The origin and early ancestry of the Miner family in England is as follows: Edward III., of England, going to war against the French, marched through "Somersetshire, came to Mendippe hills, where lived Henry Miner, who with all carefulness and loyalty, having convened his domestic and menial servants armed with battle axes, proffered himself and them to his master's service, making up a complete hundred." For this service he was granted the coat-of-arms: Gules a fesse between three plates argent.
(I) Henry Miner, mentioned above, died in 1359. Children: Henry, Edward, Thomas, George.
(II) Henry Miner, son of Henry Miner, married Henriette Hicks, daughter of Edward of Gloucester. Children: William; Henry, who served in 1384 under Richard, H.
(111) William, son of Henry Miner, married - Hobbs, of Wiltshire. Children: Thomas; George, lived in Shropshire.
(IV) Thomas, son of William Miner, lived in Herefordshire, in 1399; married a danghter of Cotton Gresslap, of Staffordshire. Children: Lodowick, George, Mary.
(V) Lodowick, son of Thomas Miner, married Anne Dyer, daughter of Thomas, of Staughton, Huntingdonshire. Children: Thomas, mentioned below; George and Arthur, twins, born 1458, served in the house of Austria.
(VI) Thomas, son of Lodowick Miner, was born in 1436. He married Bridget, daughter of Sir George Hervie, of St. Martin's, county Middlesex. He died in 1480, leaving two children to the tutorage of the mother, but she resigned to her father and turned to monastic life in Datford.
(VII) William, son of Thomas Miner, married Isabella Harcope de Folibay, and lived to revenge the death of the two young princes slain in the Tower by their uncle, Richard III. Children: William, George, Thomas, Robert, Nathaniel, John and four others.
(VIII) William, son of William Miner, was buried at Chew Magna, February 23, 1585. Children: Clement, Elizabeth.
(IX) Clement, son of William Miner, died March 31, 1640, at Chew Magna. Children; Clement, married Sarah Pope; Thomas; Elizabeth; Mary. (This English line was prepared while the American ancestor was living).