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Edward Byne, Puritan minister
My 9 x great grandfather, Magnus Byne (1615-1671), was the rector of Clayton-cum-Keymer in Sussex, and the author of a famous diatribe against the Quakers. Magnus was the father of London citizen and...
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John Bodington, apothecary, and the Byne and Greene families
My recent explorations of the Byne and Manser families of Sussex began with the discovery that the maiden name of my 7 x great grandmother, the wife of London citizen and goldsmith Joseph Greene (1677...
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The last will and testament of John Bodington, apothecary (died 1728)
An apothecary’s shop In the last post I mentioned the case of John Bodington, the London apothecary whose will of 1728 mentions my 7 x great grandfather, goldsmith Joseph Greene, his wife Mary, and the...
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Some thoughts on the will of John Bodington, apothecary
The last will and testament of early-eighteenth-century London apothecary John Bodington, a transcription of which I published in the previous post, is interesting for a number of reasons. Firstly, the...
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The various John Bodingtons of Stepney
John Bodington, the London apothecary whose will I discussed in the last post, lived in the hamlet of Ratcliffe. When he died in 1728, he was buried in the churchyard of St Dunstan and All Saints,...
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John Bodington: son-in-law and apprentice to William Greene, chirurgeon
I’m extremely grateful to Joy Thomas, archivist at the Worshipful Company of Barbers, for her speedy and helpful reply to my query about John Bodington, barber-surgeon of Stepney, who I believe was...
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Richard Roades: yet another chirurgeon in 17th century Stepney
My investigation of the life of John Bodington, the London apothecary who died in 1728 and who was connected in some way with my 7 x great grandfather Joseph Greene, has led me back to William Greene,...
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Revisiting the records for William Greene, chirurgeon
With my renewed interest in William Greene, the seventeenth-century Stepney surgeon who may turn out, after all, to be one of my ancestors, I’ve decided to go back and look at him afresh, since there...
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The children of William Greene, chirurgeon
I’m grateful to my fellow researcher and distant relative Ron Roe for his comments on my recent reflections concerning William Greene, the seventeenth-century Stepney chirurgeon who may yet turn out to...
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One surgeon and two apothecaries: three generations of John Bodingtons in...
I’m grateful to Janet Payne, Archives Volunteer at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, for responding to my enquiries about John Bodington of Stepney. Her information provides valuable...
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Written before the mast: the last will and testament of Alexander Curtis
Earlier this week I wrote about the daughters of William Greene, the 17th century Stepney chirurgeon who may turn out to be one of my ancestors. By researching his family, I’m hoping to discover...
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Who were the Windles?
My 5 x great grandmother Elizabeth Holdsworth née Gibson died on 1st March 1809 at the age of 76 and was buried a week later in the churchyard of St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney. In her last will...
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Thomas Windle Esquire of Mile End Old Town
In the last post I wrote about the family of Richard Eykin Windle, a London surgeon and apothecary at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who acted as executor of the will of my 5 x...
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Windle, Connop, Thirlwall, Holdsworth
In the previous post I wrote about Thomas Windle, a gentleman and magistrate who lived in Mile End Old Town at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, and who was one of the executors of the will of...
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‘When the Queenes Maiestye is satisfied’: the Elizabethan will of John Manser
Mary Manser or Maunser of Wadhurst in Sussex was my 10 x great grandmother. In 1611 she married Stephen Byne of Burwash. Their son, Rev. Magnus Byne (1615 – 1671), and his first wife Anne, had a son...
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Thomas Forrest, citizen and haberdasher (died 1678)
I’ve managed to push one of the branches of my maternal family tree back another generation. Three months ago, I discovered that my 7 x great grandmother Mary Greene née Byne, wife of London citizen...
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The Boulton family of London and Worcestershire
Last week I discovered a new ancestor: my 9 x great grandfather Thomas Forrest, a London citizen and haberdasher who lived at Little Tower Hill in the parish of St Botolph, Aldgate, and who died in...
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The will of Richard Boulton Esquire of St Olave, Hart Street (died 1737)
Yesterday I wrote about the Boulton family, whose name occurs in the wills of both my 8 x great grandmother Alice Byne née Forrest (died 1738) and her uncle William Forrest (died 1700). I speculated...
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Analysing the will of Richard Boulton Esquire
In the previous post I shared my transcription of the last will and testament of Richard Boulton of the parish of St Olave Hart Street, an early eighteenth-century gentleman associated with the East...
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The will of Captain Richard Boulton Junior of Perdiswell, Worcestershire
Three years after the death of his uncle, Richard Boulton the elder, whose will of 1737 I discussed in the previous post, Captain Richard Boulton Junior of the East India Company made his own last...
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