Steven Monins

Stephen Monins, possibly of Dover, was a son of Thomas Monins by the latter’s second wife, Elizabeth Crispe.[113] He m. before 1598, Mary Hales, one of the thirteen children of Charles Hales, of Thanington, Kent, by the latter’s wife Anne, daughter of Robert Honeywood, Esq., of Marks Hall, co. Essex, and of Lenham, Kent, by his wife Mary, daughter and coheiress of Robert Waters or Atwater, of Royton, in the parish of Lenham.[114] Thus, despite our failure to identify her father further, she was a second cousin (through the Atwaters) of John Hales, husband of Margaret Tooke (no. 7.xi) above.

   Issue (marriage data from Berry):

Thomas Monins, of Canterbury in 1639, bapt. 5 Oct. 1597 in St. Peter’s, Canterbury.[115] According to Berry, he was of Fordwich, and m. Anne, daughter of Richard Shrubsole, of Canterbury,[116] by whom he was father of Stephen Monins, bapt. 24 Oct. 1627 at St. James’s, Dover.

Charles Monins, bapt. 4 Feb. 1598/9 in St. Peter’s, Canterbury.[117]

Mary Monins, b. 1602 at Holy-cross, Canterbury. She m. 21 Sept. 1623 at Dover, John Rygate.

Anne Monins, b. 1603 at Holy-cross, Canterbury. She m. Edward Ward, of Dover, clerk, likely the Edward Warde shown as an 18-year-old in the 1619 Visitation, second son of William Warde, Mayor of Dover and Lieutenant of Dover Castle, by the latter’s second wife Catharine, said to have been daughter and coheiress of John Tench, of Dover.[118]

Jane Monins, b. 1605 at St. Alphage, Canterbury. She m. 5 Sept. 1630 in Saint James The Apostle, Dover (IGI), Thomas Fineux, Esq., of “The Elms,” Hougham. Her husband is perhaps the Thomas Fineux shown as a 10-year-old child in the 1619 Visitation, son of Thomas Fineux by the latter’s wife Elizabeth, daughter of Laurence Rooke, of Monk’s Horton, by his wife Ursula, daughter of Sir Reynold Scott (for another marriage into which family see above under no. 7.iv).[119] In any case, he must have been an almost exact contemporary of Thomas Fuller (1608ñ1661), whose Worthies of England mentions a “good friend Mr. Thomas Fineux” as a source of infomation on the latter’s ancestor Sir John Fineux (d. 1527), Chief Justice of King’s Bench.[120]

Dorothy Monins (position uncertain, but listed after Jane in the 1619 Visitation). She m. 19 July 1629 in Saint James The Apostle, Dover (IGI), Simon Dale, of Hollingbourn, Kent, gent.

Stephen (?) Monins,[121] who according to Berry d. s.p. William Monins, b. 1613-14 (aged 5 in 1619), will proved 26 June 1686. He m. 10 Oct. 1644 at St. Margaret’s, near Dover, Margaret Toke, daughter of a Thomas Toke, of Bere (possibly our no. 10 below). They had five children, for whom see Berry.

Richard Monins, b. 1617-18 (aged 1 in 1619), will proved 30 April 1701. He m. (1) Elizabeth Marshall. He m. (2) in 1658, at St. George’s, Canterbury, Anne Spracklyn. By one of these wives he had an only child, Elizabeth Monins, wife of Richard Glover, by whom she had a son Daniel, living in 1720, according to Berry.

113. 1619 Visitation, p. 29; Berry, p. 180.

114. The identification of Anne Honeywood is from the early-seventeenth-century family record first printed in “The Posterity of Mary Honywood, at her death in 1620,” The Topographer and Genealogist 1 (1846): 397-411, at pp. 398, 400, and later in a better version in pt. 1 of B.W. Greenfield, “Honeywood Evidences” Topographer and Genealogist 1 (1946): 568-76, 2 (1853): 169-85, 312-35, 433-46.

115. Register of St. Peter’s, Canterbury, as above, p. 7. The entry originally read “son of Tho. Moninges,” but was later corrected to say “son of Mr. Steven Moninges.”

116. A modern Hales genealogy however states that he m. (1) 12 March 1625, his first cousin, Anne Hales, b. ca. 1604, daughter of Thomas Hales, of Beakesbourne, Kent, by the latter’s wife Anne Peyton, and (2) Anne Shrubsole; see the Hales Family History Society database, available online at http://www.hales.org/chronicles.html.

117. Register of St. Peter’s, Canterbury, as above, p. 7.

118. 1619 Visitation, p. 31.

119. 1619 Visitation of Kent, p. 29.

120. Fuller, Worthies of England, ed. Nuttall (3 vols., 1840), 2:143. This work was first published, posthumously, in 1662.

121. I take the reading of his name from Berry; the 1619 Visitation, in the printed edition, gives his name as Thomas, repeating the name of an older brother who was still alive.

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