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From: Lynn Scott <>
Subject: Re: Pulteney or Poultney Family of Misterton, Leicestershire
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:58:20 -0500
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Dear MichaelAnne,

Many thanks for a wealth of information on Sir Thomas Poultney (d 1507) and
his daughter Elizabeth who married Sir William Feilding.

The death date you provided from J. Nichol for Elizabeth Poultney, however,
presents me with a slight problem. If she died, as the tomb inscription
apparently indicates, on 8 Sep 1539, and if the copy of Sir William
Feilding's will in the PRO bears the correct date for his making his will,
on 16 Apr 1540 (and the writing of the copy is quite clear in this
instance), Sir William managed in only seven months to bury his first wife
(Elizabeth Poultney), marry his second wife (Isabel Bosworth), and see the
birth of a son of this second marriage (Faustyne Filding).

Is such fast work at a second family credible? I've found no evidence
among my somewhat limited resources to suggest any other mother for the son
Faustyne, and the will states clearly "I bequeath to my sonne Faustyne
Filding an hundreth pounde(s) to be paide and delyu(er)ed by his mother at
her Discression," which I have interpreted to mean that Faustyne was his
child by his then-living second wife Isabel. There are several references
to Faustyne and Everard as his younger sons, as well as to his eldest son
Basil.

Any thoughts on this would be welcome, as to whether the copyist who
produced the copy in the PRO made an error in the copy, whether a second
marriage would have followed the death of a first wife so quickly, what
likelihood of a premature child surviving, etc.?

Thanks.

Lynn Scott

At 04:42 PM 1/26/2005, you wrote:
>Elizabeth Poultney married Twice. Her first husband was Thomas Andrew of
>Charwelton, co. Northampton by whom she had at least two sons Edmund and
>Richard.
>Her second husband was Sir William Feilding by whom she had three children:
><snip>
>MichaelAnne
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