Palmer Descent:

1.Ralph Palmer possessed a great estate in the county of Sussex in the reign of Edward II in 1307

2.His son, John Palmer, married a daughter of Sir John Pellham, knight of the Bath, Sheriff of Sussex and Surrey - By whom he had

3.Adam Palmer, who matched with one of the coheirs of John Sedinghouse, (and by deed joined ann 48 Edw III with John Stopham in passing over some of the lands of Sedinghouse) and by her left a son

4.Robert Palmer of Steyning in Sussex. He married Isabel - daughter and coheir of William Stopham, of Stopham in that county - son of John. (And by indenture ann 7 Rich II divides his father in law's estate with John Bartlett - who had married the other daughter - Joan.) By this partition, all the lands in Angmerin, Beringham, Ployng, Ruston & Preston, with parts of the land in Tering and Goring fell to the share of Palmer - which he left to his son

5. Robert Palmer of Angmerin

6.John x Joan, do NN Julian has

7. John, who considerably augmented the estate by marrying Isabel - sole heiress of Edward Bilton - and by her had three sons: Edward, Robert and Sir Thomas Palmer of Calais in France, who died without issue.

• The pedigree of the ancient family of the Palmers of Sussex by R. Jenyns
• The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets ..., Volume 1 By William Betham
• The English Baronetage Containing a Genealogical and Historical ..., Volume 1

[Sharon Doubell Nov 2020]