Ellen Damant

The following is an extract from "The Norfolk antiquarian Miscellany" - see document attached

His mother Elin, daughter of Thomas Bishop, of Hessley Hall, and .... Filby, his wife, was one of several sisters, co-heiresses through the early death of their brother. Of these sisters Grace, the youngest, became first the second wife of Henry Marsham, of Stratton Strawless. Norfolk, who died in 1692, and her second husband was John Cornwallis, of Wingfield College, Suffolk. It seems probable that the orphan would often visit his childless aunt at Stratton, and that he may have thus made the acquaintance of the Eyres, of Lammas.
[I do not think this necessarily follow, for we find the name earlier in Norfolk, viz:— Timothy Damant was of Harleston. apothecary, in 1626. (Additional MSS., and see Fines 2 Chas. I., between him and Richard Carsey in Mendham.
On 5th October, 1629, Francis Dammat (sic) married Elizabeth Colman at Horstead— very near to Lammas, and I am inclined to think that this match may have brought them into the latter parish.
The name also occurs in the Fines of Easter, 1652, and Hilary, 1694, as to property in Banbam and Burston. A fine of Hilary 13, George II. (1739-40), between the Rev. William Lubbock against Thomas Damant and wife of the Manor of Lammas, and of lands in Lammas and Scottow, would seem to show that the family had sold or mortgaged the estate as early as this to the ancestors of Lord Avebury (Lubbock) the present owner.
Another fine of Hilary 25, George II. (1751), between John Durrunt, Esq., against Thomas Damant. Gent., John Wood and wife, and Fraud's Kirby, in Lammas and Scottow. also points to a further disintegration of the property. The tradition in the family Is that the property was finally sold by William Castell Damant. the grandson of Thomas.— Ed]
He had other connections with Norfolk, as his mother's sister, Mary Bishop, had married Francis Alpe, of Buxton. Norfolk, and was buried at Stratton, whilst yet a third aunt Bishop had married a Norfolk man, Robert Day. of Foulsham.

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