Family History by Robert Monroe Fleming (Sr.)

Nance Memorial Book Data - Exhibit C

Transcribed by Robert M. Fleming Jr.


EXHIBIT "C": Stanley Lodge, Monmouth, June 12, 1903.
Dear Sir: As I understand you invite communication from every "fellow-kinsman" (to use your graphic phrase). Allow me to make myself known as a descendent of your male stock, viz., The great-great-great grandson of Richard Eustis, of Saint Ives, Cornwall. By his wife Margery Nance, of the same town. Who were married 1729. I am the author of the History of Saint Ives to which you make reference. I enclose particulars of my Nance descent. Yours faithfully, John Hobson Matthews -- Solicitor Archivist to the ******?? [The last part of the last line on the page is illegible because the carbon paper did not go down far enough and only the very tops of the letters show, not enough to identify them. There may be an additional line missing entirely, as the first line of the next page does not fit with what is visible at the bottom of this page]

[I am assuming a new paragraph and that the first line of the paragraph was missing at the bottom of the preceding page]
Nance, 1729 - Richard Eustis: Mary Eustis-Jasper Williams: Jasper Williams-Mary Stevens: Honor Williams-John Matthews: John Thomas Matthews-Emma Hobson: John Hobson Matthews, b. 1858-Alice Mary Gwyn-Hughes: John Vivian Gwyn-Hobson Matthews, b. 1897.

From a document at the London record office I gather that this particular Nance family were known in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by the additional surname "Molkin", meaning bald according to Borlace, a personal name equivalent to the Welsh "Maclgwn". They were, I believe, originally of Nance in Lelant. But acquired some estate in East Cornwall. Wether by marriage or purchase, I do not know. They bore arms: Agent, a crop humettee sable. Yours faithfully, John Hobson Matthews


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