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Albert Wilkinson and Ivey E. Purdon

 


Husband Albert Wilkinson 


 
         Born: 
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
     Marriage: 1941 - Hull, York, England


Wife Ivey E. Purdon 


 
         Born: 1915 - Hull, York, England
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 


 
       Father: Cyril Bean Purdon (1891-1969)
       Mother: Elsie Cawcutt Lee (1893-1972)



Children


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Henry Williams and Anne Pye

 


Husband Henry Williams 


 


 
         Born: Abt 1607 - Gwernevet (Gwernyfed), Breconshire
   Christened: 
         Died: 1656
       Buried: 


 
       Father: Henry Williams (Abt 1579-1636)
       Mother: Eleanor Whitney (After 1591-      )


 
     Marriage: Abt 25 Aug 1631

Events

1. Occupation: Between 1620 and 1623, M.P.

2. Occupation: 1628, M.P.


Wife Anne Pye 


 


 
         Born: Abt 1611 - The Mynde, Herefordshire
   Christened: 
         Died: Bef 1 Jul 1689
       Buried: 


 
       Father: Walter Pye (Abt 1581-      )
       Mother: Joane Rudhall (Abt 1585-      )



Children

1 M Henry Williams 


 
         Born: Abt 1635 - Gwernevet (Gwernyfed), Breconshire
   Christened: 
         Died: Bef 22 Mar 1666
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Abigail Wightwick (Abt 1641-After 1675)
         Marr: Jan 1658 - St. Dunstaus, London


2 M Walter Williams 


 
         Born: Abt 1636 - Gwernevet, Breconshire
   Christened: 
         Died: Abt 1695
       Buried: 
 


General Notes: Husband - Henry Williams

He was made a Baronet by Charles I in 1644. Entertained Charles I at Gwernyfed Aug. 6, 1645 (see attached). MP from Brecon 1628.
His biography in "The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629", ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010, is as follows:

Family and Education

b. c.1603,1 1st s. of Sir Henry Williams* of Gwernyfed and Eleanor, da. of Eustace Whitney of Whitney, Herefs. educ. M. Temple 1621. m. 25 Aug. 1631 (with £3,000), Ann, da. of (Sir) Walter Pye I* of the Mynde, Herefs. 2s.2 suc. fa. 1636. cr. bt. 4 May 1644.3 d. by May 1656.4 sig. Henry Williams.
Offices Held

Steward (jt.), reader's feast, M. Temple 1629.5

Steward (jt.), lordship of Crickhowell, Brec. 1629-at least 1636, Tretower (jt.) 1631-6, (sole) 1636-at least 1641;6 j.p. Brec. 1630-46 (custos rot. 1636-42),7 dep. lt. by 1637, capt. militia ft. 1637,8 sheriff 1639-40,9 commr. disarming recusants 1641,10 poll tax 1641,11 array 1642-6,12 assessment (roy.), Brec. and Rad.1643, levying forces (roy.) 1643, impressment (roy.) 1643, accts. (roy.) Brec. 1644.13
Biography

This Member has often been confused with his father and namesake, Sir Henry Williams, but the Breconshire indenture of 1628 clearly specifies that it was 'Henry Williams, esq.' who was elected. Furthermore, at that time Sir Henry was acting as sheriff and returning officer, dispelling any ambiguity on this point.14 The 1628 Member, then, was a scion of one of the leading political dynasties in the modest world of Breconshire gentry politics. He cannot, however, have been the individual who matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford aged 16 in 1605, as this would have made his father only nine years old at the time of his birth.15 The family had a strong legal tradition: Henry's grandfather (Sir) David† became a leading Welsh judge, his father attended the Middle Temple, and his uncle Robert qualified as a barrister.16 Not surprisingly, in May 1621 Henry was admitted to the Middle Temple, his fine being remitted at the request of (Sir) Walter Pye I, an intimate of his father and chief justice of the Brecon circuit.17 When Pye's son, Walter II* was in turn admitted, Williams stood as one of his sureties.18 Williams' manucaptors in 1621 included William Morgan* of Y Dderw, a Breconshire man and another ally of Sir Henry Williams and (Sir) Walter Pye I.19

At his election in 1628, Henry Williams was a rather green proxy for his father, as he was not yet even a magistrate; nor is there is any record that he ever spoke or was named to any committees. He was certainly not the 'Mr. Williams, one skilful in gold and silver mines' who gave evidence before the committee of grievances on 4 June 1628.20 He was, however, one of those appointed to provide for the reader's feast at the Middle Temple on 6 Feb. 1629, when Parliament was still in session.21

Williams began to assume the mantle of a local governor in the early 1630s, following his marriage to Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Pye I, who was hugely influential in the politics of early Stuart Breconshire. This marriage brought a substantial portion to the Williams' coffers, and also allied the Member with a powerful family on the Welsh border.22 Williams assumed the leadership of the Gwernyfed house after his father's death in 1636, immediately taking up the chairmanship of the bench, which his father had held for nearly 20 years, and replacing his father as a deputy lieutenant. He did not distinguish himself in the period before the Civil War, although he was clearly an important member of the Breconshire political community. Named a commissioner of array in 1642, he became a committed royalist, acquiring a baronetcy in May 1644 for his efforts on behalf of Charles I. The king stayed at Gwernyfed on 6 Aug. 1645, seven weeks after the battle of Naseby, underlining Williams' status as a leading royalist in the county. In 1646 a hostile commentator described Williams as the 'capital commissioner of array' and a 'man of great power' in Breconshire, who had acted 'with a high hand to the great terror and consternation of all the well affected inhabitants thereabouts'. He further complained that, despite the king's defeat, Williams continued in 'his wonted greatness and tyranny', protected by 'some rotten Members of the House of Commons', a reference, almost certainly, to the politically suspect Member for Breconshire, William Morgan*. Williams' estate had yet to be sequestered, and consequently Williams continued to prosper in the comparative remoteness of Gwernyfed, 'grinding the face of the poor in pieces, especially such as hate [his] ... ungodly proceedings'.23 In the event, Williams never suffered sequestration, possibly because of Morgan's protection, but perhaps also because his estate was too encumbered to bear a fine, although he was assessed at £1,500.24

Williams lived quietly for the remainder of his life in the seclusion of Gwernyfed. He was dead by May 1656, when his second son entered the Middle Temple.25 His eldest son, also Henry, the second baronet, represented Brecon in the Convention and the county in the Cavalier Parliament.
Ref Volumes: 1604-1629
Author: Lloyd Bowen

Notes

1.
Assuming an age of 18 at admission to M. Temple.
2.
NLW, Gwernyfed 43; C2/Chas.I/W29/11; M. Temple Admiss.
3.
Docquets of Letters Patent 1642-6 ed. W.H. Black, 244-5.
4.
MTR, 1095.
5.
Ibid. 743.
6.
NLW, Badminton (manorial) I/57-70, 107-17.
7.
JPs in Wales and Monm. ed. Phillips, 267-71.
8.
HEHL, EL7443.
9.
List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 239.
10.
LJ, iv. 386a.
11.
SR, v. 165.
12.
Northants. RO, FH133; SP19/126/96.
13.
Docquets of Letters Patent, 48-50, 111, 219.
14.
C219/41B/5.
15.
Al. Ox.
16.
Bodl. Add. A281, f. 240v.
17.
MTR, 663.
18.
Ibid. 713.
19.
For the relationship between Sir Henry and (Sir) Walter, see NLW, Tredegar Park 138/39, 108/17, 118/80.
20.
CD 1628, iv. 100.
21.
MTR, 743.
22.
NLW, Gwernyfed 31.
23.
SP19/126/96.
24.
CCAM, 733.
25.
MTR, 1095.

General Notes: Child - Henry Williams

2nd Baronet. MP for Brecon 1660-1661.
Family and Educationb. c.1635, 1st s. of 1st Bt., of Gwernyfed by Anne, da. of Sir Walter Pye of The Mynde, Much Dewchurch, Herefs. educ. Queen's, Oxf. 1651. m. Jan. 1658, Abigail, da. of Samuel Wightwick of Marlston, Berks., 4da. suc. fa. c.1652
Offices HeldCommr. for militia, Brec. Mar. 1660, col. of militia ft. Apr. 1660-1, j.p. July 1660-d., commr. for assessment Aug. 1660-d., dep. lt. 1661-d.
BiographyWilliams was the great-grandson of David Williams, a distinguished lawyer who was Member for Brecon in four Elizabethan Parliaments. His father, who sat for the county in 1628, was named to the commission of array and created a baronet during the Civil War; information was laid against him as a Royalist, but he never compounded, perhaps because his estates were too encumbered to bear a fine. Consequently Williams was not inhibited from standing at the general election of 1660, though he modestly contented himself with the borough seat, which his father-in-law had occupied in the previous Parliament. He was not an active Member of the Convention, in which he was named to six committees, the most important being to consider the defects of the Poll Act. His vigorous repression of a 'seditious preaching' at Llanddetty on 22 July provoked a riot among the followers of the popular Baptist republican, Jenkin Jones. He stood for the county at the next general election against the courtier Sir Herbert Price , who had the support of the lord president of Wales, the Earl of Carbery. Williams laid down his commission in disgust at the use made of the militia against him in the election. Nevertheless he was returned to the Cavalier Parliament, listed as a moderate by Lord Wharton, and named to the committees for the corporations and uniformity bills. But on 25 July 1661 Job Charlton reported from the elections committee that there had been several miscarriages in the Breconshire election, and the House agreed to declare it void. Whether Williams stood again is not known; he was clearly in financial difficulties, for the King wrote to the Windsor chapter asking them to renew his lease of some tithes on easy terms in consideration of his father's loyalty and sufferings. His whole estate was valued at £700 p.a., of which his wife's jointure accounted for more than half. He died in February 1666 'very much indebted'; a bill to make provision for his widow and daughters was introduced into the Lower House in November, but never passed. His brother, the third and last baronet, never entered Parliament, but his daughter brought Gwernyfed to her husband, Sir Edward Williams, who represented the county as a Tory in six Parliaments. The younger son of Sir Thomas Williams <http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/williams-sir-thomas-1621-1712 >, he was apparently of different stock from his wife's family.
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Walter Pye and Joane Rudhall

 


Husband Walter Pye 


 
         Born: Abt 1581 - The Mynde, Herefordshire
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
     Marriage:


Wife Joane Rudhall 


 
         Born: Abt 1585 - Rudhall, Herefordshire
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried:


Children

1 F Anne Pye 


 


 
         Born: Abt 1611 - The Mynde, Herefordshire
   Christened: 
         Died: Bef 1 Jul 1689
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Henry Williams (Abt 1607-1656)
         Marr: Abt 25 Aug 1631


General Notes: Husband - Walter Pye

He was a Knight
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Alexander Wood and Dorinth Rainbridge

 


Husband Alexander Wood 


 
         Born: 20 Oct 1880
   Christened: 
         Died: 1917 - France
       Buried: 


 
       Father: Edward Alexander Wood (1841-1898)
       Mother: Janet Alexander (1850-1922)


 
     Marriage:


Wife Dorinth Rainbridge 


 
         Born: 
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried:


Children

1 M Robin Alexander Wood 


 
         Born: 
   Christened: 
         Died: 1939 - South Africa
       Buried: 
 


General Notes: Husband - Alexander Wood

15th Hussars, Page to H.M. Queen Victoria
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Colonel John Ravenscroft and Sarah Watkins

 


Husband Colonel John Ravenscroft 


 
         Born: 1729 - Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales
   Christened: 
         Died: 13 Jun 1800 - Williamston, Ireland
       Buried: 
 
     Marriage: 2 Jul 1776 - St. Mary, Brecon, Wales


Wife Sarah Watkins 


 
         Born: 1757 - Breconshire, Wales
   Christened: 29 Mar 1757 - St Mary, Brecon, Wales
         Died: 1843 - Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
       Buried: 


 
       Father: Penoyre Watkins (1721-1791)
       Mother: Mary Lloyd (1728-1762)



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First Earl of Ravensworth

 


Husband First Earl of Ravensworth 


 
         Born: 
   Christened: 
         Died: 1883
       Buried: 
 
     Marriage:


Wife 


 
         Born: 
   Christened: 
         Died: 
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Children

1 F Maria Liddell 


 
         Born: 
   Christened: 
         Died: 24 Aug 1883
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: David Edward Wood (1812-1894)
         Marr: 17 Apr 1861


General Notes: Child - Maria Liddell

Lady
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Samuel Sands and Dorothy Ray

 


Husband Samuel Sands 


 
         Born: 1656 - Portsmouth, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 1730 - Sands Point, Nassau, NY
       Buried: 


 
       Father: James Sands (1622-1695) 1
       Mother: Sarah Walker (1620-1709)


 
     Marriage: 1689 - Newshoreham, Newport, RI
 
 Other Spouse: Elisabeth Lessitt (      -      ) - 1 Nov 1704


Wife Dorothy Ray 


 
         Born: 16 Oct 1669 - New Shoreham, Newport, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 1 Mar 1714
       Buried:  - Sands Point, Nassau, NY


 
       Father: Simon Ray 3d (1639-      )
       Mother: Mary Thomas (1645-      )


 
 Other Spouse: John Clapp(      -      )


Children

1 M Samuel Sands 


 
         Born: 1690 - Block Island, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 1764 - Newburgh, NY
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Mary Pell (Abt 1684-      )



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Simon Ray 3d and Mary Thomas

 


Husband Simon Ray 3d 


 
         Born: 1639 - Portsmouth, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
     Marriage:


Wife Mary Thomas 


 
         Born: 1645 - Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass.
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried:


Children

1 F Sybil Ray 


 
         Born: 19 Mar 1665 - Portsmouth, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 23 Dec 1733
       Buried:  - Sands Point, Nassau, NY
 
       Spouse: John Sands (1649-1712)
         Marr: Abt 1682 - Block Island, RI


2 F Dorothy Ray 


 
         Born: 16 Oct 1669 - New Shoreham, Newport, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 1 Mar 1714
       Buried:  - Sands Point, Nassau, NY
 
       Spouse: Samuel Sands (1656-1730)
         Marr: 1689 - Newshoreham, Newport, RI
 
       Spouse: John Clapp (      -      )


3 M Simon Ray 


 
         Born: 9 Apr 1672 - Block Island, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 9 Mar 1755
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Deborah Greene (1684-1763)
         Marr: 22 Nov 1725



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John Sands and Sybil Ray

 


Husband John Sands 


 
         Born: 1649 - Portsmouth, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 15 Mar 1712 - Cow Neck, Nassau, Long Island, New York
       Buried:  Sands family cemetery , Sands Point, Long Island, New York
 

His original house on Sands Point is still in use as a private residence and is called the Sands-Hewlett-Tibbits House. It dates to 1691 and is a short distance south of the Sands family cemetery on Sands Point Rd.

 
       Father: James Sands (1622-1695) 1
       Mother: Sarah Walker (1620-1709)


 
     Marriage: Abt 1682 - Block Island, RI


Wife Sybil Ray 


 
         Born: 19 Mar 1665 - Portsmouth, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 23 Dec 1733
       Buried:  - Sands family cemetery, Sands Point, Nassau, NY


 
       Father: Simon Ray 3d (1639-      )
       Mother: Mary Thomas (1645-      )



Children

1 M John Sands 


 
         Born: 22 Jan 1683 - Block Island, Rhode Island
   Christened: 
         Died: 30 Aug 1763 - Cow Neck, Nassau, Long Island, New York
       Buried:  - Cow Neck, Nassau, Long Island, New York
 
       Spouse: Catherine Guthrie (1690-1769)
         Marr: 9 Sep 1706 - Newport, Rhode Island


2 M Nathaniel Sands 


 
         Born: 1687
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 


3 M Edward Sands 


 
         Born: 1691 - Block Island, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 9 Mar 1746 - Sands Point, Nassau, NY
       Buried:  - Sands Point, Nassau, Long Island, NY
 
       Spouse: Mary Cornell (1703-1762)


4 M George Sands 


 
         Born: 1694
   Christened: 
         Died: 
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5 F Mary Sands 


 
         Born: 1697
   Christened: 
         Died: 
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6 F Catherine Sands 


 
         Born: 1700
   Christened: 
         Died: 
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7 F Dorothy Sands 


 
         Born: 1703
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 


8 F Abigail Sands 


 
         Born: 1708
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 



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Joshua Raymond and Mercy Sands

 


Husband Joshua Raymond 


 
         Born: 15 Sep 1660
   Christened: 
         Died: 1704
       Buried:  - Raymond Hill Burying Ground, Montville, CT
 
     Marriage: 29 Apr 1683 - Block Island, RI


Wife Mercy Sands 


 
         Born: 1665 - Block Island, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 1 May 1741
       Buried:  - Raymond Hill Burying Ground, Montville, CT 2


 
       Father: James Sands (1622-1695) 1
       Mother: Sarah Walker (1620-1709)



Children

1 M Sands Raymond 


 
         Born: 
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 


2 F Elizabeth Raymond 


 
         Born: 
   Christened: 
         Died: 
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3 M Joshua Raymond 


 
         Born: 20 Jan 1698 - Block Island, RI 2
   Christened: 
         Died: 12 Nov 1763 - Montville, CT
       Buried:  - Old Burying Ground on Raymond Hill, Montville, CT
 


General Notes: Wife - Mercy Sands

In the History of New London, she was incidentally connected with the famous pirate, William Kidd.

General Notes: Child - Sands Raymond

He was given a negro boy by his grandmother Sands to be freed at the age of thirty-three.

General Notes: Child - Elizabeth Raymond

She was given a negro girl, Rose, by her grandmother Sands to be freed at age thirty.

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Sources

1 Malcolm Samds Wilson, Descendants James Sands of Block Island (Name: New York, 1949;). .... Rebecca [Peck] Dusenbery, Peck, Adams and Allied Families, Genealiogical & Biographical (Name: New York, American Historical Sociey, 1925;). .... Charles H. Sandys, Dawn to Twilight in American Colonization. .... Rebecca [Peck] Dusenbery, Peck, Adams and Allied Families, Genealiogical & Biographical (Name: Name: New York, American Historical Sociey, 1925;;). .... Malcolm Samds Wilson, Descendants James Sands of Block Island (Name: Name: New York, 1949;;).

2 NYGBS Record, January 1920 pg. 11.

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