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Messages - Vance Mead

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Kent / Re: The Axon Family of Walmer and Deal
« on: Yesterday at 17:09 »
As for James' birth and parents:

in Walmer
buried 24 February 1821, age 48, born 1773
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGNL-HGP2

in Stockport
James bastard child of Mary Axon baptised the 26th day, March 1773
image 17
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DTF7-N4Q?i=33&cc=1614792

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Kent / Re: The Axon Family of Walmer and Deal
« on: Sunday 14 April 24 12:54 BST (UK)  »
There's a baptism of Joseph Axon, the son of James and Sarah, at New Romney St Nicholas, on 28 June 1797. Is this the same family?

https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/581859dbe93790ec8b3e8714/joseph-axon-baptism-kent-new-romney-1797-06-28?locale=en


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Kent / Re: The Axon Family of Walmer and Deal
« on: Saturday 13 April 24 15:25 BST (UK)  »
Was James Axon the first of this family to live in that area?

There was an earlier Axon, Francis Axon of Deal, tailor, who left a will and inventory in 1638.

https://wills.canterbury-cathedral.org/
Will   Axon   Francis   Deal   1638   1638      PRC/31/108 A/7      1638
Inv   Axon   Francis   Deal   1638   1638   PRC/28/20/406      Tailor, Will   1638

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1554 will beginning & Probate
« on: Friday 12 April 24 16:22 BST (UK)  »
The original date appears to be 24 December, which is possible, given that the will was made on the 1st of December.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1554 will beginning & Probate
« on: Friday 12 April 24 15:29 BST (UK)  »
It looks like lxj to me. Probate must have been delayed for quite some time. That would explain all the cross-outs and replacements.

One interesting feature is the Protestant feeling of the will, during the reign of P & M.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1554 will beginning & Probate
« on: Friday 12 April 24 12:24 BST (UK)  »
Here's the first part. I have modernized the spelling.

John Barton the elder of Hadlow
In the name of God Amen, the first day of December in the year of our lord God a thousand five hundred fifty and four, and in the first and second years of the reigns of our sovereign lord & lady king Philip & queen Mary, I John Barton the elder of Hadlowe in the county of Kent, yeoman, sick of body but of perfect good remembrance, thanks be unto God, do ordain & make this my testament & last will in manner & form following. And first I bequeath my soul unto almighty God my saviour & redeemer by the merit of whose passion I trust to be saved & my body I will to be buried in the churchyard of Hadlowe aforesaid at the discretion of my executors & overseers. item I bequeath to the vicar of Hadlow xs. Also I will that my exec...

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London and Middlesex / Re: John Knyffe 1469!
« on: Friday 12 April 24 07:18 BST (UK)  »
Here's one more, in Common Pleas, though I don't know how relevant he might be,

1477 Knyfe, John, of Penne, laborer
https://waalt.uh.edu/index.php/CP40/861

third entry, John Wylcokkys, plaintiff
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/E4/CP40no861/bCP40no861dorses/IMG_0606.htm

Since Penne is just three miles from High Wycombe, he might be connected. I'm not sure how high status a courser or horse trader might be, closer to a merchant or a peddler?


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London and Middlesex / Re: John Knyffe 1469!
« on: Thursday 11 April 24 08:09 BST (UK)  »
Here are some more references to John Knyf and Thomas.

1446 John Knyf citizen and 'corsour' of London, in Close Rolls.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen6/vol4/pp431-436

1448 and 1452 John Knyf or Knyffe, "corsour", surety
https://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/239804116?GET&FILE=[WWW_LMA]simple_search.htm

1458 John Knyfe, plaintiff in Common Pleas. This doesn't give any more information, but it was in London.
https://waalt.uh.edu/index.php/CP40/788

Letter Books of London, 1470, Matilda Knif, widow, and Thomas, son of John Knyf, late "corser". Thomas was under-age.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-letter-books/voll/pp83-91

1492 Knyff, Thomas, of Iseldon (Islington), gentleman, a defendant for debt in Common Pleas.
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/Indices/CP40Indices/CP40no919/CP40no919Act.htm

1508 the executors of Knyff, Thomas, of Iseldon, Middx, gentleman, (Darset, William, of London, gent; Bayly, Richard, of St John Strete, Middx, yeoman), defendants in Common Pleas.
https://waalt.uh.edu/index.php/CP40no983

Since Thomas Knyff was described as a gentleman, he could be in other records, such as Heralds' Visitations. There are some records of a Knyff family in Upton-cum-Chalvey, Bucks. This is about 10 miles from High Wycombe, so that could be a connection.

Footnote 5
https://archive.org/details/historyantiquiti_03lips/page/n261/mode/2up?view=theater

1420 Knyf, Thomas, of Upton, Bucks, gent
https://waalt.uh.edu/index.php/CP40/636

Boulstrode of Upton, has Margaret the daughter of Thomas Knyffe
https://archive.org/details/fourvisitationso5657ryla/page/78/mode/2up?view=theater

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Buckinghamshire Lookup Requests / Re: Parents of George Beale (1789-1857)
« on: Tuesday 09 April 24 10:35 BST (UK)  »
There aren't many Beal wills  at the right time, just these two:

Charles Beal, of Ledburn, Mentmore, yeoman, 1802
Ann Beall, of Ledburn, Mentmore, widow, 1811

https://shop.buckscc.gov.uk/s4s/WhereILive/Council?pageId=2347&pid=36803787-1a6a-4c46-bbfb-a5ad00f89b6b&supId=c988f85e-be98-4bf3-b184-a5ad00efd350&bcgId=fcea1611-2a26-4a1d-a4a6-b480f7423e14

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