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Children were: Marmaduke DARELL.
William DARELL was born about 1167 in Sessay, Yorkshire, England. He died after 1226. He has Ancestral File Number 9FZV-85. Parents: Marmaduke DARELL and Aceria.
Children were: Marmaduke DARELL.
William DARELL was born about 1218 in Sessay, Yorkshire, England. He died after 1278/79. He has Ancestral File Number 9FZV-F1. Parents: Marmaduke DARELL.
Spouse: Ada PERCY. William DARELL and Ada PERCY were married about 1241. Children were: Marmaduke DARELL.
William DARELL was born about 1268 in Sessay, Yorkshire, England. He has Ancestral File Number 9FZV-QK. Parents: Marmaduke DARELL and Helewisa DE INSULA.
Spouse: Joan DE HOLTBY. William DARELL and Joan DE HOLTBY were married about 1289 in Sessay, Yorkshire, England. Children were: Marmaduke DARELL.
William DARELL was born about 1312 in Sessay, Yorkshire, England. He died before 1368. He has Ancestral File Number 9FZW-4L. Parents: Marmaduke DARELL and Cecilia.
Spouse: Elizabeth. William DARELL and Elizabeth were married before 1334 in Sessay, Yorkshire, England. Children were: Marmaduke DARELL.
William DARELL was born about 1359 in Sessay, Yorkshire, England. He died after 1387. He has Ancestral File Number 9FZW-KT. Parents: Marmaduke DARELL and Alice PIGOT.
Spouse: Emma. William DARELL and Emma were married before 1382 in Sessay, Yorkshire, England. Children were: William DARELL Esquire.
William DARELL Esquire was born about 1384 in Littlecote, Wiltshire, England. He died in Mar 1461. He has Ancestral File Number 9FK4-XB. Parents: William DARELL and Emma.
Spouse: Elizabeth CALSTON. William DARELL Esquire and Elizabeth CALSTON were married before 1419. Children were: Florence DARELL.
Giles DAUBENEY was born about 1339. He has Ancestral File Number FC36-TM.
Children were: Katherine DAUBENEY.
Katherine DAUBENEY was born about 1365 in Devonshire, England. Parents: Giles DAUBENEY.
Spouse: Richard CHAMPERNON. Richard CHAMPERNON and Katherine DAUBENEY were married about 1391. Children were: Richard CHAMPERNON.
Alison DAUNCY was born in 1429. She has Ancestral File Number 8MM0-47.
Spouse: Thomas DENTON. Thomas DENTON and Alison DAUNCY were married before 1453. Children were: John DENTON.
Emmeline DAUNEY was born in 1326 in Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, England. She died in 1370. She has Ancestral File Number 9FP1-92. Parents: Sir John DAUNEY and Sibyl DE TREVERBYN.
Spouse: Sir Edward COURTENAY. Sir Edward COURTENAY and Emmeline DAUNEY were married about 1356. Children were: Sir Hugh COURTENAY.
Sir John DAUNEY was born about 1302 in Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, England. He died in 1347. He has Ancestral File Number 9FP1-7P. Parents: Lord Nicholas DAUNEY and Elizabeth.
Spouse: Sibyl DE TREVERBYN. Sir John DAUNEY and Sibyl DE TREVERBYN were married about 1327. Children were: Emmeline DAUNEY.
Lord Nicholas DAUNEY was born about 1275. He served in the military about 1290. "He was in the holy wars, from whence he brought a very rich and curious medal" (History of Cornwall).
**Not sure what crusade this was. Possibly the Seige of Acre in 1291. He died in 1333. !(A Calendar of Inquisitions). He has Ancestral File Number 18KF-HGL. He held the royal title of Lord of Sheviock . He held the royal title of Lord of Anton. Parents: William DAUNEY II.
Spouse: Elizabeth. Lord Nicholas DAUNEY and Elizabeth were married before 1302. Children were: Sir John DAUNEY.
William DAUNEY was born about 1200. He died between 1279 and 1292.
Spouse: Elizabeth. William DAUNEY and Elizabeth were married before 1240. Children were: William DAUNEY II.
William DAUNEY II was born about 1240. Honour of Launceseton weekly tenants of Wayternese who make suit to the court of the gate of the castle of Launceston every 3 wks etc held manor of Kenel & renders for it 13s 6d (Hull, CON 1337.). Parents: William DAUNEY and Elizabeth.
Children were: Lord Nicholas DAUNEY.
Henry DAVENPORT was born about 1256 in Chester, Cheshire, England. He died in Cheshire, England. He has Ancestral File Number FRN7-R1. Parents: Roger DE DAVENPORT and Mary SALEMON.
Children were: Mary DAVENPORT.
Mary DAVENPORT was born about 1287 in Cheshire, England. She has Ancestral File Number HF3P-1R. Parents: Henry DAVENPORT.
Spouse: William MAINWARING. William MAINWARING and Mary DAVENPORT were married in 1315 in Cheshire, England. Children were: William MAINWARING.
Sarah Ann DAVENPORT was born about 1695. Date is estimated. She died between 1770 and 1785 in Spotsylvania Co., Virginia. Date and place are assumed.
Spouse: Thomas GRAVES. Thomas GRAVES and Sarah Ann DAVENPORT were married before 1713 in Spotsylvania Co., Virginia. Ancestral File #AFN:21R6-8P shows Thomas Graves as being married to Ann Reynolds. However, much of the other information in this particular Ancestral File seems to be incorrect, so the validity of the surname is questionable. Children were: Eleanor GRAVES, Johnathon GRAVES, Thomas GRAVES, Soloman GRAVES, William GRAVES, Susanna GRAVES, Richard GRAVES, Rice GRAVES, Catherine GRAVES, Ann GRAVES, David GRAVES, Louisa GRAVES, Robert GRAVES, Jonathan GRAVES, Mary GRAVES, Jane GRAVES.
DAVIS was born about 1660. Date is estimated. Parents: Foulk (Fulke) DAVIS and Goody.
Children were: Benjamin DAVIS.
Ann DAVIS.
Spouse: Grover FERGUSON.
Benjamin DAVIS was born about 1690 in Southampton, Suffolk, New York. Date is estimated. The tie of Benjamin to his son, James Davis, is a guestimate, based on dates and locations.
IGI does show that the father of James Davis was named Benjamin. Parents: DAVIS.
Children were: James DAVIS.
Betsey DAVIS was born in 1800 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. She died on 9 Dec 1887 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York. She was buried in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Parents: James DAVIS and Ruth GRISWOLD.
Spouse: John HALL. John HALL and Betsey DAVIS were married on 29 Jun 1825 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Children were: Sarah Jennette HALL, James Davis HALL, Lucretia HALL, Nelson Gregory HALL, Henry Lewis HALL, John Carlton HALL.
Christian James DAVIS.
Spouse: Sherrill Maureen GALE.
Christopher Bradley DAVIS was born on 30 Apr 1791 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Parents: James DAVIS and Ruth GRISWOLD.
Spouse: Betsey HALL.
Clarisy DAVIS.
Spouse: W.R. FERGUSON. Children were: Ivy FERGUSON, J.C. FERGUSON, Z.V. FERGUSON, Jarvis FERGUSON, Horace FERGUSON, T.W. FERGUSON.
Effie A. DAVIS was born on 22 May 1866.
Spouse: Robert Nathan FERGUSON. Robert Nathan FERGUSON and Effie A. DAVIS were married on 28 Dec 1882. Children were: Maud Olivier FERGUSON, Nina Antoinett FERGUSON, Luota Grant FERGUSON, Lawrence Landon FERGUSON, Lilla Selanas FERGUSON, Eric Jeremiah FERGUSON.
Foulk (Fulke) DAVIS was born about 1615 in Wales. He immigrated before 1639 to New England. Foulk (Fulk)Davis came to New England, moved to Long Island, first to East Hampton, then progessively moved westward, finally ending in Jamaica, where he died in 1680's. He had large family; some of his descendants moved to New Jersey, near Trenton, and later to Salem and Cumberland Counties.
He died about 1687 in Jamaica, Long Island, New York. He has Ancestral File Number C50D-C8. The first record of Foulk is a deed he witnessed on Gardiner's Island in 1639. He is mentioned frequently in the early records of Southampton, East Hampton, and Brookhaven. The Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1869, p. 272 is a transcription of a grant from James Farrett, deputy to the Earle of Sterling (Scotland), to Lion Gardiner, of the island, called by the Indians Manchonack and by the English the Isle of Wight. The document was sealed 10 March 1639 and is witnessed by Foulk Davis and Benjamin Pine. East Hampton History and Genealogies by J E Rattray mentions Foulk Davis as one of the 24 early settlers who joined 5 of the original 9 settlers of East Hampton. Foulk Davis is listed in the rate list of Newtown (now Jamaica) for the year 1683 with 2 cows, 2 one year olds, 8 of land, 1 head and estates of 39-0-0 . Foulk came to Gardiner's Island and settled in East Hampton. He then moved to Brookhaven, then moved again to Jamaica where he died. A transaction of land to his-son-in law, William Sallire, is recorded in the Brookhaven Town Records, 1662-1679 on p. 87. It is dated 25 Oct 1671 and in the "three and twentieth year of the reign of our sovereign lord Charles the second of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King." On page 162 is the record of Foulk giving his dwelling and some attached land to his son, Joseph. He also gives consent to "make over" the 5 acres of land on the south side of his lot which is 5 acres in exchange (sic).
In 1654, Foulk was indicted for participating in a public masterbation contest with 5 other men. They must have been really bored!
"Four men, two married and perhaps in their forties, and two unmarried young men of about 20, shocked the community in the summer of 1654 by engaging in what seems to have been competitive masturbation. One was put in the pillory, two were whipped, and the fourth scolded. But when continuing rumors implicated a teenager, the magistrates treated the accuser as a slanderer rather than the boy as a probable malefactor. The court specifically decided this sexual offense was not a crime that extended to life and limb. Coming just a few years after New Haven Colony had hanged a Guilford man for public masturbation, the justices were doing their best not to overreact, even though these trials involved behavior that certainly qualified as lewd and notorious by seventeenth-century Puritan standards."
From LIHISTORY.COM
Witchhunt in East Hampton
A Long Island farmer's wife is accused of witchcraft three decades before the trials in Salem
George DeWan
Staff Writer
One Friday in early February, 1657, 16-year-old Elizabeth Gardiner Howell lay feverish and delirious in her bed in the small, isolated village of East Hampton. Elizabeth's infant daughter had just been taken from her breast after feeding, and she crooned a psalm at the departing child. Suddenly, the teenage mother stiffened and shrieked:
``A witch! A witch! Now you are come to torture me because I spoke two or three words against you!''
Elizabeth's father, Lion Gardiner, the leading citizen of the community, was summoned from his home across the street.
``What did you see?'' asked Gardiner.
``A black thing at the bed's feet,'' cried Elizabeth, violently flailing her arms to strike at what she saw.
By Sunday evening, Elizabeth Howell was dead. So began a chain of events that led to one of the first witchcraft trials in the American colonies, more than three decades before Salem, Mass., would be forever marked by the sign of the witch.
The accused was Goody Garlick, a woman in her 50s who lived just down the street. Her actual name was Elizabeth, the wife of Joshua Garlick, a farmer who had once worked for Gardiner on his nearby island - first called the Isle of Wight but later renamed Gardiners Island. Goody was a shortened form of Goodwife: Goodman and Goodwife were not names, but terms of address for a married person who was not of high rank - similar to Mr. or Mrs. - but also not lower class.
The death of young Elizabeth Howell got the little rural community of 33 families buzzing. Goody Simons told the local magistrates that as Elizabeth lay dying she told her that Goody Garlick was responsible. This led the justices, John Mulford, John Hand and Thomas Baker, to hold three weeks of hearings, where depositions were taken from 13 witnesses. All the direct quotations used in this account are copied verbatim from these depositions, which are in the Town of East Hampton archives.
On Saturday, Lion Gardiner's wife, Mary, who was ill herself, left her bed to visit her daughter. Elizabeth, who was the first English child to be born in New York State, put out her hand to her mother and began crying. ``Oh, mother, mother,'' she said. ``I am bewitched.''
``I asked her who she saw,'' said Mary Gardiner. ``And she said, `Goody Garlick in the further corner and a black thing at the hither corner, both at the feet of the bed.'''
Goodwife Simons testified that Elizabeth had once gotten terribly upset with Joshua Garlick for being sharp-tongued with her when she went to his farm to look for her husband, Arthur, who was there threshing. On the second night of her sickness, Elizabeth told Goody Simons, who was staying with her, to go and get Goody Garlick.
``I could tear her in pieces,'' Elizabeth told Goody Simons. ``She is a double-tongued woman! Did you not see her last night stand by the bed side ready to pull me in pieces? And she pricked me with pins.''
A number of residents told the justices stories about Goody Garlick that hurt her case. Goody Edwards said that once Goody Garlick had requested that Edwards' daughter, who had recently given birth, provide her with some breast milk, which she did. The child immediately got sick. Edwards later told this story to Goody Davis, the wife of Foulk Davis. Goody Davis told Edwards that Goody Garlick had once made the same request of her own daughter, whose child quickly died.
Here is more of the testimony:
Thomas Tallmage said that he had once been at the house of Goody Davis: [She was] speaking unto me about some accidents that had fallen out among them at the Island [Wight] as concerning the death of her child in what manner it was taken away and of an ox that had his leg broke and having reference in her speech concerning Goody Garlick as if she were a witch.
Richard Stratton said that, years earlier, he heard Goody Davis say that her own child died strangely at the Island. ``She thought it was bewitched and she said she did not know of any one on the Island that could do it unless it were Goody Garlick.''
Goody Birdsall heard Davis say that she had dressed her child in clean linen at the Island. ``Goody Garlick came in and said how pretty the child doth look. And so soon as she had spoken Goody Garlick said the child is not well for it groaneth and Goody Davis said her heart did rise and Goody Davis said when she took the child from Goody Garlick she said she saw death in the face of it. And her child sickened presently upon it and lay five days and five nights and never opened the eyes nor cried till it died.''
One person who did not testify, for whatever reason, was Goody Davis, who at one time lived on the Isle of Wight, as did the Garlicks. And as the testimony went on, it became increasingly apparent that it was this same Goody Davis who seemed to be Goody Garlick's chief accuser. Through the testimony of others, Davis accused Goody Garlick of having caused a catalog of unexplained happenings on the Island: a child that was ``taken away in a strange manner,'' a man that was dead, a fat and lusty sow and her piglets that died during the birth, an ox with a broken leg.
By the end of the hearing, the focus seemed to have shifted to Goody Davis. Jeremiah Vaile, who lived next door to the Garlicks but who had once worked for Gardiner on the island, said that Gardiner was once asked if he thought that Davis' child had been bewitched. Gardiner, who didn't testify but whose word counted for something in the town, replied testily that ``Goody Davis had taken an Indian child to nurse and for lucre of a little wampum had merely starved her own child.''
In his 1996 book, ``Imagining the Past,'' historian Timothy H. Breen took a close look at East Hampton history. He concluded that the Goody Garlick case was one of many instances of the East Hamptonites trying to establish a pecking order in their new little town.
``The investigation into witchcraft had uncovered no witch; rather, it had exposed once again a pattern of slander and defamation,'' Breen writes. ``Discontented people in East Hampton who had come to this isolated extension of New England culture looking for a fresh start and some possible bettering of their lives had in their ambition turned on each other. As the witnesses poignantly revealed, no one in East Hampton seems to have experienced more disappointment than did Mrs. Foulk Davis.''
Unable to make a decision, the three judges sent the case to Hartford, Conn., for a trial on charges of witchcraft. But for Joshua Garlick, the testimony was convincing enough. On behalf of his wife, he immediately entered an action of defamation against Goody Davis. There is no evidence that the defamation suit was ever tried.
The Hartford trial was held on May 5, in the Particular Court of Connecticut, with a panel of magistrates headed by the governor, John Winthrop. But it was anticlimactic. There may have been testimony, but the official record mentions none, although the East Hampton depositions were available.
The indictment shows how strongly the idea of a woman possessed by the devil, a witch, was embedded in the Puritan belief system:
Thou art indicted by the name of Elizabeth Garlick the wife of Joshua Garlick of East Hampton, that not having the fear of God before thine eyes thou has entertained familiarity with Satan the great enemy of God & mankind & by his help since the year 1650 hath done works above the course of nature to the loss of lives of several persons (with several other sorceries) & in particular the wife of Arthur Howell of East Hampton, for which both according to the laws of God & the established law of this commonwealth thou deservest to die.
The jury found Elizabeth Garlick not guilty, and she and her husband went home to East Hampton. They seemed to have lived peaceably, well into their 90s. Their chief nemesis, Goody Davis, appears to have died soon after the Hartford trial.
Spouse: Goody. Foulk (Fulke) DAVIS and Goody were married about 1660. Children were: DAVIS.
Francis McGee DAVIS.
Spouse: Margaret Angeline FERGUSON. Francis McGee DAVIS and Margaret Angeline FERGUSON were married on 21 Oct 1847.
Gilbert DAVIS was born about 1772 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Parents: James DAVIS and Mary BAILEY.
Spouse: Elizabeth GOLDSMITH.
James DAVIS was born on 28 May 1726 in Southold, Long Island, New York. He died between 1776 and 1815. Dates are estimated. Parents: Benjamin DAVIS.
Spouse: Mary BAILEY. James DAVIS and Mary BAILEY were married about 1764 in Southold, Suffolk, New York. Children were: James DAVIS, Phebe DAVIS, Mary DAVIS, Gilbert DAVIS, Lucretia DAVIS.
James DAVIS was born on 25 Mar 1765 in Southold, Long Island, New York. He died on 12 Mar 1852. He served in the military Revelutionary War. James Davis served in the Revolutionary War and was the ancestor that qualified Auntie May (Mary Manchester Hall) to join the Daughters of the American Revolution. Some information has been obtained from documents from the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, in Washington, D.C. and from the statement made by him to them in which he requested a pension. Parents: James DAVIS and Mary BAILEY.
Spouse: Ruth GRISWOLD. James DAVIS and Ruth GRISWOLD were married on 11 Dec 1789 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Children were: Sarah DAVIS, Christopher Bradley DAVIS, Joel DAVIS, Ruth Maritta DAVIS, Mary DAVIS, Betsey DAVIS.
Joel DAVIS was born on 13 May 1793 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Parents: James DAVIS and Ruth GRISWOLD.
Lucretia DAVIS was born about 1774 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Parents: James DAVIS and Mary BAILEY.
Spouse: Meltire OVERTON. Meltire OVERTON and Lucretia DAVIS were married about 1795 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut.
Mary DAVIS.
Spouse: Andrew M. FERGUSON. Children were: George Robert FERGUSON, Ruth Ann FERGUSON.
Mary DAVIS was born about 1770 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Parents: James DAVIS and Mary BAILEY.
Spouse: Joel LEE.
Mary DAVIS was born on 23 Feb 1798 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Parents: James DAVIS and Ruth GRISWOLD.
Phebe DAVIS was born about 1768 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Parents: James DAVIS and Mary BAILEY.
Spouse: Noah BENTON. Noah BENTON and Phebe DAVIS were married between 1796 and 1800. Dates are estimated.
Ruth Maritta DAVIS was born on 11 Jan 1796 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Parents: James DAVIS and Ruth GRISWOLD.
Sarah DAVIS was born on 8 Jun 1790 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Parents: James DAVIS and Ruth GRISWOLD.
Amber DAVISSON. Parents: Roy Stanley DAVISSON Jr. and Debbie SANBOURNE.
Glenna Sue DAVISSON. Parents: Roy Stanley DAVISSON Sr. and Martha Sue COULSTON.
Spouse: Charles Gary "Chester" NOBLES. Children were: Clinton Colin NOBLES.
Heather Dawn DAVISSON. Parents: Roy Stanley DAVISSON Jr. and Debbie SANBOURNE.
Judith Ann DAVISSON. Parents: Roy Stanley DAVISSON Sr. and Martha Sue COULSTON.
Spouse: Wayne Leon BRADSHAW Jr..
Roy Stanley DAVISSON Sr. was born on 23 Oct 1925. He died on 21 Dec 1968 in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas.
Spouse: Martha Sue COULSTON. Children were: Roy Stanley DAVISSON Jr., Glenna Sue DAVISSON, Judith Ann DAVISSON.
Roy Stanley DAVISSON Jr.. Parents: Roy Stanley DAVISSON Sr. and Martha Sue COULSTON.
Spouse: Debbie SANBOURNE. Children were: Heather Dawn DAVISSON, Amber DAVISSON.
John DAWSON.
Spouse: Mary Charlotte "Molly" NICHOLS. John DAWSON and Mary Charlotte "Molly" NICHOLS were married on 8 Aug 1877 in Texas.
Alice DE ADDINGTON was born about 1474. She has Ancestral File Number HQP1-NR.
Spouse: Walter WALLYS. Walter WALLYS and Alice DE ADDINGTON were married before 1496. Children were: Richard WALLIS.
Garsinde DE ALBY was born about 840 in France. Date is estimated. She has Ancestral File Number 9GG5-2Q.
Spouse: Odon (Eudes). Odon (Eudes) and Garsinde DE ALBY were married. Children were: Raimond II, Ermengol.
Adam DE ALDITHLEY was born about 1030 in Normandy, France. He served in the military in 1066 in Hastings, Sussex, England. Battle of Hastings. He has Ancestral File Number 8XKQ-JQ. William Duke of Normandy was attended in his expedition to England by Adam de Aldithley or Audithley, who was accompanied from Audithley, in Normandy, by histwo sons, Lydulph and Adam de Audithley. On William obtaining the crown of England, he conferred upon Adam de Audithley the elder, large and valuable possessions and other favours, as he did to all his followers. Adam de Audithley appears th have been a great favourite with King William and his Queen for we are informed that Queen Matilda, the wife of the Conqueror, and the daughter of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, and commonly. mentioned as Maud the Stranger, gave to Adam de Audithley, the elder, the seat of Red Castle, in the county of Salop or Shropshire, with all the lands and tenements appertithng thereto, where the family seems to have resided until the completion of the building of Healey Castle, in the county of Stafford, whence they derived the title of Barons of Healey,— but which member f the family built the castle, or which of them first took possession of it, we are not informed.
Children were: Adam DE ALDITHLEY.
Adam DE ALDITHLEY was born about 1050 in Normandy, France. Date is estimated. He served in the military in 1066 in Hastings, Sussex, England. Battle of Hastings. He has Ancestral File Number 158H-NFD. He has Ancestral File Number 8XKQ-GD. Parents: Adam DE ALDITHLEY.
Children were: Liulf DE ALDITHLEY, William DE ALDITHLEY.
