Samuel Adamson, eldest son of Walter and Lucy Adamson also entered the clergy. Samuel entered St. Catharine’s, Cambridge on March 6, 1667 as a pensioner, so he was just 16 years old at the time. Continue reading
Category Archives: The Churchmen
Walter and Lucy Adamson of Great Leighs
St. Mary the Virgin, Great Leighs, Essex
Walter Adamson, Jr. was the first born child of Walter, Sr. and Sarah Adamson of Chelmsford. All their children were baptized at St. Mary the Virgin in Chelmsford. Continue reading
Samuel Collins of Braintree
St. Michael’s, Braintree, Essex
The Revd. Canon Bernard Davies has given us the definitive work on the life and times of Samuel Collins with his book “Samuel Collins of Braintree; A Seventeenth Century Essex Vicar”. This book is a delightful look into the history of the social and religious customs during the lifetime of Samuel Collins. Continue reading
Samuel Collins Handwriting Analysis
With any handwriting analysis one needs to be sure that the sample was written by the person in question. When I first discovered Samuel’s signature in the Romford records I didn’t think he had written the data on the rest of the page because it’s written in a different style.
Philip and Deborah Candler of Woodbridge
St. Mary, Woodbridge, Suffolk
We seldom find very much to tell us about the daily lives of ancestors who lived so long ago. We count ourselves fortunate if we find their baptismal record, marriage record, maybe the baptisms of their children and a burial record. Then we have a basic outline of who, what, when, where, etc. Continue reading
From a Herald’s Letter Book
There is much of interest and not a little of human nature in these letters to a herald from old world gentlemen, anxious for the recognition of their pedigrees and arms. Similar missives, one fancies, are received by Clarencieux and Garter now-a-days, but they do not fall into the hands of the public. Those which we are printing are taken from a Manuscript in the British Museum, Continue reading