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The first eight generations given here are attributed to H G
Somersby, noted author of fictional genealogies written for wealthy
clients, in 1857, and are not to be taken as authoritative:
Robert Lawrence, silversmith who worked for the Lord of Lancaster Castle about 1150. |
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Robert Lawrence (c1150) In 1187 accompanied Richard, Coeur de Lion, in the Third Crusade. At the Siege of Acre, 12 July 1191, he scaled the walls, along with four other men, and opened the gates to the armies of Britain. For his bravery, he was knighted "Sir Robert Lawrence" and awarded Ashton Hall, about three miles from the city of Lancaster. And he obtained for his arms, "Argent, a cross raguly gules." Robert Lawrence (c1170) married a daughter of James Trafford |
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James Lawrence (c1195) married c1225 Acely Botcher; married c1252 Matilda de Washington, daughter and heiress of John de Washington John Lawrence (c1260) married Margaret, daughter of Walter Chesford John Lawrence (c1290-1360) married Elisabeth Holt of Stabley, Lancashire Edmund Lawrence (c1315-1381) married Agnes de Washington Robert Lawrence
(c1371-8 Sep 1439) married Margaret Holden, Represented Lancashire in
Parliament 1404, 1406, 1414, and 1429-1430. Thomas Lawrence
(c1410) married Mabilla Redmain, and lived in Chelsea, Middlesex Arthur Lawrence
(c1445) Thomas
Lawrence (c1490-1583) |
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Sir Thomas Lawrence (1539-1593) was granted arms, and his
son John made a Baronet in 1594, and used the same shield as the Lawrences of
Ashton Hall in Lancaster, but with a different crest. There is no small
controversy concerning his ancestry. In the 1634 Visitation of
Buckinghamshire, Sir Thomas is described as "descended from Lawrence of
Lancashire." Thomas Faulkner's History of Chelsea,
1829, states that purchased the Manor House on Lawrence Street, Chelsea, from
Henry VIII, and was descended from the Lawrence that came to England with
William the Conquer and settled at Ashton Hall. However, Randall Davies, Chelsea Old Church, 1904, based upon a paper by Walter Rye on "Lawrence of Iver and Chelsea" published in Vol IV of the Herald and Genealogist citing a pedigree by Lilly in the Harleian MS., No. 1096, claims "that he was the son of Thomas Lawrence of Chelmarsh, near Bridgnorth, in the county of Salop; where also Thomas Lawrence, his grandfather resided." As further evidence, Davies refers to the burial monument of Sir Thomas in Old Chelsea Church, that the chief was omitted from the Lawrence coat of arms. Then there is the ancestor list from Jobes Journal, widely circulated in the US, which traces descent: Sir Robert (fl.1150) / Sir Robert / Sir Thomas / William / John / Sir Edmund / Sir Robert / Sir Robert / Sir James / Sir Thomas / Arthur / Thomas / Sir Thomas / Sir John. |
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Sir Thomas Lawrence
(1539-28 Oct 1593) m.22 Jul 1572 married Martha Gage, daughter of Anthony
Gage. He was a goldsmith in London who lived in Chelsea, Middlesex.
After his death, she married John Bromley Sir John Lawrence
(c1589-12 Nov 1638) married Grisselle Gibbone (c1590-Mar 1675), daughter and
co-heir of Gervase (Jarvis) Gibbons of Bennenden, Kent, (1535-4 Jan 1594/5)
and his wife Grysell Birde. John entered St Johns College, Oxford 27 May
1603 at age 14. He received a B. A. from Oriel College on 29 October 1604 and
a M. A. from St. Edmunds Hall on 7 July 1615. John was knighted at Royston 26
January 1609/10 and was made a baronet on 9 October 1628. His will
written 18 Oct 1638 was probated 21 Jan 1638/9, and reads "Sir John
Lawrence of Delfords and Iver, Buckinghamshire, Knight and Baronet..."
and speaks of the house he is building at Iver. He is buried in the
Lawrence Chapel of Old Chelsea Church, on one side of the nave, opposite the
chapel of St Thomas More. On 23 June 1620, Sir John purchased one share
of stock in the Virginia Company. |
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Robert Lawrence
(c1617-after 18 Oct 1682) born at Chelsea, Middlesex, entered Oxford University 4
Nov 1631. Upon reaching his majority, about 1638, he and his wife Elizabeth
(Atkinson?) moved to Virginia. He was granted 300 acres on
Lawnes Creek, Isle of Wight County, 25 Aug 1642, and another 150 acres there 28
Sep 1643. He patented 400 acres of land 20 Aug 1644 in Lower Norfolk
County on the east branch of the Elizabeth River. Robert joined other
Puritans migrating to Nansemond County before 1659, where he served as Justice
in 1659. He became a Quaker and petitioned the House of Burgesses to be
relieved of this office 14 Mar 1659/60. Robert witnessed a Quaker wedding
19 Oct 1682. His will and record of his estate perished with the
destruction of all Nansemond County records during the Revolutionary War.
Other records show that he had four sons, but records do not prove the names of
his daughters. John Lawrence (c1641-aft 2 Jan 1696/7) married Mary,
and lived in Nansemond Co, Virginia. Mary was a Quaker, who was recorded
in Quaker records after 1700 as Mary Lawrence, widow. Her maiden name
might have been Power, but no source of this speculation has been
suggested. John patented 625 acres 25 Sep 1663 on the west side of
Chowanoke River, in North Carolina, and witnessed wills in Albemarle Co,
NC. He also patented 530 acres in Isle of Wight 5 Jun 1678. He wrote
his will 2 Jan 1696/7 in Nansemond County. Robert Lawrence (c1680-1744) may have married first Anne
Council, then Elizabeth
Nicholls, daughter of John Nicholls and Elizabeth Osborne. They moved
to Bertie Co, North Carolina, about 1730, but apparently moved back to Nansemond
County in 1744 and wrote his will there, where it was lost during the
Revolutionary War, though it appears to have
still been in probate in 1747. Humphrey Lawrence (c1726-1772) married (Jul
1747?) Ann
Ashley, daughter of Thomas Ashley, Jr (c1710-1790) son of Thomas Ashley and
Ann Plowman; and Ann Hicks, daughter of David Hicks and Elizabeth.
Humphrey was a goldsmith in Bertie County, NC. Inventory of his estate was
filed 13 June 1772. Ann
Lawrence (c1760-1834) married by 1776
Richard Dillon (7 Oct 1745 - 7 Oct 1833)
They lived in Bertie County, North Carolina until 1789, then Barnwell District,
South Carolina, leaving there in March 1807 for "the west" and were in Amite Co, Mississippi for the 1810 census, receiving land in Marion County that year, near
"Dillons Bridge," just above the Louisiana line west of Highway 27, which fell into Pike Co. when it was formed in 1815, and Walthall County in 1914.
Ann was a founding member of Bogue Chitto Baptist Church 31 Oct 1812. Family Tradition
says that Richard's wife was Annys Morris, but documentation is lacking. |
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1. Joanna Dillon (1778-) married Jeremiah G Smith
, Pike Co, MS |
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Joanna Dillon (1778) m.1798 Jeremiah G Smith (1773-1843) Martha "Patsie" Smith (1802-1861) m.1818 Edwin Barksdale Alford Harriet Jane Alford m.1847 Tyra Jennings Tynes Walter Edwin Tynes (1848-1928) m.1871 Frances Mary Tate Jeanne Marie Tynes (1878-1958) m.1913 Carson B Matthews Frances Mary Tate Matthews (1917-2010) m.1949 Virgil Raymond Liptrap James Matthews Liptrap (1951) |
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