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

The English Ancestry of
"with the free land acljoyning thereto." This estate, with
two acres of woodland,— the latter probably that called Stur-
wood in a later Will, he gave to his son Robert. He also
owned " Fyrsson " or " Fryreson Marsh " as Morant calls it.
This was a part of the endowment held by an ancient Chapel
in the hamlet of Foulton, long since demolished, and was
partly in Ramsey and partly in Dovercourt. Upon the dis-
solution of chantries the endowment was granted in 1549 to
William Fountayne and Richard Mayne, and this portion of
their property must have soon come into the hands of John
Marvin, who bequeathed it to his son John, who in his Will
nearly twenty-five years later leaves it to his son Edward.
In addition to the estates above named he owned a house
and lands in Great Oakley, called Mellers, which were given
to John.
Great Oakley, like Little Oakley, lies on the sea-side,
south of Ramsey. Morant says its name signifies an " Oak
pasture." Among the old manors there he names Great
Oakley Hall, situated a little over a mile from the Church ;
this belonged to the Darcys ; others were Dengwell Hall,
which paid a trifling ground rent to the owner of Roydon
Hall, Ramsey, held also by some of the Darcys ; and Hour-
bridge, owned in 1589 by John Borlas or Borlasy. The
Church is dedicated to All Saints. Originally the patronage
was vested in the Plaice family, who owned a handsome
estate here in the fourteenth century ; from them it passed
by the marriage of daughters to the Howards and the De
Veres. Thomas Rochester was the Rector when John died.