This is just a SAMPLING of MANY free English databases for Surnames - in
this specific case, for Dare as an example, but for any other surname. There
are far more than 100 surname Dare individuals located in these records -
AND, there are similarly, MANY other Surnames in these databases - see many
different databases below, each w/different individuals in various
situations.
Barry Wetherington
15 early Dare wills in England Prerogative Court of Canterbury
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Description Date Catalogue ref Details
Will of Nicholas Dare 23 July 1614PROB 11/124
Will of Leonard Dare, Gentleman of Southpool, Devon 18 November 1615PROB
11/126
Will of William Dare, Sailor of Seaton, Devon 06 July 1613PROB 11/122
Will of Jasper Dare, Yeoman of Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset 09 May 1620PROB
11/135
Will of Jane Dare, Widow of Seaton, Devon 28 April 1620PROB 11/135
Will of Samuell Dare, Husbandman of Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset 28 April
1626PROB 11/148
Will of Robert Dare of Upottery, Devon16 October 1585 PROB 11/68
Will of William Dare, Fuller of Tiverton, Devon19 April 1624 PROB 11/143
Will of John Dare of Upottery, Devon05 February 1591 PROB 11/77
Will of Thomas Dare, Merchant of Taunton, Somerset13 January 1593 PROB 11/81
Will of John Dare, Merchant of Taunton, Somerset14 March 1584 PROB 11/66
Will of Thomas Dare, Merchant of Taunton, Somerset01 October 1580 PROB 11/62
Will of Francis Dare08 February 1603 PROB 11/101
Will of Thomas Dare, Weaver of Kilmington, Devon15 November 1634 PROB 11/166
Will of Joan Dare, Widow of Taunton, Somerset29 June 1635 PROB 11/168
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248 catalogues were found to match Dare - Shown below are catalogues 1 to 25
(of 248)
(Many Dares located in early English records - From A2A database)
Somerset Archive & Record Service: Church Records [DD\CC\B/112210 -
DD\CC\B/315369] 1337-1939 73 hit(s)
Devon Record Office: Petre [123M/TB1 - 123M/Z6] 1200-1829 20 hit(s)
Lancashire Record Office: Kenyon of Peel [DDKE/acc. 7840 HMC/900 - 1449]
1589-1837 19 hit(s)
Dorset Record Office: Charmouth Parish Council 1642-1986 13 hit(s)
Bedfordshire / Luton Archives / Record Srvc Wrest Park Manuscripts L
30/14/408 1657-1853 13 hit(s)
Somerset Archive and Record Service: Dodson and Pulman, solicitors, records
1250-1966 11 hit(s)
Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office: Arundell of Wardour [2667/1/17 -
2667/1/40] 1286-2000 11 hit(s)
Bedfordshire & Luton Archives / Record Service: Russell Collection [R3/1 -
R3/1953] 1199-1948 10 hit(s)
Devon Record Office: Ottery St Mary Church Corporation 1699-1910 10 hit(s)
Isle of Wight Record Office: The Oglander Collection [OG/CC/1 - OG/CC/946]
1200-1938 10 hit(s)
Devon Record Office: Uplyme Parish 1633-1972 9 hit(s)
Bedfordshire & Luton Archives & Record Service: Wrest Park Manuscripts [L
30/13/13 - L 30/14/306] 1657-1853 9 hit(s)
Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office: Blagden Family of Keevil 1584-1840 9
hit(s)
Lancashire Record Office: Kenyon of Peel [DDKE/acc. 7840 HMC/1 - 399]
1524-1780 8 hit(s)
East Sussex Record Office: Archive of Rye Corporation [RYE/45 - RYE/51]
1382-1976 7 hit(s)
Bedfordshire & Luton Archives and Record Service: The Russell Collection
[R3/1954 - R3/4093] 1199-1948 6 hit(s)
Devon Record Office: Coffinswell Parish 1666-1924 6 hit(s)
Isle of Wight Record Office: The Oglander Collection [OG/CC/2167 -
OG/CC/2339D] 1200-1938 6 hit(s)
Derbyshire Record Office: Longstone Family / Estate Papers [D3580/ZP -
D3580/X] 1676-1983 6 hit(s)
Devon Record Office: Marwood Elton 1493-1977 6 hit(s)
Shropshire Archives: Eyton Family [Parts 1-2] 1296-1931 6 hit(s)
Lancashire Record Office: Kenyon of Peel [DDKE/acc. 7840 HMC/400 - 899]
1589-1780 6 hit(s)
Herefordshire Record Office: Radcliffe - Cooke Collection 1460-1952 5 hit(s)
Somerset Archive and Record Service: Henley estate papers (Somerset, Dorset,
Devon) 1173-1911 5 hit(s)
Isle of Wight Record Office: The Oglander Collection [OG/CC/947 -
OG/CC/1447] 1200-1979 5 hit(s)
[A few examples - I have NOT revd all. Barry]
FILE - LYME REGIS deeds - ref. DD\TOR/52 - date: 1689-1723
[from Scope and Content] Burgage tenement adj. the Almshouse purchased by
Hen. Henley in 1723; marriage settlement of Wm. Newall and Martha Dare both
of Lyme, 1692; abstract of will of Susanna Newall, 1701, pr. 1702 [nos.
DD\TOR 149-156; 154, 155 missing]
FILE - LYME REGIS [Dorset] deeds - ref. DD\TOR/124 - date: 1516-1614
[from Scope and Content] (Dare, Trawle, Trewe, Hunt, Tucker, Samford,
Barnes)
FILE - LYME REGIS [Dorset] deeds - ref. DD\TOR/133 - date: 1685-1794
[from Scope and Content] (25) Plot, Broad Street (Dare), 1762
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Box 8: Miscellaneous
Wm.Dare, butcher, in 1671 . . .
FILE - Deeds of a house and shop in Fore Street, Taunton. - ref.
DD\DP/8/2 - date: 1671-1690
[from Scope and Content] With 3 flesh shambles 'from the scuttle of
the South Lane' to Benj.Cussen's House and another on E.side leased by
Andrew Henley to Hen.Herringe of Bishops Hull.yeo., in 1675. with customary
payment of a 'fat ganney' [turkey] at Christmas, assigned by John Herrings.
cordwainer, and Henry Herringe, tailor (sons of Henry) to Wm.Dare, butcher,
in 1671, leased to Wm.Eastmont. victualler (husband of Dare's widow) in 1683
. . .
Box 93
James Dare of Taunton 1742, Thos. Blagdon Dare of Taunton, surgeon, 1751,
Sarah Dare of Taunton 1783, Mary Dare of Taunton, 1805 . . .
FILE - Draft abstract of title of Ann Chamberlaine and her son Rev.George
Chamberlaine - ref. DD\DP/93/1 - date: 1742-1826
[from Scope and Content] To cottages etc. called Star Plot, Taunton
St.Mary [1751-c.1810), with related probate and copy wills: James Dare of
Taunton, gent., dat. 1742; Mary Roberts of Taunton St. James, wid.,
dat.1768, cod.1772, pr.1780: Thos. Blagdon Dare of Taunton, surgeon,
dat.1751: John Roberts of Taunton St. Mary, esq., dat. and pr.1782; John
Periam of Taunton St. James, esq., dat.1783; Sarah Dare of Taunton, sp.,
dat.1783. pr.1784; Mary Dare of Taunton, sp., dat.1805, pr.1806; Martha
Periam of Taunton, wid., dat.1806, pr.1807; Agnes wife of Wm. Corfield of
Taunton, esq., dat.1806; Betty Roberts of Taunton St. Mary, wid., dat.1807.
pr.1808; Ann Chamberlaine of Brompton, Mdx., wid. of John, dat.1826.
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Could this be related to 'our' Gideon Dare? Note that his dealings span
1691 - 1700 to 1734; then Saml Dare 1748, seemingly connected to Gideon Dare
by the circumstances.
FILE [no title] - ref. 2667/1/20/5 - date: 1691
[from Scope and Content] Assignment: Thomas Moore of Sparkgrove,
Somerset, esq. to Gideon Dare of Whitchurch, Dorset, yeoman: Wild Court.
FILE [no title] - ref. 2667/1/20/6 - date: 1700
[from Scope and Content] Lease: Margaret Wyndham of Hawkchurch,
widow of Thomas Wyndham, esq. to Gideon Dare of Pen (?), yeoman: land: Wild
Court.
FILE [no title] - ref. 2667/1/20/8 - date: 1701
[from Scope and Content] Lease in reversion: Margaret Wyndham of
Hawkchurch, widow of Thomas Wyndham, esq. to Gideon Dare: tenement called
Stubbs: Wild Court.
FILE [no title] - ref. 2667/1/20/24 - date: 1725
[from Scope and Content] Lease: Thomas Wyndham, esq. to Gideon
Dare the younger of Penn, yeoman: messuage called Stubbs: Wild Court.
FILE [no title] - ref. 2667/1/20/30 - date: 1729/30
[from Scope and Content] Counterpart of lease in reversion:
Thomas Wyndham, esq. to Gideon Dare the younger of Penn, yeoman: Stubbs,
Wild Court.
FILE [no title] - ref. 2667/1/20/31 - date: 1729/30
[from Scope and Content] Counterpart of lease in reversion:
Thomas Wyndham, esq. to Gideon Dare the elder: lands, etc.: Wild Court.
FILE [no title] - ref. 2667/1/20/34 - date: 1734
[from Scope and Content] Lease: Thomas Wyndham, esq. to Gideon
Dare the younger of Penn, yeoman: tenement, etc.: Wild Court.
FILE [no title] - ref. 2667/1/20/47 - date: 1748
[from Scope and Content] Lease: Thomas Wyndham, esq. to Samuel
Dare of Wild, yeoman: land, etc.: Wild Court.
FILE [no title] - ref. 2667/1/20/57 - date: 1751
[from Scope and Content] Counterpart of lease: Thomas Wyndham of
Wild Court, esq. to Samuel Dare the elder of Wild, yeoman: land: Wild Court.
Various Parishes. - ref. 2667/1/25
FILE [no title] - ref. 2667/1/25/52 - date: 1725
[from Scope and Content] Counterpart of lease: Thomas Wyndham of
Wild Court, Hawkchurch, to Gideon Dare the younger of Penn in Whitchurch,
Charmouth.
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FILE - Apprenticeship indentures - ref. 3327 A/PO 70 - date:
1770 - 1778
item: Abraham Pyke apprenticed to Mr Robert Dare for his estate
called Farwell - ref. 3327 A/PO 70/6 - date: 1770
item: William Weeks, 12, apprenticed to Mr Robert Dare - ref.
3327 A/PO 70/50 - date: 1774
item: David Markes, 8, apprenticed to Mr Robert Dare for Hooks
and Mountstephens - ref. 3327 A/PO 70/73 - date: 1776
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Warrant for apprehension of putative father
FILE - Jane Dare, single woman of Coffinswell, now with child,
likely to be born a bastard and chargeable to Coffinswell Richard Moxey,
late of Coffinswell, labourer is father of child. - ref. 73A/PO 106 -
date: 1789
Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship Indentures for Kenton
FILE - Elizabeth Dare of Cofinswell apprenticed to Edward Rich of
Bishopsteignton, yeoman - ref. 73A/PO 250 - date: 1773
FILE - Jane Dare of Coffinswell apprenticed to William Ball jnr,
churchwarden, for Mr. Sandford's tenement - ref. 73A/PO 255 - date: 1775
FILE - Sarah Dare of Coffinswell apprenticed to John Codner, yeoman
for his own estate - ref. 73A/PO 256 - date: 1777
FILE - Margaret Dare of Coffinswell apprenticed to John Pitts,
yeoman for Mudges estate in Coffinswell - ref. 73A/PO 265 - date: 1785
Apprenticeship Indentures and Binding Orders
FILE - Register of children bound or assigned by the overseers and
guardians of the poor - ref. 73A/PO 349 - date: 1804-1826
[from Scope and Content] Samuel Wheaten, 8, son of Sarah Dare
John Hellings, of Coffinswell, yeoman, for Evon Stable 1806
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