Narcissus Manpowder

[Andesine]

Whoa! Brilliant!

Got to be worth £3.50 for that will.

You're going to laugh but no, I've not used Google books before and I'm a web developer. You'd think I might have found that one by now. Sheesh! 

[Lydart]

http://books.google.co.uk/


All sorts of goodies !



If you get into Canadian FH, there's also this, similar ...

http://www.ourroots.ca/e/

[Andesine]

Canada great, I have a Benney who sailed off over there and ended up Governor of Nova Scotia. I've found the connection the other side, she has all their tree but neither of us can find the shipping info.

The Will is downloaded and amazing. I'll print it off tomorrow and try to extract all the bequests. From a quick look they're all over the country to all sorts of people, including the poor of Wolverhampton.

[Andesine]

Lydart thanks so much. This looks like it will be a gold mine. It's pretty tough to read on the screen and I'll double check a printed version tomorrow but it appears to say...

to my wife the said pish of Holsworthie,

Crumbs, seriously wealthy.

I've also now found a whole load of Mapowders so it looks like the Manpowder in the Hearth Taxes was wrong. It also seems to link into Mappowder in Dorset rather nicely.

[Andesine]

Oh RUDE WORDS!!!!

My Benney family surname has about 20 different spellings, you'd think I'd have looked for Mapowder wouldn't you.

http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=Mapowder

[Lydart]

Have you checked out the Dorset OPC pages for Shaftesbury St James ?

http://www.dorset-opc.com/ShaftesburyFiles/St.James/St.James.htm


There are the following marriages ... and may be more ...

1629 Thomas BRUER & Sarah MAPOWDER were married 23-Dec

1630 Robert MAPOWDER/CLARKE & Petronilla LACIE were married 30-Jun

1635 Giles RANDOLL & Joan MAPOWDER were married 27-Apr

... and I'll leave you the fun of searching through their other lists for baptisms and burials ...


It would be worth you putting 'Mapowder' into the main Dorset OPC search facility ... as I say, I'll leave it up to you !


(I'm enjoying this ... its the name that's caught my attention !)


Have you also tried putting his name into Google ?   He occurs in 13 entries, but one is from the reply I gave you about the NA yesterday !    Google is obviously on the ball !

[Andesine]

Thanks very much. Yes great name isn't it and oh so tempting to go charging off researching them rather than concentrating on my own mob. Sigh. Soon maybe. 

I must be strong. I must be......

[Lydart]

Job ?  Employment ?

Thats no excuse ... come on, we all want to know more about this man with the fascinating name !

[seraphina]

Hi Andesine,

I see from previous replies that you've seen that Narcissus was the son of Tristram Makpowder and was baptised in Holsworthy in 1575. I've also been side tracked by the fabulous name - my link to him is via his great niece Elizabeth Mapowder (grand daughter of his brother Gideon) who was my 7 (if I've counted right) times great grandmother. It's fascinating to have such a lot of information. I've also learned that Narcissus son Anthony studied at Exeter College Oxford. The record says matric 1637-8, admon 4 July 1641 - need to find out about terminology. The family wealth didn't help my 7x great grandmother who was resettled back to Holsworthy from Parkham in North Devon as a pauper later in life. This is much more usual for my family tree! Happy Hunting.