I was a bit hesitant about posting this at first, but I will be
publishing it eventually anyway, so I may as well just give it out.
1.Samuel Levis b 20 july 1649 at Harby, Leicestershire
mar 4 may 1680 to Elizabeth Claytor - both items from the Quaker
registers
2. Mary Need b 18 apr 1625 at Arnold, Nottinghamshire
died 16 may 1664 at Harby, Leicester (from Quaker registers)
mar 22 july 1648 at St Peters Nottingham
to Christopher Levis
the will of Christopher Levis (1677, Archdeaconry of Leicester) had as executors his son Samuel
and also Nathaniel Need, brother of the above named Mary.
The Levis family were in Nottinghamshire as early as 1510, so they were certainly not Huguenots
as some have stated.
3. Humphrey Need
bapt 15 aug 1590, died 8 nov 1668 both at Arnold, Nottingham
He was buried at the Quakers burial ground in Arnold, but he did not
leave a will
wife Dorothy
4. Mary Melford
buried at Arnold 27 june 1631
married 15 may 1586 at Arnold to Humphrey Need who was buried 8 sep 1591
5. Thomas Melford, gent
buried 9 apr 1602
his children were probably all by Dionise, who was also likely from a
gentry background
his will mentions "Humfrye Neyd" as one of his grandchildren
6. Anne de Clifford married circa 1520
to Ralph Melford, esquire
buried 22 apr 1546
Ralphs will mentions his children George who inherited Ralphs lands in
South Tawton, Devonshire,
Thomas, who inherited the lands in Arnold, Mary Mering, Winifred and
Anthony. Ralph mentions his
wife soul, implying that he was only married once.The supervisor of the
will was Sir Gervase
Clifton, knight.
The breakthrough came a few weeks ago when I received the will of
Gervase Clifton from 1587.
Gervase's will mentions his brother Thomas Melford, and George Melford.
He also mentions his
nephews John and Gervase Wastneys, who according to the visitation of Nottingham were the
children of George Wastneys and Mary Melford. That would have been the
second marriage of
Ralphs daughter.
Sir Gervase Clifton was one year old when his father Robert Clifton died
in 1517, according to
Robert's inquistion post mortem.
The 1569 visitation of Nottingham shows that Gervase's mother was Anne, daughter of Henry Lord
Clifford.
According to an article from the Baronage of England, concerning the
Clifton family, Anne, (they call
her Agnes) the widow of Robert Clifton, was next married to "Robert"
Melford.
I have checked the visitation against the wills published by the Surtees Society, and also against the
Inquistions Post Mortem, and I find no contradictions.
7. Henry Clifford, Sherriff of Westmoreland, Lord Clifford
died 23 apr 1523 married to Anne Saint John
he was a wealthy man ( of course) but I have found no will for him at
York, nor in the Publications of
the Surtees Society.
A pedigree of the Clifford family shows that Henrys daughter Anne
married Sir Christopher Metcalf of
Gisburne, Yorkshire. According to Sir Gervase Clifton's will, he had a
nephew Metcalf, so it seems
that Anne was married three times. I have ordered a book about the
Metcalf family, which I should
have in a week.
The rest of the pedigree can be found in The Complete Peerage or in The Dictionary of National
Biography.
8.John Clifford
9. Thomas Clifford
10. Elizabeth Percy
11. Elizabeth Mortimer
12. Philippa Plantagenet
13. Lionel of Antwerp
14. Edward III
I am continuing to work on other Quaker ancestral lines in England
(Gilpin, Scaife,Pearce, Gayner
amongst others), some of which go back to circa 1530, but this is the
first which has a solid gentry
connection.
I have a couple of gentry ancestors in France, Sweden and Belgium, but
the records are not as
easily available, and those countries generally dont have reference
works equal to The Complete
Peerage, at least as far as I know.
Mr Leslie Mahler
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