Christopher Reynolds, Sr.

Not the same as Christopher Reynolds who married Charissa H. Reynolds

Origins

Parents unknown. Robert Reynolds, citizen and fishmonger of London did not have a son “Christopher” according to analysis of the wills of Robert Reynolds of East Bergholt, done by Susan E. Clement in 1992 and posted on the Reynolds Family Assn website that demonstrates that Robert had no son named Christopher and that this Christopher must have been invented out of thin air.

Wife

Name unknown. A Charissa/Clarissa Huntington marries a Christopher Reynolds in 1813, there is no previous Clarrissa/Charissa Huntington. Lord Stanley and Ann Hastings of Derby do NOT have a daughter named Clarissa/Charissa they have a daughter named Margaret.

Children

Seen as

• George
• Richard
• Christopher
• Mary who died young
• Cornelius, and
• Thomas

List from Tillman (1948) More children are seen in the later Tillman book (1959). Tillman’s books are not currently considered reliable..

Notes

Christopher Reynolds was born 1530 in County Kent, England. He married and settled in London, where he and his sons engaged in trade and commerce. He was listed as a cloth merchant.

Charissa Huntington 1533-1575 was his first wife; [SIC: her name is not known] she is a distant relative of same Huntington family on other side of Reynolds' family tree. It is unclear if he had any children with his second wife, Elizabeth George. [SIC: no evidence to support]

Christopher had 12 [SIC] children; at least one died in Va and one died in Bermuda (see CLS records). [No children to America known]

“He had a brother Nathaniel Reynolds, And a sister Dorothy Tilgham who married William Tilghman (Tillman) who was a son of Julian Tilghman. The record of the Tilghman family is available in the D.A.R. library and the Library of Congress. “. Evidence needed.

Links

• “Christopher Reynolds of County Kent.” Reynolds Family Association Centennial Collection. Page 362, Page 363
• http://www.angelfire.com/la/ancestors/Reynolds.html
• http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~deschart/z0000702.html
• http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/AF/individual_record.asp?rec...
• http://www.poetsvisions.com/genealogy/farrar.htm

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Coat of Arms:

• Green with a gold lion and three gold escallops.
• Crest: A Stag grazing on a mound.

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The name Reynolds also spelled Runnels, Runals, etc. is or Norman origin and comes from the family name Renard. The family is of great antiquity, claiming descent from Reynolds, son of Grethferth the Dane King of Northumberland.

Grethferth and his sons were driven from England circa 944 and took shelter in Normandy. His descendant Fitzreynolds (meaning son of) returned to England with William the Conqueror in 1066.

Christopher Reynolds was the first known Reynolds of our lineage.