What are the chances of my family name that I find in the Feet of Fines in Lancashire as far back as 1250, and in military records being that of my ancestors!
I have found the family name in records of military service for Richard Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel in 1388 as an archer, the family name is in sixteen medieval garrison records for musters and pay records in England, France and Scotland everyone one of the soldiers are recorded as originating in areas of Lancashire for example Fishwick, Wiswell & Sefton to name just a few locations.
Could military service be the reason why the name is still found in clusters in the locations where they were associated with a particular commander like Exeter, where they served Thomas Beaufort Duke of Exeter.
In Essex where I come from, my ancestors first appear in church records in Elizabethan times in Saffron Walden which also has a castle which owned by the Bohun family as Sir Humphrey Bohun Earl of Essex was granted a licence to crenellate the castle by Edward 111.
Could this be the link between Lancashire, Arundel and Essex?
Mary Bohun who inherited Saffron Walden castle was the daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and Joan Fitzalan (1347/1348-1419), the daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster.
Pure Conjecture I know but very interesting all the same!
I have found the family name in records of military service for Richard Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel in 1388 as an archer, the family name is in sixteen medieval garrison records for musters and pay records in England, France and Scotland everyone one of the soldiers are recorded as originating in areas of Lancashire for example Fishwick, Wiswell & Sefton to name just a few locations.
Could military service be the reason why the name is still found in clusters in the locations where they were associated with a particular commander like Exeter, where they served Thomas Beaufort Duke of Exeter.
In Essex where I come from, my ancestors first appear in church records in Elizabethan times in Saffron Walden which also has a castle which owned by the Bohun family as Sir Humphrey Bohun Earl of Essex was granted a licence to crenellate the castle by Edward 111.
Could this be the link between Lancashire, Arundel and Essex?
Mary Bohun who inherited Saffron Walden castle was the daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and Joan Fitzalan (1347/1348-1419), the daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster.
Pure Conjecture I know but very interesting all the same!
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