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151	"Dr. William Cabell was the first member of the Cabell family to leave England for the colonies. He was born in Warminster, graduated from the Royal College of Medicine and Surgery in London, and practiced there before entering the British Navy as a surgeon. The ship on which he was serving put in at Jamestown, and Cabell fell in love with the country. Shortly after, he resigned his post, returned to England to settle his affairs, and immigrated to Virginia in 1724 or 1725. Cabell continued his career as a doctor in Virginia, treating the local population and prescribing treatments for various ailments. Because he possessed considerable wealth and land, his papers are primarily made up of business transactions. There are many indentures recording the loans he made to men and their families and the terms under which they were to be paid back.... "In the 1720s William Cabell married Elizabeth Burks and their first child, Mary, was born in 1727. Mary was followed by William in 1729 and Joseph in 1732. In 1735, William was obliged to return to England for six years to settle the affairs of his parents and other relations. Before he left, he signed over power of attorney to his wife and to his friends, William Mayo and George Carrington. Primarily, however, the job fell to Elizabeth to ensure that the extensive Cabell lands were planted and protected over the six years he was away. During this time, an interesting legend began about Elizabeth Cabell: people claimed she was descended from a princess of the Powhatan tribe and, knowing this, the local Indians had protected William Cabell while he searched out his lands, and Elizabeth while her husband was away. It is more likely, however, that her relationship with the Society of Friends, with whom the Indians were on good terms, helped ensure her safety. However, there may be some truth in the story as both the Floyd and Davis familes (all relatives of the Burks) insist that they have "Indian blood" from the clandestine marriage of a beautiful princess named Nicketti and a member of an old Cavalier family from Virginia. William Cabell's papers primarily record his business transactions; however, from behind the columns of figures we can draw some interesting inferences about life on the Virginia frontier. Although William's nearest neighbor might be a day's journey away, they were still intimately connected through their financial dealings and through local politics. William was well known and wealthy. His neighbors frequently appealed to him for loans or for more time to pay back their loans. Their financial stability was based on their land and the money they could make from it. Loans were granted on their assurances that they would return the money as soon as a profitable harvest made their fortune. At a very last resort, a land owner would sell of a parcel of his land or even more reluctantly some slaves since he was then selling off the means to his future prosperity. William Cabell also received petitions from his female neighbors, indicating that women were actively involved with the management of the land."	CABELL, Dr. William (I21906)
152	"From Stewart Town were the Kennedys and Milliner, the latter a great producer of Corn, a Sugar Manufacturer and a regular contributor to the Gleaner in the form of letters signed "Old Fossil", very conservative. He had many lovely and vivid daughters and, I think, one son." [Source: MONTHLY COMMENTS JAMAICA, By Ansell Hart of Newport (Manchester) Jamaica, Volume 6. No. 5. April 1968]	MILLINER, Herbert Russell (I1030)
153	"Glassmakers of Stourbridge and Dudley 1612 - 2002: A Biographical History of a Once Great Industry" is a book by Mr Jason Ellis which has recently been published. It is a genealogical history of the glassmakers of the Stourbridge district, tracing the ownership of the various glassmaking sites from the 17th century to the present day. [www.dudley.gov.uk 2010]	WILLIAMSON Glassmakers (I2347)
154	"He came to Thornbury and married, but did not live above three or four years afterward".	PRICE, Samuel (I19942)
155	"In 1637 the tenants and poor cottagers of Shelton petitioned against the unrighteous conduct of Mr. Manning, rector of Shelton, and of Mr. Malory, the lord of the manor, who on the first payment of ship-money had assessed their own land and that of the other frecholders at the rate of 2d. per acre for their arable land and nothing for their meadow and pasture, while they taxed the petitioners as highly as 2s. 4d. an acre." [Cal. S. P. Dom. 1637, p. 169. quoted from Victoria County History - Bedfordshire]	MALORY, Ralph (I21966)
156	"In 1937, he and his sister, Frances Butterworth, visited Auckland. His sister Frances was living in Los Angeles, and their brother Ernest Hemus in Topeka."	HEMUS, George Harwood (I10910)
157	"In about 1883, George Hemus, his wife, and four surviving children sailed from New Zealand to the United States."	HEMUS, George (I10742)
158	"In her 16th year."	MILLINER, Sybilla (I14920)
159	"It was the 1850 opening of the Great Northern Railway's main line from London to York, that transformed Peterborough from a market town to an industrial centre. Relatively little urban development took place to the west of the railway, but the marshalling yards and other installations were labour intensive and housing for railway workers and their families spread from the vicinity of the North station almost to Walton. The Great Northern built an entire community here, which provided much of the labour for the enormous marshalling yard and associated engine sheds close by." [Brandon, David and Knight, John Peterborough Past: The City and The Soke (p.43) Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 2001]	RUTTER, William (I537)
160	"Jacobus" in the Latin PR entry.	HARTSHORNE, James (I16979)
161	"Mr. James Francis" listed as a resident in Kelly's Directory for Bushey. At the same address is listed Mr. James WATKINS, who in 1851 was an upholsterer and undertaker, and by 1861 was a proprietor of houses. Among the traders listed is: Charles [Palmer] PHILLIPS, Solicitor, Bushey Heath. PHILLIPS (b.1821) was living at Berkley Cottage in Aldenham (very close to Bushey) in 1851, 1855 and 1861. CP Phillips became in 1859 principal secretary to Lord Chancellor Chelmsford, and was subsequently Secretary to the Commisioners in Lunacy. He wrote books on Copyright Law and "The Law Concerning Lunatics".	FRANCIS, James (I184)
162	"Mr. John Masters & Mrs. Grace Hodgley"	Family: John MASTERS / Grace HADDESLY (F7847)
163	"Mr. Milliner whose letter I enclose is a poor hard working brother with a long family & labouring hard to do good to the bodies & souls of his neighbours" [See Milliner Orphan Papers]	MILLINER, George (I82)
164	"Orphaned as a child, brought up by grandparents. Grandmother had sung to Queen by royal command - probably Charlotte-Sophia of Mecklenburg Strelitz (George III, 1760-1820)." "He may not have married Alice Hemus - he was much older, and may already have had a family. George Gadd (son-in-law) repeatedly asked him about his past, but was stonewalled. He and Alice were however active Christians, so criminal activity was not suspected! He played organ, violin and piano. Jessie said that it was plain that bootmaking was not his original profession - he had only taken it up when something else had failed. George Gadd's impression was that he had left home after a disagreement he didn't want to talk about." [Source: Barbara Gadd, from father George Gadd. Included here to illustrate the secrecy which surrounded Frederick's origins.]	HEMUS (aka HARTSHORNE), Reverend Frederick (I88)
165	"Sir William Malory died seised of Shelton in 1445, leaving as heir his son Thomas."	MALORY, Sir William of Papworth, Cambridgeshire (I22128)
166	"The Godfrey male line in Bethnal Green may have immigrated to England from (northern?) France as Huguenot silk weavers." [From DNA web site, referring to descendants of James GODFREY b. abt. 1715, lived in London]	GODFREY, ENGLAND (I14622)
167	"The nth of 8 mo. 1686 John Fflexney and Daniel was ordered by ye meeting to endever to still ye reude peopel, and ceepe things in good order." ... From the minutes of a business meeting in 1697 it is possible to discover the names of those who identified themselves with the cause of the Friends in Witney and the neighbourhood. They were as follows : ? John Clark Willi Warring Jera Wearing Gilles Tidmarsh Willi Right Hewry Ffranklin Willi Heydon Ffran Dring Hen Brisco John Flexney ... " It was ordered that Willi Wearing and Henry Brisco should goo and sell ye Widdow Wateres goods for to pay ye said Widd depte, and bring an account to ye Monthly meeting of it, also it was ordered that John Clark and Jeremiah Wearing should goo to the Skole so often as they shall see meete to see as good order be cept ; also it was ordered that Daniel Fflexney should assist Margreat Hamblin, and bring an account to ye Monthly meeting of what they have done in geating of their depts up." Most curious is it to note how particular the Friends were with respect to marriage. " Thomas Smith, blanket maker, sun of Thomas Smith of Heyley, carpenter, declared his intention of taking Jeane Dutton, widdow, to be his wife, and the said Jeane Dutton declared her intention of taking ye said Thomas Smith to be her husband, and he is to bring a certificate from his father to signifie his consent, and Jeremiah Wearing and John Fflexney are appointed to make inquiry conserning their clearness upon ye account of marriag, and bring an account to ye next monthly meeting." " It is ordered that Jo Fflexney should go to the Church warder to understand a method convenient to dispose of ye money gother (gathered ?) on ye brifes (briefs) and give an account to ye next Monthly meeting." [Extracts from Quaker Minute Book in History of Witney, W.J. Monk 1894]	FLEXNEY, WITNEY unattributed families (I12909)
168	"United" with Old Broughton Road Baptist Church	TYLE, Sarah (I12150)
169	(MS GADD's manuscript notes suggest her name was Ada GEE.)	THAYER, Ada (I223)
170	(The seemingly plausible alternative, Sarah Milner Q4 1839, Bristol, refers to a different individual).	MILLINER, Sarah Maria (I86)
171	... and also, in and from a Close of Pasture Ground, situate in the said Parish of Dunkerton, belonging to the said Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, and in the Possession of Enoch Skrine, to the proposed Junction with the Radstock Line in the said Parish of South Stoke, and also to alter and vary the line of the said Canal from such proposed Junction with the Kennet & Avon Canal...	SKRINE, Enoch (I14584)
172	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	SMITH, Jean Mary (I13231)
173	10.1 miles NE of Droitwich	HEMUS, Cofton Hackett (I11041)
174	1000/1 1822-1921 These documents are held at Wiltshire and Swindon Archives Contents: Fifty deeds relating to a house, workshops, factory and dyehouse at Holt. Including: probate of the will of John Davis of Holt, clothier, proved P.C.C. 1822; copy will of Ann Richardson of Bloomfield Place, Bath, dated 1833; copy will of Samuel Walker of Walcot, Somerset, proved P.C.C. 1848; copy will of William Webb Dunn of Wells, proved P.P.R. 1864; administrations of Sarah Davis and William Davis, 1872. Parties: Davis, Hill, Guy, Richardson, Gordon, Dunn, Besser, Buckland, Bush, Jelly, Harding, Wiltshire, Whyte, Rookes, Jones, Barnes, Linzey, Pickard, Street, Angove, Picton, Mitchell, Wise, Watson, Wheable, BANKS, Chapman, Hastings, Trim, Barclay, Remer, Goff.	BANKS, HOLT (I14800)
175	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	SMITH, Marion Colleen (I5060)
176	10b 112	GRAHAM, William (I674)
177	10b 82	GRAHAM, William (I674)
178	11:11 a.m.	Source (S73)
179	12.4 miles N of Droitwich	HEMUS, Old Swinford (I11040)
180	12.8 miles NE of Droitwich	HEMUS, Northfield (I11042)
181	13.0 miles NNE of Droitwich	HEMUS, Halesowen (I11044)
182	13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne	BOWES-LYON, Claude Earl of Strathmore (I7556)
183	14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Amongst other issue, his youngest daughter was Elizabeth. {Burke's Peerage}	BOWES-LYON, Claude George Earl (I7557)
184	15.3 miles NNE of Droitwich	HEMUS, Harborne (I11045)
185	1592: Will of John BRETT of Tolleshunt Major, yeoman, refers to his tenement and lands called Bakers in Tolleshunt.	BAKER, TOLLESHUNT (I15141)
186	15th June 1846: 9 Claverton Place, Widcombe.	SKRINE, William (I687)
187	1608 Men & Armour Lists Nicholas Butler as Lord of Hawkesbury and Lord of Great Badminton.	BUTLER of Horton (I1430)
188	1608 Survey of Men & Armour shows him to be to be "of the meanest stature either fit for a pyoner or of little other use", and aged about 20 (up to 30ish)	BUTLER, Thomas (I14659)
189	1608 survey states that he was tall and suitable to be a pikeman, and that he was trained as a soldier, and a "subsidy man".	REED, Christopher (I13903)
190	1655: Accompanied Lady Ormonde to Acton, Glos. 1661: M.P. for Bristol 1666: Styled Lord Butler of Moore Park	BUTLER, Thomas Earl of Ossorye (I1363)
191	1672 Hearth Tax Returns give: Thomas Lacon at Ribston Parva (SE of Harrogate) Mr. William Lacon at Sawley	LACON, Edmund (I12531)
192	1687/8: laid up with gout at Badminton Proclaimed Charles II as King when Charles I was beheaded. One of a very few "Old English" nobles in Ireland to have been brought up as a Protestant. Consequently he was put in charge of Charles I's forces in Ireland, and tried to subdue the Irish Rebellion. His forces were pushed back to "The Pale", a few hundred square miles around Dublin.	BUTLER, James 12th Earl of Ormonde (I1324)
193	1693 Walcot Tenants' Roll: Michaelmas: William Hooper & Widow Skrine for Robert Saunders Widow Skrine & Thomas Phelpes for Edge Mead The Widow Skrine & William Hooper for Wallis's Ladyday: The Widow Skrine for part of Saunders farme The Widow Skrine for half Edgemead Mr. Henry Blanchard for Wm. Skrine's living William Hooper & Widow Skrine for Wallis's.	Family: Bath SKRINE / (F894)
194	17 months old in 1881 census.	JEFFRIES, Frederick (I361)
195	1729: of Gristhorpe	DAGGITT, Robert (I14370)
196	1779: late of Newcastle-upon-Tyne	RUTTER, Lowther (I12402)
197	1785 she may have been a servant to Alexander Law and Lillias Goodlad	LAING, Barbara (I11735)
198	1790: Abode given as Easthorpe at time of marriage.	GOODEN, Elizabeth (I2689)
199	1790; Living in Birch at time of marriage. 1807: Tolleshunt Major What is the significance of name of Gibson BAKER's daughter "Carrington"? First owned land in Tolleshunt Major in 1787. Signature on manor court papers seems to match that on the 1790 marriage register at Birch.	BAKER, William (I2688)
200	18/11/1890: 26 Mayfield Terrace, Edinburgh.	CHRISTIE, Catherine (I801)

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