The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

128 The English Ancestry of
inn, known as "The Elephant and Castle." In 1818 it was
used as a malt-kiln.
The " hospital " mentioned was probably that known as
St. Leonard's, which in 1818 was still standing and used as a
farm-house, in connection with St. Christopher's Hospital in
Ipswich.
SIXTH GENERATION.
48 John 6 (John? John* John? John? Roger 1
) of Ramsey,
"yeoman." His father lived and died in that Parish, and
the son was doubtless born there, I judge about 1558. Aside
from the reasons for this conclusion already given, we note
further that he left four sons, all of whom were under age
when their father's Will was made in 1594, — two by his first
wife, and two by a subsequent marriage, — and of the latter,
the elder could not have been much if any over eight years
old when his father died. This Will has no date of probate,
so that we cannot fix the exact time of his death, but it is
dated 12 July, 1594, and states that he was "sicke in bodye."
He appoints his "ffather-in-lawe Hierom Gylberd"* one of
his executors, and gives him the " bringing up " of his sons,
"John the elder and Edward." It would appear, therefore,
that it was his first wife who was a daughter of that gentle-
man. Her Christian name has not been learned ; she must
have died about 1584, if an entry on the Great Bentley Reg-
ister, to be mentioned below, refers to this John.
* This name is often written Gilbert. " Hierom" is abbreviated from Hieronymus,
the Latin form of his father's name, which is written Jherome on various records,
though in a single instance he is called William.