Ancestral Trails 2016 » WILLIAM BELSON (1420-1439)

Persönliche Daten WILLIAM BELSON 

• Er wurde geboren im Jahr 1420 in Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire.
• Er ist verstorben im Jahr 1439 in Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire, er war 19 Jahre alt.

Familie von WILLIAM BELSON

Er hat eine Beziehung mit ELIZABETH FURSDEN.

Kind(er):

1. JOHN BELSON  1440-> 1465 

Notizen bei WILLIAM BELSON

The Belson's were a family of prosperous yeomen and roman catholic families in Aston Rowant since the 14th century.

Roman Catholicism.
In the late 16th and 17th centuries there were two prominent Roman Catholic families of gentry in the parish, the Belsons and the Pigotts. The 16th-century Augustine (I) Belson of Stokenchurch, the first of the Aston branch of the family, was the son of William Belson of Brill and his wife Anne, the daughter of Walter Curson of Waterperry. (fn. 590) He was thus related on his mother's side to one of the leading Roman Catholic families in the county, and to Thomas Belson of Brill, who was martyred at Oxford in 1589. (fn. 591) Augustine's children intermarried with other Roman Catholic families and Anne Tempest of County Durham, the wife of his son and heir Robert Belson, was fined for recusancy in 1577 and again in 1620. (fn. 592) Augustine II (d. 1616), the son and heir of Robert and Anne, and his wife Mildred were also recusants. (fn. 593)

Another branch of the Belson family lived at Kingston Blount, but no member of it was listed as a recusant, and it may have conformed. (fn. 594)

¶The Aston Belsons appear to have been related by marriage to their neighbours the Pigotts: Julian, the widow of Bartholomew Pigott, who was listed as a recusant in 1577 was probably the sister-in-law of Robert Belson. (fn. 595) Another member of the family, Nicholas Pigott of Stokenchurch, in Aston parish, was reported in 1592 to be among the recusants in the county remaining at liberty. (fn. 596) Later, Margaret and Elizabeth Pigott, his wife and daughter-in-law, were fined. (fn. 597) The Willoughbys, lords of Aston and Kingston manors, may also have been Roman Catholics. They had business dealings with the Pigotts, and John Willoughby was granted a pass in 1614 to travel abroad provided he did not go to Rome. (fn. 598)

Between 1592 and 1622 six women members of lesser Aston families were fined. (fn. 599)

After the removal of the Belsons of Aston to Brill in about 1614, (fn. 600) Roman Catholicism probably declined. The Compton Census of 1676 recorded none; (fn. 601) the Vicar of Aston reported in 1706 that Maurice Belson was a 'reputed papist', (fn. 602) and in 18th-century visitation returns, a farmer's wife was reported in 1768 and two servants in 1823. (fn. 603)
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