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

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The English Ancestry of
bers of this family, who resided in this vicinity at that period,
but have been unable to connect them with Margaret. It is
however equally probable, with our present knowledge, that
the John Marvin who married Margaret Swallow was John
(50) son of Roger, inasmuch as there is nothing in the Will
to show the name of the second wife of John (48) as already
stated. The Ramsey Registers, as has been mentioned, are
not old enough to help us. I presume the "cossen " John
and the witness of the Will were identical, and that he was
the son of Roger.
Among the estates disposed of by John in his Will, we
notice that he gives "ffurssen Marshe," which he had in-
herited from his father, and land called " Cratchers, lyenge in
Ramsaye and Dovercort," to his son Edward. His eldest
son John was to have the " gould ringe with the sealle," and
Edward "one other gould ringe with a stone;" one of these
may be that which his father left him.* One of his execu-
tors was " Mr. Jonas Gouldingham." There was an ancient
and prominent Ipswich family of this name, having a seat
at Belstead, Suffolk,! a branch of which resided at Ramsey,
and one of them, perhaps the executor, was long remembered
for his aid in rebuilding the chancel of St. Michael's, Ram-
sey, in 1597.
* See pp. 89 and 94.
For ffursen or Fryreson Marsh, see p. 88.
t See Visitations of Suffolk (1561), p. 35, which mentions a Jonas who was a son of
Christopher of Belstead, Suffolk, and who may be this gentleman. In 1560 the Belstead
manor was sold to a Blosse, who was a wealthy clothier of Ipswich (see 24, p. 44
supra) ; early in the eighteenth century an heiress of Blosse sold it to the Harlands.
The descendants of Blosse of Ipswich and Belstead Hall are given in the Suffolk Visi-
tations (1612) p. 114.