Foundations - Vol. 3, No. 2 - Contents & Abstracts
Abstracts:
A Fleet of
Fastolfs: The Descendancy of Alexander Fastolf, Burgess of Great Yarmouth Many historians and genealogists have taken an interest in the Fastolf family, yet their published descents have been uniformly inaccurate due largely to the repeated omission of one member and the confusion of his son with a cousin of the same name. As a result of records formerly in private hands having become available over the past century, and through more careful analysis of documents previously cited in other works, this article restores the missing member to his proper place and distinguishes between the homonymous individuals heretofore conflated. It also examines who was at fault in the family’s final drop back into obscurity.
The Identity of
Margaret, Wife of John Parles: A correction and some notes on her ancestry
An update to the earlier article on the Parles family (Foundations 2(5): p.349) in which the author identified Margaret (died 1459), the wife successively of John Parles and Robert Catesby, as the daughter of William Weldon, of Weldon, Northants. New evidence indicates that she was Weldon’s step-daughter, and shows that her father was William Walwyn, of Herefordshire. A Calendar of Probate and Administration Acts 1407-1550 in the Consistory Court of the Bishops of Hereford (Michael A Faraday) An introduction to this new publication, by its editor. An unstudied descent from Robert of Caen, Earl of Gloucester (Thierry le Hête) Looking forward to the commemoration of the 1100th anniversary of the Saint-Clair-sur-Epte treaty in 2011, work is in progress on the genealogy of the dukes of Normandy. Although it is known well enough, there are still shadow zones. The present study shows an almost unknown but vigorous junior branch of the barons of Creully which issued from Robert of Caen, illegitimate child of King Henry I. An Addendum to the Five Odards:Eva de Hodelholm and her stepchildren (Michael Anne Guido, J C B Sharp and Jane Brankstone Thomas) In an addendum to an earlier paper (Foundations, 2: 54-73, January 2006) on Odard son of Hildred and his descendants, this article shows the descent from Odard’s great-granddaughter Eva de Hodelholm to Helwise the wife of Eustace de Balliol. Upon Helwise’s death her lands reverted to her aunts and their descendants. Of these several families in Scotland one branch led to the Carricks of Galloway and their probable descent to the Kennedys of Dunure. Too Many Thomases: The Sheffields of Yorkshire (Michael Andrews-Reading) During the reigns of the first three Edwards, the Sheffield family acquired a number of estates in south Yorkshire by virtue of judicious marriages. An outline of their pedigree is offered by this article, which seeks to untangle the trouble presented to the modern genealogist by the repetition of Christian names among the different branches of the family, and to identify the descent of the various family estates.
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