Thomas Barnes, son of Edward Barnes and Margaret Bestney was born about 1515 and died on/shortly after 11 Sep 1557 (date of his will).[1]
He married about 1540 Anne Themelthorpe (c1520-gef 26 Oct 1557), daughter of Robert Themelthorpe and Agnes Foulbourne.[1] They had five children, including:
In A History of the County of Cambridge we learn:[2]
At his death in 1540 Bestney divided his estates between his two daughters' husbands, devising his Soham manors to Edward Barnes of Soham, husband of Margaret.[3] Edward Barnes died in 1551 and his son and heir Thomas in 1557, leaving as heir a son Edward, of age in 1566. [4] Edward long dominated the parish, inheriting from his grandfather a 40-year lease, extended to 1589, of the parsonage.[5] He served as steward of the Duchy manor until dismissed c. 1598, charged with abusing his office.[6] Well before his death in 1615 he had, perhaps in 1607, transferred his Soham lands, supposedly including in 1595 c. 360 a. of arable, to his eldest son William, [7] who soon began to sell them off.[8] In 1623 William sold the Netherhall Wygorns lordship, apparently with little land save at Henney, to Daniel Wigmore, archdeacon of Ely.[9] (d. 1646).
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.2 Craig Stanley Ashley. "The Ancestry of Charles Barnes of East Hampton, Long Island, New York" in The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol. 158, Oct 2004, pp. 319-329. Online at AmericanAncestors.org($)
↑ A F Wareham and A P M Wright. "Soham: Manors," A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10, Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (North-Eastern Cambridgeshire), (London: Victoria County History, 2002), 500-507. British History Online, accessed August 16, 2021,
↑ Public Record Office, PROB 11/28, f. 129 and v.; cf. Visit. Cambs. (Harleian Society xli), 103.
↑ Pembroke College, Cambridge, Muniments, Soham, P 7: 5 Edw. VI; P 8: 3-4, 4-5 Phil. & Mary; P 9: 1, 7 Eliz. I; Fenland N. & Q. iv. 290.
↑ Pemb. Coll. Mun., Soham, Q 3-4; P.R.O., E 134/35 Eliz. I/East. 29, deposn. of Edw. Barnes (apparently erroneously naming his father Edw.)
↑ Historical Manuscripts Commission, 9, Salisbury, viii. 163-4; cf. P.R.O., E 124/2, f. 219; and below, char. (Bonds).
↑ P.R.O., CP 25/2/94/859/37 Eliz. I East. no. 14; CP 25/2/277/5 Jas. I East. no. 9; ibid. PROB 11/126, ff. 276v.-277v. (mentioning no land); cf. Pemb. Coll. Mun., Soham, P 14: 15 Jas. I.
↑ e.g. P.R.O., CP 25/2/278/18 Jas. I Trin. no. 4; CP 25/2/278/20 Jas. I Hil. no. 2; Pemb. Coll. Mun., P 14: 17, 19 Jas. I; P 15: 7 Chas. I.
↑ P.R.O., CP 25/2/278/20 Jas. I Trin. no. 6. Only 21 a. owned by Gilb. Wigmore in C.R.O., map 1656.
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