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 Abt 1175 - Aft 1210 (~ 36 years)
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| Name |
Thomas de Barton |
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of Ainderby |
| Birth |
Abt 1175 [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Aft 1210 [1] |
| Information |
24 Apr 1257 |
Stopsley, Bedfordshire, England  [2] |
"Let us return to the village during the reign of Edward 1st. On the night of 24th April 1875 sic [1857] Thomas de Barton and his three daughters were sleeping in their house at Stopsley. About midnight thieves broke into the building and woke Thomas demanding to know where he kept his valuables. They tied him up and hit him on the head with a pick-axe, leaving a deep wound from which he died soon after lunch on the next day. Then they attacked his three young daughters, wounding Cecily and Agnes. Twelve years old Joan was so badly injured that her brain was visible through a hole in her skull. She lay speechless for six days before dying on 30th April. The thieves ransacked the house and took away everything of value. At dawn Agnes managed to stagger to the house of of a neighbour, Richard de Sedefield, and raise the alarm. By that time the thieves were well away. Richard called a hue and cry in which all the neighbours joined to search for the villains, but no trace could be found of them, and the girls were too distressed to identify anyone.
At the inquest at the County Court on 13 May 1257 the Coroner, Geoffrey Rouland, passed a verdict of unlawful killing by felons unknown..." |
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I5820 |
Barton Database |
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9 Aug 2016 |
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 | Information - "Let us return to the village during the reign of Edward 1st. On the night of 24th April 1875 sic [1857] Thomas de Barton and his three daughters were sleeping in their house at Stopsley. About midnight thieves broke into the building and woke Thomas demanding to know where he kept his valuables. They tied him up and hit him on the head with a pick-axe, leaving a deep wound from which he died soon after lunch on the next day. Then they attacked his three young daughters, wounding Cecily and Agnes. Twelve years old Joan was so badly injured that her brain was visible through a hole in her skull. She lay speechless for six days before dying on 30th April. The thieves ransacked the house and took away everything of value. At dawn Agnes managed to stagger to the house of of a neighbour, Richard de Sedefield, and raise the alarm. By that time the thieves were well away. Richard called a hue and cry in which all the neighbours joined to search for the villains, but no trace could be found of them, and the girls were too distressed to identify anyone.
At the inquest at the County Court on 13 May 1257 the Coroner, Geoffrey Rouland, passed a verdict of unlawful killing by felons unknown..." - 24 Apr 1257 - Stopsley, Bedfordshire, England |
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| Notes |
- !CITED in The Barton Banner, Vol. 1, No. 1, August 1993.
"...was of Ainderby and Kirklington in County York. Between the 6th and
12th years of King John (1199-1216) he made a grant of land to the
monks of Fontaines, whose celebrated abbey was situated at Rieval (or
Riveaux), near Helmsly, in County York. The abbey was about twelve
miles northeast from Ainderby. Thomas married Cecily _____, who
survived him. He had two sons."
!RESEARCHER Leo Barton and http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~airliegenealogy/barton_stedman/
- !CITED in The Barton Bulletin, 1967 Reunion Edition, pp.11-12
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- [S5141] John B. Lisle, Stedman Family History and Ancestry www.stedmanfamily.org.
- [S708] James Dwyer, Stopsley Book, (The Book Castle).
photocopies supplied Sep 2015 by Melanie Innes
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