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Alice Pasfield or Jackson

Female - 1581


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  • Name Alice Pasfield or Jackson 
    Gender Female 
    Died From 18 Oct 1580 to 10 May 1581  Rettendon, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4638  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Pasfield or Jackson 
    Family ID F1185  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John Lommance,   d. Bef 1580, of Rettendon, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2129  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. The book "Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America," by Elias Loomis; update of 1875 edition published by Elisha S. Loomis, Berea, Ohio, 1908. Note - Dr. Elias Loomis died before the Supplement was published. But this third (1908) edition contains all new materials which he had collected, along with all new data collected and obtainable since his death. From Preface: 'While we have retained unbroken Dr. Elias Loomis's historical account of Joseph Loomis, his origin and his name, as set forth under the heading, Historical Data, p. 21, yet we deem it best to add such supplementary facts as have come to light since 1875, especially as touching the name Loomis. Indeed it is very doubtful if our ancestral name originated in the way Dr. Loomis surmised, as the investigations of Prof. C. A. Hoppin, Jr., hereinafter given, seem to show. That Joseph's great-grandfather died at Thaxted, Eng., in the year 1551, is now proved as evidenced by Thaxted church records. But whence came his ancestors, what was the origin of the name, and what is our right to a coat-of-arms? These queries are raised and discussed in Prof. Hoppin's scholarly report to which the reader is referred. Evidently our antecedents are not Royal, but something far better, viz., clean, God-fearing, industrious men of respect and influence - men of character and back-bone.'" The book notes:
      Unknown, two sons:
      Thos. Lummyus, d. 1551.
      John Lummys, will 1567, m. to Kyrsten Pasfield (or Jackson). Two sons:
      John Lummys, bap. 1562, d. 1619, m. to Agnes. Six children:
      Joseph Lummys the emigrant, m. Mary White, dau. of Robert White.
      Ann (Warr).
      Sara (Burton)
      Elizabeth (Preston)
      Jane (Pengally)
      Geoffrey, d. 1625, m. Priscilla (Whitehead?), d. 1631. One daughter Priscilla.
      Edward Lomys of Bocking, m. 2 Aug 1593 to Alicia Perie. Four Children:
      Jane, d. 1595.
      Frances, d. 1595.
      Thos., c. 1596-7.
      William, bap. 9 Jan 1596-7.
      William Lommance, d. 1540, five children:
      John Lommance, m. Alice Pasfield (or Jackson) will 1580, four children [see book for detail].
      William Lummys, d. Lavenham 1573.
      Margaret (Llower) Brigham.
      James Lummys, living 1573.
      Richard Lummys, d. Lavenham 1588, m. Anne or Agnes Gylbarte, four children [see book for detail].

      2. The book "Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America," by Elias Loomis; update of 1875 edition published by Elisha S. Loomis, Berea, Ohio, 1908, third (1908) edition, chapter "Loomis Family in England,' by Prof. C. A. Hoppin, Jr., pp. 82-83:
      "A subsidy roll of the Hundred of Dunmow, No. 108-246, dated 1543, reveals: -
      'Thaxted' 'John Lommance in Bord & Cattall XL's iiij'd'
      In another assessment in the next year, 1544, roll No. 109-269, appears:
      'Thaxted' 'John Lommance, Goods X L's ij'd'
      Owing to the term 'Goods' doubt arises as to whether he was a farmer or a merchant dealing in live stock; probably he was both, and surely a man of comparatively fair circumstance. No other Lomas of Thaxted was so taxable in this year. There were, however, in 1540, as per the church records, at least three separate Lomas households, or rather, three male adults each having a family, viz" the above John, a William 'Lommance,' and a Thomas 'Lummyus.' The deaths of William and Thomas are on record in Thaxted; but the absence of John's death-record there, and the fact that the woman who must have been his wife and whose maiden name was either Pasfield, or Jackson, made her will and died as a widow, in Rettendon, Essex, some twenty-five miles away, whereto she had removed, leads to the conclusion that John had gone there also before 1571. He left no will that is now of record in the courts, and the burial records of Rettendon are lost prior to 1600. It will be seen, however, that Alice died quite 'full of years' and directed that she be buried in Rettendon and also named her eldest son as John (died in Thaxted, 1588) and his wife as Dorothy, whose marriage to John is recorded at Thaxted in 1568. The will of Alice was written for her by some competent person of Rettendon as follows: -
      'Archdeaconry Court of Essex (44 Brewer) Somerset House, London.
      'In the name of God Amen the xviiijth Daie of October 1580 I Alice Lamise of Rettendon in the countie of Essex widowe beinge sicke in bodie and whole of mynde doe make this my laste will and testament in manner and forme following First I bequeathe my soule to almightie god my maker and redemer and my bodie to be buried in the churche yearde of Rettendon aforesaide. Item I geve all my sonnes and daughters children and unto either of them ij's Item I geve unto Samuell Seymer, John Lamise, Nathaniell Lamise, Robte Woode the younger and John haies unto everie one of them a shepe, Item I geve unto Sara Thornton ij's Item I do geve unto William Perce children to everie of them ij's Item I do geve unto iij goddaughters that is to saie Elen Miller, judith Lamise and Sara Woode unto everye of them v's Item i geve unto john Fraunce a sherte clothe of flaxen cother. Item i geve unto John my sonne sherte clothe of flaxen clother. Item I geve unto Judithe Lamise a smocke of flaxen clothe Item I geve unto Agnes Egeott my daughter my beste chaire & my square table Item I do geve unto my sister christianx my worstead kirtle my beste petticoate and my best hatt. Item I geve unto Anthonye foote his wief a reade petticoate. Item I geve unto John Lamise my service booke. Item I do geve unto John my sonne and unto my three daughters unto everyone of them one paire of sheets of the beste. Item I do geve unto the wydowe Goodwyn one towen sheete and unto John Pasfeilde one other towne sheete. Item I geve unto Fraunce Thornton one sheete with a seame. Item I do geve unto my three daughters my wearinge lynnen Item I do geve unto Dorothie my sonnes daughter one hollande apren and one frame to make tape. And unto Agnes one little brasen morter w'th the peste and unto Judithe one diap napkin Item I do geve unto the widdowe Goodwyn my frise cassocke and one petticoate w'th a lynnen upperbodie Item I do geve unto John haies and Emme haies unto Either of them x's. All the legassies that is given unto infantes to be paide unto them withe in one yeare nexte after my decease Item all the residew of my goods my Debtes paide and this my laste will pformed I do geve unto my thre daughters to equallie deviede betwene them. And I do make John my sonne and William Egiott my sonne in lawe my executors to se this my laste will peformed and they to have either of them ij's for theire paines in that behalf. And I do make my sonne in lawe Robte woode my overseer and he to have for his paines ij's Item I do geve unto the poore of Rettendon x's to be bestowed at the discreation of my executors, witness to this my will Thomas hopkins and Elizabeth Wilingale w'th others.
      Item I geve unto Margaret Perce my oulde kirtle and v's in monye. Item I geve unto mother Pasfeild my black coate and my hatte. Item I geve unto Dorothie my sonnes wief the turned forme. Item I geve unto Emme haies one paire of sheete of ells all the yarne and flaxe. Item I geve unto Emme haies tow ticke pillowes lined withe blewe. Item I geve unto Martha Sudburye a flaxen kirchief and a workendaie apron. Item I geve unto Thomas Pasfeilde his wief one towne sheete. Item I geve unto my sonne my wastecoate of Flannell. Item I will that Eme hayes shall have a couerlett and John haies to have of Eme haies x's And the apples to be geven to poore folke, witnesses to this latter pte mother Pasfeild and mother Jackson w'th others.
      12 May 1581, John Lamise and William Edgitt, the exors, named in the will, renounced the execution thereof. (Possibly because the testatrix failed to concentrate her bequests.)'
      'Unto my sister christianx' - these words in this will we take to refer to her widowed own sister, Christiance or Christine ('Kyrsten') the wife named in the 1567 will of John Lomesse of Thaxted, the grandfather of the emigrant to America, Joseph Loomis. This evidence makes her husband John, cousin of the other (our) John, who died in 1567; and this is in perfect accord with the church records which, as hereinafter, show Alice's eldest son John as distinct from the older John, the aforesaid grandfather, whose will of 1567 we append in full; and consequently Christine, the grandmother of Joseph Loomis, like her sister, Alice, was born a Pasfield (a creditable name in Essex) or a Jackson, as per the will of Alice. Moreover, this portrays Thomas Lummyus, dying 1551, and William Lommance, dying 1540, (apparently in middle age) in the positions of one as the father to John Lommance of the aforesaid subsidy roll of 1543, with the other the father to John Lommys, the grandfather of Joseph Loomis. The evidence towards determining whether Thomas Lummyus or William Lommance was the father of our John is this: - (1) William Lummys, the younger, in his will, 1573, says: "My brother John's three daughters.' These daughters are named in the will of Alice, 1580 - whereas our John Lummys had no daughters of record. (2) The separate households of 1551 are distinguished at that date (we may assume that much from the records) by the two different spellings of the surname. There is nothing illogical in the idea that these separate households may have so desired this distinction one from the other, especially for the benefit and better identification of the two Johns. Therefore, on the face of the records, it may be believed that 'John Lommance' first noted in 1543, and known brother of the younger William, was the son of the elder William Lommance of 1540 and, by the same token, 'John Lummys' first noted in 1567 with son John 'Lymace' in 1562, was the son of Thomas 'Lummyus,' who died 1551. We shall leave it that way."