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| Husband: William Sewall |
| Born: 1520 | Place: Coventry, Midlands, Warwickshire, England |
| Died: | Place: Coventry, Warwickshire, England |
| Married: 1541 | Place: Coventry, Warwickshire, England |
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| Wife: Matilda Horne |
| Born: 1520 | Place: Coventry, Warwickshire, England |
| Died: | Place: Coventry, Warwickshire, England |
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| Father: Reginald Horne |
| Mother: Margeria Lee |
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| Child 1 (M): Henry Sewall |
| Born: BEF 1 SEP 1544 | Place: Coventry, Midlands, Warwickshire, England |
| Died: 16 APR 1628 | Place: Coventry, Midlands, Warwickshire, England |
| Buried: 7 MAY 1628 | Place: Draper's Chapel in St. Michaels Church, Coventry, England |
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Spouses: Margret Grazebrook |
| Child 2 (M): William Sewall |
| Born: 1543 | Place: Coventry, Warwickshire, England |
| Died: BEF 11 SEP 1624 | Place: Coventry, Warwickshire, England |
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Spouses: Anne Wagstaffe |
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HUSBAND NOTES: Genealogy of the Sewall Family "The ancestry of the Sewalls of New England cannot be traced beyond William Sewall of Coventry, but it is of interest to know that the name of Shewell, Showell, Seawall and Sewall has been borne by numerous persons of sufficient importance to leave behind them even in those far away days more or less of a record. Coventry, an ancient and quaint town of Warwickshire, derived its importance from the clothing trade. In 1468 it was the fourth city of importance in England. William Sewall of Coventry, born probably about 1520, married Matilda, Daughter of Reginald Horne of Pikesley, about 1540." http://www3.sympatico.ca/robert.sewell/sewall1908.htm: The several lines of the Sewall family[1] have a common English ancestor, known in the records of Richard II as Saswallo, or Seawald, an old English thane, at the time William the Conqueror invaded England (1066) He is represented to have possessed seventeen bull-hides of land (a hide being as much as a plow could cultivate in a year—about 60 acres). A thane of those days in England was a dignitary or lord of his own manor, who had a particular jurisdiction within the limits of his possession. Saswallo lived in Warwickshire. He built and endowed a church there, — near the central part of England. A Norman knight named de Fervaris fell in love with and married Saswallo’s daughter. This saved Saswallo’s estate from confiscation by the Normans, and by special favor he was allowed to retain his estate at Nether Eatondon. This estate remained in the possession of his family and descendants 700 years. Subsequently, the family name was changed to its present orthography — “Sewall.” In 1250, we find it in the Bishop of York spelled thus. The arms of the Sewall family in England read, “Sable Chevron betwixt three gad-bees argent.” This reading is the very same as is inscribed by Fuller in his “Worthies of England” to John Sewall I, sheriff of Essex and Herfordshire (in fourth year of the reign of Richard II, 1380). Another form of the arms represents industry by a common beehive with the bees at work, and another wording is, “Sa a chevr. or. betwixt three gadbees volant. Arg. (Sewall).” William Sewall lived in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, during the reign of King Henry VII. He was the mayor of that place in 1540. William Shewell (Sewall) was a Vitner in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. He later became a Mayor of that city. He and his wife are buried at Michael's Church in Coventry. The Sewall Family Bibliography Hammatt, Abraham, Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Mass., 1633-1700, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980, p. 329. Savage, James, Genealogical DIctionary of the First Settlers of New England, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986, Vol. IV, p. 53. Sherman, Jeanette Johnson, Johnson-Mitchell Ancestry with Allied Families, 1967, pp. 163-164. Book located in the Free Library, Belfast, ME and The Appleton Public Library, Appleton, ME. Sinnett, Rev. Charles N., The Sewall Genealogy, Fertile, MN Webster, Henry Sewall, Thomas Sewall; Some of his Ancestors and All of his Descendants, Gardner, ME, 1904. HUSBAND FACTS: TITL Sir: |