Person:Richard Townsend (19)

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Richard Townsend
b.ABT 1540 Berkshire, England
d.BEF 15 OCT 1593 Berkshire, England
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  • H.  Richard TownsendABT 1540 - BEF 1593
  • W.  Agnes1544 - BEF 1621
m. AFT 10 MAR 1562
  1. John Townsend1568 - BEF 1593
  2. Elizabeth Townsend1569/70 -
  3. Agnes Townsend1571/72 -
  4. Marye Townsend1575 -
  5. Richard Townsend1577 - 1641
  6. Robert Townsend1580 - 1616
  7. Stephen TownsendABT 1585 -
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Name[1][2] Richard Townsend
Gender Male
Birth[3] ABT 1540 Berkshire, Englandprobable place; approximate year
Marriage AFT 10 MAR 1562 Berkshire, Englandafter “10 March 4 Eliz. [1562]” to “Agnes” who may be Anne Arnold
to Agnes
Death[1][2] BEF 15 OCT 1593 Berkshire, Englanddate presented to the Court Baron of “Burghulburye” Manor
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Greene, David L. "Townsend Ancestry of Richard of the Welcome, John of Philadelphia, Joseph of Chester County, and Joan of Chester County", in Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania), 42 (4): 293-313, Fall/Winter 2002.

    (See RichardC Townsend from pages 297-8.)

    Greene cites Humphreys, Arthur L. Bucklebury: A Berkshire Parish[,] the Home of Bolingbrook 1701-1715. (Reading, Berkshire, 1932), 470, 474. “Humphreys includes, in English translation, the records of the ‘Manor of Burghulburie.’ Even though Humphreys was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and should have known better, he was confused about dating. He silently transferred the months from numbers to names using modern numbering [i.e., January as month 1] so that, for example, he misdated 10 1st month as 10 January. This may affect the dating of the manorial rolls, which unfortunately do not appear to be available elsewhere.”

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Humphreys, Arthur Lee. Bucklebury : a Berkshire parish, the home of Bolingbroke 1701-1715. (Reading England: The author, 1932), 470.

    Extracted from the manor rolls:
    “Burghulburye” Court Baron, dated “1593. Oct. 15 (as in 1583)”

    “They present the death of Richard Townsende, who held (by copy of 10 March 4 Eliz. [1562]) the reversion of a messuage called Heiwardes in West End, formerly Stephen Arnoldes, to hold to him, such wife as he should marry & their eldest son; rent 5s. 10d. Heriot : a brown cow with a white face. He married one Agnes, & had by her a son Richard. Agnes is admitted tenant.”

  3. ↑ Greene writes, “Unfortunately, the Bucklebury manorial court rolls are missing for 1513 through 1563, but the surviving rolls show no Townsends before a later reference to land held in 1562. Hence it appears that RichardC Townsend, or possibly his parents, moved to Bucklebury from elsewhere.”
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