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From: "Paul M. Gifford" <>
Subject: Re: Antrobus/Lawrence
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 09:16:20 -0500

In article <> david greene
<> writes:

>I had followed the same line of thought on these Arnolds. While it is
>possible that a daughter might be omitted from an English will of this
>period if she had received her portion, it is hardly likely that that
>would be true of a child of 12.(A nuncupative will, however, is more
>likely to omit minor children.) Hence the wife of Walter Antrobus was
>almost certainly not a daughter of John and Joan Arnold. But I don't
>think that it -necessarily- follows that John Arnold was Joan (Arnold)
>Antrobus's brother.

True, but I wonder what the connection between John Arnold and Joan
(Arnold) Antrobus is. The passenger list, which shows her as age 65 in
1635 (if memory serves), would seem to identify her with the Joan
baptized in 1571, daughter of John. Further, it seems likely that the
John of the 1583 will was the father of the children baptized between 1560
and 1574. But, I agree, it would be stretching things to identify Joan
with John's sister, because their ages must have been at least 20
years apart.

Could she have been inadvertently omitted in his will? Perhaps Walter
Antrobus might have sued Arnold's heirs. Maybe a Chancery suit
exists, although I don't know whether that would be the correct jurisdiction
for such a suit.

>I have the published St. Albans Abbey parish register and shall check it
>again for other Joan Arnolds; my recollection is that there was none of
>an appropiate age. The Abbey parish, however, was not the only one in St.
>Albans, and I had the others checked only for Lawrences.

I guess unless you or someone else is able to make an exhaustive search in
local and other court records (assuming the ?Quarter Sessions minutes exist
for the period or that a Chancery suit exists), we will have to consider this
a dead end.

Paul Gifford

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