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From: "Leo van de Pas" <>
Subject: Re: James Blount, Lord Mountjoy d 1581
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:42:04 +1000
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Dear Will,
Can I shrink the period a little further? If his 14 year old father married
in August 1530, I doubt the bride was pregnant then, and we should/could
assume a first child being born about after May 1531. Then he could be 26 in
1557. However, a range of 1531 to 1536 still applies.
Leo

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Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: James Blount, Lord Mountjoy d 1581


> In a message dated 8/5/05 4:21:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> << If he was
> as precocious as he father and about 14/15 when married and 16 when a son
> was born we are looking at 1545. This gives a time frame of 1531 to 1545.
> >>
>
> I'm just rather suspicious of a person being sued and selling land at 13
> years of age with no mention of any sort of ward or guardianship going on.
> So my estimate of his birthrange would then be 1530/36 allowing him to
> be
> 21 at the point where he is doing these transactions in 1557.
>
> Will Johnson
>
>

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