On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:11:15 +0100, joel langton <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Josephine, yes, seen the Portbury Hundred Wills. A very useful > source that helped me construct alot of the 17th century tree. Also seen > The History and Antiquities of the > City of Bristol by William Barrett (1789) source. > Thanks for pointing out these sources though. I'd rather have it twice, > than not at all! Hi Joel, Thanks for your response. Even though you already knew of the Bristol Wills on Mary Mason's Portbury Hundred website and William Barrett's book, a future LANGTON researcher could find this B & S thread useful and the sources may give food for thought to others. What led me to the 1636 will in the Bristol Wills was that I'd seen Bristol marriage licence bonds for Elizabeth LANGTON (1680), Mary LANGTON (1684) and Joanna LANGTON (1688), which all mentioned St. Nicholas. So I searched online for "Langton""St. Nicholas""Bristol" and found the 1636 will that way. Perhaps if I'd looked thoroughly through your web site I would have realized that you already had the information, but when answering list questions it's quicker just to look at the resources I have to hand. St. Nicholas also led me to the heavy 18th-century tome by William Barratt as I had an inkling that there could be further LANGTON information there among the benefactors to the church and poor of the parish of St. Nicholas. I also looked in my 1910 copy of Adam's Chronicle of Bristol. There are three references to John LANGTON there on pages 201, 222 and 240, but these references are just the name as sheriff in 1614, as mayor in 1628 and as sheriff in 1640. (The latter reference for John LANGTON is to the son of the John LANGTON who was sheriff in 1614.) The LANGTON will and LANGTON references in wills, which I gave in other messages, all came from original copies of the 1897 and 1886 books concerning Bristol wills. Josephine