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The following is taken from pages 27-28 of a book entitled "Ingatestone and the Essex Great Road with Fryerning" by Mrs. Archibald Christy, published 1913. Important notes and connections have been underlined.   Anthony died while still quite young, and the Berner’s property seems to have been passed to his infant son and his cousin Griseld as co-heirs.  The boy was called Anthony after his father, and was perhaps brought up with Griseld’s own boy of the same age, for his mother, the...

The following is taken from pages 27-28 of a book entitled "Ingatestone and the Essex Great Road with Fryerning" by Mrs. Archibald Christy, published 1913. Important notes and connections have been underlined.   Anthony died while still quite young, and the Berner’s property seems to have been passed to his infant son and his cousin Griseld as co-heirs.  The boy was called Anthony after his father, and was perhaps brought up with Griseld’s own boy of the same age, for his mother, the...

The following is taken from pages 27-28 of a book entitled "Ingatestone and the Essex Great Road with Fryerning" by Mrs. Archibald Christy, published 1913. Important notes and connections have been underlined.   Anthony died while still quite young, and the Berner’s property seems to have been passed to his infant son and his cousin Griseld as co-heirs.  The boy was called Anthony after his father, and was perhaps brought up with Griseld’s own boy of the same age, for his mother, the...

William Barnes II was born by 1533, the first son of William Barnes I.  He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Eden of Sudbury, Suffolk. There was a Barnes family at Bold in Lancashire, but unless William Barnes II is to be identified with either William Barne or William Barnes I he almost certainly came of the Essex family and was thus presumably a nominee of Sir Robert Rochester, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster. As owners of Fryerning, the Barnes family were neighbours and friends...

    The following was found on a site, adapted from a book entitled "Ancestor and Descendants of Thomas Hill and Rebecca Miles" by Sr. Mary Louise Donnelly.        Frances Harvey, the daughter of Nicholas Harvey, was born in England in 1641.  As an infant in arms, Frances was brought to Maryland and lived with her parents at St. Joseph's Manor for about a year.  In 1642 during the Ingle rebellion Frances, at the age of one, was taken to Virginia for safety.  While in hiding in Virginia, her...

Martin Van Buren Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States (1837-1841), after serving as the eighth Vice President and the tenth Secretary of State, both under President Andrew Jackson. While the country was prosperous when the "Little Magician" was elected, less than three months later the financial panic of 1837 punctured the prosperity. Only about 5 feet, 6 inches tall, but trim and erect, Martin Van Buren dressed fastidiously. His impeccable appearance...

A Life in Brief Martin Van Buren said that the two happiest days of his life were his entrance into the office of President and his surrender of the office. While his political opponents were glad to see him go - they nicknamed him "Martin Van Ruin" - many Americans were not. Even though he lost the 1840 presidential election, Van Buren received 40,000 more votes than he had in his 1836 victory. In subsequent years, historians have come to regard Van Buren as integral to the development of...

The family derived its name from Besford (near Pershore), and by Alexander’s death had acquired the manors of Flyford Flavell, ‘More’ and Hill near Fladbury, as well as property in Worcester. Alexander Besford was probably the grandson of the Worcestershire MP of the same name who had sat in 1313, 1315 and 1324. He inherited the family property by 1376, when Joan Corbet, relict of Sir Robert Harley of Willey, Shropshire, made a quitclaim to him of certain lands at Pershore and Besford. 2...