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Illustration of Mary Jones (1897) [1] The story of Mary Jones and her Bible inspired the founding of the British and Foreign Bible Society.Mary Jones (16 December 1784 – 28 December 1864) was a Welsh girl who, at the age of fifteen, walked twenty-six miles barefoot across the countryside to buy a copy of the Welsh Bible from Thomas Charles because she did not have one. [2]
Frances Jones, nicknamed Fanny, was born in 1710 on a plantation near Williamsburg near the capital on Queen's Creek.Fanny had an older brother, Lane Jones, born in 1707. Fanny's father, Orlando Jones, was a Burgess for New Kent County in 1718 in the House of Burgesses, the leading legislative body in Colonial Virgini
Mary, Lady Bankes (née Hawtry; c. 1598 – 11 April 1661) was a Royalist who defended Corfe Castle from a three-year siege during the English Civil War from 1643 to 1645. She was married to Sir John Bankes , Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Attorney-General of King Charles I .
Anglican priest; President of the College of William & Mary (1752–55); educated at the Grammar School at William & Mary; trained for ministry at Queen's College, Oxford [7] Timothy J. Sullivan: 1966 Dean of the Marshall-Wythe School of Law (1985–92); president of the College of William and Mary (1992–2005) [9] Paul R. Verkuil: 1961
She and Sir Ralph Lane of Orpington had three sons: politician Robert Lane was born in 1527, [3] Ralph (later governor of Virginia), and MP William Lane. [4] Their seven girls included Frances who married Sir George Turpin, Lettice who married Peter Wentworth, Mary who married Thomas Pigot) Jane who married first the MP Lewis Montgomery and second Thomas Bawde, Dorothy who married Sir William ...
Came over as a young, unmarried man and was allotted one share in the 1623 (as Tho. Clarke) and 1627 divisions. Member of the 1626 Purchaser investment group. Married (1) Susanna Ring, daughter of Mary Ring who was the mother of all his children – William, Andrew, John, James, Susanna, and Nathaniel. Died in Plymouth 1697/8. [19] [20]
She was a daughter of William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys of the Vyne and his wife Margaret Bray. [5] [6] William Hyde was a son to a senior William Hyde and his wife, Margery Cater. [7] William and Margery received the Manor of Antwicks in Letcombe Regis on the occasion of their marriage. William died in 1557, Margery survived him. [8]
Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre of Gilsland, KG (25 November 1467 – 24 October 1525) was the son of Humphrey Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre of Gilsland and Mabel Parr, daughter of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal by his wife, Alice Tunstall (daughter of Sir Thomas Tunstall, of Thurland Castle and cousin to Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall who served Henry VIII and all of his children).