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The family of Anne Byne of Burwash (born 1605)
In yesterday’s post about the family of Sussex-born London apothecary John Manser (1631 – 1681), I concluded that he was the son of Christopher and Anne Manser of Burwash, and that his mother Anne was...
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Keziah and Eliza Holdsworth: two cousins and their connections
One of the intriguing things about my maternal family tree is the fact that two of my great-great-great-grandmothers were cousins. My great-great-grandfather Daniel Roe married my...
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Keziah Holdsworth (1804 – 1881): from Oxford to Ealing via Stepney and Soho
In the previous post I wrote about two of my maternal great-great-great-grandmothers who were first cousins: Keziah and Eliza Holdsworth. In this post I want to tell Keziah’s life story, and in another...
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Eliza Holdsworth (1801 – 1885): a life in service
In recent posts I’ve been exploring the lives of two of my maternal great-great-great-grandmothers, who happened to be first cousins. In the last post I wrote about Keziah Holdsworth, and this post I...
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A Seager family photograph?
Jill Hiam has contacted me from Melbourne, Australia, asking for help with identifying the people in an old photograph apparently taken at a golf club. Jill explains: My Great Great Grandfather was...
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Links between the Byne and Manser families: a recap
A few months ago I wrote about the connections between my 8 x great grandfather John Byne (1651 – 1689), a London citizen and stationer, and his Tower Hill neighbour, John Manser (1631 – 1681), a...
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Bynes and Mansers: brothers and cousins in seventeenth-century London
My 9 x great grandfather Magnus Byne was born in Burwash, Sussex, in 1615, in the twelfth year of the reign of King James I. He was the son of yeoman farmer Stephen Byne and his wife Mary Manser. In...
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My ancestors’ lives illuminated by recent reading
I’ve just finished reading Adrian Tinniswood’s The Verneys: Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England. It’s an absorbing account of one family’s story, based on an unusually comprehensive...
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More information about William Wane (died 1626)
Yesterday I noted that William Wane, my 10 x great grandfather, was ordained in 1598 in Chichester, when Lancelot Andrewes, the noted scholar and mentor of the poet George Herbert, was bishop. I’ve...
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The Fowle family
The other day I wrote about my 10 x great grandfather William Wane (1576 – 1626), the rector of Clayton-cum-Keymer in Sussex. His daughter Anne (1611 – 1661) married Magnus Byne (1615 – 1671), one of...
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The will of Thomas Fowle of Lamberhurst (1450 – 1525)
In the previous post I offered an overview of the Fowle family of Kent and Sussex, with whom I’m connected via my 11 x great grandfather Edward Byne of Burwash, who married Agnes Fowle, daughter of...
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‘To our blessed Lady and to all the saints of hevyn’: the pre-Reformation...
Despite its brevity, the will of my 15 x great grandfather Thomas Fowle of Lamberhurst, Kent, who died in 1525, is interesting for a number of reasons. Its preamble reminds us that during Thomas’...
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Bartholomew Fowle and the Southwark connection
The 1525 will of my 15 x great grandfather, Thomas Fowle of Lamberhurst, Kent, tells us that he was survived by his wife, whom he appoints his executrix, by his daughter Elizabeth who was not yet...
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Magnus Fowle of Mayfield (died 1595)
My last post discussed Bartholomew Fowle, the last prior of St Mary Overy, Southwark, before Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries, and his possible connection with my 13 x great grandfather Gabriel...
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Recusants and iron masters: reflections on the will of Magnus Fowle
What do we learn from the will of my 12 x great grandfather Magnus Fowle, a transcription of which I posted the other day? First of all, we discover when he died: the will was written on 30th July 1595...
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The Ashburnhams: recusancy and conformity in a Sussex family
In his will of 1595, my 12 x great grandfather Magnus Fowle of Mayfield, Sussex, left twenty shillings in gold to Eleanor Ashburnham, the daughter of John and Isabel Ashburnham. I’ve discovered that...
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More information about Magnus Fowle
In the last few posts I’ve been exploring the will of my 13 x great grandfather, Magnus Fowle, of Mayfield in Sussex, who died in 1595 or 1596. In this post, I want to share what we now know about...
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The will of John Hardyman, merchant of Lewes (died 1600)
My 13 x great grandfather Gabriel Fowle (1507 – 1555), who was master of the Free Grammar School in Southover, Lewes, in Sussex, is said to have had two children. One was my 12 x great grandfather...
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Reflections on the will of John Harman of Lewes
In the previous post I shared my transcription of the will of John Harman, a merchant of Lewes in Sussex, who died in 1600. Harman was the husband of Agnes Fowle, sister of my 12 x great grandfather...
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The will of Agnes Byne of Burwash (died 1626)
In recent posts I’ve explored the life and times of my 12 x great grandfather Magnus Fowle of Mayfield in Sussex, who died in 1596. According to his will, Magnus had only one surviving child, a...
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