Christopher Conyers - Maybe this Christopher Conyers, if so John his son

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Private User
6/17/2016 at 8:51 PM

Also Thomas Conyers wife Alice, cannot find them on Geni

CP 25/1/280/159, number 22.
Link: Image of document at AALT
County: Yorkshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: One month from Easter, 22 Henry VI [10 May 1444].
Parties: William Helperby, querent, and Robert Danby, Christopher Conyers, John, son of the same Christopher, Christopher Boynton', John Weneslagh', Richard Weltden', Thomas Conyers and Alice, his wife, deforciants.
Property: The manor of Kylwardby and 8 messuages, 4 tofts, 16 bovates and 20 acres of land and 36 acres of meadow in Kylwardby, Kayton' and Mydylton' by Baynton'.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Robert, Christopher, John, Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas and Alice have acknowledged the manor and tenements to be the right of William, as those which he has of their gift.
For this: William has granted to Robert, Christopher, John, Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas and Alice the manor and tenements and has rendered them to them in the court, to hold to Robert, Christopher, John, Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas and Alice, of William and his heirs for the lives of Thomas and Alice, rendering yearly 1 rose at the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, and doing to the chief lords all other services. And after the decease of Thomas and Alice the manor and tenements shall revert to William and his heirs, quit of the heirs of Robert, Christopher, John, Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas and Alice, to hold of the chief lords for ever.

Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.)
Persons: William Helperby, Robert Danby, Christopher Conyers, John Conyers, Christopher Boynton, John Wensley, Richard Weldon, Thomas Conyers, Alice Conyers
Places: Killerby (in Cayton), Cayton, Middleton-on-the-Wolds, Bainton

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_280_159...

6/18/2016 at 3:53 AM

Thanks Private User

This fine possibly belongs with Sir Christopher Conyers, Knight, Sheriff of Yorkshire, Lord of Hornby. He had a son John.

I'm not sure where Thomas Conyers & his wife Alice fits in. Alice was previously the wife of William Kylwardby [Killerby] as shown in the following fine.

CP 25/1/280/157, number 20.
Link: Image of document at AALT
County: Yorkshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: The day after All Souls, 13 Henry VI [3 November 1434].
Parties: Alice, who was the wife of William Goldesburgh', querent, and Thomas Conyers and Alice, his wife, who was the wife of William Kylwardby, deforciants.
Property: 1 messuage in Whitby.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Thomas and Alice, his wife, have acknowledged the messuage to be the right of Alice, who was the wife of William Goldesburgh', as that which she has of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed it from themselves and the heirs of Alice to her and her heirs for ever.
Warranty: Warranty.
For this: Alice, who was the wife of William Goldesburgh', has given them 20 marks of silver.

Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.)
Persons: William Goldsborough, Alice Goldsborough, Thomas Conyers, William Killerby, Alice Killerby
Places: Whitby

More research needs to be done.

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