Author Archives: Martin

The Mansers: a tentative family tree

Posted on April 9, 2013

Yesterday I drew up a timeline for my seventeenth-century Byne ancestors from Sussex. Today, with a little more trepidation, I’m doing something similar for my Manser forebears, whose history is closely intertwined with the Bynes. A reminder: according to Walter … Continue reading →

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A Byne timeline

Posted on April 8, 2013

To help me keep track of my emerging Byne family tree, I’ve drawn up a timeline of the births, marriages and deaths of my direct ancestors – and put them in the context of key national events. A reminder: Mary … Continue reading →

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Discovering the family of John Manser – and a link to the Bynes

Posted on March 31, 2013

I’m still trying to discover the exact connection between John Manser, the East Smithfield apothecary who died in 1681, and my 8 x great grandfather John Byne, a stationer at Tower Hill, who died nine years later. John Manser appointed … Continue reading →

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John Bartlett: citizen, stationer and religious radical

Posted on March 26, 2013

In the last post I wrote about my 9 x great grandmother, Anne Byne née Wane. Anne died in March 1662 (by today’s calendar), leaving her husband Magnus, who was rector of Clayton-cum-Keymer in Sussex, with a daughter Anne (who … Continue reading →

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Anne Wane (1611 – 1661): scenes from a clerical life

Posted on March 24, 2013

The title of George Eliot’s novel (slightly adapted in my heading) seems singularly appropriate to my 9 x great grandmother, Anne Wane. She spent all of her fifty or so years living in the rectory at Clayton in Sussex, being the … Continue reading →

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The family of Nicholas Manser of Hightown (died 1674)

Posted on March 21, 2013

What can the will of Nicholas Manser of Hightown, Wadhurst, who died in 1674, tell us about him and his family? To begin with the trivial: the will confirms that the spellings ‘Manser’ and ‘Maunser’ were fairly interchangeable within the … Continue reading →

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The will of Nicholas Manser of Hightown (died 1674)

Posted on March 21, 2013

Yesterday I discussed the will of Nicholas Maunser of Hightown near Wadhurst, Sussex, who died in 1653, and who was a relative of my 10 x great grandmother Mary Maunser who married Stephen Byne of Burwash. Analysing the will helped … Continue reading →

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Analysing the 1653 will of Nicholas Maunser of Hightown

Posted on March 20, 2013

Nicholas Maunser of Hightown, near Wadhurst in Sussex, made his last will and testament in 1653, the year in which Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth. It was also the year in which provincial probate courts were abolished … Continue reading →

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The will of Nicholas Maunser of Hightown, Wadhurst (died 1653)

Posted on March 20, 2013

Last week I wrote about the Maunser family of Hightown in Wadhurst, Sussex. My 10 x great grandmother Mary Maunser, who married Stephen Byne of Burwash in 1611, was the daughter of John Maunser of Wadhurst (died 1597), who was … Continue reading →

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Analysing the will of Abraham Maunser, apothecary

Posted on March 19, 2013

What do we learn about Abraham Maunser and his family from his will of February 1690? We discover that he was a citizen and apothecary in London, just like the Abraham Manser of East Smithfield who was his contemporary and … Continue reading →

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