Barbara Smalpece

BARBARA HILL, b. ca. 1538; m. JOHN SMALPEECE, date unknown. She was bur. 16 Dec. 1568, "wife of John Smalepece." Barbara, mentioned in the will of William Russell, is probably the eldest daughter of James Hill. John Smalpece was mayor of Guildford in 1574, 1582, and 1591.

Sources

1. William Bruce Bannerman, ed., The Visitations of the County of Surrey, 1530. 1572. and 1623, Harleian Soc. Pubs., 43 (London, 1899): 176.
2. Surrey, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, Transcriptions & Images, (www.ancestry.com) Burial record for Barbara Smalepece wife of Jhon Smalepece, 16 Dec 1568, parish of Holy Trinity, Guildford
3. Probate record. William Russell, 31 July 1544, proved 1544, Commissary Court of the Bishop of Winchester (Archdeaconry of Surrey), FHL film 097,180. Names as executors his wife Isabell and James Hill and, among others, leaves a bequest to "Barbera Hill an Angell of golde."

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