Ken, Within the same collection at the Nottingham archives was also the marriage settlement between William Goodrick and Alice Sapcote which revealed that she was the first wife of Henry Sapcote. Poking around the catalogue entries for the contents of the collection to see if there was any other Sapcote or Goodrick related documents is how I stumbled across these, so there may others relevant to you there as well. I just posted the entries in the Rolleston folder and the one that referred to Nether Toynton outside of the Rolleston folder. Cheers, Jordan. On Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 10:49:03 AM UTC-4, Ken Rolston wrote: > Back in March 2014 we were discussing in this forum the rather intricate complexities of the Rowlstons of Tanshelf branch in Yorkshire and their marriages with Copleys and Bosviles and Cressy, etc. Following Terry Booth's excellent proposal of 3 x Edward Rowlstons in succession for the family at Cridling Stubbs in Womersley parish, I posted a lot of detail in "Rolston of Tanshelf in Pontefract, Part 1" and more about the connections to Goodrickes at their moiety of Nether Toynton in Lincolnshire, in "Rolston of Tanshelf in Pontefract, Part 2". We discussed our interpretations of the Rowlston marriage to Anne Goodricke, by which Nether Toynton first came to the Rowlstons. > > Since then I have been concentrating on refining the details and have hopefully resolved many of the questions that concerned us at that time. I agree now with Terry that Edward Rowlston who married Anne Goodricke was not of the Watnall branch, but was son of Edward (I) Rowlston and Mabel Anne at Cridling Stubbs. > There was also discussion about Edward Rowlston of Nether Toynton who received all of the Watnall estates by bequest from Lancelot Rolleston of Watnall in 1685, through whom the Toynton and Watnall branches combined. The identity of that Edward of Toynton was questionable, Burke, following errors in Visitations, defined him as son of Philip Rolleston of Watnall and Frances Pierrepont. I have now proved that to be wrong. I have identified a number of errors in the family's previous pedigrees and have pinned down the identity of Edward of Toynton. I have tentatively integrated Vance Meade's data from the Close Rolls about John & Isabell Roulston at Pontefract who might provide the connection between Swarkeston manor and Tanshelf around 1483. > As I feared at the time, this has radically changed the generally accepted lineage of the Rollestons at Watnall, of whom the post-1687 family have a different ancestry to those at Watnall pre-1685. > I have to confess that much of the interpretation about individuals and family lineages in the Part 2 post of March 2014 is superseded and I strongly recommend that conclusions derived from that post should be scrapped. > > I have written all of this into a research paper that I would like to present to any on this forum who may be interested to follow through with the story. The paper runs to 59 pages including 6 pedigree charts and cannot be posted here. I have placed it into DropBox and provide the link here for anyone to access it to view or download. The paper is titled: "The Rollestons of Toynton and Watnall, a Re-Evaluation - 2nd Draft". It remains in draft form until I have found supporting data for the Swarkeston-Tanshelf connection and for the proof of identity of Thomas Rowlston who received the conveyance of Nether Toynton from Anne Goodricke in 1606 and thus became ancestral to Rollestons of Toynton and Watnall. The charts define the revised lineage from around 1370 when Rollestons branched off to Swarkeston and from there to Tanshelf, then onward to Nether Toynton and finally Watnall. As this is still a draft, there are likely to be further changes in future as I gather more detail, and some of the charts will be revised, but I believe I am now much closer to a correct definition of these family lines. > > In 7 chapters, the paper discusses: > History of Nether Toynton and how it came to the Rollestons. > Rolleston of Watnall Chaworth, the direct family line. > Rolleston of Swarkeston manor in Derbs. > Rowlston of Tanshelf in Pontefract, Yorks. > The transfer of Nether Toynton manor to Thomas Rowlston. > Rowlston of Toynton, inheritors of Watnall and progenitors of the post-1687 Watnall branch. > Conclusions regarding the re-evaluated Watnall branch. > There is also an Appendix providing a summary description of each of the 11 x Thomas, 10 x Edward and 6 x Lancelot that come into the story. > > Please note that this paper is only about the Rolstons of Tanshelf descended from Lyonell (II), mercer of Pontefract, and is not concerned with the other Rolstons descended from his father Lyonell (I) who were involved with Copleys, Cressys, etc. That substantial other half of the Tanshelf branch will be discussed in a future research paper. > > Here is the link to the pdf file in DropBox: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/hgs41be16c5wc37/Toynton%20%26%20Watnall%20re-evaluation.pdf?dl=0 > > Happy reading..... > Ken Rolston.