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Biography
Purported Children
The other children attached to Dionis are probaby the children of Robert's unknown first wife.
Will
"The Will of Duence Stevens of Slow in the parish of Brixton, widow, dated 17 Oct. 1647. To the poor of Brixton, 5s. To Sidrache Meader, 5s. Sons Thomas and William to occupy the house garden and close called Barne Parke and to have my household goods. To all the rest of my children and my children's children 1s. each. To Thomas, son of Richard Avent of Brixton, 4s. Residuary legatees and executors, my daughter Lydia, wife of Henry Kember, and my daughter Grace wife of Phillipp Ford. Overseers, Richard Avent of Buttlers and John Avent of Brixton Churchtown, both in the parish aforsaid. "The signe of Duence Steven". Witnesses: Richard Avent, Thomas Avent, Sidrache Meader. Proved 16 Dec 1647. Inventory of Dionice Stevan mentions articles in the hall chamber, the lower chamber and the shop chamber. (Principal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter, original will, 1647.)"[1]
Research Notes
Date and place of birth are unknown. It is speculated that she was a 2nd wife and is not the mother of the older children of Robert Stevens, whose will mentions a messuage[2] in Brixton called Slowe; sons Tristam, Thomas, William, John; wife "Dewence"; daughters "Dewence" and Lydia.
Dionis (…), whose ancestry is unknown, was born about 1580. She died at Brixton, Devon, England, about November 1647.
Sources
- ↑ Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press, 1938) 2:623-24.
- ↑ Yorkshire Historical Dictionary
See also:
- FamilySearch Person: KP4L-XN8
- Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury
- Certain Comeoverers, Vol II. Part VI, page 714
