Hi Janet, In fact I had just noticed a message of yours on net year 2000 re the Fortune family and Upthorpe. Many thanks for all this information: Walter Fortune was Mayor of Monmouth 1691 BUT a list of landowners in WONASTOW about a mile out of the town of Monmouth has a WILLIAM FORTUNE 1606 which makes me wonder if his father below? They must have popped back and forth betwen two counties? Also saw : Records Carpenters Hall 1654-1694 Mary Fortune d/o Moore Fortune of Astnam to Charles Eyre date 4 Sept. 1688-178- Do you know anything about this....Astnam have not heard of it? I am glad that you have told me Heskins as I have Hoskins down......their son Revd. John Fortune m. Anne Witchell Will look up notes regarding names below but the Nelmes family also interconnect with the Witchells. Edith Nelmes m. Lawrence Witchell 29 Sept 1635 she was d/o Henry Nelmes and Elizabeth Sellman Oddly the William Witchell of Tresham m. Anne Knight( Mother Joyce Weekes Knight) I was talking of had a son William who m.2 Maria Selman 1774 from whom we descend. These names are so inter connected. It is difficult to sort them all out ! I can see I will have to look again at all the notes in more detail!!!!!!! There are notes at Gwent record office on the Moore Fortune family.....I have not seen them. Moore Fortune was Vicar of Usk and Rector of Panteg. Kind Regards, Patsy Witchell on 27/4/05 2:11 pm, JANETHESKI@aol.com at JANETHESKI@aol.com wrote: > Hi, > At last, some people I know about... > > The FRANCOMBE family and the FORTUNE families are both connected to my > HESKINS family of Wotton-under-Edge. > > Reference: GRO D11 93/16/1 [Deeds of the Ram Inn] - Brice FRANCOMBE had the > feofeement of half a tenement and garden and orchard (with others) 12th May > 1572 > > I don't have a note but I think that he was charged with deer hunting. > >> From Wotton-under-Edge registers: > Thomas, son of Brice FRANCOMBE baptised 8th March 1578 > Katherine, daughter of Brice FRANCOMBE baptised 25th March 1581 > Brice FRANCOMBE buried 12th January 1605 > > Edith FRANCOMBE buried 27th June 1581 > > Thomas NELMES married Edith FRANCOMBE 22nd August 1608 > > I have a copy of the will of Edith FRANCOMBE made on February 2nd 1609. She > refers to a table board, lying at Richard DAWE's. This, plus other items she > bequeaths to Ellinor HESKINS, wife of Nicholas HESKINS and to Richard > {HESKINS} > her son. She bequeathed some items to Edith NELME, her mother in law. She > bequeathed some items of clothing to her sister, Katherine FRANCOMBE. > Some more of her goods were lying at the house of Nicholas HESKINS and were > given to his son, Richard. > > So, it looks as if Edith could be another of Brice FRANCOMBE's daughters and > that she died soon after her marriage. > > Moore FORTUNE was the vicar of North Nibley. > Walter FORTUNE married Katherine MEADES at W-u-E on April 21st 1681. > [I believe that Walter is the family member who moved to Monmouth.] > William FORTUNE [clothier] married Elizabeth HESKINS on May 17th 1692. > They had a son called Weeks FORTUNE who was baptised and buried on thesame > day, according to my notes, March 21st 1701. > I have a note of the burial of Wickes FORTUNE, son of William and Elizabeth > on May 13th 1702. > The use of the name Weeks or Wickes presumably looks back at the surname of > William's mother. > > One of the daughters of Elizabeth and William FORTUNE, Mary I think, married > one of the PHILLIMOREs of Cam. Elizabeth lived with her daughter and died at > Cam in her late seventies. > Cheers, > Janet Heskins > (Surbiton, Surrey) > > > > > ==== ENG-GLO-HAWKESBURY Mailing List ==== > Please remember when you post messages that SURNAMES should be in CAPITALS. > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >