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From: Reedpcgen< >
Subject: Re: Bolles
Date: 13 Aug 1998 01:02:05 GMT


The Visitation of Nottingham in 1614 [HS 4], p. 94, gives Benjamin Bolles of
Osberton, co. Notts. (m. Anne Goodricke) as being son of William Bolle alias
Bolls of Osberton, aged 80 in 1575 [b. ca. 1495] by his second wife, Lucy
Watts, daughter and heir of John Watts, grocer of London, by his wife Alice
Gate (daughter of Richard Gate and his wife Lucey [sic], daughter of Richard
Benington). The Watts are given as bearing Gules, a cockatrice or, on a chief
argent a label ermine.

I have handwritten notes in my copy which state that Benjamin's father died 2
March 1582/3 and was buried at Worksop, co. Notts., 6 Apr. 1583. It looks to
be George Frederick Sherwood's handwriting [if this is his handwriting, he was
probably hired by someone to search the pedigree; there may be something in the
Sherwood Research Collection (microfilm), which I have not checked]. Lucy
Watts was a second wife, but the first wife died without issue.

Benjamin's father, William [b. ca. 1495] was son of "William Bolle al's Bolls
of Wortham in Com. Suff[olk] descended out of the house of Bolles of Haugh in
Com. Lincon [sic]". The handwritten note reads: "N. B. The first four
generations of this Bolle Ped: from William and Eliz: down to Benjamin are
preserved at Osberton in the remains of an old window".

So I am willing to believe the pedigree back to William Boll/Bolls and his wife
Elizabeth, whose parentage is unknown.

Benjamin's father received a patent of arms: "A pattent graunted by William
Flower Norrey to William Bolles of Osberton in Com. Nott. the 17th of Queen
Elizabeth." If there was no question of how William descended from the
Lincolnshire family, why get the patent, or why does it not show the exact
connection? So if this William was born ca. 1495, his father was probably born
1465-75. That makes the chronology of the connection shown in the Bolles
genealogy questionable.

This same information is echoed in _Transactions of the Thoroton Society 1901_
v. 5, pp. 13-14 and pedigree at end, but it is unable to add any information,
other than that Lucy, William's wife, was buried at Worksop 16 March 1560/1.
William married (3) Agnes ___ who was buried 2 November 1569.

None of the Lincolnshire Bolle pedigrees [note that their surname is never
spelled with the "s"] show a younger son who settled in co. Nottingham. I did
not see wills in the PCC or PCY that would help. I checked the early printed
volumes of Lincoln Wills, but found no Bolle will. So, I suggest you trace the
chronology of the Lincoln family [the visitation accounts are in Lincoln
Pedigrees and The Genealogist (London)] and see if it is even chronologically
possible for the pedigree proposed by the genealogy to work. I will be very
curious to hear what you find.

pcr

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