Person:Edmund Dobyns (1)

EDMUNDH DOBYNS (DANIELG, RANDALLF, WILLIAME, GUYD, GUYC, JOHNB, GUYA) (from ¶14) was born about 1631. He was listed as his father's eldest son, aged about three years, in the Visitation of London, 1634. However, he was not mentioned in his father's will in 1663, in which his brother RICHARDH DOBYNS, born about 1633, was said to be his father's eldest son, undoubtedly meaning eldest living son. So EDMUNDH DOBYNS must have died before 1663. Very little else is known about EDMUNDH DOBYNS except that he married an unidentified wife and left two sons, DANIELI DOBYNS and EDMUNDI DOBYNS. DANIELG DOBYNS listed his grandsons, DANIELI and EDMUNDI in a codicil to his will without specifying which of his sons was their father. This is cleared up by the record of a case in the Court of Chancery in which the executors of the will of DANIELG DOBYNS brought suit against DANIEL and EDMUND DOBBYNS (fn 55 <ddcvfn.htm>) as follows:RICHARD DOBBYNS, NICHOLAS TRUSSELL and RICHARD DEDDICOTT, plaintiffs, v. DANIEL and EDMUND DOBBYNS of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, defendants, dated 1664. Allegations of RICHARD DOBYNS, TRUSSELL and DEDDICOTT, executors of the will of the late DANIELG DOBYNS of Kidderminster, state that DANIELG DOBYNS died "in or about" November 1663, and that "the said DANIELL DOBYNS and EDMUND DOBYNS the grandchildren of the said DANIEL DOBYNS deceased that is to say the sonnes of (blank space in original document) DOBYNS deceased who was the oldest sonne of the said DANIEL DOBYNS being not contented with the Annyties and Legacies to them respectively bequeathed by the said Will and Go(o)dwill as aforesaid and by combination and confederasy with divers other persons unknown to your orators having gotten into their or one of their Custody or into the Custody of the other persons aforesaid the Original Will They the said Confederasy doe endeavor to suppress and conceal the same and doe threaten and give out that they will enter into and take possion of the said Lands Tythes and premisses and that the same doe belonge unto them or one of them as heirs at law unto the said DANIELL DOBYNS deceased...." These allegations are dated 3 Aug 1664. Which allegations DANIEL and EDMUND, being minors, denied by their duly assigned guardian, GEORGE GWILLIM, dated "...entyeth" (partly illegible, probably twentyeth) Oct 1664. The CHILDREN of EDMUNDH DOBYNS by an unidentified wife wereDANIELI DOBYNS (See ¶21)EDMUNDI DOBYNS NFK

As it is known from the 1634 Visitation of London that EDMUNDH DOBYNS was the oldest son of DANIELG DOBYNS and from his father's will that he was dead by 1664, it is thus seen that EDMUND DOBYNS was the father of two sons, DANIELI DOBYNS and EDMUNDI DOBYNS.