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

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another, hung in 1677, was cast by John Darbie, probably
a son-in-law of Graye.* The last was added about 1880.
Robert was living when his brother died in 1535, but I
have found nothing to show the names of his children.
There was a Thomas Marvin " of Cobdocke," whose Will
of 1597 I have, and who may have been his son, but more
probably was his grandson. An account of this family, with
a few notes from the Washbrook Register, will be found on
a subsequent page, at the close of the Fifth Generation
(see No. 62).
12 John 8 (John, 2 Robert 1
), of Chattisham, Suffolk, "hus-
bandman," the son of John and Elizabeth Marvin, of Washbrook,
the adjoining Parish, was born as early as 1491. He
married Rose, whose maiden name must have been Smythe,
as she appoints her "brother, John Smythe," supervisor of
her Will ;
this is dated 25 April, 1557; she long survived her
husband, whose Will of 27 March, 1535, was proved 10 May,
1536. That her home, if not her birthplace, was in Great
Belstead, is suggested by the fact that "Smythys" (Smythe's)
purchased by her father-in-law not long before his death, was
located there. Rose probably died in Little Belstead, as she
asks to be buried in that Church-yard. This is a small Parish
three miles south-west of Ipswich, and a few miles east of
Great Belstead, now Washbrook. Its population is about
250 ; the living is ,£250 and a parsonage ; the Church is dedi-
cated to St. Mary. The Rev. Fred'k R. Gorton, M. A., was the
* Ibid., pp. 124-5, anc* I7^'