Notes for Mary BIRKETT

1841 - Drendsey, Torksey, Hardwick
1851 - Ferry House, Gainsborough
1861 - Hardwick, Hardwick
1871 - Aubourn

Notes for Robert BLACKBURN

He was held prisoner by the Japanese during the war and when he was released he
never recovered, he died very young

Notes for Abigail BLAKE

1871 - 14 Albermarle Street, Westoe, South Shields

Notes for Phillipa BONVILLE

See http://www.yeosociety.com/yeoroots/early%20origins.htm#johnalice for
extensive biography

Notes for William BONVILLE

See for biography

Lord Bonville was one of the wealthiest men in Devon, having inherited massive
estates in Devon, Somerset & Dorset. He married. Margaret Grey , the daughter
of Lord Grey of Ruthin . 

William was also a member of the retinue for Thomas the Duke of Clarence , in
1418 and stood high in the Duke 's regard, for before Clarence died at Baugé
in March 1421 he named Sir William Bonville as one of his mortgagers in
certain of his estates. William continued to become more and more powerful.
His second marriage to Elizabeth Courtenay , the daughter. of Edward Courtenay
, Earl of Devon , by Maud , daughter. of Thomas, Lord Camoys , widow of John,
Lord Harrington of Aldingham in Furness and Porlock , Somerset,which took
place some time between then and October 1430, required the procurement of a
papal dispensation, because his new wife, Elizabeth , was already a godmother
of one of his daughters. 

   
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The marriage was later to have important political consequences, but its
immediate effect was Sir William's acquisition of large dower estates and the
increase of the range of his kinship among the nobility. 

He was now connected with William, Lord Harrington (his wife's
brother-in-law), and with Thomas Courtenay , Earl of Devon (her nephew). These
ties were to be strengthened by the marriage of Bonville' s son and heir,
William , to Lord Harrington 's only child, and of two of his daughters,
Philippa and Margaret , respectively to William Grenville (a grandson of Sir
Hugh Courtenay ) and William Courtenay (son of Sir Philip Courtenay of
Powderham , Bonville 's friend and fellow MP of 1427, and grandson of Sir
Walte r (now Lord Hungerford ). Bonville 's third daughter, Elizabeth ,
married outside these related families, her husband being Sir William Tailboys
de jure Lord Kyme.

From the time of his second marriage Bonville 's local prestige and influence
was increasingly taken into account by the Crown. Evidently a capable and
industrious man of affairs, he became one of the most active of the country
gentlemen of the south-west, often being charged to investigate reports of
lawless enterprises on land and seaIt was in 1440 that first reports were
heard of bad relations between Sir William and his wife's nephew , the Earl of
Devon, perhaps caused by the latter's realization that the regional
pre-eminence which he considered to be his birthright was being threatened by
Bonville 's growing influence, exemplified by his tenure of the stewardship of
the Duchy of Cornwall. Not surprisingly, as a result of these complex
political maneuvers, during the autumn recess of the Parliament of 1455-6,
open warfare broke out in Devon, where the Earl and his men proceeded to
terrorize the neighborhood of Exeter from their castle at Tiverton . The
Michaelmas term sessions could not be held in the city owing to this anarchic
state of affairs, and in October the recorder, Nicholas Radford , one of
Bonville 's closest advisors, was brutally murdered by the Earl 's sons in
person.

Notes for Elizabeth BOWKER

Twin of Joseph
1841 - Hospital Street, Pratchitt's Row, Nantwich, Cheshire
1851 - Beam Street, Nantwich

Notes for Joseph BOWKER

Twin of Elizabeth