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

n6 The English Ancestry of
Rcinold's daughter Barbara married a John Wade, who was
of Ramsey when her father died. I judge the two were
identical, and that Wade was the brother-in-law, though the
residence of the executor was Little Oakley, which is the
adjoining Parish on the south and east. As tending to show
that Reinold's son John may have removed from Ramsey to
Little Oakley, we note that Thomas, the brother of Reinold,
owned an estate in the latter Parish, which, in the event of
the death of his son Matthew without issue, was to go to his
nephews. Nothing has been learned of this Matthew, but
if he died unmarried, his cousin John would have inherited
a share of that estate, which may account for his presence
there.
If our assignment is incorrect, there remains the possi-
bility that he was the son of Roger (37), the date of whose
birth has not been learned ; that son, however, as will be
seen below, I think must be the John whose marriage is
found on the Register at Great Bentley.
John was twice married : first, to Anne ,
who
died in
Little Oakley and was buried* there n September, 1584,
by whom he had a daughter. He married as his second
wife Margaret , evidently in the autumn or winter of
1584/5, his Will being dated 5 March 1584/5, and his burial
is registered at St. Mary's three days later, but no record of
his marriage appears there. The allusion to Alice Gyllyat,
his "kynsewoman," and her " syster Ann Pakeman," who was
very likely the wife of Lawrence, may suggest a clue to the
* Parish Register of St. Mary's Church, Little Oakley.