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Marsh Family in Box
in Late Tudor and Stuart Periods Janet Gale July 2016 Photographs courtesy of Janet Gale This is the story of Richard Marsh, parish clerk at St Thomas à Becket Church appointed in 1601. He lived through troublesome times, the death of Elizabeth I, the crowning of King James and an amazing disturbance in 1603 when villagers protested against vicar John Coren. Left: The Wilderness, Richard Marsh's home |
Richard Marsh
Richard Marsh was married to Joan and they baptised their children at Box: a son Zachariah, who later died in 1593, followed by Susannah, another Zachariah and finally Margarett (sic), who was baptised in 1606 at nearby Kingsdown.
Richard Marsh was the Parish Clerk at Box Church and, as he stated in a signed deposition in 1603, he was aged about 46 and was born in Fifehead Magadelan, Dorset, near the Wiltshire border and had lived in Box for 17 years, the last two as parish clerk. The previous parish clerk, John Newman died in 1599.
Richard Marsh was married to Joan and they baptised their children at Box: a son Zachariah, who later died in 1593, followed by Susannah, another Zachariah and finally Margarett (sic), who was baptised in 1606 at nearby Kingsdown.
Richard Marsh was the Parish Clerk at Box Church and, as he stated in a signed deposition in 1603, he was aged about 46 and was born in Fifehead Magadelan, Dorset, near the Wiltshire border and had lived in Box for 17 years, the last two as parish clerk. The previous parish clerk, John Newman died in 1599.
Richard lived in Church House in Church Lane. The house is now called The Wilderness, opposite Box Church, pictured at heading. The duties of the Parish Clerk were the writing up the registers of births, deaths and marriages and sometimes clerks would annotate them with a certain degree of freedom. The office was a responsible and respected position and it was remunerated by a wage supplemented by fees for specific duties. It was a role coveted by many of middling rank with some ability to read and write. The clerk also assisted the minister by ringing the bell for services, leading the congregation in responses, and singing metrical psalms.
He read the epistle at communion and lessons at Morning and Evensong Prayer and was responsible for ensuring that the church, the ornaments and furniture were kept tidy and clean. As well as keeping the register, he recorded the payment of Easter offerings, washed the church linen, probably including the surplice, and maintained the church bells. He also wrote up the accounts and rate collections for the churchwardens and overseers of the poor. He would have been a very busy man; no doubt his wife Joan washed the linen.
According to Principle 91 of the Anglican Canon Law in 1604, the clerk was to be chosen by the vicar or rector to whom he must be already known, be over 20 years of age and to be of honest conversation, able to read and write and competent at singing! There seem to have been lively times in the parish church of St Thomas à Becket during Richard Marsh's time as parish clerk. Local historian, Steven Hobbs, described how Richard Marsh brought in two concurrent cases to the Bishop's Court against John Symonds in the summer of 1603 concerning his wages and defamation and misbehaviour in church.[1] Richard had been chosen by John Coren with the approval of the majority of the householders. Several witnesses confirmed that the clerk was entitled to 4d a year from each householder as it had been paid to his predecessors back to the early 1550s, including Nicholas Eaton for twenty years, his son Nicholas for about three years and then John Newman for about twenty-seven years.
Marsh had rooms within the precincts of the church from which he and his wife sold pedlary wares (cheap hawker's goods) which could be only accessed through the church. Since his time the church has been greatly altered and expanded and the doorway into his two sales rooms were blocked, see changes below.
He read the epistle at communion and lessons at Morning and Evensong Prayer and was responsible for ensuring that the church, the ornaments and furniture were kept tidy and clean. As well as keeping the register, he recorded the payment of Easter offerings, washed the church linen, probably including the surplice, and maintained the church bells. He also wrote up the accounts and rate collections for the churchwardens and overseers of the poor. He would have been a very busy man; no doubt his wife Joan washed the linen.
According to Principle 91 of the Anglican Canon Law in 1604, the clerk was to be chosen by the vicar or rector to whom he must be already known, be over 20 years of age and to be of honest conversation, able to read and write and competent at singing! There seem to have been lively times in the parish church of St Thomas à Becket during Richard Marsh's time as parish clerk. Local historian, Steven Hobbs, described how Richard Marsh brought in two concurrent cases to the Bishop's Court against John Symonds in the summer of 1603 concerning his wages and defamation and misbehaviour in church.[1] Richard had been chosen by John Coren with the approval of the majority of the householders. Several witnesses confirmed that the clerk was entitled to 4d a year from each householder as it had been paid to his predecessors back to the early 1550s, including Nicholas Eaton for twenty years, his son Nicholas for about three years and then John Newman for about twenty-seven years.
Marsh had rooms within the precincts of the church from which he and his wife sold pedlary wares (cheap hawker's goods) which could be only accessed through the church. Since his time the church has been greatly altered and expanded and the doorway into his two sales rooms were blocked, see changes below.
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One Sunday, as was customary, he went up into the pulpit before the service began to hang up the pulpit cloth. Looking up John Symonds was heard to say How well thyself becomes the pulpit. Further derision came when the child of William and Elizabeth Seely was brought to be baptised. When asked who the father was Symonds replied Dawcock, I suppose, a derogatory nickname by which many people knew he referred to Richard Marsh. Dawcock is a male jackdaw bird, a dolt, a stupid fellow. The outcome of these cases is unknown and the records are probably lost. I don't think Richard Marsh was a popular Parish Clerk.
How long Richard remained in office is unknown but he was buried at Box in 1638 where his wife Joan had been buried in 1635. The cause of his death is unknown and nothing further is known of his children. I had assumed that this Richard Marsh was another member of my family but recent research revealed a deposition (sworn testimony) which indicated to the contrary.
How long Richard remained in office is unknown but he was buried at Box in 1638 where his wife Joan had been buried in 1635. The cause of his death is unknown and nothing further is known of his children. I had assumed that this Richard Marsh was another member of my family but recent research revealed a deposition (sworn testimony) which indicated to the contrary.
Rev John Coren
John Coren was appointed a perpetual vicar (paid by salary rather than entitled to the tithes) on 1 September 1590 and by all accounts he was a disreputable character. Apparently by 2 December 1599 there was a line in Latin below a baptismal entry in the parish records which Steven Hobbs translated as on the same day we were in dispute with John Bolwell and on the Sabbath going out with an armed guard.[2] He goes on to say that the vicar of Box, John Coren, the writer of the Latin phrase, was a fiery character. He was accused of sexual immorality, drunkenness and blasphemy, and was deeply in debt to the extent that he was accompanied by armed guards for fear of being issued with writs.[3] And later a deposition in a church court case for drunkenness heard in 1615 in which a fine Wiltshire version of the nautical phrase three sheets to the wind (drunk) is given when he is described as being three sheepe skinnes the wronge side out.[4]
There is further mention of John Coren in relation to his reading of the gospel rather than preaching to the congregation whilst on duty beating the bounds of Box parish. The reading of the gospel at accustomed places along the parish boundary was not always treated with due respect. When John Coren, vicar of Box, stopped outside the house of Christopher Butler in Rudloe on procession Easter Monday, 1603, John Bull was heard to say in a skoffing and deriding manner- Now he reads to the plumbe tree.
The parish records record that on 26 October 1644 John Coren, vicar of the parish, was buried. The plague visited the Box area from April to June 1646 and it was centred in the Kingsdown, Ashley, Wormcliff and Fogham areas and some twenty-two people died then.
John Coren was appointed a perpetual vicar (paid by salary rather than entitled to the tithes) on 1 September 1590 and by all accounts he was a disreputable character. Apparently by 2 December 1599 there was a line in Latin below a baptismal entry in the parish records which Steven Hobbs translated as on the same day we were in dispute with John Bolwell and on the Sabbath going out with an armed guard.[2] He goes on to say that the vicar of Box, John Coren, the writer of the Latin phrase, was a fiery character. He was accused of sexual immorality, drunkenness and blasphemy, and was deeply in debt to the extent that he was accompanied by armed guards for fear of being issued with writs.[3] And later a deposition in a church court case for drunkenness heard in 1615 in which a fine Wiltshire version of the nautical phrase three sheets to the wind (drunk) is given when he is described as being three sheepe skinnes the wronge side out.[4]
There is further mention of John Coren in relation to his reading of the gospel rather than preaching to the congregation whilst on duty beating the bounds of Box parish. The reading of the gospel at accustomed places along the parish boundary was not always treated with due respect. When John Coren, vicar of Box, stopped outside the house of Christopher Butler in Rudloe on procession Easter Monday, 1603, John Bull was heard to say in a skoffing and deriding manner- Now he reads to the plumbe tree.
The parish records record that on 26 October 1644 John Coren, vicar of the parish, was buried. The plague visited the Box area from April to June 1646 and it was centred in the Kingsdown, Ashley, Wormcliff and Fogham areas and some twenty-two people died then.
My Early Marsh Family
The Marsh family has always lived around north-west Wiltshire and there is a suggestion that they were Anglo-Saxons, residing in the area before the Norman Conquest. The surname is generally spelt atte Mershe up to 1537, then often Marshe and finally Marsh. They are first mentioned in the records of Monkton Farleigh Priory in 1280 when King Edward I was trying to seize certain priory land but the twelve jurors of the priory at that time stated it was always held by the priory as far back as the time of the king's great grandfather, Henry II. (See Appendix below for details of Monkton Farleigh Priory). Richard Marsh was the name of one of the jurors together with John Walerand and Geoffrey de Mandeville and others.
I have found wherever there is Priory land around that part of Wiltshire, there is a Marsh name, including at Ditteridge, Allington, Box and Biddestone St Peter's. The latter village is where they were also the reeve (steward for the Lord of the Manor ie the Priory) or bailiff (the Priory’s representative on the manor and often a tenant himself) and juror. They were also a coroner at Chippenham in 1275 to 1306. At that time there were always four coroners to a hundred (a district in a county), all with various duties. Samson Bigod known also as Samson de Boxe and Richard Cotel were also coroners in the same period.
The Marsh family has always lived around north-west Wiltshire and there is a suggestion that they were Anglo-Saxons, residing in the area before the Norman Conquest. The surname is generally spelt atte Mershe up to 1537, then often Marshe and finally Marsh. They are first mentioned in the records of Monkton Farleigh Priory in 1280 when King Edward I was trying to seize certain priory land but the twelve jurors of the priory at that time stated it was always held by the priory as far back as the time of the king's great grandfather, Henry II. (See Appendix below for details of Monkton Farleigh Priory). Richard Marsh was the name of one of the jurors together with John Walerand and Geoffrey de Mandeville and others.
I have found wherever there is Priory land around that part of Wiltshire, there is a Marsh name, including at Ditteridge, Allington, Box and Biddestone St Peter's. The latter village is where they were also the reeve (steward for the Lord of the Manor ie the Priory) or bailiff (the Priory’s representative on the manor and often a tenant himself) and juror. They were also a coroner at Chippenham in 1275 to 1306. At that time there were always four coroners to a hundred (a district in a county), all with various duties. Samson Bigod known also as Samson de Boxe and Richard Cotel were also coroners in the same period.
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Biddestone St Peter's
The main home of the Marshes seems to have been Biddestone St Peter's and, except for the early Priory records available for that village covering 1513 to 1538, they are the only early records I have found. The parish records for Biddestone do not start until 1605. At the Reformation the Marshes lost their position at the Priory so they started moving around more. A father would have the land in say, Biddestone, with a lease for himself and two lives, so in the meantime the sons would take up other land in nearby villages and then return to Biddestone on the death of the father. Also they seem to have returned to Biddestone to die. |
An old illustration of Biddestone St Peter's Church demolished in 1846
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The Marsh family seem always to have been able to read and write and according to the inventories attached to their early wills, they possessed books and bibles. Religion always played a big part in their lives and they toyed with non-conformism from its very beginning in England, using the Christian names of early Dutch and German Reformers, such as Erasmus, Cornelius and Zachariah. The families became Quakers at Biddestone shortly after George Fox visited the area in 1675 and, finally, most members became Strict and Particular Baptists (followers of Calvinist doctrine) by the early 1700s, attending the early Baptist Chapel at Grittleton built in about 1705. After the Reformation I have found sons at Alderton, Nettleton, Kington St Michael, Slaughterford and Hullavington with just a handful of elderly Marshes staying on in Biddestone. Biddestone St Peter's was a Saxon hamlet of only 130 acres and 3 houses, a manor house and a holy well, and the remains of the Saxon chapel of St Peter's. It was a parish within a parish. Biddestone St Nicholas was mainly built in Norman times and they were amalgamated by 1616 and became known simply as Biddestone.
My branch moved to Hullavington in the late 1500s by which time the manor there was held by Eton College who did so up to 1956 when the village was sold. My great-grandmother, Ann Marie Marsh, was the last to die there in 1923. I am descended from her third daughter, Blanche Emily Jane Marsh.
Blanche Blake (nee Marsh), with her husband and five sons migrated to Sydney, Australia, just before World War 1. Marshes still live in the Wiltshire area, mainly around Yatton Keynell. At Hullavington they were tythingmen (chief man of a tything elected annually to keep the peace), ale-tasters, haywards (man elected to check the fencing to make sure in good repair) and similar positions for the manor together being farmers and blacksmiths. The extended family lived in some seven houses in the village, all still standing. Our family home was The Cottage at the corner of Frog Lane and the Street, opposite the Parish Church of Hullavington.
My branch moved to Hullavington in the late 1500s by which time the manor there was held by Eton College who did so up to 1956 when the village was sold. My great-grandmother, Ann Marie Marsh, was the last to die there in 1923. I am descended from her third daughter, Blanche Emily Jane Marsh.
Blanche Blake (nee Marsh), with her husband and five sons migrated to Sydney, Australia, just before World War 1. Marshes still live in the Wiltshire area, mainly around Yatton Keynell. At Hullavington they were tythingmen (chief man of a tything elected annually to keep the peace), ale-tasters, haywards (man elected to check the fencing to make sure in good repair) and similar positions for the manor together being farmers and blacksmiths. The extended family lived in some seven houses in the village, all still standing. Our family home was The Cottage at the corner of Frog Lane and the Street, opposite the Parish Church of Hullavington.
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And So To Box
The parish records of Box are one of a handful of records available in Wiltshire existing from their inception after the Reformation, not at all easy to decipher as the earliest are written on plain song or Gregorian Chant music sheets around the margins! I could not decipher any mention of a Marsh there until around about 1580 when regular parchment was used and after about 1603, the law required the records to be in bound books. The Bishop's transcripts (copies) were supposed to be a copy of the parish records, but they don't always correspond ! The small Marsh family at Box was settled by some members from Biddestone St Peter's and they moved between the two villages. There was also a son living at Ditteridge, Robert Marsh, who married there in 1589 to Jeana and baptised two daughters, Honor in 1590 and Margeratta in 1592. The first mention at Box that I could decipher was John Marsh, who was buried in 1592 but he had baptised a daughter Susannah in 1580, a son Thomas in 1582 and another daughter Mary in 1582. Another Robert Marsh married Alice and baptised their son, Erasamus, in 1590 followed by Bridget, who died in childhood, Mary, another Bridget and Robert and then Amy who was baptised at Biddestone in 1606 when they had returned there to live. Robert died there in 1635 and Alice in 1632. |
Box Parish Register (courtesy of the Church of Latterday Saints)
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Cornelius Marsh of Box and his Family
I have not found Cornelius' baptism, marriage or death but, Cornelius was in Box with his wife Florence and son William, baptising further children at Box. Cornelius was in trouble with the law in Box in 1612. Everyday life was very well controlled in Tudor and Stuart times with laws covering the size and weight of bread and ale, controlling the capacity of mugs, restricting the eating of meat in Lent. To reduce inflation in the price of basic commodities the local authorities were encouraged to stamp out arbitrage (buying at one price and selling at a higher cost). In 1612 Cornelius, together with William Rynnell, bought sheep and cattle and then sold them within five weeks not at a fair and was fined. Cornelius was reported by an informer, Thomas Arrowsmith of Overton, Hampshire, yeoman. The informer could have been a professional informer who could levy a fine, instead of the sheriff's bailiff, keeping some or all of it.[5]
Cornelius was described as a yeoman and predeceased his wife. When his wife Florence died in 1685 leaving a long will dated 1683, they appear to have been rather well-off farming people. They had four children but only three were baptised in Box. William was the eldest, then Richard, baptised in 1617, Bridgett in 1621, who married Thomas Stevens, and Elizabeth, baptised in 1623 who married Richard Godsell in Box in 1658. Richard Godsell was described as of Bradford-on-Avon.
Bridget and Thomas Stevens had seven daughters: Rebecka who married Thomas Simpson, Bridget, Hannah who married John Stevens the younger, Florence and Mary who remained unmarried, and also possibly Elizabeth, then Anne who married Thomas Dillmoor and died in Yate, Gloucestershire. A granddaughter Ann married John Bayly. The children married into well-known Box families. The eldest son William died in 1710 and was described then as of Wadswick. William had inherited on his mother's death all that term of years or time unexpired I have in the houses and orchards of Box. It is recorded in 1676-77 that William Marsh of Box under the heading Apprentices, apprenticed Mary West of Box.
I have not found Cornelius' baptism, marriage or death but, Cornelius was in Box with his wife Florence and son William, baptising further children at Box. Cornelius was in trouble with the law in Box in 1612. Everyday life was very well controlled in Tudor and Stuart times with laws covering the size and weight of bread and ale, controlling the capacity of mugs, restricting the eating of meat in Lent. To reduce inflation in the price of basic commodities the local authorities were encouraged to stamp out arbitrage (buying at one price and selling at a higher cost). In 1612 Cornelius, together with William Rynnell, bought sheep and cattle and then sold them within five weeks not at a fair and was fined. Cornelius was reported by an informer, Thomas Arrowsmith of Overton, Hampshire, yeoman. The informer could have been a professional informer who could levy a fine, instead of the sheriff's bailiff, keeping some or all of it.[5]
Cornelius was described as a yeoman and predeceased his wife. When his wife Florence died in 1685 leaving a long will dated 1683, they appear to have been rather well-off farming people. They had four children but only three were baptised in Box. William was the eldest, then Richard, baptised in 1617, Bridgett in 1621, who married Thomas Stevens, and Elizabeth, baptised in 1623 who married Richard Godsell in Box in 1658. Richard Godsell was described as of Bradford-on-Avon.
Bridget and Thomas Stevens had seven daughters: Rebecka who married Thomas Simpson, Bridget, Hannah who married John Stevens the younger, Florence and Mary who remained unmarried, and also possibly Elizabeth, then Anne who married Thomas Dillmoor and died in Yate, Gloucestershire. A granddaughter Ann married John Bayly. The children married into well-known Box families. The eldest son William died in 1710 and was described then as of Wadswick. William had inherited on his mother's death all that term of years or time unexpired I have in the houses and orchards of Box. It is recorded in 1676-77 that William Marsh of Box under the heading Apprentices, apprenticed Mary West of Box.
Another Cornelius in Biddestone
At the same time as Cornelius and his wife were living at Box, there was another Cornelius Marsh living sometimes in Biddestone St Peter's whose baptism and two marriages I have yet to find. He was a churchwarden at Biddestone St Nicholas and had three daughters from his marriages and a son. He died in 1710 and his will described him as of Corsham and he left money to his second wife Elisabeth of Corsham. He possessed a considerable estate or farming equipment valued at £257.15s.7d. He owned freehold property of six acres, cottage and garden, six acres of leasehold estate, cottage and garden, six acres of arable land and freehold estate.
At the same time as Cornelius and his wife were living at Box, there was another Cornelius Marsh living sometimes in Biddestone St Peter's whose baptism and two marriages I have yet to find. He was a churchwarden at Biddestone St Nicholas and had three daughters from his marriages and a son. He died in 1710 and his will described him as of Corsham and he left money to his second wife Elisabeth of Corsham. He possessed a considerable estate or farming equipment valued at £257.15s.7d. He owned freehold property of six acres, cottage and garden, six acres of leasehold estate, cottage and garden, six acres of arable land and freehold estate.
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He left all of this to his loving friend, William Mountjoy, who was leasing the old manor house and Saxon chapel of St Peter's from Winchester College who had been given the village after the Reformation. I found that his will was registered at Corsham and Biddestone and it had an endorsement on the back of Anvil's Farm near Corsham. On further investigation I found it is still standing and is now known as The Linneys (above left). It is on the A road at the junction of the road down to the old Quakers' Meeting House. An anvil is a block used by blacksmiths and one of the buildings at The Linneys is called The Forge (above right). Cornelius' son, John Marsh, is first mentioned in his grandfather's will, another Richard Marsh at Biddestone in 1669 when he was left a cow and later he left the balance of his estate to his son, Cornelius. It appears that the Biddestone land may have been occupied by his eldest daughter Margory and her husband Daniel Lane and he himself occupied the Corsham property with his second wife Elizabeth and son John. The son may have been a blacksmith following the Marsh traditional occupation.
There are no further Marshes of my family living later in Box although on the 11 May 1806 John Marsh of Hullavington, Gentleman, married Margaret Little of Box. He was the brother of my two times great grandfather Aaron Marsh of Thornbury, Gloucestershire. Aaron Marsh was a blacksmith, brazier and glazier in business in the main street at Thornbury making brass objects and selling gas fittings. He was Mayor of Thornbury in 1840, then retired and returned to Hullavington to live in The Cottage.
There are no further Marshes of my family living later in Box although on the 11 May 1806 John Marsh of Hullavington, Gentleman, married Margaret Little of Box. He was the brother of my two times great grandfather Aaron Marsh of Thornbury, Gloucestershire. Aaron Marsh was a blacksmith, brazier and glazier in business in the main street at Thornbury making brass objects and selling gas fittings. He was Mayor of Thornbury in 1840, then retired and returned to Hullavington to live in The Cottage.
Appendix
Monkton Farleigh Priory
The Priory of Monkton Farleigh dedicated to St Mary Magdalene was a fourth daughter establishment of the large Cluniac Abbey of Lewes in south Surrey. The priory was founded by Maud, wife of Humphrey de Bohun in 1125 during the reign of Henry I and it held many small pockets of land around north-west Wiltshire and a few other counties. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538 there were only six monks and it had always been poor. By 1472 it was described as destitute of all virtue and good rule and Leland had visited the Priory on his itinerary for Henry VIII and described it as being in a right stew. The property passed to the Duke of Somerset, Sir Edward Seymour, the brother-in-law of Henry VIII. The Duke held it for a short while before selling it. The Priory had held lands, inter alia, in Broughton Giffard, Allington, Chippenham, Ditteridge, Wadswick, Gastard and the churches of, or tithes in, Hartham and Box, Biddestone St Peter's and others further afield in Wiltshire.
Monkton Farleigh Priory
The Priory of Monkton Farleigh dedicated to St Mary Magdalene was a fourth daughter establishment of the large Cluniac Abbey of Lewes in south Surrey. The priory was founded by Maud, wife of Humphrey de Bohun in 1125 during the reign of Henry I and it held many small pockets of land around north-west Wiltshire and a few other counties. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538 there were only six monks and it had always been poor. By 1472 it was described as destitute of all virtue and good rule and Leland had visited the Priory on his itinerary for Henry VIII and described it as being in a right stew. The property passed to the Duke of Somerset, Sir Edward Seymour, the brother-in-law of Henry VIII. The Duke held it for a short while before selling it. The Priory had held lands, inter alia, in Broughton Giffard, Allington, Chippenham, Ditteridge, Wadswick, Gastard and the churches of, or tithes in, Hartham and Box, Biddestone St Peter's and others further afield in Wiltshire.
Sources
Steven Hobbs, Gleanings from Wiltshire Parish Registers, Wiltshire Record Society, vol. 63
Steven Hobbs, Wiltshire Family History Society Magazine, October 2004
NJ Williams, Tradesmen in Early Stuart Wiltshire, 1959, Wiltshire Record Society, vol. 15
Original Box Parish Records, Church of Latterday Saints (Mormons)
Box Baptisms and Burials, Wiltshire Family History Society
Victoria County History of Monkton Farleigh Priory records
Original Biddestone Parish Records, Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons),
Monkton Farleigh Priory records of Manor of Biddestone St Peter's - 1513 - 1538
Methuen Archives, Biddestone Manorial Records, 1581-1626, Wiltshire History Centre
Biddestone and Slaughterford Parish Records, Wiltshire Family History Society
Wills of the Marsh families
Steven Hobbs, Gleanings from Wiltshire Parish Registers, Wiltshire Record Society, vol. 63
Steven Hobbs, Wiltshire Family History Society Magazine, October 2004
NJ Williams, Tradesmen in Early Stuart Wiltshire, 1959, Wiltshire Record Society, vol. 15
Original Box Parish Records, Church of Latterday Saints (Mormons)
Box Baptisms and Burials, Wiltshire Family History Society
Victoria County History of Monkton Farleigh Priory records
Original Biddestone Parish Records, Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons),
Monkton Farleigh Priory records of Manor of Biddestone St Peter's - 1513 - 1538
Methuen Archives, Biddestone Manorial Records, 1581-1626, Wiltshire History Centre
Biddestone and Slaughterford Parish Records, Wiltshire Family History Society
Wills of the Marsh families
References
[1] Steven Hobbs, Gleanings from Wiltshire Parish Registers, 2010, Wiltshire Records Society, Vol. 63, p. xvii
[2] Translated by Steven Hobbs, Wiltshire Family History Society Magazine, October 2004, p.36
[3] Further research by Steven Hobbs included by Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England 1570 to 1640, 1990, Cambridge University Press
[4] Research by Steven Hobbs included by Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England 1570 to 1640, 1990, Cambridge University Press
[5] NJ Williams, Tradesmen in Early Stuart Wiltshire, Wiltshire Record Society, vol.15, p.71-72
[1] Steven Hobbs, Gleanings from Wiltshire Parish Registers, 2010, Wiltshire Records Society, Vol. 63, p. xvii
[2] Translated by Steven Hobbs, Wiltshire Family History Society Magazine, October 2004, p.36
[3] Further research by Steven Hobbs included by Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England 1570 to 1640, 1990, Cambridge University Press
[4] Research by Steven Hobbs included by Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England 1570 to 1640, 1990, Cambridge University Press
[5] NJ Williams, Tradesmen in Early Stuart Wiltshire, Wiltshire Record Society, vol.15, p.71-72