Family of William Myner

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1. WILLIAM MYNER, JR. was born Bet. 1484 - 1500 in Chew Magna, Somerset, England, and died February 23, 1584/85 in Chew Magna, Somerset, England. He married SARAH UNKNOWN. She was born Abt. 1500 in Chew Magna, Somerset, England.

Notes for WILLIAM MYNER, JR:

Miner Family, by Sellect, page 2.

William the eldest son, had issue - Clement and Elizabeth Miners, and was buried at Chew-Magna, the 23 day of February Anno Domini, 1585; and lies interred in the Priests Chancell, about four foot from the wall, with this inscription "heir ( )eth ( )m Myner ( ) of ( )psh ( ) obiit xxiii febru' mdlxxxv;", this and no more legible upon the stone, with the coat expressed in the margin, at this sign *, but by the records the registers of the said church, it is evident that his name was William Myner, they both agreeing in the same date and place, and must needs have been the head of the same family, as by the paternal coat clearly appears.

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1. William may be possibly identified with William Mynard, who took a new grant of a messuage (house) and a fardel of land of old auster in Chew Magna on June 29, 1554, to be held on the lives of himself, his son Thomas and Thomas' wife, Joan (Somerset Record Office DD/S/WH, box 41, court roll).

2. A William Myner was assessed in a lay subsidy (national tax) collected in 1523 in the tithing of North Elm in Chew Magna and paid 4d. on an assessment of 2 pounds on his goods (F. A. Wood, Collections for a History of Chew Magna, 1903, page 84; original in Public Record Office).

3. William is the earliest member of the family from whom a connected line of descent has been confirmed. He was the great-grandfather of "Thomas Mynor" baptized at Chew Magna April 23, 1608, the immigrant of Stonington, New London County, Connecticut who, at times, spelled his name Minor and Miner.

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Child of WILLIAM MYNER and SARAH UNKNOWN is:

i. THOMAS MYNER, b. Bet. 1530 - 1535, Chew Magna, Somerset, England; d. Bef. November 15, 1573, Chew Magna, Somerset, England; m. JOAN UNKNOWN, Abt. 1560, Chew Magna, Somerset, England.