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

12 The English Ancestry of
Essex, whose family owned estates in various Counties of
England. A full account of the family and its several
branches, will be found in Morant's Essex, and also in the
Suffolk Visitations.
John 8 married before 1558, Mary or Margaret, daughter
and heiress of Christopher Roydon, of Roydon Hall, Ramsey,
and later, of Witham, where he was a " Doctor of Physic."
Christopher, who died in 1544, was the last male descendant
of the family who had held the Hall for nearly two hundred
years. Through this marriage Roydon Hall came to Lucas.
After his death it passed to his son John, 4 who died 13 De-
cember, 1619. Its subsequent history can readily be traced
in Morant.*
Other Manors about 1590 were Hoobridge Hall, belong-
ing to Sir Philip Boothes ; Fowton Hall, held about 1570 by
the Duke family ; it was " sometime the Mortymers', and
then the Guldfords' ;
" Strond-land Manor Lucas held of John
Herd ; " Le Rey," or Ray Manor, on the peninsula of that
name, was the property of William Bunynghill in 1543, and
from him passed to Sir Thomas White. Reynold Marvin,
the grandfather of Reynold and Matthew, owned two farms
in this immediate vicinity in 1554, one of which was called
East Hall, which was "deforced " from Bunynghill in 1543-f
At the present time there are two Manors in the Parish,
Ramsey Hall, or Manor, which belonged to John Herd in
1599, and Michaelstowe Hall, which is near the "Bridge"
crossing the creek mentioned above, and which stands on the
* Essex I : p. 494, and passim. f Ibid., p. 493.
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