Ancestral Trails 2016 » Laurence SANFORD (1221-1270)

Personal data Laurence SANFORD 

• He was born in the year 1221 in Melbury Turbeville, Dorset.
• (Alternative Name Spelling) : Saunford, Stanford.
• He died in the year 1270 in Wiston, Horsham, West Sussex, he was 49 years old.
• A child of JOHN SANFORD and ALICE BASSETT

Household of Laurence SANFORD

He is married to Hawise CORBET.

They got married in the year 1258 at Melbury, Dorset, he was 37 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Ada SANFORD  1270-1331 

Notes about Laurence SANFORD

Melbury Sampford is a small estate parish in the Beaminster area of Dorset. It is thought the first part of the name ‘Melbury’ comes from the joining of two Old English words, ‘maele’ and ‘burh’, meaning ‘multi-coloured fortified place’, hinting at long forgotten battles in ancient times.

The second part of the name is a Manorial addition in honour of the Saunford family, Lords of the Manor here from the late 13th century. In medieval times this place was often alternatively called Melbury Turbeville from the family of that name. By the 15th century, the Manor had passed to the Brouning family.

The parish primarily consists of Melbury Park, an attractive deer park, with woodland and agricultural land of around 300 hectares. Formerly, there was a village of Melbury Sampford, whose disappearance may have been due to the enclosure of the deer park and the 1530 rebuilding of Melbury House by Sir Giles Strangways, Henry VIII’s Dorset Commissioner for the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

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