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    Rotherham, George

    Male Abt 1545 - 1599  (~ 54 years)


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    • Name Rotherham, George 
      Born Abt 1545  Of Someries, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Died 1599  Of Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I05405  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 13 Jun 2015 

      Family 1 Smith, Jane,   b. Abt 1545, Of Annables, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Married 1561  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Last Modified 13 Jun 2015 
      Family ID F03563  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family 2 Barnes, Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1550, Of All Hallows, Honeylane, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 2 Dec 1635, Ayott, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 85 years) 
      Married Abt 1590  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F01407  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • May have died 19.11.1599 Someris, Bedfordshire, England?
        Children by Elizabeth Hugh and Edward Rotherham.


        National Archives:
        Copy of a recognizance DE/Si/41656 Mich 1595
        Contents: Between John Luke of Annables, gentleman, and George Rotherham of Someries, Bedford, in connection with the payment due by John Luke for the debts of Christopher Smyth, late Clerk of the Pipe

        Son?
        Will of George Rotherham of Luton, Bedfordshire 08 February 1631 PROB 11/159


        Another supposed manor appears for the first time in 1623 under the name of the manor of THE CHAPEL OF SAINT MACUTES (alias St. Machutus, alias St. Makes, alias St. Marks).From: 'Parishes: Hawnes or Haynes', A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 2 (1908), pp. 338-344. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62661 Date accessed: 03 November 2010.
        It is stated that George Rotherham died seised of the lands and chapel in 1594, and shortly before his death he brought an action against Anne Rotherham, widow, and Isaac Rotherham, from whom he claimed the lands and chapel by descent from his grandfather, George Rotherham, to whom they were granted in 1554; (fn. 101) none of the Rotherhams, however, had any claim to the lands and chapel, as they were alienated by the grantee George Rotherham to John Ventris, in whose family they continued for many years....