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| 10301 | White Oak Springs Cemetery | Hitchcock, Thersey (I35997)
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| 10302 | White Oak Springs Cemetery | Cole, John Thomas (I35999)
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| 10303 | White Oak Springs Cemetery | Cole, Fred Norman (I36007)
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| 10304 | White Oak Springs Cemetery | Baxter, Josie I (I36008)
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| 10305 | White Oak Springs Cemetery | Baxter, Charlie Gordon (I36009)
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| 10306 | White Oak Springs Cemetery | Cole, Leona (I36010)
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| 10307 | White Oak Springs Cemetery | Wooden, Frances E (I36011)
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| 10308 | White Oak Springs Cemetery | Cole, Gloria Jane (I36020)
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| 10309 | White Oak Springs Cemetery | Ellison, Lizzie Glaskey (I36024)
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| 10310 | White Oaks Cemetery | McDowell, Celia Elizabeth (I34699)
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| 10311 | White Pine Cemetery | Gandee, Cynthia Ann (I46201)
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| 10312 | White Pine Cemetery | Coon, Benjamin H (I46202)
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| 10313 | White River Baptist Cemetery | Sheeks, David L (I51815)
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| 10314 | White River Baptist Cemetery | Simpson, Opal Ona (I51816)
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| 10315 | White Rose Cemetery | Nowlain, Valula (I57106)
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| 10316 | White Rose Cemetery | Myers, George Henry (I57107)
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| 10317 | White Rose Cemetery | Myers, Henry Edward (I57109)
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| 10318 | Whiting Memorial Park | Sprague, Raymond Hildreth (I20048)
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| 10319 | Whiting Memorial Park | Bennett, Sarah (I20049)
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| 10320 | Wichita Park Cemetery and Mausoleum | Edwards, Jewel Irene (I44136)
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| 10321 | Wife is widowed on 1910 census | Fry, Luther C (I30872)
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| 10322 | Wilcox Cemetery | Grimm, John Franklin (I47299)
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| 10323 | Wilcox Cemetery | Kidwell, Nellie Belle (I47300)
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| 10324 | Wilcox Cemetery | Grimm, Jacob Elsworth (I47301)
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| 10325 | Wilderness, Civil War | Houser, Jacob C (I7440)
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| 10326 | Wildmead Cemetery | Gibson, Albert (I41776)
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| 10327 | Wildmead Cemetery | James, Phebe Ella (I41779)
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| 10328 | Wildmead Cemetery | Gibson, George Albert (I41780)
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| 10329 | Will dated 10/25/1777, proved 9/3/1778, Fluvann a County, Virginia: My son Benjamin. My son John. My son Rene. My son Patrick. My wife Frances Woodson, my daughter Mary Perrin Fitzpatrick. My daughter Frances Anderson and her husband George Anderson. My grandsons George Anderson, Jr. and Benjamin Anderson. My granddaughter Elizabeth Ruth Woodson. I appoint my sons Benjamin Woodson, Rene Woodson and Patrick Woodson executors wit h my wife Frances executrix of this will. | Woodson, Benjamin (I56125)
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| 10330 | Will dated Dec 9, 1717 and recorded Jul 7, 1718 in Henrico County lists brothers Joseph and Benjamin and sister, Jane, and cousin Tarlton Woodson. | Woodson, Samuel Tucker (I56124)
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| 10331 | Will of Benedict Hammack, 1805 - Richmond Co. VA Will Book 9, 1794 - 1822 (Indexed) Library of Virginia Microfilm Reel 25 Page 463 In the name of God amen. I Bendick HAMMOCK of the County o f Richmond and Parish of Northfarnham, being weak and sic k of body but sound in memory, do make and ordain this pres ent writing to be my last will and Testament in manner an d form following Viz. Item I give and bequeath to my loving wife Sarah HAMMACK a ll my lands during her natural life, and after her deceas e I give the part of land where I formerly lived from the b ottom to the out lines, to my son John HAMMACK and to his h eirs forever, and the residue where I now live I give to m y son Lewis HAMMACK and to his heirs forever. I give to my said wife Sarah HAMMACK all my personal Estat e to be disposed of at her own option. My desire is that m y son Lewis and my daughters should live with their mothe r during the time they live single or unmarried. I do appoint my loving wife Sarah HAMMACK and my son Willia m HAMMACK executors of this my last will and Testament. I n Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal thi s 20th day of August one thousand eight hundred and five ~ Signed Sealed & Delivered Benedict (hi s X mark) Hamm*ck in presence of James + LAMBERT (mark) William + CLARKE (mark) George SISSON At a Court held for Richmond County the 2nd day of Januar y 1815. This last Will and Testament of Benedict HAMMACK decd. wa s presented in Court by Lewis HAMMACK and the witnesses t o the same subscribed being all dead, Martin Sisson and Ric hard DOZIER were sworn and severally deposed, the said Mart in SISSON that the signiture of the witness George SISSON i s in the proper hand writing of the said George SISSON, an d the said Richard DOZIER that he was present at the signin g of the said Will by the Testator and the witnesses did se e The said Testator and witnesses sign their names theret o and heard the Testator acknowledge the same to be his Wil l. Whereupon the same is admitted to record. And Willia m HAMMACK, one of the executors named in the said Will bein g dead and Sarah HAMMACK having certified her relinquishmen t of her executorship, on the motion of Lewis HAMMACK admin istration with the said Will annexed is granted him, who to ok the oath and entered into bond according to Law Teste [R?] McCart y CRC Submitted by Patricia Tanner | Hammock, Benedict (I5996)
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| 10332 | Will of Henry Petree Stokes County, NC 1800 I Henry Petree of Stokes County in the State of North Carolina being in good health and of sound mind and memory thanks be given to Almighty God calling into mind the mortality of man and knowing it to be the destination of all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament...recommend my soul into the hands of my Creator Jesus Christ and my body to be interred in decent Christian Burial...And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to help me...I give bequeath and demise the same in manner and form following: viz: I give...unto Margaretha my dearly beloved wife all of my estate both real and personal to have...as long as she shall live a widow and it is my will that if any of my eight children named John, Catherine, Solomon, Henry, Mary Barbara, Ann, Margaretha Elizabeth and Ann Eva shall begin to keep house for themselves then she shall give unto each of them out of this estate so much for a beginning as she is able to do, provided, however, that one child shall always have equally as much in value as another, which shall always at every time be fixed and established... 2. But in case she should marry again then all of my land and plantation with my personal property shall be publicly sold by my executors and then she shall have the third part of the whole estate as her own sole property forever and she shall likewise have over and above this said third part one horse creature, one cow and one iron pot, all this of her own choice, and also her own bedding and her chest as her sole property forever. The remaining two thirds...equally divided amongst my above named children share and share alike... 3. And I do hereby ordain constitute and appoint my dearly beloved wife Margaretha and my trust friends John Zimmerman and Peter Frazier executors... In witness... I have hereunto put my hand and seal this twelfth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred. s/ Henry Petree SEAL This was witnessed by John Rights, Sr. and John Rights, Jr. | Petree, Johann Henrich (I11125)
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| 10333 | Will of Joel Meador, 1774 Amelia County, Virginia Will Book 2, Page 221 Probated May 1777 In the name of God, Amen; I, Joel Meador of the County of Amelia in the Parish of Raleigh, being very weak and ancient, doth make this my last will and testament. First, I give my soul to Almight God who first gave it to me, and my body to be buried decently at the discretion of my executors, and my worldly estate which the Almighty bestowed on me I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife and her two sons, Archer Meador and Anderson Meador, if that my wife shall abide by this, my last will and testament. If she shall refuse to do so and object to same, the land I assigned to my wife and children, Archer and Anderson, bounded as follows: Beginning at Joshua Rucker's line at a beach and running up to the mouth of John Harris's spring branch, then up Henry Meador ('s) branch to a black gum and along said Henry's line to Jonah (Reynold's?) line along said line to a Spanish oak; then along a new line to a poplar, then along a dividing line I have already made to Joh Gill's line to a red oak; then along the said Gill's line to Samuel Cobb's line to Joshua Rucker's line, and along said line to the beginning. I give and bequeath unto the children I had by my first wife five shillings each. My will and desire is that my wife Agness shall enjoy the rest of my estate during her natural life or widowhood, and if that she shall marry, it is my will and desire that my said estate already lent to my beloved wife be equally divided amongst my wife and the four children I had by her, Archer, Anderson, Patty, and Nancy, and or my sons Archer and Anderson to have two years schooling each. I constitute and appoint my friend Francis Anderson and my son Joel Meador executors of this my last will and testament, revoking all former will by me already made. Witness my hand and seal this 23rd day of September, 1774. Published and declared before us: Joel Meador (SEAL) William Ford Thomas Ellis William Ford, Jr. | Meador, Joel (I9666)
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| 10334 | WILL OF THOMAS MEADOR In the name of God, Amen. I, Thomas Meador of Essex County in the Parrish of South Farnham, being in perfect sence and memory, Praise the Almighty for the same, I do make and Ordain this my last Will and Testament, Revoking and Disanuling all other Wills heretofore written, in Manner and form as followeth, to wit: First and Principally I commend my Soul unto the hands of Almighty God who gave it, hoping through.... the Merrits and Death of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to have full and free Pardon of all my Sins and Wickednesses in General and to Inherit Everlasting Life through my Savior Christ, and my Body I commit to the Earth to be decently and Christianly buried, hoping at the Last Day of Judgment it shall be reunited to my soul to a happy Ressurection, and as for my worldly estate which it has pleased Almighty God to Bless me with, I give as followeth: Item. I give unto my son John Meador a peace of land in Essex County and Parrish aforesaid, being the land on which I live, bounded as followeth---Beginning at my Cool Spring and running to a Great White Oak standing on my Spring Hill, thence across my corn field to the head of a Branch called the Poplar Spring Branch, thence Down the Branch to the Great Branch to the Main Pocoson & down the main Pocoson to the mouth of Cool Spring branch & so up the said Branch to the beginning---to him & his heirs Lawfully begotten of his Body forever. Item. I give unto my son Thomas Meador Eighty Acres of land more of less beginning at a corner oak between Nicholas Faulconor and myself, thence to the Corner of the Ditch, thence down the Ditch so to the head of the Branch, thence Down the Branch the Great Branch, so up the said Branch to Harbett Waggoner's line, thence along the said line to a corner White Oak, thence along Waggoner's line to the mouty (of) Clements Spring Branch, so up the said Branch to the Main Road, so along the said Road to the Blody Oak, thence North East to a corner Hiccory by Nicolas Faulconer's fence, so to the Beginning, to him & his Male heirs Lawfully begotten of his Body forever, & for want of such heirs to Rubin Meador and his Male Heirs Lawfully begotten his Body forever. Item. I give to my son Rubin Meador all the remainder part of my land belong to the Burying Place lying between the lands I gave to my sons John Meador & Thomas Meador, to him and his Male heirs Lawfully begotten his Body forever, and for want of heirs then to my son Thomas Meador and his Male heirs Lawfully begotten of his Body forever. Item. I give to my son Ruben Meador my old hunting gun which was made by Peter Byram & Three good cows & calves & Desire they may not be appraised,being left him instead of money Land to him & his heirs forever. Item. I give to my Daughter Elizabeth Allen, wife of Benjamin Allen, the same feather Bed I lent her at the Day of Marriage to her and her heirs forever. Item. I give to my daughter Rachel Armstrong, wife of Ambrose Armstrong, the same Feather Bed I lent her at the Day of Marriage to her and her heirs forever. Item I give to my daughter Sarah Meador one Feather Bed with all the furniture & c. to her and her heirs forever. Item. I give to my daughter Easter Meador one feather Bed with all the furniture & c. to her and her heirs forever. Item. I give to my daughter Frances Bell one feather Bed with all the furniture & c. to her and her heirs forever. Item. I give to Susannah Meador forty five shillings current money to be put to her use During her life, to be paid yearly by my Executors hereafter named. Item. I desire that all the Remainder part of my estate of what kind soever being Real & Personal and lying & being in what Place soever be Equally Divided amongst my Nine Children, viz.: John Meador, Thomas Meador, Ambrose Meador, Ruben Meador, Sarah Meador and Easter Meador, Elizabeth Allen. Rachel Armstrong, & Frances Bell, to them and their heirs forever. Item. I do constitute & Appoint my two sons Thomas Meador & Reuben Meador full, whole & sole Executors of this my Last Will and Testament, Revoking all other will or wills heretofore by me made, & Acknowledge this my Will & no other--- In Witness wherof I have hereunto Sett my hand and fixt my Seal this 31st. day of July Anno Domi, 1758. The words being Real and Personnally interlined before signing. Signed, Sealed, and Delivered in presence of Thomas Meador (SS) Waters Dunn William Meador Jr. Robert Sp. Coleman At a court held for Essex County at Tappa. the 19th Day of September 1758 this Last Will and Test. of Thomas Meador dec'd. was this Day Presented in court by the Ex. herein named, who made oath thereto acc. to law, and was proved by the oaths of the Witnesses hereto, and on the notion of the Execs. admitted to Record and so Recorded. Test. John Lee Jr., Wd Clerk" [Punctuation and paragraphing added for clarity.] And SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 129, Essex County, Virginia Will Records. IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I Thomas Meador of Essex County in the Parrish of Southfarnham Being in perfect sence and memory Praise the Almighty for the same. I do make and Ordain this my Last Will and Testament Revoking & Disanuling all other Wills heretofor Written In manner and form as following, to wit, first and Principally I Commend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it hoping through the Merits & Death of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to have full and free Pardon of all my Sins & Wickedness in General and to Inherit Everlasting Life Through my Savior Christ and my Body I commit to the Earth to be decently and Christianly Buried hoping at the Last day of Judgment it shall be reunited to my Soul to a happy Resurrection & as for my Wordly Estate which hath Pleas'd all mighty God to Bless me with I do give as followeth. ITEM I give unto my son John Meador a peace of land in Essex County Parrish aforesed being the land on which I live bounded as followeth begining at my Cool Spring & running to a great white Oak Standing on my Spring Hill Thence across my cornfield to the head of a Branch Called the Iopalor(sp?) Spring Branch Thence Down the Branch to the Grat Branch to the Main Pocoson(?sp) & down the main Pocoson to the mouth of the Cool Spring Branch & so up the said Branch to the begining to him & his heirs Lawfully begotten of his Body forever ITEM I give unto my son Thomas Meador Eighty acres land more or less begining at a Corner Oak between Nicolas Faulconer & myself Thence to the Corner of the Ditch thence Down the Ditch so to the head of the branch Thence down the Branch to the Great Branch so up the said branch to Harbert Waggoner's Line thence along the said line to a Corner white Oak thence along Waggoner's line to the mouth Clements Spring branch so up the said Branch to the Mainoad so along the said road to the Blody Oak Thence North East to a Corner Hickory by Nicolas Faulconer's fence so to the beginning to him & his Male Heirs Lawfully begotten of his Body forever & for want of such heirs to Son Rubin Meador and his heirs Lawfully begotten of his Body forever ITEM I give to my son Rubin Meador all the Remainder part of my Land belong(?) to the Burring place Lying Eastern the Lands I gave to my son John Meador & Thomas Meador to him & his Male Heirs Lawfully begotten his Body forever and for want of such heirs than my Son Thomas Meador & his male heirs Lawfully begotten of his Body forever. ITEM I give to my son Rubin Meador my old hunting gun which was made by Peter Bryam & those good cows & calves & Desire they may not be appraised being left him instead of money (.....?) to him & his heirs forever. ITEM I give to my daughter Elizabeth AllenAllen Wife of Benjamin the same feather Bedlent her at the Day of Marriage to her and her heirs forever ITEM I give to my Daughter Rachel Armstrong Wife of Ambrose Armstrong the same feather Bed I lent her at the Day of Marriage & to her and her Heirs forever ITEM I give to my Daughter Sarah Meador one feather Bed with all the furniture to her and her heirs forever ITEM I give to my daughter Easter Meador one feather Bed with all the furniture to her & her heirs forever ITEM I give to my Daughter Frances Bell one feather Bed with all the furniture to her and her heirs forever ITEM I give to Susanah Meador forty five shillings Current money to be put to her use During her Life to be paid by my Executors hereafter named ITEM I desire that all the Remainder part of my Estateof what kind so ever being Real and Personal and lying and being in what place soever be Equally Divided amongst my nine children Viz., John Meador, Thomas Meador, Ambrose Meador, Rubin Meador Sarah Meador, and Easter Meador, Elizabeth Allen, Rachel Armstrong, and Frances Bell to them and their heirs forever ITEM I do Constitute and Appoint my two sons Thomas Meador and Rubin Meador full whole and sole Executors to this my Last Will & Testament Revoking all other will or wills heretofore by me made & I acknowledge this my will & no other For Witness whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand & fixt my Seal this 31st Day of July Anno Dom. 1758 The words being Rail and Personable Enterlined before assignd Thomas Meador Signed, Sealed and Delivered in presence of Waters Dunn William Meador Robert Sp. Coleman Admitted to Court Records 19 Sept. 1758. | Meador, Thomas (I9752)
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| 10335 | Will: dated 12 July 1816, probated 20 November 1821 Lincoln County, GA Copy of this will can be found on page 203 of Wadsworth Family in America 1663-1985 Book 2 by Mary Jane Wadsworth. ACT 1: THOMAS WADSWORTH'S LAST WILL IN THE LINCOLN COUNTY GENERALOGY AND HISTORY, COMPLIED BY ROBERT S. DAVIS, JR. AND JAMES DORSEY, ON PAGE 110, THE WILL OF THOMAS AND WIFE NANCY DATED 12 JUL 1816, PROVED 20 NOV 1821. A TRANSCRIPTION OF THE WILL IS IN MRS. JANE FRY WADSWORTHS BOOK. FACT 2: SON, WILLIAM WAS DEAD AT THE TIME OF THOMAS' WILL. FACT 3: THOMAS WADSWORTH DEEDED LAND TO WILLIAM WADSWORTH 9 OCT. 1800. DEED FOR 150 ACRES ON CHEROKEE CREEK, PART OF A 300 ACRE GRANT TO THOMAS WADSWORTH, 18 SEPTEMBER 1784, ADJOINING JACOB JORDAN. FACT 2:THOMAS WADSWORTH DEEDED THE FOLLOWING ACCORDING TO THE LINCOLN CO., GENEALOGY AND HISTORY: WADSWORTH, THOMAS, NOV. 20, 1820, WIFE NANCY, SON JAMES WADSWORTH AND HIS CHILDREN, ELIZABETH & MARY. "MY FOUR CHILDREN : SELA SMITH, ELIZABETH SMITH, ESTER MCVERNETT, AMY JORDAN. cHILDREN OF DECEASED SON WILLIAM, THOMAS AND HOGAN WADSWORTH, JOHN AND ELIZABETH WADSWORTH, DAUGHER RUTH, WIFE OF JOHN WILLIAMS, HEIRS OF THOMAS WADSWORTH AND HIS WIFE. EXRS. SON JAMES, WILLIAM COVINGTON. WITNESS BY: WILLIAM DOWSING SR., JOHN LITTLE, WILLIAM P. SALMON. FACT 3: THE LANDS OF THOMAS WADSWORTH ON CHEROKEE CREEK WERE BOUNDED BY THE LANDS OF ZACHARIAH JORDAN OF WILKES CO., SEE SEPT. 9, 1796, PG. 7-8, DEEDBOOK A, 1796-1799; ALSO BY JACOB JORDEN (JORDAN) AND WIFE JENNET TO JOHN FLEMING OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, BOUNDED BY PROPERTIES ON CHEROKEE CREEK OF MCCALL, APPLEWHITE, WADSWORTH AND JEMISON. PROPERTY OF JOHN CHANCEY JORDAN, WIFE RHODA TO DANIEL HUNTER, 27 JULY 1802, DEEDBOOK 1803-1805, 100 ACRES, PART OF TRACT OF 750 ACRES GRANTED TO ZACHARIA JORDAN 17 JAN 1787 AND ALSO A PART OF 200 ACRES CONVEYED FROM Z. JORDAN TO CHARLES JORDAN 5 JAN 1789 ON CHEROKEE CREEK ADJOINING THOMAS WADSWORTH AND ELIJAH OFFIELD. CHARLES JORDAN AND WIFE AMEY TO JOHN CHANCEY JORDAN 28 DEC.1801, DEEDBOOK D, 1803-1805. DEED FOR 100 ACRES PART OF 750 ACRES GRANTED TO Z. JORDAN 17 JAN 1787 IN CHEROKEE CREEK ADJOINING THOMAS WADSWORTH, ELIJAH OFFIELD AND TRIPLETT. THOMAS WADSWORTH TO WILLIAM WADSWORTH 9 DEC 1800. DEED FOR 150 ACRES, DEEDBOOK D 1803-1805 ON CHEROKEE CREEK PART OF A 300 ACRE GRANT TO THOMAS WADSWORTH 18 SEPT. 1784 ADJOINING JACOB JORDAN. | Wadsworth, Thomas (I14550)
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| 10336 | Willamette National Cemetery | Gray, Horace Anson (I41242)
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| 10337 | Willamette National Cemetery | Bartlett, Floyd Donald Sr (I50435)
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| 10338 | Willamette National Cemetery | Runyen, William Walter (I50440)
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| 10339 | William and Elizabeth were living during a period of time when an Abbey was to be built in Soham. The monks wanting to build this Abbey needed a certain stone which was only found in Scotland. William requested the Kidd families in Scotland quarry this unique stone. The stone was delivered by using wooden barges to float the stone to Soham. The Abbey still stands in Soham. | Kidd, William (I45438)
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| 10340 | William Anson Halbert. Red beard, blue eyes, stout, fought in the Virginia Militia in the War of Independence. 1st Regiment, Light Dragoons. For his service, Thomas Jefferson gave him 486 acres on Russel Creek in South Carolina. «u»Lineage Book - Page 274 <>«/u» by Daughters of the American Revolution - 1930 «b»William Halbert«/b» m. 1765 Elizabeth Hill (1747-1836); Anthony Bledsoe m. «b»...«/b» «b»William Halbert«/b» (1744-1808) served as lieutenant from Virginia, where he was born William Anson Halbert was a Justice of the Peace. He was a Lieutenant in the Henry Co., Virginia Militia during the American Revolution. He served with Captain Henry Lee's Troop, 1st Regiment, Light Dragoons. He was a member of the Provincial Congress from Surry Co., NC in 1775 (The Compendium of American Genealogy, page 208) He was given a land grant of 486 acres of land on Russell Creek in SC, issued by Thomas Jefferson, for his service in the Revolutionary War. He had a red beard, blue eyes and was of stout build. This information about William Anson Halbert is from Southside VA Families, by John Bennett Boddie, Southern Historical Families Vol IX, by John Bennett Boddie, Research by Grace Thomas of 4600 S. Wellington, Salt Lake City, UT 84117 and Karen Halbert Moore of 8999 Hillsboro H>S> Rd., Hillsboro, MO 63050 Source for information on children of William Anson Halbert came from Boddie's Historical Southern Families, Vol. 9, pgs 191-217 and Southside VA Families, Vol. 1, pages 227-331 - Will of William Halbert, Copied by J.M. Halbert, Clerk of the Dist. Court of the state of IOWA, Montgomery County. In the name of God Amen, I William Halbert of Pendleton District, S.C., being of perfect mind and memory, thanks to God Almighty, calling to mind the mortality of my body knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say I recommend my soul into the hands of the Almighty God that gave it, my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a decent manner at the discretion of my executers nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same by the mighty power of God, and as touching such worldly estate wherein it has pleased God to bless me with. I devise and dispose of the same in the following manner. First my lawful debts be paid. I also lend to my beloved wife, Elizabeth Halbert, two hundred acres of land, including the plantation whereon I now live, also my household furniture with all my stock of old Negroes and other stock of all kinds during her natural life of widowhood, Provided she should marry then she has to have one child's part, after my children is toted off with what I allow them to have at their setting out or leaving me. My will and desire is that all my children at their coming of age or marrying shall have as follows: I do give to my son Joel Halbert, the land I bought from Ralph Owens and Elijah Owens that he has now in his possession and two Negroes, viz Sal and Mose, with other necessaries he has in possession. I do give my son Enos Halbert, what land he has in his possession including the land I bought from Henry Burdin, one Negro, viz Reda with the other property he has in his possession. I give to my son Arthur's children, two hundred acres of land whereon he died and fifty of a tract we call Hireth to be divided between his children, viz Henry Halbert, Linda and Arthur, when they come of age. I do give my son James Halbert, two hundred acres of land joining that where Arthur died and running across all tracts, with one young Negro, viz Peter and all the others I gave or put in his possession. I do give my son William Halbert, two hundred and 32 acres of land including the mill on Big Creek and a tract of ninety acres called Datenial, one young Negro, horse, saddle and bridle, bed with stock of different kinds to begin. I do give my son Joshua Halbert, two hundred acres of land joining James across all tracts and one young Negro, also thirty acres and the mill shoal on Saluda I purchased from Wm Acker and at his mother's death to have the plantation she lives on with horse and saddle and bed and furniture and stock of different kinds. I do give my daughter Martha Grisham, two young Negroes, with what other property I gave her that she has in her possession. I do give my daughter Susana Acker, two young Negroes, with what other property I gave her that she has in her possession. I do give my daughter Franka Garrison, two young Negroes, with what other property I gave her that she has in her possession. I do give my daughter Elizabeth Berry, two young Negroes, with what other property I gave her that she has in her possession. I do give my daughter Mary Halbert, two young Negroes, horse, saddle, bed, and furniture with stock of different kinds to house keep it with. I do give my daughter Lucinda Halbert, two young Negroes, horse, saddle, bed and furniture with stock of different kinds. I don't mean more but equal to what the rest of you had. I do declare that my beloved wife Elizabeth Halbert shall enjoy all my personal estate only what my children take as they become of age provided she does not destroy or diminish it during her natural life or widowhood, after her death what is remaining of the estate to be divided amongst my children, Arthur's children to have a share. I likewise constitute, ordain and appoint Joel Halbert, John Halbert, Enos Halbert,, and John Grisham, Executers to this my last will and testament and I do hereby disallow, revoke and disannul all and every testament, wills, legacies, bequests and executions by me in any wise before names and bequeathed but rectify and confirm this to be my last will and testament, in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ one thousand eight hundred and six. William Halbert, Signed in the presence of; William Harper, James Brown, and David Brown. This will was admitted into probate March 6, 1809. The original copy was made by H.I.H. Nance, Probate Judge of Anderson County, South Carolina. William was a staunch Whig and served in the Revolutionary Was as a Lieutenant in the Henry County, Virginia Militia. Served with Captain Henry Lee's Troop, 1st Regiment, Light Dragoons (The Compendium of American Genealogy, First Families in America, page 334). Member of the Provincial Congress from Surrey County, North Carolina in 1775 (The Compendium of American Genealogy, page 208). Legion Cavalry" for the War of the American Revolution, as shown by manuscript certificate on file in the Virginia State Library and signed by General Henry LEE. [1640.002, Pg92] Another certificte, filed in the same Library, dated 23 Feb. 1784, signed by Peter JOHNSTON, Lt. Lee's Legion, says: "I certify that William HALBERT, age 40 enlisted in Partisan Legion for the War ans was a citizen of Virginia at the time of his enlistment." In 1786, William, Sr. HALBERT, age 42 and family moved from Caroline Co., VA. and settled on the "Saludia River" in the old Pendleton Dist, (present-day Anderson Co.) SC. [1640.002, Pg14] | Halbert, William Anson (I5879)
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| 10341 | William Borthwick, 1st Lord Borthwick, so created 12 June 1452, knighted vp. 1430, one of the magnates who according to contemporary records habitually plundered the Customs. [Burke's Peerage] 1430 Built Borthwick Castle by expanding Lochorwart Castle. ----------------------------------- Borthwick Castle [ANSEL Import : either musical flat or copyright symbol]1995-2002 Gazetteer for Scotland A twin towered castle on the E flank of the village of Borthwick in Midlothian, Borthwick Castle lies 2 miles (3 km) south east of Gorebridge. It was built by Sir William Borthwick in 1430 on the site of an earlier tower and is noted for its exceptionally strong walls which are up to 4.3 (14 feet) thick. It is said that prisoners, with their hands tied, were invited to jump the 4m (12 foot) gap between the massive towers of this U-plan keep. Those who succeeded were freed, those who did not would no longer be in the need of the hospitality of the house! Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-87), visited the castle in 1567 soon after her unpopular marriage to James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell (1536-78). The couple were besieged by a force of 1000, led by some of Mary's most senior nobles, who implicated Bothwell in the murder of her second husband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545-67). Mary was able to negotiate with the force, allowing Bothwell to slip away, and she escaped the following day dressed as a page-boy. The opposition quickly caught up with Mary who, within days, was forced into compromise and captivity at Carberry Hill. The Parliamentarian army of Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1654) attacked Borthwick in 1650 and brought about its swift surrender. Damage to the stone-work, caused by cannon, can still be seen. The castle was abandoned not long after the visit of Cromwell's forces but was fully restored between 1890 and 1914. During World War II Borthwick was used as a secret repository for various national treasures. In 1973 this fine castle was converted into a hotel. -------------------------------------- Brief History Borthwick Castle is one of the most important historic buildings in Scotland. It is a twin towered baronial keep, built by the first Lord Borthwick (conflicting sources say that is was built by Sir James Borthwick,later Lord Borthwick, in 1420, or by Sir William Borthwick in 1430. Further research is required but I think it was probably built by Sir William, who later became the first Lord Borthwick.) One history says that the castle was built on the site of an earlier motte castle known as Lochorwart, granted to Lord Borthwick by James I. Another states that in about 1378 the Borthwicks acquired the Lothian lands of Catcune, but before long they won from the Hays the much richer property of Locherworth and there built about 1430 the majestic Borthwick Castle. Whether the "winning" of the land from the Hays was through James I taking it from them and granting it to the Borthwicks I know not at this stage! Here are some reported events relevant to the romantic history of the castle, and the Borthwicks themselves: 1420: In 1409 Margaret, daughter of William Hay, married William the 'Red' Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus in an attempt to bring the 'Red' Douglases back into the fold of the 'Black' Douglas camp. With the death of William Hay in 1420, his son Thomas took over as Lord of Yester and started a dispute with the Borthwicks of Borthwick castle, Mid Lothian also 'Black' Douglas vassals. This led to local Lothian violence with the 'Red' Douglases delighted to help the Hays in their attacks, because they were protecting their 'in laws'. This minor civil war continued until Prince James, now King James I (1406-1437) returned to Scotland in 1424. 1430: In 1420 Sir William Borthwick was Captain of Edinburgh Castle and in 1430 he granted lands by King James and built the castle. (Possibly these were the lands lost by the Hays in the battles referred to above.) Sir William Borthwick's son was created Lord Borthwick in 1454. He died some time before 1458 and is commemorated by a splendid tomb in the old church of Borthwick. From 1430 onwards the Lords Borthwick had immense possessions and great influence in Midlothian. 1513 - The Battle of Flodden: In 1478 John Hay was created Baron Yester of Yester. In 1513 Baron Yester and his kinsman Hay Earl of Erroll of Slains castle, near Aberdeen gathered their forces together and marched south with King James IV of Scots (1488-1513) to harry the north of England. The King was also joined in this venture by several other noble Lairds, the aged Archibald 'Bell-the-cat' Douglas of Tantallon castle, Lord Borthwick of Borthwick castle (the King's cannon commander) , Lord Lyndsay of Byres castle, near Haddington and the Border veteran Lord Home of Home castle. The Scots crossed the river Tweed at Coldstream, stormed Wark castle, bombarded Norham castle with 'Mon's Meg' (great bombard held today at Edinburgh castle) into surrender, seized Etal castle and burnt down Ford castle after the King spent several days dallying with Lady Heron of Ford. This was a ploy on Lady Heron's part, by detaining the Scots King in her bedchamber it allowed the English Borders time to assemble their forces at Newcastle and Alnwick. As the Scots sat inactive encamped at Flodden hill, Archibald Douglas suggested the Scots army should either advance further into England or withdraw altogether. The King insisted that Douglas leave if he was too old to fight. Furious, Douglas departed leaving his two sons George and William to fly the Douglas colors at Flodden When the English did arrive they began filing across the valley towards Branxton ridge cutting off the Scots retreat route. Lord Borthwick pleaded with the King to let him fire a barrage on the English before they reached the other ridge. King James dismissed this suggestion as unchivalrous and insisted a salute was fired to acknowledge their arrival. Interestingly this salute was viewed as incompetence by the English who assumed the Scots gunners were firing over their heads unable to gauge their position. Lord Lyndsay begged the King to allow him to charge with his horsemen down the hillside to divide the English before they could assemble. Once again the King refused the sound guidance of his men and threatened to hang Lord Lyndsay from the gate of Byres castle on his return to Scotland if he did not hold his position. See Douglas History. William, 4th Lord Borthwick, was killed in the Battle of Flodden in 1513, after which his son, William (d.1543), took responsibility of the young King James V in Stirling Castle. 18 November 1650: the Borthwicks adhered to the royalist cause during the civil war, and their castle was besieged after the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. Oliver Cromwell, leader of the Roundheads in the Civil War, attacked the castle, but it was spared from the inevitable destruction when Cromwell offered John, the royalist 10th Lord Borthwick, honourable terms of surrender, which he accepted. First Cromwell sent a letter to Lord Borthwick, requesting the surrender of the house '....you shall have libertie to carry off your armes and goods and such other necessitate as you have.. ... You have harboured such parties in your house as have basely and inhumanely murdered our men: if you necessitate me to bend my cannon against you, you may expect what I doubt you will not be pleased with.' Borthwick initially resisted, but Cromwell's cannon quickly demonstrated that the castle walls were not the impregnable form of defence they had once been, creating the damage to the eastern wall and parapet still visible today, and Borthwick quickly came to terms, exchanging his castle for the lives of its defenders. Cromwell's letter hangs today, 350 years later, in the Great Hall of Borthwick Castle. The Civil War resulted in the dethronement, trial and beheading of a Stuart King, Charles 1. Oliver Cromwell 1599 - 1654 Soldier and statesman. Born in Huntingdon (England), Cromwell was staunchly Calvinist in his religious principles and was regarded as a gifted and forceful general. He led the Parliamentarian army which over-threw King Charles I. Although Charles had surrendered to the Scots, he was handed over to Cromwell who executed him in London (1649). Cromwell brought about an enforced Union between Scotland and England by appointing himself as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. When King Charles II signed the National Covenant, he regained the support of Scotland, causing Cromwell, supported by General Monk, to invade (1650). Monk crushed Scotland within a year, forcing Charles II to flee the France and causing much hunger and poverty. It was only after Cromwell's death and the Stuart restoration in 1660 that conditions improved. Source: [ANSEL Import : either musical flat or copyright symbol]1995-2001 Gazetteer for Scotland. 1687 - Mary Queen of Scots: The connection between the castle and Mary Queen of Scots is so famous that I've created a separate section for it below. - - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Mary Queen of Scots & Borthwick Castle Mary Stuart, Mary Queen of Scots (1542-87) and James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell (1536-78) visited the castle in 1563 during a progress. Perhaps they liked it - or thought it a safe fortress - as it was in Borthwick castle that Mary and her new husband Bothwell sought refuge in 1567. On that occasion they were besieged here, Mary only escaping disguised as a man. Here, with grateful acknowledgement to the excellent Mary Stuart site, is a chronology of Mary's brief but dramatic connection with the castle: 1 July 1563: Mary travels to Dunipace, Glasgow, Hamilton, Dumbarton Castle, Inveraray Castle, Dunoon, Eglington. Then on to Ayr, Dunure, Ardmillan, Ardstinchar, the Abbey of Glenluce, the Priory of Whithorn, Kenmure Castle, St Mary's Isle, Dumfries, Drumlanrig Castle, Crawfordjohn, Couthalley, Neidpath Castle, Borthwick Castle, Dalhousie and Roslin. She returns to Edinburgh in September 1563 after a visit at Craigmillar Castle. 1 May 1567: The nobles who had been coerced to put their names to the Ainslie Bond, in support of Bothwell's marriage to Mary, rapidly changed their minds when they saw Bothwell in such a powerful position. On 1 May 1567, they signed another bond whose aims were the liberation of the Queen, securing Prince James and bringing the dictatorship of Bothwell to an end. The ringleaders included Morton, Argyll and Atholl who had signed the Ainslie Bond. Maitland also deserted Mary's cause even though he had previously encouraged her to marry Bothwell. 15 May 1567: Mary and James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, her third husband, are married in Edinburgh according to Protestant rites at 10 a.m. The nobles were not happy. 7 June 1567: Bothwell and the queen left Edinburgh on 7 June, and headed for the impregnable fortress of Borthwick (or Botherwick) Castle where they hoped to muster their own forces. 9/10 June 1567: The Earls of Morton and Hume, with eight hundred of their Borderers, appeared at Borthwick Castle. The nobles demanded Bothwell's head and Mary's renunciation of the Earl and his influence. Bothwell, a suspect in the murder of Queen Mary's second husband, Lord Darnley, just a few months before, fled the castle's sheltering 110-foot towers and the asylum offered by the 6th Lord Borthwick, leaving his wife and queen behind. 11 June 1567: Mary managed to escape through a narrow window (right) disguised as a pageboy, and rode off to meet Bothwell at Black Castle, stronghold of the Wauchopes, Bothwell's henchmen, at Cakemuir. From there, Mary and Bothwell went to Dunbar to muster an army. 15 June 1567: The nobles seized Edinburgh. The queen mustered about three thousand men, and marched upon the capital. The forces confronted each other at Carberry Hill near Musselburgh, where, after a day spent in parleying, Mary surrendered to the nobles, and Bothwell was allowed to ride off in the direction of Dunbar. The queen was taken to Edinburgh on 15 June, and on 17 June she was conveyed a captive to Lochleven Castle, which stood on an island in the lake. On 23 June, she was forced to sign her abdication of the throne, and to confirm the appointment of Moray as regent, to govern during the minority of her son. Mary Queen of Scots Mary died upon the scaffold at Fotheringay Castle in the North of England in 1587. Bothwell had died nine years earlier in a Danish prison. See Castles site. Abbrev: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosl e y Editor-in-Chief, 1999 Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 Page: 318 Quality: 3 Abbrev: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 Page: 318 Quality: 3 | Borthwick, Sir William (I1972)
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| 10342 | WillIam Cooper Welch Prewitt was born Sept 9, 1843 and served in the Civil War, he was wounded at Spotsylvania, VA and died Aug 3, 1964. | Prewitt, William Cooper Welch (I11483)
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| 10343 | William David Thompson was born 28 February 1852 in Randolph County, Missouri. He married Lydia Esther Runyen on 18 October 1875. Lydia was born 31 March 1853 in Lawrence, Dearborn, Indiana. She was the daughter of Robert Runyen and Elizabeth Ann Gibson. They lived their early married life in Randolph County from approximately 1875 to 1879. They then moved to Lamar in Barton County, Missouri. Lydia's parents also lived in Lamar. In 1886 they moved to Chariton County, Missouri. They owned land in Westville community southeast of Marceline, Missouri. They raised cattle and other crops. William was also a carpenter and worked on the World's Fair building in St. Louis. William was in one of the Oklahoma Land Rushes, not sure which one for sure, but I did find a William Thompson listed in the 22 April 1889 rush, which gave birth to Stillwater, OK. I found William living in Stillwater City, Oklahoma in 1900 with two of his children, John and Wayne. William bought some property in Payne County, OK on 12/15/1898 from Frederick Scott for $1000.00 and sold the same property for $2400.00 to William Hodges on 4/15/1904. I was told that when William sold the property, it caused some sort or rift in the family. No one alive knows the details. Lydia Esther died of cancer at the Christian Church Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri on 23 April 1924. She was buried at Locke Cemetery, southeast of Marceline, near Mike, Missouri on 26 April 1924. William David died of pneumonia on 6 May 1927 and was buried 8 May 1927 in Locke Cemetery also. | Thompson, William David (I14124)
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| 10344 | William de Braose (c. 1197 - 2 May 1230) was the son of Reginald de Braose by his first wife, Grecia de Briwere (born 1186) from Stoke in Devon. He was an ill-fated member of a powerful and long lived dynasty of Marcher Lords. William de Braose was born in Brecon, probably between 1197 and 1204. The Welsh, who detested him and his family name, called him Gwilym Ddu, Black William. He succeeded his father in his various lordships in 1227, including Abergavenny and Builth. William married Lady Eva Marshal, daughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke. They had four daughters: Isabella de Braose (born c. 1222), wife of Prince Dafydd ap Llywelyn Maud de Braose (born c. 1224 - 1301), wife of Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Wigmore another very powerful Marcher dynasty. Eleanor de Braose (c. 1226 - 1251), wife of Humphrey de Bohun and mother of Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford. Eve de Braose (c. 1227- July 1255), wife of William de Cantelou. He was captured by the Welsh forces of Prince Llywelyn the Great, in fighting in the commote of Ceri near Montgomery, in 1228. William was ransomed for the sum of £2,000 and then furthermore made an alliance with Llywelyn, arranging to marry his daughter Isabella de Braose to Llywelyn's only legitimate son Dafydd ap Llywelyn. However on a later visit to Llywelyn during Easter 1230 William de Braose was found in Llywelyn's private bedchamber with Llywelyn's wife, Joan, Lady of Wales. The Chronicle of Ystrad Fflur's entry for 1230 reads: "In this year William de Breos the Younger, lord of Brycheiniog, was hanged by the Lord Llywelyn in Gwynedd, after he had been caught in Llywelyn's chamber with the king of England's daughter, Llywelyn's wife." Llywelyn had William publicly hanged on 2 May 1230, possibly at Crogen, near Bala. though others believe the hanging took place near Llywelyn's palace at Garth Celyn. With William's death by hanging and his having four daughters, who divided the de Braose inheritance between them and no male heir, the titles now passed to the junior branch of the de Braose dynasty, the only male heir was now John de Braose who had already inherited the titles of Gower and Bramber from his far-sighted uncle Reginald de Braose. William's wife Eva continued to hold de Braose lands and castles in her own right, after the death of her husband. She was listed as the holder of Totnes in 1230, and was granted 12 marks to strengthen Hay Castle by King Henry III on the Close Rolls (1234-1237). | De Braose, William (I15668)
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| 10345 | William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber (1144/1153 - 9 August 1211), court favourite of King John of England, at the peak of his power, was also Lord of Gower, Abergavenny, Brecknock, Builth, Radnor, Kington, Limerick, Glamorgan, Skenfrith, Briouze in Normandy, Grosmont, and White Castle. William was the most notable member of the de Braose dynasty and his steady rise and sudden fall at the hands of King John is often taken as an example of that king's arbitrary and capricious behaviour towards his barons. William was the son of William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber and his wife Bertha of Hereford, also known as Bertha de Pitres, (born 1130) daughter of Miles Fitz Walter, Earl of Hereford and his wife, Sibyl, daughter of Bernard de Neufmarche. From his father he inherited the Rape of Bramber, in Sussex, and through his mother he inherited a large estate in the Welsh Marches area of modern day Monmouthshire. In 1175, William de Braose carried out the Abergavenny Massacre, luring three Welsh princes and other Welsh leaders to their deaths. His principal antagonist was a Seisyll ap Dyfnwal, of Castell Arnallt near Llanover in the valley of the River Usk near Abergavenny, whom he blamed for the death of his uncle Henry. After having invited the Welsh leaders to a Christmas feast at Abergavenny Castle under the pretence of peace and the start of a new era at the end of the year (a traditional time for settling outstanding differences amongst the Welsh), he had them murdered by his men. This resulted in great hostility against him among the Welsh, who named him the "Ogre of Abergavenny". Gerald of Wales exonerates him and emphasises the religious piety of de Braose and his wife and de Braose generosity to the priories of Abergavenny and Brecon. William de Braose did however reputedly hunt down and kill Seisyll ap Dyfnwal's surviving son, Cadwaladr, a boy of seven. In 1192 William de Braose was made Sheriff of Hereford, a post he held until 1199. In 1196 he was made Justice Itinerant for Staffordshire. In 1195 he accompanied King Richard I of England to Normandy and in 1199, William de Braose fought beside Richard at Chalus, where the king was mortally wounded. He then supported King John's claim to the throne of England, supported the new king in making various royal grants and was in attendance with John in Normandy at the time of Arthur of Brittany's death in 1203. Arthur was John's nephew and was seen by many as the rightful heir to the English throne. De Braose served in the war of 1204 against King Philip II of France in France. He was greatly favoured by King John early in his reign. John granted him all that he might conquer from the Welsh in Radnorshire, gave him lordship over Limerick in Ireland (save for the city itself), possession of Glamorgan castle, and the Lordship of Gower with its several castles. In 1203, William de Braose was put in charge of Arthur of Brittany, whom he had personally captured the previous year at the Battle of Mirabeau. William was suspected of involvement in Arthur's disappearance and death, although no concrete evidence ever came to light. There is somewhat better evidence that he at least knew the truth of the matter. In 1206 King John gave William de Braose the three great neighbouring trilateral castles of Gwent (Skenfrith Castle, Grosmont Castle, and White Castle). These have been interpreted as bribes encouraging silence on the demise of Arthur, seen by many as a rightful heir to the throne occupied by John of England. At this point only an earldom separated him from the greatest in England. But soon after this William de Braose fell out of favour with King John of England. The precise reasons remain obscure. King John cited overdue monies that de Braose owed the Crown from his estates. But the King's actions went far beyond what would be necessary to recover the debt. He distrained de Braose's English estates in Sussex and Devon and sent a force to invade Wales to seize the de Braose domains there. Beyond that, he sought de Braose's wife Maud who, the story goes, had made no secret of her belief that King John had murdered Arthur of Brittany. Gerald of Wales describes Maud de St. Valery, as a 'prudent and chaste woman' who bore her husband three sons William, Giles and Reginald de Braose. De Braose fled to Ireland, then returned to Wales as King John had him hunted in Ireland. In Wales, William allied himself to the Welsh Prince Llywelyn the Great and helped him in rebellion against King John. In 1210, William de Braose fled Wales in disguise as a beggar, to France. His wife and eldest son were captured, and he died the following year in August 1211 at Corbeil, France. He is buried in the Abbey of St. Victor in Paris by a fellow exile and vociferous opponent of John of England, Stephen Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury. His hopes to return alive to Wales and a burial in Brecon were to be unfulfilled. William's wife, Maud, and eldest son, William, once captured were murdered by King John, possibly starved to death incarcerated in Windsor Castle and Corfe Castle in 1210. While William had aroused the jealousy of the other Barons during his rise, the arbitrary and violent manner of his fall very likely discomfited them and played a role in the Baronial uprisings of the next decade. The historian Sidney Painter, in his biography of King John, called it "the greatest mistake John made during his reign, as the King revealed to his Barons once and for all his capacity for cruelty". William de Braose' eldest son, William, although captured in hiding with his mother and starved to death in 1210, had fathered four sons. They were John, Giles, Phillip and Walter and although they were also held imprisoned they were granted release in 1218. John, the eldest, was said to have been brought up in secret, on Gower, by a Welsh ally or retainer. On release he came under the care of his uncle Giles de Braose. John made a claim to being rightful heir of the de Braose lands and titles and although the courts did not find for him, his other uncle Reginald de Braose was able to cede by a legal convention the Baronecies of both Gower and Bramber to him for a fee. Thus establishing the junior branch of the dynasty in its own right and further positioning the dynasty for survival at worst and at best opportunity, continued future power and influence. The middle son, Giles de Braose, exiled in France until 1213, was Bishop of Hereford from 1200 until his death in 1215. He made peace with King John and agreed terms for regaining de Braose lands in 1215 but had also made alliances with the Welsh leader Llywelyn the Great. He died in 1215 before he could come into the lands. William's third son, Reginald de Braose reacquired his father's lands and titles for himself through simply seizing them back by force following the death of Giles. Reginald did not actually come to terms with the Crown until 1217 and the new, young King Henry III of England, after the death of King John. This in turn aroused the anger of Llywelyn the Great who had an understanding with Giles de Braose and the seeming duplicity caused the Welsh to attack de Braose lands in Brecon and Abergavenny and Gower. Abergavenny Castle had to be rebuilt as a result. Reginald de Braose died in 1228. William's eldest daughter Matilda (also called Maud) married a prominent Welsh prince, Gruffydd ap Rhys II of Deheubarth. Another daughter, Margaret, married Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath in Ireland and himself another powerful Marcher Lord. The story of the death of Maud de St. Valery and the conflict of her family with John Lackland is covered in several novels, notably Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine. Erskine describes the life of Maud by sending a woman of the 20th century by psychological regression back into the 12th century. | De Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber William (I15930)
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| 10346 | William de Braose, First Lord of Bramber born 1049 in Briouze, Normandy (today part of the Argentan Arrondissement in the region of Basse-Normandie). (d. 1093/1096) was a Norman nobleman who participated in the victory at the Battle of Hastings over King Harold Godwinson in support of William the Conqueror as he and his followers invaded and controlled Saxon England. His name at this early stage would have been Guillaume de Briouze. De Braose was given lands in Sussex, England at Bramber in 1073, where he was lord of the Rape of Bramberand where he built Bramber Castle. De Braose was also awarded lands in the Welsh Marches, and became one of the most powerful of the new Lords of the early Norman era. He continued to bear arms alongside King William in campaigns in England, Normandy and Maine in France. He was a pious man and made considerable grants to the Abbey of St, Florent, Samur and to endow the formation of a Priory at Sele, West Sussex near Bramber and a Priory at Briouze. He was soon installed in a new Norman castle at Bramber, to guard the strategically important harbour at Steyning and so began a vigorous boundary dispute and power tussle with the monks from Fécamp, in Normandy to whom King William I had granted Steyning, brought to a head by the Domesday Book, completed in 1086. It found that de Braose had built a bridge at Bramber and demanded tolls from ships travelling further along the river to the busy port at Steyning. The monks also challenged Bramber's right to bury people in the churchyard of William de Braose's new church of Saint Nicholas, and demanded the burial fees for themselves, despite it being built to serve the castle not the town. The monks then produced forged documents to defend their position and were unhappy with the failure of their claim on Hastings, which were very similar. The monks claimed the same freedoms and land tenure in Hastings as King Edward had given them at Steyning. Though on a technicality William was bound to uphold all aspects of the status quo before Edward's death, the monks had already been expelled 10 years before that death. King William wanted to hold Hastings for himself for strategic reasons and ignored the problem until 1085, when he confirmed their Steyning claims but swapped the Hastings claim for land in the manor of Bury (near Pulborough in Sussex). In 1086 the King William called his sons, Barons and Bishops to court (the last time an English king presided personally, with his full court, to decide a matter of law) to settle this. It took a full day, and the Abbey won over the baron, forcing William de Braose to curtail his bridge tolls, give up various encroachments onto the Abbey's lands, including a farmed rabbit warren, a park, eighteen burgage plots, a causeway, and a channel to fill his moat, and organise a mass exhumation and transfer of all Bramber's dead to the churchyard of Saint Cuthman's Church in Steyning. William de Braose was succeeded as Lord of Bramber by his son, Philip. William de Braose was present for the consecration of a church in his hometown of Briouze, near Falaise in Normandy, France, whence the name de Braose originates, in 1093, so we know he was still alive in that year. However, his son Philip was issuing charters as Lord of Bramber in 1096, indicating that William de Braose died sometime between those dates probably at Bramber. | De Braose, 1st Lord of Bramber William (I15939)
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| 10347 | William de Braose, Third Lord of Bramber (born 1112 in Brecon) (d. ca. 1192) was the eldest son of Philip de Braose, Second Lord of Bramber. William was born into a second generation English Norman dynasty holding Lordships and land in Sussex at Bramber, also at Totnes in Devon and Radnor and Builth in the Welsh Marches of Wales. He maintained his Sussex lands and titles, extended St Mary de Haura Church in Shoreham and contributed to a priory at Sele, West Sussex. His mother was Aenor Fitz Judhel of Totnes. He also inherited one half of the honour of Barnstaple in Devon, paying a fee of 1000 marks for the privilege. William married Bertha de Pitres, also known as Bertha de Hereford, daughter of Miles of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford. Through this marriage, William acquired lordships of Brecon and Abergavenny in 1166 because Bertha's four brothers all died young without heirs. These vast land holdings greatly expanded the territorial power and income of the de Braose dynasty. They now held the Middle March with extensive interests in Sussex and Devon. William's younger brother Phillip accompanied King Henry II to Ireland, receiving in 1172 the honour of Limerick. In 1174, William became sheriff of Hereford. He died in about 1192 and was succeeded as Lord of Bramber by his son, William. He had also fathered two daughters, Maud and Sibilla, who married well and possibly a later son, named John. | De Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber William (I15932)
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| 10348 | William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale (died 16 July 1212) was the second but eldest surviving son of Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale. His elder brother, Robert III de Brus, predeceased their father and never held the lordship of Annandale. William de Brus thus succeeded his father when the latter died in 1194. William de Brus possessed large estates in the north of England. He obtained from King John, the grant of a weekly market at Hartlepool, and granted lands to the canons of Gisburn. Very little else is known about William's activities. He makes a few appearances in the English government records and witnessed a charter of King William of Scotland. He married a woman called Beatrice de Teyden, and had by her at least two sons: Robert (his successor) William From:(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Brus,_3rd_Lord_of_Annandale) | De Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale William (I2338)
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| 10349 | William Douglas, 1st Baron Drumlanrig (died 1427) was the son of James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas. He fought against the English in the Hundred Years' War in France, where he was killed in action in 1427. He married Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of Sir Robert Stewart of Durisdeer, and had one son, William Douglas, 2nd Baron Drumlanrig. | Douglas, 1st Baron of Drumlanrig William (I4277)
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| 10350 | William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas (c. 1327-1384) was a Scottish magnate. Early Life: He was the son of Sir Archibald Douglas and Beatrice Lindsay, and nephew of "Sir James the Good", Bruce's trusted deputy. From the time of his father's death at Halidon Hill, he is decribed as being a ward of his kinsman and godfather, William Douglas, Knight of Liddesdale and being educated in France. In 1342 under pressure from Liddesdale, his uncle Hugh the Dull resigned the Lordship of Douglas to him, though Liddesdale rapaciously administered his estates while in his wardship, and assumed direct ownership of some of the Douglas territories. Douglas returned to Scotland, upon reaching his majority in 1348, and immediately started to put his house in order. In 1346/47 following the Battle of Neville's Cross, King David II, and other nobility, including Liddesdale, were held captive by the English. Edward Baliol was using the opportunity to ravage the whole of the south of Scotland. Douglas gathered his men and drove the English out from his ancestral lands of Douglasdale. Douglas went in in the style of his uncle the Good Sir James for the following few years to wage guerrilla war against the English in the Ettrick and Jedforests. Douglas is next heard of being one of the commissioners to treat with the English for the release of King David. Death of the Knight of Liddesdale: In 1353 Baliol was ensconced at Buittle in his ancestral territories in Galloway, Douglas lead a raid there to eject him as due to Baliol's forfeiture those lands had been made over to Sir James Douglas in 1324. Following this raid, returning through the Forest, Douglas came across Liddesdale hunting on what Douglas viewed as his desmesne. This was the match that lit the fuse of years of resentment at Liddesdale's assumption of the Douglas patrimony not withstanding Liddesdale's murder of Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie. Liddesdale once in high standing with the Crown, had fallen into disfavour following his murder of Ramsay and another Knight, Sir David de Barclay. Liddesdale was set upon and killed. In February 1354, William of Douglas received a new charter from King David bestowing all the lands held by his uncle Sir James, his father Sir Archibald, and Liddesdale itself. War with England and Battle of Poitiers: In 1355 the truce with England expired and Douglas with the Earl of Dunbar and March, whose lands had been ravaged, decided to take Norham Castle in retaliation. One of Douglas' captains, Sir William Ramsay of Dalhousie, was instructed to despoil the lands around Norham and burn the town in an effort to entice the garrison out to battle. Ramsay did so and the English under the castle's constable, Sir Thomas Grey of Heaton and Lord Dacre, gave chase. Douglas and March meanwhile were encamped seven miles away in woodland to the south of Duns, when Ramsay had reached them. The English pursuers were ambushed by the Scots force, and completely overwhelmed. Following this Battle of Nesbit Moor, Douglas and March joined with the Earl of Angus in making an assault upon Berwick, but the Scots had to retire from there before the advancing army of Edward III. King Edward laid waste to the Lothians in an event that would be known as the "Burnt Candlemas". His supply lines were overstretched, and following the sinking of his fleet, and the Scots scorched earth policy, Edward had to turn homewards, but not before being ambushed and nearly taken by Lord Douglas's men outside Melrose. Following Edward's retreat into England, Douglas arranged a truce with William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton that would last until Michaelmas. He also arranged a Safe conduct to visit the captive King David. Following this Douglas crossed with a large following to France and took up arms with Jean le Bon against the Black Prince. Douglas was present at the Battle of Poitiers where he was knighted by the French King. Douglas fought in the King's own Battle, but when the fight seemed over Douglas was dragged by his men from the melee. Froissart states that "... the Earl Douglas of Scotland, who fought a season valiantly, but when he saw the discomfiture he departed and saved himself; for in no wise would he be taken by the Englishmen, he would rather there be slain". After the defeat there Douglas escaped, but left a number of his men either slain or captive, including his first cousin latterly the 3rd Earl of Douglas, Archibald the Grim. Douglas returned to Scotland by mid Autumn, and was involved in peace negotiations with the English, one aspect of the treaty was the creation of March Wardens of which Douglas was one. Under the auspice of this office, Douglas seized Hermitage Castle in Liddesdale from the English in response to their depredations on Eskdale. Douglas was part of the parliament that met at Berwick in 1357, which finalised the release of King David through the Treaty of Berwick, Douglas himself being one of the securities for his release. Earl of Douglas and Mar: Douglas was created Earl of Douglas on the 26th January 1358. In 1364, he joined David II in seeking a treaty with England which would have written off Scotland's debt to England in return for depriving his nephew, Robert the Steward, formerly an ally of Douglas, of the succession. Edward III's son, Lionel of Antwerp, would have taken the Scottish throne, although the independence of Scotland was to be guaranteed, and a special clause provided for the restoration of the English estates of the Douglas family. The plan never succeeded and, on the accession of Robert II, Douglas was nevertheless reconciled and appointed Justiciar South of the Forth in 1372. The last years of his life were spent in making and repelling border raids. He died at Douglas in May 1384. Marriage and Issue: William, Earl of Douglas married in 1357, Margaret, Countess of Mar and had two children: James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas (1358-1388) Isabel Douglas, Countess of Mar (1360-1408) The Earl of Douglas also fathered an illegitimate son by his wife's sister-in-law, Margaret Stewart, widow of Thomas, Earl of Mar and Countess of Angus in her own right: George Douglas, inherited the estates of Angus and was later created Earl of Angus. Margaret Douglas, received in 1404 the lands of Bonjedward from her sister Isabel of Mar. From: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Douglas,_1st_Earl_of_Douglas) | Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas-Mar William (I4262)
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