2.RALPH2Featherstonehaugh, Of Preston (ELIAS/Helias1)10,11,12 was born Abt. 1200 in Of Preston, Lancashire, England13, and died Aft. 1272 in Of Preston, Lancashire, England. He married <Unknown> Abt. 1241 in Of Preston, Lancashire England14.
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Gender: M Misc: Abt. 1200 Preston, Lancashire, England
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Father: Elias FEATHERSTONEHAUGH
Mother: Mrs. Elias FEATHERSTONEHAUGH
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This finding leads me to believe that Helias' son's name was Ralph~ and not Thomas. At any rate, this record indicates that Helias/Elias had a son named Ralph. (~Please see Featherstone Family Newsletter Vol. 1, Issue 2, below).
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Gender: M Marriage: Abt. 1241 Preston, Lancashire, England
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~In the "Featherstone Family Newsletter" Volume 1, Issue 2, Spring of 1997, on pages 14-17, "The Castle Featherstones" article states Helias' son was THOMAS B: c. 1213, D: after 1272, M: ??. Under the THOMAS section of the article, the author states the following:
"From all the available references and working on 20-25 year generations it appears that in 13th and 14th century Northumberland there was probably a succession of five eldest sons named Thomas and also a cousin named Thomas. The five Thomases were, in their turn, successively described in legal documents only as "junior" and "senior" giving rise to some confusion in generations. Earlier researchers constructing a tree of the early Featherstones prudently left a space after Helias.~ However, a letter lodged with the Society of Genealogists in London gives 1213 as the year of the first Thomas' birth which makes him appear to be the "heir" of Helias mentioned in the document of 1212-1217. The first mention found of a Thomas in a legal document is in 1225 (10 Henry III) when he was granted the manor of Featherstonhalgh in socage*. This suggests that Helias had died in that year. In 1244 and again in 1277 there are references to Thomas senior acquiring property in Wyden.* This implies that the second Thomas was born before 1244. If these birth dates are accepted, in 1277 the first Thomas (if still alive) would have been 64 and the second Thomas as least 33, old enough to have been the Thomas senior referred to in the 1277 document. However we are told that in 1272 Thomas junior took the inquest after the death of Thomas Lord Lucy, Baron of Langley.* We can therefore assume that the first Thomas was still living in 1272. Around 1256 Thomas held of the barony of Tindale, the manor of Fetherstanhalgh***. The next known document mentioning a Thomas was in 1309 when Thomas and his son, also named Thomas, were inquisitors after the death of the second Thomas Lord Lucy, Baron of Langley*. In 1309, the first Thomas (if still alive) would have been in his nineties, the second Thomas at least 65, and the third Thomas possibly in his forties, with a son (the fourth Thomas) who could have been in his twenties. On Arpil 21, 1312 Thomas, probably the third Thomas, was a purchasing agent to King Edward II and was ordered to purchase 392 quarters of wheat and 420 quarters of malt in preparation for the King's visit to Newcastle**. The following further events relating to "Thomas" have been recorded:
1320. 15 September. Thomas witnessed the enrollment of a deed in the Chancery at Westminister**.
1322. Thomas stood surety for Robert de Angerton of Newcastle who was sending ships south for corn. Thomas was to ensure that Robert did not convey the corn to places other than York and Newcastle and did not communicate with the Scots or the Flemish**.
1323. 30 July. Thomas "and his brother, Alexander," were rewarded with a grant from the King of the land in Sedburgh in Lonsdale, Yorkshire, forfeited by the rebel, Andrew de Harcla**.
1324 & 1326-28. Writs were addressed to Thomas as keeper of the King's peles at Highhead in Cumberland and Staworth (see also 1327 (ii) below in Northumberland**.
1326. Appointed to array all the fencible men of the liberties of Hexham (Northumberland), Wark in Tyndale, the Barony of Tyndale, and the moor of Alderston, to assess them to arms and lead them at the King's will or elsewhere as shall seem to the same Thomas to the King's advantage, with power to punish any found rebellious in this behalf**.
(It appears that 1327 was an eventful year for the Thomases in their services to the Crown. In January of that year (but possibly 1328 under our present Gregorian calendar) Edward II was deposed, to be succeeded by his 14 year old son Edward III. In truth England was ruled in the King's name by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer for the first three years of Edward III's reign. In 1330 Edward asserted himself by arresting Mortimer with his own hands at Northampton Castle, and having his tried and executed. Isabella was retired from public life with a yearly pension.)
1327.
(i) Thomas "senior and junior," Hugh de Walls and others were conservators to a truce between England and Scotland.*
(ii) Thomas restored to the Abbot of Jedburgh (Roxburgh) out of his custody the land and possessions which had been seized by Edward II because of the war against Scotland.**
1328-1329. Thomas served on inquisitions post mortem.**
1329. Thomas the younger and his uncle, Peter, received a general pardon from the King for their actions "in the late rebellion."**
1331. Thomas went to Ireland with Anthony de Lucy.**
1335. Thomas had a mandate to array all the men at arms in South Tindale.*
1336. Thomas granted to his mother, Mariota de Fetherstan, the manor of Fetherstanhalg.*
In 1327 (for example) the third Thomas was probably in his sixties and his son, the fourth Thomas in his forties. However, in 1335 the third Thomas would have been in his seventies. The fourth Thomas could himself have had a son of the same name (a fifth Thomas) by 1327 who it is possible could by then have been in his twenties or even early thirties. Which Thomas is referred to in each of most of the events is therefore VERY MUCH OPEN TO CONJECTURE. From lack of evidence to the contrary, it can be assumed that either the fifth Thomas had no children or that they died before their parents."
* "A History of Northumberland." John Hodgson, 1840.
** "Featherstoniana" C. P. Cuttino.
*** "The Featherstones of England, A Family History." Dr. Hans W. and Mrs. Elizabeth Meier, 1995.
