MILDRED STEWART SHEPARD'S ROYAL ANCESTORS

Probably all of the members of this Shepard/Stewart family remember Mildred Shepard telling us that she was descended from many kings and queens! Here, in list form, you will see what Mildred was talking about. You will notice titles of Sir, Earl, Lady, Lord, and the like, as this list  goes back in time. These are titles of royalty.... descendants of Kings and Queens who had governmental duties to perform such as collecting taxes, serving in battles, leading battalions, parliamentary positions, and so forth.

The list begins with:
Our eighth great grandparents: Sir John Crandall and Elizabeth Drake of Monmouthshire, Wales until the early 1600s (see more about them in the Shepard blog written recently).

 Ninth great grandparents: Robert Drake of Devonshire, England and Elizabeth Prideaux who were married in the Anglican Church, Kings Nympton, Devon, England on the 4th of May in 1560.

 10th gg: John Drake of Mt. Drake, Ashe, and Exmouth, England and Amye Greenville of Stow, Cornwall, England. Amye died in 1619 in Devon, England.

 11th gg: Roger Greenville and his wife, Margaret Whilleigh

 12th gg: Thomas Greenville and his wife, Elizabeth Gilbert

 13th gg: William Greenville and his wife, Phillipa Bobville

 14th gg: William Greenville and his wife, Elizabeth Gorges

 15th gg: Theobald Greenville and his wife, Margaret DeCourtney

 16th gg: Hugh DeCourtney of Hacombe, Devonshire, England. He died in 1425. Spouse: Maude Bearmount

17th gg: Edward DeCourtney and his spouse, Lady Emeline Modeford who was born about 1330 in Modeford,  Somerset, England

18th gg: Sir Hugh DeCourtney, 10th Earl of Devon who was born 12 Jul 1303 and his wife, Lady Margaret DeBohun. They were married on 11 Aug 1325. Sir Hugh died 2 May 1377 and was buried at Exeter Cathedral. Margaret was born 3 Apr 1311 in Coldecote, Northampshire, England. She was age 14 when she married. She died 16 Dec 1391.

19th gg: Humphrey DeBohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and his wife, Princess Elizabeth Plantagenet of Rhuddan who was born at Pheshey Castle, Essex, England. Humphrey died 6 Mar 1322 in the Battle of Boroughbridge in Yorkshire, England.

20th gg: King Edward I who was born at Westminster Palace on the 17th of Jun 1239. His wife, Eleanora of Castile, was born in 1244. She was age 10 and he was age 15 when they married in 1254. Edward died 7 Jul 1307 in Burghby Sands, United Kingdom.

21st gg: King Henry III was born on 1 Oct 1207 at Winchester Castle. He married Eleanor of Provence, France in Jan 1236 in Canterbury. He died in 16 Nov 1272 in Westminster. Eleanor was born 1222 in Provence and died in 1291.

22nd gg: John "Lackland", King of England was born in 1167 and died 1216. His wife was Isabella of Angouleme.

23rd gg: King Henry Plantagenet II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Henry died in 1204. He was the only Plantagenet king who added his surname to his title. He had flaming red hair and he thought it handsome to wear the yellow broom flower in his hat, which in French was called "genet". 

To learn much, much more about the Plantagenets and their descendants, I recommend the book that my son, Dwan Shepard, purchased for us Oregon Shepards: "THE PLANTAGENETS" by Dan Jones. It is written in narrative style and easy to read. Subtitle: "The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England". Wikipedia and encyclopedias have brief entries about most of the folks on this list that FamilySearch.org helped me to compile. 

Humphrey Pinney Family

"HUMPHREY PINNEY (Pynney, Pinne), the son of John Pinney, came to America in the Mary and John with Rev. Mr. Warham's  company in 1630, and settled at Dorchester, where he married Mary Hull, who had been a fellow passenger. His immediate ancestors appear to have resided in Broadway, Somersetshire, England which is in Chard Union, in the deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taunton, diocese of Bath and Wells, Hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, West Somerset.

 From the will of Humphrey’s uncle, Edmund Pynney of Broadway, dated 1631, we learn that Edmund was buried in the south aisle of Broadway Church, in a tomb called The Pinney Tomb. Broadway Church is a small, ancient, but beautiful structure, situated in a picturesque churchyard, adorned with yews, located upon a little knoll in an extensive valley, about two miles from the rise of the hill …commanding one of the finest views in Somerset County. 

Broadway, a long, straggling village of some 400 agricultural inhabitants, an almshouse, etc., is said to have taken its name from a Roman road which led to Nevocke Forest… Pinney’s Ground…is in Ile Abbots, an adjoining village, boasting of a still more beautiful little church.

 Edmund Pynney’s will informs us that he had a brother JOHN the elder, and a brother JOHN the younger; a sister ALICE, who married a Way; a sister JOHANNA who married Giles Godwin. John the elder married Johanna ___, and had children (1) ELIZABETH, (2) EDMOND, (3) RICHARD, (4) ROGER, (5) NICHOLAS, (6) WILLIAM, (7) HUMPHREY (the emigrant to Dorchester and Windsor), (8) JOHN OF EXETER, (9) AGNES (prob. M. John House), (10) MARY (prob. M. Thos. Pearce), (11) SARAH (poss. m. John Turberfield), (12) ALICE (poss. m. Wm. Standerwicke).

 Humphrey Pinney was an original member of the Dorchester Church; removed to and settled at Windsor in 1635; and his residence was on the East side of the main street, about a mile and a quarter north of the present Congregational Church on lot N. and adjoining Gov. Haynes lot, which lay between Dea. Wm. Gaylord’s lot and “Mr.” Pinney’s lot… He died 20 Aug 1683; his widow died 18 Aug 1684."

 Below is a list of the Pinney children (all but the eldest born in Windsor):

 1636  Samuel, b. Dorchester
1641  Nathaniel, our ancestor
1644  Mary
1648  Sarah
1651  John
1654  Abigail

HUMPHREY PINNEY
BORN: 1600 in Broadway, Somersetshire, England
MARRIED: 14 May 1634 in Dorchester, Massachusetts
DIED: 20 Aug 1683 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

MARIE MARY HULL
BORN: 27 Jul 1618 in Crewkerne, England
DIED: 18 Aug 1684 in Windsor, Hartford, CT 
SOURCES: ancestry.com FAMILIES OF ANCIENT WINDSOR CONNECTICUT, Consisting of VOLUME II, The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut; Including East Windsor, South Windsor, Bloomfield, Windsor Locks, and Ellington, 1635-1891, by HENRY R. STILES. Excerpts about the Pinney family, beginning on image, page 610.

THE FAMILY OF WILLIAM AND MARY ANN (DOVER) PHELPS

Our eighth great grandfather, William Phelps, the Colonist, had two wives with children. (1) Mary (surname unknown), buried in England in 1626, and (2) Anne Dover, our 8th great grandmother, who probably accompanied him and children from both marriages to Dorchester, Massachusetts, a town later subsumed as a neighborhood of Boston. They left Plymouth, England aboard the ship, "Mary and John",  on the 20th of March, 1630 and arrived in Natasket, MA (now Hull).

The names and birthdates of  William's children correspond to the records later found in the American colony. The marriage to Mary Phelps, born in Crewkerne, England is estimated to have been between 1615–1618, as their first child William was baptized at Crewkerne on September 9, 1618. Mary and William had four children, all baptized before 1625 at Crewkerne: William, Samuel, an unnamed infant who died young, and Nathaniel. Mary was buried at Crewkerne on August 13, 1626.

 William's marriage to Ann Dover was three months after Mary's death, William married Ann Dover at Crewkerne, on November 14, 1626. They had four children in England: Cornelius, Joseph and Mary (twins), and another child named Mary. Researchers can not find further records of Cornelius or either of the two girls named Mary, and presume they all died young. After arriving in the Colonies, Ann and William had three more children: Sarah, Timothy, and a third Mary. Records in the Colonies have been found for the children named Joseph, Sarah, Timothy and the last Mary, corresponding to records from the International Genealogical Index in Somerset listing the names of William Phelps' children from both wives. The child named Timothy is our ancestor, who was born in 1639 in Windsor, Hartford, CT.

Mistress Phelps was the first on the list of women members of the church at Dorchester who came with Mr. Warham to Windsor. She died in Windsor in 1689.

WILLIAM PHELPS
BORN: 28 Feb 1599 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England
MARRIED: 14 Nov 1626 in Crewkerne
DIED: 14 Jul 1672 in Dorchester, Massachusetts

ANN DOVER
BORN: 1610 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England
DIED: 30 Aug 1689 in Windsor, Hartford, CT
SOURCES: "The Great Migration" by Anderson; Researcher, Brian T. Phelps 

THE FAMILY OF JOHN AND ALICE (GARMENT) WHITMARSH

John and Alice were both born in Weymouth, Dorset, England. John was born in 1595 and Alice was born in 1600. They were married on the 9th of June in 1623. Six of their children were born in Weymouth, England. Their seventh child, Simon, was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Below is their list of birthdates:

Mar 1624 John, our ancestor
Dec 1624 James
       1627 Jane
       1630 Onesephirus (male, called Joseph)
      1632 Richard
      1633 Nicholas
      1637 Simon
 
" John Whitmarsh, immigrant ancester of the Whitmarsh family in America was one of Rev. Joseph Hull's company that sailed from Weymouth, England March 20, 1635. The family is given in the Passenger list as follows:
 John Whitmarsh, aged 39 years
 Alice Whitmarsh, aged 35 years
 James Whitmarsh, his son, aged 11 years 
Jane Whitmarsh, his daughter, aged 7 years
 Onesephorus Whitmarsh, his son, aged 5 years
 Richard Whitmarsh, his son, aged 2 years."

[This list is apparently incomplete because two sons, John and Nicholas, are missing.]

 "On 8 July 1635 the General Court of Massacchusetts, passed an order, permitting Rev. Joseph Hull's company of 11 families to settle at Wessaguscus incorporated under the name of Weymouth, Mass. 2 Sep 1635." 

John Whitmarsh owned several pieces of land in Weymouth, before 1644.
Genealogies of Early Families of Weymouth, MA; p. 759; "He [John Whitmarsh] received grants of land in Weymouth (Suffolk, Massachusetts) and settled there. His lands included two acres upon the plain, three acres upon King Oak Hill, two acres in the west field, besides other lots. About 1644 a description of the lands of Nicholas, Richard, Onesephorus and Simon Whitmarsh mentions nine acres in the westerneck first given to their father John Whitmarsh dec'd. In a description of John Harding's land, mention is made of land which he gave to John Whitmarsh son of the aforesaid John Whitmarsh. Hence John Whitmarsh, Sr., died near 1644." 

"!FAMILY-LAND: Sketch of Weymouth; FHL book 974.47/W1 B4w No. 2; p. 247-50; list of this company that came with  Rev. Joseph Hull to Weymouth  20 Mar 1635; Jn'o Whitmarsk aged 39 yeare, Alce Whitmarke his Wife aged 35 yeare, Jm's Whitmarcke his sonne aged 11 yeare, Jane his daught'r aged 7 yeare, Onseph Whitmarke his sonne aged 5 yeare, Rich. Whytemark his sonne aged 2 yeare. p. 281; John Whitmarsh, #20, on 26 Nov 1651 list of property owners, The great lots named in the old town Book and formerly granted to be laid out on the East side of  Fresh Pond next to Mrs. Richard's mill  joining the small lots formerly laid out butting on Fresh Pond to run 18 rods towards Hingham line and in case any lots run beyound the pond they shal be upon the same Line. p. 282-3; John Whitmarsh  has 9 Acres in Lot #16 on the west side ot town, bounding upon the Braintree line, in 1663 list."

JOHN WHITMARSH
BORN: 1595 in Weymouth, Dorset, England
MARRIED: 9 Jun 1623 in Weymouth, Dorset, England
DIED: 1644 in Weymouth, Massachusetts

ALICE GARMENT
BORN: 1600 in Weymouth, Dorset, England
DIED: after 1639 in Weymouth, Mass.
 SOURCES: History of Weymouth , Mass., Vol. 4, p. 758 Genealogy of the Descendants of John Whitmarsh of Weymouth, by Newton Whitmarsh Bates 1916. The book is a revision and enlargement of a pamphlet of Whitmarsh genalogy published by the author in 1902. The record of the first five generations of the descendants of John Whitmarsh of Weymouth, Mass. The earlier generations of descendents of John Whitmarsh resided at Weymouth, Mass. gradually moving south to Abington and Bridgewater. Later generations scattered to all parts of the west. England births and christenings: 1538-1975; England marriages: 1538-1973; FHL microfilm 75,173.

THE FAMILY OF ROBERT AND CHRISTIAN (TURNER) CARVER

These eighth great grandparents were both born in England. Robert was listed as a planter in 1630. He and Christian were married  on the 4th of August in 1635 in Lydiard, England.  Their first son was born in England and then the three of them emigrated to Massachusetts about 1636. Their second son was born in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, see below:

1635 William in England
1637 John in Massachusetts, our ancestor

Robert was granted 20 acres lying on the NW side of Greenes Harborn River in Duxbury on the 3rd of September in 1638. In 1641, Robert is employed as a sawyer in Duxburrow. By 1644, Robert became a Freeman. In 1653 he worked as the Surveyor of Highways and often served on juries for his community.

There is a record of Robert giving his Oath of Allegiance to King George II and the laws of England [a standard procedure for the new Americans  in the year of 1670, I suppose].

ROBERT CARVER
BORN: 1594 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England
MARRIED: 4 Aug 1635 in Lydiard, England
DIED: Apr 1680 in Marshfield, Plymouth, MA

CHRISTIAN TURNER
BORN: abt 1596 in England
DIED: 23 Jul 1655 in Plymouth, MA
SOURCES: England Marriages 1538-1973; rootsweb.com re the death statistics of Robert Carver; Researcher Bruce F. Bond at www.gencircles.com re the land records:
Court of Assistants Records show: Vol 1, page 135. 7 Oct 1639, "Captaine Miles Standish, Mr. John Alden, and Mr. Ed winslow are appoynted to lay forth the land and meaddow graunted to Job Cole, as also the land graunted to Frances Godfrey, and Robert Carver."

Hon. Daniel Clark and His Family

Our eighth great grandfather, Daniel Clark, was born near Kenilworth, England on the 5th of September in 1622. He came to Windsor with Rev. Huit in 1638/1639.

"In Ancient Windsor, Hon. Daniel CLARK, attorney at law, was a first settler and man of much influence and position. He held many public offices."  He married Mary Newberry on the 13th of June in 1644 in Windsor, Hartford, CT. Their family is listed below, all born in Windsor:

1645 Mary
1649 Josiah
1651 Elizabeth
1654 Daniel
1656 John 
1658 Mary
1661 Samuel
1663 Sarah, our ancestor
1665 Hannah
1666 Nathaniel

 Hon. Daniel Clark was the Secretary of the Colony of Connecticut, 1658-64 & 1665-6. 

DANIEL CLARK/CLARKE
BORN: 5 Sep 1622 near Kenilworth, England
MARRIED: 13 Jun 1644 in Windsor, Hartford, CT
DIED: 12 Aug 1710 in Windsor, Hartford, CT

MARY NEWBERRY
BORN: 22 Oct 1626 in Wente Church, Canicorum, Devon, England
DIED: 29 Aug 1688 in Windsor, CT
SOURCES: FTM disc #179-Fam. Hist.; CT Gen, #1,p. 62:Hon. Daniel CLARK, held many public offices; was Secretary of the Colony, 1658-64 & 1665-6.(JTH-8/22/97) 

EDWARD AND MARGARET (HICKS) GRISWOLD AND FAMILY

"EDWARD GRISWOLD, who was born 26 Jul 1607,  lived for a time at least in Kenilworth,  Warwick, England, from whence he emigrated in 1639, as is disclosed by various depositions. EDWARD brought with him his wife, several children, and his younger brother Matthew. EDWARD received his share of lands at Windsor, Connecticut, the first recorded division of which  occurred in January, 1640-1.  In March, 1663, the General Court appointed a committee to view Hamonoscett, later Killingsworth, and to decide if it be fit for a plantation...original planters, including EDWARD GRISWOLD, then called sixty-four years old. 

EDWARD, with his wife and younger children, was among the first to remove to this new locality, undoubtedly in 1663. He deeded most of  his property at Windsor to his oldest sons.  In lieu of a will EDWARD GRISWOLD on Christmas Day, 1672, signed a conditional  inheritance deed of all his property to his son John, who was to pay certain legacies; but EDWARD did not die until 1691, when he was in the eighty-fourth year of his age,  and was buried at Killingsworth. He had married first, in England, MARGARET (----), [*She has been called MARGARET  HICKS, but no authority is cited.] who died in Killingsworth August 23, 1670, where her gravestone may be seen, the oldest in the cemetery,  marked  "M.G. 1670." He married secondly, in 1672, Sarah (----) Bemis, widow of James of New London. His children were all  by his first wife. Four are said to have been baptized and one may have died at Kenilworth, England, and that place was probably  the birthplace of two others, while the remaining were born at Windsor, Connecticut."

Below is the list of the Griswold children, the first four were born in England, the others were born in Connecticut:

c. 1630 Sarah? died young
1631    Sarah
1633    George
1635    Francis
1642    Ann
1644    Mary, our ancestor
1646    Deborah
1647    Joseph
1649    Samuel
1652    John
unk      Edward

EDWARD GRISWOLD
BORN: 26 Jul 1607 in Sloihull, Kenilworth, England
MARRIED: c. 1630 in England
DIED: 30 Aug 1691 in Killingsworth, Hartford, CT

MARGARET HICKS
BORN: 1610 in ,Kenilworth, England
DIED: 23 Aug 1670 in ,Clinton, CT
SOURCES:Vital Statistics: " Edward Griswold was born in 1607 and died in the year 1691 at age 84. His wife was Margaret who died 23 Aug 1670 in Clinton, Conn."; Citation: Excerpt from Vol 2 Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes and includes the family of Edward and Margaret (Hicks) Griswold.