Category Archives: Wane

John Bartlett: citizen, stationer and religious radical

Posted on March 26, 2013 by

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 by

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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Magnus Byne (1615 – 1671): a life in turbulent times

Posted on March 2, 2013 by

In 1615, in the twelfth year of the reign of King James I and in the last year of the life of William Shakespeare, my 9 x great grandfather Magnus Byne was born, in the village of Burwash, Sussex.* He … Continue reading →

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