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

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names ; but some of these, as will be seen below, may be
learned from the Will of John 5 who we suppose was one of
them.
— 16 ii. Rynalde, of Ramsey, as he signed his name, b. about
17
1514; mar. Johan , who survived him. He died in
1554 or 1555, leaving issue. This Rynalde or Reynold, was
the ancestor of the New England Marvins.
iii. Thomas, of Ramsey, b. about 1518; mar. as her second
husband, Mrs. Barbara Brett; his Will, dated 14 October,
1561, has no date of probate.
18 iv. Christian (dau.), b. about 152 1 ; mar. Thomas Herde, of
Ramsey, and as appears by the Will of her brother Thomas,
made in 1561, she had then recently died, leaving issue, for
that refers to the " chyldren y e which " Herde " latly had by
his lat wyf Christian Marven :
" but it does not show how
many there were, or their names. Thomas Herde was made
executor of the Will of his wife's brother Thomas, and wit-
nessed that of Robert (8) and John, 5 1571. The Herdes
were a leading family in Ramsey, and Ramsey Hall, first
mentioned in 1599, says Morant, belonged to a John Herde
in that year. Others of the name are found in Harwich,
and a John Herd,* of "Ockley" Parva, witnessed the Will
of John Marvin of that Parish in 1584-5, and may have
been a son of Christian and Thomas.
Christian is the only daughter of whom we have certain
knowledge, but the Will of John Marvin, 1571, who it
* The Harwich Register has the marriage of John Hearde, of Oakley Parva, bach-
elor, and Dorothy Harvey, spinster, 4 May, 1614; " this John died soon after, leaving
a son John, who was buried at Harwich, 18 June, 1618, previous to which his mother
Dorothy had married as her second husband " Hugh Brandham, surgeon." " Cath-
eren Herde " who married Robert Kynge, at Harwich, 23 August, 1577, and possibly
the William Herde, to whom reference is made in the Will of John Marvin, 1571,
may have been relatives, but this has not been established.