Hello Alice. Thank you so much for that information. It has solved a
few problems already. It looks as if "Davis" was mistaken for
"Dass/Dans" so that is one problem solved. Then there is is the funeral
certificate. So much information!!! I have copied it into my program
and will now try to get to the FHS, which I now know is quite near to
me, and get the Harleian Societies books which may have something more.
At least I know more than I did before and it is all thanks to you. I
can imagine your spell checker having a fit over the "olde" words but it
does add to the overall impression and makes the people alive, not just
names and dates. I am also going to try to get that book on the Carys.
Sometimes I have been lucky that the National Library in Canberra has a
copy I need. I will also see if I can get a photo of the Cary crest.
I don't have these on the wall but like to have them in with all the
others, just for interest. Some are quite bizarre.
Again, many thanks. I wish I could help you in some way but that is
unlikely.
All the best,
Robyn Lowndes.
Alice Morgan wrote:
Information I have on Henry Hobson and family. This is from a
funeral
certificate. I will copy it as it is. EXACTLY
Funeral Certificate of Henry Hobson, d. March 21, 1635.
"HENRY HOBSON, late Maior and Alderman of the Citty of Bristol,
departed this
mortall life at his home in ye said Citty the 21st day of March 1635
(O.S.) and
was interred in ye parish church of All Saints there the 29th day
following.
He married Alice, da. of William Davis of the said Cittie, by
whom he had
yssue, one sonne and two daughters:
WILLIAM HOBSON, his only sonne and heire, who hath borne ye
office of Shreiff
of Bristol, maried Margarett Colston, da. of William Colston of the
said Cittie,
merchant:
ALICE, ye eldest Da. of the said Henry Hobson, maried to John
Cary, sonne
of Willliam Cary, Alderman of the said Cittie: and
ANNE, his youngest Da., married to Thomas Jackson Marchaunt, late
one of the
Shreiffs of the said Cittie.
This certificate was taken the 19th day of Aprill 1637 by George
Owen, Yorke
herauld, and is testified to be true by the relation and subscription
of the
aforesaid Wm. Hobsonn, sonne and heire to the defunct.
(Signed )
WILLIAM HOBSON
NOTE: Over against the signature is a tricking of the arms of Hobson,
of
Bristol,vix: Argent on a chevron azure, between three pellets, as
many
cinquefoils: a chief chequy or and azure.
(Herald's College. Book of Funeral Certificates, I, 24, fol. 87b.)
(Copied from "The Virginia Carys", page 163, by Fairfax Harrison and
printed in
1919.)
END (MY spell-check went crazy on this.)