The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

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33 Agnes, 4 (John* John, 1 Robert, 1
) sister of the preceding ;
the date of her birth is not known, but it must have been not
far from 1525-27. If we are correct in believing that Maryon
married Thomas Glamfelde, Agnes was the wife of Chris-
topher Alderman.
On the Calendar of Suffolk Wills at Ipswich * I find the
Will of a Christopher Alderman, a clothier of that town,
dated 30 March, 1573, and proved 3 November following.
On the Register of St. Nicholas' Church, Ipswich, is the
record of the burial, 31 June (sic), 1573, of a Christopher
Alderman. f This Christopher owned several estates in Ips-
wich, one of which he occupied, and others were leased to
tenants. The messuage in the Parish of St. Nicholas, which
he gave to his son John, he describes as near the "fryers
bridge;" this seems to have crossed the Gipping, not far
from the Franciscan monastery of the " Grey Friars," and
quite near the Church. J
* Book XXIV (1572-3), fo. 429.
t See the volume entitled " The Registers of St Nicholas, Ipswich, co. Suffolk.
Baptisms, 1539-1709. Burials, 1551-1710. Marriages, 1539-1710. Transcribed by the
Rev. Edward Cookson, M. A., by permission of the Vicar, the Rev. S. Green." This
is Volume VII of the Issues of the London Parish Register Society, London, 1897.
The Registers of St. Peter's Church from 1662 have been privately printed by Mr.
Frederick Arthur Crisp, who remarks, " No earlier Register appears to be in exist-
ence." Both volumes are in the Library of the N. E. Hist. Gen. Society, Boston.
On the first of these are numerous entries relating to the Alderman family, and
three or more on the second. The early entries of marriages are few, and most of the
baptisms and burials are too late to help us ; but from these and Wills of which I have
abstracts, it is evident that there were several branches of the family in Ipswich, in
which the names Christopher and John constantly appear, and seemingly more or less
closely related to that under notice, but there is nothing by which this can be defi-
nitely shown.
X See p. 28, supra.