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Hi Matt,

(Please note: The following is from IGI with one or two dates from a couple of Ancestry family trees. I like to verify such info with parish records but haven't done so yet.)

Laurence had eight children including your Grace and my Richard, b 1565, m Gillian Battell (b Hurst, 1569)  m June 7, 1590, and they had Symon b 1607,  in Hurst. (Only child I've found so far).
Symon married Mary Farrer (also b 1607) in 1628. Four children, with my line continuing through Richard Money, b 1629. Richard married Elizabeth (b  about 1640) and I've found two children Richard (not too sure about him as his birth is given as 1654 when Elizabeth would have been about 14!) and John, b 1663 in Thatcham.
John married twice. First marriage was to Abigail, 1665-85, and their son Thomas was born in Letcombe Regis in 1685, the year of her death. (He then married Ursula Steele and there were four children).
Thomas Money married Hannah Savage in 1706 and there were eight children. My line continues through Richard, b 1709, who married Hester Knap, b 1717 in Blewbury. They had 8 children, including my final Money, Hester, b 1737,who married Richard Bavis (or Beavis) in 1757 in Steventon. The Beavis family married into a series of Fletchers and Priors of Steventon, finally producing Mary Ann Fletcher of Steventon, 1856-1944, my g grandmother.
My Steventon ancestors all seemed to have been agricultural labourers. I suspect the Beavis family and the Moneys (in particular) were higher up the social scale. Would love to know more about the Moneys.
That's the condensed version!
Cheers
Rob

I've just discovered that Laurence Money d 1605 was an ancestor of mine too and would be fascinated to learn more about the family