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Friday, September 13, 2013

Puritan Explanation

So ... While dealing with the Richard Platt and more so Mary Wood conspiracy to drive me clinically insane....   I was looking at a bio and say that for both of them, there was a spot for religion and it read like this .

 Religion: Puritan

 Simple and straight to the point of course...  but I was like..... eh, it was actually a religion!?   Maybe I'm just naive ... or stupid, but I thought Puritan was more so in reference to early settlers ... maybe I knew that it was a religion as it was a reference to them wanting to break away from the ways of the English Church... but I really thought it was more of a reference to early settlers breaking away ...

Do you know what I mean?

I just thought "Puritan English" as in my label of such, was in reference to early American settlers...

So I thought, huh ...... I want to learn more about this.....

So I found this HERE .....

Puritanism in New England


For a much more extensive description than appears on this brief page, see the works listed in the  Selected Bibliography on Puritanism.
DefinitionsThe term "Puritan" first began as a taunt or insult applied by traditional Anglicans to those who criticized or wished to "purify" the Church of England. Although the word is often applied loosely, "Puritan" refers to two distinct groups: "separating" Puritans, such as the Plymouth colonists, who believed that the Church of England was corrupt and that true Christians must separate themselves from it; and non-separating Puritans, such as the colonists who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who believed in reform but not separation. Most Massachusetts colonists were nonseparating Puritans who wished to reform the established church, largely Congregationalists who believed in forming churches through voluntary compacts.  The idea of compacts or covenants was central to the Puritans' conception of social, political, and religious organizations.
 BeliefsSeveral beliefs differentiated Puritans from other Christians. The first was their belief in predestination. Puritans believed that belief in Jesus and participation in the sacraments could not alone effect one's salvation; one cannot choose salvation, for that is the privilege of God alone. All features of salvation are determined by God's sovereignty, including choosing those who will be saved and those who will receive God's irresistible grace. The Puritans distinguished between "justification," or the gift of God's grace given to the elect, and "sanctification," the holy behavior that supposedly resulted when an individual had been saved; according to The English Literatures of America, "Sanctification is evidence of salvation, but does not cause it" (434). When William Laud, an avowedArminian, became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633, the Church of England began to embrace beliefs abhorrent to Puritans: a focus on the individual's acceptance or rejection of grace; a toleration of diverse religious beliefs; and an acceptance of "high church" rituals and symbols.According to Samuel Eliot Morison's Oxford History of the American People, the Puritans "were deeply impressed by a story that their favorite church father, St. Augustine, told in his Confessions. He heard a voice saying, tolle et lege, 'Pick up and read.' Opening the Bible, his eyes lit on Romans xiii:12-14: 'The night is far spent, the day is at hand; not in carousing and drunkenness, not in debauchery and lust, not in strife and jealousy. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts therof'" (62).
Covenant 
 or  Federal 
Theology 
and the New 
England Way		The concept of a covenant or contract between God and his elect pervaded Puritan theology and social relationships. In religious terms, several types of covenants were central to Puritan thought.The Covenant of Works held that God promised Adam and his progeny eternal life if they obeyed moral law. After Adam broke this covenant, God made a new Covenant of Grace with Abraham (Genesis 18-19).
Covenant of Grace. This covenant requires an active faith, and, as such, it softens the doctrine of predestination. Although God still chooses the elect, the relationship becomes one of contract in which punishment for sins is a judicially proper response to disobedience. During the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards later repudiated Covenant Theology to get back to orthodox Calvinism. Those bound by the covenant considered themselves to be charged with a mission from God.
Covenant of Redemption. The Covenant of Redemption was assumed to be preexistent to the Covenant of Grace. It held that Christ, who freely chose to sacrifice himself for fallen man, bound God to accept him as man's representative. Having accepted this pact, God is then committed to carrying out the Covenant of Grace. According to Perry Miller, as one contemporary source put it, "God covenanted with Christ that if he would pay the full price for the redemption of beleevers, they should be discharged. Christ hath paid the price, God must be unjust, or else hee must set thee free from all iniquitie" (New England Mind 406).
For more information, see also the following works suggested by EARAM-L members:
  • Perry Miller's "The Marrow of Puritan Divinity" in Errand into the Wilderness (Cambridge:  Harvard UP, 1956): 48-98.
  • Emory Elliott, Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England
  • Charles Lloyd Cohen, "Covenant Psychology" in God's Caress: The Psychology of Puritan Religious Experience (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1986)
  • John von Rohr, The Covenant of Grace in Puritan Thought (Atlanta, GA:  Scholars Press, 1986)
  • Darrett Rutman, American Puritanism
  • David Hall, The Faithful Shepherd
  • David Hall, The Antinomian Controversy
  • Sargent Bush, The Writings of Thomas Hooker
  • Michael McGiffert, "Grace and Works:  The Rise and Division of Covenant Divinity in Elizabethan Puritanism,"Harvard Theological Review 75.4 (1982): 463-502.
  • Amy Schrager Lang, Prophetic Woman

    • Janice Knight, Orthodoxies in Massachusetts
The New 
England Way		The concept of the covenant also provided a practical means of organizing churches.  Since the state did not control the church, the Puritans reasoned, there must be an alternate method of of establishing authority. According to Harry S. Stout, "For God's Word to function freely, and for each member to feel an integral part of the church's operations, each congregation must be self-sufficient, containing within itself all the offices and powers necessary for self-regulation.  New England's official apologist, John Cotton, termed this form of church government 'Congregational,' meaning that all authority would be located within particular congregations" (The New England Soul  17). Cotton's sermon at Salem in 1636 described the basic elements of this system in which people covenanting themselves to each other and pledging to obey the word of God might become a self-governing church.  Checks and balances in this self-governing model included the requirement that members testify to their experience of grace (to ensure the purity of the church and its members) and the election of church officials to ensure the appropriate distribution of power, with a pastor to preach, a teacher to "attend to doctrine," elders to oversee the "acts ofspiritual Rule," and a deacon to manage the everyday tasks of church organization and caring for the poor (Stout 19).  The system of interlocking covenants that bound households to each other and to their ministers in an autonomous, self-ruling congregation was mirrored in the organization of towns.  In each town, male church members could vote to elect "selectmen" to run the town's day-to-day affairs, although town meetings were held to vote on legislation.
Thus the ultimate authority in both political and religious spheres was God's word, but the commitments made to congregation and community through voluntary obedience to covenants ensured order and a functional system of religious and political governance.  This system came to be called the Congregational or  "New England Way." According to Stout, "By locating power in the particular towns and defining institutions in terms of local covenants and mutual commitments, the dangers of mobility and atomism--the chief threats to stability in the New World--were minimized. . . . As churches came into being only by means of a local covenant, so individual members could be released from their sacred oath only with the concurrence of the local body. . . . Persons leaving without the consent of the body sacrificed not only church membership but also property title, which was contingent on local residence.  Through measures like these, which combined economic and spiritual restraints, New England towns achieved extraordinarily high levels of persistence and social cohesion" (23). 
Church 
Membership		Unlike Anglican and Catholic churches of the time, Puritan churches did not hold that all parish residents should be full church members. A true church, they believed, consisted not of everyone but of the elect. As a test of election, many New England churches began to require applicants for church membership to testify to their personal experience of God in the form of autobiographical conversion narratives. Since citizenship was tied to church membership, the motivation for experiencing conversion was secular and civil as well as religious in nature. God's covenant that bound church members to him had to be renewed and accepted by each individual believer, although this could be seen as a dilution of the covenant binding God and his chosen people.
The 
Half-Way 
Covenant		The children of first-generation believers were admitted to limited membership in the Congregational church, on the grounds that as children of the elect, they would undoubtedly experience conversion and become full members of the church. Not all underwent a conversion experience, however, thus leaving in doubt the future of their children, the grandchildren of the original church members. Drafted by Richard Mather and approved in 1662, the Half-way Covenant proposed that second-generation members be granted the same privilege of baptism (but not communion) as had been granted to the first generation. According to Norman Grabo, "This encouraged individual congregations to baptize the infant children of church members but not to admit them to full membership until they were at least 14 years old" and could profess conversion. "The partaking of the Lord's Supper became a lure to struggling half-way members to discover their right to full membership and a public sign of the purest in the congregation."
Richard, and, later, Increase Mather supported it, as did Edward Taylor; but Solomon Stoddard from Northampton argued that, according to the Half-Way Covenant, no man was permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper until he had certain knowledge and assurance of salvation; without this knowledge, attendance at the sacrament was damning.  Stoddard said that no man could know he was saved with absolute certainty; thus all well-behaved Christians should be admitted to the sacrament in hopes that they might secure saving grace or be converted by it. (Grabo 32)
The 
Plain Style		The plain style is the simplest of the three classical forms of style. In choosing the plain style, Puritan writers eschewed features common to the rhetoric of the day; they declined to stuff their sermons with the rhetorical flourishes and learned quotations of the metaphysical style of sermon, believing that to be the province of Archbishop Laud and his followers. The Puritan sermon traditionally comprised three parts: doctrine, reasons, and uses. According to Perry Miller in The New England Mind,
    "The Anglican sermon is constructed on a symphonic scheme of progressively widening vision; it moves from point to point by verbal analysis, weaving larger and larger embroideries about the words of the text. The Puritan sermon quotes the text and "opens" it as briefly as possible, expounding circumstances and context, explaining its grammatical meanings, reducing its tropes and schemata to prose, and setting forth its logical implications; the sermon then proclaims in a flat, indicative sentence the "doctrine" contained in the text or logically deduced from it, and proceeds to the first reason or proof. Reason follows reason, with no other transition than a period and a number; after the last proof is stated there follow the uses or applications, also in numbered sequence, and the sermon ends when there is nothing more to be said. The Anglican sermon opens with a pianissimo exordium, gathers momentum through a rising and quickening tempo, comes generally to a rolling, organ-toned peroration; the Puritan begins with a reading of the text, states the reason in an order determined by logic, and the uses in an enumeration determined by the kinds of person in the throng who need to be exhorted or reproved, and it stops without flourish or resounding climax" (332-3).

  • In a similar manner, Puritans preferred the plainness of the Geneva Bible to the rich language of the King James version.





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    Notes on Richard Platt

    Okay ...... so  ......  here are some various notes for RICHARD PLATT and their lines that I wanted to make sure I can go back and look at.
    Taken From: HERE:  Source: Lineage Papers of Robert Forsyth Little, Jr. for the Society of the Colonial Wars.
    The first ancestor of the name in the United States, was Richard Platt.
    "Richard Piatt, son of Joseph Piatt, was baptized Sept. 28, 1603." This is claimed as an extract from the parish records of Bovingdon, a village near Hertford, England.
    The Platt progenitor, Richard Platt left England in 1638, and landed at New Haven
    Richard Piatt had eighty-four acres of land in and around New Haven. His name is on the list of free-planters made out in 1646 ; he was chosen a deacon in the first church in Milford in 1669.
    It is recorded that his wife, Mary, died in January, 1676. He made his will in 1683.
    From HERE

    Descendants of Richard Platt

    Generation No. 1

     1. RICHARD3 PLATT (GEORGE2, SIMON1)1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 was born September 28, 1603 in Ware, Hertfordshire1, and died Abt. February 13, 1684/85 in Milford, Connecticut1. He married MARY WOOD1,1,1,1,1,1 January 26, 1628/29 in Roydon, Essex1, daughter of JOHN WOOD and JANE (WOOD). She was born November 10, 1605 in Roydon, Essex, and died March 1675/76 in Milford, Connecticut1.

    Notes for R    ICHARD PLATT:
    Recent research has confirmed that he was born in Ware, Hertfordshire, the son of George Platt.

    Milford -

    Ware was a market town which was a hotbed of Puritanism in the early 17th century. The famous Rev. Charles Chauncey, who would later be president of Harvard College, was vicar of Ware from 1627-33, emmigrating to England in 1638. Richard Platt
    was no doubt influenced by his preaching. In his will he left a Bible for each of his 24 living grandchildren. He was no doubt educated at the Grammar School at Ware, and probably became a tailor like his father and grandfather, as he was
    apprenticed in 1629.

    In 1639 he was a freeplanter in Milford and his home lot was #38, consisting of 4 acres and 1 rod, near the corner of the present West Main and Cherry streets.

    Quaker Genealogy on the Internet -

    Many from the Bay Colony chose to leave for New Haven with Eaton and Davenport, among them a company headed by Peter Prudden. Perhaps the son of Thomas Prudden of King's Walden, Hertfordshire and a kinsman of William Thomas of Caerleon,
    Monmouthshire, Prudden was the minister of the Providence Island Company. In 1637 with fifteen Hertfordshire families - among them Edmund Tapp of Bennington, Hertfordshire, James Prudden, William Fowler, Thomas and Hannah Buckingham, Thomas
    Welsh, Richard Platt, Henry Stonehill and William East - he left England for Massachusetts and went with Davenport's group to Connecticut in March of 1638.

    From "Platt Lineage" -

    He landed at New Haven in 1638, with his wife and four children.

    After his arrival, he acquired possession, among others, of several acres of land in what is now (1891) the best part of the Elm City (it was on the south side of Chapel Street, near College Street, adjoining the ground of Peter Prudden) in
    what was called "the Hertfordshire quarter."

    Among the first settlers of Milford, November 20, 1639, arriving with four in his family. He and his sons John and Josiah are among the original purchasers and proprietors of New Milford. His name is on the list of free-planters of Milford in
    1646. He was chosen deacon in the first church in Milford in 1669. His daughters Mary and Sarah probably died before he made his will in 1683, for in it he makes bequests to their children instead of to them.

    He left to one of his heirs a legacy "towards bringing up his son to be a scholar."

    He appears on the records as one of the witnesses to the will of Peter Prudden.

    His estate was estimated at about £600.

    His burial place is unknown, no stone has been found to mark his grave. It was probably in his orchard.

    His name is on the coping stones of the Wapawang memorial bridge in Milford, commemorating the early settlers.

    Topographical Dictionary-

    Parish of Aldenham, Hertfordshire

    Parish of New Haven, Conn.

    IGI-

    Marriage to Mary Wood is registered at Ware and at Roydon, on the same date. He is called "Deacon".

    Huntington Historical Society -

    "Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven 1638-49", by Charles Hoadley, states: "Rich Platt - an estate worthe £200 - twenty acres in the First Division - four acres in the Second Division". Part of his property consisted of a plot on
    the south side of Chapel Street near College Street, adjoining lands of Peter Prudden in the so-called "Hertfordshire Quarter".

    This fact undoubtedly influenced his early participation in the beginnings of the settlement of Milford within the limits of the New Haven Colony and located 10 miles west of New Haven itself, on the shores of Long Island Sound. The colony was
    under the leadership of Peter Prudden, a former Anglican priest, and a group of faithful adherents from Hertfordshire who had emmigrated in 1637. It was only natural that the Platts, coming a year thereafter, would gravitate to this settlement
    of their old neighbors.

    The Prudden movement from New Haven was not one of dissatisfaction but stemmed from a desire to organize their own church body and town structure. Prudden, who was only 37 at the time, patterned the town after New Haven but was somewhat more
    tolerant concerning church membership. In 1639 the group acquired the Indian title and on November 20, 1639, some 44 church members were franchised as "free planters". Among them was Richard Platt, with his wife Mary and their four oldest
    children, Mary, John, Isaac and Sarah.

    At Milford Richard owned House Lot #38 in the northeast sector of the settlement, somewhat south of the north line of the palisades and consisting of a 4-acre, 1-rod plot. Even after moving to Milford he retained some of his New Haven property.

    In 1646 the Indians were on the war-path and for protection the Milford settlement was fully palisaded. Each household was required to provide one watch for sentry duty every fifth day.

    Richard was chosen deacon of the first church in 1669. His will, dated 1683, has not been located among the early probate records of Connecticut, but is said to have mentioned his five sons and the children of his daughters Sarah and Mary,
    leaving some presumption of their earlier deaths.

    Some of his sons relocated. John and Josiah were among the original proprietors of New Milford, north of Danbury; John later moved to Norwalk. Isaac and Epenetus moved to Huntington, while Joseph remained at Milford. Although in 1962 Platt
    descendants are scattered among 32 states [and Mexico!], there still remains a core of the family maintaining possession of parts of their original Milford holdings, descendants of Richard's sons Josiah and Joseph.

    TAG -

    He was less than five years old when his father died, and in George's will his house was devised to his wife Mary and at her death was to go to Richard.

    He was doubtless educated at the Grammar School at Ware and may have been a tailor like his father and grandfather. In 1629 he had an apprentice, indicating he was in some trade at the time.

    Richard's profound Puritan beliefs were probably influenced by Rev. Charles Chauncy, Vicar of Ware from 1627 to 1633, who emmigrated to New England in 1638, was a teacher at Plymouth and President of Harvard College from 1654 to his death on 19
    February 1672.

    On 13 July 1629 there was an "Order that Richard Platt of Ware and his apprentice be brought before certain justices, that some order might be taken to end the differences between them."

    Richard and his wife disposed of their lands and houses at Ware by a final concord signed at Westminster on 25 April 1638, receiving £42 for the premises. They may have had to stay in or near London while awaiting passage, and sailed to New
    England either in the latter half of 1638 or the first half of 1639.

    His property in New Haven consisted of an estate worth £200; 20 acres in the first division of lands; 4 acres in the "Neck"; 12 acres of meadow; 48 acres in the second division, and paying a yearly rate of £1. He evidently had a comfortable
    estate and lived in the "Hertfordshire" quarter of the town, with William Fowler, Mr. Peter Prudden, James Prudden, Edmund Tapp, the Widow Baldwin, Zachariah Whitman and Thomas Osborne. He gradually sold his property after moving to Milford.

    He joined the church at Milford on 29 January 1640, and his wife on 15 August 1641.

    He was often asked to act as witness to wills; on 26 July 1656 he witnessed the will of Rev. Peter Prudden. As Mrs. Selleck points out (Miner Family, p. 147), "he was a man of high character and deeply religious, and was chosen deacon of the
    Milford Church in 1669. When his daughter Sarah was widowed, and prior to her second marriage, he cared for her and her children, and the court records refer to his extreme care and liberality in conserving the estate of his... grandchildren".

    The inventory of his estate was taken on 13 February 1685.

    The will of Deacon Richard Platt of Milford is an important document. It was dated 4 August 1683, and after the usual religious preamble, contains the following clauses:

    More About R    ICHARD PLATT:
    Burial: February 13, 1684/85, Milford, Connecticut
    Christening: May 06, 1604, Ware, Hertfordshire1
    Education: Emmigrated 1638
    Occupation: Deacon, Landowner
    Religion: Puritan

    Notes for M    ARY WOOD:
    TAG -

    Joined the church at Milford on 15 August 1641.

    More About M    ARY WOOD:
    Burial: March 24, 1675/76, Milford, Connecticut1
    Christening: November 10, 1605, Roydon, Essex1
    Religion: Puritan
         
    Children of R    ICHARD PLATT and MARY WOOD are: 
    2.i.MARY4 PLATT, b. 1629, Roydon, Essex; d. June 17, 1669, Middletown, Connecticut.
    3.ii.JOHN PLATT, b. 1631, Ware, Hertfordshire; d. November 06, 1705, Norwalk, Connecticut.
    4.iii.ISAAC PLATT, b. April 10, 1633, Ware, Hertfordshire; d. July 31, 1691, Huntington, Suffolk Co. (Long Island), New York.
    5.iv.SARAH PLATT, b. 1636, Ware, Hertfordshire; d. May 15, 1670, New Milford, Connecticut.
    6.v.I EPENETUS PLATT, b. 1640, Milford, Connecticut; d. Aft. September 01, 1693, Huntington, Suffolk Co. (Long Island), New York.
    vi.HANNAH PLATT1, b. 1643, Milford, Connecticut; d. Aft. December 28, 1702, Norwalk, Connecticut?; m. CHRISTOPHERCOMSTOCK1; b. Abt. 1644; d. December 28, 1702, Norwalk, Connecticut..
    More About HANNAH PLATT:
    Christening: October 01, 1643, Milford, Connecticut
    7.vii.JOSIAH PLATT, b. 1645, Milford, Connecticut; d. January 01, 1724/25, Milford, Connecticut.
    8.viii.JOSEPH PLATT, b. 1649, Milford, Connecticut; d. Bef. March 21, 1703/04, Milford, Connecticut.

    The following document can be read HERE ......

    A SPECIAL COMPILATION OF THE 
    HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF 
    RICHARD PLATT 
    BORN IN WARE, COUNTY HERTFORD, ENGLAND 
    & 
    ONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF BOTH 
    NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT 
    AND 
    MILFORD CONNECTICUT 

    From HERE

  • ID: I4609
  • Name: Richard PLATT
  • Prefix: Deacon
  • Sex: M
  • Christening: 6 MAY 1604 Ware, Hertfordshire, England 1
  • Death: BEF 13 FEB 1684/1685 in Milford, New Haven County, CT
  • Reference Number: 440
  • _UID: 6CA949A9D003DC44B1948DA241F952A09A56
  • Note:
    Roydon, where Richard and Mary married, is four miles southeast of Ware.
    On 16 April 1609 was mentioned as son in the will of George Platte of Ware.
    On 13 July 1629 there was an "Order that Richard Platt of Ware and his apprentice be brought before certain justices, that some order might be taken to end the differences between them."
    On 25 April 1638 Westminster, England, Richard and Mary Platt signed a final concord to dispose of their lands and houses at Ware, receiving L42 for the premises. Then they prepared to sail for New England, but may have had to stay in or near London for some months while awaiting passage. They appear to have crossed the Atlantic either in the latter half of 1638 or the first half of 1639.
    It has been stated that the Platt family arrived at New Haven in August 1639, and this may be true, but Richard Platt is not among those who signed the covenant of 22 August 1639, and "Richard Plot" did not join the Church of Milford at New Haven until 29 January 1639/1640. He was a free planter, according to Abbott in Milford, New Haven County, CT, in 1639. His home lot was #38, consisting of 4 acres and one rod, near the corner of the present West Main and Cherry Streets. In 1669 he was chosen deacon of the church at Milford. He appeared on the list of freemen at Milford in October 1669: "A List of the Freemen of Milford [October 1669] ... Richard Platt."
    In her will dated 9 November 1669, proved 20 November 1669, Sarah (Bryan?) (Baldwin) Astwood of Milford appointed "my beloved brothers Richard Platt and Thomas Wheeler" overseers. Richard Platt and Thomas Wheeler were also witnesses to the will. Since Sarah's maiden name has not been proven, this statement has led to much genealogical speculation as to how she was related to these men -- or were they merely highly esteemed "brethren in the church"? If you look to their descendants rather than their antecedants, another possible explanation suggests itself -- Sarah's grandson Zachariah3 Baldwin (Richard2, Sylvester1) was married to Richard Platt's granddaughter Mary3 Atkinson (Mary2, Richard1).
    The will of "Richard Platt of Milford in Ye colony of conecticutt" was dated 4 August 1683: It makes the following bequests:
    I give unto my son John Platt beside what I have formerly given him L26 & foure bibles for his children. I give unto my son Isaac Platt L20 besides what I have formerly given him & for his children three bibles. I give unto my son Epenetus Platt besides what I have formerly given him L20 & for his children three bibles.
    I give my son in law Christopher Comstocke & his wife beside what I have formerly given him L22 & for his children 3 bibles. I give Samuel Bech [Beach] beside what I have formerly given him L6. I give Hannah & Deborah Merwin two bibles.
    I give Elder [Daniel] Buckingham L5 toward bringing up his son to be a schollar.
    I give my son Epenetus L5 toward bringing up his son to be a schollar.
    I give my son Josia Platt beside what I have formerly given him the meadow on ye far side the creeke by stubby playne, & halfe the pasture or land by ye necke gate, & the land not yet taken in of my division, & halfe the pasture land below the two orchards, & five bibles for his children. I give Josia Whitmore & his sister two bibles. I give my son Joseph Platt's children two bibles.
    I give my son Joseph Platt all the remainder of my estate, housing, barnes, lands, meadows, corne, cattle, horses, mares, sheep, hogs, movables, he paying the legacyes above named & debts.
    I make my son Joseph Platt my executor of this my last Will.
    I desire Elder Buckingham & my son Josia Platt to see this my Will fulfilled, & I give Elder Buckingham & my son Josia twenty shillings apiece for their paynes.
    [Signed] Richard Platt
    Daniel Buckingham and Josia Platt, witnesses
    The Inventory of the estate was taken 13 February 1684 by Samuell Ells, John Streame, and Sylvanus Baldwin. It totaled L547:05:07. (New Haven probate records vol 1, part 2, p. 138).

    The Platt stone in the Milford Memorial Bridge reads:
    "DEACON RICHARD PLATT
    Obit 1684
    MARY His Wife."

    • Father: George PLATT c: 13 MAY 1582 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England 
    Mother: Mary SELL b: ABT 1572 in England

    Marriage 1 Mary WOOD c: 10 NOV 1605 in Roydon, Essex, England
    • Married: 26 JAN 1628/1629 in Roydon, Essex, England 12 13 14
    Children
    1. Has Children Mary PLATT c: 11 NOV 1629 in Roydon, Essex, England
    2. Has Children John PLATT c: 11 JAN 1631/1632 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England
    3. Has Children Isaac PLATT c: 10 APR 1633 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England
    4. Has No Children Samuel PLATT c: 9 DEC 1634 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England
    5. Has Children Sarah PLATT c: 11 SEP 1636 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England
    6. Has Children Epenetus PLATT b: 2 JUL 1640 in Milford, New Haven County, CT c: 2 JUL 1640 in Milford, New Haven County, CT
    7. Has Children Hannah PLATT c: 1 OCT 1643 in First Church, Milford, New Haven County, CT
    8. Has Children Josiah PLATT c: NOV 1645 in First Church, Milford, New Haven County, CT
    9. Has Children Joseph PLATT c: 1 APR 1649 in First Church, Milford, New Haven County, CT

    Sources:
    1. Title: Richard Platt of Ware, Co. Hertford, England, and Milford, Connecticut
      Author: John Insley Coddington
      Abbrev: Coddington
      Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist
      Abbrev: Richard Platt
      Page: 30:236. Parish Registers of Ware, co. Hertford, 1558-1650.
      Text: Baptisms. 1604 Richard Platte, 6 May
    2. Title: Families of Ancient New Haven
      Author: Donald Lines Jacobus
      Abbrev: Jacobus
      Publication: Salem MA: Higginson Book Co., 1994
      Abbrev: Families of Ancient New Haven
      Page: p. 144-161
    3. Title: Richard Platt of Ware, Co. Hertford, England, and Milford, Connecticut
      Author: John Insley Coddington
      Abbrev: Coddington
      Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist
      Abbrev: Richard Platt
      Page: 30:233-238
    4. Title: English Ancestry of Richard Platt (1604-1685) and Mary Wood (1605-1676)
      Author: Douglas Richardson
      Abbrev: Richardson
      Publication: Synopsis of article pre-published to Platt list, rootsweb.com, 1998
      Abbrev: Platt & Wood Ancestry
    5. Title: Richard Platt of Ware, Co. Hertford, England, and Milford, Connecticut
      Author: John Insley Coddington
      Abbrev: Coddington
      Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist
      Abbrev: Richard Platt
      Page: 31:155-170
    6. Title: Families of Early Milford Connecticut
      Author: Susan Woodruff Abbott
      Abbrev: Abbott
      Publication: Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979
      Abbrev: Families of Early Milford
      Page: p. 547-551
    7. Title: Platt Genealogy in America from the Arrival of Richard Platt in New Haven Connecticut in 1638
      Author: Charles Platt Jr.
      Abbrev: Charles Platt
      Publication: New Hope, PA: 1963
      Abbrev: Platt Genealogy
      Page: pp. 17-26
    8. Title: History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, for the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution
      Author: Donald Lines Jacobus
      Abbrev: Donald Lines Jacobus
      Publication: New Haven CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1930-1932
      Abbrev: Families of Old Fairfield
      Page: p. 483-487
    9. Title: Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1665-1678
      Author: J. Hammond Trumbull
      Abbrev: Trumbull
      Publication: Hartford CT: 1852
      Abbrev: Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut
      Page: p. 523-526
    10. Title: The Story of the Memorial in Honor of the Founders of the Town of Milford
      Author: Morris W. Abbott
      Abbrev: Morris Abbott
      Publication: Milford CT: 1971
      Abbrev: Milford Memorial
      Page: p. 12
    11. Title: Milford Church Records. Admissions, First Church, 1639-1687
      Author: Donald Lines Jacobus
      Abbrev: Jacobus
      Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist, 1939, Vol. 16
      Abbrev: Milford Church Records 1639-1687
      Page: pp. 28-29
    12. Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700
      Author: Clarence Almon Torrey
      Abbrev: Torrey
      Publication: Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985 & 1992
      Abbrev: New England Marriages
      Page: p. 590
      Text: Richard Platt (1604-1684, 1685) & Mary Wood (1605-), in Eng; b 1633, 26 Jan 1682/9; New Haven/Milford CT.
    13. Title: Richard Platt of Ware, Co. Hertford, England, and Milford, Connecticut
      Author: John Insley Coddington
      Abbrev: Coddington
      Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist
      Abbrev: Richard Platt
      Page: 30:237. Parish Registers of Roydon
      Text: 1628 Richard Platt and Mary Woode ware maried the 26th of January [1628/9]
    14. Title: The Merwin Family in North America
      Publication: Miles Merwin Association, Milford, CT 1978
      Abbrev: Merwin Family
      Page: p. 1




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    Notes on Mary (Wood) Line (Following the Wood Line)

    Okay ...... so  ......  here are some various notes for Mary Wood and their lines that I wanted to make sure I can go back and look at.
    Taken From: HERE:  Source: Lineage Papers of Robert Forsyth Little, Jr. for the Society of the Colonial Wars.
    The first ancestor of the name in the United States, was Richard Platt.
    "Richard Piatt, son of Joseph Piatt, was baptized Sept. 28, 1603." This is claimed as an extract from the parish records of Bovingdon, a village near Hertford, England.
    The Platt progenitor, Richard Platt left England in 1638, and landed at New Haven
    Richard Piatt had eighty-four acres of land in and around New Haven. His name is on the list of free-planters made out in 1646 ; he was chosen a deacon in the first church in Milford in 1669.
    It is recorded that his wife, Mary, died in January, 1676. He made his will in 1683.
    Okay .. so Mary Wood Platt from my written notes:
    10 Nov. 1605 - 24 Mar 1676(70)


    Possible:
    F: John Wood (#1) : 13 Apr 1566 - 7 Dec 1635(69) - both Roydon, Essex, England
    M: Jane (unknown)  

    Possible:
    F: John Wood (#2) : 1578-1605(27)
    M: Isabel Wood : 1582-1649(67)
               both born and died in : Roydon, Essex, England


         John Wood (#2) parents :  F: Edmund Wood SR.  6 Mar 1546 - 1614(18)
                                                  M: Janet Hurst : 1550-1583  .........................  m: 4 Apr 1573

    NOTE ON EDMUND AND JANET

    This one was taken from HERE
    Edmond WOOD [Parents] 1 was born on 6 Mar 1546 in Northorum, Yorkshire, England. He was christened on 6 Mar 1546 in Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England. He died in 1614/1618. He married Janet HURST on 4 Apr 1573 in Shelf(n Oram), Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
    Janet HURST [Parents] 1 was born about 1550 in Of, Northorem, Yorkshire, England. She was christened on 4 May 1545 in , Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England. She died in 1583 in Hamlet Of Shelf, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, Eng.. She married Edmond WOOD on 4 Apr 1573 in Shelf(n Oram), Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
    They had the following children:
    • M i Humphry WOOD 1 was born on 19 Sep 1574 in Hamlet Of Shelf, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, Eng.. He was christened on 19 Sep 1574 in Northorem, Yorkshire, England.
    • M ii Richard WOOD
    • M iii Edmund WOOD
    • M iv John WOOD 1 was born on 25 Dec 1580 in Hamlet Of Shelf, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, Eng.. He was christened on 25 Dec 1580 in Northorem, Yorkshire, England.
    • F v Grace WOOD 1 was born on 9 Sep 1581 in Hamlet Of Shelf, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, Eng.. She was christened on 9 Dec 1581 in Northorem, Yorkshire, England.
    • M vi John WOOD
    • M vii Thomas WOOD 1 was born in 1586 in Hamlet Of Shelf, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, Eng.. He was christened on 29 Jan 1586 in Northorem, Yorkshire, England.
    • M viii Robert WOOD 1 was christened on 29 Jan 1586 in Northorem, Yorkshire, England.
    • F ix Susan WOOD 1 was born in <1588> in <Northorem, Yorkshire, England>.
    I am going to continue down from Janet/Judith Hurst on another blog...... 


    From HERE and HERE  *notice Richard Wood JR was married twice*
    Wood, Richard, Jr
    b. 1510
    Sowerby Yorkshire UK
    m. Longbotham, Elizabeth 
    30 Sep 1600
    m. Ambler, Margaret
    26 Jul 1540
    d. 06 Dec 1549
    Estimate of birth from the last will of his farther Richard Wood born about 1480.

    Richard Wood, Jr. 

    Birth:1515 
    Sowerby, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England
    Death:1549 (34)
    Halifax, West Riding, Yorkshire, England
    Immediate Family:


    Annie Joanna Roper 

    Birth:circa 1523
    Death:December 6, 1549 (26)
    Immediate Family:
    Ambler, Margaret
    b. 1517
    Halifax
    d. 06 Dec 1549
    Halifax
    m. Wood, Richard
    26 Jul 1540

    Margaret Anne Wood (Ambler) 

    Birth:circa 1523 
    Northowram, , Yorkshire, England
    Death:circa 1600 (77)
    Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England
    Immediate Family:


    If both Richard and his first wife died the same year???   But these are just notes....  Maybe Annie and Margaret are the same person?
    I'm going to continue Margaret's on another blog .... 


    Notes for RICHARD WOOD SR. From HERE and linked off there after


    Richard Wood, Sr. 

    Birth:circa 1480 
    Sowerby,Halifax,Yorkshire,England
    Death:July 8, 1553 (73)
    Sowerby,Halifax,Yorkshire,England
    Immediate Family:
    Wood, Richard, Sr
    b. 1484
    Sowerby Yorkshire UK
    d. 18 Mar 1552
    Sowerby Yorkshire UK
    m. Not Found2, Christabel
    1508
    About Wood, Richard, Sr
    This Richard Wood was a handloom weaver of woollen goods.His Will. March 14 1552 Richard Woode of Souerbye in the countie of Yorke,clother.I ordayne and make Christabell my wif,and Margaret,Anges,Thomas,and Rycharde,my children,myne executors to resayve suche thinges as be owynge to me and also to paye my dettes,whiche dettes beyonge paid,Igiue the residue of all my goodes to my said wif and children;and that this my will maye the better be accompleshed I desire my brother John Wood,and Thomas Fournes to be ouersears of the same.Thes wittenesses,John Woode,Edmunde Wood,Sir John Hilton,preist.Pr.Jul.8.1553,by Xpabell.mrelict,Margaret and Agnes,daughters,power being reserved to Thomas and Richard,children." (Sourse:Halifax Parish Wills P, 82.Note the will has been copied with the spelling as found in the original soure.)
    WOOD (Yorkshire)
    Richard Wood (1480-1553) married Christable. He and his younger brothers John and Edmund were cloth weavers in Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, "on the bleak, treeless moorlands of the Pennine Hills, where fertile soil was at a minimum."
    . 1. Margaret Wood (c.1509)
    . 2. Agnes Wood (c.1511)
    . 3. Thomas Wood (c.1513)
    . 4. Richard Wood (c1515) married Margaret Annes Ambler
    WOOD (Yorkshire)
    Richard Wood (1480-1553) married Christable. He and his younger brothers John and Edmund were cloth weavers in Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, "on the bleak, treeless moorlands of the Pennine Hills, where fertile soil was at a minimum."
    . 1. Margaret Wood (c.1509)
    . 2. Agnes Wood (c.1511)
    . 3. Thomas Wood (c.1513)
    . 4. Richard Wood (c1515) married Margaret Annes Ambler

    Christabell Washburn (Umn)   (END)

    Birth:circa 1485 
    Sowerby,Halifax,Yorkshire,England
    Death:circa 1598 (113)
    Sowerby,Halifax,Yorkshire,England
    Immediate Family:


    Christopher Wood 

    Birth:circa 1459 
    Halifax, West Riding, York, England
    Immediate Family:

    Margaret C. Wood (Umn) 

    Birth:circa 1457
    Immediate Family:
    Wife of Christopher Wood
    Mother of Richard Wood, Sr.

    John Atte Atte Wode 

    Birth:circa April 4, 1400 
    Sanderstead, Surrey, England
    Death:1459 (59)
    Sanderstead, Surrey, England
    Immediate Family:
    Knight of the Shire in 1459 means he was called to Parliament. This Parliament deposed King Henry, was a member of Parliment in 1459 and built Sanderstead Court about that time

    Isabella Atwood (Mulys) 

    Birth:circa 1405 
    Sanderstead, Surrey, , England
    Death:1499 (94)
    Sanderstead, Surrey, , England
    Immediate Family:
    Daughter of James de Mules and Margaret Upton
    Wife of John Atte Wode
    Mother of Thomas Wood,; John Atwood andAnne Atwood
    Half sister of Thomas Upton

    Isabelle Atte Wode (DeMules) 

    Birth:1405
    Death:1499 (94)
    South Croydon, Greater London, UK
    Immediate Family:
    Wife of John Atte Wode
    Mother of Christopher Wood
    I will continue down from Isabelle in another blog.... 


    John Atte Wode 

    Birth:circa 1360 
    Sanderstead, Surrey, England
    Death:1404 (44)
    Surrey, , England
    Immediate Family:
    Sanderstead Court was a country house most often associated with the Atwood family of Sanderstead, Surrey, England. It was located next to the All Saint’s Parish Church (c. 1230) in Sanderstead. This manor house evolved over the centuries to become a significant country house and the seat of power of the Atwood family.
    The first mention of the Atwood family in Sanderstead is in 1346 when Justice Peter Atte Wood (Atte Wode) and his wife Laurencia purchased land there (Lewis 1894, p. 338). The Atte Wode’s had originally lived nearby in Coulsdon, first at Hooley House and then at Wood Place. Some time in the 15th century they moved to Sanderstead and began improving the property there. By the time John Atwood died in 1525, the family seems to have made the transition to Sanderstead, and he mentions Sanderstead manor in his will (Atwood 1928).
    The Atwood family were benefactors to the Sanderstead Parish Church which was adjacent to their home, and John Atwood (Atwodde) and his wife, Denys, have a brass plaque in the church dated 1525. John’s grand son, Nicholas Wood, who died in 1565, is identified as “of Sandersted Corte who served quene Elizabeth sens the second yearr of her rayne” on his brass in the church (Stephanson 1919).
    Several secondary sources repeat the tradition that Queen Elizabeth I once spent the night at Sanderstead Court while Nicholas Wood was the owner. His service to the queen included being a Sergeant of the Queen's Carriages. There has been no independent corroboration of the Queen's presence at Sanderstead Court, however, so the story remains an undocumented tradition.
    Nicholas Wood lost a portion Sanderstead to Sir John Gresham, Lord Mayor of London, when King Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in 1536 and conveyed their property to some of his favorites.
    After a series of complicated transactions and inheritances, the Atwood’s regained control of Sanderstead Court, and Nicholas Wood's son, Harman Atwood, Jr., transformed Sanderstead into a significant country house in the 1670’s.
    Harman Atwood was finished his renovations to Sanderstead Court in 1675. The completed house was a three story, red brick mansion comprised of a central core with two large wings at either end which were adorned with decorated chimneys. The central portion of the house had a great room, two stories in height, supported by fluted columns with Corinthian capitals; this great room was probably originally constructed by an earlier Atwood in the 16th century. Many of the rooms in Sanderstead Court were panelled with wood. The Atwood shield with a lion rampant between three acorns, the initials “H.A.” (Harman Atwood) and the date “1675” were once were carved in stone over the main entry to Sanderstead Court.
    Harman Atwood, Jr. (1608-1676) was an attorney (solicitor) in London and Sanderstead was at the center of his vast holdings of real estate. Harman appears to have been a patron of the arts and had a friendship with John Oldham (poet). Oldham's poem, Pindarique, was written "to the memory of Harman Atwood upon his death." According to Charles Atwood "in a short biography of John Oldham prefixed to his poems...Harman Atwood was his liberal patron, that he died in 1676, that he was of Sanderstead, in Surrey County, England, where the name and family had been of long duration in a lineal descent"(Atwood 1888).
    Harman Atwood died childless in 1676 and left Sanderstead Court to his sister Dame Olivia Atwood (1614-1681). Olivia also died childless, and the house passed through a succession of distant Atwood relations until it passed out of the family line entirely in 1759. Later owners included members of the Wigsell family.
    John Preston Neal provides a description of Sanderstead Court's grounds as they existed in 1818:
    "The site of the Court House is on an eminence, having in front a spacious lawn, skirted by a shrubbery of rich and varied foliage, separated from the adjoining pleasure grounds by a light range of iron palisades. The Park was enlarged by the addition of an Estate, called Place House; and the whole now forms quite a sequestered residence; the grounds, which are extensive, admit the most beautiful prospects: on one side are seen the counties of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire; and on the other, a fine open coutnry for many miles, over all Bansted Downs" (Neal 1818).
    In the early 20th century, Sanderstead Court was converted to a hotel and renamed “Selsdon Court.” During World War II it was used by the Royal Air Force. Sadly, Sanderstead Court burned, leaving only the outside walls in 1944. As of 1947 the mansion was still standing but reduced to ruins, probably never to be repaired, left in the edge of a little village in what is now the outskirts of London.

    Petronilla Atte Wode (atte-wode)   END

    Birth:circa 1364 
    Sanderstead, Surrey, England
    Death:1459 (95)
    England
    Immediate Family:

    Peter Att Atte Wode (atte-wode) 

    Birth:1360 
    Sanderstead Surrey England
    Death:1404 (44)
    Surrey, UK
    Immediate Family:
    About Peter Atte Wode Genealogy & History: The surname came from ancient Anglo-Saxon culture. An older form of the name is de Wyckhurst, recorded in 1204, according to family history. Atte wode means at the wood, and those bearing the name would have lived at the edge of a forest. In 1279 Peter Atte Wode purchased a 220-acre estate known as Wood Place, and the Atte Wodes joined the influential class of yeomen who became prominent landowners. Atwood genealogy from the 1300s includes Sir William Atte Wode, who was Captain of the King's Guard at the Palace of Westminster under King Edward III.


    Peter Atte Wode 

    Birth:circa 1321 
    Woods Place, Surrey, England
    Death:November 30, 1382 (61)
    Sanderstead, Surrey, England
    Immediate Family:
    About Peter Atte Wode He was probably born in Coulsdon in Surrey (now Greater London) according to Manning and Bray's History of Surrey. The precise date of his birth is not known, but it is presumed to have been sometime before 1325. His father was Geoffrey Atte Wode (Abt 1297-1346), a Sergeant at Arms to Edward III and his mother was Anisia. Peter and his wife, Laurencia, had at least one son who was also named Peter Atte Wode (Bef 1363-aft 1384) who was a Knight of the Shire and married Petronilla. On 15 Mar 1351 Peter Atte Wode and John De Roulegh along with seven others were appointed as "keepers" to the "joint commission for the peace and for labourers" in Surrey. This commission was formed in several counties in England to provide an enforcement enforcement for new laws that had been enacted to regulate labor and provide for peace after the Black Death decimated the population in 1348-49. On 15 Sep 1351 de Roulegh and Peter Atte Wode were removed from their positions on the commission as a result of complaints of impropriety by fellow commissioners. They were both tried and Peter Atte Wode was found to be innocent of the charges. De Rouglegh, however, was found guilty of extorting money from laborers, sent to prison and fined heavily. Peter became associated with William of Wykeham (1320-1404). His association with Wykeham undoubtedly enhanced his stature and helped increase his wealth. Jean Froissart (1337-1405), the famed chronicler of medieval England and France, says in his Chronicles (1395): "At this time reigned a priest called William of Wykeham. This William of Wykeham was so much in favor with the King of England, that everything was done by him, and nothing was done without him." Peter was jointly appointed a Justice in Eyre south of the Trent along with Wykeham on 13 Jul 1361, a position he held until about 1367. The Eyre Court was created to hear cases involving forest law in the Royal Forests of England. Wykeham eventually became the Bishop of Winchester, and was also the Chancellor of England under both Edward III and Richard II. William of Wykeham was appointed the King's Commissioner in charge of rebuilding Windsor Castle and Clerk of all the King's Works in his Manors of Henley-on-Thames (Oxfordshire) and Easthampstead (Berkshire). E. F. Atwood has found a reference in the Rotulorum to Peter acquiring a commission to rebuild a portion of Windsor Castle during this period (there is no indication which Rotulorum records were used by Atwood during his research). The Atte Wode's had been in the employ of King Edward III since at least 1341. By 1346 three members of the Atte Wode family were serving in his royal bodyguard as Sergeants-at-Arms, including his father Geoffrey Atte Wode, his grand father Sir William Atte Wode (who had been knighted by the king), and his uncle Richard Atte Wode. Jesse's Memorials of London describes his grandfather's service to Edward III as Captain of the Guard, and The London Letter Books describe Richard's role in moving the invasion fleet down the Thames in 1345 during the Hundred Years' War with France. Based on Peter's land transactions after the successful campaign in 1346, the Atte Wode's seem to have acquired a considerable amount of wealth during this time. E. F. Atwood speculates that this family's treasure was gained as a result of the English success during the war. Froissart makes this observation in his Chronicles: After the battle of Caen "the Englishmen were lords of the town three days and won great riches, the which they sent by barks and barges to Saint-Saviour by the river of Austrehem, two leagues thence, whereas all their navy lay." In 1346 Peter Atte Wode and his wife Laurencia recorded the first of many land transactions in Sanderstead in Surrey (now Greater London) and surrounding counties. This would begin a long association with the Atwood family in Sanderstead. While he owned land in several locations (including Woodmansterne acquired in 1360 and Chipstead Manor acquired in 1364), it seems likely that Peter lived at Wood Place in Coulsdon, the ancestral home; in 1350, he was licensed by the Bishop to maintain an oratory (a private chapel) at Wood Place. On 20 Dec 1382 Laurencia, now a widow, founded a chantry at Newark Priory (which was dissolved in 1538) and endowed a mass for the soul of Peter Atte Wode. Peter amassed a sizeable estate during his lifetime as the scattered records demonstrate, and he stands an example of the emerging new class of wealthy land owners in England who were not members of the aristocracy but grew wealthy through their association with the royal family. His ancestors would continue to acquire land, particularly in Surrey, construct the large manor house known as Sanderstead Court which is depicted in Neal’s Views, continue serve the royal family in a variety of positions, and also become elected as Knights of the Shire.

    Laurencia Atte Wode (?)   END

    Birth:1324 
    Surrey, England, United Kingdom
    Death:1419 (95)
    Surrey, England, United Kingdom
    Immediate Family:
    Wife of Peter Atte Wode
    Mother of Peter Atte Wode

    Anisia Atte Wode  END

    Birth:estimated between 1285 and 1323 
    Immediate Family:
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    Geoffrey Richard Atte Wode 

    Birth:1297 
    The Woods, Colsdon, Surrey, England
    Death:August 26, 1346 (49)
    Crécy-en-Ponthieu, Picardie, France
    Immediate Family:
    Assumed to be eldest son because of his connection with Hooley House as possessor of the estate. A Sergeant of Arms to the King.
    -------------------- GEOFFREY ATTE WODE(1) was born about 1297 in COULSDON, SURREY, ENGLAND. He died on 26 Aug 1346 in COULSDON, SURREY, ENGLAND. HIS ESTATE WAS HOOLEY HOUSE, WHICH IN 1360 WAS FINED 46 POUNDS IN ADDITION TO A REGULAR TAX ON ONE 40TH OF A KNIGHT'S PAY, BECAUSE IT WAS PURCHASED WITHOUT CONSENT OF THE KING (A SORT OF EX POST FACTO SCHEME OF THE KING TO RAISE MONEY), IN 1346, IN THE YEAR OF THE REIGN OF EDWARD THE THIRD, "INQUISTIO POSST MORTEM GALFRIDUS (GEOFFREY) ATTE WODE" ...... LAND IN MANOR OF "GULLESDEN" (COULSDON). THE LATIN MEANS THAT THE FINE WAS PAID AFTER THE DEATH OF GEOFFREY ATTE WODE, PROBABLY IN 1360 AS STATED ABOVE.
    THERE IS A NOTE THAT STATES GEOFFREY MIGHT HAVE BEEN KILLED OR FELL AT THE BATTLE OF CRECY. FELL ? DOES THIS MEAN WOUNDED AND THEN DIED LATER ON, ON DATE THAT IS NOTED. BATTLE OF CRECY TOOK PLACE IN FRANCE AROUND 1345, WHEN THE KING INVADED FRANCE. Parents: SIR WILLIAM ATTE WODE and JULIANA.

    Yvonne Anisia Atte Wode (Livingstone)   (END)

    Birth:1299 
    Woods Place, Coulsdon, Surrey, England
    Death:circa 1328 (29)
    South Croydon, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
    Immediate Family:
    Wife of Geoffrey Atte Wode
    Mother of Peter Atte Wode


    William Geoffrey Atte Wode, Sir 

    Birth:circa 1270 
    Hooley House, Colsdon, Surrey, England
    Death:1345 (75)
    Woods Place, Surrey, England
    Immediate Family:
    Sir William Atte Wode (bef. 1270 – c. 1346) was Captain of the King's Guard at the Palace of Westminster under King Edward III of England.
    He was probably born sometime before 1300 in Coulsdon, Surrey, England. He was the son of Peter Atte Wode and Alice, who owned both Hooley House and Wood Place in Surrey. Sir William married a woman named Juliana, and they had at least three children: Geoffrey Atte Wode, Richard Atte Wode, and William Atte Wode.
    While we do not know when he was knighted, it was at least by 1341, because by that time he is referred to as Sir William and is Captain of the King's Guard at the Palace of Westminster, the King's royal residence in London; members of parliament also met at Westminster Palace at this time. As a Sergeant at Arms, Sir William was part of the royal body guard that was composed of about thirty men at that time. It is not known what events occurred to bring William to King Edward III's attention for this position, but he must have had some connection through either friendship or family relations to the royal family.
    An interesting anecdote about Sir William's life is recorded in John Heneage Jesse's Memorials of London (1341):
    "In the 14th year of the reign of Edward III, John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury, with a great number of London bishops, clergy, soldiers, came to the gate of Westminster Palace and demanded admittance to the chamber where Parliament was assembled. He was forbidden to enter in the King's name by Sir William Atwood, Captain of the King's Guard. The Archbishop was stopped because the followers were not members. The Archbishop was a member, but the King commended Sir William."
    The Atte Wode lineage can be traced back to about 1204 when Peter de Wyckhurst (an older form of the name Atte Wode) purchased 'Hooley House' from the Bertan Marten, the Abbot of Chertsey Abbey. Over the next hundred years, the family added to its land holdings in Surrey and his father, Peter Atte Wode, purchased the 220-acre (0.89 km2) estate known as 'Wood Place' in 1279. The Atte Wode's emerged as one of the new influential class of yeomen who were becoming substantial land owners in England. In 1318 Sir William and Juliana added to the family's fortune by purchasing another estate known as 'Beckenham' in Kent.
    Two of Sir William's sons, Geoffrey and Richard, also became Sergeants at Arms to the King. Richard is mentioned in the London Letter Books for his role in moving the fleet being assembled at London down the Thames to invade France during the 1346 campaign in the Hundred Years' War.
    E. F. Atwood asserts that Sir William and both of his sons accompanied the army on their invasion of France, however, his source for this information is not given. It does seem likely, however, given their positions as body guards to King Edward. Based on subsequent land transactions in England, it appears possible that both Sir William and his son Geoffrey were killed in the French campaign in 1346, (possibly at the Battle of Crecy), however, this is not certain.
    Sir William's grandson, Peter Atte Wode, continued to expand both the family’s land holdings and its influence by being appointed a Justice in Eyre; Peter's association with William of Wykeham who became the Bishop of Winchester and the Chancellor of England undoubtedly also helped to increase the family's influence.
    The Atte Wode family name underwent a number of changes through the centuries with numerous variations in spelling: in the earliest records they are known as de Wyckhurst, by about 1300 they were commonly known as Atte Wode, a name that evolved into the modern version, Atwood, and finally, some (though not all) family members adopted the surname Wood in the 1500s.

    Juliana Juliana Atte Atte Wode (William)   END

    Birth:1274 
    Woods Place, Sanderstead, Cour., England
    Death:1302 (28)
    Coulsden, Surrey, England
    Immediate Family:

    Peter Atte Atte Wode 

    Birth:circa 1245 
    Hooley House, Coulsdon, Surrey, England
    Death:circa 1313 (68)
    Hooley House, Coulsdon, Surrey, England
    Immediate Family:

    Alice Atte Wode   END

    Birth:circa 1254 
    Coulsdon, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
    Death:1313 (59)
    Stevington,,Bedfordshire,England
    Immediate Family:

    William Wyckhurst (Atte Wode) 

    Birth:circa 1220 
    Hooley House,Coulsdon,Surrey,England
    Death:circa 1278 (58)
    Coulsden, , Surrey, England
    Immediate Family:

    Wyckhurst means "house of Wood", and in later years the the owners of "The Hooley House" were "Atte Wodes". Bought Hooley House, Conlsdon, surrey in 1204. A 40 Acre estate. Wyck means dwelling on wooded knoll.

    Alice Wyckhurst (Fosse) 

    Birth:1224 
    Coulsdon, Surrey, England
    Death:1245 (21)
    England (Complications of child birth)
    Immediate Family:
    Wife of William Wyckhurst
    Mother of Peter Atte Wode

    Alice Atte Wode (Umn) 

    Birth:1235
    Immediate Family:

    Peter de Wyckhurst (DeWyckhurst) 

    Birth:circa 1180 
    Hooley House, Coulsdon, Surrey, England
    Death:Coulsden,,Surrey,England
    Immediate Family:
    About Peter de Wyckhurst (DeWyckhurst) 'Ye Atte Wode Annals' says: 'The first mention I find of the name Attwood is of an 'ancient family' at Wynolverley,' Worcestershire. Indeed, legend says this family was originally of Gael-Brython stock. When armorial bearing came into use, this family took a red field, sown with golden acorns and bearing a silver rampant lion. These arms, with often a variation to the number of acorns, are to be found in several other English counties. In Suffolk, the acorns are six; in Surrey, three. 'I find at least five other families with landed estates, named Atwood, whose arms show independent origin. But every Attwood in encyclopedias and histories at hand, who were of note as mathematicians, composers, lawyers, members of Parliament and professors in English Universities, are of a stock whose arms show them to trace from the family at Wolverley. More than half the English Attwood yeomanry were of this stock. 'A. D. 1203, one Peter de Wyckhurst bought outright from the Abbey of Chertsey, the 40 acre Estate in Coulsdon Parish, County Surrey, now known as Hooley House. Wick means dwelling and hurst is a wooded knoll, so Peter may well have been of 'Wood House,' and perhaps from Suffolk. 'The owner of so small an estate would not naturally make much of a mark in history and we would not know his successor, except that William Attewode, in 1278, signed a surety bond, as a yeoman of this parish. 'This is the first appearance of this surname in Surrey. The very next year finds Peter Atte Wode and wife Alice suing to record title to a 220 acre tract nearby, which is known today as Wood Place. Peter doubtless lived at Hooley House, for in 1313, he had the buildings and part of the land of Wood Place leased to one Roger de Bosco, or de Wood. It is merely assumed William was the son of Peter de Wyckhurst. He was the first one in Surrey to carry the name Attewode. The name Wyckhurst translated would mean "house of Wood", and in later years the owners of "The Hooley House" were Atte Wodes. The Hooley House estate was purchased in 1203 by Peter de Wyckhurst from the Abbey of Chertsey. William being an adult in 1278 problably with several years of maturity would be in the correct generation to be a son of Peter. PETER DE WYCKHURST was born about 1160 and married to UNKNOWN. HE WAS GRANTED A 36 ACRE TRACT OF LAND IN 1203, KNOWN AS HOOLEY HOUSE, FROM THE ABBEY OF CHERTSEY IN COULSDON PARISH. "WYCK", MEANT DWELLING PLACE OR HOME AND "HURST", WAS A WOODS, HENCE PETER OF THE HOME IN THE WOODS, AN EARLY FORM OF ATWOOD. THIS LAND IS LATER FOUND IN ATWOOD WILLS. THE NAME ATWOOD IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN OF SAXON ORIGIN. RELIABLE SOURCES PLACE ITS BEGINNING AT COULSDON, A PARISH IN SURREY COUNTY, 12 MILES SOUTH OF LONDON AND ADJOINING CROYDON AND SANDERSTEAD. THE UNUSUAL COMPOUNDING OF THE PREPOSITION (ATTE) WITH THE NOUN (WUDU) DISTINGUISHES THE ATWOOD NAME FROM OTHER LOCAL NAMES. IN THE MAJORITY OF ENGLISH SURNAMES, THE PREPOSITION IS DISGUISED, UNLIKE THOSE OF FRENCH ORIGIN IN WHICH IT IS OBVIOUS AND FOUND IN NAMES LIKE DUBOIS AND DUPONT. THE FIRST RECORD OF THE NAME APPEARS IN THE 12TH CENTURY PIPE ROLLS AND IS SPELLED ATTEWODE. THESE ROLLS GIVE A DETAILED ACCOUNTING OF THE KING'S RECEIPTS AND RENTS, FINES AND PRIVATE EXPENDITURES AND IS ONE OF OUR MOST VALUABLE SOURCES OF NOMENCLATURE OF THE MIDDLE AND UPPER CLASSES OF ENGLISH CITIZENS. SINCE THERE WAS NO STANDARDIZED SPELLING OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE UNTIL AFTER THE 17TH CENTURY, ANCIENT RECORDS SHOW THE NAME IN MANY FORMS: ATTE WODE, DE WOODE, DEBOIS (FRENCH), DE BOSCO (LATIN), ATTE WOODD, ATTWOOD AND ATWOOD. IN CERTAIN DOCUMENTS OF WILLIAM PRYNNE (1600 TO 1699), AN ENGLISH PURITAN, THERE IS EVIDENCE OF REPEATED INTERCHANGE OF "WOOD" AND "ATWOOD" AS THE NAME OF ONE OF HIS CONSTITUENTS AT BATH. THE ATWOODS OF WORCESTERSHIRE OF SAXON TIMES, THE ATWOODS OF SUFFOLK OF EARLY NORMAN TIMES, THE ATWOODS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE ATWOODS OF SURREY AND KENT, OUR LINE, ALL HAVE SIMILAR COAT OF ARMS, EXCEPT FOR THE NUMBER OF ACORNS IN THE FIELD. THUS IT WOULD SEEM THAT THERE MAY STEMMED FROM A COMMON ANCESTOR BACK IN THE DIM PAST WHERE RECORDS DO NOT REACH AND THE DIFFERENT NUMBER OF ACORNS WERE USED TO DESIGNATE THE COUSIN LINES OF THE FAMILY. IN ALL, 15 COAT OF ARMS WERE GRANTED TO THE ATWOOD NAME. THE "O" DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE BEEN DOUBLED BEFORE THE 16TH CENTURY. IT WAS ALWAYS WRITTEN "WODE" WHEN DESIGNATED A "FOREST" IN POETRY AS WELL AS WHEN APPLIED TO ONE WHO LIVED NEAR OR "AT" A FOREST IN PROSE DOCUMENTS. IN THE TIME OF JOHN HEWSON ATWOODE (1520 TO 1562) THERE AS A WM. DE WODE OF KENT WHO WAS ALSO KNOWN AS WM. DE WUDE. COUNTY SURREY IS, ACCORDING TO THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, AN AREA OF FOREST, SWAMP, HEATH AND OPEN DOWNLAND. THE ROMANS PASSED THROUGH THE AREA AT THE TIME OF THE INVASION BY JULIUS CAESAR (55 BC). PERHAPS USING THE ANCIENT TRACT ALONG THE DOWNS, LATER KNOWN AS THE PILGRIM WAY. ROMANIZATION, HOWEVER, DIDN'T COME UNTIL THE TIME OF CLAUDIUS (43 AD) FOR THE NEXT FOUR CENTURIES SURREY WAS RULED BY THE ROMANS AND THOUGH ROMAN REMAINS ARE RELATIVELY FEW, LARGE SETTLEMENTS APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN AT SOUTHWORK, KINGTON UPON THAMES, PARLEY HEATH NEAR ALBURY AND AT WOODCOTE NEAR CROYDON. NO ROMAN TOWN SURVIVED THE SETTLEMENT OF SURREY BY THE SAXONS AND THERE ARE FEW PLACE NAMES OF ROMAN ORIGIN. SURREY WAS NEVER AN INDEPENDENT SAXON KINGDOM. THE NAME MEANS SOUTHERN DISTRICT. NEARLY ALL PLACE NAMES ARE OF SAXON ORIGIN, A LARGE PROPORTION ARE PAGAN. THE AREA HAD A VERY SMALL POPULATION COMPARED WITH NEIGHBORING COUNTIES. AS LATE AS THE 13TH AND 14TH CENTURIES THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A STRONG CONTRAST BETWEEN THE ECCLESIASTICAL DIGNITARIES, SHARING IN THE LIFE OF THE METROPOLITAN CITY. THE TOWN OF CHERTSEY, 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LONDON, IS SITUATED ON THE RIGHT BANK OF THE THAMES RIVER. CHERTSEY ABBEY WAS FOUNDED IN 666 A.D. BY ST. ERKENWALD WHO BECAME ITS FIRST ABBOT. BURNED DURING THE DANISH WARS, ABOUT 871 A.D. AND THE MONKS KILLED, IT WAS RE-ESTABLISHED FOR BENEDICTINES IN THE 10TH CENTURY. IT MAINTAINED A PROMINENT POSTION AND HELD MANY MANORS INCLUDING CHERTSEY, EGHAM, THORPE, CHOBHAM, EPSON, SUTTON AND COULSDON UNTIL IT WAS DISSOLVED IN 1537. DURING THE REIGN OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, GODWIN, EARL OF WESSEX, AND MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY INCLUDING HAROLD, HELD MANY MANORS IN SURREY. AFTER THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS IN 1066, WILLIAM I, TOOK THESE FOR HIMSELF OR HIS NORMAN FOLLOWERS. FOLLOWING THE INSURRECTION OF THE 15TH CENTURY, SURREY UNDER THE TUDORS BECAME A COUNTRY OF ROYAL RESIDENCES. HENRY VII, REBUILT THE PALACE AT SHEEN, RENAMING IT RICHMOND. HENRY VIII AND ELIZABETH I, RESIDED THERE AND HENRY VIII RECIEVCED HAMPTON COURT FROM CARDINAL WOLSEY, JUST ACROSS THE THAMES. THIS BROUGHT COURT OFFICIALS TO THE VILLAGES, TO THE SURREY SIDE. AFTER THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES (1536\1539), HENRY BEGAN TO BUILD A FLAMBOYANT HUNTING LODGE IN SURREY, CALLED NONSUCH (LOCATED NEAR EWELL). THIS WAS BUILT PARTLY OF MATERIALS FROM THE DISSOLVED MONASTERY, MERTON, AND ON THE SITE OF THE VILLAGE OF CUDDINGTON WHICH HE HAD DESTROYED. STONES FROM WAVERLY ABBEY WERE USED IN BUILDING LOSELEY HOUSE. OATLANDS PALACE (WEYBRIDGE) HAD STONES FROM CHERTSEY ABBEY. THE REMAINS OF CHERTSEY ABBEY FELL INTO DECAY IN THE 17TH CENTURY AND FOR MANY YEARS ONLY THE GROUND PLAN WAS TRACEABLE. DURING SHAKESPEARE'S TIME, THE COUNTY OF SURREY COULD BOAST OF THE GLOBE THEATRE AT SOUTHWARK, AND TODAY OF RACECOURSES AT EPSON DOWNS, SANDOWN PARK AND LINGFIELD PARK AND OF THE ALL ENGLAND LAWN TENNIS CLUB AT WIMBLETON. BIRTH RECORDS WERE NOT KEPT IN THOSE DAYS EXCEPT TO PRESERVE TITLES OF KINGS AND OTHERS. HOWEVER, LAND TITLES, WILLS AND OTHER RECORDS HAVE BEEN FOUND. THE LAND WAS OWNED BY THE KING AND PUT UNDER THE CONTROL OF A LORD OR MEN OF OTHER TITLES OR WAS OWNED BY THE CHURCH UNDER THE CONTROL OF A BISHOP. THIS WAS THE MANOR SYSTEM. TO BECOME A YEOMAN OR A FREEHOLDER OF A SMALL PIECE OF LAND ONE HAD TO BE OF SOME SERVICE TO THE KING OR THE BISHOP. OVER THE YEARS THE ATWOODS SEEM TO HAVE SERVED BOTH. WHEN THE ATWOODS BEGAN TO ACQUIRE THEIR ESTATE, LONDON WAS A TOWN OF ABOUT 350,000 AND THE POPULATION OF ALL ENGLAND WAS NOT OVER THREE MILLION. TODAY MOST OF THAT ESTATE LIES WITHIN GREATER LONDON, BUT IN THE BEGINNING IT WAS JUST SOUTH ACROSS THE THAMES IN THE COUNTIES OF SURREY AND KENT. THEY HAD A HOME IN THE PARISH OF ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS, THEN A SUBURB OF LONDON, AND WENT OUT TO SANDERSTEAD IN SURREY, TO THEIR HOME IN THE COUNTRY. THE NAMES SANDERSTEAD, SANDERSTEAD MANOR, SANDERSTEAD COURT AND SANDERSTEAD PLACE ARE NOT EASILY IDENTIFIABLE IN THE SOURCES USED TO COMPILE THIS VOLUME AS A BEST GUESS, IT APPEARS THAT SANDERSTEAD MANOR CONSISTED OF MANY HYDES (FARMS), BUILDINGS AND DWELLINGS. IT WA CHURCH PROPERTY AT ONE TIME, BUT NOT NECESSARLILY A MONASTERY. SANDERSTEAD COURT WAS A LARGE MANSION AND PROBABLY WAS PART OF THE MANOR. ONE SOURCE STATES THAT IT WAS BUILT IN 1676 BY HARMAN ATWOOD, BUT OTHER SOURCES CLAIM THAT "SANDERSTEDE CORTE" EXISTED AS EARLY AS 1586. PERHAPS IT WAS REBUILT OR ADDED ONTO IN 1676. SANDERSTEAD PLACE WAS YET ANOTHER PRINCIPAL DWELLING ATTACHED TO THE MANOR. IT WAS BUILT ABOUT THE TIME HENRY CONFISCATED SOME OF THE CHURCH PROPERTY AND WA TORN DOWN NEAR THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY. 871 A.D. ... THE EARLIEST MENTION OF SANDERSTEAD IS FOUND IN SAXON CHARTERS AND IS MENTIONED IN THE WILL OF THE DUKE ALFRED (?AELFRID), WHERE IT IS SPELLED "SONDERSTEDE". THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME IS FROM "SOUDE" OR "STEDE" MEANING SANDY PLACE. THE CHARACTER OF THE SOIL IS OF A SANDY NATURE, A FEATURE VERY UNCOMMON TO THE AREA. 944\977 A.D. ... DURING THE REIGN OF KING EDGAR, ATHELFIEDA, WIFE AND QUEEN, DAUGHTER OF EARL ORDMAR, MOTHER OF ST. EDWARD, KNIG AND MARTYR, GAVE "SANDELSTEDE", WITH 18 HYDES AND CHURCH TO THE ABBEY OF HYDES. 1085 A.D. ... SHORTLY AFTER THE CONQUEST OF ENGLAND, WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR ORDERED AN INVENTORY OF ALL LANDS AND PROPERTIES FOR TAXTION. THIS RECORD IS KNOWN AS THE DOMESDAY BOOK. HERE "SANDESTEDE" CONTAINS ONLY 5 HYDES. 1536 A.D. ... HENRY VIII, AS HEAD OF THE CHURCH, DISSOLVED THE LESSER MONASTERIES AND CONFISCATED CHURCH LANDS INCLUDING SANDERSTEAD WHICH CONTAINED SANDERSTEAD MANOR OWNED THEN BY JOHN HEWSON WOOD OR ATWOOD. THE MANOR WAS THEN DEEDED TO SIR JOHN GRESHAM, UNCLE OF SIR THOMAS GRESHAM, FOUNDER OF THE LONDON EXCHANGE. ALTHOUGH THE ATWOODS REMAINED IN POSSESSION OF PART OF THE MANOR, THEY LIVED IN THE PARISH OF ST. MARTIN MOST OF THE YEAR. 1556 ... UPON HIS DEATH, SIR JOHN GRESHAM WILLED SANDERSTEAD MANOR TO HIS WIFE, KATHERINE, FOR HER LIFE, WITH THE REMAINDER OF HIS PROPERTY TO HIS THIRD SON, EDMOND. 1576\77 ... KATHERINE GRESHAM DIED AND HER SON, EDMOND, INHERITED THE MANOR. HE WAS OF THORPE MARKET IN NORFOLK, AND A MERCER (TEXTILE MERCHANT) OF LONDON. 1586 ... EDMOND GRESHAM DIED AND WILLED SANDERSTEAD MANOR TO HIS SON, RICHARD. 1591\92 ... JOHN OWNSTEAD, ESQ. (1534\1600), SON OF JOHN OWNSTEAD AND AGNES WOOD (ATWOOD) AND THE GRANDSON OF JOHN WOOD (DIED IN 1525), BOUGHT SANDERSTEAD MANOR FROM RICHARD GRESHAM. 1600 ... JOHN OWNSTEAD DIED, AUGUST 09, 1600, WITHOUT ISSUE. 1604 ... HARMAN WOOD PROBABLY REMAINED IN LONDON UNTIL AFTER THE DEATH OF JOHN OWNSTEAD, AS THE BAPTISM OF HIS OLDEST CHILD DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE SANDERSTEAD REGISTER. HE RESUMED THE OLD FAMILY NAME OF "ATWOOD" AT THE BIRTH OF HIS THIRD CHILD. THE SIZE OF THE ESTATE WAS APPROXIMATELY 3,000 ACRES AT ONE TIME. COULSDON: A FEW MILES SOUTH OF CROYDON AND ADJOINING SANDERSTEAD ON THE SOUTHWEST. COULSDON IS THE ONLY PLACE IN SURREY WHERE RECORDS OF THE ATWOOD NAME IS FOUND BEFORE ABOUT 1400. THE MANOR OF COULSDON BELONGED TO THE ABBEY OF CHERTSEY AS DID THE ESTATES OF HOOLEY HOUSE AND WOOD PLACE. 1203 ... IN THE 4TH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF JOHN, THE ABBOTT OF CHERTSEY, THEN LORD OF THE MANOR, GRANTED A MESSUAGE (DWELLING HOUSE WITH BUILDINGS, CURTILAGE AND ADJOINING LANDS), CALLED HOOLEY HOUSE, AND 30 ACRES OF LAND AND 4 ACRES OF WOOD TO PETER DE WYCKHURST AND HIS HEIRS. THEY PAYING FULL VALUE OF THE LAND. 1313 ... IN THE 6TH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF EDWARD II, A MESSUAGE, CALLED WOOD PLACE, VALUED AT TWO SHILLINGS A YEAR AND ABOUT 20 ACRES OF LAND, 60 ACRES WORTH 20 SHILLINGS, 15 ACRES OF WOOD WORTH 7 SHILLINGS 6D, HELD BY PETER ATTE WODE BY SERVICE OF 13 SHILLINGS 4D, A YEAR CAME INTO THE KING'S HANDS BY REASON OF IDIOCY OF JOHN, SON OF ROGER DE BOSCO, LUCY HIS SISTER BEING HIS NEXT HEIR. 1347 ... IN THE 20TH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF EDWARD III, HOOLEY HOUSE WAS FOUND DEVOLVED ON GEOFFERY ATTE WODE, WHO HAD LICENSE TO HOLD SAME OF THE KING BY SERVICE OF ONE 40TH PART OF A KNIGHT'S FEE, AS PARCEL OF THE MANOR OF COULSDON. 1357 ... PETER ATTE WODE HAD THE BISHOP'S LICENSE FOR A PRIVATE CHAPEL IN HIS HOUSE AT LA WODE IN COULSDON. THE 4 ACRES OF WOOD AT HOOLEY HOUSE OR THE 15 AT WOOD PLACE ARE PROBABLY THE SAME AS LA WODE OF PETER'S LICENSE. Children were: ATTE WODE.

    Unknown de Wyckhurst 

    Birth:1184 
    Coulsdon, Surrey, England
    Death:England
    Immediate Family:
    THEY ARE ACTUALLY LISTED AS THE PARENTS BUT THE DATES ARE THE SAME AS THEY ARE .........

    Peter de Wyckhurst 

    Birth:circa 1180 
    Hooley House,Coulsdon,Surrey,England
    Death:1203 (23)
    Coulsden, Surrey, , England
    Immediate Family:

    Alice Atte Wode (unknown) 

    Birth:1184 
    Hooley House,Coulsdon,Surrey,England
    Death:1203 (19)
    England
    Immediate Family:


    Atte Wode 

    Birth:1160 
    England
    Immediate Family:
    Husband of Unknown Atte Wode
    Father of Peter de Wyckhurst

    Unknown Atte Wode 

    Birth:estimated between 1122 and 1180 
    Immediate Family:
    Wife of Atte Wode
    Mother of Peter de Wyckhurst


    There are suppose to be mentions of John Wood (Mary Wood's Father)

    Source: Lineage Papers of Robert Forsyth Little, Jr. for the Society of the Colonial Wars.

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