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Title: Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain)
Subjects: Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain) Excavations (Archaeology) Natural history
Publisher: Shrewsbury (etc.) Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
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was buried in1743, and in 1753 Mrs. Elizabeth Eyton, widow, married theRev. John Floyd. Later still Mr. John Griffiths was livingat Criggion Hall. He was buried from there in 1777, andothers of the family in 1787. Nearly all the hamlets seem in the 17th century to havepossessed inhabitants of some standing. Beyond thosealread\ mentioned, we have in the registers Walter Heynesof Amaston, gentleman, who came from Berrington, andmarried Cislie Pickstoek in 1612, and left her a widow witha you lg family in 1634. At Bausley, we find Lionel Leightonin 1621, Richard Higgins, gentleman, in 1O35, and Mr.Thomas Colfox in 1656. (This last is said to be of Crewe-greene in 1653 and 1665). Later members of the Colfoxfamily were connected with Betton, and were brought fromthere to Alberbury for burial. In 1682 and onwards Mr.Richard Winfield was of Bausley, and William Perse, gentle-man, buried in 1711, was of Bausley. His wife Elizabethwas buried in 1686, but he is not called of Bausley till 1706.
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NOTES ON ALBERBURY. 7* Bulthey is less often mentioned. In 1683, Robert Williams,gentleman, of Bulthey, was buried, and 1708, Mrs. JudithGough, w idow, of the same place occurs. Middletown had a family of Bowdler, of whom Thomas,gentleman, was buried in 1744, and Mr. John Bowdler in1741. John Bowdler, Esq., and Elinor his wife occur in1696, but his piace of residence is not given. Airs. ElinorBowdler, widow, was buried in 1729. Eyton, though playing a considerable part in parochialhistory in mediaeval times, passed later almost out of notice.Mr. Henry Gough of Eyton occurs in 1682, when his wifewas buried. He is accorded no prefix in 1704 in the entry ofhis own funeral, though he came of one of the oldest familiesin the parish. The families of Asterley of Stanford, and Barrett of thePentre attain to the prefix of Mr. in the 18th century, thoughfor a century before they had held some position. Mr. PeterBarrett of the Pentre occurs frequently between 1701 andhis death in 1710, and Mr. J

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