Corrections to "Plantagenet Ancestry" , Batt Page 61
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Batt page 61
9.Richard Harcourt, married (1) Margaret Knightley (2) an unidentified wife (3) Eleanor Wasteneys
In PA on page 61 we have Jane Harcourt m. to Thomas Saint Barbe the daughter of Richard Harcourt & his unknown 2nd wife.
In MCA on page 48 we have the same Jane Harcourt as daughter of Thomas Harcourt & Jane Fraunceys.
What is the correct parentage?
Contribution of optimistic Dave
F. J. Routledge, ed., _Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers Preserved in
the Bodleian Library_, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 18[_]-1872), 5:420,
offers a little further proof for Mrs. Anne Baynton Batt of New England:
Sept. 1 [1664], Boston. Anna Baynton to Clarendon. Loyal professions.
Asks favour for a poor widow. Her father had a wine licence confirmed by
Sir Lionel Cranfeelde, afterwards Lord Treasurer, for three lives. Writer
forfeited it through her trustee failing to pay some part of the rent to the
wine office. Hopes the King has not empowered the new commissioners to
annul this grant. Asks him [Clarendon] to consider her desperate case and
get this licence restored to her.
Note that the lady was writing from Boston, Massachusetts, and signed her
maiden name (perhaps to make it easier for Clarendon to determine which wine
licence was intended). Her father, Ferdinando Baynton of Salisbury in
Wiltshire, England, was an innkeeper, hence the wine licence.
Contribution of John Brandon 8 Sep 2005