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Saturday, July 3, 2021

Surnames - variations

 Surnames:

Atwater =     Atwater Water de la Water de l'Eau

d'Aubigny =     d'Aubigny d'Aubeney d'Albini d'Albany Daubeny Daubeney

d’Audley =     d’Audley Audley Aldithel Alditheley Dudley[?]

d'Aumale =     d'Aumale Albermale

de Ballon =     de Ballon de Balun de Baalun de Balloon de Bullen Bulleyne Boelyn

Bailey =     Bailey Baylie Bayley

de Basset =     de Basset de Bassett refer also d’Ouilly: viz: d’Ouilly-le-Basset

de Beaufou =     de Beaufou de Beauffou de Beaufoy de Bellofago

de Beaulieu =     de Beaulieu Beaulieu Bellew Beaulieu de Bellaqua Bellewe

de Beaumont =     de Beaumont de Bellmont de Bellomont

Bellers =             Bellers Beller Beler Belers

le Boteler =     le Boteler Butler Botiller le Botiler le Botiller

de Bourchier =     de Bourchier Boucher Boussier

de Boisly =     de Boisly de Boilly

de Bois =     de Bois de Boyes de Boies

de Bohun =     de Bohun Bohun de Boun

Booth =                     Booth Boothe Bouthe Bothe Bothes

de Braose =     de Braose Braose de Brewes de Briwere

Brooksby =     Brokesby Brokesbie Brooksby

de Bruce =     de Bruce Bruce de Brus

de Burghersh =     de Burghersh Burghasshe de Burwassh de Burgherssh de Burghesshe de Burgers

de Burge =             de Burge Burges

de Bussey =     de Bussey de Busli de Builly de Bussei

de Cantilupe =     de Cantilupe de Cantelowe de Cauntelo

de Champernon =     de Champernon de Champernoun de Chambernon de Champernowne Chapman

de Cheney =             de Cheney de Cheyne de Chesney de Cayneto de Caisneto

de Clare =             de Clare de Clere de Santo Claro Sinclair Saint-Clare Saint-Clere Saint-Claire

de Corbie =     de Corbie de Corby

de Cornouaille=     de Cornouaille of Cornwall

de Crequy =     de Crequy de Cresecques de Crecques

de Creke =     de Querceto de Creke de Crec de Creake de Creek Creyke Crayke

de Criol =     de Criol de Kyriel

de Cruse =     de Cruse de Cruis de Cruwys

de Culpepper =     de Culpepper de Colepepper de Colspore de Culspore

Dapifer [steward]=     Dapifer Dapiferi

Deincourt =     Deincourt d'Incourt d'Eincourt d'Aincourt d'Eynecourt

d'Engaine =     d'Engaine de Engaine d'Engayne

Esmonde =     Esmonde Estmound d'Ezmondiis

de Flanders =     de Flanders Flandre de Flandre of Flanders van Vlaanderen

de Freke =     de Freke Freck Freake Frakes

de Galoupe =     de Galoupe de Gulafre

de Ghistelles =     de Ghistelles de Gistel

Gilford =     Gilford Guildford Guilford Guleford Guylforde

de Hastings =     de Hastings de Hastang

de Hayles =     de Hayles de Haelen de Hales de Halys de Hele Hele Heale Healy

de Hauteville =     de Hauteville d'Altavilla d'Altavilla

Kelloway =             de Cailly de Clauilla le Calewe Chailleway de Kellaway Kelloway de                                                         Cayllewaye de Kayleway

Knollys =     Knollys Knowles Knolles

Leybourne =     Leybourne Leyburne Labourn la Bourn les Bourn

de Lisors =     de Lisors de Lisours de Lissours de Lisoures

de Lovell =     de Lovell de Lovall Louvell

Lyte =     Lyte Lite Light Leight Lyde Lietz Leete

de Lucy =     de Lucy de Luce

de Mandeville =     de Mandeville de Magna Villa

de Manners =     de Manners de Maniers 

de Molynton =     de Molynton de Molinton de Molington

de Mowbray =     de Mowbray Mowbray Mubray

de Maredudd =     de Maredudd de Maredydd de Mareduc

de Merk =     de Merck de Merc de Merch Merche de Mersch de Marck de la Marche

de Monchensey =     de Monchensey de Munchensy de Munchensi de Mouchens de Maunchesney de                                     Montchauncy

de Montegu =     de Montegu de Montecute

de Montgomery =     de Montgomery de Montgommery de Monte Gomerii

de Mortain =     de Mortain de Mortaigne


de Neville = de Neville de Nevill de Neuville de Novavilla de Nova Villa

d’Oilly =                 d'Oiley d'Oilly d'Oyley de Oilleia d'Olgii d’Ouilly d'Ouille d'Ouyilli d’Ouilly-le-                                    Basset: refer also : Basset viz: d’Ouilly-le-Basset


de Pateshull = de Patshulle de Pateshull Patteshull Pattishall

de Pauncefoot = de Pauncefoot de Pauncefote

de Pecche

[de la Perch = of the Pole or de la Pol,

de perche =             perch,

de pechee 

means: fishing] = de Peche de Peccam de Peckham de Pechey de Peach de Perch de la Perche de Peech de Pertico [Latin] Pecham

de Perye     de Perye de Perry Perry Pury Pery Parry

Philips =         Philips Phelip Phellyppse Phylyppes

de Pierrepont = de Pierrepont de Petrapont

Picot =         Picot Piccott

de Poitiers = de Poitiers de Poitou

le Power = le Power la Poar de le Poer le Poer de Poher

de Quincy = de Quincy de Quency de Quenci

de Radcliffe = Radcliffe Rouclyff Roucliff Rocliffe Rocliff Roecliffe

de Raineval = de Rayneval de Raineval

de Redvers = de Redvers de Reviers de Revieres de Ripariis

de Rohaut = de Rohaut de Rohant

de Ros =         de Ros de Ross de Rosse

Rossiter = Hroueceaster Hrofesceaster Raucester Rauseter Rawcester Rawceter Rawcether Rawcettor Rawsether Ressiter Riechester Roceter Rocetr Rochester Rociter Rocyter Roesiter de Roffa Roffensis Roffes Rofsetter Roissetter Roncestre Ropider Rosater Rosciter de Rosei Rosetter de Rosey Rositer Rosoter Rossa Rossatter Rossceter Rosse Rosseder Rossei Rosseltur Rossensis Rosses Rosset Rosseter Rosseth Rossetir Rossetter Rossey Rossi Rossie Rossieter Rossiter Rossitur Rossy Rosyter Roucestre de Roucestre de Rouecestria de Rouencestre de Rouensis de Rucostre de Rovencestre Rovencestria Rowcestre Rowcetor de Royceter Roycetor  Rucestr le Rus Russiter

further out there could this name also be a corruption of Rossiter: Boussier; Me Rouec,

This family name is aledgedly of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a dialectal variant of Rochester, a locational name from places so called in either Kent or Northumberland. The place in Kent appears originally in the Saxon Charters of 445 as "Dorobrevi", from the British (pre-Roman), "duro" a stronghold, with "briva", a bridge, and later, circa 700, it was recorded in the Anglo Saxon Laws as "Hrofesceaster", or as "Hrofi", circa 730, in Bede's Ecclesiastical History; both deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century "hrof", roof, with "ceaster", city or walled town. The derivation of the place in Northumberland is possibly the Olde English "hroc", rook, appearing in the Fees of 1242 as "Rucestr"; hence, "the city of rooks"

La Rous = la Rous la Ruse Le Roux

de Savoy = de Savoy di Savoia

Searle = Searle Searl Searles Searls

Seymour = de Seymour de Saint-Maure de Sainte-Maure

Sinnott = Sinnott Sinnot de Synad de la Sinnott Synnott Synot

Sotheby = Sotheby Southaby 

de Sutton = de Sutton de Sottoun de Soutton

Swain =         Swain Swayne Swaine 

de Tibetot = de Tibetot de Tiptoft de Tybotot

de Toeni = de Toeni de Towmay de Tosny de Tosni de Tony

de Tirel = de Tirel de Tyrel de Tyrrell Tyrell Tyrrell Tirril Terrell

de Valoignes = de Valoignes de Valoines de Valoynesde de Valognes de Valensis

Warriner = Warriner Warrener

Woodville = Woodville Wydeville

Worsley = Worsley Workeseley


Rollo of Normandy (l. c.860-c.930 CE, r. 911-927 CE)

 

Rollo of Normandy

Also known to his biographers, chroniclers, and poets as Rollo, Rollon, Robert, Rodulf, Ruinus, Rosso [possible connection with the de Roucestre’s since they were also named de Rosso and de Rossey] , Rotlo and Hrolf, Granger Rolf or Rolf the Walker, founder in about 911 of what became the duchy of Normandy, is another of those, like Ragnar Hairy-Breeches and Ivar the Boneless, whose prominence among their contemporaries conspired over the years with an almost complete lack of biographical information to transform them from ordinary mortals into dense hybrids of men, myth, and legend.

 

Rollo (l. c.860-c.930 CE, r. 911-927 CE) was a Viking chieftain who became the founder and first ruler of the region of Normandy. He converted to Christianity as part of a deal with the Frankish king Charles the Simple (893-923 CE) in 911 CE (changing his name to Robert) and his story was then embellished upon by later Christian writers who held him up as a role model: a savage Viking chief who became a paragon of Christian virtue and established law in the land. In doing so, however, they largely ignored whatever was known of Rollo's life prior to his involvement with Charles.

 

If you will trust us, we will give you advice fitting and wholesome for you and for the kingdom, so that the people, who are all too stricken with want, may have repose. Let the land from the River Andelle to the sea be given to the pagan peoples; and in addition, join your daughter to Rollo in marriage. And thereby you will be able to grow mightily in power against the peoples who resist you; for Rollo is born of the proud blood of kings and of chiefs; he is very fair of body, a ready fighter, far-sighted in counsel, seemly in appearance, amenable to us, a faithful friend to those to whom he gives his word, a ferocious enemy to those whom he opposes, a constant and amenable vassal in all things, with  a shrewd mind, such as we need.

The principal tribes of Gauls who inhabited Normandy were the Caleti (pays de Caux), the Bellocasses or Vellocasses (Vexin) the Eburovices (Evreux), the Lexovii (Lizieux) the Viducasses (Vieux), the Saii (Seez), the Avrincatui (Avranches), and the Unelli (the Cotentin).

About the year 896, Rollo, being banished from Norway by Harold the fair-haired for his piratical excesses, equipped an armament, and made a descent, in the first instance, upon England, from whence being expelled by Alfred, he proceeded to the Scheldt, carrying destruction along with him ; and eventually sailing up the Seine, he landed at Jumieges, near Rouen, besieged Paris for four years, took Bayeux and Evreux, and so firmly established himself in his new possessions that, all hope of expelling him having vanished, the French king, Charles the Simple, formally ceded to him that extensive district from the river Epte to the sea.* This event happened in 912; and from Rollo the Northman, and his followers, the country took the name of Normandy.

By the treaty with Charles the Simple, Rollo engaged to become a Christian, and to marry Gisla, the king's daughter.

La Ferte was assigned to a younger branch of the house of Goumay [de Gournay] before the conquest, as appears by the foundation deed of the priory at La Ferte , which took place whilst Robert Count of Evreux was Archbishop of Rouen ; and other towns or vills were given as manors to other families.

At a subsequent period, twenty-four parishes on the eastern side of the Epte, in the Beauvoisis, were added to the territory of the Lords of Gournay, and called " La Conqu^te Hue de Goumai," after the name of that Lord of Goumai, who acquired these about the year 1078. These fiefs in the Beauvoisis rendered the Lords of Goumay vassals of the Kings of France as well as of the Dukes of Normandy ; and may account in some measure for their frequently vacillating in their allegiance between those two powers.

Hugh, son of Eudes the Norman chieftain to whom this territory was said to be assigned by Rollo, is reported to have been the first to direct his attention towards making Goumay a place of strength. The ancient records ascribe to him the erection of a citadel in the immediate vicinity of the church of St. Hildevert, surrounded with a triple wall and fosse, and further secured by a tower, which was called after his name. La Tour Hue, and which continued in existence until the beginning of the seventeenth century.

About a hundred years after Philip Augustus, his great-grandson, Philip the Bold, bestowed the town and lordship of Gournay on his youngest son Charles of Valois, at whose death it became part of the dower of his widow, Matilda de Chatillon. Again, in like manner on the death of Philip of Valois in 1350, it was separated from the crown, and assigned to the widowed Queen Blanche of Navarre. By this princess it was held for forty-eight years, when it once more reverted to her royal domains. But early in the succeeding century the town fell, together with the rest of France, before the victorious arms of our sovereign Henry V. ; and upon his demise it was a third time selected as a portion of the dower of a royal widow, Katharine, daughter of the French monarch Charles VL Her death, in 1438, restored it to England, but only to be held for the short term of eleven years, at which time. the reverses sustained by the English troops occasioned the expulsion of our kings from their continental dominions.


 

Lambert [Lambertus] II, Count of Lens [3 Sept 1028 - 1054]

 

Lambert [Lambertus] II, Count of Lens [3 Sept 1028 - 1054]

Brothers:

Comte Eustace [ii] "aux Gernons" de Lens de Boulogne de Burgundy II [c. 1015-1093]

Bishop Godfrey de Boulogne de Bouillon

Lambert [Lambertus] II, Count of Lens was uncle of: Duke Geoffrey de Bouillon FitzEustace de Boulogne, King Baldwin de Jerusalem FitzEustace de Boulogne I and Lord Eustace Eustache [iii] FitzEustace de Boulogne de Burgundy III [who married Princess Mary MacCrinan d'Ecosse of the Scots]

 

Lambert II, Count of Lens (died 1054) was a French nobleman. He was likely born circa 1030. This would put his death age at about 24 years of age.

He was the son of Eustace I, Count of Bologne and of Maud of Louvain (daughter of Lambert I of Louvain). c. 1053 he married Adelaide of Normandy, Countess of Aumale, daughter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy and sister of William the Conqueror. Adelaide was also the widow of Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu who died in 1053. c. 1054 Lambert and Adelaide had a daughter, Judith of Lens, although Lambert would scarcely have seen her father.

 

He was killed at the battle of Lille in 1054. Lambert was supporting Baldwin V, Count of Flanders against Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor when he was killed in battle. His widow, Adelaide, married thirdly, Odo, Count of Champagne.

 

Lambertus de Roseto from Rosay, Dieppe ref: "Domesday People: Domesday book':

Tenent of Rowdham Westaker Manor, Norfolk [Hundred of Shropham] under the lordship of the Earl of Warren via the Bardophs, and then to the Roseis or Rosets, and Lambert of Rosei gave his whole land at Rodeham [Norfolk], which William his priest held of him there, with the consent of Walcheline [Wakelin], his son, and of William Earl Warren and Surrey, the chief lord of the fee of whom it was held by the service of one knight's fee, to the Priory of West-Acre ; and the Earl released to that house the service of that fee; and in 1345, the prior had a quarter of a fee in Roudham, which formerly belonged to the Munchensies after to Robert de Lyle, and was held of the King, as Duke of Lancaster; and from this time the manor, impropriate rectory, and the advowson of the vicarage belonged to the priory till its dissolution, and fell to the Crown; and in 1546 the King granted it to Thomas Woodhouse, who the same year sold it to Francis Lovell, and his heirs; and from that time it hath passed with East-Herling, (see p. 323,) with which it was sold to the Wrights, Mr. John Wright, son of Thomas Wright, Esq. being now [1737] lord, impropriator, and patron.

 

From Blomefield's "County of Norfolk" published 1805, p433

Rudham, Rudeham, Roodham, or Rowdham, takes its name from a remarkable rose or cross that stood in it, upon the great road leading from Thetford to Norwich; (fn. 1) the remaining stones of it were carried thence to Herling, about five or six years agone, by Mr. Wright, who was then lord here. In the Confessor's survey it was held by a freeman of Herold, at one carucate, but at the Conquest it was divided into three parts; besides 30 acres that belonged to the manor of Bridgham; the three first was in the Conqueror's hands, (fn. 2) he second belonged to William Earl Warren, (fn. 3) and these two constituted the capital manor, called Rowdham Westaker's. The third was held by Ralph, of Eudo the Sewer, (fn. 4) and the whole soke or superior jurisdiction belonged to Buckenham castle, as part of the hundred, Lisius, the old owner, (as I take him to be,) continuing his claim at this time against Eudo, who had got it from him by force, or by the Conqueror's gift. This was afterwards called Trusbutt's or Newhall manor.

 

"Rowdham Westaker Manor. Was all in the Earl of Warren, the King having given him his part, but was divided again., and that part which was the King's was held of them Earl, by a family surnamed from the town, till William, son of Simon de Rowdham, gave it to the Priory of West-Acre., the other part , with the advowson, came from the Earl of Warren to the Bardophs, and then to the Roseis or Rosets, and Lambert of Rosei gave his whole land at Rodeham, which William his priest held of him there, with the consent of Walcheline [Wakelin], his son, and of William Earl Warren and Surrey, the chief lord of the fee of whom it was held by the service of one knight's fee, to the Priory of West-Acre.

 

Castleacre-Priory Manor.

William Earl Warren, the second of that name, by his deed, sans date, confirmed, as capital lord, in the reign of King William II [26 September 1087 – 2 August 1100]. the land which William, the priest of Rudham, held of Lambert de Rosei [de Rosseto], and one knight's fee of the grant of the said Lambert, and remitted the service of the said fee; this was, no doubt, the same Lambert who was lord at the survey, and had been enfeoffed of the same by the first Earl Warren. William, the third Earl Warren, gave Alwin, in Rudham, with all his substance, and Godwin, the smith, with his wife and children.

John de Querceto, or Cheyney, released the homage of Jeffery, brother of Mathew, to the prior of Coxford.

 

Eustace, seneschal of Acre, granted the reversion of all his lands in Rudham, after his death, on condition of being admitted a monk, if he should desire it.

 

William, son of Roger de Gressenhale, gave two of his men, or villains.

 

Geffrey, son of Ordiner, gave also lands here, and Ralph de Necton confirmed to them 42 acres in pure alms.

It was agreed by deed, sans date, that the small tithes of this lordship should belong to the priory of Castleacre, but the tithes of the corn, lamb, and wool, and cheese, should belong to Coxford priory, with the weif and stray, and the assise of bread and beer:—Witnesses Sir Hervey de Stanho, Sir Henry de Ferrariis, which shows it was in or about the end of the reign of Henry III. and for this one mark was to be paid per ann. to Castleacre priory. Robert, prior of Castleacre, remitted to William, prior of Coxford, their right in the manor of East Rudham.

 

In the 18th of Edward I. Ralph de Dunton gave a messuage and 47 acres of land, in West Rudham.

 

In the 20th of Edward III. the prior held here half a fee in pure alms, and in the 3d of Henry IV. here, and in Bagthorp, of the Earl of Arundel.

 

At the Dissolution, Thomas, the prior of Castleacre, conveyed it to King Henry VIII. in his 29th year; who, soon after, December 22d in the said year, conveyed it to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk; and Phillip Earl of Arundel, in the 21st of Elizabeth, had license to alienate it to Sir Roger Townsend, whose direct heir and successour, the Right Honourable Charles Lord Viscount Townsend, was lord, and now George Lord Viscount, his son

  

Eustace II who came to England with William the Conqueror is identified by Peter Western as Eustace de Roucester of Rivenhall. He had a brother Lambert de Boulogne. This Lambert had a daughter Judith & also Walcheline [Wakelin].

 

Rossiters of Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England

The Rossiter’s and their Birth sites: Father to son: William Guillaume Carolingian de Rossa de Roffa de Roucestre de Rovecestria de Rovencestria d: 1249 William Guillaume de Roffa de Roucestre 1385 William Guillaume de Roucestre 1402 William Guillaume de Roucestre Roucestre Rossiter 1438 Chard, Somersetshire, England 2 May 1513 Wadeford Manor, Combe St Nicholas, Chard, Somerset, England The Parish of Combe St Nicholas lies about 2 miles from Chard and 10 miles from Taunton; it is almost 4800 acres in area and the boundary length is just under 14 miles. This “hollow in the hills” (or ‘cwym’, from the Gaelic, spoken by the Celts of Cornwall and Wales) is set in lovely countryside on the edge of the Blackdown’s, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Combe St Nicholas, is a village and a parish in Somerset near Chard, the parish is divided into the tithings of Betham, Clayhanger, Ham, and Wade-ford, and includes the hamlets of Sticklepath and Weston. Previously known as Combe Episcopi, the village took its present name when the church was dedicated to St Nicholas in 1239. Sheep, wool and wool trades were important, and the wealth of springs allowed 4 mills (two grist and two box cloth) to operate at one time, as well as a brush factory at Nimmer. The Green Dragon pub has been in existence since 1611. Following the invasion of 1066 the area was probably controlled by the Normans from a castle built at what is now known as Castle Neroche, about 5 miles from Combe on the Taunton road. Recent excavations indicate that the site was firstly an Iron Age fort and later used by the Saxons. The Normans took the fort in 1067 and built a motte and bailey castle. The fort was taken by William the Conqueror’s half brother, Count Robert of Mortain but he abandoned it in 1087 and moved to Montacute fifteen miles to the east. The Doomsday Survey (1086) says of Combe: ‘The same Bishop (Giso) holds Combe. Azor, son of Torold, held it in the time of King Edward and paid geld for 20 hides. There is land for 16 ploughs. Of this (land) there are in demesne 8 hides where are 3 ploughs and 12 serfs and (there are) 15 villeins and 13 Borders with 12 ploughs and 12 hides. There are 12 beasts and 18 swine and 315 sheep and 1 riding horse. There are 12 acres of meadow and half a league of pasture reckoning (inter) length and breadth, and 1 league of woodland reckoning length and breadth. It was worth 10 pounds. Now 18 pounds.’ Sir Richard de Roucestre Rosseter Rowcetter Rossiter of Shaftsbury & Wadeford Hall 1463 Shaftesbury, Dorset, England 3 Sept 1529 Wadeford Hall, Combe Saint-Nicholas, Chard, Somersetshire, England Philip Perry [i] Rocetr Rocytor Rossiter c. 1499 Collies Combe, Combe St. Nicholas, Somersetshire, England 1589 Combe Saint Nicholas, Chard, South Somerset, Somerset, England Parish records of Combe St. Nicholas before 1678 are lost & Edward Rossiter left no will. Married: Katherine Lyte [daughter of William ‘Black Will’ Lyte]: Reference to marriage of Katherine to Philip Roycetor of Collie Combes recorded on Page 97 of : " The Lytes of LytesCary' by H C Maxwell Lyte C.B. published late 1800's. Sir William "Black William, the Elder" Lyte of Lillesdon [B: 1502- D: July 28 1566]: The parish embraces the manor of Tillesdon, residence of William Lyte (called Black William) whose identity as father of Katherine, the wife of Philip Rossiter, appears in the extensive Lyte pedigree in the 1623 “Visitation of Wiltshire” (The Publication of the Harleian Society, v. 105/6:230-234, especially 232, 1954). Philip Rossiter is described in the visitation as of St. Collies Combe uxta Chard. Collies in early days was the colloquial name for Nicholas. Chard was the market town 2-1/2 miles southeast of Combe St. Nicholas. William Lyte married Dorothea, daughter of Edward Kellway of Rockborne, co. Wilts, knight. Among William’s other children was Gertrude who married Thomas Howard, Viscount Howard of Bindon, Queen Elizabeth’s first cousin (see Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, 6:583, 584). William was a member of the distinguished Lyte family of Lyte’s Cary, parish of Charlton Mackerell being the second son of Thomas, Lord of the manor. The story of Lytes Cary Manor House was written by William George in 1879. The impressive manor house has survived. It is now a property of the National Trust and partly opened to the public. At that time Richard Rossiter's son Philip Rossiter (Edward’s grandfather) inherited 4 messuages, 31 acres of meadow, 312 acres of pasture & 200 acres of woodland. In the 1583 Survey of the parish (SAS/SE86), “Philipus ROSSITER, gent. (farmer or husbandman) owned a dwelling and a new tucking mill. Philip Rossiter paid 17 pounds a year to the Lord of the Manor (Wells Deanery). The other freemen of Combe were William BONNER, gent.- 15 pounds, William JEANES- 12 pounds, John BUETT- 2 pounds, John WALROD- 4 pounds, John DEWNELL- 20 pounds and _____ MALLETT- 12 pounds. Philip Rossiter owned Wadeford House [now listed as a Grade II Listed Building] and the fulling mill (woollen mill) [previously owned by his father Richard] in Wadeford, Chard, Combe St-Nicholas, Somersetshire England, which has been carefully restored, stand today in a hamlet about 3/4 miles SE of Combe St. Nicholas. This is one of seven mills within a few miles of each other on the River Isle, the others all being grist mills for corn. Philip probably died in 1583 or shortly thereafter. He is last named in the 1583 Survey of the Prebendaries of Welles Manor, Combe St. Nicholas, the record being in the Somerset Archeology Society, Taunton (Records No. SF 86; photocopy of record retained). Philip married twice, the first marriage having taken place about 1538. The identity of this wife is unknown. Philip married secondly at North Curry, co. Somerset, on 30 April 1564 KATHERINE LYTE. The marriage is published in W. P. W. Phillimore’s Somerset Parish Registers: Marriages, 15 v. ([London, 1898-1915], 2:79): “Philip Rosseter gen and Katherine Lyte laste of Apr. 1564,” the abbreviation “gen” standing for generosus (i.e., gentleman). Katherine was the sister of Gertrude, both were daughters of William Lyte. Gertrude married Earl Howard the cousin of Queen Elizabeth I. Three Combe St. Nicholas lay subsidies in the Public Record Office show payment of taxes: Ca 1557 Philip Rosy gent assessed £16 for relief, paid 16 shillings. The four others taxed in the parish were husbandmen (3-6 Edward VI, No. E 179/170/254). 1570/1 Phillipus Rocetor gen in terris assessed £4 paid 10 s. 4 d. He was the only inhabitant that year who was taxed on land (13 Elizabeth No. E 179/171/284). 1580/1 Phus Rosseter in terris £4 paid 10 s. 8 d. Of 19 taxable inhabitants, Philip was the only one taxed on land. (23 Elizabeth No. E 179/256/2 photocopy of document retained.) Hugh Hugues Lyte Rossiter 1572 Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England d. c. 22 June 1623 Whitefriars, London, England William Cosbie Rossiter 1605 Somerset, England 1685 Foxcote, Somerset, England James Rossiter Circa 1630 Somerset, England Circa 1685 - Somerset, England William Rossiter Feb 14 1653 Boldre, Hampshire, England Before 1730 - Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England Richard Rossiter Circa 1684 Paignton, Devon, England Circa 1742 Paignton, Devon, England Richard Rossiter Circa 1715 Blagdon, Paignton, Devon, England d. Mar 29 1779 - Blagdon, Paignton, Devon, England Head Butler at Blagdon Barton Hall Manor, Blagdon, Paignton for Edward Blount Recorded in 1767 as having two son’s: a ten year old son John [therefore b. 1757] and a fifteen year-old son: William Rossiter [b.1725] who was a servant in the household of George Cary. William Rossiter June 2 1754 Blagdon, Paignton, Devon,England Jan 23 1823 (Collaton) Paignton, Devon, England William Henry Rossiter May 16 1787 Blagdon, Paignton, Devonshire, England July 27 1852 - Blagdon, Paignton, Devonshire, England Peter Pillar Rossiter June 21 1825: St Andrews, Stokeinteignhead, Devon, England Mar 8 1899 - Dannevirke, Hawkes Bay, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand ROSSITER, Peter Pillar was baptised 21 June 1825 St. Andrews, Stokeinteignhead, Devon. He was the second son of William ROSSITER and Elizabeth PILLAR. He married Mary Ann WHITE 18 July 1847 at Devonport Devon. Their first born was Elizabeth Ann Pillar Shapland ROSSITER was born 20 July 1848 at 27 Portland Place, Plymouth, Devon. Peter, Mary and Elizabeth were listed in "Uncertain Embarkation Orders", issued by Mr J.W. Fitzgerald and were transferred by Mr Bourke to the ship "Sir George Seymour"., Embarkation Order No.75., application number 153. In another list they are listed as steerage passengers and Peter is incorrectly shown as Phillip ROSSITER. On the 4th Sep 1850, the "Sir George Seymour" departed from Gravesend calling in at Plymouth to take on late embarkations which included Peter, Mary and Elizabeth and several other passengers. The family eventually settled in Oxford where they were timber millers. Later they moved to Dannevirke in Hawkes Bay. Elizabeth A.P.S. ROSSITER married Matthew HENDERSON 09 Mar. 1876. On the 30th Jan 1851 Peter and Mary's second child William Henry ROSSITER was born., "the first European boy to be born in Canterbury after the arrival of the Pilgrims." Peter Pillar ROSSITER died 08 Mar 1899 and was buried at the George Street Cemetery Dannevirke. His wife Mary Ann died 26 July 1904 and was also buried at George Street. The first four ships were sent to Lyttelton by the Canterbury Association which was sponsored by the Church of England. Free passage was offered. Edward ROSSITER a brother of Peter ROSSITER arrived NZ a few years later and settled in Rangiora. Rossiter Road in Rangiora is named after Edward.
RALPH SON OF TUROLD – Domesday Book 1086 records this person being immediate lord over the peasants after the Conquest, who paid tax to the tenant-in-chief for these locations: Addington, Larkfield, Kent Barstable Hall, Barstable, Essex Boughton [Malherbe], Eyhorne, Kent Chadwell, Barstable, Essex [East, South and West] Hanningfield, Chelmsford, Essex Eccles, Larkfield, Kent Hartley, Axton, Kent Hassenbrook Hall, Barstable, Essex Ingrave, Barstable, Essex Lawford, Tendring, Essex Lawn Hall, Chelmsford, Essex Luddesdown, Tollingtrough, Kent Milton, Tollingtrough, Kent Moulsham Hall, Chelmsford, Essex Oakleigh, Shamwell, Kent other Moulsham [Hall], Chelmsford, Essex Patching [Hall], Chelmsford, Essex Sampson's [Farm], Winstree, Essex Stifford, Chafford, Essex Thorrington, Tendring, Essex Vange, Barstable, Essex Walter [Hall], Chelmsford, Essex Wateringbury, Twyford, Kent Wickford, Barstable, Essex Wricklesmarsh, Greenwich, Kent Wrotham [Heath], Wrotham, Kent

Friday, June 6, 2014

Frederick Holderlin's Patmos

Nah ist
Und schwer zu fassen der Gott.
Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst
Das Rettende auch.
Im Finstern wohnen
Die Adler und furchtlos gehn
Die Söhne der Alpen über den Abgrund weg
Auf leichtgebaueten Brücken.
Drum, da gehäuft sind rings
Die Gipfel der Zeit, und die Liebsten
Nah wohnen, ermattend auf
Getrenntesten Bergen,
So gib unschuldig Wasser,
O Fittiche gib uns, treuesten Sinns
Hinüberzugehn und wiederzukehren.
So sprach ich, da entführte
Mich schneller, denn ich vermutet
Und weit, wohin ich nimmer
Zu kommen gedacht, ein Genius mich
Vom eigenen Haus'. Es dämmerten
Im Zwielicht, da ich ging
Der schattige Wald
Und die sehnsüchtigen Bäche
Der Heimat; nimmer kannt' ich die Länder;
Doch bald, in frischem Glanze,
Geheimnisvoll
Im goldenen Rauche, blühte
Schnellaufgewachsen,
Mit Schritten der Sonne,
Mit tausend Gipfeln duftend,
Mir Asia auf, und geblendet sucht'
Ich eines, das ich kennete, denn ungewohnt
War ich der breiten Gassen, wo herab
Vom Tmolus fährt
Der goldgeschmückte Paktol
Und Taurus stehet und Messogis,
Und voll von Blumen der Garten,
Ein stilles Feuer; aber im Lichte
Blüht hoch der silberne Schnee;
Und Zeug unsterblichen Lebens
An unzugangbaren Wänden
Uralt der Efeu wächst und getragen sind
Von lebenden Säulen, Zedern und Lorbeern
Die feierlichen,
Die göttlichgebauten Paläste.
Es rauschen aber um Asias Tore
Hinziehend da und dort
In ungewisser Meeresebene
Der schattenlosen Straßen genug,
Doch kennt die Inseln der Schiffer.
Und da ich hörte
Der nahegelegenen eine
Sei Patmos,
Verlangte mich sehr,
Dort einzukehren und dort
Der dunkeln Grotte zu nahn.
Denn nicht, wie Cypros,
Die quellenreiche, oder
Der anderen eine
Wohnt herrlich Patmos,
Gastfreundlich aber ist
Im ärmeren Hause
Sie dennoch
Und wenn vom Schiffbruch oder klagend
Um die Heimat oder
Den abgeschiedenen Freund
Ihr nahet einer
Der Fremden, hört sie es gern, und ihre Kinder
Die Stimmen des heißen Hains,
Und wo der Sand fällt, und sich spaltet
Des Feldes Fläche, die Laute
Sie hören ihn und liebend tönt
Es wider von den Klagen des Manns. So pflegte
Sie einst des gottgeliebten,
Des Sehers, der in seliger Jugend war
Gegangen mit
Dem Sohne des Höchsten, unzertrennlich, denn
Es liebte der Gewittertragende die Einfalt
Des Jüngers und es sahe der achtsame Mann
Das Angesicht des Gottes genau,
Da, beim Geheimnisse des Weinstocks, sie
Zusammensaßen, zu der Stunde des Gastmahls,
Und in der großen Seele, ruhigahnend den Tod
Aussprach der Herr und die letzte Liebe, denn nie genug
Hatt' er von Güte zu sagen
Der Worte, damals, und zu erheitern, da
Ers sahe, das Zürnen der Welt.
Denn alles ist gut. Drauf starb er. Vieles wäre
Zu sagen davon. Und es sahn ihn, wie er siegend blickte
Den Freudigsten die Freunde noch zuletzt,
Doch trauerten sie, da nun
Es Abend worden, erstaunt,
Denn Großentschiedenes hatten in der Seele
Die Männer, aber sie liebten unter der Sonne
Das Leben und lassen wollten sie nicht
Vom Angesichte des Herrn
Und der Heimat. Eingetrieben war,
Wie Feuer im Eisen, das, und ihnen ging
Zur Seite der Schatte des Lieben.
Drum sandt' er ihnen
Den Geist, und freilich bebte
Das Haus und die Wetter Gottes rollten
Ferndonnernd über
Die ahnenden Häupter, da, schwersinnend
Versammelt waren die Todeshelden,
Itzt, da er scheidend
Noch einmal ihnen erschien.
Denn itzt erlosch der Sonne Tag
Der Königliche und zerbrach
Den geradestrahlenden,
Den Zepter, göttlichleidend, von selbst,
Denn wiederkommen sollt es
Zu rechter Zeit. Nicht wär es gut
Gewesen, später, und schroffabbrechend, untreu,
Der Menschen Werk, und Freude war es
Von nun an,
Zu wohnen in liebender Nacht, und bewahren
In einfältigen Augen, unverwandt
Abgründe der Weisheit. Und es grünen
Tief an den Bergen auch lebendige Bilder,
Doch furchtbar ist, wie da und dort
Unendlich hin zerstreut das Lebende Gott.
Denn schon das Angesicht
Der teuern Freunde zu lassen
Und fernhin über die Berge zu gehn
Allein, wo zweifach
Erkannt, einstimmig
War himmlischer Geist; und nicht geweissagt war es, sondern
Die Locken ergriff es, gegenwärtig, Wenn ihnen plötzlich
Ferneilend zurück blickte
Der Gott und schwörend,
Damit er halte, wie an Seilen golden
Gebunden hinfort
Das Böse nennend, sie die Hände sich reichten –
Wenn aber stirbt alsdenn
An dem am meisten
Die Schönheit hing, daß an der Gestalt
Ein Wunder war und die Himmlischen gedeutet
Auf ihn, und wenn, ein Rätsel ewig füreinander
Sie sich nicht fassen können
Einander, die zusammenlebten
Im Gedächtnis, und nicht den Sand nur oder
Die Weiden es hinwegnimmt und die Tempel
Ergreift, wenn die Ehre
Des Halbgotts und der Seinen
Verweht und selber sein Angesicht
Der Höchste wendet
Darob, daß nirgend ein
Unsterbliches mehr am Himmel zu sehn ist oder
Auf grüner Erde, was ist dies?
Es ist der Wurf des Säemanns, wenn er faßt
Mit der Schaufel den Weizen,
Und wirft, dem Klaren zu, ihn schwingend über die Tenne.
Ihm fällt die Schale vor den Füßen, aber
Ans Ende kommet das Korn,
Und nicht ein Übel ists, wenn einiges
Verloren gehet und von der Rede
Verhallet der lebendige Laut,
Denn göttliches Werk auch gleichet dem unsern.
Nicht alles will der Höchste zumal.
Zwar Eisen träget der Schacht,
Und glühende Harze der Ätna,
So hätt' ich Reichtum,
Ein Bild zu bilden, und ähnlich
Zu schaun, wie er gewesen, den Christ,
Wenn aber einer spornte sich selbst,
Und traurig redend, unterweges, da ich wehrlos wäre
Mich überfiele, daß ich staunt' und von dem Gotte
Das Bild nachahmen möcht' ein Knecht –
Im Zorne sichtbar sah' ich einmal
Des Himmels Herrn, nicht, daß ich sein sollt etwas, sondern
Zu lernen. Gütig sind sie, ihr Verhaßtestes aber ist,
So lange sie herrschen, das Falsche, und es gilt
Dann Menschliches unter Menschen nicht mehr.
Denn sie nicht walten, es waltet aber
Unsterblicher Schicksal und es wandelt ihr Werk
Von selbst, und eilend geht es zu Ende.
Wenn nämlich höher gehet himmlischer
Triumphgang, wird genennet, der Sonne gleich
Von Starken der frohlockende Sohn des Höchsten,
Ein Losungszeichen, und hier ist der Stab
Des Gesanges, niederwinkend,
Denn nichts ist gemein. Die Toten wecket
Er auf, die noch gefangen nicht
Vom Rohen sind. Es warten aber
Der scheuen Augen viele
Zu schauen das Licht. Nicht wollen
Am scharfen Strahle sie blühn,
Wiewohl den Mut der goldene Zaum hält.
Wenn aber, als
Von schwellenden Augenbraunen
Der Welt vergessen
Stilleuchtende Kraft aus heiliger Schrift fällt, mögen
Der Gnade sich freuend, sie
Am stillen Blicke sich üben.
Und wenn die Himmlischen jetzt
So, wie ich glaube, mich lieben
Wie viel mehr dich,
Denn eines weiß ich,
Daß nämlich der Wille
Des ewigen Vaters viel
Dir gilt. Still ist sein Zeichen
Am donnernden Himmel. Und Einer stehet darunter
Sein Leben lang. Denn noch lebt Christus.
Es sind aber die Helden, seine Söhne
Gekommen all und heilige Schriften
Von ihm und den Blitz erklären
Die Taten der Erde bis itzt,
Ein Wettlauf unaufhaltsam. Er ist aber dabei. Denn seine Werke sind
Ihm alle bewußt von jeher.
Zu lang, zu lang schon ist
Die Ehre der Himmlischen unsichtbar.
Denn fast die Finger müssen sie
Uns führen und schmählich
Entreißt das Herz uns eine Gewalt.
Denn Opfer will der Himmlischen jedes,
Wenn aber eines versäumt ward,
Nie hat es Gutes gebracht.
Wir haben gedienet der Mutter Erd'
Und haben jüngst dem Sonnenlichte gedient,
Unwissend, der Vater aber liebt,
Der über allen waltet,
Am meisten, daß gepfleget werde
Der feste Buchstab, und Bestehendes gut
Gedeutet. Dem folgt deutscher Gesang.

Monday, November 26, 2012

William Anthony Carius


My dear Bill, well, it has been seventeen years since you left us and I still think of you every day - even more so around this time of year...again...the 22nd November is still a difficult day for me - well the whole week really. Still have your photo on my desk and I know you continue to watch over me as I promised I would for you.

You are missed...but you're never far from my thoughts...Mr Driver...Cloud-walker...my soul mate - we will meet again ...I am sure somewhere out there you have returned to us - I hope my eyes and heart are open enough to recognise you and remember you. If not I will no doubt be with you again in some form ...from the earth, within the ocean or in the air flying in the clouds - we will be together once again forever ...no matter how briefly or for how long I can't wait to see you and hold your sweet head on my heart again. Love from a great distance ...

I give my heart wings to your feet so that you may fly higher.