Thomas Baynard/Mary Bennett Descendants
Our Baynard lineage begins with Thomas Baynard and Mary Bennett in 17th Century England. According to one source at Ancestry.com (knorth710. Ancestry.com, James Thomas and Lillian Kathleen Taylor North History. accessed 23 Jan 2011), Thomas and Mary had seven children; only one, John Baynard, has any additional information. This individual is also identified in most other trees at Ancestry.com
John Baynard emigrated to the New World in 1676, settling in Talbot County, Maryland. There he married Elizabeth Blackwell, the couple had six children. Their third son, William is our direct ancestor among these children. The Baynard family was Quaker and the events of this early life are recorded in the documents kept by the Quaker Tuckahoe meeting house of Maryland.
William married Susanna Pardo in 1714. They had at least two children: John and Deborah. Deborah married Jeffrey Horney and the lineage leading to our generation transfers to the Horney Family at this point. We note that we are doubly descended from Jeffrey Horney and Deborah Baynard. Their son William Horney is the grandfather of our Great-grandmother Margaret Horney. Their daughter and William’s sister is the grandmother of our Great-grandfather Harmon Anderson
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Hi,
I live in Blagdon, Somerset, England, where Thomas Baynard was Lord of the Manor. He was baptised in Blagdon in 1613 and married twice, having, as you say, a total of 7 children. He lived at Ilwick (now Ellick, a farmstead to the south of Blagdon). He was a Captain of Militia for Parliament in the English Civil War (1642-1649) and was a Justice of the Peace. He bought the Manor of Blagdon in 1650 and died here in 1691. In 1687 he endowed lands and buildings, the rent from which was to pay for a schoolmaster to teach the poor children of the parish to read. Our current village school is built on some of this land even today. His charity still exists. He is buried in Blagdon Church – the gravestone is very dark and hard to photograph well but I could send you a photo of it if you are interested.
He was minor gentry and has his own crest (very similar but not identical to that of the more famous Deleware Baynard family of Dutch origin – was there a connection way back I wonder?).
Regards,
Kenneth Parsons
Blagdon Local History Society