THE EARLIEST DAYS OF THE JEFF(E)REY LINE AROUND HORNCASTLE, LINCOLNSHIRE, 1561 - 1672 http://www.ardrosshouse.com/family.htm St Michael’s, Martin by Horncastle St Wilfred’s, Thornton by Horncastle JEFFREY CHURCH WARDENS (Katherin WINSER and Elyn WINSER also married at Thornton, both in 1575 and Robert was baptised there in 1571) Edward Martin 1561 - 62 b.c. 1535 (Edward and William were almost certainly brothers or at least cousins. b.c. 1540 son Thomas Hameringham 1612 - 13 John GEFFREY Edward JEFFEREYE Martin and Thornton by Horncastle are less than a mile apart.) William JEFFRYE = Francis WINSER son Thomas Hameringham 1624 - 25 bur. Sept. 10th 1586 Ever present death Since William did not marry until 1566 it is perhaps more 1628 - 29 possibly mar. Katheren — Moorby Oct. 28th 1566 likely that Thomas and Anne were Edward’s children, born The account of the nine burials at Martin around Christmas 1562 and the burials of William 1629 - 30 1550s at Martin in the 1550s before Frauncys, whose baptism Thornton by Horncastle and Robert JEFFREY on successive days at Moorby on Sept. 10th and 11th 1586 are quite 1635 - 36 overshadowed by the BT entry for Thornton for 1586, with burials on Sept. 3rd, Sept. 7th, Stow in Lindsey is not in the was the very first in the St Michael register. son Edward Hameringham 1684 - 85 Edward and Katheren JEFFEREYS Sept. 10th, Sept. 12th, Sept. 12th, Sept. 12th, Sept. 12th, Sept. 22nd, Sept. 23rd, Sept. 25th, immediate Horncastle area; were both buried on Dec. 26th 1562 at Martin Sept. 26th, Sept. 26th, Sept. 27th, Sept. 28th, Sept. 28th and Sept. 29th. but a few miles NW of Lincoln not researched further just a week after Elizabeth. There may have been even more because Sept. 29th, Michaelmas, was the end of the year for the purpose of the BT submissions at this time and we did not look at the following year's entries. Strangely these burials are not listed in the Thornton parish register. In both years bad outbreaks of bubonic plague are reported in England. Joane had brother John b. 1562 John bap. May 2nd 1562 Stow in Lindsey Thomas 1564 and Elizabeth 1565 Elizabeth bap. May 2nd 1562 ditto bap. Nov. 15th 1561 at Martin so she presumably born before 1561. Peter bap. Dec. 4th 1563 ditto buried Dec. 20th 1562 Martin born c. 1560 b.c 1567 bur. Sep. 11th 1586 Moorby Robert bap. Oct. 2 7th 1565 ditto Elizabeth JEFFERAY Frauncys JEFFEREYE (male) Anne JEFFEREY Thomas JEFFEREY = Joane / Jennet BUR Margaret JEFFREY Francessa JEFFERAY = Robert SMYTHE Robert JEFFEREY Richard JEFFRAY bur. Feb. 19th 1625/6 bur. Feb. 22nd 1626/7 - William CLARK In under six weeks, as well as the bur. Sep. 5th 1620 Feb. 2nd 1589 / 90 October 2nd 1587 Hameringham July 2nd 1591 / 92 mar. circa 1593 3 JEFFERAY burials at Martin Hameringham BTs Moorby (sister of Thomas, referred there were also 3 SHEPPERD, Hameringham BTs There are other JEFFEREY families in the to in Jennet’s inventory) (Is this the Robert SMYTHE who was 2 WILSON and a JOHNSON death. county at this time, e.g. around Boston, also: (all at Hameringham) (Michaelmas to Michaelmas baptised at Horncastle on June 19th 1568?) Sleaford, Grantham and Skellingthorpe, etc. (John Johnson was the other church so July 1592)) warden with Edward JEFFEREY - Susan bap. January 10th 1590 (to Thomas) They died just days apart shortly Frances bap. Dec. 10th 1595 (to Thomas) after signing off the past year’s BT.) Katheren bap. Dec. 22nd 1598 (to Thomas) Annas bap. January 20th 1602 (to Thomas) Strangely, though, at Thornton I could Roger bap. Nov. 20th 1605 (to Thomas and Jennet) find no burials at this time! Saray bap. Dec. 12th 1592 Mareham le Fen - no parentage John bap. April 14th 1594 ditto ditto bap. Feb. 18th 1611-12 bap. January 7th 1592 Jonas bap. March 15th 1595 ditto ditto at Legbourne Susan DYON == Thomas JEFFEREY Hameringham Dorithie bap. Feb. 20th 1590 ditto ditto Thomas bap. Feb. 18th 1609 ditto - to father Richard Nov. 20th 1628 Hameringham BTs (A Dorothy JEFFRAY married John MEDLEY on June 29th 1613 at Heckington, about 16 miles from Mareham) (* Civil war - Battle of Winceby 1643 - in the immediate area) Thomas chr. Dec. 13th 1629* Suzan chr. Jan. 8th 1631 born c. 1642 - 44 * (one of two second cousins) John chr. March 23rd 1633 ** Hameringham bap. July 9th 1652 or Dec. 26th 1652 Anne chr. Jan. 31st 1635 still to locate Hemingby Catharine chr. April 26th 1640 Edward JEFFREY == Magdalen MALTBY burial - still to locate * On Dec. 11th 1664 at Hameringham Thomas and Susana bur. 1693/4 December 1672 had a daughter Sarah baptised. or 1702/3 Hemingby On Oct.21st 1666 a son Edward was christened Hameringham and a daughter Mary was bap. on August 4th 1669. ** John and Mary had a son John bap. on Sept. 8th 1669. Thomas chr. November 23rd 1673 Mareham on the Hill Susanna chr. Oct. 1st 1676 Mareham on the Hill Sarah chr. Feb. 5th 1682 Hameringham Edward chr. April 8th 1686 Hameringham BT All Saints, Hameringham Ann chr. November 7th 1689 Hameringham Note that Thomas and Susanna were baptised to parents Edward and Maudlin) The village of Martin in the 1880s. Musket damage in Hameringham..