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Ancestry of Helen J. MARSHALL

Up Dated 13 December 2007

William MYNER/MYNARD
and
Sarah   _______

William MINER (MINOR, MYNARD) was born about 1500 in , , England snd married about 1525 in Chew Magna, Somersetshire, England, Sarah   _______. She was born about 1500, in or near Chew Magna, Somersetshire England. William was buried at Chew Magna on 23 February 1585/86.

From CHESEBRO' Genealogy Incomplete@RootsWeb contains individuals and families of those that have yet to be connected to William Chesebrough.

Note:
1. William has been identified as the 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, cou rt 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.

Child from grant:

 + 1. THOMAS    b:    Abt 1530; Chew Magna, Somersetshire, England.
               md:    Bef 1554; , Somersetshire, England.
                                  Joan _______
              bur  15 Nov 1573; Chew Magna, Somersetshire, England.

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