SIXTEENTH GENERATION
Royston is 28 mi. W. of Shalford; Bassingbourn is 3 mi. NW of Royston.
"(39544) John's Will Source (PCC 34 noodles; George McCracken, "Nathaniel Foote's English Relatives" in The American Genealogist 1977 53: 193, hereafter McCracken; Janice Greene Valore, "More on Nathaniel Foote's Ancestors" in The American Genealogist (April 1978, 99, hereafter Valore)
"John Foote died before 18 Jul 1558. When the undated will of John Foote of Royston, Cambridgeshire, England, tallow chandler, was probated His will revealed that he had a wife named (39545) Helen, sons (19772) Robert and (39545v) John, and daughters (39545ii) Aves or Avis (Alice) and (39545vi) Elizabeth. The will also alluded to the testator's brother Foote, first name not stated and his two older children.
"He left to the church of Royston, 20s;
"To wife Helen, all lands and tenements in Royston for life; and L80 to be divided among all the children;
To servant Maud Smythe L6/13/4 to her marriage;
L3 that my brother Foot oweth to his two eldest children;
To wife's brother Richard Warren the younger and to her uncle John Jenawaye of Stoone, 40s each;
To wife the rest;
To son Robert a goblet, feather bed and bedding;
To son John Foot a silver salt, feather bed and bedding;
To Aves Foote and Elizabeth Foote, daughters, each three of the best spoons, bed and bedding;
All the remainder to wife named executrix.
"Witness: William Meede, citizen and grocer of London; John Jenaway, Nicholas Warreyn of Bassingbourn, Richard Warreyn of Bassingbourn[, Cambridge -- near Royston]."
-- http://www.footefamily.org/i9093.htm
39547. Elizabeth Whatman (/Waterman /Whetman /Whitman /Water)
39551. Elizabeth Bachelor Gregory
= siblings
