Re: Lancelot Warde of Warde`s in Wethersfield, Essex, England

[Jwc...@aol.com]

Dear Fellow List Members,
Apparently some sort of
concensus has been reached about the birth and parentage of Lancelot Warde, it
being suggested that he was baptized at Stoke -by- Nayland ,Suffolk ,4 February
1548/50, son of John Warde of Stoke -by-Nayland (also of Dedham, Essex)by
wife Margaret Parson, another son, George was baptized by the same parents
at Stoke-by-Nayland on 3 October 1559. Lancelot Warde`s will has
apparently yet to be found but he witnessed a will with son Robert in 1600. As to
his wives, the first was in fact a sibling of uncle Robert Springe, his
mother Alice Springe widow made her will at Wethersfield , Essex on 25 March
1586, proved 25 November 1586 it is recorded on page 247 of Essex Wills:
the Archdeaconry Courts 1583-1592 Frederic G Emmison, ed.(1989) shown in
snippet view on ancestry .com... thus I have not seen the entire will. At any
rate Lancelot Ward is called her son, as are sons Thomas and Robert Springe
, also John Livermore and Henry Livermore ( who possibly are her sons or
son-in-laws) daughter Margaret (?Springe) (Davie) Chapman and her 8
children, daughter Lilie (? Springe) Clarke, possibly the mother of Robert Warde
senr`s servant Philip Clarke. Alice named Henry Livermore as her executor,
John Livermore if Henry should refuse. A Robert Taber not named as friend,
kinsman or creditor received a few shillings, so did son Thomas
Springe,(possibly the Springe heir) He and Lancelot Warde witnessed the will. So It
appears Philippa (Warde) Sherman was probably the daughter of a Springe or
perhaps a Livermore and granddaughter of Alice ( ) (?Livermore)
Springe.
Sincerely,
James W Cummings
Dixmont, Maine USA