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

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The English Ancestry of
9 Ann 3 (John, 2 Roger 1
), is shown to have been a sister of
Robert (8) by his Will. The date of her birth is unknown ;
she married Robert Borflete, probably of Harwich or Dover-
court. Their children are named in their uncle's Will in the
sequence given below, but whether this was the order of
birth does not appear. These were (i) Francis*; (2) Robert
(3) Thomas; (4) John ; (5) Mary. Of these children Francis
is given " Puttytes " in Great Oakley, by his uncle, and his
parents are to have it until he is twenty-one. If we may
infer from this that he was the eldest son, it would indi-
cate that Ann was much younger than her brother ; indeed
none of her children were of age when he died in 1556/7.
The name Borflete is occasionally found on the Parish Reg-
ister of Harwich, but the record begins too late to give
particulars of the marriage of Ann, or of the birth of her
children, if that was their home.
10 Thomas, 3 of Harwich (Thomas? Robert 1
). If we are
correct in believing him to be the son of Thomas (4), of Ips-
wich, he must have been born as early as 1490, which date is
measurably confirmed by the fact that his Will shows he had
grandchildren living when he died. His death occurred be-
tween 18 November, 1550, the date of his Will, and 17 De-
cember following, the date of probate. In what year he
removed to Harwich* has not been discovered, but he was
taxed in 1540 "on his movables xvs." when he is called "of
* At least two of his married daughters were living in Suffolk when he died ; this
may perhaps indicate that Thomas lived there before he is found at Harwich.
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