Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FOURTH GENERATION. 15 John4 (?Jo/in John,1 Roger), born about 1510. His father’s name is not known, but the reasons for the line of descent proposed will be found on page 30, and need not be repeated here. As all the knowledge we have of him is derived from the Wills of his two brothers, Reinold and Thomas, there is nothing to show when he died, except that he certainly survived Reinold, and apparently was living in October, 1561, when Thomas made his Will. He was evidently older than Thomas, but may have been younger than Reinold. I have no doubt that he was the John of Ramsey, taxed there in 1540, on his movables 2s., 6d. That he married (? Margaret ) and had issue is evident from the Wills of his brothers, but these do not give us their names. These are obtained from the Will of John (36), the first son assigned him below. In that Will the maker speaks of his cousin Barbara: Reinold, the brother of John (15), had a daughter Barbara Marvin, who of course would have been own cousin to the children of her father’s brothers; it is clear from the Will of Thomas (17), one of these brothers, that he had but one son, Matthew, and as the only other brother of Reinold was John, so far as known, the conjectural assignment seems justified. We therefore conclude that the cousin of Barbara and the brother and sister named in John’s (36) Will were the children of John (15), and these we assign him. The order of birth is unknown; ifwe are correct in believing Elizabeth to be a daughter, which seems to be implied in the Will cited, she was very likely the eldest child, and not improbably there were other children, whose names have not been found. 35 i. Elizabeth,‘ b. about 1532 ; mar. John Hayle of Ramsey, and had (i) John,6 called
the younger in his uncle’s Will; (2) Wea…
