This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------EC5A30B1FEA3114EC1DD872E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Very tricky situation indeed! This is a result of a contact I made on the Yorkshire page and I thought it would be of interest to my NH BOYTON "cousins". The list is in 2 parts and I'll forward them as well. --------------EC5A30B1FEA3114EC1DD872E Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from listsvr1.telepac.pt ([194.65.3.55]) by PACIFICO.mail.telepac.pt (Intermail v3.1 117 241) with ESMTP id <19981015093503.ASU664@listsvr1.telepac.pt> for <mgg@mail.telepac.pt>; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:35:03 +0000 Received: from relay1.UU.NET ([192.48.96.5]) by listsvr1.telepac.pt (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO203-101c) ID# 584-40066L0S0) with ESMTP id AGU31641 for <mgg@mail.telepac.pt>; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 08:13:12 +0000 Received: from witch.xtra.co.nz by relay1.UU.NET with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: witch.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.8]) id QQflcm05386; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:04:39 -0400 (EDT) From: PETER.NANCY.MCLAUGHLIN@xtra.co.nz Received: from oemcomputer (p23-m11-ch7.dialup.xtra.co.nz [203.96.106.87]) by witch.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA04648 for <mgg@mail.telepac.pt>; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:59:07 +1300 (NZDT) Message-ID: <36251077.D0C@xtra.co.nz> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:58:31 +1300 Reply-To: PETER.NANCY.MCLAUGHLIN@xtra.co.nz X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-XTRA (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Magdalena Gorrell Guimaraens <mgg@mail.telepac.pt> Subject: Re: Royalists and Roundheads References: <3624155A.16D7@xtra.co.nz> <36246D04.A6B6F40E@mail.telepac.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Magdalena Gorrell Guimaraens wrote: > > PETER.NANCY.MCLAUGHLIN@xtra.co.nz wrote: > > > Anyone out there interested in Yorkshire participants in the Civil > > War? > > > > Hi Peter, > > Would it be too much trouble to ask you to give me the biography for one > or more on your list named BOYNTON. I have an ancestor, SIR MATTHEW > BOYNTONwho remained in Yorkshire, whilst the remainder of his family > went to the US in 1637, and is said to have joined Cromwell's forces. > Other members of the family may have been on the other side. The > Boyntons are from Knapton, Yorkshire and through the ages have been very > "politically active" - one Henry Boynton supported Henry Percy, the Earl > of Northumberland, and was executed at Sudbury in 1405. > > Many thanks for your trouble, > Magdalena Gorrell Guimaraens > > ==== YORKSGEN Mailing List ==== > For Yorkshire Genealogical Information visit: > http://www.blunham.demon.co.uk/genuki/YKS/ Hi Magdalena.... There were two Matthew Boyntons, father and son, and it must have been a bit tricky, since one was a Royalist and the other a Parliamentarian (Roundhead). ROYALIST: BOYNTON, Matthew, 2d son of Sir Matthew Boynton, a Parliamentarian (see p 383). Succeeded his father as Governor of Scarborough Castle in 1647, but revolted and held in for the King a few months, surrenderin it 15 Dec 1648. He was slain at Wigan on the attempt of Charles 11, 26 Aug 1651. Mar. Isabel, dau of Robert Stapleton, Esq., of Wighill. PARLIAMENTARIAN: BOYNTON, Sir Matthew, Bart., of Barmston (son of Sir Francis Boynton and Dorothy Place). M.P. Hedon, 1620, Scarborough 1645-7. High Sheriff 1628 and 1643. A General in the Parliamentary Army; defeated Colonel Slingsby at Guisborough; took Sir John Hotham prisoner at Beverley. Governor of Scarborough Castle 1645 till his death. Bap. 26 Jan 1591; bur 12 Mar 1646-7, St Andrews, Holborn. Mar. 1st Frances, dau of Sir Henry Griffith, Bart.; 2ly, Katharine, widow of Robert Stapleton of Wighill, and dau of Thomas, Viscount Fairfax of Emley. Nancy. --------------EC5A30B1FEA3114EC1DD872E--