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A collection of links to historic sites in America & Europe by researchers that would be of interest to descendants of the Bigelow family and their related ancestors the Massey's, the Davenports, the Leghs, the Savages, and many others......please feel free to add! I'm hoping to work on organizing this a little better.
American Genealogy
The Bigelow Society Rod Bigelow has taken up where the Howe's genealogy has left off, with a very extensive and well organized website, with lots of more current information submitted by family members.
Knights under Edward I http://books.google.com/books?id=l4xUsPyL6koC&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111&dq...
Links to Douglas family:
http://www.genes2.com/boulch/names_b.html
Links to Danyers ( D'Angers) family:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/aqwg119...
Gilman Bigelow Howe " The Bigelow Family of America" 1890
- This is the "Bible" for the Bigelow family. Extremely accurate to its publication date.
http://books.google.com/books/about/Genealogy_of_the_Bigelow_Family...
This next genealogy link, from David Vincent Bigelow, is very extensive for Bigelows in America, and well organized online, but should be cross checked with other resources, such as the Bigelow Society, for accuracy:
http://gw.geneanet.org/northerngirl?lang=fr&m=N&v=Bigelow
Chesire, England Roots:
Craig Thornber:
Craig Thornber has organized quick check genealogies of the leading families of Chesire using Ormerod's history. Very accurate with links and historical information, photos, etc.
http://thornber.net/famhist/index.html
A List of Freeholders of Chesire 1578: http://www.archive.org/stream/alistfreeholder00britgoog/alistfreeho...
"Churches, Cemeteries and other places of Interest in England"
St. Michael's and Mary's Church, Macclesfield Dedicated to the Legh and Savage Families http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Church,_Macclesfield
Bio of the Black Prince and medieval heraldry: Medieval combat society http://www.themcs.org/heraldry.htm
Find a Grave Burials at St. Michael's: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2381790
Royal Genealogies: http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/royalgen.html
Bramhall http://www.bramhallweb.co.uk/about_bramhall.htm
Location and effigy photos of the Andrews family: http://professor-moriarty.com/info/section/church-monument-art/16th...
St. Martin's church Ashton upon Mersey UK:
(Bigelow/Chauntrell family heraldry on windows) http://www.stmartinsaom.co.uk/id3.html
Knutsford History:
Gundrada Chapel, St. John the Baptist Church, Southover, UK
http://www.lewespriory.org.uk/gundrada_chapel
Castle Acre
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Acre
http://www.cheshirenow.co.uk/norman_earls_chester.html
Reference to a Brother William Baguley in Earl John Warren's will:
http://www.warrenfamilyhistory.com/Docs/Our%20Warrens%20in%20Englan...
St. Mary's Church, Bowdon, Chesire , UK:
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/chs/churches/bowdon.html
http://archives.cheshire.gov.uk/
Many of Cheshire’s libraries have some local history material but the main collections are to be found at:
◦ Cheshire East libraries: Alsager, Congleton, Crewe, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Nantwich, Poynton, Sandbach and Wilmslow.
◦Cheshire West and Chester libraries: Chester, Ellesmere Port, Neston, Northwich and Winsford
Cheshire Church Parishes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_parishes_of_Cheshire
Pre 1066 monuments Chesire:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_parishes_of_Cheshire
The Chesire Archers and Massey, Brereton and others history with the kings and Chesire archers :
http://www.createwrt.net/Irene_Prestons_Historical_Writing/CHESHIRE...
Princes of Powys:
http://books.google.com/books?id=dy4LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Gri...
Assize Rolls, Pipe Rolls, etc :
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/search.aspx?query=Lancashire&rf=pu...
Massey family death records online:
http://family.grayless.us/family.php?famid=F1820
Ancient families of Lancashire:
http://archive.org/stream/countyfamiliesof00crosuoft/countyfamilies...
Burke's Peerage Massey family:
http://books.google.com/books?id=S2hHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA380&lpg=PA380&dq...
Ormerod:
The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Comp. from ..., Volume 1
By George Ormerod, Daniel King, William Smith, William Webb (sheriff.), Sir Peter Leycester http://books.google.com/books?id=DYY1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA431&lpg=PA431&dq...
Related famiy genealogies: (pre Colonial) Warren, Gray, Davenport, Massey, Legh, Savage, Russell, Rostherne, Dutton, Venables, etc.
'Danyers/d'Angers family genealogy and biographical information with sources:
http://books.google.com/books?id=QyYAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=s...
Bulkeley family tree (Ormerod):
http://books.google.com/books?id=VwMcAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq...
Related family genealogies: ( Colonial period) Warren, Olmstead, Russell, Andrews, Gould, Leigh, Hale, Tuttle, Hemingway, Morris, Sanford, Hitchcock, Bishop, etc.
Fish:
http://www.ffish.com/family_tree/descendants_william_de_la_ferte_ma...
- Cross Reference!
Good modern researcher:
________________________________________________ Miscellaneous but well researched notes:
http://www.kenworthypast.com/#/normanmassey-lineage/4535196050
n 1284 Queen Eleanor gave alms of £6 3s. 0½d. to build a chapel and cell for the recluse of St. Martin's church
18H(M). SIR JOHN MASCY, DE PONINGTON, son of Hamon Mascy and Jane de Temperly. Lived in England, Tatton and Ponington, Devout Catholic. Knighted by 1380 . In 1397, Sir John and his sons were commissioned by King Richard II, son of the Black Prince, to bring ships and men to Chester, and to transport the king's forces to Ireland to quell and uprising. Sir John was Sheriff in Cheshire in 1400, and was probably a participant in the entrapment of King Richard II. In 1403, at the Battle of Shrewsbury, Sir John fought on behalf of King Henry IV, and was slain on the battlefield.
m. JOHANNA COGHALL, daughter of ROGER DE COGHALL
A1. Hamon Mascy, May have diied 1403 in Battle of Shrewsbury
A2. Thomas Mascy
A3. HUGH DE CODDINGTON
A4. Ciceley
19H(M). HAMON MASCY, de PONINGTON, lived in Ponington, England. Was son of Thomas Mascy and Agnes de Leigh. Knighted by 1366. Hamon fought for the Black Prince at the Battle of Poitiers in France in 1356, as reward for which he received pardon for having slain some men in Cheshire, except for his responsibilty for the death of the king's minister, Bertram de Norden, and that of Richard de Bechyngton. One is left to wonder concerning the punishment, if any, for the slaying of the two as to which his pardon did not extend. Died c1380.
20H(M). THOMAS MASCY, DE PONINGTON, son of Hamon Mascy de Ponington and Katherine Vernon. Knighted by 1347. He, his brothers, and son are remembered in Cheshire annals as a most violent family, ever engaged in feuds with neighboring lords, or in trouble of some other character. Thomas fought in France in 1346 in the Battle of Crecy under the Black Prince.
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18H(M). SIR JOHN MASCY, DE PONINGTON, son of Hamon Mascy and Jane de Temperly. Lived in England, Tatton and Ponington, Devout Catholic. Knighted by 1380 . In 1397, Sir John and his sons were commissioned by King Richard II, son of the Black Prince, to bring ships and men to Chester, and to transport the king's forces to Ireland to quell and uprising. Sir John was Sheriff in Cheshire in 1400, and was probably a participant in the entrapment of King Richard II. In 1403, at the Battle of Shrewsbury, Sir John fought on behalf of King Henry IV, and was slain on the battlefield.
m. JOHANNA COGHALL, daughter of ROGER DE COGHALL
A1. Hamon Mascy, May have diied 1403 in Battle of Shrewsbury
A2. Thomas Mascy
A3. HUGH DE CODDINGTON
A4. Ciceley
19H(M). HAMON MASCY, de PONINGTON, lived in Ponington, England. Was son of Thomas Mascy and Agnes de Leigh. Knighted by 1366. Hamon fought for the Black Prince at the Battle of Poitiers in France in 1356, as reward for which he received pardon for having slain some men in Cheshire, except for his responsibilty for the death of the king's minister, Bertram de Norden, and that of Richard de Bechyngton. One is left to wonder concerning the punishment, if any, for the slaying of the two as to which his pardon did not extend. Died c1380.
A1. John Mascy, de Pontington
20H(M). THOMAS MASCY, DE PONINGTON, son of Hamon Mascy de Ponington and Katherine Vernon. Knighted by 1347. He, his brothers, and son are remembered in Cheshire annals as a most violent family, ever engaged in feuds with neighboring lords, or in trouble of some other character. Thomas fought in France in 1346 in the Battle of Crecy under the Black Prince.
A1. HAMON MASCY
21H(M). HAMON MASCY, DE PONINGTON, born in England, some of Robert Rosethern. Knighted in 1347.
m. KATHERINE VERNON, daughter of ALAN VERNON of Rixton
A1. THOMAS MASCY A5. Richard Mascy
A2. Henry Mascy A6. Hugh Mascy
A3. John Mascy A7. Hamo Mascy
A4. William Mascy A8. Anne Mascy, m. Colburn
Corrections/ Additions P 177 There is a Hamon Mascy who was born in 1284 in Tatton, Cheshire, England. It is possible this is the same Hamon Mascy. His father was listed as Robert Massy.
23H(M). WILLIAM MASCY, lived in England during reign of King Henry III. Son of Hamon IV. William probably participated in the battle of Evesham in late 1265. It looks as if William went with Prince Edward in 1270 to Palestine in the last of the Crusades to regain the Holy Land. It is almost certain that William died there, either of a wound sustained in battle, or of a disease.
m. MARGARET MAINEARING
A1. Richard, was Sheriff of Cheshire. D 1302
A2. ROBERT MASCY, de ROSETHERNE
A3. Thomas, who had a son, Hamon de Rixton
A4. Hawise Mascy
http://chastain-beal.com/redbook/p174-179.html