900)

GERMANY POSTCARD

TRAIN HARZQUER BROCKENBAHN KONIGSBERG GERMANY POSTCARD

SCHNEIDER

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Oldenburg, Germany

Gerhard Stalling AG 1851

Geestemunde, Germany

W. Sander & Son (1898-1906

SCHIMPER

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Leipzig, Germany Trinks & Co. (1910-1950)

LEER - GERMANY POSTCARD c 1910

SCHENNES

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ROTHENBURG GERMANY HOTEL ARTIST ANSICHTSKARTE POSTCARD

SCHAFFER

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LOVE SCENES ON THE RHINE GERMANY DRINKING POSTCARD

Anna Van Der Shaff

Flemish Master, Anna Van Der Shaff, signed drawing - eBay (item 260525502454 end time Jan-17-10 03:27:49 PST):
Anna Van Der Shaff, “Lyrical Genre Scene” (woman at the sink), watercolor “grisaille” on laid paper, filigree 18°
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Friday, January 15, 2010

SCHABBACH

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Frankfurt, Germany
E.G. May & Sons 1878-1914

Berlin, Germany

Dr Adolph Miethe 1903-20's

OF SAXONY

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Castle and monastery of Quedlinburg

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14:33, 8 April 2008 Hanno

Otto I Dux, Chronica Sancti Pantaleonis, Cologne, about 1237

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: 21:27, 29 October 2009 Acoma

Pedigree of the Ottonian dynasty, Ludolf dux Saxonie
at the top, chronicles of St. Pantaleon, Cologne, 12th century

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
21:27, 29 October 2009 Acoma

"Henry and Matilda in the Pedigree of the Ottonian dynasty, Cologne, 12th century"

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Česky: Jindřich Ptáčník a Matylda z Ringelheimu
12. století 21:39, 29 October 2009 Acoma

Saint Mathilda

Mathilde de Ringelheim before 1938
Matilda of Ringelheim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
17:10, 31 July 2008 Mareczko

Henry I "The Fowler" of GERMANY b: 876 in Saxony, Germany
Matilda of RINGELHEIM - Countess of Ringelheim
"She was the wife of Henry I the Fowler, King of the East Franks, whom she married in 909. Their son, Otto, succeeded his father as Otto I the Great. Matilda founded many religious institutions including the Abbey of Quedlinburg. She was later canonized. Their other children were Henry I the Quarrelsome, Gerberga (or Gerberge), Hadwig, Bruno I the Great. Our knowledge of St. Mathilda's life comes largely from brief mentions in the Res Gestae Saxonicae (Deeds of the Saxons) of the monastic historian Widukind of Corvey, and from two sacred biographies (the vita antiquior and vita posterior) written, respectively, c. 974 and
c. 1003.St. Mathilda was the daughter of the Westphalian count Dietrich and his wife Reinhild, and her biographers traced her ancestry back to the famed Saxon hero, Blessed Widukind (c.730 - 807). As a young girl, she was sent to the convent of Herford, where her reputation for beauty and virtue is said to have attracted the attention of Duke Otto of Saxony, who betrothed her to his son, Henry the Fowler.After Henry the Fowler's death in 936, St. Mathilda remained at the court of her son Otto, until a cabal of royal advisors is reported to have accused her of weakening the royal treasury in order to pay for her charitable activities. After a brief exile at the Westphalian monastery of Enger, St. Mathilda was brought back to court at the urging of Otto I's first wife, the Anglo-Saxon princess Queen Edith. St. Mathilda was celebrated for her devotion to prayer and almsgiving; her first biographer depicted her (in a passage indebted to the sixth-century vita of the Frankish queen Radegund by Venantius Fortunatus) leaving her husband's side in the middle of the night and sneaking off to church to pray. St. Mathilda founded many religious institutions,
including the canonry of Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, a center of Ottonian ecclesiastical and secular life and the burial place of St. Mathilda and her husband, and the convent of Nordhausen, Thuringia, likely the source of at least one of her vitae. She was later canonized, with her cult largely confined to Saxony and Bavaria. St. Mathilda's feast day is on March 14. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)"

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Henry I "The Fowler" of GERMANY b: 876 in Saxony, Germany
Matilda of RINGELHEIM - Countess of Ringelheim
"Duke of Saxony
He was Duke of Saxony from 912 and king of the Germans from 919 until his death in 936.
First of the Ottonian Dynasty of German kings and emperors, he is generally considered to
be the founder and first king of the medieval German Empire, known until then as the East
Franconian Kingdom. An avid hunter, he obtained the epithet "the Fowler" because he was
allegedly fixing his birding nets when messengers arrived to inform him that he was to be king. Henry was the son of Otto the Illustrious, duke of Saxony, and his wife Hedwiga, a great-granddaughter of Charlemagne. In 906 he married Hatheburg, daughter of the Saxon count Erwin, but divorced her in 909 after she had given birth to his son Thankmar. Later that year he married Matilda of Ringelheim, daughter of Dietrich, count in western Saxony (Westfalia). Matilda bore him three sons and two daughters and founded many religious
institutions, including the abbey of Quedlinburg where Henry is buried, and was later canonized.Henry became duke of Saxony upon his father's death in 912 and, an able ruler, continued to strengthen Saxony, frequently in conflict with his neighbors to the South, the dukes of Franconia.In 918 king Conrad I of the East-Franconian Empire, and duke of Franconia, died and recommended Henry as his successor as king, despite the fact that they had been at odds with each other from 912 to 915 over the title to lands in Thuringia. Conrad's choice was conveyed by duke Eberhard III of Franconia, Conrad's brother and heir, to the assembled Franconian and Saxon nobles at the Reichstag of Fritzlar in 919, which duly elected Henry to
be king. Henry refused to be anointed by a high church official, the only king of his time not to undergo that rite -- allegedly because he did not wish to be king by the church's but by the people's acclaim. Duke Burkhard I of Swabia soon swore fealty to the new king, but duke Arnulf of Bavaria did not submit until Henry invaded Bavaria in 921 and Arnulf swore fealty to him.Henry regarded the kingdom as a confederation of tribal duchies rather than a feudal kingdom and himself as primus inter pares. Rather than seeking to administer the empire through counts, as Charlemagne had done and his successors had attempted, Henry
allowed the dukes of Franconia, Swabia and Bavaria to maintain complete internal control of their holdings. In 925, he defeated Giselbert, duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine), and brought that realm, which had been lost in 910, back into the German kingdom as the fifth tribal duchy (the others being Saxony, Franconia, Swabia, and Bavaria), but allowing Giselbert to remain in power and marrying his daughter Gerberga to his new vassal in 928. Henry was a very able military leader. Germany had been repeatedly raided by the Magyars (Hungarians), and in 924 Henry paid them a tribute to secure a ten-year truce so that he could fortify towns and train a new elite cavalry force. With his new army, he conquered the Havelli and the Daleminzi in 928 and put down a rebellion in Bohemia in 929. When the Magyars began raiding again, he led an army of all German tribes to victory over them at the battle of Riade in 933, stopping one of their advances into Germany. He also pacified territories to the north, where the Danes had harried the Frisians off to the sea. The monk and historian Widukind of Corvey in his Rex gestae Saxonicae reports that the Danes were subjects of Henry the Fowler. Henry incorporated territories held by the Wends, who together with the Danes had attacked Germany, into his kingdom and also conquered Schleswig in 934.When Henry died on 2 July 936, all German tribes were united in a single kingdom. Henry I is therefore considered the first German king and the founder of the eventual Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation). His son Otto succeeded him as Emperor Otto I ("the Great"). His second son, Henry, became duke of Bavaria. A third son, Brun (or Bruno), became archbishop of Cologne. His son from his first marriage, Thankmar, rebelled against his half-brother Otto and was killed in battle in 936. His daughter Gerberga married Duke Giselbert of Lorraine and subsequently King Louis IV of France. His youngest daughter Hedwige of Saxony married Duke (Hugh the Great) of France and was the mother of Hugh Capet, the first Capetian king of France. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)"

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39
Otto "the Illustrious" of SAXONY - Duke of Saxony
Hathui of SAXONY - Duchess Of Saxony
"Count of South Thuringia
Count of the Eichsfeld The younger son of Liudolf, Duke of Saxony and his wife Oda, Otto presumably became duke of Saxony shortly before his death, but no details are known. According to Widukind of Corvey, Otto was offered the kingship of the East Franks in 911 and did not accept it, but the truthfulness of this report is considered doubtful. Otto's wife was Hathui, daughter of Henry, Duke of Austria. He is named as count of South Thuringia in 888, and as count of the Eichsfeld in 908; he was also lay abbot of the Monastery of Hersfeld. Otto is buried in the monastery church of Gandersheim. His son Henry, later to be
King Henry the Fowler, succeeded him as duke of Saxony. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Otho or Otto, the Great, Duke of Saxony 912. Married Princess Hedwige, daughter of Arnolph, Emperor of Germany, son of Carolomannus, King of Bavaria and Emperor of Germany, son of Ludovicus Germanicus (Louis, the German), son of Louis le Debonnaire, son of Charlemagne. (Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 363) OTTO, the Great, Grand Duke of Saxony, who died 912; married, first, Hedwige, daughter of
Emperor Lewis, Germanicus; second, Ludolph, or Leutgarde, daughter of the Emperor Arnulph and Ode, daughter of Theodon, Count of Bavaria.
(Fenwick Allied Ancestry, page 63)"

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Liudolf of SAXONY
Oda of SAXONY
"daughter of a Frankish prince named Billung and his wife Aeda. Oda died on 17 May 913, supposedly at the age of 107.Oda, the wife of Count Liudolf, oldest known member of the Liudolfing House, was a Billung.
(Wikipedia)"

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Liudolf of SAXONY
Oda of SAXONY
"He was a Saxon count; later authors called him duke of the Eastern Saxons. He was also named as count of Eastphalia. Liudolf had possessions in eastern Saxony, and was involved in wars against Normans and Slavs. The Liudolfing House, also known as the Ottonian House, is named after him; he is its oldest known member.
Liudolf married Oda, daughter of a Frankish prince named Billung and his wife Aeda. Oda died on 17 May 913, supposedly at the age of 107. By marrying a Frankish nobleman's daughter, Liudolf followed suggestions set forth by Charlemagne about ensuring the integrity of the Frankish Kingdom through marriage. In 845/846, Liudolf and his wife traveled to Rome in order to ask Pope Sergius II for support for the founding of a nunnery. The nunnery was founded in Brunshausen around 852, and it was moved to nearby Gandersheim in 881. Liudolf's daughter Hathumod became its first abbess. Liudolf is buried in Brunshausen; his sons Brun and Otto apparently inherited his property. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Ludolph, the Great, Duke of Saxony, died 859. He married Hedwige, daughter of Eberhard, Count of Burgundy, and his wife Gesela, who was the daughter of Louis I, King of France, called Le Debonnaire or the Gentle, Roman Emperor 814-840, son of Charlemagne and his wife Hildegard. (Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 363)"

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Charles "the Younger" of NEUSTRIA - Duke of Ingelheim, King of
Neustria
of MERCIA
"Charles the Younger, born circa 772, was the second son of Charlemagne and the first by
his third wife, Hildegard of Swabia. When Charlemagne divided his empire among his sons, his son Charles was designated King of the Franks. His elder brother, Pippin the Hunchback, was disinherited, and his younger brothers Carloman (renamed Pippin) and Louis the Pious received Italy and Aquitaine, respectively.
Charles was mostly preoccupied with the Bretons, whose border he shared and who insurrected on at least two occasions and were easily put down, but he was also sent against the Saxons on multiple occasions. Charles' father outlived him, however, and the entire kingdom thus went to his younger brother Louis the Pious, Pippin also having died. Around 789 it was suggested by Charlemagne that Charles the Younger should be married to Offa's daughters Ælflæd. Offa insisted that the marriage could only go ahead if
Charlemagne's daughter Bertha was married to Offa's son Ecgfrith. Charlemagne took offence, broke off contact, and closed his ports to English traders. Eventually, normal relations were reestablished and the ports were reopened. Just a few years later, in 796, Charlemagne and Offa concluded the first commercial treaty known in English history. His father associated Charles in the government of Francia and Saxony in 790, and
installed him as ruler of the ducatus Cenomannicus (corresponding to the later Duchy of Maine). with the title of a king. Charles was crowned King of the Franks at Rome December 25, 800, the same day his father was crowned Emperor.[citation needed] On 4 December 811, in Bavaria, Charles had a stroke and died. He left eleven children the eldest being Gerard, the oldest of eight sons, and three sisters. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)"

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"Foundation -- Gandersheim Abbey was a proprietary foundation by Duke Liudolf of Saxony and
his wife Oda, who during a pilgrimage to Rome in 846[citation needed] obtained the permission
of Pope Sergius II for the new establishment and also the relics of the sainted former popes
Anastasius and Innocent[1], who are still the patron saints of the abbey church. The community
settled first at Brunshausen. The first abbess was Hathumod, a daughter of Liudolf, as were the
two succeeding abbesses. In 856 construction began on the church at Gandersheim and in 881
Bishop Wigbert dedicated it to the Saints Anastasius, Innocent and John the Baptist, after which
the community moved in."
Gandersheim Abbey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandersheim_Abbey
Monday, December 28, 2009

SAINT LEGER

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Wales > AbergavennyAbergavenny, Wales profile - ePodunk:
Wales > Abergavenny
http://uk.epodunk.com/profiles/wales/abergavenny/3001398.html
riday, January 08, 2010

RUDEBOCK

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Ontario 1718, approximate modern province area highlighted, from Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi by Guillaume de L'Isle."

ROSS

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Renfrew town hall

wikipedia - Chris Upson 2009-09-30

Helmsley Castle

wikipedia - 06:12, 3 March 2006 Asta

Castle Roche, - Dundalk

Castle Roche, near Dundalk, from a Tempest postcard of 1912

John 2nd Lord Ross - of Halkhead
Christian Edmonstone - of Duntreath

"BARONY OF ROSS OF HALKHEAD (II) 1500 or 1501
JOHN (ROSS), LORD ROSS of Halkhead [SCT], grandson and heir, being son and
heir of Robert Ross and Agnes, his wife, was returned heir of his mother in the
barony of Melville, 16 May 1496; knighted before 31 May 1499, when his grandfather
granted to his heir apparent "Johanni Ross de Malevyn militi," the lands of
Walterstoun, co. Linlithgow. James IV, 11 March 1501/,2, confirmed the grants
made to his late grandfather by the King's father and grandfather of the island The
King's Inch in the water of Clyde near Renfrew. He was granted the wardship of the
lands of the late Sir Stephen Lockhart, of Cleghorn, 8 February 1505/6. James IV
visited him at Halkhead, 25 April 1506.
He married, before 27 September 1490, Christian, 2nd daughter of Sir Archibald
EDMONSTONE, of Duntreath. He died 9 September 1513, being slain at the battle
of Flodden. His widow married George KNOLLIS, but the marriage was annulled
about 1515, on account of her relationship to his 1st wife, Grizel Rattray. She died
May 1551. [Complete Peerage XI:156-7, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]"

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John 2nd Lord Ross - of Halkhead
Christian Edmonstone - of Duntreath
"BATTLE OF FLODDEN FIELD, Sept. 9, 1513, by Larry Overmire, Aug 2007:
England was at war with France in 1513. The French renewed their old alliance with
Scotland, giving King James IV of Scotland money and arms to invade England.
With Henry VIII fighting over in France, the defense of England was left to Thomas
Howard, Earl of Surrey. Howard was joined by his sons Thomas (Lord Admiral) and
Edmund. The Battle actually took place on Branxton Hill and for some time the
encounter was known as "The Battle of Branxton." It was the largest battle in terms
of numbers ever fought between England and Scotland. Though James had the
superior numbers, he was out-maneuvered and out-generaled with disastrous
consequences. At one point, the king himself led a gallant charge down the hill right
toward the center of the English line held by the Earl of Surrey. In the end, the Scots
were soundly defeated, losing 10,000 men in the battle, including King James, 12
earls, 15 lords and many clan chiefs, while the English dead amounted to only
1,500. The battle of Flodden has been immortalized in the Scottish lament, "The
Flowers of the Forest."

THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST
by Jane Elliot

I've hear them liltin', at the ewe milkin,'
Lasses a-liltin' before dawn of day.
Now there's a moanin', on ilka green loanin'.
The flowers of the forest are a' wede away.

As boughs in the mornin', nae blithe lads are scornin',
Lasses are lonely and dowie and wae.
Nae daffin', nae gabbin', but sighin' and sobbin',
Ilk ane lifts her leglin, and hies her away.

At e'en in the gloamin', nae swankies are roamin',
'Bout stacks wi' the lasses at bogle to play.
But ilk maid sits drearie, lamentin' her dearie,
The flowers of the forest are a' wede away.

In har'st at the shearin' nae youths now are jeerin'
Bandsters are runkled, and lyart, or grey.
At fair or at preachin', nae wooin', nae fleecin',
The flowers of the forest are a' wede away.

Dool for the order sent our lads to the Border,
the English for ance by guile wan the day.
The flowers of the forest, that fought aye the foremost,
The prime of our land lie cauld in the clay.

We'll hae nae mair liltin', at the ewe milkin',
Women and bairns are heartless and wae.
Sighin' and moanin' on ilka green loanin',
The flowers of the forest are all wede away".

"He [John Ross] married, before 27 September 1490, Christian, 2nd daughter of Sir
Archibald EDMONSTONE, of Duntreath. He died 9 September 1513, being slain at
the battle of Flodden. His widow married George KNOLLIS, but the marriage was
annulled about 1515, on account of her relationship to his 1st wife, Grizel Rattray.
She died May 1551."--Complete Peerage XI:156-7, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)'
Sources:
1) Dave Ross Database, 11 Apr 2004
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED
&db=utzing&id=I033813
2) Hamish Maclaren Database, 2 Apr 2004
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED
&db=maclaren&id=I13234
3) Jim Weber Database, 5 Feb 2006
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?
op=GET&db=jweber&id=I19536
4) Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United
Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, XI:156-7

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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Sir John Ross - 1st Lord of Halkhead
Marjory Mure - of Caldwell
"BARONY OF ROSS OF HALKHEAD (I) 1499
JOHN ROSS, of Halkhead (c), co. Renfrew, probably son and heir of Sir John Ross,
of the same, heritable Constable of Renfrew Castle, was knighted after 10 August
1450, but before 17 January 1450/1, when he had a charter of the lands of Tarbert,
co. Ayr, and Auchinbak, co. Renfrew;(a) had a safe-conduct to pass through
England, 12 May 1451; Keeper of Blackness Castle, 146368; Sheriff of Linlithgow,
before 1468, being reappointed for life, 9 March 1472/3; had charters of Starlaw and
Denys in the barony of Bathgate, co. Renfrew, and of Lochtillow in the same barony,
16 July 1468; Ambassador to England, 24 August 1473; one of the Conservators of
a truce between England and Scotland, 21 September 1484; one of the Barons in
Parliament [SCT], 3 February 1489/90. He was created, between 9 January 1498/9
and 31 May 1499, a Lord of Parliament as LORD ROSS of Halkhead [SCT].

He married, 1stly, Marjory, daughter of John MURE, of Caldwell. She was buried in
the parish church of Renfrew. He married, 2ndly, after 1491, Marion or Mariota,
widow of John (SOMERVILLE), 2nd LORD SOMERVILLE [SCT], daughter of Sir
William BAILLIE, of Lamington. From her he obtained a divorce. He died between 12
December 1500 and 16 October 1501, and was buried with his 1st wife, at Renfrew.
His divorced wife was alive January 1505/6. [Complete Peerage XI:155-6,
(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(c) John Ross, the direct ancestor of the family of Halkhead or Hacket or Hawket,
received a grant of that estate in the Barony of Renfrew in 1367 from Robert, Earl of
Strathearn, afterwards King Robert II of Scotland. Although there is no evidence of a
connection between the Halkhead family and the ancient Earls of Ross, King
Robert, who married as his 2nd wife, Eupheme, daughter of Hugh, 4th Earl of Ross,
describes John Ross, both in the charter of 1367 and in another charter of 30 Mar
1390 as "conanguineus noster". It may be noted that the arms of the Lowland family
of Ross of Halkhead, which claimed to be akin to the English family of Ros [of
Helmesley], so called from the place of that name in Yorkshire, were clearly derived
from its arms (gules 3 water-bougets silver), being: Gold a chevron checkered
sable and silver between 3 water-bougets sable, whereas those of the ancient
Earls of Ross, a Highland family were: Gules, three lions rampant silver."

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"The Ross family, who were appointed Hereditary Constables of Renfrew Castle in
the 1400's, and who held the lands of Hawkhead near Paisley as their main seat,
and King's Inch in Renfrew as one of their lesser seats, bore Or, a chevron chequy
Sable and Argent between three water bougets Sable, the water bougets being an
ancient charge for those of the name of Ross or Roos. Their lands of Hawkhead
straddled the River Cart above Paisley."

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Saturday, December 12, 2009

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Robert "Surety" de ROS
Isabel STEWART - Princess of Scotland

"Sir Robert de Ros or Roos of Fursan (1177 – 11 December 1226) was the fourth
baron by tenure of Hamlake manor (later associated with the barony of de Ros).

He was the son of Everard de Ros and Rose Trusbut. In 1191, aged fourteen, he
paid a thousand marks fine for livery of his lands to King Richard I of England. Also
that year, he married Isabel, sister (or possibly daughter) of William the Lion, King of
Scots (Isabella not to be confused with William I's daughter Isabella who married
Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk). In 1197, while serving King Richard in Normandy,
he was arrested for an unspecified offence, and was committed to the custody of
Hugh de Chaumont, but Chaumont entrusted his prisoner to William de Spiney,
who allowed him to escape from the castle of Bonville. King Richard thereupon
hanged Spiney and collected a fine of twelve hundred marks from Ros' guardian as
the price of his continued freedom.

When King John came to the throne, he gave Ros the barony of his great-
grandmother's father, Walter d'Espec. Soon afterwards he was deputed one of
those to escort William the Lion, his brother-in-law, into England, to swear fealty to
King John. Some years later, Robert de Ros assumed the habit of a monk,
whereupon the custody of all his lands and Castle Werke (Wark), in
Northumberland, were committed to Philip d'Ulcote, but he soon returned and about
a year later he was High Sheriff of County Cumberland.

When the struggle of the barons for a constitutional government began, de Ros at
first sided with King John, and thus obtained some valuable grants from the crown,
and was made governor of Carlisle; but he subsequently went over to the barons
and became one of the celebrated twenty-five "Sureties" appointed to enforce the
observance of Magna Carta, the county of Northumberland being placed under his
supervision. He gave his allegiance to King Henry III and, in 1217-18, his manors
were restored to him. Although he was witness to the second Great Charter and the
Forest Charter, of 1224, he seems to have remained in royal favour.

He erected Helmsley or Hamlake Castle in Yorkshire, and of Werke in
Northumberland. Sir Robert is buried at the Temple Church under a magnificent
tomb. Among his children was Sir William de Ros.
[edit] Controversy

There is a difference in genealogies. It is unverified whether Robert was married to
William I's (alleged) sister Isabella, or if he was the second husband of William's
daughter Isabel. Genealogies provided below.

While "Fursan" is given as a location for Robert de Ros (sometimes also Roos)
most use the term "furfan" to designate a title within the Templars essentially
equivalent to grandmaster or head priest. This title also further refers to the
resulting aura resembling a "fan" / "Furry fan". Some would also use the term
"Kingmaker".

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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Ross-shire Loch, Scotland

Ross-shire Loch Duich C.37

REUTER

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KUR-HOTEL WURMTHAL GERMANY PFORZHEIM 1906 POSTCARD

GRUSS VOM RHEIN BINGEN - GERMANY POSTCARD c1910

ST. JOHANN BRIDGE - SAARBRUCKEN - GERMANY POSTCARD

RITZ - LINE 2

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Leipzig, Saxony

Louis Pernitzsch (1862-1926)

Bonn, Germany

Hermann A. Peters (1910-1935)

REITZ - LINE 1

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Breslau and Leipzig, Saxony

Emil Pinkau & Co. (1880-1926)

Munich, Bavaria

Purger & Co. (1907-1920)

REDE

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Long Crag

wikipedia - Grinner 15:45, 1 December 2005

RAUSCH

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KENZINGEN GERMANY DEUTSCHLAND POSTCARD ANSICHTSKARTE

BERLIN GERMANY HOCHBAHN-BAHNHOF POSTCARD TRAMS HORSES

POITOU

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Charlemagne at court.
From Jacob van Maerlant's "Spieghel Historiael"
Original at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library), the Netherlands. Signature KB, KA 20, p. 208
Date c. 1325-1335

Austria

Photo Brom (1907) Vienna, Austria

William III of AQUITAINE
Adaele (Gerloc) of NORMANDY
"Gerloc (or Geirlaug), baptised in Rouen as Adela (or Adèle) in 912, was the daughter of
Rollo, first duke of Normandy, and his wife, Poppa of Bayeux. She was the sister of Duke
William Longsword. In 935, she married William Towhead, the future count of Poitou
and duke of Aquitaine, then only ten years old. She gave him two children before dying
on 14 October 962. (Wikipedia)"

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William III of AQUITAINE
Adaele (Gerloc) of NORMANDY
"William III (915 – 3 April 963), called Towhead (French: Tête d'étoupe, Latin: Caput
Stupe) from the colour of his hair, was the Count of Poitou (as "William I") and Duke of
Aquitaine from 935 to his death. He was also Count of Auvergne from 950.
William was son of Ebalus Manzer and Emilienne. He was born in Poitiers. The royal
chancery never recognised his ducal title, only calling him "count of the Duchy of
Aquitaine" from 959 and "Duke of Aquitaine" only after 962.
Shortly aftered the death of King Rudolph in 936, he was constrained to forfeit some land
to Hugh the Great by Louis IV. He did it with grace, but his relationship with Hugh
thenceforward deteriorated. In 950, Hugh was reconciled with Louis and granted the
duchies of Burgundy and Aquitaine. He tried to conquer Aquitaine with Louis's
assistance, but William defeated them. Lothair, Louis's successor, feared the power of
William. In August 955, he joined Hugh to besiege Poitiers, which resisted successfully.
William, however, gave battle and was routed.
After the death of Hugh, his son Hugh Capet was named duke of Aquitaine, but he never
tried to take up his fief, as William reconciled with Lothair.
He was given the abbey of Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand, which remained in his house after his
death. He also built a library in the palace of Poitiers. He married Gerloc (renamed
Adele), daughter of Rollo of Normandy. They had at least two children: Adelaide, who
married Hugh Capet, and William, his successor in Aquitaine. William abdicated to the
abbey of Saint-Cyprien in Poitiers and left the government to his son. (From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia)"

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Ebalus of AQUITAINE - Count of Poitiers - Duke of Aquitaine
EMILIENE
"Ebalus of Aquitaine or Ebles Manzer Ebalus was an illegitimate son of Ranulf II of
Poitiers by, possibly, a Jewish woman. He married an Emiliene and by her had two
sons, Ebalus (Ebles) bishop of Limoges, and William III of Aquitaine. Ebalus was
established as Comt de Poitiers in 892 by his father Ranulf II, in the presence of Aymar
of Poitiers, and supported by Eudes I of France. Ebles gained the favor of Guillaume 'the
Pious', Comt d'Auvergne, who placed Aquitaine under his authority. In 902, Ebles
launched the conquest of his county with an army lent by the Comt d'Auvergne Guillaume
the Pious, a distant relative. He took Poitiers in the absence of Aymar and established
control of the county. He was investitured as Comt de Poitou by Charles III 'the Simple',
with whom Ebles was raised. Comt de Poitou was the only title in which he ever had
legitimate investiture. Ebles alloted the Abbey of Saint-Maixent to Viscomte Savary de
Thouars who had been his constant supporter. He restructured Poitou by creating new
vicomts in Aulnay and Melle and dissolved the title and position of Viscomte de Poitou
upon the death of its holder, Maingaud, in 925. In 904 he conquered the Limousin. In
911 Ebles was in Chartres with an army that opposed Rollon. In 927,Guillaume 'the
Younger', heir to Guillaume 'the Pious', and then his successor, his brother Acfred, died
in the space of one year. Acfred, having made Ebles his heir, Ebles thus found himself
Duc d'Aquitaine, Comt du Berry, d'Auvergne and du Velay. In 929, King Raoul tries to
reduce the power of Ebles Manzer. He withdraws from him access to Berry, then in 932
he transfers the titles of Duc d'Aquitaine and Comt d'Auvergne to the Comt de Toulouse
Raymond-Pons. Moreover the territory of March which was under the control of the
Seigneur de Charroux, vassal of Ebles, is transformed into an independent county.
Ebles Manzer Ebalus was established as Comt de Poitiers in 892 by his father Ranulf II,
in the presence of Aymar of Poitiers, and supported by Eudes I of France. Was Count of
Poitiers between 901 and 935 and two times Duke of Aquitaine, first between 890 and
893, second from 927 to his death. In the interval, Aquitaine was ruled by Dukes of the
house of Auvergne. Ebalus was an illegitimate son of Ranulf II of Poitiers by, possibly, a
Jewish woman. He married an Emiliene and by her had two sons, Ebalus (Ebles)
bishop of Limoges, and William III of Aquitaine. Ebalus was established as Comt de
Poitiers in 892 by his father Ranulf II, in the presence of Aymar of Poitiers, and supported
by Eudes I of France. Ebles gained the favor of Guillaume 'the Pious', Comt d'Auvergne,
who placed Aquitaine under his authority. In 902, Ebles launched the conquest of his
county with an army lent by the Comt d'Auvergne Guillaume the Pious, a distant relative.
He took Poitiers in the absence of Aymar and established control of the county. He was
investitured as Comt de Poitou by Charles III 'the Simple', with whom Ebles was raised.
Comt de Poitou was the only title in which he ever had legitimate investiture. Ebles
alloted the Abbey of Saint-Maixent to Viscomte Savary de Thouars who had been his
constant supporter. He restructured Poitou by creating new vicomts in Aulnay and Melle
and dissolved the title and position of Viscomte de Poitou upon the death of its holder,
Maingaud, in 925. In 904 he conquered the Limousin. In 911 Ebles was in Chartres with
an army that opposed Rollon. In 927,Guillaume 'the Younger', heir to Guillaume 'the
Pious', and then his successor, his brother Acfred, died in the space of one year. Acfred,
having made Ebles his heir, Ebles thus found himself Duc d'Aquitaine, Comt du Berry,
d'Auvergne and du Velay. In 929, King Raoul tries to reduce the power of Ebles Manzer.
He withdraws from him access to Berry, then in 932 he transfers the titles of Duc
d'Aquitaine and Comt d'Auvergne to the Comt de Toulouse Raymond-Pons. Moreover
the territory of March which was under the control of the Seigneur de Charroux, vassal of
Ebles, is transformed into an independent county. (From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia)"

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Ranulf II of AQUITAINE - King of Aquitaine
Ermengarde of FRANCE - Princess Of France
"Ranulf II (also spelled Rannoux, Rannulf, Ramnulf, and Ranulph; 850 – 5 August 890)
was Count of Poitou from 866 and Duke of Aquitaine from 887. On the death of Charles
the Fat in 888, he styled himself King of Aquitaine and did so until 889 or his death, after
which the title fell into abeyance.
Ranulf may have been selected as a temporary king by the Aquitainian nobles, for they
accepted Odo of France after his death. Only the Annales Fuldenses definitively give him
this title. He is recorded to have taken custody of Charles, the young son of Louis the
Stammerer and he certainly did not recognise Odo as king. He appeared in the Annales
Vedastes in 889 with the title dux maximae partis Aquitaniae: "duke of the major part of
Aquitaine." He founded the viscountcy of Thouars at about that time, part of larger
movement to creat viscounts with powers over regional fortresses to man them against
the Vikings.
Ranulf was a son of Ranulf I and Bilichild of Maine. He married an Ermengard (died 935)
and by her had a son, Ranulf III, who succeeded him in Poitiers. His illegitimate son
Ebalus succeeded him in Aquitaine and, upon the death of Ranulf III, in Poitiers too.
(Wikipedia)"

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Ranulf I of AQUITAINE
Bilichilde of MAINE
"Ranulf I of Poitiers (died 866) was a Count of Poitiers and Duke of Aquitaine.
He is considered a possible son of Gérard, Count of Auvergne and Hildegard / Matilda,
daughter of Louis the Pious and Ermengarde.
Although not much is known about Ranulf I, he died in 866 in Aquitaine, France.
His son, Ranulf II of Poitiers, then inherited Poitiers and later acquired Aquitaine.
Through the duchy of Aquitaine, he is the ancestor of Eleanor of Aquitaine, thus he is
also an ancestor of the present-day British Royal Family. (Wikipedia)"

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PLIMLEY

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Autumn Landscape - Saugerties, New York by Jasper Francis Cropsey: 1869

Dutchess County Courthouse, Poughkeepsie, NY

Daniel Case - 14 October 2007

"The first exploration of Columbia County was in 1609, when Henry Hudson,
an explorer, sailed across the Atlantic, and up the Hudson River. An accident
to his craft forced him to stop at what is now known as Columbia County, and
search around for food and supplies.[1] The Americans that had lived there
were the Mohican Indians. In 1612, a trade was established to colonize
regions of the land. This led to the creation of Fort Orange (today Albany) and
New Amsterdam (today the New York City). This allowed traders to stop along
the shores of the Hudson, which led to the growth of small settlements that
were intended to supply the trader's ships with supplies.[1]

In 1649, the region of land near Claverack was purchased and in 1667, more
land was purchased.[2] This brought the settlement of the Dutch, which led to
the development and growth of the regions. In 1664, the English took over
New Netherland and renamed it the Province of New York. At this time, Fort
Orange was renamed Albany.[2]

A significant settlement developed in 1710, when 1200 Germans were
brought to Livingston Manor, which was located in what is now known as
Dutchess County, and is now known as Germantown.[2] They were brought
as indentured servants by England's Queen Anne and New York's Governor
Hunter to make tar from the pine trees in the Catskill Mountains.[2]

Columbia County was formed in 1786 from portions of Albany County. In
1799, the southern boundary of Columbia County was moved soutward to
include that portion of Livingston Manor located in Dutchess County."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_County,_New_York
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

"Kingston is a town in Ulster County, New York, USA. The Town of Kingston is
in the northeast part of Ulster County, north of the City of Kingston. Kingston is
inside the Catskill Park.The population was 908 at the 2000 census.

History

The original Town of Kingston was settled around 1611, primarily as a military
post, but that part of the town is now the City of Kingston. The town was
formed by a patent granted in 1667 and its status as a town was reaffirmed in
1702. The current town does not border the city of Kingston.

In 1811, part of the Town of Kingston was used to form the Towns of Esopus
and Saugerties. Additional parts of Kingston were used to set apart the City of
Kingston in 1827 and the Town of Woodstock in 1879.

The quarrying industry brought many immigrant laborers to the town, and
these new arrivals established themselves in the few communities within this
town".

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, from across the Hudson River

21 June 2008 Daniel Case

Woodstock is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. The
population was 6,241 at the 2000 census.

The Town of Woodstock is in the northern part of the county. Woodstock is
northwest of Kingston, New York and lies within the borders of Catskill Park.

The town is famous for lending its name to the Woodstock Festival, actually
held at Max Yasgur's dairy farm 43 miles (76 km) away in Bethel, New York in
Sullivan County.

The town has long been a mecca for artists, musicians, and writers, even
before the music festival made the name "Woodstock" famous. The town has
a separate "Artist's Cemetery". Film and art festivals attract big names, and
hundreds of musicians have come to Woodstock to record.

The Band members: Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard
Manuel, and Robbie Robertson - the five shared a house together, where they
recorded The Basement Tapes (with Bob Dylan) and Music from Big Pink. The
house, dubbed "Big Pink" is in neighboring Saugerties, though Danko,
Manuel, Hudson and Helm all eventually moved to Woodstock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock,_New_York
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Woodstock NY town Hall

21 June 2008 Daniel Case

Bob Dylan performing at St. Lawrence University in New York.

wikipedia 0 Playtime 03:45, 27 December 2006

wikipedia Jkelly 05:11, 11 April 2006 Author: Flickr user Gabriele *

PERRY

2010-08-21T10:19:00.000-07:00

Fredericksburg, Virginia,
ePodunk Fredericksburg, VA create post card:
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Thursday, October 08, 2009

PERRIN

2010-08-21T10:18:00.000-07:00

Rowland Village - Derbyshire

Rowland Village RP Pub: Sneath

Matlock, Bank Road and Masson Hill. Derbyshire postcard

Matlock, Bank Road and Masson Hill RP Pub: Dated 1933

Coney Street, York

Home:
Coney Street, York Pub: Frith

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John GRAVES
Dorothy Elizabeth PERRIN
"Although Elizabeth PERRIN's name is not known at this time, it is said that John GRAVES
married a daughter of the illustrious Perrin family, large property owners, and prominent in
Virginia history."

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13
John GRAVES
Dorothy Elizabeth PERRIN
"Death was betw 29 May 1639 when he patented land, and 30 Apr 1640 when Wm. Parry was
named Administrator and bond was made (Northampton Co, Book 2, p 281)1 CLERY
Capt. Roper, Wm. Cotton and Capt Stone, brothers-in-law of John GRAVES and administrators
of the estate of Capt Thomas GRAVES, were originally appointed administrators of John
GRAVES' estate, but in April 1640, they resigned and Wm Parry was appointed (Information
copied from GRAVES Family Assoc web site)
John GRAVES seems to have been the only one of his name in the county. Because most of
the early records were destroyed, very little information is available about him, but land records
and patents do reveal some facts.
On 9 Aug 1637, John GRAVES patented 600 acres in Elizabeth City Co. near the upper end of
the Back River, 'due in right of descent upon his father, Thomas GRAVES, who transported at
his own costs, himself, Katherine GRAVES his wife, sons John GRAVES, the patentee, and
Thomas GRAVES, Jr., and 8 persons, Henry Singleton, Thomas Edge, Robert Phillips, Thomas
Griggs, Thomas Phillips, Francis White, William Symber, Jone Packett'. This patent is proof that
Capt. Thomas Graves did not bring his family until after 1616 for had they come earlier, they
would all have been 'Ancient Planters' and entitled to 100 acres each instead of 50 acres. This
patent was near the lands of Capt Adam Thoroughgood and east of the dwelling of Ohner Van
Kirk. In 1638 and 1639, he received additional patents.
The holdings of John GRAVES was near the York County line and almost directly opposite
Hungar's Creek in Northampton Co. (formerly Accawmacke) on the Eastern shore where his
father had lived and where his sisters were still living at that time.
Married: Abt 1624 in Elizabeth City Co.,VA
Children
Ralph GRAVES b: Abt 1625 in Elizabeth City Co.,VA
Francis GRAVES b: Abt 1627
William GRAVES b: Abt 1629
John GRAVES b: Abt 1633
Thomas GRAVES b: Abt 1635 in York County,VA
Ann GRAVES b: Abt 1636
Katherine GRAVES b: Abt 1637
Sarah GRAVES b: Abt 1639"

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PECK

2010-08-21T10:14:00.000-07:00

St Andrew's Church, Hingham,

wikipedia - 07:08, 20 November 2008 MarmadukePercy

15 Ann Rosamond Peck
"Immigration: 1638 To Hingham, Plymouth County,
Massachusetts with her parents and her brother Joseph

Her son-in-law, Reverend James Fitch, preached the
sermon at her funeral, which was published under the
title Peace The End of the Perfect and Upright
Demonstrated and Usefully Improved in a Sermon
Preached upon the Occasion of the Death and Decease
of the Piously Affected and Truely Religious Woman,
Mrs. Anne Mason, Sometime Wife to Major John Mason,
Who Not Long After Finished His Course and Is Now at
Rest [Cambridge 1672].

"I need not tell you what a Dorcas you have lost; men,
women and children are ready with weeping to
acknowledge what works of mercy she hath done for
them. She was gifted with a measure of knowledge
about what is usual in her sex."

This sermon is about all that is known about the life of
Anne Peck, but her son-in-law's testimonial conveys the
idea of a gentle, loving nature.

___________________________________

See: p.69, fig. 230, Heraldry in America, by: Eugene
Zieber, pub. 1895, Capt. John Mason used the arms of
his wife, Anne Peck, "Argent, on a chevron engrailed
gules 3 crosses patee of the field." as a seal on
paperwork found in the archives of the State of
Connecticut.

____________________________________

From 'Mathew's American Amoury and Blue Book'

Arms - Or, on a chevron gules three crosses formée of
the field.
Crest - Two lances in saltire or, headed argent, with
pennons of the first, each charged with a cross formée
gules, enfiled with a chaplet vert.
Mottoes - (1) Crux Christi salus mea; (2) Probitatem
quam divitias.

From 'General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and
Wales'

Peck (co. Derby, and Wakefield, co. York). Ar. on a
chev. gu. three crosses formée of the field.

She was "of an armigerous family. Anne's brother, John
Lawrence of Wramplingham, co. Norfork., (d. 1685),
Mayor of Norwich 1667, a Quaker himself, did not make
an extensive declaration to the herald in 1664, evidently
to avoid bringing his kin into danger as tainted with
religious rebellion. It is clear from the above few notes
that Anne (Lawrence) Peck came from gentelfolk deeply
compromised with Nonconormity. This makes for certain
difficulties in tracing her family."

Robert Peck's will, states "All my other goods cattells
debts moneys household stuffe or whatsoever ells
belongeth unto me I give and bequesath to my said
Executors toards payeinge of my legacies alrerdy
bequeathed and toward the bringinge of my body to
buriall which I desire if I depart his lie in Hingham may be
entered in the church yard near unto Anne my wife
deceased."
Sources: The Maternal Ancestry of Anne Peck, Second
Wife of Captain John Mason (c 1600-1672 The
American Genealogist October 1946
N. Grier Parke, II, The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his
wife Emma Arabella Bosworth/ Woodstock, VT:
self-published, 1960
Ira B. Peck, A Genealogical History of the Descendants
of Joseph Peck/ Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1868
John Brooks Threlfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to
New England & Their Origins/ Bowie, MD: Heritage
Books, 1992

____________________________________

From 'General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and
Wales'

Lawrence (Ashton Hall and Washington, co. Lancaster,
Fisbury, co. Wilts, and St. James's, co. Suffolk;
descended from SIR ROBERT LAWRENCE, of Ashton
Hall, who accompanied Richard I. to the Holy Lands). Ar.
a cross raguly gu. Crest---A demi turbot ar. tall upwards.
Another Crest---Two laurel branches vert, forming a
chaplet. Another Crest---A wolf's head couped ppr."

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16 Robert Peck
"Occupation: BET JAN 1604/05 AND 1638 Minister
at Hingham, Norfolk, England
Occupation: 28 NOV 1638 Minister at Hingham,
Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Ancestral File #: 8HD7-SM
Burial: BEF 10 APR 1658 Hingham, Norfolk, England
Burial: 24 JUL 1651 Hingham, Norfolk, England
Education: BET 1592 AND 1603 Magdalen College,
Cambridge University
_DEG: 1599 A. B. from Magdalen College,
Cambridge University
_DEG: 1603 A. M. from Magdalen College,
Cambridge University
Event: Event 8 JAN 1604/05 Inducted over the
church at Hingham, Norfolk, England
Event: Event 22 MAR 1592/93 4th son listed in his
father's will, which states that he was at Cambridge at
the time.
Event: Event 28 NOV 1638 Ordained at Hingham,
Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Will: 24 JUL 1651 Created in Hingham, Norfolk,
England
Will: 10 APR 1658 Proved in London
Immigration: 1638 To Hingham, Plymouth County,
Massachusetts with his wife and two children and two
servants
Immigration: 1642 Returned to Hingham, Norfolk,
England with his wife and son Joseph
Emigration: 1638 Forced to leave England due to his
religious beliefs
Emigration: 27 OCT 1641 From New England back to
Hingham, Norfolk, England
Note:

Peck, Ira B. A Genealogical History of the Descendants
of Joseph Peck. Alfred Mudge & Son. Boston. 1868, pg

25:
REV. ROBERT PECK, the brother of Joseph the
ancestor, was born at Beccles, Suffolk County, England,
in 1580. He was graduated at Magdalen College,
Cambridge; the degree of A. B. was conferred upon him
in 1599, and that of A. M., in 1603. He was set apart to
the ministry, and inducted over the church at Hingham,
Norfolk County, England, January 8, 1605, where he
remained until 1638, when he fied from the persecutions
of the church to this country.
He was a talented and influential clergyman, a zealous
preacher, and a nonconformist to the superstitious
ceremonies and corruptions of the church, for which he
was persecuted and driven from the country. Brooks, in
his lives of the puritans, gives many facts of interest in
relation to him. In particularizing some of the offences for
which he and his followers were persecuted, he says,
"for having catechised his family, and sung a psalm in
his own house on a Lord's day evening, when some of
his neighbors attended, his lordship (Bishop Harsnet)
enjoined all who were present to do penance, requiring
them. to say, I confess my errors," etc.
Those who refused were immediately excommunicated,
and required to pay heavy costs. This, Mr. Brooks says,
appears from the bishop's manuscripts under his own
hands. He says, "he was driven from his flock, deprived
of his benefice, and forced to seek his bread in a foreign
land."
Cotton Mather in speaking of him says, he was by the
good providence of heaven fetched away into New
England about the year 1638, when the good people of
Hingham did rejoice in the light for a season; but within
two or three years, the invitation of his friends of
Hingham, England, pursuaded him to return to them,
where being though great in person for stature, yet
greater for spirit, he was greatly serviceable for the
good of the church.
He arrived here in 1638. In relation to his arrival, the
town clerk at Hingham here says: "Mr. Robert Peck,
preacher of the gospel in the Town of Hingham, in the
County of Norfolk, old England, with his wife and two
children, and two servants, came over the sea and
settled in this town of Hingham, and he was a Teacher of
the Church." Mr. Hobart, of Hingham, says in his diary,
that he was ordained here teacher of the church,
November 28, 1638. His name frequently appears upon
the records of the town. He had lands granted him.
His family as seen upon the chart consisted of nine
children. His son Joseph and daughter Anne came over
with him. He was twice married. His first wife Anne, died
at Hingham, England, and was buried there August 30,
1648 [will 1651 - should this be 1658?]. His second wife
was Mrs. Martha Bacon, widow of James Bacon, Rector
of Burgate.
He remained here until the long Parliament, or until the
persecutions in England ceased, when he returned and
resumed his Rectorship at Hingham.
Mr. Hobart says he returned October 27, 1641; and Mr.
Cushing, the town clerk, says his wife and son Joseph
returned with him; his daughter Anne remaining here.
She married Captain John Mason, "the conqueror of the
Pequots."
He died at Hingham, England, and was buried in his
churchyard there. His funeral sermon was preached by
Nathaniel Joslin and published.
The following is a copy of his will:
July the xxiiijth 1651
I Robert Pecke Minister of the word of God at Hingham
in the countye of Norff beinge in bodilye health and
perfect memory knowinge the unceartainety of mans life,
doe dispose of that worldly estate God hath given me in
manner and form followinge
Imprimus I give and bequeath unto Thomas my Sonne
and Samuel my Sonne and their heirs forever All that my
messuage wherein I now dwell situate and lyenge in
Hingham a forsaid with all the edifices yards and
orchards thereunto belonginge As alsoe the Inclose
and Barnes adioyninge As olso one Inclose now
devided called The Lady close conteyninge about eight
acres be it more or less As olso one pightell at the end
thereof conteyninge twoe acres and d,d uppon
condicons followinge, and for the paiement of such
legacies as are herein expressed.
First I will and bequeath unto Robert Pecke sonne of
my sonne Robert deceased the sume of 20œ at his age
of 23 years
Item I give unto John Pecke sonne of the said Robert
deceased 10ls To be paid to him at his age of 22 years
Item I give unto Beniamin Pecke the youngest sonne of
the said Robert deceased at his age of 22 years 20ls
Item I give to the children of Anne Mason my daughter
wife of captain John Mason of Seabrooke on the river
connecticut in new England the sume of Forty pounds to
be devided equally unto them and to be sept to my
sonne John Mason to dispose of it for their use within 2
years after my death
Item I give to my sonne Joseph Dureinge his natural life
the sume of 14ls yearlie to be in the hands of my
Sonnes Thomas and Samuel as it shall arise out of my
houses lands and chattles for his maintenance with
necessarie foode and apparrell duringe the terme of his
naturall life And I doe wholie comitt my said Sonne
Joseph to the care of my twoe sonnes Thomas and
Samuell to provide for him in such a way as he may not
want things necessary for his livelyhood
Item I give to the children of Thomas and Samuell my
sonnes which shall be liveinge at my decease the sume
of Five pounds apiece at their severall ages of 21 years
Item I give to my now wife Martha Pecke 40ls To be
paid wthin twoe months after my decease Item I give to
the poore of Hingham 5ls To be destrubted at the
discrecon of my Executors Thomas Pecke and Samuel
Pecke whome I do ordeyne and make Executors of this
my last will and Testament confiding that they will
faithfully fulfill and performe this my last will according to
my trust reposed in them
All my other goods cattells debts moneys household
stuffe or whatsoever ells belongeth unto me I give and
bequeath to my said Executors toards payinge of my
legacies alrerdy bequeathed and towards the bringinge
of my body to buriall which I desire if I depart this life in
Hingham may be entered in the church yard near unto
Anne my wife deceased
In witness whereof I have written this my last will and
testament with my own hand the day and yeare above
written
This will was proved at London before the judges for
probate of Wills and granting of Administrations the
tenth day of April in the year of our Lord God One
thousand six hundred fiftye and eight.
Memorial of the Morses by Abner Morse, William
Veazie. Boston. 1850, pg 252:
Richard Sanger of Hingham, was...doubtless a follower
of Rev. Robert Peck, of whom Bloomfield says in his
History of Norfolk, "he was a man of a very violent
schismatical spirit, he pulled down the rails and levelled
the altar and the whole chancel a foot below the church,
but being prosecuted for it by Bp. Wren, he fled the km.
and went over into New England with many of his
parishoners, who sold their estates for half their value,
and conveyed them to that new Plantation; erected a
Towne and Colonie by the name of Hingham where
many of their posterity are still remaining. He promised
never to desert them, but hearing that the Bishops were
deposed, he left them all to shift for themselves and
came back to Hingham in 1646;(*) and after ten years of
voluntary banishment, he resumed his rectory."
____________________________________
From 'Mathew's American Amoury and Blue Book'
Arms - Or, on a chevron gules three crosses formée of
the field.
Crest - Two lances in saltire or, headed argent, with
pennons of the first, each charged with a cross formée
gules, enfiled with a chaplet vert.
Mottoes - (1) Crux Christi salus mea; (2) Probitatem
quam divitias.
From 'General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland
and Wales'
Peck (co. Derby, and Wakefield, co. York). Ar. on a
chev. gu. three crosses formée of the field."

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16 Robert PECK
"1605, 7 Jan. Robert Peck, A.M. Tho. Moor; by grant of
Francis Lovell, Knt., he was 'a man of a very violent
schismatical spirit; he pulled down the rails and levelled
the altar and the whole chancel a foot below the church,
as it remains to this day; but being prosecuted for it by
Bishop Wren, he fled the kingdom and went over into
New-England, with many of his parishioners, who sold
their estates for half their value, and conveyed all their
effects to that new plantation, erected a town and
colonie, by the name of HINGHAM, where many of their
posterity are still remaining. He promised never to desert
them; but hearing that Bishops were deposed, he left
them all to shift for themselves, and came back to
Hingham in the year 1646. After 10 years' voluntary
banishment he resumed his rectory, and died in the year
1656.' His funeral sermon was preached by Nathaniel
Joceline, A.M., pastor of the church of Hardingham, and
was published by him, being dedicated to Mr. John
Sidley, high-sheriff; Brampton-Gurdon and Mr. Day,
justices of the peace; Mr. Church, Mr. Barnham, and Mr.
Man, aldermen and justices in the city of Norwich.
"1638, 25 May. Luke Skippon, A.M., was presented by
Sir Thomas Woodhouse, Knt. and Bart., as on Peck's
death, he having been absent about two years. And in--
"1640, 11 April, the said Luke was reinstituted, the living
being void by lapse, it appearing that Peck was alive
since Skippon's first institution; and now two years more
being past, and he not appearing, it lapsed to the
Crown. as on Peck's death. But in--
"1646, Peck came again, and held it to his death."
Came to America on the Dilligent"

Sources:
1. Text: A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers
of New England Showing Three Generations of Those
Who Came Before May 1692, Vol I-IV Boston 1860-1862
by James Savage
2. Text: Colonial Families of the United States of
America, Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed - New York:
Vol 6, 1907
3. Text: Eccleisiastical History of Hingham,
Massachusetts - Francis H. Lincoln

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"1605, 7 Jan. Robert Peck, A.M. Tho. Moor; by grant of
Francis Lovell, Knt., he was 'a man of a very violent
schismatical spirit; he pulled down the rails and
levelled the altar and the whole chancel a foot
below the church, as it remains to this day; but
being prosecuted for it by Bishop Wren, he fled
the kingdom and went over into New-England, with
many of his parishioners, who sold their estates for
half their value, and conveyed all their effects to that
new plantation, erected a town and colonie, by the name
of HINGHAM, where many of their posterity are still
remaining. He promised never to desert them; but
hearing that Bishops were deposed, he left them all to
shift for themselves, and came back to Hingham in the
year 1646. After 10 years' voluntary banishment he
resumed his rectory, and died in the year 1656.' His
funeral sermon was preached by Nathaniel Joceline,
A.M., pastor of the church of Hardingham, and was
published by him, being dedicated to Mr. John Sidley,
high-sheriff; Brampton-Gurdon and Mr. Day, justices of
the peace; Mr. Church, Mr. Barnham, and Mr. Man,
aldermen and justices in the city of Norwich.
"1638, 25 May. Luke Skippon, A.M., was presented by
Sir Thomas Woodhouse, Knt. and Bart., as on Peck's
death, he having been absent about two years. And in--
"1640, 11 April, the said Luke was reinstituted, the living
being void by lapse, it appearing that Peck was alive
since Skippon's first institution; and now two years more
being past, and he not appearing, it lapsed to the
Crown. as on Peck's death. But in--
"1646, Peck came again, and held it to his death."
Came to America on the Dilligent"

"Sources:
1. Text: A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers
of New England Showing Three Generations of Those
Who Came Before May 1692, Vol I-IV Boston 1860-1862
by James Savage
2. Text: Colonial Families of the United States of
America, Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed - New York:
Vol 6, 1907
3. Text: Eccleisiastical History of Hingham,
Massachusetts - Francis H. Lincoln "

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'Graduated Magdalen College, Cambridge, 1599. He
was a rector at St. Andrews Parish,Hingham, England.
He came to New England in 1636 and was Teacher of
the church at Hingham MA. He returned to England with
his wife and son Joseph in October, 1641. Again rector
at Hingham, England, he died there and was buried
under the door of his church."

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"Event: Eligible Ancestor Sociey of Colonial
dames, as one of the early ministers of New
England
Will: 24 JUL 1651 "July the xxiiij th 1651", proved in
London 10 April 1658
Religion: 28 NOV 1638 Hingham, MA ordained teacher
of the church there.
Event: Comments ABT. 1638 Quoting Cotton Mather -
'he was by the good providence of heaven fetched away
into New England about the year 1638, when the good
people of Hingham did rejoice in the light for a season;
but within two or three years the invitation of his friends
of ...
Event: Comments Hingham, England persuaded him to
return to them, where being through great in person for
stature, yet greater for spirit, he was greatly servicablye
for the good of the church.
Emigration: 1638 Rober Peck came on the Diligent
with his wife, two children and servants."

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PEABODY

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Peabody Essex - Museum postcard

"East India Marine Hall, which is part of the present day Peabody Essex Museum, is above. The
House of the Seven Gables is below. Both buildings remain unchanged today. I love the
clothing shop to the right of East India Marine Hall - evidence of the vibrant shopping district that
Essex Street once was. In fact, the first Filene's store was opened just up the street from East
India Marine Hall, in the building that is today the Peabody Essex Museum's office building."
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Classic Postcards
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The House of the Seven Gables postcard

East India Marine Hall of the Peabody Museum, ca. 1900

wikipedia - 17:17, 14 January 2009 Swampyank

PAYRE

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Kendal Castle

wikipedia - Tom Richardson - August 2003

Storye book - 18:00, 1 July 2009

Kendal Castle by Sue.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
18:07, 1 July 2009 Storye book

Beautiful Britain Kendall Castle Early Photograph Print | Old-print.com Limited:

"Kendal Castle is situated on a mound-like hill, known as a drumlin, to
the east of the town of Kendal, Cumbria, in northern England.

It was probably built in the late 12th century as the home of the Barons
of Kendal. The best known family to live there were the Parrs,
including Katherine, the 6th wife of Henry VIII.

The building has been a ruin since Tudor times but imposing
stonework remains are still present. The site is freely accessible to
the public. It is managed by the South Lakeland District Council."

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

"Kendal Castle was in existence by 1184 when it passed by Marriage
to Gilbert Fitz Reinfred, and it was he who constructed it in stone. After
that the castle had several owners: 1215 taken by the Crown; given
back to William de Lancaster, son of Gilbert; 1246, Peter de Brus;
1272, the Ros family; 1383, the Parr family; 1553 the Crown again,
then back to the Parrs in 1559; 1571 back to the Crown. By this time it
was falling down. Not until 1813 was any work carried out to prevent
further collapse"

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"Sir William Parr (1434 – c. 1483) was English courtier and soldier. He
was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Parr (1405–1464) and his wife Alice
(who was the daughter of Sir Thomas Tunstall of Thurland,
Lancashire).
The Parr family originally came from Parr, Lancashire. Sir William's
great-grandfather, Sir William de Parre (died 1405), son of Sir John de
Parre, lord of Parr; married, in 1383, Elizabeth, daughter of John de
Ros, and granddaughter and heiress of Sir Thomas de Ros, baron of
Kendal; through his marriage he acquired Kendal Castle and one-
fourth part of the barony of Kendal, which continued in the family till
after the death of William Parr, Marquis of Northampton, when the
Marquis's widow surrendered it to Queen Elizabeth I.

It was known as 'The Marquis Fee.' This branch of the family resided at
Kendal.

His paternal grandparents were John Parr (c. 1383–1409) and
Agness Crophull, widow of Walter Devereux. From her previous
marriage she was mother to a younger Walter Devereux and paternal
grandmother to Walter Devereux, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

Sir Thomas Parr, the courtier's father, was sub-vice comes for
Westmorland from 1428 to 1437, and was sheriff from 1461 to 1475.
He was assaulted in going to Parliament in 1446, the case being
noticed in Parliament and took an active part in the wars of the Roses
on the Yorkist side; he was attainted in 1459, with the other leading
Yorkists (iborn v.348-50). Doubtless his attainder was reversed in
1461, as he died in 1464.

Sir Thomas left three sons and six daughters; the daughters all
married members of prominent northern families. Of the sons, the
second, Sir John Parr, also a Yorkist, was rewarded by being made
sheriff of Westmoreland for life in 1462; he married a daughter of Sir
John Yonge, Lord Mayor of the City of London, and must have lived
until after 1473, as in that year he was one of those exempted from the
resumption act (iborn vi.81). The third son, Thomas, was killed at
Barnet in 1471.
[edit] Life

William was made a knight of the Garter by Edward IV of England and
was exempted from the Resumption Act of 1464. He was on the side
of the Nevilles at Banbury in 1469, was sent by George Plantagenet,
1st Duke of Clarence and Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick to
Edward in March 1470, just before the battle of Lose-Coat-Fields, and
was entrusted by Edward with his answer.

When Edward IV returned from exile in 1471 Parr met him at
Nottingham, and was rewarded with the comptrollership of the
household, which he held till Edward's death. He swore to recognise
Edward, Prince of Wales, as heir to the throne in 1472 (iborn vi. 234),
and was exempted from the resumption act of 1473 (iborn vi.81).

Parr sat as knight of the shire for Westmoreland in 1467 and 1473,
and was sheriff of Cumberland from 1473 to 1483. He was sent to the
Kingdom of Scotland to arrange about the breaches of the truce
probably in 1479. He was exempted from the act of apparel in 1482,
was chief commissioner for exercising the office of constable of
England in 1483, and took part in the funeral of Edward IV.

It seems probable that he died about this time (cf. Beltz, Memorials of
the Garter, pp. 210, lxxii, clxvii), and that the William Parr present at the
meeting of Henry VII of England and Philip I of Castile at Windsor, in
1506, was his second son.
[edit] Wives and children

Sir William married, first, Joan Trusbut (died 1473), widow of Thomas
Colt of Roydon, Essex; her issue, if any, did not survive Parr. Secondly,
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry, lord FitzHugh, who survived him and
remarried Nicholas, lord Vaux of Harrowden; by her Parr left a
daughter Anne, who married Sir Thomas Cheney of Irthlingborough,
Northamptonshire, and three sons.

The eldest son, Sir Thomas Parr, was knighted and was sheriff of
Northamptonshire in 1509; he was master of the wards and
comptroller to Henry VIII. He was rich, owing to his succeeding, in
1512, to half the estates of his cousin, Lord Fitz-Hugh, and also to his
marriage with Maud, daughter and coheiress of Sir Thomas Green of
Boughton and Greens Norton in Northamptonshire. He died on 12
November 1518, and was buried in Blackfriars Church, London. His
widow died on 1 September 1532, and was buried beside him. Of
their children, William Parr (afterwards Marquess of Northampton),
and Catherine, queen of Henry VIII, are separately noticed; while a
daughter, Anne, married William Herbert, first earl of Pembroke of the
tenth creation.

The second son of Sir William Parr was William, who was knighted on
25 December 1513, was sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1518 and
1522, and after his niece's Catherine's promotion became her
chamberlain. On 23 December 1543 he was created Baron Parr of
Horton, Northamptonshire. He died on 10 September 1547, and was
buried at Horton (for his tomb, see Bridges, Northamptonshire, i. 370).
By Mary, daughter of Sir William Salisbury, he left four daughters. A
third son of Sir William Parr, named John, married Constance,
daughter of Sir Henry Vere of Addington, Surrey."
Source
* Dictionary of National Biography - from an article published in 1895

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"Sir Thomas Parr (c. 1483 – 11 November 1517) was an English
nobleman from Kendal in Westmorland (now Cumbria). He is best
known as the father of Queen Catherine Parr.

He was the son of Sir William Parr of Kendal and Elizabeth Fitzhugh.
He was descended from King Edward III of England. He married Maud
Green (6 April 1495 – 20 August 1529), daughter of Sir Thomas Green
in 1508.
He was knighted and was sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1509; he
was master of the wards and comptroller to Henry VIII. He was buried
in Blackfriars Church, London. His widow was buried beside him"

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Wednesday, December 02, 2009

"# F10. Sir William de PARR. (PARRE). Knight (Marquess) of Parr &
Kendal. Born (about 1320)(about 1350-S21) at Kendal Castle, Wes.,
England; son of Sir John PARR [F9] and Matilda LEYBURNE. The next
in possession of the moitey of Parr, after Richard de PARR [F100]. He
apparently held an eighth part of the vill about 1370, but in the
Inquisition of Thomas de Lathom, on the division of the waste in 1377,
this eighth part is not recognized at all. This is probably because he
was convicted of murder in Lancashire, having killed Robert Haghe in
1369. In 1371 he secured a pardon for his crime in order to join the
retinue of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and to fight for the duke
on the continent. So well did he serve his master that he was allowed
to marry Elizabeth, heiress of He married Elizabeth (ROS)(de ROOS-
S20)(ROSS-S19), daughter of John de Ros, and granddaughter and
heiress of Sir Thomas de Ros, baron of Kendal, (sometime between
1380 and 1382-S?)(in1383-S20). The de Roos family of Kendal was a
junior branch of the de Rooses of Hamlake. Through his marriage he
acquired Kendal Castle and one-fourth part of the barony of Kendal,
which continued in the family till after the death of William Parr,
Marquis of Northampton, when the Marquis's widow surrendered it to
Queen Elizabeth I. It was known as 'The Marquis Fee.' This branch of
the family resided at Kendal. Sir William Parr had served as soldier,
treaty negotiator, ambassador and king's councillor, first to the duke of
Lancaster and then to his son, Henry IV. His marriage enabled Parr to
move from a small patrimony in Lancashire to his wife's extensive
inheritance in Westmorland and found the fortunes of the Parr family of
Kendal.
From S21: THE object of this study is to trace the causes of the rise
and fall in family fortunes as exemplified by that of the Parrs of Kendal
Castle through a period of great political upheaval and transition.
Three main factors affected the social and economic status of families
at this time. The first, that of patronage, demonstrates how closely the
Parr fortunes were affected by those of the patron on whose vessel
they were privileged to embark upon the perilous political seas of the
14TH and 15TH centuries. Marriage alliances, too, were of supreme
importance, carrying the family to its zenith when Katherine Parr
became the consort of Henry VIII, and to tis nadir through the failure of
William, her brother, to leave legitimate heirs. The third factor was the
ability of the head of the house to avail himself of those opportunities
for advancement offered in his day and age, and to avoid the dangers
inherent in the unstable political situation, learning when necessary
on both sides of the stairs to get up, as the earl of Pembroke, husband
of Ann Parr, unblushingly confessed to doing. William de Parr, founder
of the Westmorland branch of that name, pursued a military career
which, in the 14TH century was as good a road as that of the Church
or Law for an enterprising man to follow in search of success.
Accounts of his origin are confused and obscure. He was born about
1350, and one authority states he was the son of Sir John de Parr of
Parr in the parish of Prescot, Lancashire, his mother being Matilda,
daughter of Sir Richard Leyburne.3 An inquisition of 1385 on the
possession of Thomas de Lathom states he was seised of "the
homage and service of Sir John de Parr, of Robert, son of Henry de
Parr and of William, who held their tenements in Parr by knight's
service and by rendering 6s. 3d. yearly. Also of the service of Robert,
son of Alan Parr, who held of him tenements in socage by rendering
yearly 3s. 9d."4 William who held an eighth part of the vill [sic] of Parr,
seems to have inherited it from Richard, son of another Richard who
died about 1350. William was in possession about 1370.5 A crime
opens his recorded career. With a Roger Haukese6 he was accused
of killing Robert Haghe or Hawe some time before 1 March 1369.7 But
Sir Walter Huet, veteran of the Hundred Years' War, and one of the
heroes of Froissart, came to Parr's aid. The renewal of hostilities with
France in 1369, and the commissioning of John of Gaunt to take out a
strong force to Gascony, gaining for Parróas well as for
othersóthrough Huet's petitions in May 1370, a pardon "for good
service to be rendered by William de Par in the company of the said
Walter in parts beyond the sea, to William of the King's suit for the
death of Roger Hawe, alias Haghe . . . whereof he is indicted or
appealed of any consequent outlawry."8 From 1 April to 1 June,
however, Huet and his men were kept in London "awaiting payment of
their wages and the pleasure of the Lord King and his Council."9
Small wonder that many recruits grew tired and decamped, among
them "two chivalers and twenty one men (named) who were to have
gone beyond seas in the company of Walter Huet but have not gone,
as the said Walter has certified."10 These had their pardons revoked.
By some mischance, as it transpired later, Parr seems to have been
included by those in authority among these deserters. Huet's
contingent, as part of Gaunt's great fleet, sailed from Plymouth to
Gascony,11 Their arrival in Bordeaux was sadly damped by news of
the fall of Limoges. It is unlikely that William was at the seige and sack
of the city, for Froissart, who always appears to include Huet's name
whenever he took part in an engagement, does not mention him as
being at Limoges, but states that Huet and his company had been
sent to strengthen and hold the frontiers of Poitou, where he
commanded a contingent in the attack on the fortress of Moncontours;
12 here therefore, presumable, Parr first saw action in France. Six
months or so later, when Lancaster returned to England, William
accompanied him. By this time he was so far advanced in the duke's
favour that he could beg him to petition the king, his father, on his
behalf, for it appears that, in spite of the pardon Huet had gained for
Parr in May 1370, he was still accounted an outlaw and it was
necessary to prove that he had taken part in the Gascon campaign.
Accordingly, in 1371, Lancaster himself petitioned Edward III that
William might be pardoned, certifying and making known to the king
that "he (William) was occupied in the war and service of our lord and
father aforesaid in our company and that of the said Sir Walter from the
time of our passage towards the said parts of Guienne until our return
to England."13 So that, instead of re-entering England as a fugitive
from justice, Parr returned under the patronage and protection of the
great Lancaster himself, for although no bond of contract between the
duke and him was survived, yet some short while later William was
established as one of the regular members of the Lancastrain retinue.
14 The disastrous course of the French war soon drew Gaunt back
into the front line and with him, presumably, went William since he, in
company with many others, received the sum of £4. 11s. 4d. from the
Lancastrian exchequer before March 1372 in part payment of £9. 11s.
4d. due to him as wages and fees of war.15 Edward III had
determined to save Thouars, which was being sorely pressed. Orders
for ships to be collected in the harbours of Portsmouth and Sandwich
had been sent out on 6 and 7 February 1372,16 but the fleet did not
sail until the end of August when fierce gales prevented it from making
headway. Meanwhile Thouars was lost, and Gaunt and his army
returned ignominiously home. Parr now seems to have returned to his
Lancastrian manor, for in November 1372 Gaunt sent an order from
Hertford to his "parker de Tokstat et Crokstat . . . to deliver to William
Par a buck from one of the said parks."17 By the spring of 1373
William received from the duke letters of protection to go on the king's
service on the next voyage in Gaunt's company;18 he was presumably,
therefore, among the bands of fighting men who passed through the
towns and villages of the West Country on their way to Plymouth to join
Lancaster. By 4 August the great march from Calais towards the south
of France had begun, as disastrous a campaign for invader as ever
was waged. To Parr it brought what must surely have been a personal
tragedy. At Ouchy, Sir Walter Huet and his men were passing the night.
Huet had already gone to his lodging to rest and taken off his armour.
"Then, suddenly, one hundred and twenty French men-at-arms . . .
commanded by Jean de Vienne, surprised at dawn the outposts of the
English army and Walter Huet, one of the most illustrious veterans of
the army was killed while tryingówhen only half armedóto repulse a
completely unexpected attack . . . the English, deeply affected by the
loss of one of their most valiant knights then began the march towards
Rheims."19 Yet before that gruelling march in mid-winter was ended,
Parr and his comrades may well have envied Huet his earlier death,
for out of 15,000 picked men, all originally mounted, only 8,000, and
half of these unmounted, passed finally through the gates of Bordeaux.
20 Parr returned home with his patron. From Hertford where Gaunt
retired to shun publicity and the animosity with which he was now
widely regarded, he directed his clerk of the Great Wardrobe to make a
settlement with his "well loved esquire, William de Par," who had not
been paid the five marks of his annuity for the term of St. Michael 1373,
nor the other five marks for the following Easter term owed to him by
the duchy of Lancaster.21 During his retirement the direction of the
duke's ambition changed. As husband of the heiress of Castile, Gaunt
determined to claim and conquer this country with which Parr was to
be connected at intervals until practically the end of his life. Gaunt's
first task was to make peace with France and from the evidence it
seems that Parr accompanied his patron to Bruges to parley for the
truce which was arranged on 27 June, for on 24 July, immediately on
his return to England, the duke sent to his chief forester at Needwood
orders to deliver to William another fat buck from the chace;22 an
acceptable reward for services rendered, presumably, in Bruges.
From 1375 to June 1378 there is a gap in our evidence regarding Parr,
but in the spring of 1378 Lancaster was given command of a naval
force to put an end to French aggression, and on 1 June Parr was
granted a letter of attorney because he was going to Brittany with the
duke.23 Unfortunately the attack on St. Malo was a fiasco, largely
owing to Arundel's incompetence,24 and once again Parr returned to
England under the shadow of his patron's failure. Nevertheless, Parr's
personal influence continues to increase through the years as is
shown by the fact that at least four felons appealed to him to gain them
pardons for their crimes.25 As one of Gaunt's personal attendants, it
seems likely that parr would accompany him to Scotland in 1380 to
treat with the Scots, for warrants were sent out from Leicester on 26
August to the receivers of Lancaster and York to call out the knights
and esquires of the duke's retinue to meet him at Newcastle upon
Tyne, arrayed for war.26 But it was around the year 1382 that Parr took
his second great step forward along the road of advancement. He was
probably now in his early thirties, and his service with Lancaster had
brought him not only experience in war but enhanced social prestige:
he must also have benefited immeasurably from his contact with the
brilliant courts of Bordeaux and the art filled treasurehouse of the
Savoy Palace in London, to which the duke's presence attracted many
of the leading figures in the political and cultural life of Europe; here
Parr continued his vicarious lessons in diplomacy, talked,
presumably, with Chaucer and Froissart, listened to the songs and
music of Gaunt's well-paid minstrels and absorbed willy-nilly some at
least of the European culture of the 14TH century. Nevertheless, Parr
was still only a paid mercenary, possessed of an insignificant estate
worth but a mere 15d. per annum in rent. 27 his social standing and
influence dependent in the main on his retention of his great patron's
favour. Then he married,28 and at once, through his wife the way was
opened for his future acquisition of independence and security, of a
Norman stronghold in the northósmall, it is true, but yet a castle with
wide acresóof manors, mills and rents with the added social prestige
which went with their possession. His bride was Elizabeth de Ros,
daughter of John de Ros (died 1358)29 and heiress to her
grandfather, Sir Thomas de Ros of Kendal Castle, Westmorland. She
was 17 years and upwards in 1382.30 Elizabeth was a royal Scottish
descent, since her ancestor Robert, Lord Roos of Helmsley had
married Isabel, illegitimate daughter of William of Lion of Scotland.31
Robert de Ros of Werk, a younger grandson of Robert and Isabel,
married Margaret de Brus, heiress to Kendal Castle.32 Sir Thomas de
Ros was the grandson of this marriage. Parr's marriage was possibly
arranged through Peter de Ros, the bride's uncle who had become
one of Gaunt's retainers in 1382.33 In any case, Parr must have been
well known to Sir Thomasóa firebrand of a man and a typical
Bordereróas Ros had served in the earl of Arundel's retinue under
Lancaster, in 1378.34 A son, named John, was born to William and
Elizabeth during or before 1382.35 There is no evidence to show
whether William took part in Lancaster's campaign against the Scots
in 1384 or in King Richard's expedition during the summer of the
following year, but by 1386 Parr was being drawn into the orbit of his
patron's ambition, centering on Castile, for we find that, on 12 January:
"William de Par, going on the King's service to Portugal, appoints
Hugh de Ines and Richard de Assheton as his attornies." So, once
more, in the spring of 1386, Parr rode along the London-Plymouth
highway in attendance upon the duke and his Spanish "Queen." His
view of the future must have been satisfactory for, in the event of his
patron winning the throne of Castile, the rewards given to his closest
followers were likely to be kingly. Then followed the delay in Devon
while ships were being collected, the relief of Brest, the surrender of
Corunna and St. James de Compostella, capital of Galicia, where Parr
presumably witnessed the arrival of the Castilian embassy with a
secret offer of marriage for Lancaster's daughter Katherine with the
heir of Castile. That he survived the disastrous campaign which
followed, when English knights, esquires and archers died off in
hundreds from plague and dysentry, speaks well for the strength of his
constitution. It was probably to raise another army for the duke that
Parr returned to England in the summer of 1387. By the end of 1388
William had gained the confidence of King Richard II himself and was
acting as his agent in trying to secure the early return of Gaunt from
Aquitaine to redress the balance of power which the Lords Appellant
had weighted so heavily against the king. It was through Parr's
management of the affairs entrusted to him at this juncture that
Lancaster seems to have become convinced of his abilities. Richard
had already made one attempt to send envoys to Aquitaine, but this
had been frustrated, possibly by Arundel, who held the post of High
Admiral. Now using Parr as his agent, the king sent to Richard earl of
Arundel, the King's admiral or his lieutenant, the mayors and bailiffs of
Plymouth and Dartmouth, and the keepers of the passages in the
ports of Fowey and Barnstaple, strict order as they love the king and
his honour, and would escape his wrath, with all speed to provide
from the king's money another ship and barge furnished with seamen
and gear and deliver them to William Parre for the voyage of certain
envoys whom the king purposes to send to John Duke of Lancaster, to
declare business which concerns the king and his commonweal [sic],
that by their default the business remain not undone which the king
would impute to their neglect; as lately, by the advice and assent of the
Council, a great ship and barge were arrested and suddenly departed
for foreign parts at the will of the owners and possessors for their
advantage, without advising the king, as his highness is informed.
Dated Windsor, 4 December 1388.37 Nearly a year passed before the
duke landed at Plymouth. The day following, 20 November, he granted
by letters patent "to William de Par, his bachelor, on his surrender of
earlier letters patentógranting him 50 marks a year for life from the
issues of the duchy of Lancasteró£50 a year therefrom.:38 The
bestowal of this grant and the fact that Parr was now a knight bachelor
obviously betokens the performance of some outstanding service on
his part. Possibly he accompanied the freightship sent out by the king
in 1389 to bring back his uncle Gaunt from Aquitaine.39 Parr may then
have given his patron first hand information regarding the political
situation in England, urging upon him the desirability of leaving affairs
which, as its governor, had kept the duke in the French province, to
deal with the serious state of emergency in England which Parr must
have known would continue as long as Gloucester's lust for power
remained unchecked, and the divided state of the Council continued to
threaten the stability and peace of the realm. The next seven years
which marked for England and Lancaster a period and prosperity, also
brought further honours and wealth to Parr. In 1390 Sir Thomas de
RosóLady Elizabeth Parr's grandfatheróended his long and turbulent
life40 and on 23 January 1391 Sir William and his wife were granted
"full seisin of all the lands which Thomas held of the king in chief in
fee tail . . . on the day of his death, as the king has taken homage and
fealty due from William by reason of his having issue by Elizabeth."41
Parr did not, however, retire to his northern fortress in Westmorland,
for Lancaster went to Amiens to negotiate a truce with Charles of
France, taking a magnificent retinue of 1,000 horsemen. Stately
processions, royal banquets and tournaments followed fast upon
each other, and the grant made by the duke to Sir William and his wife
of an estate in Cornwall, "of the land and lordship of Ayran in the
parish of St. Medart, Ruyan, forfeited by the lord of Budos, 26 October
1392", 42 points to a desire on the part of the duke to contribute
towards the heavy expenses incurred by Parr as his knight bachelor
during the recent diplomatic mission. But a higher honour was
pending. The duke decided to make sure of the experience in
diplomacy which at least two members of his suite had gained during
their years of service with him in foreign courts. Sir William Parr with
Sir Walter Blount and Henry Bowet, archdeacon of Lincoln were
appointed in April 1393 to negotiate a renewal of the truce with King
Enrique of Castile,43 which had been arranged originally by John of
Gaunt with king Jo„o. Hard on his return to England Sir William was
commissioned in 1394 to attend Lancaster to Aquitaine, this time as
duke of the province. In the stately and luxurious court established in
Bordeaux Parr evidently carried out the duties assigned to him to the
duke's satisfaction for on 18 July 1394 he was appointedófrom
BordeauxóJustice of the Forests of the duchy of Lancaster for life. But
this colourful interlude in the south ended with Lancaster's return to
England in the autumn of 1395. Though Parr was to see them again,
Lancaster was unknowingly looking his last on the fruitful vineyards
and cornfields of France. After tarrying in Brittany to conclude a treaty
with its changeable duke on 25 November, the Lancastrian party
proceeded to England where Parr must have been met, soon after his
arrival with news of the illness, or possibly the death of his wife, for
she died presumably early in the New Year, since Parr was in Kendal
in May,45 the first recorded report of his presence there. Before
October 1396 he had remarried.46 His second wife was not, as might
have been expected of superior wealth or social status to Elizabeth.
She was Margaret, widow of Sir Laurence de Dutton, a Cheshire
knight who had died before 30 January 1392/3.47 The new marriage
was made in such haste that the necessary licence from the king was
not obtained. In consequence Lady Margaret had to "make fine in £12.
4s. 4d. for marriage to William de Par, knight, without licence."48 This
was the exact amount of her yearly dower from lands formerly held of
the king by the deceased Sir Laurence and valued at £36. 13s. 4d.
yearly.49 One of Sir William's first recorded tasks in the north was to
import corn from Ireland for the needs of his tenants and household at
a time when, it seems, the domestic crop had failed.50 Little is known
of the domestic economy of the north west at this time, but a document
of 18 Hen. V throws a thin ray of light upon the district, informing us
that Cumberland and Lancashire had been accustomed "long since"
to obtain much of their grain and bread from Richmond market in
Yorkshire: "Many merchants from the adjacent parts of Cumberland,
Westmorland, and Lancashire were wont [sic] to resort there with
merchandise, grain, victuals and other goods every Saturday in the
year, as well as carriers of grain and bread belonging to the adjacent
parts of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire and the
neighbourhood of Lonsdale,m Craven, Dent and Sedbergh in which
no great quantity of corn was then grown, for which reason the
inhabitants of those parts made their chief provision of grain in
Richmond market . . . The people of the adjoining counties of
Cumberand [sic], Westmorland and Lancashire have thrown into
cultivation large tracts of moors and wastes by means of which
carriers of grain, using to resort to Richmond from these parts of
Lonsdale and Sedbergh, have long since withdrawn from the said
market."51 Was Sir William, inspired by recollections of the cornfields
of France, one of those who threw "into cultivation large tracts of moors
and wastes" in Westmorland? The fact that he began to play in active
part in the county as a commissioner introduces us to two feuds which
had a more than local interest. On 1 March 1397 he was appointed to
serve on a commission of the peace and of oyer and terminer in
Westmorland.52 As the delinquents named were still at large in
November 1398 a stronger commission was appointedóRalph, earl of
Westmorland,* Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland,* his son, Henry
Percy,* Richard Redman of Levens, William de Culwen, Thomas
Colvyll, a Yorkshire knight,* Thomas Tunstall of Thurland Castle,*
Thomas Musgrave and the sheriffs of Yorkshire and Westmorland,
with John Elyngham the king's sergeant at arms, Richard de Croft,*
and John Hudleston, with ordersó "on information of dissensions
between John de Preston, and John, son of Thomas de Middleton,
John de Blande, Adam Touke, William and Roger de Blande and
Thomas Spicer of unlawful assemblies in those counties and the lying
in wait of the last named to kill the said John de Preston and his
friends, causing homicides, insurrections, riotsóto arrest the persons
last named and bring them before the king in council, arresting also
others to be found of their following."53 Now since 1377, the Blandes
and Middletons had been involved from time to time in disturbances of
the peace in Yorkshire aimed particularly against Gaunt's officers and
property or that of his retainers.54 They were joined later by the
Bekwyths55 and the trouble came to a head in February 1393 when
Sir Robert de Rokley, Gaunt's forester of the Chace of Knaresborough
slew several of the Bekwyths,56 who retaliated by murdering Thomas
de Blande, one of their own confederates whom they accused of
betraying them to their enemies,57 John de Preston and his friends,
whom the Middletons and Blandes with their confederates were lying
in wait to kill in 1397 and 1398 was a justice of the King's Bench58
and a landowner in Westmorland having inherited the manor of
Preston Patrick near Kendal.59 During the disturbances in Yorkshire
he had served on commissions of a strongly Lancastrian character in
Westmorland and Yorkshire at least fifteen times since November
1376.60 It seems clear, therefore, from this evidence, that the enmity
of the Middletons and Blandes was directed against Preston in his
judicial capacity, the justice's "friends" being most probably, his fellow
commissioners. The second feud with which Parr had to deal appears
from the names of some of the protagonists to have a certain
connection with the first. In November 1398 he and John Elyngham
were appointed "on information of divers dissensions between
Edmund Redman, Richard Doket, John and Thomas de Lancaster
and others, on the one side, and the Roger de Wyndesore, William,
Thomas and John de Bethom, Roland, John and Richard Threlkeld
and Christopher Forster on the other . . . to arrest all persons named
and their followers . . ."61 The primary cause of these divisions seems
to have been a family dispute over the will and property of Sir William
de Wyndesore of Heversham, Westmorland, husband of the court
beauty, Alice Perrers, mistress of Edward III. Wyndesore had died in
1385 and his three sisters, Margery Duket, Christiana Morieux and
Isabel de Wyndesore were found by inquisition to be his heirs.62 Sir
William had, however, during his lifetime disposed of some of his
property to his nephew John de Wyndesore,63 leaving the bulk of it by
will to him and his brothers.64 Of the disputants mentioned in Parr's
commission of 1398, Richard Duket was Margery's son,65 Thomas
and John de Lancaster, if my deductions from the evidence are
correct, were illegitimate sons of Christopher de Lancaster by Isabel
de Wyndesore,66 while Edmund Redman was a relative by marriage
of the Dukets.67 On the opposing side, Roger Wyndesore was John's
brother and one of the beneficiaries of his uncle's will which does not
mention any of Sir William's three sisters or their descendants. The
Bethoms and Christopher Forster were adherents of the Lancastrian
party,68 and John de Preston of the Wyndesores,69 which provides
evidence for a connection in the personnel at least between this feud
and the first, especially as Christopher Forster was one of those who
supported Sir Robert de Rokley, Gaunt's officer, in his feud against the
Bekwyths;70 the Threlkelds, Bethoms and John de Preston also
shared a common emnity against the abbot of Shap.71 Unfortunately
we are given no certain evidence regarding the final outcome of these
disturbances. The likelihood is that they were swallowed upófor a time
at leastóin the great feud of 1399 which ended by Bolingbroke
mounting his cousin Richard's throne as Henry IV. Before that
happened Gaunt died on 3 February 1399 and Parr, one of the
executors of his will, experienced at first hand King Richard's
unscrupulous actions regarding the Lancastrian inheritance. Within a
month of Gaunt's death the king had changed Henry of Lancaster's
temporary sentence of exile into one for life and seized his vast
inheritance, ordering the executors to carry out Gaunt's will as speadily
[sic] as possible, but to keep the stock formerly owned by the duke in
places appointed by the king and his minsters.72 On Gaunt's death,
Richard took Parr into his service, confirming to him "because retained
to stay with the king only" the £50 a year for life which the duke had
granted to him for the issues of the duchy.73 Exactly what part was
played by Parr in the tragic events which ended in Richard's deposition
is not known. The usurping king showed himself more than generous
to most of those who had aided him to gain the throne, but Sir William
only received a confirmation of the grant of the lordship of Ayran made
to him by Gaunt seven years previously,74 Taking into consideration
the long and faithful service given to the new kings' father, the
meagreness of his reward perhaps suggests that Parr had been slow
in deciding to support Henry. But Parr's wide military experience made
him invaluable in the north where, in spite of the preliminaries of a
truce having been arranged with Scotland at the end of November
1399, Henry had to complain of "very great and horrible outrages
perpetrated in England by certain Scots"75 who burned Wark Castle.
Parr, under Northumberland and Westmorland, called out the local
forces,76 but the trouble blew over when the Scottish government
offered profuse apologies.77 In 1400 Henry recognized Parr's
diplomatic ability by sending him with John Trevor, bishop of St. Asaph
to announce his accession in Spain78 where the young Enrique of
Castile and his consort, Katherine of Lancaster were now reigning.
Parr was rewarded after his return in 1402ó "to the king's knight,
William Par, a stag and hind in season each year for life, within the
forest of Inglewode."79 Sir William's last recorded services were the
collection of the tenth and fifteenth in Westmorland in December
1402,80 and his appointment with the earl of Westmorland to a
commission of array in September 1403.81 If one may deduce from
this that Parr was serving with Westmorland when the earl prevented
the forces of the rebel Northumberland from joining those of his son
Hotspur at Chester, then we are left with no doubts of Parr's
wholehearted allegiance to Henry IV, once he was established on the
throne. Before 9 October of the following year Parr was dead.82 His
son John was now aged 22 and over, 83 and, until a short time before
his father's death had not married. Perhaps Sir William had hoped for
further sons by his second wife, for John's early death at the age of 26
or 27,84 and the fact that his name is practically absent from the
records, suggests a delicacy of constitutions. A premonition of his own
death may have impelled Sir William to arrange a match between his
heir and Agnes Devereux, widow of Sir Walter Devereux of
Herefordshire, who died in 1403.85 Sir William had not the
consolation of knowing about the birth of his grandson Thomas. He
may have died tormented by the fear that the line he had worked so
strenuously to establish in prosperity might die out. In fact, Thomas
was to prove the most prolific of all the Westmorland Parrs, and many
of Sir William's descendants were to inherit his fine qualities of
courage in war, versatility and adaptability in peace, as well as those
of foresight and industry, which, with a certain ruthlessness often
inherent in ambitious natures, enabled his descendants to add to the
family wealth, prestige and possessions. These, as left by Sir William
and judged comparatively were not great. Much of his income, granted
for life, died with him, so that only the fourth part of the manor of Kirkby
in Kendale, his in the right of his first wife and worth £40 yearly,86 with
one-eighth part of his vill [sic] of Parr, his own inheritance, for which he
paid 15d. yearly to his overlord,87 were inherited by John. But the
importance of Sir William's efforts lay in the fact that he had
established his family firmly in the ranks of the independent, landed
middle class which was to play such an important part in the
development of 15TH and 16TH-century England. On his foundation,
using his meansóthose of natural ability, the favour of powerful
patrons and brilliant marriage alliancesóParr's grandson and great
grandson were to heighten the family edifice, until its upper storeys
reached that rarer air warmed by the sun of royalty itself. They were
also to find that the tempests of changing fortune buffeted a taller
building more dangerously.
He died (in 1404-S20)(on 4 OCT 1405). For some particulars
concerning him see Dep. Keeper's Rep. xl, App. 524; Rep. xxxvi, App.
374; Pal. of Lanc. Chan. Misc. bdle. 1, file 2, n. 66. See also
Topographer, iii, 352ñ60. CHILDREN: John PARR [F11]. {S5,S6,F15,
S19,S20,S21}.

# F11. Sir John PARR. Born (about 1355-S5)(before Oct 1382-S21)
(about 1383-S8) of Kendal; son of Sir William PARR [F10] and
Elizabeth de ROS. He married (3-S8) Agnes CROPHULL (Crophill-
S8), daughter of Sir Thomas CROPHILL and Sibyl de la BERE--widow
of Sir Walter Devereux. [If Agnes was his third wife, who were one and
two? Agnes was of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He died (about 1408-
S20)(after 1408)(about 4 August 1408-S8). CHILDREN: Thomas
PARRE [F12]. {S5, S8,S20,S21}.

F12. Sir Thomas PARRE. (PARR-S12). Born (about 1380-S5)(1405-S6,
S23)(1407-S8)(in 1407-S20), of Kendal, Lancashire, England; son of
Sir John PARR [F11] and Agnes Crophull. He married Alice
TUNSTALL, daughter of Sir Thomas Tunstall and Eleanor Harrington,
of Thurland Castle, Lancashire, England. Alice was born in 1415.
Upon his father's death in 1408, Thomas's wardship was granted to
his mother, Agnes, Sir Thomas Beauford and Sir Thomas Brounflete.3
Some time in the following nine years, Agnes Parr married John
Merbury.4 On 9 July 1413, probably about the same time as the
marriage, she surrendered the wardship of her son and his lands to
Sir Thomas Tunstall of Thurland Castle, Lancs.5 William Torvar and
James Harrington for 200 marks (£133. 6s. 8d.).6 Parr lived at
Thurland Castle during his minority and Tunstall married him to his
daughter, Alice. The Tunstalls were ardent Lancastrians throughout
the fifteenth century, but this had little lasting influence on Parr, whose
Westmorland estates bordered those of the Nevilles, earls of
Westmorland. When he reached his majority and assumed his
Kendal inheritance, a mutually supportive relationship arose between
the politically aggressive Nevilles and the aggressively ambitious Parr.
Parr's value to the Nevilles depended on his own importance as a
local magnate and his future advancement on his ability to furnish aid
and support to a patron when needed.
Power in Kendal was based on possession of the lands of the original
barony of Kendal, which had been twice divided. The Richmond Fee
represented one-half of the original barony, the Lumley and Marquis
Fees each a quarter. In the fifteenth century, the lands of the Richmond
Fee were normally held by absentee landlords, being granted from
royal relative to royal relative. The Lumley Fee, too, went through
division and transfer, at one point belonging to Parr's enemies, the
Bellingham family. The holders of the Lumley lands, however, had
merely local significance; only the Parr lands, or as they were later
known, the Marquis Fee, were held continuously until 1571 by one
family and progressively augumented [sic] through Clifford and Neville
patronage, and after 1461, by royal favouritism. The first Sir William did
little to extend his wife's de Roos holdings,7 preferring to act as an
absentee landlord, but Thomas Parr had both the time and the need to
consolidate and extend them. Much of the estate was held in dower by
three relicts of the Parrs until 1436 when his mother Agnes Parr, the
last dowager, died. She had signed her dower portion over to her son
in 1429 in exchange for a yearly forty-mark allowance.8 At her death,
Parr took the oath of fealty and received full seisin of the dower third of
his estate for a fine of two marks.9 Finally, at the age of twenty-eight, in
law as well as in fact, Parr could enjoy his full income, amounting
possibly to £80-£100 yearly. The estate totalled at least 5083 acres of
land, 700 of them arable, and 57 messuages and presumably
Thomas also held the small Lancashire estate which was the first Sir
William Parr's patrimony. This included lands in Parr and Sutton and a
toft in Wigan,10 a parcel held of the Earl of Derby by knight's service,
and a yearly rent of 15d. "being thus identified with the quarter of a
moiety held by the above-named William in 1370 . . .". Parr, himself,
made only one known purchase: a plot called "le Groute by le Howes"
11 from one Baldwin Scheppesshed, which he bought to extend his
holdings in Helsington. To counter the recession of income from land,
subsisting throughout the greater part of the fifteenth century, Parr
turned from outright land purchase to royal leaseholds as a means of
increasing both his income and his local political control. Basically
there were three of these leaseholds, all of them portions of the
Richmond Fee held by Henry V's brother, John, Duke of Bedford, at his
death in 1435. In May 1438, Parr was given the keeping of two-thirds of
Bedford's lands (the ultimate third went to his widow, Jacquetta) in the
Westmorland townships or hamlets of Crosthwaite, Hutton, Strickland
Ketel, Frosethwaite and Helsington, the keeping of the fishery on the
river Kent, and, in Lancashire, all of Bedford's lands in Whittington. The
grant was for ten years, at a yearly farm of £25. 12s. 10d. with a
maintenance clause.12 During that time, should anyone else be found
willing to offer more, the farm would go to the highest bidder. In
February 1439 this grant was reconfirmed, with the addition "that Sir
Thomas Parr shall sufficiently build anew, repair and maintain at his
own charge one-half part of the Hoton [Hutton] water mill which the
King is bound to do and then yield it to the King . . .".13 It is pertinent
that in this area the decline in the revenues enjoyed by landlords,
especially in Cumberland, was attributable partly to the decline of
income from mills.14 Parr enjoyed the income from these lands for
only five of the ten years of the original lease. In 1443 all Richmond
Fee lands formerly held by Bedford, the Duchess' dower, were granted
to the king's favourite, John, duke of Somerset and Earl of Kendal. The
income from Richmond Fee lands was roughly three times that of
Parr's estates,15 so he cannot have been too pleased at being forced
by the king to relinquish them half way through his lease. In March
1445, another though lesser plum from the lands of Bedford fell into
his hands: the keeping of two-thirds of the market tolls, the profits of
local fairs, and the profits of "le wyndles et lepes de le weyle, with le
bothes, shoppes and scamelles and with the bakery, le bankes and le
court house of Kirkby in Kendal".16 This was a twelve-year farm at
60s. a year, but with a clause that should anyone offer more for the
farm during that time Parr would lose the lease. Along with it went a
twelve-year grant, at 20s. a year, of the keeping of the herbage ". . . of
certain meadows and land called Wyryholme alias Holmewery, county
Cumberland, with all appurtenances . . .". Six years later, in July 1451,
the king raised the rent from £3 to £4 and added a 3s. 4d. per year
charge against the income, probably some sort of pension. He also
extended the lease for a further twelve years, but it was a gratuitous
gesture for twenty months later Henry VI granted the market tolls lease
to the Earl of Richmond. Parr, left with a nominal 20s. a year herbage
lease, farmed it to his son, William, for sixteen years at the same 20s.
rate, presumably with the king's permission, as the original twelve-
year lease was due to expire in March 1457. Parr also secured two
other local sources of income. These were the tithes of Holme and
Mintsfoot which were demised to him at farm in 1431 for 10s. The farm
of the Mintsfoot tithe, but not of Holme, was renewed to Parr in 1435,
along with ". . . a place of which the name is lost (which) lay fallow in
1431",17 for which he paid 5s. One final transaction, which may
indicate another royal grant of farm, occurred in May 1428, when Parr
and Ralph Blennerhasset of Suffolk (probably a scion of the
Cumberland Blennerhassets) committed, by mainprise, to John
Broughton, esquire, the keeping of five messuages, five bovates of
land and ten acres of meadow in the township of Skelton, a burgage in
Carlisle and a quit rent of 13s. 4d. a year from another burgage in
Carlisle.18 This transaction may have been the subletting of a grant at
farm as it was later cancelled by Henry VI, who farmed it directly to
Broughton at a flat rate of 26s. 8d. a year. The final grant made to Parr
by the Crown was made by Edward IV on 29 July 1461. This was the
wardship and marriage of John Hothom, a distant cousin of the Parrs
through the de Thweng family. The Hothoms, an ancient Yorkshire
family seated at Scorbrough near Beverley, held extensive lands in
Yorkshire, Lancashire and Westmorland.19 Several of their
Westmorland properties neighboured those of the Parrs, and Staveley
manor was held of one-sixth of one-quarter of the Parrs' manor of
Kirkby-in-Kendal, Parr being the effective overlord. It was an
exceedingly lucrative wardship, and, as the ward was little more than a
baby,20 it extended Parr's influence into Yorkshire and increased his
power in Westmorland and Lancashire. His income must have at
least doubled if the size of the Hothom estates is any indication. This
substantial royal grant and mark of royal favour from the new Yorkist
king was the pattern of the future for the next three generations of
Parrs.
Thomas Parr's position in his own community is reflected in the types
of office he held there. As a leading member of the local gentry, he sat
on most of the north-western commissions of the peace and many
commissions of array during a thirty-year career. Knighted some time
between 1430 and 1432, he was one of a small closed group of local
magnates who monopolized all Crown commissions in Cumberland
and Westmorland in the fifteenth century. Under Henry VI, he served as
a justice of the peace for Westmorland in July 1432, February 1434,
March 1437, July 1454 and July 1456. As late as July 1459,21 just two
months before he joined his fate irrevocably to the Earl of Salisbury's,
Parr was again named to a commission of the peace for
Westmorland. Under Edward IV, he was justice for Cumberland in May
1461 and for Westmorland in May and September 1461.22 He was
named by Henry VI to the commissions of array for Westmorland of
July 1436, July 1437 (also for Cumberland), and November 1448.23
Edward also appointed him to the commission of September 1461 for
Westmorland and the May and November 1461 commissions for
Cumberland, the latter called to defend the borders from an expected
invasion by Henry VI, supported by Scottish troops.
Parr served also on various special commissions. He was appointed
in January 1436 to the Westmorland commission for tax assessment
to levy the parliamentary subsidy granted in 1435 for the defence of the
realm.25 In February 1457, he served on a commission to inquire into
the lands held by Thomas Lord Dacre at the day of his death, their
value, and the identity of Dacre's lawful heir. In December of the same
year, due to the imminent danger of a French invasion, a commission
to levy fifty-six archers in Westmorland was sent to Parr, Sir Richard
Musgrave, John Crackenthorpe of Hugill, William Lancaster, John
Hilton, John Wharton and Henry Bellingham.27 All these were
Lancastrian commissions, evidence of the fact that, up until July 1459,
Parr was looked upon both as an influential man, whose loyalties
were not suspect enough to exclude him from the operation of local
government, and one whose cooperation was thought necessary for
the government's efficient functioning. Sir Thomas's Yorkist affiliations
were soon to become apparent, and he continued his exercise of local
power with the full favour of the new Yorkist regime. On 12 November
1460, Parr and his two elder sons served on a commission "to arrest
and commit to prison all persons guilty of unlawful gatherings,
congregations, associations, combinations and seiges [sic], and if
they resist, to call together all lieges of Westmorland and Cumberland
and other counties adjacent to fight them". This was an attempt to
protect the Yorkist cause in the heavily Lancastrian northern shires. It
was reinforced by commissions of peace and array, and, on 6 June
1461,29 another commission was named to arrest recalcitrant
Lancastrians, namely Gamaliel Pennington, Christopher Broughton
and James Uriel, and bring them before the king's council. The senior
commissioners were Sir Thomas Parr and Sir Edward Beetham.
Sir Thomas also held local offices which allowed him a wide latitude
of action in the county and supplied him with sources of income and
political control. In 1430-31 he was granted the office of escheator in
Cumberland and Westmorland30 and in 1435-46 under-sheriff for
Westmorland,31 a powerful office because the hereditary sheriff, Lord
Clifford, was not a particularly aggressive official. Parr had Clifford's
full support in the community and appears to have exercised the
extensive powers of the shrievalty with an unhampered hand. Since
the sheriff supervised shire court elections to parliament,32 especially
in the northern shires, the shrievalty took on the appearance of an
executive office and control of this office, in fact if not in title, was
tantamount to control of the shire, particularly when the Crown was
weak. This all-pervasive involvement by Parr in the affairs of the
community, based as it was on his position as under-sheriff, can be
seen in the numbers of land transactions which he witnessed or for
which he served as trustee, and in the assorted local feuds in which
he was involved or on which his influence was brought to bear. These
span his entire career during the reign of Henry VI.
An example of the contempt in which the law was held by the local
gentry, and the lengths to which they would go to subvert it in their own
interests, is the case of Robert Crackenthorpe of Newbiggin.
Crackenthorpe, a justice of the peace for Westmorland, appealed to
Chancery in a suit against William and Oliver Thornborough and
William Lancaster (all established landowners in Westmorland), who
"by instigation of Sir John de Lancaster and Katherine, his wife" had
waylaid him "with intent to slay",33 as he returned from a session of
the peace. "The interesting point is that the offenders included men
who had sat in parliament for Westmorland and held commissions of
the peace. So powerful was their local standing that it would have
been useless to sue them in the country".34 Crackenthorpe's appeal
was supported jointly by the Earl of Westmorland and Sir Thomas
Parr. The Thornboroughs were "maintained" by the Earl of Salisbury,
35 and it is significant that Thomas Parr sided publicly not with them
but with Crackenthorpe and Westmorland, Salisbury's very much
estranged nephew. The cause of the attack on Crackenthorpe was
that, as a justice of the peace, he had held an investigation into a
dispute over lands claimed by the Lancasters. Chancery proved
unable to solve the situation and so prevent further violence.
Crackenthorpe was murdered by the Lancasters and Thornboroughs
in August 1443.
The continuing lack of effective control at the national level exacerbated
local warfare in the 1440s and 1450s, and in Cumbria divisions
deepened between the Percy and Neville factions. In 1453 the rolls of
parliament described the situation in Cumberland as "toon half of the
shire was divided from tother".37 Conditions were no better in
Westmorland. In 1446 Thomas Parr, Sir Thomas Strickland and six
others were the recipients of a penal bond of 200 marks from eight
bondees "to abide the award of certain arbitrators and to keep peace"
38 with Robert Garnett, John Hubbersty and others. Another typical
local feud in which Parr acted as mediator was that of the ubiquitous
Thornboroughs and the Threlkelds of Meaburn, 39 who were related
by marriage. This dispute, over seven marks from Meaburn manor
owed to Threlkeld by William Thornborough, and 13s. 4d. for a black
gown for one of Thornborough's servants, involved jury intimidation,
coercive violence and extensive litigation. In November 1447, an
indenture to keep the peace and settle the dispute was drawn up in
the presence of Thomas Parr, Richard Musgrave, John Broughton and
Nicholas Leyburne, but such indentures were as much use as
miniature dams against tidal waves.
Thomas Parr himself was involved in law-land disputes between 1435
and 1443. In 1440 he lost a legal battle with Thomas, prior of
Conishead, when the prior recovered from Parr, by assize of novel
disseisin, two messuages, 120 acres of land, six acres of meadow,
100 acres of pasture and 10 acres of wood in Scalthwaitrigg, all of
which constituted the Parr interest and right in the Hospital of St.
Leonard's Kendal.40 This had been part of the de Roos inheritance,
and Parr was forced to quit-claim it to the prior although he did retain
the right to present to St. Leonard's chaplaincy.41 The effect of Lord
Clifford's support of Parr in his capacity as sheriff, Parr's own
influential position locally and his place in parliament are exemplified
in the Parr-Bellingham feud, which made itself felt from Westmorland
to Westminister. The Bellinghams, of Burneside near Kendal, were a
long-established and influential Westmorland family. They also owned
land in Helsington near the Parrs and at Strickland Roger. In 1404 the
Bellinghams had held 20s. worth of land in Strickland Ketel of the
Parrs, which they may still have done thirty years later. It may have
been disputes over these lands which provided the spark for the fuse.
In 1441 Henry Bellingham made a complaint in the court of Chancery
against Thomas Parr,42 claiming Parr had come to his house at
Burneside "with a great multitude of people with intent to destroy and
kill". Parr was dissuaded from this intended violence by "true tretyee of
gode Gentilmen of the same cuntre". Bellingham however was still
receiving threats from Parr, but because of Parr's paramountcy in
Kendal, he could not sue him successfully in the county. Robert
Bellingham, Henry's father, was indeed a Clifford feoffee but Clifford
supported Parr and "the coroners of the same Shire bene his (Parr's)
meynyall men".43 Bellingham, therefore turned to the court of
Chancery for aid. Chancery did not satisfy the Bellinghams who took
the matter into their own hands. In February 1445,44 Thomas Parr
was in London as knight of the shire for Cumberland. He took
lodgings "on Cornwallis ground beside the Crane in the Wards of the
Vyntrye".45 In the morning of the opening parliament, he and three
servants, Robert Duket, Thomas Wryght and Matthew Pierson, left their
lodgings for Westminister. On the road to the Thames they were
"assaulted with intent to kill" by Henry Bellingham's two younger
brothers, Robert an Thomas, together with three other.46 Parr's
servants were badly injured and the attackers were arrested. In March,
Parr was granted, by private act of parliament, a writ of proclamations
addressed to the sheriffs of the city of London, whose writ was to order
the Bellinghams to appear before the King's Bench a month from
Easter 1446 or be attainted of felony. The outrage to parliament of an
attack on one of its members caused the passage of an act "to protect
members of Parliament from assault while in Parliament and in transit
. . .".47 If assaulted, a member of parliament was to have a writ of
proclamation to the appropriate sheriff, "as by an Act in this saide
present parliament for Sir Thomas Parr, Knyght, is in like case
ordeined to be hade", to be returned at the King's Bench enabling the
complainant to demand there the appearance of those against whom
the writ was sworn, or else "such execution as is ordeined also in the
saide Acte, for ye saide Sir Thomas".
Before this act two statutes had given members of parliament
recourse at law for any physical attack perpetrated on them or their
servants: in 1432 to protect any lord or commoner attending
parliament or council from assault,49 and a Statute of 1403 protecting
the servants of a knight of the shire from assault. Thus, when in 1445
the Commons prayed that the remedies and process prescribed in
the act for Sir Thomas Parr should be upheld, the king replied that the
two prior statutes should provide sufficient redress for the members of
the Commons, in effect disallowing Parr's act as a precedent for
parliamentary litigation.50 The Bellinghams failed to appear at the
King's Bench "for gret fere and drede of the seyd Acts", their fear of
reciprocal violence being greater than their fear of the courts. In 1449,
however, they petitioned for a settlement of the dispute. In 1449
parliament, in which Thomas Bellingham was a member for Arundel
and Parr for Westmorland, Parr's writ of proclamation was annulled as
"the parties had come to an agreement51 and Sir Thomas Parr and
his servants had received satisfaction",52 The Bellinghams were
pardoned at Parr's request. A remnant of the settlement of this feud
may exist in an undated boundary settlement between Sir Robert
Bellingham and his son, Henry, and Sir Thomas Parr and his son,
William. It fixes the boundaries of their contiguous lands in Strickland
Roger, which may have been the original source of trouble.
Parr was not always either a combatant or litigant in local land
transactions. Frequently, he acted as a witness or mediator for others.
In January 1430, he witnessed a quit-claim, with warranty of
advowson, of a moiety of the church in Sedbergh in Lonsdale,
Yorkshire, from Thomas Harrington, esquire, the son of Sir William
Harrington, to Cuthbert, the abbot of Coverham, and the convent of
Coverham.54 Early in 1435, along with Sir Nicholas Radcliffe, he
testified under oath at Carlisle before William Laton, the escheator for
Cumberland, regarding the inquisition post mortem on Sir Peter Tilliol,
whose daughter and coheir had married Sir Christopher Moresby, a
close friend and later in-law of Parr's.55 In 1437 Sir John de Lamplogh
(or Lamplugh) granted to his grandson, John, certain lands and
tenements in Preston. Parr, who also held land in Preston, witnessed
the grant, together with Richard Musgrave and Sir Thomas Strickland.
On 11 August 1446, Parr, Strickland, Nicholas Leyburne and Robert
Bellingham witnessed a grant of certain Westmorland lands by
Thomas Gate and Robert Preston to Edward Beetham. Beetham held
from Parr the manor of Beetham and other lands, worth approximately
£40 a year.
In June 1452, Parr acted as trustee for Roland Lenthale, taking livery
with the other trustees of one-third of the manors of High Roding, Over
Shamall and Ginge Margaret in Essex, previously granted to the
trustees to uses by Lenthale, who held the manors in right of his wife
Margaret, the sister and coheir of Thomas, Earl of Arundel, with
reversion to Edmund Lenthale, her son.57 This shows Parr's sphere
of interest extended as far south as Essex and that, as a man of
known reputation and influence, he was sought by residents of at least
four shires as a witness or trustee. At the local level Parr's position
was unassailable as the holder of a large and concentrated estate
with a monopoly of shire offices and commissions and one whom the
Nevilles regarded with favour. At the national level however his
influence was limited to the House of Commons where his initiation
was made ó in a somewhat unfortunate manner.
As indicated by the sudden increase in disputed elections during the
years 1427 to 1429, the statutes governing parliamentary elections
were at this time widely abused, due to fraudulent sheriffs, ineligible
electors and falsely-returned knights. In 1429 Parliament was
originally summoned to meet at Westminster on 13 October. The
electors for Cumberland met at a shire court in Carlisle on 30 August
and duly elected Sir William Legh and Thomas de la More as that
shire's representatives. The date for the opening of Parliament was
subsequently brought forward to 22 September and a new summons
issued. As there was no regular meeting of the shire court between
the receipt of this summons and the opening of the session, the
sheriff, Sir Christopher Moresby,58 took it upon himself to make out a
new return for the altered date, naming More and Thomas Parr as
knights of the shire "in an apparently normally attested indenture".59
The reaction was immediate. In 28 September, by royal letters patent,
a full investigation was ordered into the sheriff's actions, the date and
place of the first valid election and the second unilateral one, the
names of the electors and any other facts regarding the dispute. The
first investigation was inactive or inadequate and a new one was
ordered the following year on 10 July. There is no proof one way or
another indicating whether or not Thomas Parr took his seat, but in all
probability he did not. However, it such disputed elections which
engendered the Parliamentary Statute of 1429.
Of twenty parliaments covering the years 1439-83, in fifteen returns or
partial returns available for Westmorland, eleven returns were made
either of a Parr of by a Parr as sheriff in charge of the election.
Disregarding the disputed election of 1429, Sir Thomas himself sat in
six parliaments ó 1435, 1445-46, 1449, 1450-51, 1455-56 and 1459.
He represented Westmorland in 1435, 1449, 1450-51, 1455-56 and
probably 1459 as well. In 1445-56 he sat for Cumberland. Of the
remaining three extant returns, some person connected with the Parrs
was either sheriff or returned as knight of the shire in at least two.
Combined with Neville patronage, this gave the Parrs a forty-four-year
hegemony over Westmorland representation in parliament. The
Cumberland elections show a more limited involvement. From 1439-
83, seventeen returns or partial returns are available, seven with a
Parr directly involved and two with a close friend or relative. This close
involvement in parliamentary elections and attendance was to give the
Parrs a place near the centre of political events for over forty years.
It was during the 1440s that Sir Thomas evolved a contrivance which
he and his sons systematically exploited during this forty-four-year
period. It was designed to circumvent the statute which ruled that a
sheriff of a county could not be elected by that county to serve in
parliament. When Lord Clifford was attainted in 1461 and lost his
hereditary shrievalty, the Parrs took over the office on an hereditary
basis. Sir Thomas, undoubtedly with Neville backing, having obtained
the office of sheriff in one county, proceeded to serve as knight of the
shire for another. This device was exploited by the three Parrs, Sir
Thomas and his sons, Sir William and Sir John, in the parliaments of
1445-46, 1463-65, 1472-75, and 11478. As the interests of the two
shires, Westmorland and Cumberland, were closely allied, and as the
Parrs themselves had interests in both, they thus managed to
integrate the key positions of the two to provide themselves with an
unshakeable hold on the northwest. In the late 1450s, growing
violence between the rival houses of York and Lancaster became
acute. The Yorkists, facing indictments by the council held at Coventry
on 24 June 1459, prepared to take a military stand against their
enemies. The Earl of Salisbury, with his northern retainers, marched
south to rendezvous with the Duke of York at Ludlow. When the
Queen's forces intercepted Salisbury's at Blore Heath in Shropshire
on 23 September, the outcome was indecisive. Salisbury rallied his
men and, joining forces with York and Warwick, turned to face the royal
army at Ludford Bridge near Ludlow. Sir Thomas Parr and several
others came to the Earl, not the Duke, to "offer their services".60 Even
at this late date, however, Parr considered himself a Salisbury
supporter, not a "Yorkist". The Yorkists were out-numbered and were
routed on 12-13 October and Parr almost certainly fled with Salisbury,
arriving, by way of Devon, at Calais on 2 November. All were
subsequently attainted of high treason and all their lands and goods
declared forfeit.61 By December 1460 the Crown began to grant Parr's
estates away,62 but the triumph of Edward IV reversed the process,
and it is hardly likely that, in only a year and a half, Parr's lands
suffered too much damage.
Sir Thomas Parr's position before July 1459 is somewhat anomalous.
Superficially he was a loyal subject of the Crown, continuing to serve
on government-appointed commissions and displaying no overtly
rebellious tendencies. McFarlane includes him in a group of "later
Yorkists whose attitude in 1450 cannot be presumed . . ."63 The
wedge, which finally separated Parr from his allegiance to Henry VI,
was his personal commitment to Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury. In
1420 Henry V had chosen Salisbury for the office of Warden of the
West March, an office not merely lucrative but permitting its holder to
raise a substantial private army "among the best natural source of
fighting men in the country".64 The Earl of Salisbury's enormous
income and his friendly relations with the King's council were potent
inducements for ambitious northerners like Parr to become his
supporters and retainers. Nor was it only Salisbury's position as
Warden which attracted Parr, it was also the fact that in 1444 he had
been made steward of the Richmond Fee. This brought Salisbury into
personal proximity with Parr of Kendal and offered a welcome
opportunity for each man to make use of the other's support for the
mutual benefit ot both.
In all likelihood, Parr's assumption of Salisbury's patronage must have
occurred between 1435, when he opposed Salisbury's retainers, the
Thornboroughs, in the Crackenthorpe case and 1438, when he
received the Richmond Fee leasehold, possibly through Salisbury's
intervention. Some sort or relationship, however, predates even 1435,
for as early as 1430 Parr, together with the Earl of Salisbury, his
supporter William Fitz-Hugh and Thomas Tunstall, were co-witnesses
of a quit-claim,65 Two other close supporters of the Nevilles,
Christopher Conyers and Christopher Boynton, were also co-
witnesses, as was James Strangways [sic],66 Justice of the Common
pleas. Many of these commissions on which Parr served were headed
by Salisbury.67 Yet, despite his Neville sympathies and two decades
of mutual support, Parr was cautious. He did not appear among the
anti-Somerset partisans at the first battle of St. Albans (22 May 1455),
nor, seemingly, did he take any irrevocable anti-Lancastrian action
until the day he arrived at Ludlow to offer Salisbury his services. Barely
a month later, he was an attainted traitor in exile. He must have
wished often during those months that he had remained cautious and
delayed a little longer. As things turned out, he had made the right
decision after all. In 1460 Parr fought beside Salisbury and York at
Wakefield. In the battle and the executions which followed, York, his
son the Earl of Rutland, and Salisbury died. On three of the four lists of
the slain found in later sources the name of Sir Thomas Parr appears.
68 Supposedly, his head was impaled above the gates of York. Parr,
however, outlived his reported death by another year. In the series of
battles which followed Wakefield, no mention of him has survived, and
he may have been in all or none of them. He had, however, acquitted
himself sufficiently well to earn the new king, Edward IV's, personal
gratitude and favour. The wardship of John Hotham was the first of a
series of grants which were to increase the Parr holdings and income
vastly during Edward's reign. For ten more years, the Parrs supported
the Nevilles, in the person of the Earl of Warwick. But just as the good
lordship of Salisbury had succeeded that of Lancaster, so the
patronage of a king was to prove more desirable than that of his
overmighty subject.
Sir Thomas Parr's personal life was as full as his public one. He had
not followed his paternal forebears in the pursuit of an eligible
heiress. He had married Alice Tunstall, the daughter of his guardian,
Sir Thomas Tunstall of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.69 Alice, although
from an important family, was no heiress. However, in 1427, her
brother, Sir Thomas Tunstall, the younger, married Alianore Fitz-Hugh,
widow of Sir Philip Darcy of Knaith, thus bringing Thomas Parr into
contact with the Fitz-Hugh family, which by marriage in the next
generation, would provide the Parrs with a claim to the lands of the Fitz-
Hugh lords of Ravensworth. Parr's eldest son, William, was born in
1434, and his second son, John, in 1438. The Parrs ultimately had
nine children, three sons, William, John and Thomas, and six
daughters, Anne, Mabel, Margaret, Agnes, Elizabeth and Alianore. They
all made advantageous matches and Parr could number among his
sons-in-law such northern notables as Humphrey, Lord Dacre of
Gilsland, Sir Thomas Strickland and Sir Christopher Moresby.70 The
Tunstall connection, despite its paucity of tangible assets,
nevertheless proved valuable some sixty years later when Cuthber
Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, took very seriously his cousinly duty to
befriend and advise the widowed Lady Maud Parr. By Sir Thomas's
death, between mid-November and 4 December 1461, the Parrs had
risen in less than a century from a position as all but landless
retainers in the household of the Duke of Lancaster to a place as
prominent landholders among the Westmorland gentry. Sir Thomas
had expanded his grandfather's influence by securing a monopoly of
the northwestern shrievalties, as well as the shire seats in parliament.
By 1461, when Sir Thomas and his family's contribution to the Yorkist
cause was about to launch the Parrs into the court circle, Sir Thomas
Parr's position in Westmorland was paramount and unassailable. He
had emerged from the mass of local gentry to stand alone as the man
or power in Kendal. There were men with nobler titles, who held land
and influence in the north, but in Kendal they exercised their influence
through Parr. The last Lancastrian king had offered very little to Parr as
an inducement for support. With the accession of the house York, the
Parrs became royal favourites. The change in administration meant for
Thomas Parr a broadening of prospects and opportunities, and
although he did not live long enough to take full benefit of these, his
sons enjoyed an enviable position as intimates of Edward IV until their
deaths. The eldest son, William, was made a Knight of the Garter, an
honour commemorated on his fine altar-tomb in the Parr Chapel of
Kendal parish church. And his grandson, another Sir Thomas, was not
only controller to Henry VIII but father of that monarch's last wife ó
Katherine. {S20}
Thomas was sub-vice Comes for Westmorland from 1428 to 1437,
and was sheriff from 1461 to 1475. He was assaulted in going to
parliament in 1446, the case being noticed in parliament and took an
active part in the wars of the Roses on the Yorkist side; he was
attainted in 1459, with the other leading Yorkists (ib. v. 348-50).
Doubtless his attainder was reversed in 1461, as he died (in 1464-S5,
S6,S23)(24 NOV 1464-S8). CHILDREN: William PARRE [F13], John
PARRE [F14], Thomas PARRE [F15], Margaret PARRE [F16], Ann
PARRE [F17], Elizabeth PARRE [F18], Agnes PARRE [F19], Maud
PARRE [F20], Eleanor PARRE [F21]. {S5, S6,S8,S19,S20,S23}.

Sir Thomas PARR. (PARYE-S18). Master of the Wards. KG.
Comptroller to Henry VIII. Born about 1483, of Kendal and of Greens
Norton, Northamptonshire; son of Sir William PARRE [F13] and
Elizabeth FITZHUGH. He married Maud (Matilda) GREENE, daughter
of Sir Thomas GREEN and Joan Fogge, of Greeneís Norton and
Boughton, Northamptonshire, in 1508. Maud was born in 1493 and
died 1 SEP 1531-1532. Thomas was knighted. Sheriff of
Northamptonshire in 1509. Sheriff of Lincoln in 1510. He was rich,
owing to his succeeding, in 1512, to half the estates of his cousin,
Lord Fitz-Hugh, and also to his marriage with Maud, daughter and
coheiress of Sir Thomas Green of Boughton and Greens Norton in
Northamptonshire. He died on (November 1517-S15)(12 November
1518-S6)(12 Nov 1547-S5), and was buried in Blackfriars Church,
London. Upon his death, he was seised of various lands in Parr and
Sutton, and a toft in Wigan, one parcel being held of Thomas, earl of
Derby, by knight's service and the yearly rent of 15d., being thus
identified with the quarter of a moiety held by William [F10] in 1370;
another part was held of the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem by the rent
of 12d.; and a third, of Bryan Parr, by the rent of 17d. (Duchy of Lanc.
Inq. p.m. v, n. 8.). His widow died on 1 September 1532, and was
buried beside him. CHILDREN: William PARR [F30], Agnes PARR
[F31], Anne PARR [F32], Catherine PARR [F33], Thomas PARR [F34].
{S5,S6,S8, S15,S19,S23}.

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20FAMILY%20STUDY.html
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Leicestershire outline map

wikipedia - 13:38, 1 July 2007 Jza84

PARKER

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Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet,: Containing a Series of Elegant Views ...
by James Storer, James Sargant Storer, John Greig
Published in 1811, Published for theproprietors by W. Clarke... J. Carpenter ... andH.D. Symonds

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United States Coast Guard

SURNAME PARKER
- Margaret PARKER (John Moran)
immigration date(s) Around 1865 Canada to Michigan
area(s) settled - Canada - Mountain, Dnds
- Canada - Ekfrid, Middlesex, Ontario
- Michigan - Port Huron-
area)s Parker family from -
- Edwardsburg, Johnston, Ontario, Canada
- Portsmouth, Newport - RI
--Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co NJ
- Kent, England

4
Margaret PARKER
born - Canada - Mountain, Dnds - 24 Nov 1832
died - Michigan - Harbor Beach, Huron - : 7 Mar 1918
Married
JOHN MORAN
born - Ireland - Killarney, Erie - 24 Jun 1832
died - Michigan - Sand Beach Twp, Huron - 11 Apr 1917
Children
1. James Solomon MORAN 3 May 1855
2. Anna MORAN 22 Dec 1857
3. Mary MORAN 4 Jul 1859
4. Margaret MORAN 10 May 1862
5. Living MORAN
6. Emma Esther MORAN 17 Jul 1864
7. Sarah MORAN 10 Jun 1866
8. Caroline MORAN 25 Jul 1871
9. Jeremiah MORAN 25 Jul 1871
10. Ella MORAN 25 Nov 1874

Source -
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Transportation outfit -

Transportation outfit - party of E.R. Martin. International Boundary Commission. Continental
Divide to Lake of Woods
Image ID: theb0709, NOAA's Historic Coast & Geodetic Survey (C&GS) Collection
Location: U. S.- Canada border, 49th Parallel
Photo Date: 1914
Credit: NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library; C&GS Season's Report Martin 1914
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JgdB&v%3aframe=viewimage&v%3astate=(root)|root&id=Ndoc14&rpaid=&
Thursday, July 16, 2009

SURNAME PARKER
- Solomon PARKER (Nancy WELCH)
5
Solomon PARKER
born - Canada - Grenvile, Ontario - 24 Aug 1804
Christening:- Luthern Church, Williamburg - 9 Sep 1804
died - MT - Anaconda, Deer Lodge - 8 May 1884
married - Dec 1826
Nancy WELCH
born - Canada - Ontario - 7 Jan 1811
died - Canada - Ekfrid, Middlesex, Ontario - 16 Dec 1850
Children
1.Amy PARKER Canada - Mountain, Dundas, Ontario - 2 Sep 1827
2. William PARKER Canada - Mountain, Dundas, Ontario 11 Jul 1830
3 Margaret PARKER Canada - Mountain, Dundas, Ontario 24 Nov 1832
4.James PARKER Canada - Mountain, Dundas, Ontario 25 Mar 1836
5. John PARKER Canada - Ekfrid, Mddlsex, Ontario - 24 Feb 1838
6.Robert George PARKER Canada - Ekfrid, Mddlsex, Ontario - 14 Jul 1841
7. Providence Jane PARKER Canada - Ekfrid, Mddlsex, Ontario - 24 Mar 1844
8. Lydia Ann PARKER Canada - Ekfrid, Mddlsex, Ontario - 19 Nov 1847
9. Thomas PARKER Canada - Ekfrid, Mddlsex, Ontario - 14 Dec 1850

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immigration date(s) 1856 Canada to Utah
route of transportation - Capt. Knud Peterson's Ox train,
area(s) settled - Edwardsburg, Johnston, Ontario, Canada
- Utah
- Deer Lodge - Montana
area)s Parker family from -
- Edwardsburg, Johnston, Ontario, Canada
- Portsmouth, Newport - RI
--Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co NJ
- Kent, England

5
Solomon PARKER
born - Canada - Grenvile, Ontario - 24 Aug 1804
Christening:- Luthern Church, Williamburg - 9 Sep 1804
died - MT - Anaconda, Deer Lodge - 8 May 1884
married - Dec 1826
Nancy WELCH
born - Canada - Ontario - 7 Jan 1811
died - Canada - Ekfrid, Middlesex, Ontario - 16 Dec 1850
Children
1.Amy PARKER Canada - Mountain, Dundas, Ontario - 2 Sep 1827
2. William PARKER Canada - Mountain, Dundas, Ontario 11 Jul 1830
3 Margaret PARKER Canada - Mountain, Dundas, Ontario 24 Nov 1832
4.James PARKER Canada - Mountain, Dundas, Ontario 25 Mar 1836
5. John PARKER Canada - Ekfrid, Mddlsex, Ontario - 24 Feb 1838
6.Robert George PARKER Canada - Ekfrid, Mddlsex, Ontario - 14 Jul 1841
7. Providence Jane PARKER Canada - Ekfrid, Mddlsex, Ontario - 24 Mar 1844
8. Lydia Ann PARKER Canada - Ekfrid, Mddlsex, Ontario - 19 Nov 1847
9. Thomas PARKER Canada - Ekfrid, Mddlsex, Ontario - 14 Dec 1850

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"Solomon Parker was born August 25, 1804 in Edwardsburg, Johnston, Ontario,
Canada. He was the eighth child of Robert James Parker and Providence Miller. He
married first Ann Custin of Preston, second Nancy Welch and third Mary Catherine
Green. Solomon Parker immigrated from Canada to Utah in 1856 and recorded in
Journal Histories October 15, 1856 and September 20, 1856 (pages 1-8),
"Solomon Parker and family came from Canada as passengers on Capt. Knud
Peterson's Ox train, which arrived in Great Salt Lake on September 1856. (250
Scandinavians), 14 wagon English emigrants. Left Florence, Nebraska about June
10, 1856. Joseph Parker was also a passenger. While in Canada, Solomon Parker
bought on March 5, 1851 100 acres of land from George T. Goodhue in Middlesex.
Paid 7 pounds (N 1/2 lot N. Con) Solomon sold on April 28, 1856 100 acres of land
to Thomas Cook for 312 pounds 10 shillings. The sale of the land was immediately
before his departure for Utah. Solomon Parker spent the last years of his life with a
couple of his sons from his marriage to Nancy Welch in Deer Lodge, Montana, and
died there May 8, 1884.
provided by John Ira Parker of Elko, Nevada - family records to Laura Greene, 1999."

Source: Family information copied from the book
"The Life and Times of Alonzo Hamilton Packer and his wife Lydia Ann Parker"
Compiled by John A. Freestone

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United Empire Loyalist statue and plaque in
Hamilton, Ontario.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Author User:Saforrest 24 October 2007

THE PLAQUE ON THIS STATUE READS -:

"This monument is dedicated to the lasting memory of the United Empire
Loyalists who, after the Declaration of Independence, came into British
North America from the seceded American colonies and who, with faith and
fortitude, and under great pioneering difficulties, largely laid the foundations
of this Canadian nation as an integral part of the British Empire. Neither
confiscation of their property, the pitiless persecution of their kinsmen in
revolt, nor the galling chains of inprisonment could break their spirits, or
divorce them from a loyalty almost without parallel.
No country ever had such founders --
No country in the world --
No, not since the days of Abraham. - Lady Tennyson"

File:United Empire Loyalist statue and plaque in Hamilton, Ontario.jpg - Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia:
Author User:Saforrest 24 October 2007
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United_Empire_Loyalist_statue_and_plaque_in_Hamilton,_Ontario.jpg
Thursday, July 02, 2009

6
Robert James PARKER
born - New Jersey - Freehold, Monmoth - 7 Jan 1762
died - Canada - Sorel, Quebec
married - Canada - Edwardsburg, Granville, Ontario - January 1785
Providence MILLER
born - New York - Mhwk Valley - 10 Oct 1768
died -
Children
1. John PARKER Canada - Ontario - 10 Oct 1785
2. William PARKER Canada - Ontario - around 1787
3.James PARKER Canada - Ontario - 14 Feb 1792 -1793
4. Charles PARKER Canada - Ontario - 1793
5. Joseph PARKER b Canada - Ontario - 18 Feb 1795
6. Catherine PARKER Canada - Ontario - 23 Mar 1798
7. Joshua PARKER Canada - Ontario - 23 Mar 1798
8. Hannah PARKER Canada - Ontario - 20 Aug 1801/1804
9.Robert PARKER Canada - Ontario - 8 May 1803
10. Solomon Ellis PARKER - Canada - Edwardsburgh, Grenville, Ontario - 25 Aug 1804
c:Williamburg - Luthern Church- 9 Sep 1804
11. Lydia Ann PARKER Canada - Ontario 1805
12. Thomas PARKER Canada - Ontario - 24 Aug 1806

Source:
The Life and Times of Alonzo Hamilton Packer and his wife Lydia Ann Parker"
Compiled by John A. Freestone
Appendix A-13
Robert Parker
"Robert Parker felt loyalty to the British Crown so after the Revolutionary
War he moved to make his home in Ontario, Canada. He married Providence
Miller (1766-?) and they had a son named Solomon Parker."

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"Robert Parker felt loyalty to the British Crown so after the
Revolutionary War he moved to make his home in Ontario, Canada.
He married Providence Miller (1766-?) and they had a son named
Solomon Parker."

Source:
The Life and Times of Alonzo Hamilton Packer and his wife Lydia Ann Parker"
Compiled by John A. Freestone
Appendix A-13

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Central Railroad Station, Freehold, NJ. postcard

"Thomas PARKER [Parents] was born in 1736 in Montgomery,
Somerset, NJ. He died on 31 Jul 1822 in Tennant Church,
Freehold, Monmouth, NJ. He married Sarah STOUT in 1775.
Other marriages:
JAMES, Amy'

Posted By: Mary Vanderheydt
Subject: Re: Parker's/Parkertown, NJ...can you help?
Post Date: January 07, 2001 at 15:52:08
Message URL:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/parker/messages/9948.html
Forum: Parker Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/parker/

"Hi Ann, glad to hear from you. I don't know at thi time if we are
related. On page 271 of "Parkers in America" by Agustus Parker,
and page
202 in "Old Times in Old Monmouth" by William S. Horner, we are
descended from Thomas Parker born Oct. 31, 1737. Thomas 1st.
mar. Amy James, had son William, our line. His second wife was
Sarah Stout,and had son Joel Parker, who was Gov. of New Jersy.
The family stories coming down through family stories and bible
records are quite interesting. But the family tradition says Parkers
of Ieish descent, and he married a kidnapped girl from Scotland as
a child, and he found living with indians in New Jersy.We have
several family stories, about my ancestprs, all very interesting. After
you do your research in Las Vegas, we can see if we can tie it
together. Good Luck Mary"

Posted By: Mary Vanderheydt
Subject: Re: Parker's/Parkertown, NJ...can you help?
Post Date: January 06, 2001 at 22:00:08
Message URL:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/parker/messages/9937.html
Forum: Parker Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/parker/
Thursday, July 02, 2009
____________________
"THOMAS PARKER
Compact Disc #13 Pin #997273
Sex: M
Event(s):
Birth: 1730
Place: FREEHOLD,MONMOUTH,NJ,USA
Death: 31 Jul 1822
Place: TENNANT CHURCH,FREEHOLD,MONMOUTH,NJ
Parents:
Father:
DAVID PARKER Disc #13 Pin #1002521
Mother:
MARY RHEA Disc #13 Pin #1002522
Spouse:
SARAH STOUT Disc #13 Pin #1002525
Marriage: 1775
Spouse:
AMEY JAMES Disc #13 Pin #997274
_________________________________________
Thomas Parker
Compact Disc #19 Pin #149691
Sex: M
Event(s):
Birth: 21 Sep 1737
Place: Freehold,Monmouth,New Jersey
Death: 31 Jul 1822
Place: Freehold,Monmouth,New Jersey
Parents:
Father: Joseph Parker Disc #19 Pin #149693
Mother: Hannah Andrews Disc #19 Pin #149694
Marriage(s):
Spouse: Amey James Disc #19 Pin #149692
Marriage: abt 1760
Place: Freehold,Monmouth,New Jersey
Spouse: Sarah Stout Disc #19 Pin #149703

Sarah STOUT died on 20 Mar 1829. She married Thomas PARKER
in 1775.

Thomas PARKER died 31 Jul 1822, being 84 years, 10 months old.
His second wife was Sarah STOUT Bills (died 20 Mar 1829, 71
years, 5 months, 17 days). They had several children... only two that
we know: Joseph PARKER - father of William PARKER (known as
"Rich Billy") Charles PARKER - sheriff of Monmouth and Treasurer
of New Jersey. He married Sarah COWARD. His children were
Helen PARKER (married Rev. George BURROWS), Mary PARKER
(married John B. GLOVER) and Judge Joel PARKER (married Maria
GUNMERE). (The information on these children of Thomas' 2nd
wife came from "This Old Monmouth of Ours," Horner, 1932.)

Joseph PARKER was born about 1708 in , , Of New Jersey. He
married Mrs Joseph PARKER about 1737 in , , Of New Jersey."

http://www.gencircles.com/users/aakarma/1/data/12614
Ginni Schluetz
Thursday, July 02, 2009

"Joseph PARKER 1 7 SmartMatches
Birth: Probably Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co, NJ 1
Death: Before. 21 Jun 1777 in Little Egg Harbor, Burlington Co, NJ 1
Sex: M
Father:
Mother:
Burial: Friends Burial Groung, Tuckerton, Ocean Co, NJ 1
Spouses & Children
Elizabeth ? (Wife)
1
Marriage: in Probably New Jersey
Hannah ANDREWS (Wife)
1
Marriage: 1721 in Little Egg Harbor, Burlington Co, NJ
Children:
Thomas PARKER
Elizabeth PARKER
Joseph PARKER
Peter PARKER
Samuel PARKER
Alice PARKER
Sarah PARKER
Hannah PARKER

Hannah OSBORN (Wife)
1
Marriage: 1739 in Little Egg Harbor, Burlington Co, NJ
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sources
Title: ;Moser/Frank Family Tree - Glenda Frank Moser -
joma2991@aol.com

Mrs Joseph PARKER was born about 1708 in , , Of New Jersey. She
married Joseph PARKER about 1737 in , , Of New Jersey.
They had the following children:
M i Thomas PARKER"

Ancestors of Myron Mike Crandall - pafg47 - Generated by Personal Ancestral
File:
Myron Mike Crandall Saturday, May 24, 2008 12:20:42 AM
http://www.myancestrallegacy.com/crandall/pafg47.htm
Thursday, July 16, 2009
SURNAME PARKER
- Thomas PARKER (Amy James)

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Thomas PARKER
born - New Jersey - Montgomery, Somerset 1736
married - New Jersey - Montgomery, Somerset - 1761
died - New Jersey - Freehold, Monmouth County 31 JUL 1822
Amy JAMES
born - New Jersey - Freehold, Monmouth - 1740
died -
Children
1. Robert James PARKER - New jersey - Freehold, Monmoth - 7 Jan 1762
2. Ann PARKER - New jersey - Freehold, Monmoth - 15 May 1763
3. Amey PARKER - New jersey - Freehold, Monmoth - 16 Feb 1765
4. John T. PARKER - New jersey - Montgomery, Somerset - 1 Jun 1766
5. Thomas PARKER New jersey - Montgomery, Somerset - 16 Mar 1768
6. William PARKER New jersey - Montgomery, Somerset - 14 Oct 1769
7 .Amey PARKER - New jersey - Montgomery, Somerset - 8 Feb 1772
8. Lydia PARKER - New jersey - Montgomery - 26 Nov 1773
9. Anthony PARKER - New jersey - Montgomery - 13 Sep 1775

Sources:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:
3068862&id=I570193867
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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Shrewsbury Meetinghouse Postcard from about 1900

SURNAME PARKER
- Joseph PARKER (Unknown)
area(s) settled - - New Jersey - Monmouth county - Little Egg Harbor, Shrewsbury
religion - Society of Friends - Quaker
country from - England
occupation(s) -
farm is now called Parkertown

8
Joesph Parker and his many wives

Joseph Parker
born - NJ - Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co 24 NOV 1701
died - NJ - Parkertown, Little Egg Harbor, Burlington Co - 21 JUN 1777
buried - NJ - Tuckerton, Burlington Co - Friends Graveyard

1 married - NJ - Tuckerton, Burlington Co - SEP 1721
Hannah Andrews
born - NJ - Tuckerton, Burlington Co - 11 JUL 1700
died - NJ - Parkertown, Little Egg Harbor, Burlington Co - 1739

2 married - 24 FEB 1725/26
Deborah Worthley
born - NJ - Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co - 12 APR 1703
died -

3 married - NJ - Parkertown, Little Egg Harbor, Burlington Co - 1739
Hannah Osborn
born - NJ - Burlington Co.- 8 DEC 1706
died - NJ - Parkertown, Burlington Co - 1744

4 married - 1745
Elizabeth Parker
born -
died -

Marriage 1 Hannah Andrews SEP 1721
Children
1. Elizabeth Parker 4 DEC 1722
2. Samuel Parker 1723 AND 1724
3. Alice Parker 31 AUG 1724
4. Sarah Parker 1727 AND 1729
5. Joseph Parker 1730
6. Peter Parker 1733
7. Hannah Parker 23 FEB 1733/34
8. Thomas Parker 1735 - 1739

Marriage 2 Deborah Worthley 24 FEB 1725/26
Children
1. Joseph Parker b: 17 JAN 1726/27
2. John Parker b: 7 FEB 1730/31
3. Joseph Parker b: 21 AUG 1733
4. John Parker b: 15 MAY 1735
5. William Parker b: 7 SEP 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., NJ

Marriage 3 Hannah Osborn 1739

Marriage 4 Elizabeth Parker : 1745
Children
1. Ann Parker b: 12 AUG 1759 in Parkertown, Burlington Co., NJ

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Joseph Parker
born - NJ - Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co 24 NOV 1701
died - NJ - Parkertown, Little Egg Harbor, Burlington Co - 21 JUN 1777
buried - NJ - Tuckerton, Burlington Co - Friends Graveyard
married
Many Choices
Children
1. Parker Thomas

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Joseph Sr. PARKER
born - New jersey - Shrewsbury, Monmouth County - 24 NOV 1701
died - New jersey - Parkertown, Burlington County - 1779
Married: - New jersey - Tuckerton, Burlington County - 1721
Hannah ANDREWS
born - New jersey - Little Egg Harbor Twp., Burlington County - 11 JUL
1700
died - New Jersey - Parkertown, Burlington County - 1739

Children
1 Elizabeth PARKER .- New Jersey - Parkertown, Burlington County - 4
DEC 1722
2. Alice PARKER .- New Jersey - Parkertown, Burlington County - 31
AUG 1724
3. Joseph PARKER , Jr .- New Jersey - Parkertown, Burlington County
Between 1726 - 1727
4. Peter PARKER .- New Jersey - Parkertown, Burlington County -
Between 1728 AND 1729
5. Samuel PARKER , Sr.- New Jersey - Parkertown, Burlington County
Between 1729 - 1730
6.Sarah PARKER - New Jersey - Parkertown, Burlington County -
Between 1732 - 1733
7. Hannah PARKER - New Jersey - Parkertown, Burlington County -
23 FEB 1734 - 35
8. Thomas PARKER - New Jersey - Parkertown, Burlington County -
1735 - 1739

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"On August 12, 1721, Joseph Parker of Shrewsbury, appeared before
the Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends to
publish his intentions to marry Hannah Andrews, daughter of Edward
Andrews (first white settler of present day Tuckerton, NJ] and Sara Ong.
As was customary with the Society of Friends they published their
intentions to marry a second time on September 9, 1721:
At our monthly meeting held in our meeting house the 9th day of the 9th
month 1721. Joseph Parker and Hannah Andrews appeared the
second time at this meeting and published their intentions of marriage
and Joseph Parker brought a certificate from Shrewsbury and having
the consent of his parents and finding nothing to obstruct they are left to
accomplish their marriage according to the good order used amongst
friends and Gervey Pharo and Jacob Ong are appointed to see that it is
so done; ....
At our monthly meeting held in our meeting house the 14th day of the
10th month 1721. Gervay Pharo and Jacob Ong gave an account that
Joseph Parker and Hannah Andrews their marriage was accomplished
according to good order." (LEH Monthly Meeting Minutes 1715-1762
Page 12).
In the same year Joseph Parker purchased a large tract of property. It
was on this tract of land that a large portion of his descendents
remained until well into the 20th Century. Today the Joseph Parker
farm is now called Parkertown. It should be noted that I have not yet
confirmed Joseph Parker's parentage. At the time that Joseph Parker
settled in Little Egg Harbor, Shrewsbury contained numerous Parker
families. However, all of these families were related to the three
brothers, Joseph, Peter and George who settled in Monmouth County
from Rhode Island in the mid 1660's. These families continued to use
the same given names for decades, and some for centuries, after they
first settled in this country. Though I do have my doubts whether our
Joseph Parker (1701-1776) is the son of Joseph Parker (1675-1723), I
have no doubts that he is a direct relation of that family."

Sources:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3110257&id=I2331
Updated: 2005-07-22 10:46:00 UTC (Fri) Contact: Brad Heaney
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
"Burial-Places. - The oldest burial-ground in Little Egg Harbor is that of
the. Friends at Tuckerton, established by Edward Andrews in 1708.

.......Joseph Parker, Sr., and his two wives, Hannah and Hannah....
---------------------------------
Marriages Recorded in Friends' Monthly Meeting. - The following is a
list of marriages, with a few interesting items, recorded in the books of
the Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting of Friends:

1721, Joseph Parker, of Shrewsbury, and Hannah Andrews married.

1739, Joseph Parker, Sr., and Hannah (daughter of Richard Osborn,
Sr.)
married, this being Parker's second wife.

1740, Micajah Willits and Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Parker, Sr.)
married.

1745, Samuel Belanger and Alice (daughter of Joseph Parker, Sr.)
married.

1749, Edward Havens and Sarah (daughter of Joseph Parker, Sr.)
married.

1755, Joseph Parker, Jr., and Edith (daughter of Mordecai Audrews, Jr.)
married.

1757, Peter Parker, Sr., and Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Seaman,
Sr.)
married.

1783, Caleb Osborn and Ann Parker married."

From: JCeeNJ
Source Information: HISTORY OF BURLINGTON AND MERCER COUNTIES, NEW
JERSEY,
by Major E.M. Woodward & John F. Hageman. ILLUSTRATED.
PHILADELPHIA: EVERTS & PECK. 1883 PRESS OF J.B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,
PHILADELPHIA.

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Friday, July 24, 2009

A female Quaker preaches (c.1723)

wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AssemblyOfQuakers.jpg
from en wikipedia. Quaker Meeting in London: A female Quaker preaches (c.1723), engraving by
Bernard Picard (1673-1733).

"The Quakers were known for their egalitarian treatment of women. A female preacher was unheard
of in other 18th century western churches.
(curiously the caption on this French version appears to a re-translation of the English, rather than
using the original caption on the engraving)"
From
* http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Annodomini/THEME_14/EN/theme14-4-sec.html
* or http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Annodomini/THEME_14/FR/theme-fr-14-4-sec.html

File:AssemblyOfQuakers.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
15:03, 23 June 2005 Matanya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AssemblyOfQuakers.jpg
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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Joseph Parker
New jersey - Shrewsbury, Monmouth County - : 28 Jun 1675
died - New jersey - Parkertown, Little Egg Harbor, Burlington County
- 21 JUN 1777
Married: New jersey - Shrewsbury, Monmouth - 7 FEB 1698 - 99
Elizabeth Lippincott
born - New jersey - Shrewsbury - Monmouth County - 29 NOV 1677
died - New jersey - Tuckertown - Monmouth County - 7 JAN 1671/72
children
1. Thomas Parker - ABT 1693
2. Margaret Parker - 20 MAR 1699/00
3. Joseph Parker - New Jersey Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co - 24 NOV 1701
4.George Parker - 24 OCT 1703
5. Benjamin Parker -: 22 JAN 1704 - 05
6. Peter Parker - 10 JUN 1708
7. William Parker - 13 AUG 1709
8.James Parker -: 30 DEC 1714
9. Elizabeth Parker - 11 NOV 1716
10. Meribah Parker - 11 NOV 1716
11. Phoebe Parker - 1 MAR 1718 -19

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL MISCELLANY, by John Stillwell, M.D.; Vol. 1;
NY 1903;
The Friends’ Records of Shrewsbury, N. J., Vol. 1

"The preponderating religious element in the early days of Shrewsbury was
Quaker. As soon as a sufficient number of families of this faith were settled upon
this tract, they established a meeting, which convened at the various houses.
George FOX records in his Journal, 27th of 6 mo., 1672, that he arrived at Richard
HARTSHORN’s, at Middletown Harbor, which was in a new country now called
Jersey; went from there to Shrewsbury, and they were building a new meeting
house there. It was evidently not ready for occupancy, for FOX preached near where
now stands the station of the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Little Silver, under
the shade of a tree that stood in the corner of the road that leads to Shrewsbury
Meeting House.* One tradition has it, that this primitive house was built of brick
imported from Holland, another, that it was of logs. In the center of the room a brick
floor was used as a fire-place, corresponding to which, overhead, was a sheet-iron
canopy, leading to the roof. This building stood until 1815, when it was torn down
and rebuilt of wood, in the following year. As has ever been the case among them,
they started a record of births, marriages, and deaths, which has been continued
without interruption, from their earliest inception to date. The first volume shows
much marginal wear and decay, and in time it is likely to be lost from these
causes. It is here produced, as is also the second volume, as literally as possible.
*Parker tradition" A Record off the MARRIAGES off the PEOPLE off GOD to SCORN
CALLED QUAKERS and ------ BORN ------ beginning"

HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL MISCELLANY, by John Stillwell, M.D.; Vol. 1;
NY 1903;
pp. 249, 250
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/NJMONMOU/2008-07/1217191402
David - NJ List Admin/Moderator
From: LindaB Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:50:23 EDT
Subject: [NJMONMOU] shrewsbury Quaker marriages and witnesses pps248-252
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

"1699, 7th of 2d mo. , [in margin 27th of 2d mo., 1704], Joseph PARKER,
of Monmouth Co., md. to Elizabeth LIPPINCOTT, both of Shrews., at
house of Remembrance [LIPPINCOTT ?]
Witnesses:
Remembrance LIPPINCOTT Joseph PARKER
John LIPPINCOTT Elizabeth PARKER
Nathanell PARKER Margrett LIPPINCOTT
Peter PARKER Meribah SLOCOM
Richard LIPPINCOTT Mary HULITT
Edward WOOLLEY Ann LIPPINCOTT
Josiph LIPPINCOTT Lydia WOOLLEY
William ASTIN Mary LIPPINCOTT
John HANCE Mary STOREMAN
John LIPPINCOTT, Jr. Sarah LIPPINCOTT
George CORLEIS Mary WHITE
Preserve LIPPINCOTT Faith HUETT
Robert LIPPINCOTT Susana BICKLEY
William WORTH Margrett LEEDS
Franses BORDEN Jane BORDEN
Abigaell LIPPINCOTT Janitt [?] ALLEN
Abigaell DENNIS Sarah WARDELL
Sarah WHITE
Mary CHAMBERS
Mary HEARCE
Meribah WARDELL
Patience WARDELL"

HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL MISCELLANY, by John Stillwell, M.D.; Vol. 1;
NY 1903;
pp. 249, 250
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/NJMONMOU/2008-07/1217353823
David - NJ List Admin/Moderator
From: LindaB Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:50:23 EDT
Subject: [NJMONMOU] shrewsbury Quaker marriages and witnesses pps248-252
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

"Monmouth County History
taken from "HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ATLAS
OF THE NEW JERSEY COAST Originally published by
Woolman & Rose of Philadelphia 1878
History of Shrewsbury Township-1878

Shrewsbury Township was incorporated in 1798. It was first settled soon after the
township of Middletown, in 1664.

In 1682 several thousand acres were under cultivation. The population is 6330.
The principal towns are Red Bank, Tinton Falls, Shrewsbury, Fair Haven, and
Oceanic.

This township, which originally covered a large part of Monmouth and Ocean
counties, is now greatly shorn of its dimensions. It is bounded on the north by
Middletown Township; on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, Eatontown and Ocean
townships; on the sourth by Wall, and on the west by Atlantic and Middletown
townships.

Shrewsbury is the largest village in the northern part of the township, twelve miles
east of Freehold, and is situated in a thriving agricultural district. It had one
Episcopal and one Presbyterian church and two Friends' meeting-houses. It is
said to have been first settled by Congregationalists, but the Society of Friends
was first organized/"

Monmouth County History-Woolman & Rose:
Last updated: 08/12/2009 19:24:03 UTC - Colts Neck, New Jersey /
http://ceresfamily.com/public/history/wr32.html
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Title Budd's Lake, New Jersey, no. 53590
Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
1035187:Photographic views of North America.
[Detroit, Mich.] : Detroit Photographic Co. or Detroit Publishing Co., ca. 1897-1924.
Call Number WA Photos 121 Folder or box number Vol. 5
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/brbldl_getrec.asp?fld=img&id=1035187
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

SURNAME PARKER
Joseph PARKER (Margaret Slocum)
area(s) settled - Rhode Island - Portsmouth
- New Jersey - Monmouth county - Shrewsbury township
admitted an "inhabitant" -
freeman - 1668 - Rhode Island - Portsmouth
country from - England
occupation(s) -
large landowner
1675 - justice of the peace
1676 - 1682 - justice of the court
1682 - commissioner to lay out roads - levy taxes
member of the Assembly

10
Joseph Parker
born - RI - Portsmouth, Newport - 1634
died - NJ - Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co - 18 OCT 1684
married -
Margaret Unknown
born - NJ - Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co - around 1653
died - NJ - Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co - 5 JAN 1682/83
Children
1. Mary Parker : 1 DEC 1674
2 Joseph Parker : 28 JUN 1675
3. Nathanial Parker : 20 JUL 1679
4. Peter Parker : 4 OCT 1681

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7
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

10
Joseph Parker
Margaret Slocum

MEMORIAL CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW JERSEY
UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF MARY DEPUE OGDEN
VOLUME III
MEMORIAL HISTORY COMPANY NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 1917
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Canada Geese (Branta canadensis)
crossing road in Little Silver, New Jersey, USA

wikipedia - Wikijazz 15 January 2007

"Joseph, eldest son of George and Frances Parker, was born not later than 1636, and
was taken to Rhode Island with his parents.

He was made a freeman of Portsmouth in 1668, but in 1669 was in Monmouth county,
New Jersey, where he exchanged lands in Portsmouth for land in Monmouth county,
New Jersey, then settled in Shrewsbury township, where he became a very large
landowner, his holdings, reaching from river to river, including the site of the present
village of Little Silver. It is said that this name comes from the fact that in its original
transfer from the Indians they received therefor "little silver." Joseph Parker's first house
was near the bridge crossing Parker's creek. He was made a justice of the peace in
1675, and in 1676 was appointed a justice of the court, holding until 1682, and was also
a member of the Assembly. In 1682 he was appointed a commissioner to lay out roads
and to levy taxes.

He died at Shrewsbury, August 18, 1684, aged about forty-eight years, leaving most of
his property to his son, Joseph. He married Margaret Slocum, and had sons, Joseph,
Nathaniel and Peter."

MEMORIAL CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW JERSEY
UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF MARY DEPUE OGDEN
VOLUME III
MEMORIAL HISTORY COMPANY NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 1917
Thursday, July 16, 2009

"Administration of Estate: 15 May 1685, Monmouth, NJ
Genealogy of Charles Myrick Thurston and of his wife, Rachel Hall Pitman,
by their son Charles Myrick Thurston, 1865, p 40, Google Books Online
database: “In a deed from Joseph Parker to Nicholas Brown, December 28,
1669, he calls himself the eldest son of George Parker, and mentions his
mother as Frances Brown. The deed conveyed property sold by George
Parker to Brown, but he (George Parker) died before he could give a deed.
History of Monmouth County, New Jersey 1664-1920, Vol II, pp 465-466,
Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Google Books Online databse: “Among the
Associate Patentees of Monmouth were John Slocum, Joseph and Peter
Parker and Eliakim Wardell, who located in 1668.”

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

"Little Silver is a Borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the
United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 6,170. Boy Scout Troop 126 is
affiliated with the town of Little Silver.

Little Silver was established with a Kings Land Grant in 1663 and settled in 1667. Little
Silver separated from Shrewsbury Township and incorporated as a Borough by an Act of
the New Jersey Legislature on March 19, 1923, from portions of Shrewsbury Township,
based on the results of a referendum held on April 28, 1923

There are several tales of how Little Silver received its name. In one, brothers Joseph
and Peter Parker, who settled in this area in 1667 and owned land bounded by Parker's
Creek on the south and Little Silver Creek on the north, named their holdings "Little
Silver" after their father's (George Parker) estate in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.[10] This in
turn can be traced overseas to Little Silver, a village in Devonshire, England"

Little Silver, New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Silver,_New_Jersey
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Image ID: line3319, NOAA's America's Coastlines Collection
Location: Rhode Island, Block Island
Credit: Collection of Elinor Dewire, Sentinel Publications
NOAA Photo Library Search Results: Rhode Island:
Saturday, August 22, 2009

SURNAME PARKER
- George PARKER (Frances DARBYE)
ship name - Elizabeth and Ann - Robert Cooper, master
immigration date(s) 1635 - spring - twenty years year old
area(s) settled - Rhode Island - Portsmouth
admitted an "inhabitant" - 1638
freeman - March 16, 1641
country from - England
occupation(s) -
skilled wood worker
1641- until death - October, 1656 - sergeant of the court

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George Parker
born - MAR 1611/12
died - RI - Portsmouth, Newport - 1656
married - RI
Frances Brown
born - RI - Portsmouth, Newport - around 1613
died - RI
Children
1. Joseph Parker RI - Portsmouth, Newport - 1638
2. Peter Parker -: RI - Portsmouth, Newport - 1638
3. George Parker -: RI - Portsmouth, Newport - 1640
4. John Parker -: RI - Portsmouth, Newport - 1645
5. Mary Parker -England - St. Peters, Sudbury, Suffolk 1646
6. Frances Parker -: RI - Portsmouth, Newport - 1650
7. Meribah Parker -: RI - Portsmouth, Newport - 1652

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Saturday, July 25, 2009

11
Frances Brown
born - Rhode Island -Portsmouth, Newport, 1613
married - Rhode Island -Portsmouth, Newport 1633

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NJ USA:
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Friday, December 18, 2009

11
Frances DARBYE

GENEALOGIES OF R.I.FAMILIES, VOL. II, ONE BRANCH OF
THE RHODE ISLAND SHEFFIELDS, by G. Andrews Moriarty, A.
M., LL.B., F.S.A., pages 158.
1. "Mr." Ichabod Scheffield, ... He married in Portsmouth, in
1660, Mary Parker, daughter of George Parker of that town (cf,
The Register, op.cit.; Austin's Gen. Dic. of RI, p. 175; Arnold's
Vital Rec. of Rhode Island, vol. 4, p. 39).

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Saturday, August 22, 2009

11
Frances JOHNSON

"Sources:

1. Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Title: "FamilySearch® Ancestral File™ v4.19"
Publication: 3 Feb 2001
Repository:
Name: SLC - Family History Library
Salt Lake City, UT 84150 U.S.A.
SLC - Family History Library
25 N. West Temple Street
Salt Lake City
UT
84150
U.S.A.
2. Author: Larson, Kirk
Title: "Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson"
Publication: Personal Research Works including Bethune & Hohenlohe
Descendants, 1981-2001, Kirk Larson, Private Library
Repository:
Name: Kirk Larson
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 U.S.A.
Kirk Larson
23512 Belmar Dr.
Laguna Niguel
CA
92677
U.S.A.
3. Author: Torrey, Clarence Almon
Title: "New England Marriages: Prior to 1700"
Publication: 13 Feb 2001
Repository:
Name: Chino - Family History Library
Chino, CA 91709 U.S.A.
Chino - Family History Library
3354 Eucalyptus Street
Chino
CA
91709
U.S.A.
Page: p. 108, 557
4. Author: President General, Mrs. Eldred Martin Yochim
Title: "Daughters of the American Revolution magazine"
Publication: 12 Feb 2001
Text: DESCRIPTION: 693 p. ; 23 cm. NOTES: Includes bibliographical
references and index. SUBJECTS: United States--Genealogy.
Repository:
Name: Barbara Renick
Brea, CA 92823 U.S.A.
Barbara Renick
311 Copa de Oro
Brea
CA
92823
U.S.A.
Page: 57:349 1936-Boston Transcript No. 2697
5. Author: MacKenzie, George Norbury
Title: "Colonial Families of the United States of America"
Publication: (Baltimore:MD, Genealogical Publishing Co., (1907-1920)
repr. 1995), GPC #3590
Repository:
Name: Central Los Angeles Public Library
Los Angeles, CA 90071 U.S.A.
Central Los Angeles Public Library
630 W. Fifth Street
Los Angeles
CA
90071
U.S.A.
Page: 19:221, H 44:281
6. Author: Babcock, Stephen
Title: "Babcock and Allied Families Genealogy"
Publication: (Boston:MA, NEHGS, 1903) NEHGS #P3-01700
Repository:
Name: Central Los Angeles Public Library
Los Angeles, CA 90071 U.S.A.
Central Los Angeles Public Library
630 W. Fifth Street
Los Angeles
CA
90071
U.S.A."

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Updated: 2004-05-11 23:52:40 UTC (Tue) Contact: Kirk Larson
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2640299&id=I545268872

11
"George Parker- Frances . Frances Parker.
313. George Parker, aged 23 years, was a passenger from London in the
Elizabeth and Ann, May n, 1634, for New England. He was an inhabitant of the
island of Acqucednecke in 1638. He was a freeman in Newport, January 1z,
1640, and in Portsmouth in 1655. He marrier1 Frances . He died in 1656.
Children.
314—1. Joseph, settled in Shrewsbury, N. J.
315—z. Frances, married Benjamin Hall.
316—3. Mary, married Ichabod Sheffield.
317—4. John.

In a deed from Joseph Parker to Nicholas Brown, December z8, 1669, he
calls himself the eldest son of George Parker, and mentions his mother as
Frances Brown. The deed conveyed property sold by George Parker to Brown,
but he (George Parker) died before he could give a deed. Frances Parker may
have been a sister or a wife of Nicholas Brown, who was in Portsmouth in
1639, and died there in 1694; his will, dated November 16, 1694, and proved
December 27, 1694, does not mention her name."

Descendants of Edward Thurston, the ... - Google Books:
Descendants of Edward Thurston, the first of the name in the colony of Rhode ...
By Charles Myrick Thurston
page 39
Monday, July 27, 2009 11:56:07 PM
Charles Myrick Xhurston ]AND OF HIS WIFE, RACHEL HALL PITMAN, Formerly Of
Newport, R.I.
After December, 1840, Of New York.
COLLECTED FOR THE FAMILY BY THEIR SON,
CHARLES MYRICK THURSTON.
1865.
With an APPENDIX, containing the names of many descendant! of
EDWARD THURSTON and HENRY PITMAN.
NEW YORK: [ PRINTED BY JOHN F. TROW & CO., 50 GREENE ST.

St Clements Church, SandwichPostcard: The Rapid Photo Printing Co. Ltd. London
http://bygonedaysphotography.blogspot.com/2009/01/clara-catherine-cradduck_22.html
22 January 2009 Clara Catherine Cradduck
Strangers in a Box: Clara Catherine Cradduck:
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

"The Church of St. Clement's is a vicarage, the parsonage of which has ever
heen part of the possessions of the archdeacon of Canterhury, to whom the
appropriation of the Church helonged, as appears hy Rilhurn, in his survey of this
county, in the reign of Edward III. when it was valued at eight marks per annum"

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George Parker
born - England
died - 23 JAN 1657 - 58
Married - England -St Clements, Sandwich, Kent - 30 JUL 1610
Mary White
born - England - Margate, Kent - before 1589
died -
Children
1. Elizabeth Parker 1611
2. George Parker - Rhode Island - Portsmouth, Newport - March 1611 - 12
3. Thomasine Parker 1615
4. Sarah Parker 1617
5. Robert Parker 1619
6. Anne Parker 1621
7. John Parker 1625
8. Magaret Parker ABT 1627

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Thursday, July 02, 2009

12
George Parker
born - England
died - 23 JAN 1657 - 58
Married - England -St Clements, Sandwich, Kent - 30 JUL 1610
Mary White
born - England - Margate, Kent - before 1589
died -

OF ORLEANS

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Wormser Dom in 1832

42
Gerold I of VINZGAU
Imma of ALLEMANIA - Duchess of Swabia
"Gerold of Vinzgouw (730-799) was an Alamannian nobleman, serving the Frankish
King as Margrave of the Avarian March and Prefect of Bavaria. Gerold played a
significant role in the integration of Bavaria into the Frankish Kingdom. Being related to
the family of the Agilofings, he was appointed Prefect of Bavaria after the deposition of
Duke Tassilo III in 788. In 784 generous donations to the monastery of Lorsch by
Gerold and Emma are recorded.
In 799 he fell in a battle against the Avars, a short while after his son Eric was killed by
the treachery of the same. He was succeeded by his surviving sons Gerold II and
Udalrich I. In 757, he married Emma or Imma (730–789), daughter of Hnabi, Duke of
Alamannia. Gerold is reckoned as the founder of the family of the Udalrichians.
(Wikipedia)"

ORCHARD

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Church of St Thomas, Thurlbear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
11:58, 25 April 2009 Rodw

"The Church of St Thomas in the village of Thurlbear, which is in the parish of Orchard Portman, Somerset,
England dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.[1]

The church shows clear signs of the Norman church upon which later structures were built. Pevsner cites the
Norman arcades and narrow aisles characteristic of that era and "never enlarged to satisfy later medieval
taste." He dates the church to "hardly later than c. 1110."

"Orchard Portman is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 2 miles (3.2 km) south of
Taunton in the Taunton Deane district. The village has a population of 150.[1]

The parish includes the hamlet of Thurlbear and the nearby Thurlbear Wood and Quarrylands Site of
Special Scientific Interest.

The estate was known as Orceard and was given by King Æthelwulf of Wessex to Taunton's minster
church in 854.[2]

By 1135 the manor had passed to Elfric de Orchard and his descendants one of whom, Christina de
Orchard"

Orchard Portman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard_Portman
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

"As early as the 9th century an estate called 'Orceard' was claiming the attention of powerful men; for in
about the year 854, it appears that Aethewulf, pious king of the West Saxons, gave the estate and
another called 'Stoce' to the minster church of Taunton, mother church of the Vale. The minster's
new-won territory was a large and varied domain, covering the whole of the later parish of Orchard
Portman together with parts of Corfe and Stoke St. Mary.
The land at Orchard was no doubt the prize, and the name it bore - signifying either an orchard in the
usual sense or a garden - speaks of fruitfulness and a measure of intensive cultivation
A Saxon charter solemnly recorder King Aethewulf's gift, and included a description of the estate
boundaries which is our first imperfect guide to the local landscape. The minster lands were bounded
on Stoke Hill by a brook and a 'holy spring' (the latter almost certainly the spring now called Rook's
Well). A great bank and ditch, still prominent in the landscape, formed an unbroken boundary from the
yet more ancient farm at Greenway in Thurlbear to Broughton Farm in Stoke; and at Shoreditch, on the
northern borders of Orchard itself, the charter speaks of the 'foryrthe', or projecting piece of ploughland.
Following then the course of the 'Alder Brook', the boundary went southward into a steep-sided valley
called 'Orcerd Cumbe' and was lost in deep woodland above Corfe.

In 904 the minster and its territories were bought by Bishop of Winchester but Orchard did not remain
indefinitely under the Bishops direct control. By 1135, one Elfric de Orchard was in possession as the
Bishop's military tenant and thereafter Orchard was always to be administered as a largely
independent manor governed by its own lord.

Before 1250 great open fields, divided into unenclosed strips, were established over the level plain
which reached south from Ruishton to Henlade. They made their appearance as well at Hatch
Beauchamp, Stoke St. Mary and Orchard Portman, their pattern in the landscape fossilized by hedges
dating from the late Middle Ages.

Documents of the 14th century allow us to picture the manor of Orchard more clearly. A survey in 1348
records the six 'free' tenants and 31 'bond' tenants who worked the manor, and who formed part of a
community which in good times must have exceeded 150 souls. John Seton held a house and 20
acres; eight of his fellows had 10 acres apiece but others like Alice Hatherich and Lucy Parcombes
had mere cottages with a tiny share in the 200 acres or so which were tenant land.

Thomas de Orchard was lord of the manor in 1348, but was destined to bring his somewhat
disreputable life to a close that year as yet another victim of the Black Death then sweeping the country.
Thomas was succeeded by his young son John de Orchard who was made a ward of Bishop Edington
of Winchester. The de Orchard family enjoyed their prosperity for almost a century more. Then sons
failed and a daughter, Christina de Orchard, was left the family representitive as the Middle Ages drew
to a close. She married Sir Philip Car of Cockington who died young in 1437 but a Taunton merchant
with gentry ambitions was soon at her door seeking to make Christina his wife. Walter Portman was
the name of that merchant.

Walter found himself favourably received by the widow Christina and at some date in or before 1450
they were married. That marriage though short lived, was decisive for the Portmans, uniting their
undoubted talents with social status and modest landed wealth in a mixture which would prove
unstoppable. When Walter's son John wrote home to 'hys Ryght Worshypfull Moder' it was from the
Temple in London that he addressed her, providing some lawerly advice for the now widowed
Christina on how to deal with her rebellious tenants. His own son, another John, achieved distinction
as a lawyer and is buried in the Temple Church in 1521"

The villages of
Stoke St. Mary, Thurlbear and Orchard Portman, Somerset, England.
http://www.stokestmary.net/historyop.htm
Thursday, February 15, 2007
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