William Mercer, of Ewelme

William Mercer

• Born of, , Lancashire, England
• Died Yes, date unknown
• ◦DISTINCTION: Esquire.
• Name AKA Wiliam Marssar [2, 5] Wm Mercer [3, 6] Francis

Married

1. Johanna

Children include

1. Margaret Mercer, b. Cal 1580, of, , Lancashire, England , d. 1610. Married Thomas ap Rhys
2. Francis Mercer, of, , Lancashire, England. Married Letis Mathews.
3. Maximilian Mercer, of Oxfordshire, England.
4. Letis Mercer. Married Albann Owen.
5. Rudolphe Mercer. Married Anne Smith (perhaps of this generation)

General Notes

From Person ID I63506 Wales. Welsh Medieval Database Primarily of Nobility and Gentry. Last Modified 14 Mar 2008

• RESIDENCE: Oxfordshire. (Edwards, Collection of Welsh pedigrees in the Bodleian Library, vol. 2 p. 76)
• REMARKS: Some time in his life he was from Oxfordshire.

From AP RHYS OF SCOTSBOROUGH. According To "dale Castle MS. Pedigrees."

12 James ap Rhys, gent., was bailiff for Tenby in 1678; Mayor, 1681. He conveys land to the Tenby Corporation, 1682.

He was succeeded by his son Thomas, who married Margaretta Mercer in 1598 (see her tomb in Tenby Church). The Mercers had been friendly with the Ap Rhys family for some time. In 1596, Alban. eldest son of George Owen, Lord of Kernes, married Lettice (or Miriam), daughter of William Mercer, deceased: and Maximilian Mercer, of Ewelme, in the County <>t' Oxford, was co-trustee with John ap Rhys of tbe marriage settlement (see Owen's Pembrokeshire, p. .5'23). Margaretta seems to have been sister to Madam Alban Owen; and Rudolph Mercer, who married Anne. daughter of Edmund Smith, Rector of Tenby (see tomb in Tenby Church), was son of Maximilian Mercer, Margaretta's brother.

Thomas ap Rhys was Sheriff in 1610, and the same year lost his wife in childbed, she having borne her husband ten children. (3)

The same book gives some good clues to the ancestry of Margaret Mercer. Near her tomb is the tomb of Ralph Mercer:

http://books.google.com/books?id=1HcWAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA82&amp;focus...

This tomb was erected by his son-in-law, Edmund Smith, rector of the parish.The book says, "When Joseph Lord made a plan of the church, in 1720, he described this monument as "of the same family" (i.e., Ap Rees)."

A bit later it says he was "Rodolph, or Ralph, son of Francis Mercer of Lancashire (according to Lewis Dwnn), or Oxfordshire if we believe the Dale Castle MS. Francis was the son of William Mercer, and brother of Margaretta, so Rodolph was nephew by marriage to Thomas ap Rees of Scotsborough."

The Mercer coat of arms, as displayed on his daughter's funeral monument, is Gules, on a chief indented or three martlets in fess sable (Laws & Edwards, 79).

research notes

From FamilySearch.org "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NPJV-1ZL : accessed 12 Dec 2013), William Merser, christened 14 Oct 1550, Kirkam, Lancashire, England. Father: Robert Merser.

from The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1613 by Sir Richard Saint-George. Page 94. "Rishton.". Alexander Rishton of Donkenhalgh married Ellyn, daughter of Edward Mercer, of Hazwood.

From The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster: Made in the Year 1664-5  By Sir William Dugdale. Page 290. "Standish of West Derby." Alice (daughter of George Standish & Ann Allibond) married John Mercer of West Derby.

Searched Oxfordshire, England Visitations, 1566, 1574, and 1634 Ancestry.com. Oxfordshire, England Visitations, 1566, 1574, and 1634 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002. For keyword "Mercer" on 11 Dec 2013 - no results

Sources 

1. [S2411] #11915 British Genealogy (filmed 1950), Evans, Alcwyn Caryni, (Books A to H. National Library of Wales MSS 12359-12360D. Manuscript filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1950), FHL microfilms 104,355 and 104,390 item 2., book 2 p. B40.
2. [S277] Castel Gorfod 12, National Library of Wales no: Castel Gorfod 12, (Microfilm of original transcripts located in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1950), FHL microfilm 104352., p. G1182.
3. Archaeologia Cambrensis "The House of Scotsborough" page 88
4. Edward Laws & Emily Hewlett Edwards Church Book of St. Mary the Virgin, Tenby (1907).

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