Mary Barnard

• The Bernards of Abington and Nether Winchendon: A Family History, Volume 1 By Sophia Elizabeth Higgins
• https://books.google.com/books?id=LeHZgdEtzPcC&lpg=PA53&ots=K6BbNWq...
• https://archive.org/details/bernardsofabingt01higg
• https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n41/mode/1up
• Pg.24
• John, the eldest son of John Bernard and Margaret Daundelyn, was only in his eighteenth year when he lost his father, and in all likelihood he had already lost his mother. Even if placed under guardianship for a short time, he must have achieved complete independence with his majority, and would seem to have taken advantage of his liberty to 'marry for love' — a rare event in those days. Or perhaps, while fancying that he was asserting his rights, the young squire was really captured by designing parents. His chosen wife, whoever chose her, was Cicely,1 daughter of John Muscote, of Earl's Barton. Muscote is styled 'gentleman,' 2 not esquire ; this, however, denotes inferiority in estate rather than in blood.
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• https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n45/mode/1up
• Pg.28
• In the record of John and Cicely Bernard's children there is no longer any difficulty about the names of daughters. They were the parents of four girls as well as of two boys.
• .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n50/mode/1up
• Pg.33
• John Bernard died in 1549, early in the reign of Edward VI. ; Cicely, his wife, in 1557, towards the end of Mary's reign. Some remains of their tombs are still to be seen in Abington Church. .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n51/mode/1up
• Francis Bernard, the eldest son of John and Cicely, was probably turned thirty at the time of his father's death, and perhaps already married to Alice, daughter of John Haslewood of Maidwell, Northants, Esquire.1 His only brother John married her sister, Mary Haslewood. The mother of these ladies was Alice, daughter of Sir William Gascoyne, Knight. Their paternal grandfather, John Haslewood, is styled 'Master of the Fleete Prison' ; he married Katherine, daughter and heir of William Marmyon, of Kington, Lincolnshire, .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n52/mode/1up
• Pg.35
• .... he escaped trouble by dying in 1559, the year following Queen Elizabeth's accession. But there is some likelihood that Mr. Bernard himself did not yet delight in the new order of things, which at its commencement had rendered his sister Dorothy an outcast, .... etc.
• John Bernard, the younger brother of the Abington squire, had a son Robert ; the pedigree does not carry his line further, nor does it state where he lived ; but it is not unlikely that Robert may have been the grandfather of a distinguished man. Dr. Edward Bernard, born in Northamptonshire, who will be mentioned in a subsequent chapter.1
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Sources

1. Ancestral File #: 96VW-NK

Links

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=olney&id=...

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