Notes
Note N2212
Index
==========
From Michael Wilcoxen 2009-06-01 (Genes Reunited)
Mary Belden
First name: Mary Known as:
Middle name: Occupation:
Surname: Belden Date of birth: 1600
Year of birth: 1600 Date of baptism:
Gender: Female Year of death: 1664
Date of death: 3 Mar 1664 Source of data:
Place of birth: Hartford,Hartford,Connecticut,USA
Place of baptism:
Place of death: Farmington,Hartford,Connecticut,USA
Notes:
Spouse name: Thomas Bird
Place of marriage:
Date of marriage:
Divorced: No
==========
Notes
Note N2213
Index
Isabel later became Canoness of the convent of St. Waudru's, Mons, c. 1366.
wikipedia 2015-05-16
Notes
Note N2214
Index
Katherine's sister Philippa, a lady of Queen Philippa's household, married the poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
Wikipedia 2015-05-16
==========
Notes
Note N2215
Index
Death - 75/1810 V181075 5 MORRISON ANN INFANT
Death - 2499/1810 V18102499 2A MORRISON ANN INFANT
Notes
Note N2216
Index
Death - 4682/1950 LEWIS WILLIAM HENRY HENRY ELIZA HORNSBY
Death - 22075/1946 LEWIS WILLIAM HENRY RICHARD VICTORIA ROSE SUTHERLAND
Death - 6172/1945 LEWIS WILLIAM HENRY THOMAS HENRY JANE WEST MAITLAND
Death - 11449/1949 LEWIS WILLIAM HENRY JAMES ANNIE MANLY
Death - 1364/1949 LEWIS WILLIAM HENRY THOMAS MARGARET PETERSHAM
Death - 13288/1940 LEWIS WILLIAM HENRY 73 YRS SYDNEY SYDNEY
Birth - 14961/1863 LEWIS WILLIAM WILLIAM MARY A WOLLONGONG
Birth - 2299/1863 LEWIS WILLIAM THOMAS ELIZABETH SYDNEY
Birth - 667/1863 LEWIS WILLIAM H WILLIAM ELIZABETH SYDNEY
Notes
Note N2217
Index
From Anthony Yates in an email dated 2015-05-30
Ellen(or Helen) Armstrong
We knew that Ellen was the daughter of Hugh Armstrong from Thorpe in Nottinghamshire , but that's all we knew. There is a village of Thorpe near Newark , and if you look in county histories for details of the Armstrong family there , there is absolutely nothing there - which is puzzling , our ancestors are normally prominent families. I've found a 2nd Thorpe , Thorpe-in-the-Clottes , about 20 miles from the first. This was wiped out by Hugh and his dad , who evicted their tenants and turned the land over to sheep-farming. This lost village is within the boundaries of the present-day village of Wysall - if you look in the Wysall chapter of the histories you find a family tree of our Armstrongs So I've been able to find more than 200 ancestors for Ellen. I've attached a version of this family tree and a text overview.
The tree is numerically-coded to a scheme we use for our enormous tree : eg.
1 Megan Tilley
2 Megan's Dad ( 2 x Megan )
3 Megan's Mum ( Megan's Dad + 1 )
4 Megan's Paternal Grandad ( 2 x Dad )
5 Megan's Paternal Grandma
6 Megan's Maternal Grandad ( 2 x Mum )
7 Megan's Maternal Grandma ...... and so forth for several centuries
Our 'origin' 1 is my GGF Capt Nicholas Smith Kirkland ( or his sister Mary Ann Kirkland , matriarch of all my French cousins ) Ellen in this scheme is 179.
Notes
Note N2218
Index
Photo:
https://familysearch.org/photos/images/647527?p=339824
[2015-06-08]
Connected to Alma Charles Tilley, brother of James Arthur Tilley
Notes
Note N2219
Index
http://historytheinterestingbits.com/2015/06/13/nichola-de-la-haye-eng lands-forgotten-heroine/ [2015-06-14]
Nichola de la Haye, England’s Forgotten Heroine
13/06/2015Sharon Bennett Connolly
Nichola de la Haye is one of those very rare women in English history. She is renowned for her abilities, rather than her family and connections. In a time when men fought and women stayed home, Nichola de la Haye held Lincoln Castle against all-comers.
The eldest daughter and co-heiress of Richard de la Haye and his wife, Matilda de Verdun, she was probably born in the early 1150s. Richard de la Haye was a minor Lincolnshire lord; in 1166 he was recorded as owing 20 knights’ fees, which had been reduced to 16 by 1172. When he died in 1169, Nichola inherited her father’s land in Lincolnshire and his position as castellan of Lincoln Castle, a position she would hold for over 30 years.
Nichola was married twice, her first husband, William Fitz Erneis, died in 1178. Before 1185 she married Gerard de Camville, son of Richard de Camville, admiral of Richard I’s crusading fleet during the 3rd Crusade. Although her first marriage was probably childless, Nichola and Gerard had at least 3 children; Richard, Thomas and Matilda.
Nichola’s husbands each claimed the position of castellan of Lincoln Castle by right of his wife; but Nichola seems to have been far from the normal subservient wife. When her husband was not in the castle, she was left in charge rather than an alternative, male deputy.
064
Lincoln castle walls
Nichola first comes to the attention of the chroniclers in 1191, when Prince John made a play for his brother Richard’s throne. Gerard de Camville was a supporter of John and joined him at Nottingham Castle, leaving Nichola to hold Lincoln. Richard I’s Chancellor, William Longchamps had headed north to halt John’s coup and laid siege to Lincoln Castle.
The formidable Nichola refused to yield, holding out for 40 days before Longchamps raised the siege following the fall of the castles at Tickhill and Nottingham. Amusingly, Richard of Devizes said of this defence of Lincoln Castle, that she did it ‘without thinking of anything womanly’.
In 1194, on the king’s return, Camville was stripped of his positions as Sheriff of Lincolnshire and Castellan of the castle; only having it returned to him on the accession of King John in 1199.
Gerard de Camville died around 1215 and, although now a widow, it seems the castle remained in Nichola’s hands. On one of King John’s visits to inspect the castle’s defences in either 1215 or 1216 there was a rather dramatic display of fealty from Nichola :
And once it happened that after the war King John came to Lincoln and the said Lady Nichola went out of the eastern gate of the castle carrying the keys of the castle in her hand and met the king and offered the keys to him as her lord and said she was a woman of great age and was unable to bear such fatigue any longer nad he besought her saying, “My beloved Nicholaa, I will that you keep the castle as hitherto until I shall order otherwise”.¹
As we all know, King John’s reign wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. He lost his French lands and was held to account by the barons of England for numerous examples of maladministration, corruption and outright murder. In 1215 he had been forced to seal the Magna Carta in order to avoid war. Although it eventually came to be considered a fundamental statement of English liberties, as a peace treaty Magna Carta failed miserably. Within months John had written to Pope Innocent III and the charter had been declared null and void; the barons were up in arms.
077
The postern gate, through which William Marshal, and his relieving force, entered Lincoln Castle
The rebels invited the king of France to take the throne of England; instead Philip II’s son, Louis (the future Louis VIII), accepted the offer and was hailed as King of England in London in June of 1216.
As Louis consolidated his position in the south, John made an inspection of Lincoln castle in September 1216. During the visit Nichola de la Haye, who held the castle for John, even though the city supported the rebels, was appointed Sheriff of Lincolnshire in her own right.
Moving south, just 2 weeks later, the king’s baggage train was lost as he crossed the Wash estuary and within a few more days John was desperately ill.
King John died at Newark on 19th October 1216, with half his country occupied by a foreign invader and his throne now occupied by his 9-year-old son, Henry III. The elder statesman and notable soldier William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke was appointed Regent and set out to save the kingdom.
Meanwhile, Louis’ forces, under the Comte du Perche, headed north and, in early 1217, took the City of lincoln and laid siege to the castle with a small force. Now in her 60s Nichola de la Haye took charge of the defences. Prince Louis personally travelled up to Lincoln to ask for her surrender, assuring her no one would be hurt, but Nichola refused.
400px-BitvaLincoln1217ortho
The Battle of Lincoln, 1217
When the small force proved insufficient to force a surrender, the French had to send for reinforcements. For almost 3 months - from March to mid-May - siege machinery bombarded the south and east walls of the castle. On the 20th May William Marshal arrived, from the north-west, with a relieving force. Having taken the North Gate of the city walls, his army proceeded to attack the besieging forces and routed the enemy; the enemy’s commander, the Comte du Perche, was killed in the fighting.
The city, which had supported the rebels and welcomed the French, was sacked and looted by the victorious army; the battle becoming known as the Lincoln Fair, as a result.
The Battle of Lincoln turned the tide of the war. The French were forced to seek peace and returned home. Magna Carta was reissued and Henry III’s regents could set about healing the country.
In a magnificent demonstration of ingratitude, within 4 days of the relief of the Castle, Nichola’s position of Sheriff of Lincolnshire was given to the king’s uncle William Longspee, Earl of Salisbury, who took control of the city and seized the castle.
Not one to give up easily Nichola travelled to court to remind the king’s regents of her services, and request her rights be restored to her. A compromise was reached whereby Salisbury remained as Sheriff of the County, while Nichola held the city and the castle.
Magna_Carta_(British_Library_Cotton_MS_Augustus_II.106)
Magna Carta
Nichola’s granddaughter and heiress, Idonea - daughter of Nichola’s eldest son Richard - was married to Salisbury’s son, William II Longspee; the couple inherited the de la Haye and Camville lands on Nichola’s death. The settlement was not ideal, however, and some wrangling seems to have continued until Salisbury’s death in 1226.
A staunchly independent woman, she issued some 25 surviving charters in her name. She made grants to various religious houses, including Lincoln Cathedral, and even secured a royal grant for a weekly market on one of her properties.
A most able adversary for some of the greatest military minds of the time, and a loyal supporter of King John, she was unique among her peers. Although praised by the chroniclers, they seemd to find difficulty in describing a woman who acted in such a fashion; the Dunstable annals refer to her as a ‘noble woman’, saying she acted ‘manfully’. One cannot fail to feel admiration for a woman who managed to hold her own in a man’s world, who fought for her castle and her home in a time when women had so little say over their own lives - and at such an advanced age. Her bravery and tenacity saved Henry III’s throne.
Not surprisingly, Henry III referred to her as ‘our beloved and faithful Nichola de la Haye’.
Nichola de la Haye, the woman who saved England, lived well into her 70s. By late 1226 she had retired to her manor at Swaton, dying there in 1230. She was buried in St Michael’s Church, Swaton in Lincolnshire.
==========