Person:Edmund Herris (1)

The father of Mary Herris was identified in the Edmund Munnings sketch in the book "The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P," by Robert Charles Anderson, published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2007.

The will of Edmund Herris of Tillingham, county Essex, in England was dated 18 June 1635. Some excerpts:

"Edmund Herris of Tillingham in the County of Essex, yeoman," began with bequests to "my daughter Mary the wife of Edmund Munninges six shillings and eight pence of lawful money" and to "Rebecca Munninges my said daughter's daughter forty pounds of the lawful money of England to be paid unto her when she shall accomplish the age if eighteen years if she stayeth here in old England, but if she shall be fetched away by her said father or any other faithful friends into New England before she shall accomplish the said age of eighteen years, then I will that mine executrix do pay the same unto her when she shall be to go that voyage, but if the said Rebecca shall depart this life before the said age of eighteen years or of her going out of old England, then I will that the rest of my son-in-law Edmund Munnings children that be now living shall receive the same to be equally divided amongst them, and if all of them happen to depart this life before the said money shall come to be received, then I will it shall remain unto Thomas and William the two sons of William Blowers equally to be divided between them" (Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of St. Pauls, Wills E;45).