HALL FAMILY HISTORY
DESCENDANTS OF THE HALL FAMILY
OF BRADFORD-ON-AVON, WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND
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IMPORTANT: to see both the Hall and Rogers Pedigree visit the Hall's of Bradford on Avon Link above. Click on the first link in the second paragraph, and go to the bottom of the page. The pedigrees are provided by Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England and this is their official website.
For more information on the Wiltshire Hall's, click on the Hall's of Bradford link above and select Community History (upper right), select Text Images (lower left), and enter in the Search Key Word Box (lower left) the word Bradford, this will bring a list of the on-line images. Here you will find Book 16, Bradford on Avon, A History and Description, by W. H. Jones, go to the bottom of the page and click next until you come to chapter 7, this is the chapter dealing with the Hall family of Bradford on Avon.
The
arms of the Hall’s of Bradford on Avon can be seen at
Holy Trinity Church in Bradford on Avon on a wooden screen
on the north wall of the chancel, once used to separate the
south aisle from the body of the church.
A description of the Hall arms and crest, found on
the 1565 Hall Pedigree of the Herald's Visitation, is
carried back to Thomas Halle, or de la Sale, living at the
close of the 14th century.
The Hall motto is described in an article in The
Wiltshire Society’s Magazine, issue 268.
Arms:
Sable,
three poleaxes argent;
Crest:
An
arm embowed in armour Proper
(natural color), garnished Or (gold), holding
a poleaxe argent (silver);
Motto:
“Deo
et pauperibus,” meaning: “To
God and the Poor.”
The poleaxe symbolizes readiness for the ordeal of battle
and the defense of purpose through allegiance to the
sovereign; loyalty, conviction, and unconquerable will, a
staff weapon used by Knights, betoken on one of dignity and
repute. The blade was an axe-head, usually balanced by a
hammer-type head, and surmounted by a steel spike. Used from
the 15th century for foot combats. The shaft was of ash
other hardwood, mounted by an axe blade that had a forward
point for thrusting and a thin projection on the back for
piercing armor or pulling a horseman off balance. The
poleaxe and halberd were specialized weapons for fighting
armored men-at-arms and penetrating knightly armor.
Based
on the following information, the de Aulas of Bradford on
Avon are more than likely descendants of the Isle
of Wight de Aulas, who are often referred to as Normans.
An early deed shows that Henry Hall, b. c1440, son and heir
of Nicholas Hall and Margaret Besill who died early and
passed them on to his brother Thomas, held lands in
Bradford, Lye, Troll Parva, Slade, Ford, Wraxhall, Holt,
Broughton, Marlborough, Okebourn Meysey, Wilts, Freshford,
Iford, Mitford, Frome, Widcombe, Portishead, Fleete, as well
as other placed in Somerset.
The Battle Abbey Roll: With Some Account of the
Norman Lineages, states, "this family took its name
from Le Haulle in Normandy. Warin de Haulla is
mentioned in Somerset in 1154 and again in 1165, and held a
barony of eight fees in Devon. The de Aulas held St.
Lawrence, Stenbury and Yavesland in Isle of Wight."
Anne
Wroughton of Moores Court, Isle of Wight, daughter of Sir
Thomas Wroughton, married Lancelot Lisle and they had son
Thomas Lisle. Lancelot Lisle died and his manorial rights
passed to his widow Anne who then married Anthony Rogers,
son of Anthony Rogers and Dorothy Ernely, grandson of
William Rogers and Joan Horton and great grandson of Thomas
Rogers and Cecilia Besill. Cecilia's sister Margaret married
Nicholas Hall. Anthony Rogers and his wife Anne held courts
at Holt between 1544 and 1556; grandson Anthony Lisle, son
of Thomas Lisle, succeeded her. Dorothy Rogers b. c1540,
daughter and heir of Anthony Rogers of Bradford and Anne
Wroughton, married John Hall, son of Thomas Hall and
Elizabeth Mervyn.
The
Lisle's were from Wolton, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England,
and the Wroughton’s were from Moores Court, Isle Wight,
England. Eleanor de Gorges, heiress of Wraxhall, was
born c1307 in Knighton, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
and died c1376 in Wraxall, Long Ashton, Somerset, England.
She married Sir Theobald Russell of Kingston, son of
Sir William Russell of Kingston and Katherine de Aula.
TOTHILL
MANOR. The manor of Tothill was taken from Richard de Says
in late 1265. Thomas de Aula is mentioned as lord of Tothill
in 1267. By Nov 1274 King Edward I, granted it to John Ferre.
Eleanor Ferre, heiress of Tothill was alive in 1330 when she
was referred to as "Dame de Georges wife of Sir John
Peche" and William Russell, Eleanor's grandson,
described her as a "grasping, avaricious, tyrannical
woman." Ralph de Gorges m. Eleanor in 1301 and
died 1323. His widow was granted as dower the manor of
Wraxhall and one-third of the manor of Braunton, she then
married before 1326 John Peche (1st Lord Peche), and was
still living by 1334.
HOLT
MANOR - Walter de Aula is mentioned in a very early deed as
owner of Ford Farm in Holt, his father Reginald de Aula is
described as his predecessor in a charter of Abbess Mary
according to, Chartus and Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey
1089-1216 by N. E. Stacy.
BRIDDLESFORD - Domesday shows it being held by Nigel,
son of William, son of Azor, and Yaverland, passing to the
de Aula Family. By
1204
- Briddlesford was returned to the overlord, Thomas de
Aula, Lord of Yaverland. He was the son of Roger de
aula, and grandson of Warin de aula, one of the founders of
St. Nicholas Chapel in Carisbrooke Castle. The tenant,
William de Bridlesford, had forfeited the land due to a
felony. By the end of the 13th century, it was in the
hands of the Lisle family of Wootton. The manor of
Briddlesford eventually passed to Thomas Lisle, stepson of
Anthony Rogers, of Bradford on Avon, in the right of Thomas'
mother Anne Wroughton Lisle Rogers.
RAIINHAM MANOR - Rainham manor, which formed part of the
honor of Bampton, descended from Walter of Douai who died
c1107 to his son Robert of Bampton and to Robert's daughter
Gillian who married 1) William Paynel and 2) Warin Haule (d.
1176).
MORTON
MANOR - Morton manor, Brading, Isle of Wight, formed part of
the estate of the family of Aula, being held of Thomas de
Aula's manor of Tothill in 1267-8, and passed to his
descendants, the Russell’s of Yaverland. Morton Manor,
believed to be built in 1249, is situated on the original
site of residence of the Norman de Aula family.
YAVERLAND
MANOR - Thomas de Aula is mentioned in a deed of 1228, and
in 1254 his son Roger de Aula obtained a grant at Yaverland,
Isle of Wight. Before the end of the century the manor
passed to William Russell by his marriage with the daughter
of Thomas de Aula.
KERN
MANOR was held before the Conquest by Earl Harold, and in
1086 by the king. It seems afterwards to have passed to the
Aula family, and Roger de Aula gave part to the Knights
Templar. His gift was confirmed by Ralph Mackerell and augmented
by Robert Russell.
SPAN
MANOR – Span originally belonged to the de Aula family,
but was held near the end of the 13th century by William
Russell, Lord of Yaverland.
STENBURY
MANOR According to Worley's "Isle of Wight" (1781)
pg. 220, "the manor of Stenbury was held by the family
of de Aula from after the Norman conquest, from whom it
descended to that of Heyno who enjoyed it for more than two
centuries, and lived at the manor house, which was
surrounded by a moat."
In
1700, John Hall, builder of the Alms-Houses in Bradford on
Avon, ordered the Hall coat of arms, crest
and inscription “Deo et pauperibus,” be cut in stone and
placed on the front of the building, which can still be
seen.
In Heraldry, the poleaxe, a staff weapon used by Knights,
was conferred to those of dignity, good reputation,
conviction, loyalty, and readiness for action.
A heraldic artist was able to recreate the Hall coat
of arms based on the above description.
Before the invasion in 1066, William the Conqueror
imported soldiers from surrounding provinces to improve the
fighting abilities of his army. These knights were quickly
assimilated into the Norman aristocracy and many stood by
William’s side at Hastings, and subsequently became
prominent among Anglo-Norman baronial families in England.
It is known that William asked men from Poitou, Burgundy,
Brittany, Flanders, Germany, Denmark and Italy to join his
army. In exchange for their services, William promised them
a share of the land and wealth of England.
Whether
or not the Hall’s of Bradford on Avon arrived with William
the Conqueror is unknown. We do know the first mention of the “de
Aula’s of Bradford” is found in, Charters and
Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216, By N. E.
Stacy, wherein Reginaldus de Aula “of Bradford” is
mentioned. It
also describes a charter of Abbess Mary, which names
Reginald de Aula as the predecessor of Walter de Aula.
These early documents used the French, or Norman,
version of the Hall surname. Records of Holy Trinity Parish,
built by the Norman’s in Bradford on Avon following the
conquest, show the de Aula’s as members from an early
date. These records indicate the de Aula’s were a family
of consequent, wealth and power as lords of the manor.
Mary
(c1150-1216), Abbess of Shaftesbury, believed to be the
daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou and Maine,
Duke of Normandy, and half-sister of Henry II, exacted her
rights, as Lady of the Manor, of wardship and marriage over
their minor children from the representatives of Reginald de
Aula upon his death. Agnes, widow of Reginald de Aula, paid
twenty-five marks and Mary agreed to cede her rights.
In feudal law, the right of wardship allowed the abbess to
take control of a minor heir until the heir came of age. The
right of marriage allowed them to have some say as to whom
the daughter or widow of a vassal would marry and both
rights brought increased revenue.
As
owner of Halus Manor, an estate known to be held by the
Abbess of Shaftesbury as part of her manor of Bradford,
Reginald de Aula had attained a status of quality and wealth
while living in Bradford on Avon, possibly acquiring the
manor as his father’s eldest son and heir.
The
various spelling of this family name include Hall, Halle,
Haule, Haul, Hal, Hale, De Aule, De la Sale, De la Salle, De
Sale, De Salle, De la S’aula and others, the Latin version
of the name being Aula, and the French version being Salle.
In Leland’s Itinerary he states, “Halle, alias De
la Sale, dwellith in a pretty stone house at the east end of
the town, on the right bank of Avon, a man of 100 pounds of
land by the year; an ancient gentleman since the time of
Edward I.”
The Domesday
Book of 1086 was a survey similar to those done today. It
was ordered by William the Conqueror and contained records
for 13,418 English settlements. The
main purpose of the survey was to find out who owned what so
they could be taxed on it, and the judgment of the
assessors was final, whatever the book said about who owned
the property, or what it was worth, was the law, with no
appeal. It
recorded the manor of Bradford as consisting of about 5,000
acres, and as being held by the Abbey of Shaftesbury.
Following the Norman Conquest, records indicate there was
very little change in this area, except for the construction
of a large Norman church and renovation of the town bridge.
This Norman church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is
located near the town center by the river, and is believed
built over the remains of an older church.
During Saxon times the town bridge was wooden, but
during Norman times it was replaced with high quality stone.
The original slim design,
built without parapets, was so dangerous people kept falling
into the river, which led to the construction of another
bridge alongside it, effectively doubling the width. Two
ribbed and pointed arches of the original Norman
construction can still be seen on the eastern side, and if
you look under the bridge you can clearly see the joint. On
the bridge is a small building, originally a chapel, and the
fish on the weather vane is a Gudgeon, an early Christian
symbol. In later years, the chapel was used as a small
prison where local drunks and troublemakers were sometimes
confined overnight.
BRADFORD ON AVON TOWN BRIDGE
In
1206 the Pipe Roll of 6 John shows Thomas de Aula, “paid
40 marks and a palfrey to get what he ought to have had for
nothing, namely the lands escheated to him through his
tenant’s felony.” The
legal rights of the Crown were already extended beyond their
legal limits, but King John decided to extend them even
further. Once he obtained a firm footing in the felon’s
land, he then refused to surrender it to the rightful lord
after the year and day had expired, causing great anger
among the Barons. The Magna Carta, an English charter issued
in 1215, was written to end such abuses. Records show Gilbert
de Aula signed his name as a witness to the signing of the
Magna Carta, which later influenced the United States
Constitution and Bill of Rights, and is considered one of
the most important legal documents in the history of
democracy.
Thomas
Hall, spouse of Alice Bower, was summoned before the
King’s Justices with reference to a debt of £100 owning
to Sir John Turberville, Knight. He failed to make his
appearance and was charged with something similar to
"contempt of Court."
The penalty of 'outlawry' soon followed. He soon
surrendered himself to justice, and for a time was an inmate
of Fleet prison. Among
the deeds and other documents found at the Hall during the
process of repairs was one dated 18 Henry VII, and contained
a "Royal Pardon and Revocation of Outlawry for Thomas
Hall, lately of Bradford, Co. Wilts, Gentleman, now in the
Fleet Prison." It does not appear from the document
that the debt was paid at the time of his release; the
condition of his release being that he should appear in
Court "if the said John should desire to speak with him
touching the debt above mentioned.”
The
outlawed man was outside the pale of society; anyone might
slay him at pleasure; in the grim phrase of the day, he bore
“a wolf’s head” and might be hunted like a noxious
beast. A reward of two marks was offered for each outlaw’s
head brought to Westminster. Two barons showed their
knowledge of John’s suspicions by withdrawing secretly
from his Court and taking to flight. The King caused them to
be outlawed in their absence, and thereafter seized their
estates and demolished their castles.
In
1273 William de Aula de Bradford is mentioned among
Wiltshire gentlemen witnessing documents during the reign of
King Edward (1273-1307).
In the Hundred Rolls, (7 Edw. I, 1279), Reginald de
Aula and Adam de Mokesham appear as Jurors for the Hundred
of Melksham. William de Aula, b. c1238, was a minor at
the time of his father’s death, and in 1295 he was
appointed to the high office of Coroner. In a deed of that
time, he is referred to as, “Coronator Domini Regis,”
suggesting both wealth and worldly station. Other documents
from 1284-1330 mention William de Aula, his wife Katherine,
and son Thomas. It is thought the recessed tomb located on
the south side of the Chancel of Holy Trinity Church belongs
to William de Aula.
The position of county Coroner was instituted in 1194
assuming duties, which had been previously assigned to the
sheriff. This was a position appointed by freeholders who
assembled in the county court.
Along with other minor functions, his main duties
were to guard royal interests, and keep the royal pleas. He
received formal accusations, took sureties, and made
preliminary investigations to examine the size and nature of
the victim’s wounds in a charge of mayhem; and to keep an
eye on royal windfalls. He also appraised the value of
chattels forfeited to the King. When felons took refuge in
sanctuary, it was the coroner who arranged for their leaving
the country on forfeiting all that they had. They kept a
record of those who had been outlawed, and received
“appeals” of criminal charges.
From
the visitation of 1565, we can establish that the Hall’s
of Bradford on Avon intermarried with others of wealth and
status, while maintaining continuous ownership of Hall
Manor, also known as “The Hall.” In 1851, a series of deeds were found in
the flooring during extensive repairs containing a vast
amount of information on this family and other families
throughout the area. These deeds gave a description of
property held by the Hall family in this and the neighboring
hundreds, and extending from a very early period to the 13th
year of Henry VII. All of the deeds were written by
the same hand, which indicates they were copied from the
originals. It
is thought they were likely deposited under the flooring for
safe keeping during those most unsettling times. An
elaborate Spanish steel court sword was also found hidden
among the deeds.
Wiltshire
Community History states, "At the end of the 16th
century The Hall, the finest building in the town, was built
by the Hall family, who had been prominent local landowners
from at least the mid 13th century. The new building
replaced a medieval house which Leland had noted as 'a
pretty stone house at the east end of the town." Pevsner
described The Hall as, "the one nationally major
mansion in Bradford, not a town house but a country house in
character." In 1320, Thomas at Halle, of
Bradford, witnessed a deed, now at Lacock Abbey.
In 1324,
Reynold de le Sale of Bradford, was granted land by charter,
referred to a brother Thomas, Rector of Portishead,
Somerset, he married Isabella.
In 1350, John Hall's son, William, was presented to
the chapel of Barley in Bradford parish, and between 1357
and 1361 Thomas at Halle of Bradford is mentioned in
numerous deeds.
THE HALL
From
the Herald's Visitations, we find the Hall pedigree carried
back to Thomas Halle, or De la Sale, living at the close of
the 14th century. From
deeds we know that Thomas descended from Reginald de Aula
and Alice, daughter and, upon the death of her brother
Peter, sole heir of Thomas Atte Forde, also written Atford,
from whom, he obtained Ford Farm. Alice Atte Forde was the
heiress of Nicholas Langridge of Bradford through her
mother. Thomas Halle of Bradford in the County of Wiltes,
Esq., married Alice, sister and heir of Peter Atford, both
heirs of Thomas At Forde of Bradford, and Edith his wife.
Edith was the daughter and heir of Roger and Alice his wife,
and Alice was daughter of Nicholas Langridge of Bradford.
Roger was the son of Roger and Joan, his wife, daughter of
Thomas Lyttleton of Bradford, son and heir of Peter. From
this, we know the property belonging to Peter Lyttleton (or
Littleton) prior to the commencement of the 13th century,
and came to Alice At Ford, which she brought to the Hall
family.
Lying
just within the western edge of Wiltshire about eight miles
southeast of the city of Bath in Somerset, the historical
town of Bradford on Avon, is home of architectural buildings
from Saxon, Roman and Norman times. Bradford on Avon is a
small picturesque English town among the rolling hills on
the banks of the river Avon. The town bridge, dating from
Norman times, crosses what’s referred to as the ‘broad
ford’ on the Avon, and is thought to be the origin of the
town’s name. Bradford
on Avon is close to some of the oldest manmade stone
structures known, older than the Great Pyramid of Egypt, and
25 miles away from one of the wonders of the world,
Stonehenge. The
earliest trace of ancient Britons in the town was over 2,500
years ago with a small settlement just above the area known
as Troy.
King
Aethered II gave the estate of Bradford to Shaftesbury Abbey
in 1001, and suggested relocating the bones of King Edward,
nicknamed the Martyr, to Bradford on Avon, for safety
reasons during the early part of the 11th century
due to increasingly frequent Viking raids. The relocation
never happened, but it is believed the present Saxon church
was built to accommodate the relics.
St. Olave’s Street, now Woolley Street, runs
parallel with the river Avon along its northern bank. The
name St. Olave commemorated a church dedicated to a
Scandinavian saint, indicating Viking influence, and
possible settlement, in this area during the 11th century.
In 1532 Bradford on Avon witnessed the barbaric spectacle of a public burning at the stake of one of its own. Thomas Tropnell, of Wiltshire, denied the doctrine of transubstantiation, the fact that the bread and wine taken at the eucharist literally were the body and blood of Christ, and was burned to death in the market place at the bottom of Market Street. The Hall’s of Bradford were connected to the Tropnell family by way of William Hall, son of Thomas Hall, after his marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Tropnell of Chalfield. Christoper Tropnell was the spouse of Anne Carew, coheir of her brother's estate and daughter of Nicholas Carew IV, of Beddington, Nutfield and Carshalton, co. Surrey, Sulham, Berkshire, and Delamars, Hertfordshire. She was born 1436, or "aged 22" at the death of her father in 1466.
Mentioned
previously, The Wiltshire Society’s Magazine,
published an engraving of a shield taken from a tracing of a
carved oak quartering located over the chimney-piece at the
Hall, which show several quarterings recording the various
early alliances made by members of the Hall family. Among
those quartered are those of Besill and Atford, two others,
'A bend between three leopard or lions heads erased, the
other, and an eagle sable, preying on a fish azure,' are
possibly those of Littleton and Langridge.
However, since the shield contains the quartering of
Besill, it may also include that of the mother of Nicholas
Hall who married Margaret Besill, whose name and family are
yet unknown.
HALL QUARTERED ARMS
By
the fourteenth century, Wiltshire had become a county of
importance and great wealth through the exclusive
manufacturing of white undyed broadcloth. Gloucester,
Somerset, and Oxford soon followed Wiltshire in the
manufacturing of white undyed broadcloth. In
1540, John Leland, upon visited the town, wrote 'All the
town of Bradford standith by clothmaking'.
These
English "clothiers" soon became a close-knit
group. Pedigrees show these families intermarried and were
linked by the Clothier Guild. These clothiers became a very
wealthy and powerful guild because the weaving and
distribution of cloth was so vastly important to the English
economy. Most of these family businesses were closely
held and passed down through either bloodlines or by
marriage, with few outsiders. It stands to reason then that
the influence of this Guild would extend from all areas and
well into London with close family connections.
For
more than six centuries Bradford on Avon was a center of
cloth weaving. During this time, most of the buildings along
the hillside to the river were spinners and weavers cottages
with the woolen mills lining the bank of the river Avon.
By the mid sixteenth century the clothiers of Wiltshire, and
the Hall’s in particular, became an important family in
the cloth trade. This prosperity continued until a
devastating outbreak of plague in 1609.
This outbreak coupled with Wiltshire’s
unwillingness to change from the old white undyed broadcloth
to the new lighter colored broadcloths, resulted in a sharp
and immediate decline in the manufacturing of broadcloth in
Wiltshire. This
decline, and the rise of religious unrest led many
Wiltshire’s residents down a path leading to America.
THOMAS
DE LA SALE
BIRTH:
c1340 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
DEATH: Aft. 1352 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
FATHER: William
de Aula, Coronator Regis
MOTHER: Catherine LNU
WIFE: Edith LNU
MARRIED: c1361 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
DESCENDING SON: Thomas Atte Halle
CHILDREN:
1. Thomas Atte Halle b. c1364
THOMAS ATTE HALLE
BIRTH:
c1364 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
DEATH: c1430 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
FATHER: Thomas
de la Salle
MOTHER: Edith LNU
WIFE: Alice Atford d. 1426/27
W. FATHER: Thomas Atte Ford
W. MOTHER: Edith
MARRIED: c1385 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
DESCENDING SON: Thomas Halle
CHILDREN:
1. Reginald Halle, b. c1386 d. Bfr. 1427, eldest son, he endowed a charity in the parish church of Bradford in 1420. He died prior to his mother as she named her heir as son Thomas. Reginald married Matilda, and their son William died in infancy
2. Edith Halle,
b. c1388,
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
3. Isabel Halle, b. c1390, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
5. Thom
4. John
Halle, b. c1398 Bradford on Avon, d. c1417 Bradford on Avon
6. Richard
Halle, b. c1400, descendants are name in the pedigree of
Gore of Aldrington
Thomas, the first-named in the ordinary pedigrees, is said to have descended from Reginald de Aula, and married, about the year 1390, Alice, daughter and, by the death of her brother Peter, sole heir of 'Thomas Atte-Forde. Documents dated 1408 state, "Alice, relict of Thomas Halle, who died 1427, was holding land in Bradford Leigh and South Wraxall of the Abbess of Shaftesbury." Alice Atford Hall survived her husband, dying in the year 1427. Reginald, the eldest son, died before 1427 without surviving issue, therefore her second son Thomas, aged thirty at the time of her death, became heir of her estate. Before his death, Reginald de Halle, the eldest son, endowed a "chaplain to serve at the altar at St. Nicholas" in the Parish Church.
THOMAS HALLE
BIRTH:
1397 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
DEATH: Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
FATHER: Thomas
Atte Halle
MOTHER: Alice Atford d. c1427
WIFE: Unknown
MARRIED: c1425 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
DESCENDING SON: Nicholas Hall
CHILDREN:
1. Nicholas Hall, son/heir, b. c1429 Bradford on Avon, m. Margaret, daughter and coheir of William Besill or Besyll who died in 1479
NICHOLAS HALL
BIRTH:
c1429 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
DEATH: Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
FATHER: Thomas
Halle
WIFE: Margaret Besill or Besyll
W. FATHER: William Besill or Besyll
MARRIED: c1451 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
DESCENDING SON: Thomas Hall
CHILDREN:
1.
Henry Hall, son/heir, b. c1452 Bradford on Avon, died soon
after father
2. Thomas Hall, b. c1460, m. Alice,
daughter of William Norton of Wilton, alias William Bowyer
Nicholas Hall substantially increased the wealth of
the family by marrying Margaret one of the daughters and
co-heiresses of William Besill II of Bradford; Cecilia, the
other co-heiress, married Anthony Rogers, b. c1438, of
Bradford on Avon. In a commission dated 4 Apr 1403,
Margaret’s grandfather, William Besill I, was notified by Westminster,
after the deaths of Sir William Asthorpe and King Richard
II, with Humphrey de Stafford, knight, William Stourton,
Thomas Bonham, and the sheriff of co. Wilts. to, “inquire
concerning the information that much waste, ruin,
dilapidation and destruction has many times been committed
as well in the castle and barton or manor of Marlborough.
The Inquisition was held before Thomas Bonham and William
Besiles, Salisbury,
Thursday before St. Thomas the apostle, 1403: The said
castle has been injured and wasted in many ways in the time
of Robert Power, William Asthorp and William Scrop, late
constables, to what amount the jurors do not know.”
Nicholas died leaving to his son and heir, Henry, lands, houses, and mills in Bradford held of the Abbess of Shaftesbury. Henry died soon after his father, without heirs, being omitted from the 1565 pedigree in the Herald's Visitation. The estates passed to Thomas, his brother, who died 1515 seized of Hall's Manor of Bradford. At the end of the 15th century a deed dated 21st Edward IV, states Henry Hall of this family had lands in Bradford, Lye, Troll Parva, Slade, Ford, Wraxhall, Holt, Broughton, Marlborough, Okebourn Meysey, Wilts, Freshford, Iford, Mitford, Frome, Fleete, Widcombe, Portishead and other placed in Somerset.
THOMAS HALL
BIRTH:
c1460 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
DEATH: Aft. 1515 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
FATHER: Nicholas
Hall
MOTHER: Margaret Besill or Besyll
WIFE: Alice Norton
W. FATHER: William
Norton, alias Bowyer of Wilton
MARRIED: c1481
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
DESCENDING SON: William
Hall
CHILDREN:
1.
William
Hall, b. c1482 m. Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher
Tropenell of Chalfield
2. Arthur Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
3. Osmond Hall,
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
4. Alice Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire m. John
Torney of Wolverton
5. Edith Hall,
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire m. Edmond Chatterton
6. Thomas Hall,
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
Thomas Hall, spouse of Alice Bower, daughter of
William Norton of Wilton alias Bowyer, was summoned before
the King’s Justices with reference to a debt of £100
owning to Sir John Turberville, Knight. He failed to make
his appearance and was charged with something similar to
"contempt of Court."
The penalty of 'outlawry' soon followed.
An
outlawed man was outside the pale of society; anyone might
slay him at pleasure; in the grim phrase of the day, he bore
“a wolf’s head” and might be hunted like a noxious
beast. A reward of two marks was offered for each outlaw’s
head brought to Westminster. Two barons showed their
knowledge of John’s suspicions by withdrawing secretly
from his Court and taking to flight. The King caused them to
be outlawed in their absence, and thereafter seized their
estates and demolished their castles. Thomas soon
surrendered himself to justice, and for a time was an inmate
of Fleet prison.
Among the deeds and other documents found at the Hall during the process of repairs was one dated 18 Henry VII (1504), and contained a "Royal Pardon and Revocation of Outlawry for Thomas Hall, lately of Bradford, Co. Wilts, Gentleman, now in the Fleet Prison." It does not appear from the document that the debt was paid at the time of his release; the condition of his release being that he should appear in Court "if the said John should desire to speak with him touching the debt above mentioned.”
WILLIAM HALL
BIRTH:
c1492 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
DEATH: c1545 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
FATHER: Thomas
Hall
MOTHER: Alice
Norton, alias Bowyer of Wilton
WIFE: Elizabeth Tropenell
W. FATHER: Christopher
Tropenell
MARRIED: c1514
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
DESCENDING SON: Thomas
Hall
CHILDREN:
1.
Thomas
Hall, son/heir b. c1515 Bradford on Avon m. Elizabeth d/o
John Mervyn of Fonthill
2.
Paul Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
3.
William Hall, Bradford
on Avon, Wiltshire, England
4.
Margaret Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England m.
Freeman Jarvis
5.
Jane Hall, Bradford
on Avon, Wiltshire, England
m. John Gunter of Hullavington
6.
George Hall, Bradford
on Avon, Wiltshire, England
TROPENELL ARMS
William married Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher
Tropenell, and granddaughter of Thomas Tropenell and Agnes
Ludlow. Agnes
was the fourth daughter of William Ludlow, Lord of Hill
Deverel.
In 1542, Leland, wrote that William Hall lived 'in a
pretty stone house at the east end of the town' and that he
was “a man of £100 lands by the year.”
Christopher Tropenell
was the spouse of Anne Carew, coheir of her brother's estate
and daughter of Nicholas Carew IV, of Beddington, Nutfield
and Carshalton, co. Surrey, Sulham, Berkshire and Dalamars,
Hertfordshire. She was born 1436, or "aged
22" at the death of her father in 1466. The
estate of Nicholas Carew passed to his daughter Anne,
“wife of Christopher Tropenell.” Anne was
succeeded by Thomas Tropenell, her son, who died at Sulham
in 1548, leaving all his goods to his wife Eleanor for the
education of their children. The property eventually
passed to Thomas Tropnell's great-granddaughter Ann who
married John Eyre in 1550.
Christopher’s father, Thomas Tropenell,
(1402-1488), was responsible for the recovery of Great
Chalfield. After much litigation, he was able to effectively
convince the courts that he was heir to the Percy’s
through a female, the male line having become extinct.
The
estate was recorded in the Domesday Book as the property of
Ernulf de Hesding, Comte de Perche.
The arms of Tropenell
impaling Ludow are displayed in the roof of the hall and
also on their tomb. The manor, now owned by the
National Trust, is surrounded by a moat and gatehouse and
has beautiful oriel windows and a great hall.
The Lady Chapel in the Parish Church of St. Bartholomew,
Corsham, Wiltshire, was re-built between 1465 and 1480 by
Thomas Tropenell, of Neston and Great Chalfield, and is
dominated by the Tropenell's magnificent altar tomb, built
to receive the remains of himself and his wife. He
endowed the chapel with a charge of ten marks on his estate,
two oxen, and two cows. These charges were willed on
19 Dec 1514 by Anne, widow of Christopher Tropenell, son of
Thomas, to be maintained by her executors. A smaller tomb in
the chapel is that of her son, Christopher Tropenell.
Another Thomas Tropnell, of Wiltshire, an unknown member of this family, denied the doctrine of transubstantiation, the fact that the bread and wine taken at the eucharist literally were the body and blood of Christ, and was burned to death in the market place at the bottom of Market Street.
THOMAS HALL
BIRTH:
c1515 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
DEATH: Bfr. 1575 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
FATHER: William
Hall
MOTHER: Elizabeth
Tropenell
WIFE: Elizabeth
Mervyn
W. FATHER: John
Mervyn
W. MOTHER: Joan
Hungerford
MARRIED: c1539
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
DESCENDING SON: John
Hall I
CHILDREN:
1.
John
Hall, son/heir b. c1540-1597 of Forde, m. c1562 Dorothy
Rogers daughter and heiress of Anthony Rogers
2. Robert Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
3. Jane Hall, Bradford
on Avon, Wiltshire, England
4. Dorothy Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
5. Ann Hall, Bradford
on Avon, Wiltshire, England
6. Thomas Hall,
Bradford
on Avon, Wiltshire, England
Thomas
Hall married Elizabeth Marvyn, daughter of John Mervyn of
Fonthill. Of
the various families of this name mentioned in the
"Visitations of Wilts," Somerset, and others,
among the most prominent was that of Sir John Marvin, of
Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, grandson of Richard Marvyn, who
died in the seventeenth year of the reign of Henry VI.
Marvins held the fine estate of Fonthill Abbey, in the
parish of Hindon, for more than two centuries. The ancestors
of Reinold Marvin were all "Yeomen," owning the
lands hey occupied or inherited. Many derived incomes from
the tenants who held under them, but none of them appear to
have used armorial device but intermarried with
"armorial families."
John Mervyn was of Pertwood and Fonthill Abbey, he
married Joan, daughter of Lord Hungerford. William Fletcher, owner of Pertwood
Manor, in right of his wife Joan, daughter of John Brother
of Pertwood, died early in the 16th century, leaving as his
heirs Agnes, wife of John Maton, and Margaret, wife of John
Ingram. Margaret married, as a second husband, William
Mervyn and her share of the manor passed to her son John
Mervyn. The moiety belonging to Agnes Maton subsequently
passed to George Ludlow, who sold it in 1553 to John Mervyn,
thus possessing the both portions of the property.
Thomas
acquired his father's estates and is said to be the builder
of a small Chantry Chapel twelve and a half feet in width
and sixteen in length at the southeast angle of the Nave. It
was previously thought William Hall, who married Elizabeth
Tropenell, of Chalfield, was the builder of the Chantry
Chapel, also called, “The Kingston Aisle" or
sometimes referred to as “The Dukes House.” It was
renamed Kingston Aisle after eventually passing from the
Hall family to the Dukes of Kingston.
The Dukes of Kingston acquired the property after the
estates devolved onto Rachel Baynton in 1708.
She was from the neighboring Little Chalfield Manor.
Rachel married soon after her inheritance the 1st
Duke of Kingston, William Pierrepont.
Unfortunately, the marriage was short-lived when
William died of smallpox leaving Rachel a widow with two
small children. Her
descendant, Evelyn Pierrepont eventually succeeded as the
2nd Duke of Kingston and his daughter, Frances, married into
the Medows family who were eventually ennobled as Earl
Manvers. After
Evelyn died leaving no male heirs, the Hall and Pierrepont
fortunes fell to Frances's son and the future Earl Manvers.
In consequence the name changed to the "Kingston
Aisle,” but has since reverted to being called, "The
Hall."
A 1575 lawsuit states, “Thomas Hall Esq. deceased is, and his ancestors have for a long time, been seized of water mills and other lands' in the manor of Bradford, held by the abbey of Shaftesbury.”
JOHN HALL I
BIRTH:
c1540 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
DEATH: 1597 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
FATHER: Thomas
Hall
MOTHER: Elizabeth Mervyn
WIFE: Dorothy Rogers
W. FATHER: Anthony Rogers
W. MOTHER: Ann
b. 1507, daughter of Sir William Wroughton
MARRIED: c1569
Bradford on Avon
DESCENDING SON: John
Hall II
CHILDREN:
1.
Thomas Hall, b. c1566-c1600, eldest son.
2. John Hall II b. c 1570 d. 1631 m.
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Brune of Athelhampton co.
Dorset.
After succeeding male heirs of Hall family of
Bradford on Avon intermarried with the families of Bower of
Wilton, Tropenell of Chalfield, and Mervyn of Fonthill, we
find John Hall, the next heir of this family, described as
'of Forde,' married to Dorothy, daughter and sole heiress of
Anthony Rogers who died in 1583.
Anthony Rogers was the last male representative of
this branch of the Rogers family in Bradford on Avon.
By this pairing, the Besill estate was once again
under one roof. She
also brought into the marriage her own patrimony, part of
which was located at Holt. Her mother was Anne daughter of
Sir Thomas Wroughton. The
tomb of Sir William Wroughton, who died in 1559, has a
canopy and inscription in a fine strapwork cartouche, can be
seen at the Bradford-on-Avon, Holy Trinity Church.
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
John
Hall, builder of ‘The Hall’, often described as a
wealthy clothier and as such, was a member of the powerful
Clothier’s Guild. In a 1611 Wiltshire document
states. "The Abbey house and lands passed from Fulk
Morley to John Hall, a wealthy clothier of
Bradford-on-Avon." Another Wiltshire
article states, "The building was built in 1610 by John
Hall, a Wiltshire clothier; in 1847 it became the home of
the Moulton family, who founded the rubber manufacturing
business.”
John,
the second son of John Hall and Dorothy Rogers, succeeded as
heir, after the decease of his older brother Thomas. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Brune of Athelhampton,
Co. Dorset, and is more than likely the builder of the
mansion described, by Aubrey, as "the best built house
for the quality of a gentleman in Wilts," often
referred to as the “Duke’s House” or "Kingston
House." From Leland’s mid 1500 description, we know
an older house stood on the same site as he describes it as
"a pratie stone house at the este ende of the toune on
the right bank of Avon." In volume 1 of the Wiltshire
Society Magazine, a detailed description of the house is
given, as well as one in C. J. Richardson’s "Observations
on the Architecture of England during the reigns of Queen
Elizabeth and King James I," and details are
described and illustrated by G. Vivian in "Illustrations
of Claverton and the Duke's House." The present
owner has completed renovations of the house, which has
adhered to its original plan as much as possible.
JOHN
HALL II
BIRTH:
c1570 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
DEATH: 1631 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
FATHER: John
Hall I
MOTHER: Dorothy Rogers
WIFE: Elizabeth Brune c1572-1/12/1633
W. FATHER: Henry Brune
W. MOTHER: Unknown
MARRIED: c1592 in Puddletown, Dorset
DESCENDING SON: John Hall III
CHILDREN:
1. Brune
Hall, Bp 1593 Holy Trinity Ch, Wiltshire d. 1593 Wiltshire.
2. Elizabeth Hall, Bp 1594 Holy
Trinity Ch. m
1620 John Cottrell s/o John of Wingfield.
3. Edward Hall,
Bp 1598 Holy
Trinity Ch, Wiltshire, d.
1601 Wiltshire.
4. Thomas Hall, son/heir, Bp 1600
Holy
Trinity Ch, Wiltshire, m.
c1621 Catherine d/o Sir Edward Seymour.
5.
Jane Hall,
Bp 1601 Holy
Trinity Ch, Wiltshire, unmarried
1631 (father’s will).
6. Mary Hall,
Bp 1604
7. John Hall, Bp 1605 Holy
Trinity Ch, Wiltshire, m. possibly Elizabeth
Rogers.
8. Dorothy
Hall, Bp 1608 Holy
Trinity Ch, Wiltshire, unmarried
1631 (father’s will).
9. Nicholas
Hall, Bp 1609 Holy
Trinity Ch, Wiltshire, d.
1610
10. Anne Hall, Bp Holy Trinity Ch 1612, unmarried 1631
(father’s will).
11. Henry Hall, Bp Holy Trinity Ch 1614, d. 1614 Wiltshire.
12. William Hall, b. c1613, not on Holy Trinity Ch bp
records, but listed on John’s 1631 will as his son.
It is believed he was adopted after infant death of two
sons.
The following are several connections between the
Halls of Rhode Island and the Halls of Bradford on Avon:
1.
William and John Hall are shown as sons of John and
Elizabeth (Brune) Hall on the Bradford on Avon Hall
pedigree, and both are named as sons in his will. William
and John Hall disappear from Bradford on Avon records
following the death of their father in 1631. In 1637,
William and John Hall appear in early records during the
early formation of Newport, Rhode Island.
2.
William Hall was the only child named in his father's
will who was not listed in the baptism records of Holy
Trinity Church. In 1663, William Hall of Newport, Rhode
Island stated in court he is "50 years or
thereabouts," or born in 1613. William Hall of
Bradford on Avon was born after 1614, as he would not
"fit" into the family otherwise.
3.
Sons Brune, Edward, Henry, and Nicholas baptized
1593, 1598, 1609 and 1614 consecutively, all died young.
The overwhelming grief resulting from the loss of
four young sons may have been the driving force behind the
adoption of William.
4.
Elizabeth Brune, born 1572, was the first child born
after the marriage of her parents who married in 1571.
She married John Hall in 1592 and their first child,
Brune Hall, was baptized in 1593; their last child was
baptized in 1614. The birth of her children covered 21
years, therefore Elizabeth would have been age 42 when Henry
was born; well beyond the average for most women
5.
It appears extremely unlikely William Hall was the
natural son of John and Elizabeth (Brune) Hall, therefore,
unlikely his yDNA would match that of John Hall, their
natural child. Results
from descendants recent yDNA tests have proven this to be
true.
6.
The Pedigree of
the Hall's of Bradford on Avon show the marriage of John
Hall to Dorothy Rogers and Elizabeth Hall to John Cottrell.
Rhode Island records show the Hall's, Cottrell's and Rogers
were closely associated in early Rhode Island.
7.
Henry Hall is shown as a weaver in several early
Rhode Island documents and the Hall's of Bradford,
manufactured undyed broadcloth for many generations.
8.
Mary Hall, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Brune)
Hall, married Christopher Bailey. Robert Bayley, of
Wingfield, Wiltshire, married Christian Arnold of
Hertfordshire, they were the parents of Christopher Bayly.
John Bailey of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, married Eleanor
Knight, daughter of William Knight and Jane Langburne, she
was born 1612 in Wiltshire. Their son John Bailey, Jr.
married Eleanor Emery who was born in Romsey, Hampshire,
England. Richard Knight, chr. 14 Jan 1602 in Romsey,
Hampshire, England married Sarah Rogers of Newport, Rhode
Island.
9.
On Jan 19, 1663/4, Richard Knight made, in
partnership with Henry, son of John Hall, the great purchase
of lands at Chippachog, in Westerly and Kingston afterwards
known as the Hall and Knight Purchase. Nicholas Cottrell was
also a signer of the Misquamicut (Westerly) Purchase with
Henry and Richard.
10.
John Dyer of Bratton, Somerset, England married
Jane Ernley, daughter of John Erneley of Bishops Cannings
and Lucie Cooke, daughter of Thomas Cooke of Salisbury.
They were the parents of William Dyer, born 1580 in London,
England, father of William Dyer (9 Sep 1609 London,
England-18 Apr 1672 Newport, Newport Co. RI) who married
Mary, also known as Mary Dyer in, “Biography of a Rebel
Quaker”, by Ruth Plimpton. Dorothea Erneley
married Anthony Rogers of Bradford on Avon, she was the
sister of John Erneley who married Lucie Cooke.
Upon
researching the Holy Trinity Church records, a Wiltshire
genealogist discovered eleven children of John and Elizabeth
(Brune) Hall. From these records we learn the names of four
additional sons who died at a young age, Brune, Edward,
Henry and Nicholas. Nicholas
is suspected to be the name of the eldest son of
Elizabeth Hall and John Cottrell of Bradford on Avon, and
the Rhode Island Nicholas Cottrell was closely associated
with the Hall family of early Rhode Island.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry
Brune and Elizabeth Martyn. A
beautiful Memorial Brass dated 1595 is dedicated to Nicholas
Martyn and is located at St Mary's Church in Puddletown,
Dorset. This 16th Century brass depicts Nicholas Martyn,
bareheaded, in armour, kneeling before an altar on which is
an open book. Behind him are his three sons, who all
predeceased him. Sir
William Martyn was a wealthy merchant and Lord Mayor of
London in 1492. He built his estate of Athelhampton sometime
after 1485. Sir Nicholas Martyn was the last male heir
of the Martyne line. He was buried in 1595 in Athelhampton
Aisle. Nicholas Martyn's four daughters were given equal
shares to the estate; his eldest daughter married Henry
Brune. To his
right is his wife, Margaret, daughter of John Wadham, whose
brother Nicholas Wadham, in 1613, founded Wadham College,
Oxford. Behind her are their seven daughters. Above them are
the arms of Martyn, Arg. two bars gules, impaling Wadham,
Gules a chevron between three roses arg.,: above is the
Martyn crest, a Martyn (ape) proper, chained to a stump of a
tree or, sejant, holding in his paw a mirror azure. Nicholas
was the last of the Martyns and died without male issue in
1595. His estate was divided amongst his four surviving
daughters, of whom Elizabeth, the eldest, married Henry
Brune; and their son, as heir to his mother, lived at
Athelhampton Hall. A tablet in memory of a member of the
Martyn family with the same crest is on the East Wall of the
South transept at Crewkerne. It's through the
Brune lineage that one of several connections is made to the
royal family.
The
Brune family has a long history, the Manor of Rowner was
granted by a grateful King Edward I to Sir William le Brun
in 1277, a record of this is kept in the Hampshire County
Archives at Winchester with the family papers. Two Brune
sons, Philip and Nicholas, were given the office of Rector
between 1292 and 1306.
Sir
John Brune, grandfather of Elizabeth Brune, died in 1559 and
left his estates, including Grange farm, to his son Henry.
As a minor he had to wait for his inheritance to be bought
back for him from the Ward of Courts when he attained his
majority. In 1571 he married Elizabeth Martyn, the eldest
daughter of Nicholas Martyn of Athelhampton. His son John
was baptized in 1577 in St. Mary Magdalene, Piddleton,
together with his six sisters. Henry died in 1594 leaving
Grange farm in trust to provide for his five surviving
daughters. The
rare solid limestone sepulcher tomb in the Chantry is to Sir
John Brune, Lord Chancellor of England, who died in 1559,
and is one of two such structures in the country. Its
escutcheons reveal the careful marrying that went on to
secure the family’s mighty wealth, linking with de la
Rokele, Bamfilde, Ticheborne and Knowles. Sir John had left
money in his will for the tomb’s construction, and
provided for his wife to live at The Grange as a dower
house. That house still stands today, and is part of Gosport
Borough Council’s Grange Farm complex.
Henry
III and Edmund Crouchback married women with European royal
descent. In addition to the Norman English kings,
royal ancestors include the Capetian kings of France,
Charlemagne, Frederick III Barbarossa of Germany, Saxons
such as Alfred the Great of England, Kings of Scotland and
Spain, and monarchs, princesses and dukes from central and
eastern Europe.
Lineage
from King Henry III to Elizabeth Brune, spouse of John Hall:
Henry
III, King of England married Eleanor of Province
Edmund
“Crouchback,” Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, married
Blanche of Artois
Henry
Plantagenet, Earl of Leicester, married Maud Chaworth
Eleanor
Plantagenet married Sir John de Beaumont
Maud
de Beaumont married Sir Hugh Courtenay I
Sir
Hugh Courtenay II married Margaret Carminow
Elizabeth
Courtenay married Sir John Trethurffe
Jane
Trethurffe married John Tregarthen
Joan
Tregarthen married Sir John Wadham of Merryfield
Margaret
Wadham married Sir Nicholas Martyn
Elizabeth
Martyn married Sir Henry Brune of Athelhampton
Elizabeth
Brune married John Hall of Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
1620 Apr 29 Groom John Cotterell aged 27 occupation
gent residing at Long Ashton, Somerset, Bride Elizabeth HALL
aged 22 residing at Bradford, Wilts, dau of John Esq
Bondsmen; Source: Wiltshire Wills and Administration.
John Cotterell from Long Ashton, Somerset, April 29, 1620
Salisbury, Wilts, Marriage License, Gent, AGE 27; &
Elizabeth d/o John Hall of Bradford, Age 22 Reference
Salisbury Mar. Lic.
The Cottrell family first settled in Flanders after
arriving with William the Conqueror and was referred to as
"Cottrell the Norman"; his son was John Cottrell,
the grandfather of Ralph. John Cottrell in 1357 was
Comptroller of the King's works. Thomas Coterell
represented the Southrepps, co. Norfolk branch of the family
in 1540 and married Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir John
Inglos. Their son Robert married Anne, dau. of Nicholas
Bohun, son of Francis Bohun of Westhall and Elizabeth
Knyvett, and Audrey (Ethelreda) Coke, and had Sir Clement,
Margaret, and Nicholas. Sir Clement (1585-1631) was of
Wylsford co. Linc. married Anne Alleyen (Allen).
William Coggeshall, son of William Coggishall, was Chr. on
24 Dec 1620 in Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, England.
1622 Jun 14 Groom Christopher Bayly aged 23
occupation Gent residing at Wingfield, WIL Bride Mary Haulle
aged 18 residing at Bradford, status spouse, dau. of John,
Bradford Bondsmen to be married at Bradford. Christopher
Bayly and Mary Haulle obtained marriage license 17 May 1622
Bradford On Avon. Wiltshire Wills and Administration. Mary
was the daughter of John Hall (c1570 Wiltshire-1631
Wiltshire). One of the witnesses for John Hall’s
will was Christopher Bayly (Bailey).
In
the early 16th century Thomas Bayley of Trowbridge,
Wiltshire, married Agnes Cleveland, and they were the
parents of William, who left two sons, William, the eldest,
died without issue, and Christopher. Christopher
married into the Filioll family and was the father by her of
William, John, Christopher, and Robert. Only Robert Bayley
“of Wingfield”, Wiltshire, left issue. He married
Christian Arnold of Hertfordshire, daughter of Richard, and
was the father of Christopher Bayly, son and heir.
Source: Descendants of William Bailey of Newport, RI,
Bailey Family Genealogy, pg 255.
John Bailey of Bradford-on-Avon,
Wiltshire, married Eleanor, daughter of William Knight and
Jane Langburne, born about 1612 in Chippenham Co. Wiltshire.
Their son John Bailey, Jr. was born 1613 in
England, and died 1691 in Newbury, Essex Co., MA.
William Bailey of Newport, RI purchased
land from Gabriel Hicks on 14 Jun 1655, “land bounded
partly by the sea.” On 5 Mar 1656, William Bailey, Sr.
with Gabriel Hicks sold Joshua Coggeshall of Portsmouth 21
acres in Newport, RI. Family tradition states he was a
weaver of silk. He married Grace Parsons, daughter of Hugh
and Elizabeth Parson, after arriving in Rhode Island and
died before 20 Jul 1670. Hugh Parsons (1613-1684) and wife
Elizabeth, widow of William England, sold 18 acres to
William Wood on 3 Jul 1662. After Hugh's death, about the
year 1677, Elizabeth married Thomas Lawson. On 20
Apr 1677, Hugh Parsons, Jr. leased a dwelling house,
land and orchard from his stepfather Thomas Lawton of
Portsmouth and agreed to pay 3 pounds a year to Elizabeth
Sherman, daughter of Thomas Lawton. Source: Records
of the Bailey Family Descendants of William Bailey of
Newport, RI.
CONDENSED
WILL OF JOHN HALL OF BRADFORD-ON-AVON
10 Oct 1630, I John Hall of Bradford in the countie of Wilks and diocese of Sarum, Esquire, do make this my last will and testament. Item - Elizabeth Hall my wife lands at the Abbey house countie of Somerset, with furniture. Daughter Elizabeth Cottrell the some of one hundred pounds, daughter Mary one hundred pounds paid to Christopher Baylie gentleman her husband, grandson John Baylie tenne pounds, unmarried daughters Jane, Dorothie and Anne nine hunderd pounds. My two sons John and William the yearly some of fifteen pounds a piece, to double after wife's death. Executor Thomas Hall, my son and heir. Overseers - John Brewin (Brune), Knight, William Eyre (Ayer), Esquire, my kinsman, and John Andry, Theophilus Clarke. Witnesses: John Andry, Sr., Christopher Bayly (Bailey) and Charles Taylor.
Thomas Hall succeeded his father, and his son John Hall built the almshouse in Bradford on Avon in 1700, which still accommodates four elderly men. The arms of the Halls are carved over the door. John Hall was the last of the Halls in Bradford on Avon, and by his will dated 10 Sep 1708, he devised all his lands in Wilts, Somerset and elsewhere to Denzill Onslow, Esq., Edward Lisle, Esq., Frances Goddard, Esq., and Robert Eyre, Esq., trustees; upon trust after the marriage of Rachel, daughter of Thomas Baynton of Bradford, Wilts, for the said Rachel Baynton during her life. Tthe letters K and M with coronets above them are carved on the almshouse chimneys and refer to the Dukes of Kingston and Earls Manvers.
ALMSHOUSE OF BRADFORD ON AVON
HALLS
OF RHODE ISLAND
JOHN
HALL III
BIRTH:
Bap. 1605 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
DEATH: Aft. 1665 Newport, Rhode Island
FATHER: John
Hall II
MOTHER: Elizabeth Brune
WIFE: Elizabeth Rogers?
W. FATHER: James
Rogers ?
W. MOTHER: Unknown
MARRIED: c1635
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
DESCENDING SON: Henry Hall
CHILDREN:
1.
Henry Hall b. c1637, MA Bay Colony
2. James Hall b. c1639 MA Bay Colony m. Margaret (divorced
early in RI according to court documents)
The manner in which John and William Hall arrived in
New England is cloudy, but they likely arrived on the
Griffin in 1633 with William and Anne Hutchinson, who
settled in Boston in a home across from Gov. Winthrop. Gov.
Winthrop's journal dated 18 Sep 1634 states, "The
Griffin and another ship now arriving with about 200
passengers. Mr. Lathrop and Mr. Sims, two godly ministers
coming in the same ship". The names of the 200
passengers on the Griffin is unknown, but approximately
one-quarter of the passenger list has been reconstructed
using early documents in which they mention having arrived
in Boston with the Hutchinson family.
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