William Cromwell, of Palyshall & Putney

William Cromwell

• Born: ABT 1416, Nottinghamshire, England
• Father: Robert Cromwell
• Mother: Joan

Married

1. ABT 1441, Nottinghamshire, England to Margaret Smyth b abt 1418, daughter of John Smyth of Norwalk, Notts.

Children:

• 1. John Cromwell b abt 1444. Married Joan Smyth.

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Notes

William Cromwell, of the Prebend of Palace Hall, Norwalk, Notts. He settled in Putney, in County Surrey, in 1452. He married Margaret, daughter of John Smythe, of County Notts, and had John. (Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 510)

Robert Thoroton, 'Norwell, Woodhouse and Midlethorpe.', in Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 3, Republished With Large Additions By John Throsby, ed. John Throsby (Nottingham, 1796), pp. 160-164 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/thoroton-notts/vol3/pp160-164 [accessed 24 October 2015]:

John Cromwell, son and heir of William Cromwell, late of Northwell, 1 E. 4. (fn. 10) remised his right in a certain mess. called Parkers Place, and in a tost, and five acres of land, and in a toft and croft and seven acres of land, theretofore called Kendalls lands, and in eight acres and an half of land in the town and fields of Northwell, to Mr. John Porter prebendary of the prebend of Northwell, called Palyshall, and his successors.

Tim Powys-Lybbe writing in an earlier RootsWeb Forum, states:

" ... the business of Walter Cromwell alias Smyth seems to be a change of name, possibly because Walter got into some trouble and ended his life on the bottle. Walter was, as far as can be established a Cromwell by birth and came from a family who lived in Norwell, Notts; his grandfather was granted a fulling mill (either Wandsworth or Wimbledon) in 1452 by Archbishop Kempe. All this can be found in the British Dictionary of National Biography entry for Thomas Cromwell, earl of Essex.
The next question is how Walter chose the name Smyth. From some papers I found, and partly photocopied, in the London Society of Genealogy, this was the name of his mother, Joan Smyth and of his grandmother, Margaret Smyth, who was the aunt of Joan. And Walter's aunt Margaret Cromwell married William Smyth, father of Joan and brother of Margaret Smyth.
These same papers, for a year now in the binding room to be re-bound and thus unavailable, give a connection through to Fulker Cromwell, son of Ralph ..."

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• http://www.zipworld.com.au/~lnbdds/home/smythessex.htm
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2526.htm#...
• page 211 of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 45; Volume 51.  The Society, 1897 - New England. "Richard Williams of Taunton - Cromwell Genealogy"
•  Re: Cromwell -- Smyth -- Williams 2001