Names Taken from the Waltham Hall Survey of 1621

Names taken from the Waltham Hall Survey of 1621.

This list has been compiled by John and Nia Watkiss with the permission of the Lincolnshire Record Office. Marilyn Sayers has kindly helped to check the list against the translation by Dr. Peter Franklin, & has helped to eliminate typing errors. It is hoped that the Waltham Hall Survey will be available in translation, with notes, by the end of 2009.

The dates given are mostly taken from the regnal years. These are given in the translation as e.g. 1423/4, except for certain dates of death, which can be specific. We have taken the first date in every instance.

The Survey is primarily concerned with the ownership & transfer of land. It traces the ownership for some fields back to the early & mid 14th Century. Family relationships are given only where they are relevant. Where the dates show a very unlikely life span, they will refer to several people with the same name. They are often, but not always, father and son, or grandfather and grandson.

Names are listed alphabetically by surname, & then by Christian name. The same name may be listed several times because the text can make it difficult to distinguish between people with the same Christian name. The spelling of both Christian & surnames can be very variable. Where possible we have given the surname variations, but have made a single translation of Christian names using Dr Franklin’s notes. In this way Johannes becomes John, Lucas becomes Luke. The women’s names can be even more difficult so for example Katerine is given as Katherine, Roesia as Rose, and Aldree as Audrey without explanation.

Numerals are always given in the modern form so viij d becomes 8d.

Notes in brackets [ ] are made by the compilers. Notes [P.F. ] are taken from Dr. Peter Franklin’s notes to the translation of the Waltham Hall Survey. These notes by Dr Franklin will be greatly extended in the translation of The Survey.

The letter “H” or “O” at the end of a name in the separate list made by us indicates that they were described as Heirs or Offspring. The families who had “offspring” or “sequele” were descended from manorial serfs. “Heres” or “heirs” indicate that they were free, & not bound to the manor. Where some families were both, the “offspring” were usually from the very early records. John Maddison, the Surveyor of the Waltham Hall Survey of 1621, is following the old records in distinguishing between the free & unfree peasant. It is interesting that the majority of the Waltham Hall peasants & tenants were described as of free descent. Not all the tenants are given in this list as it is not possible to distinguish the status of everyone.

Some names can be cross referenced with those from the New College records [now on the Takeley Local History Society web site.].

The expression “lying sick” is translated by Dr. Franklin from “languens etc”, & he says in his notes that the full expression is almost certainly “ languens in extremis”, i.e. the person was on the point of death. Where we have included “lying sick” it implies that this is approximately the date of the persons’ death, although one or two people do manage to be lying sick more than once, so presumably they recovered the first time.

Archer, Henry, 1564

Baisy/Baysye, William & Agnes. Agnes, was the daughter of John Waylet, 1576, 1587

Bayseye, Thomas, 1608, 1621

Ballard, John of Canafeld, 1330, 1332, 1333, 1347

Ballard, John, son of John Ballard, 1347, 1351, 1363, 1370, 1377, died 1404

Ballard, John, died 1447

Ballard, Margaret/Margery, wife, then widow of John Ballard, 1404, died 1406

Banbowe, Margaret, daughter of John Cowper, 1469

Barden, John & Alice, 1464, 1479

Barle, Avery/ Averius & Thomasine, 1565. Thomasine formerly wife of John Kynge

Barly, Master, 1621

Benet, Thomas & Rosa, 1486. Their son Robert Benet.

Benet, Thomas, died 1499. Daughter & heiress was Lettice wife of William Stanes. [ This suggests that the son Robert Benet had died before 1499, & Lettice was his sister]

Bernard, John, 1338

Bernard, John & Edith, 1345, 1355, 1351, 1388, 1399

Bernard, John & Aldith , 1376, 1399, 1400. Aldith was the sister of John Seleres, & the Manor Court pronounced her to be a bastard. [ This meant that she was free, but could not inherit]

Bernard/ Bernerd, John, 1576, 1580, 1621

[the forms “Bernard” and “Bernerd” are both given]

Bolour, Christine, daughter of John Bolour, wife of Nicholas Gyva

Bolour, John, died 1359, father of Christine Gyva

Bolour, John the younger & Katherine, 1396

Bolour, John, son of William & Philippa Bolour, 1363, 1401, & father of William Bolour

Bolour, John, 1406, 1421

Bolour, Philippa, wife of William Bolour, mother of John Bolour the elder, 1363. Died 1376

Bolour, William, died 1362

Bolour, William, son of John Bolour died 1401

Bolour, William, before 1446

Borle, Robert & Idonea, 1364-6. Idonea was the daughter of William Symond

Brankle/Brankte, John, son of Robert de Branklre, of Hatfield Broad Oak, 1346, 1347, 1355. [P.F. suggests that this is Braintree, but old local maps show a house/ farm of this name in Hatfield Broad Oak]

Bright, John & Joan, 1401

Bright, John, 1358, 1398, 1409

Browne, John & Agnes, 1583, 1599, 1621

Browne, Thomas & John, sons of John & Agnes Browne 1621

Bumpstead, John de, 1337

Bumptead, John, died 1347

Bumpstead, 1385

Bumpstead, Margery, daughter of John Bumpstead, 1337, 1347, 1362

Burgate/Burgage, Thomas 1421

Campe, John, 1426, 1479

Chamneys/Jamneys, Thomas, 1609

Clerk, William, 1421

Coler, John, also called John Ekles & John le Coler

Coler, John & Edith, 1345. Edith’s daughters were Edith & Agnes.

Coler, Edith, wife of John Coler, daughter of Rose atte Woodgate, 1341, 1345, and mother of Edith and Agnes Coler, 1345

Corre, Richard & Joan/Johanne, 1472. Joan Corre, daughter of Juliane Hill

Collen, Henry, 1621

Collen, Nicholas, son of William Collen, 1568

Collen, Nicholas, died 1620. His eldest son was William Collen who was of “full age”. [ ]

Collen, William, 1565, 1568, 1571.Died “certain years ago” before 1620

Collyn, William, 1621

Cowper, Joan, wife of John Cowper, daughter of John Peyto, 1407

Cowper, John, son of John Cowper, 1365

Cowper, John, died 1398, son John Cowper was of full age

Cowper, John & Joan. John died 1407. Son William Cowper

Cowper John, died 1469, daughter Margaret Banbowe.

Cowper, William & Christine, 1407. Son of John & Joan Cowper. Christine the daughter of John Peyto.

Cowper, William & Margaret. William died 1446.

Cowper, John & Joan, 1401, 1411. John son of William & Margaret Cowper. Joan, daughter of John Peyto.

Cowper, John & Joan, as above, son William, 1409, 1411

Couper, John le, 1337, 1358

Crabbe, Joan, wife of Thomas Crabbe, and daughter of Joan Parker, widow. Joan Parker once wife of Thomas Flemyng who died 1514

Crabbe, Thomas & Joan, 1530, 1537

Crakebone, Agnes, wife of Thomas Crakebone, formerly wife of Nicholas Thurgood, died 1583

Crakebone, Thomas, 1503, 1571, 1580, 1621

Crakebone, Thomas & Agnes, 1583

Dane, John, 1410

Drake, John, before 1488

Drake, Isabel, before 1537

Dyer, Nicholas & Katherine , 1565, son Nicholas Dyer

Dyer, Thomas, 1564, 1565

Dyer, Thomas, died 1559

Dyer, Thomas & Katherine, son Nicholas Dyer, 1559, 1565

Dyer, Katherine, formerly wife of Thomas Dyer

Ekles, John, alias John Seleres, 1337, 1358, 1401

Ekles, John & Joan . Also called John Coler, 1358

[In 1190 the term “coler” was used to describe a pedlar or packman. There are several version of the name Ekles, Eccles, Elkes]

Ekles/de Eccles, John & Edith, 1337, 1358 [ ]

Ekles, John, son of John Ekles, 1358, was of full age of 21 years

Ekles, William & Christian,

Ewen, Agnes, mother of Henry Ewen senior and Peter Ewen, 1561, 1568. [2]

Ewen, John, 1557

Ewen, Henry, senior died 1614. His brother was Peter Ewen [3].

Ewen, Henry, 1621, son Henry Ewen.

Ewen, Peter & Frances, 1568, 1604 [4]

Firmin, Thomas & Audrey/Akdree/Adride, 1551, 1561

Flemyng, John, merchant, 1355, 1364, 1426

Flemyng, John, son of John Flemyng & kinsman of William Flemyng, of full age, 1424, 1425

Flemyng, Juliana, daughter of John Flemyng, 1374. John died 1374

Flemyng, Richard & Christina, 1369, 1387. Christina, daughter of John Bolour. [Also suggests she had a brother named John Bolour.] She was formerly wife of Nicholas Gyva.

Flemyng, Richard, 1385, 1404, 1410

Flemyng, Saunder alias Alexander, 1426, before 1442

Flemynge, Thomas, 1392, 1398

Flemyng, Thomas, 1486

Flemyng, Thomas & Joan, 1488. Thomas died 1514. Joan married ---Parker, and died in 1537

Flemyng, Thomas & Joan, 1572

Flemyng, William & Matilda 1386. William lying sick in 1393.Matilda died 1424. Youngest son was John Flemyng, 1493

Foster, Reginald & Margaret, 1608, 1621

Frythe/Frithe, William, 1599, 1601

Fyrmyn, Thomas & Alice, 1551, 1564 [ ]

[The dates suggest that this is the same family as Firmin]

Gardyner, John, lying sick in 1522, died 1527. Daughter Johanna Pake died 1527. Johanna’s daughter was Agnes Pake, 1528

Gardyner alias Walker, Robert & Alice, 1564, 1576, 1599

Gerard, John & Amice, 1386. Amice the sister of John Howe or Hughe, 1369, died 1377

Glasewright, Walter & Amice, 1369, 1377. Walter died 1377

Gyle, William, 1517, 1519

Gyva, John & Elizabeth, 1385, 1369. John the son of Nicholas Gyva, 1370

Gyva, John, 1446

Gyva/Gyver, John & Alice. John died 1467. Alice died 1498

Gyva/Kyva, Nicholas & Christine, 1351. Nicholas died 1362. Christine died 1386. Son John, 1370, had sons whose names are not given

Gyva, Nicholas, son John Gyva, 1370

Gyva, Nicholas 1462, 1473, lying sick in 1487

Gyva, Richard, 1474, 1479, 1487, 1488

Gyva alias Gyver, Richard, died 1528, son Nicholas Gyva, 1529

Gyver, Richard, inherited after the death of his brother John Gyver, 1523, who was the son & heir of Alice Gyva, died 1498. Richard died 1528 [ ]

Haddesleighs, John, son of Robert Haddesleighs, 1608, 1621 [5 & 6]

Hedge, Richard, 1556, died 1576.

Hedge, Thomas 1576, 1580, son of Richard Hedge

Hervy, John son of John Hervy, 1472

Hervye, John & Katherine, 1517, 1529, 1530. John lying sick in 1532. daughter Rose Hervy

Hervye, John & Rose. John lying sick in 1487 & 1502. daughter Alicia Hervy, 1502, 1521

Hervye, John & Katherine, son William Hervye. Katherine then married John Howse in 1545

Hervye, John, 1517

Hewen, John, [? Ewen] 1557

Hill, Juliane, 1472

Hill, Richard, 1487,1521

Hilles, Richard & Katherine, 1545, 1559

Hokle, John & Alice, 1464

Hode, Stephen & Juliana, 1377

Hode, Henry, before 1488

Howland, Robert & Agnes, 1493

Howse, Giles, 1558

Howse, John & Matilda/Magdalena, 1507

Howe, John, called John Hughe, 1369

Howe, John, before 1426

Howse, John, 1537, lately lying sick, 1557, died 1558

Howse, Katherine, formerly the wife of John Hervy.1545

Hughe, Christine, died 1347, son John Hughe, 1363

Hughe, John, son of John Hughe, 1331.

Hughe, John, 1363, son of Christine Hughe

Hughe, Roger, 1369, succeeded by John Hughe before 1363

Hughe, William, son John Hughe, 1331

Humfrey, John & Katherine, 1520

Hunfrey, John & Margaret, 1522

Humfrey, Nicholas, 1572, 1573. 1576, 1580, 1581, 1608, 1621. Daughter Margaret the wife of Reginald Foster

Humfrey, Simon & Margaret, 1514

Ingold, Francis & Agnes, 1621

Ingold, Henry & Margaret, 1621

Ingold, Nicholas, 1588, 1590, 1614. A Nicholas Ingold was father to Francis and Henry Ingold

Ingold, Nicholas, died 1614

Ingold, Robert, 1583, 1599, 1608, 1621. Son John Ingold, 1621. [7] [Robert may have died 1621

Johnson, William, 1476, 1496

Judde, Thomas, 1614, 1621

Kempe, John, 1473 [Could be a variation of Campe]

Knaresburghe, John, & Idonea, 1385, 1400, 1410

Kynge, John & Margaret, 1410. Margaret daughter of Joan Parker once the wife of Thomas Flemyng. 1537

Kynge, Margaret, daughter and heiress of John Kynge, 1559.

Lane, Richard & Johanne, 1621. [Dates are for a Richard Lane only]

Laver, John, died 1446

Laver, John, 1442, 1527 [8]

Macching, John, 1462

Malpys, John, before 1396

Marryge, John, 1587, 1588, 1593.

Meade, George & Margaret, 1580

Meller, John, 1466, 1468, 1469, 1470

Meller, Nicholas & Joan , 1399, 1417, 1443

Meller, Nicholas, 1507, 1511

Meller, Nicholas, son William Miller

Meller, Thomas, brother to Nicholas Meller, 1443

Meller, Thomas, son of Richard le Meller, 1347

Meller, Thomas & Christine, son Nicholas Meller, 1406

Meller, Thomas & Cecily, son John Meller, 1422, 1443.

Meller, William, lying sick in 1465. Son William Meller

[Meller and Miller probably relate to the same family]

Miller, John, 1520

Miller, Thomas, 1574 [9, 10]

Miller, William, lying sick in 1499

Morrell, Thomas & Alice, 1574, 1576, 1583

Morrell, John, son of Thomas & Alice Morrell, 1621

Moton, Agnes, 1493

Newman, Richard le, called Hayrode, & Alice, 1334, 1352, died 1333, son Thomas [Hatrode could mean that he looked after the hedges ^ enclosures of the Manor, rather than the hay]

Noke, John, son of George Noke, 1533, 1537

Noke, George & Magdalen/Matilda, 1499. George Noke died 1504. Magdalen died 1533

Noman, John, 1446

Norton, Thomas & Joan. Thomas died 1557

Norton, Thomas & Joan, 1555. Both died 1576, son Thomas Norton, 1572, 1578

Norton, Thomas, 1621 [11]

Oker, Christopher, 1621

Ode, Stephen, 1408

Pake, Agnes, wife of Thomas Pake q.v., sister of Margery Ratcliffe, died 1531

Pake, Agnes, daughter & heiress of Joan Pake, 1528

Pake, Agnes, widow, 1519, 1521, died 1531

Pake, Joan, died 1527, daughter of John Gardyner

Pake, John, 1507, 1517

Pake, John, 1511, father Thomas Pake, 1501, 1517

Pake, John, son of John Pake

Pake, John & Agnes, John lying sick in 1512

Pake, John & Joan, John lying sick in 1511, son John Pake, 1507, 1511

Pake, John & Susanna, daughter Susanna Pake

Pake, Johanna, daughter of Agnes Pake the daughter of John Gardyner

Pake, Margery, sister of Agnetis/Agnes, Pake,

Pake, Margery, daughter of Agnetis/Agnes Pake, & wife of John Ratcliffe

Pake, Richard, 1578, died 1599. His son Richard was 10 and ½ years old in 1576

Pake, Richard, 1579, 1599, 1617, 1621

Pake, Susan, daughter & heiress of John Pake the brother & heir of Thomas Pake,1568

Pake, Thomas, 1477, 1493, 1501, died 1511

Pake, Thomas, heir of Susanne the daughter and heiress of John Pake

Pake, Thomas, son of William Pake

Pake, Thomas & Agnes, son John Pake, 1493. 1503, 1517, 1520

Pake, Thomas & Joan, 1507

Pake, William, 1558, died before 1571 [12, & 13]

Pale, Thomas, 1501

Pamphelon, John, 1474

Parker, Joan, widow, once wife of Thomas Flemynge, died 1537

Payne, John, 1464. 1487, 1488, 1493

Payne, John, son Henry Payne, 1464

Payne, John, died 1568 [14]

Payne, Henry, son of John Payne, 1568

Payne, Henry & Margaret, 1578, 1604, 1608

Payne, Henry, son of John Payne. 1568

Payne, Roger, 1442,

Payne, Thomas & Joan, 1496, 1507, son John Payne. Thomas died 1545