William Payne, ‘the Elder’

Notes

http://www.jeaniesgenealogy.com/2013/05/english-ancestry-of-william...

The parish register begin in 1558 so we can only trace the family to that time. A William Paine Sr. died in 1587 and a William Paine died in 1583, either of these could be him. I think he was the William who died in 1587.

In 1559 a birth of a Thomas Paine was recorded in the Lavenham parish records. He was, most likely, the son of William Jr., who was presumably now married and living in Lavenham, some seven or eight miles from Boxted. William's brother Thomas married Agnes Wyatt in 1561 and their sister Agnes married George Seargentson in Lavenham in 1565.

Biography

http://sites.rootsweb.com/~blenderman/Blenderman/fg06/fg06_021.html

Moriarty concludes451 that William Payne [original spelling, who I call “the Elder”] was the father of William Payne, Senior, based on Lavenham records. I don’t quite see the proof of the connection, but will accept his analysis, which seems to be based on the will of Richard Payne.

References

1. New England Historical and Genealogical Record, “Genealogical Gleanings in England: PAYNE,” G. Andrews Moriarty, V79, 82-84, 1925, NEHGS: http://www.americanancestors.org/, online database, PDF File: Paine - NEHGR V79 82-84.pdf (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) < AmericanAncestors > “Will of Richard Payne of Boxsted, 13 January 1574/5. … to my brother William Payne’s children. Executors: my wife Margaret and my sons John, Richard and Thomas …”