Thomas II Mildenhall

Thomas II Mildenhall

• Marriage: Sarah Jane McLauchlan: Abt 1535 Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England

No proof either way that Eol Mildenhall was the father of John Mildenhall, ancestor of the American Mendhall family. Eol appears in many internet trees with no data. E.O.L. is often used to denote End of Line. All profiles above this Thomas are not proven. Proceed with caution and be sure to document any parents, etc., added to this profile.

Other possible name of John's father: Thomas Mildenhall/Mendenhall.

From the Mendenhall Family Association: See profile for Thomas II's father for sources for the two consecutive Thomas Mildenhalls of Ramsbury. But there is no proof yet, except the order of the 1545 tax list, that the family was on Marridge Hill until John Mildenhall is recorded for being part of the Manor of Ramsbury owned by the Earl of Pembroke. Researchers for the Mendenhall Family Association before its formation in 1994 spent considerable time in the London Public Record Office (PRO) searching all the tax lists for the Ramsbury Wiltshire area. On the 1381 Poll tax list generally where the list comes to the yeomen just to the northeast of town, we found Robert Mildenale of Ramsbury. Next our English researcher Ed Sinker found transfer of land records involving the son of Robert's son Richard b1370 named also Richard Myldenale b1400 of Ramsbury as follows:
"◦In 1444, Richard of Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England, granted to his son, Walter, a croft of arable and wood containing land of four acres at Hokededych, Froxfeld, England." Sources 1.[S6535] Edward Coates Sinker, Church Lea, Bosbury, Herefordshire, HR81PX, UK, sinker@gl. Walter later is found serving in the White Rose Lancastrian army and was killed in 1471. Eleven years earlier Walter's son Thomas (the first) Myldenale was born and next appears in the 1525 Yeoman and above Tax Lists in the Marridge Hill, Ramsbury location. Next in the 1545 Tax Lists Thomas Myldenale has died but his two sons appear on the lists as follows shortly. The 1545 tax list is helpful because it gives the location order of well known knights and thanes and yeomen. In 1539 Henry VIII granted the Manor of Upham to John Goddard of royal descent. That was a bit to the west of Aldbourne, Wilts. So the tax list of 1545 shows John Goddard of Upham assessed 10 GBP, then next is recorded T. Waldrond of Aldbourne assessed 3 GBP(the Waldrond brothers from that time have effigies inside the Aldbourne Church). Following Aldbourne are recorded next John Ballerd of Marridge Hill (sometimes spelled Ballard and the Ballards gave their name to a wood on Marridge Hill right beside the Mildenhalls and then in the early 1600s the Thomas Mildenhall family intermarried with their neighbor Ballards and the Ballards appear on inventory documents for Thomas Mildenhall of Marridge Hill. Copies of these documents can be seen at mendenhall.org bullet pt. Reunions/1999 then click on "Stories of the Mendenhalls from England," Allen Singleton, see p11 for the original inventory of Thomas Mildenhall d1638 and on line 6 you can see the name Stephen Ballard who helped assess the values of the chattels left by Thomas d1638. See page 7 for the Latin translation of the Bond for the Chattels signed by wife Anne Minoll and their son Thomas Minoll born 1609 as seen on the document copied on page 10. Then go to page 12 for summary list of early appearances of Robert Mildenale on 1381 Poll Tax, Thomas Myldenale 1525 land owners list, Thomas Mildenhall 1545 land assessments, and John Mildenhall of Marridge Hill circa 1565. Beside the Ballards on the 1545 list appears Thomas Mildenhall assessed one half Pound Great Britain or 10 shillings, Ballard was assessed 8 shillings. Next on the 1545 tax list appears Edward Darell "Knight" and his widow mother The Lady Darell assessed a total of 11 GBP. The Darells of Littlecote, on the SE side of Ramsbury had in-law relationship from Lady Margaret (Beaufort) Stafford widow of the Earl of Stafford who married secondly Sir Richard Darell who then had a daughter Margaret who married James Touchet, 7th Baron Audley. Then I saw also and recorded that when the lax lists of 1545 come down to Froxfield, Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire, there appears the name of William Myldenale of Froxfield assessed 10 shillings like Thomas. So that verifies that Thomas of Marridge Hill area had a brother who still retained and lived on the property given to their great grandfather Walter Myldenale by his father Richard of Ramsbury. So there we see the split of the Mildenhalls into 2 main branches: the Thomas of Marridge HIll, Ramsbury line who was born circa 1510-1 and the William line who was born circa 1512 and whose descendants are also numerous and still identify themselves as Mildenhall/Mendenhalls today and about 99% still live in England. Rev. Peter Minoll from the William of Froxfield/Little & Great Bedwyn line has proven by the 1602 will of his ancestor Robert Mildenhall son of William that Robert's son John Mildenhall who signed the documents for the death of his father in 1603 while still in Wiltshire, could not be the adventurer John Mildenhall who died in India in 1614. That leaves then the John Mildenhall of Marridge HIll born 1560 and son of John Mildenhall born 1536 supervisor on Marridge Hill according to documents from the Manor of Ramsbury ordered by the Earl of Pembroke (c1565), as the John Mildenhall who died in India 1614. As a matter of record it should be noted here how we came up with all the dates we have placed on mendenhall.org and Geni.com since so much of the documentation given above comes from tax lists and land transfers which only show when they were of majority age and not when they were born. These dates have been approved as circa dates by the founder of the Mendenhall Matters newsletter in 1994, Dean Leonard; plus recently also by Dan McEver past president of the MFA and several times speaker at our reunions when he was writing a summary of the Mendenhall ancestry for his cousins, all Mendenhall descendants. First the documentation was extracted from the PRO in England from 1976-78 and later by Ed Sinker in England including the church records of the Holy Cross Church of Ramsbury and the church of Mildenhall verifying Sir John de Mildenhall of the Manor of Mildenhall. Quote of sources for Sir John bc1270: "◦In 1301, Sir John presented a clerk to the rectory of Mildenhall, Wiltshire Co, England. In 1313, John accompanied the king to France. In 1326, John, magistrate, was issued letters of protection to accompany King Edward III into France as his farrier. In 1330, John is given fifty acres of land in the Royal Wyndesore (Windsor) Forest and in 1341, the king conferred to John fifty-eight and one-half acres in consideration of 19 shillings 6 pence per annum." Then in order to identify the birth order of the fathers, mothers, and sons starting from the Mother of us all Mendenhalls/Mildenhalls Ydania de Mildehal born circa 1220, we put born circas on the successors as follows: Ralph 1240, Sir John 1270, brothers Thomas 1300 and Sir Robert of Cambridge 1302, Robert of Ramsbury 1342, Richard 1370, Richard 1400, Walter 1422, Thomas 1460, brothers Thomas of Marridge Hill 1510 and William 1512 of Froxfield, Little Bedwyn starting the separate Bedwyn line, then back to Ramsbury area, John 1536, John of India 1560, and Thomas I 1580. After that we found the christening of Thomas II in the Parish Registers of Ramsbury for 1609 with the father's name of Thomas Minoll (the correct spelling for phonetical pronounciation) and kept at the Salisbury Diocesan Record Office. So all those from Ydania to Thomas I 1580 came from born circa dates so that we could have them organized as separate generations verified by the documentation of records we found for each generation. It has been amazing to see how these dates have been accepted and used for the last 41 years since our Secretary and several members have documented and organized them in order. Of further note is that the MFA has proven all this lineage by confirmation of our common YDNA at Ancestry.com DNA. Our now deceased former Secretary Gerald Mendenhall of Texas, USA partnered with William Mendenhall of California and Peter Mendenhall of Nottingham, England to compare their YDNA. The results showed that William and Gerald are proven 9th cousins from the MRCA Benjamin Mendenhall b1662 immigrant to PA son of Thomas Mildenhall of Marridge HIll, Wilts. Then Gerald and William are proven 14th cousins of Peter Mendenhall whose family never left England and came from the Bedwyn branch in Wiltshire. This is a great value given to us by the YDNA tests.

The MFA has only seen one person still with the name Mildenhall and living in the village of Mildenhall, Wiltshire after 1300 and before modern times. Cecily Mildenhall was her name and she was born circa 1405 in Mildenhall. She appears on Geni.com as marrying John Goddard of Poulton, Marlborough, Wiltshire who came from the Goddard family as mentioned in the Mildenhall lineage above in the tax list 1545 Upham, Wilts. The Cecily Mildenhall/John Goddard marriage happened over 100 years before that Goddard family were granted the Manor of Upham. If they married in about 1424 then Cecily was the mother of Sir Walter Goddard b1425 whose descendants later were the Lords of the Manor of Upham. This Cecily Mildenhall then would indicate that the Mildenhall family had split into several branches by the early 1300s, at least one branch still from Mildenhall, Wilts. and another branch from Ramsbury, Wilts. which later divided into the Bedwyn and Marridge HIll branches. The latter two branches still have Mildenhall descendants living there between Aldbourne, Ramsbury, and the Bedwyns. plus the Mildenhalls still lived on Marridge Hill until 1920. We found one Mildenhall living in the village of Mildenhall in about 1995 but they said they were not born there nor did they know where their Mildenhall ancestors came from either.