Person Page - 13

     Geoffrey Dormer was a wool merchant. He was born circa 1420 in England. He was the son of Geoffrey Dormer and Judith Baldington. He married Margery or Margaret (?) circa 1430. He and Margery or Margaret (?) had five sons and eight daughters. He married Alice Collingridge, daughter of William Collingridge and Sarah (?), circa 1450 in England. He and Alice Dormer had seven sons and five daughters. He died on 9 March 1503 in Thame, Oxfordshire, England.¹ He was buried on 10 March 1503 in Thame.¹

     Geoffrey Dormer was born in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. He married Margaret (or Eleanor) Dorre, daughter of Thomas Dorre.¹

     Geoffrey Dormer was born in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. He was the son of Geoffrey Dormer and Margaret (or Eleanor) Dorre. He married Judith Baldington, daughter of Robert Baldington.¹

     Michael Dormer was the son of Geoffrey Dormer and Alice Collingridge. He was a merchant. He 's biography appears at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dormer_(Lord_Mayor.)² He became Sherriff of London in 1529.¹ He was knighted in 1538.¹ He purchased the Manors and lands of Great and Little Milton, and of Ascott, Oxfordshire. In 1540 Henry VIII granted him the Manor of Kimbell, the Rectory and Advowson of the Vicarage, parcell of the dissolved Monestery of Missenden and St. Albans Abbey, for £524 13s 4d. He became Lord Mayor of London in 1541.¹ He died on 20 September 1545.² He was buried in Great Kimble, Buckinghamshire, England.³

     Margaret (or Eleanor) Dorre was the daughter of Thomas Dorre. She married Geoffrey Dormer.¹

     Thomas Dorre alias Chobbe or Chubbe.

     Clarissa F. Douglas was born on 9 March 1852 in New York. She married William George Carnahan, son of William Chandler Carnahan and Sarah (Sallie) Ann Hammond, in 1872.¹ She died on 4 November 1930 at age 78.³ She was buried in Mapleview Cem, Marion, Crittenden county, Kentucky.

     Lou Ann Douglas married Steven John Milward, son of Peter Vernon Milward and Muriel Mae Mello, on 6 July 1980 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara county, California. She and Steven John Milward were divorced.

     Sarah Jane Doxey was born on 2 May 1903.² She married John Eric Milward, son of Charles James Milward and Mary Ann Cross, between January 1929 and March 1929.³ In 1939 Sarah Jane Milward and John Eric Milward lived in Cross Fell, Rope Lane, Nantwich, Cheshire.² She died on 23 February 1992 in Wistaston, Cheshire, England, at age 88.⁴ Her estate was probated on 28 April 1992 in Birmingham, England.⁴

     Francis M. Du Jordin was born in January 1874.¹ She married William Franklin McNicoll, son of Andrew McNicoll and Marianne Brown, on 30 June 1892 in Alameda county, California.^1,2 She and William Franklin McNicoll appeared on the 1900 Federal Census of Alameda, Alameda county, California, at 1623 Sherman St., enumerated 9 June 1900.¹ In 1918 Francis M. McNicoll lived in 1623 Sherman Street, Alameda, California.³

     Kenneth Dwight Duggan was born on 29 April 1921 in New York City, New York.³ He began military service on 27 May 1942.³ He was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps on 22 May 1943.² He married Priscilla Thomas Watson, daughter of Warren Neal Watson and Ruth May Thomas, on 22 May 1943 in Fairfax, Virginia.¹ He ended military service on 25 February 1946 in Naval Air Station, St. Simons Island, Georgia.³ He died on 6 April 1980 in Santa Clara county, California, at age 58.⁴

     Harriet Dunmore was born on 11 June 1846 in Marylebone, Middlesex, England.¹ She married John Solomon Milward, son of John Blockley Milward and Eliza Solomon, on 4 March 1884 in Barnet, Middlesex, England.¹ She and John Solomon Milward appeared on the 1891 English Census of Harrow, Middlesex, England, enumerated 5 April 1891. Their children John, Raymond and Katie were listed as living with them.² She and John Solomon Milward appeared on the 1901 English Census of 9 The Parade High Street, Finchley, Middlesex, England, enumerated 31 March 1901. Their children John, Raymond and Katie were listed as living with them.³ She died on 24 March 1903 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, at age 56.¹

     Rosa M. Dunn married Frank Willard Noyes, son of Pelham Peaslee Noyes and Grace Enna Merrill, on 30 October 1900.¹ She died before 1910.²

     Marrichgen Dircksdr Duyrcant was also known as Mary Willemsen Deurcant.² She was born in 1601 in Woerden, Holland.¹ She married Lyon Gardiner before 1635.¹ Marrichgen Dircksdr Duyrcant was also known as Mary Gardiner. She left a will dated 19 Apr 1661 and proved 6 Jun 1665. The will mentions son David, daughter Mary Conckling, grandchild Elizabeth Howell, sons-in-law Jeremiah Conckling and Arthur Howell.³ She died in 1665 in East Hampton, Suffolk county, New York.¹

     John T. Eddings was born on 18 February 1866.¹ He married Lucy B. Carnahan, daughter of John Mason Carnahan and Ruth Elizabeth Kimsey, on 21 February 1894 in Crittenden county, Kentucky.¹ He appeared on the 1940 Federal Census of Christian county, Kentucky, at Western Kentucky Hospital, enumerated 9 April 1940.² He died on 14 May 1947 in Christian county, Kentucky, at age 81.¹ He was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Clay, Webster county, Kentucky.³

     Abigail Eddy was christened on 6 October 1601 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. William Eddye and Mary Fosten.¹ She married John Benjamin in 1619 in Cranbrook.² She died on 20 May 1687 in Charlestown, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, at age 85.³

     Anna Eddy was born in May 1603 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. William Eddye and Mary Fosten.^2,3 She was christened on 15 May 1603 in Cranbrook.⁴ She married Barnabas Wines circa 1632.¹

     Eleanor Eddy also went by the name of Ellen. She was born on 5 August 1599 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. William Eddye and Mary Fosten.¹ She died in October 1610 in Cranbrook at age 11.²

     Elizabeth Eddy was born on 7 December 1606 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. William Eddye and Mary Fosten.¹

     Mary Eddy was christened in September 1591 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. William Eddye and Mary Fosten.¹

     Nathaniel Eddy was christened in July 1611 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.¹ He was the son of Rev. William Eddye and Mary Fosten.¹

     Phineas Eddy was born on 23 September 1593 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.¹ He was the son of Rev. William Eddye and Mary Fosten.¹ He died circa 1640 in Portsmouth, England.²

     Samuel Eddy was christened on 15 September 1608 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.¹ He was the son of Rev. William Eddye and Mary Fosten.¹ He came from Boxted, Suffolk, England in the ship "Handmaiden" to Plymouth, Massachusetts in Oct 1630. He had just finished an apprenticeship in the tailor trade before he left England. He purchased property on Spring Hill from Experience Mitchell; this place was then on South Street, and was later No. 34 and 36 Market Street in Plymouth. The deed was dated 9 May 1631.

On 7 November 1637 Samuel received three acres of land at New Field, which was set off to him by the town. New Field was the first section of cleared ground found by the people of Plymouth at a distance from the town. They used it as a planting ground, and these acres were considered as a garden plot belonging to each estate, and could not be sold apart from the homestead.

On 1 January 1632/1633 Samuel Eddy was admitted a freeman. On 2 January 1633 he was taxed 9 shillings, the lowest tax assessed to any man. His tax was the same in the list of 24 March 1633.

On 1 September 1640 it was ordered that every inhabitant fit to bear arms must be trained at least six times in the year. In 1643 Samuel was enrolled to bear arms and was a member of a troop enrolled for the defence of the Colony against the Indians.

On 29 November 1652 Samuel Eddy was witness to a deed for the purchase of lands from the Indians Wosamequen and Wamsutta, by Bradford, Standish, Winslow and others. This land became the town of New Bedford.

In June 1668 Samuel voted in a town meeting in Plymouth.

The Benjamin genealogy says Samuel was one of the founders of Middleboro in 1640. The Eddy genealogy, however, shows that the records prove Samuel and Elizabeth were residents of Plymouth until they were over 70, and were never residents of Middleboro. By this time there sons had long since left Plymouth and they were alone. Between June 1678 and December 1681 they were persuaded to remove to Swansea, when Caleb and Zachariah lived. They both died at Swansea. They are probably buried in the Eddy Cemetery in Swansea Village, perhaps in one of the graves marked by a stone with no inscription.² He died on 12 November 1687 in Swansea, Bristol county, Massachusetts, at age 79.²

     Zacharias Eddy was born in March 1610 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.¹ He was the son of Rev. William Eddye and Mary Fosten.¹

     Nathaniel Eddye was christened on 30 March 1589 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.¹ He was the son of Rev. William Eddye and Mary Fosten.¹

     Rev. William Eddye was born in 1562 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.¹ He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University. He received his B.A. in 1583, and his M. A. in 1586. He served as curate at Thurston, a small parish near Bury St. Edmunds in county Suffolk, from 1583 to 1586. His signature is found on the transcript of the Register sent to the Bishop's office during those years, and is identical to that of William Eddye, Vicar at Cranbrook.

William settled at Cranbrook in 1586, where Robert Roades, the President of St. John's College, Cambridge, was chosen by Archbishop Whitgift to succeed Richard Fletcher as Vicar. (Cranbrook is a small town 45 miles southeast of London.) There William met and married Mary Fosten. William was licensed as the curate at Staplehurst on 24 August 1587. He was "of Staplehurst" when he married and when his first son was born.

On 12 January 1591 he was inducted Vicar of St. Dunstan's Church at Cranbrook, Kent, England and held that office until his death in 1616. At that time, every new incumbent of feudal or ecclesiastical benefice was obliged to pay his superior the "first fruits" -- the income for the first year of the office. Previously in England this had been paid to the pope, but Henry VIII abolished this payment and the "first fruits" tax was transferred to the Crown. The income of William Eddye for the first year of his incumbency amounted to £19.10sh.6d. On 17 December 1591 he paid one-tenth of the stipend and arranged with Richard Jurden, yeoman, and Robert Hovenden, clotheir to act as security for his payment of the rest. He paid the remaining amount of £17.19sh.6-e/4d in four payments, two in 1592 and two in 1593.

Little says of him: "Rev. William Eddy, A.M., was Vicar of Saint Dunstan's Church in Cranbrook, Kent, England, from 1589 to 1616. He was a gentleman of much method and order in all his movements in the parish. He was a strict Episcopalian and did much for his church and parishioners. All the loose registers of the parish dating back from 1588 were collected, arranged, and properly entered by him in a new parchment book purchased by him expressly for that purposes. For his services he was paid by the parish the sum of £4. He beautifully engrossed about 80 of its folio pages, besides illuminating others. On one page is the entry: 'Paid that which was spent in charges riding to Canterbury for to carry in the first money gathered here for Virginia.'"

Early in 1616, judging by his handwriting on the Register, William was so ill that he was no longer able to perform his duties as Vicar. His will dated 20 August 1616, proved 4 December 1616; he named his son Phinehas as executor. He left his property and an annuity to Phinehas, and bequests of money to each of his other children. Phinehas was to see that the other children were brought up "in good and virtuous education". The Eddy genealogy says the seal on this will was not armorial, but the Benjamin genealogy shows: Coat of Arms: Sable, three old men's heads cropped at the shoulders argent. Crest: A cross-crosslet fitchee sable and a dagger argent, hilt or in saltire. Motto: "Crux Mini grata Quies", which means "The cross gives me comfort."

"I William Eddye Minister and Pastor of the parrish Church of Cranebrooke in the County of Kent being at this present afflicted wth great bodely infirmities and weaknes whereby I doe assuredlie conceive that the tyme of my dissolution out of this mortal life draweth neere and is at hande have therefore determined to make and ordeine this my present last will and testament...."
- to forty poore householders of this parishe that are apparentlie knowen to resort diligentlie to ye church upon the lordes day and doe live peaceablie and godlie the sum of forty shillinges ....
- to John Eddie my sonne the some of sixescore poundes of lawfull money of England to be payd unto him by my executor at age 21....
- to Samuell Eddie and Zacharias Eddie my sonnes ... £100 each at 22; if either died before that time, son John to receive £
20 of the legacy and the rest to be divided between the survivor and William's executor.
- to daughters Abigail Eddie, Anne Eddie and Elizabeth Eddie ... £
100 pounds each at age 20 or at their marriage.
- to Priscilla my daughter twentie markes at age 20 or the day of her marriage ... the will mentions that his wife Sara had promised to make up a portion for Priscilla, William's daughter by Sara, but William added a number of other specific bequests to Priscilla.
- Sara my now wife ...
- Richard Taylor, Robert Taylor, Thomas Taylor, Elizabeth and Sarah Taylor, the sonnes and daughters of Sara my now wife ten shillings a peece ...
- Phineas Eddie my sonne ... was made executor, receiving all properties and charged with paying the legacies, and educating and providing for Samuell Eddie, Zacharias Eddie, Abigail Eddie, Anne Eddie and Elizabeth Eddie.

Three memorial windows and a tablet were placed there in his honor through a bequest by Robert Henry Eddy of Boston, and they were dedicated by the Archbishop of Canterbury on the Festival of St. Michael and All Angels in 1902.¹ He married Mary Fosten, daughter of John Fosten and Ellen Munn, on 20 November 1587 in St. Dunstan's, Cranbrook, Kent, England.² He died on 23 November 1616 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.¹

     Robert Edge married Betty Milward, daughter of Aaron Milward and Dorothy Brundley.¹ He was born in 1817 in Alstonefield, Staffordshire, England.¹

     Mary Ellen Edwards was born in 1858.¹ She married Edwin Kendal Browne, son of John Charlesworth Browne and Mary Ann (?), on 5 September 1887 in St James church, Walton, Liverpool, Lancashire.¹ She and Edwin Kendal Browne appeared on the 1901 English Census of 11 Beresford Road, Liverpool, Lancashire, enumerated 31 March 1901.² She and Edwin Kendal Browne immigrated in 1905 to the United States.³ She and Edwin Kendal Browne appeared on the 1910 Federal Census of Upland, San Bernardino county, California, at 780 3rd Avenue, enumerated 7 May 1910.³

     David Egbert was born in 1770. He married Elizabeth Walker.

     Nancy Egbert was born in December 1791. She was the daughter of David Egbert and Elizabeth Walker. She married James R. Cardwell, son of John Cardwell and Cellar Rice, on 29 December 1814 in Franklin county, Kentucky.¹ She and James R. Cardwell appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Hopkins county, Kentucky, enumerated 20 September 1850.² She and James R. Cardwell appeared on the 1860 Federal Census of Madisonville, Hopkins county, Kentucky, enumerated 9 August 1860.³ She died on 29 January 1882 in Hopkins county, Kentucky, at age 90.⁴ She was buried in Grapevine Cemetery, Madisonville, Hopkins county, Kentucky.⁴