On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 6:17:13 PM UTC-4, Swanson wrote: > The Berkeley Castle Muniments [BCM/G/4/13/1] preserve the marriage settlement, dated 16 November 1391, of Robert Cranford of South Newington, Oxfordshire, and Alice Dauntsey, daughter of Walter Dauntsey, of la Wyke, just across the Thames from Oxford in Berkshire. > > Do Alice and Walter belong to the Dauntsey family of Wiltshire? > > Walter is clearly not the younger man of the same name who inherited the manor of Dauntsey and died without issue in 1420 [IPM 8 Henry V]. Upon this Walter’s death his sister and heiress Joan, wife of (Sir) John Stradling, carried the manor Dauntsey the Stradling family. F. N. McNamara, Memorials of the Danvers family: 230-233, offers a sketch of this younger man, but, so far as I can tell, identifies no earlier Walters in the Wiltshire family. > > [link: https://archive.org/stream/memorialsofdanve00macn#page/230/mode/2up] > > Can anyone place Alice and Walter? Your Walter was mayor of Oxford. http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/1348_1485/daundsey_walter_1409_1423.html I have a note that he was heir of a cousin "Thomas de la Wyke" in 1377, but I don't know of any evidence that this Walter was a descendant of any knightly or noble family at all. --Joe C