Elizabeth (de Carew) Praers (abt. 1390 - abt. 1431)

Born about 1390 in Wiltshire, England.

Descendants

Died about 1431 at about age 41 in Eaton Water, Wiltshire, England.

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Biography

Elezabeth (de Carew Suffix or de la Mare ??). Born of, Wiltshire, England

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Mr. Praters first name is not known, nor do we know the name of his wife but according to tax records he lived at Eaton Water, Wiltshire, England on the long time established family estate.

Re; Bishop Visitation Records and Tith (Tax) Records From Wendell J Prater; These Prater-Prather records are a combination of my efforts and the work of Gary Benton Prather. We did totally separate work and both came to the conclusion that the Praters were De Praers. Gary started in Wiltshire, where he lived for a couple of years, and worked on the premise that the de Praers came to Wiltshire with William The Conqueror or before and has confined the family to this area. I started with a LDS film on the Wallop family. We are not involved with the Wallop family, but the author included at the end of his record a number of what he called "lessor Norman pedigrees". Along with the de Praers it included most of the known Wiltshire families that the Praters are related to. I then searched the Ancestral File and then the TIB cards.

Then I found George Omerode's books, Peter Leycester, the Malet brothers, Dugsdale, Vale Royal and others. As you read Gary's notes you will get an idea of the difficulty of working with the different spellings of names. The two generations down, with Carew wives are from Gary as is the line on up. You will find another William married to Miss Carew that will take you back on my research. I hesitate to merge these two pedigrees because they could both be basically correct, and his notes don't fit my line.

A little history, William the Conqueror was the illegitimate son of the Duke of Normandy who was killed in the Holy Land when William was eight years old. William was given to our grandparents to raise, our family assisted him in all his endeavors. The de Praers family served for the next seven hundred years as administrators of affaires, particularly financial. Hugh Lupus was a cousin of William and was given Cheshire county and large holdings in at least fifteen other counties. The de Praers and de Crewes were dominate as the handlers of this large amount of land, they became Priest and Sheriff's and ultimately possessors of large estates up and down the Welsh border. It is quite probable that a family member was sent to Wiltshire very early on, we don't have a record. We also don't have an indication of just when they changed to Prater. So far all the pre 1500 Praters in England are from the Salisbury Plains area. The de Praers didn't hold a lot of titles, they just held the purse strings.

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Sources

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jelowe/361.htm

1. ↑ http://prathergenealogy.com/defaultmain.htm
2. ↑ http://prathergenealogy.com/defaultmain.htm

• Gary Benton Prather