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of London and Walthamstow, but had tradition that they were of the same family as Sir William Johnson, Bt., created 1755 The latter family, however, is known to hav< sprung from a branch of the O'Neills o Ulster.

I shall be glad if any of your readers can help me to substantiate the alleged Good win descent of Mrs. William Ricketts, anc also aid me in tracing the ancestry o Thomas Johnson, R.N.

ERSKINE E. WEST.

Cowper Gardens, Dublin.

FREEMAN : BEAUCHAMP : LAWRENCE. In the reign of Charles I. were living two conspicuous members of the Freeman family, bearing the same Christian name and title :

1. Sir Ralph Freeman of Aspeden, co Hertford, Clothworker, was Lord Mayor oj London 1633. His elder brother William had been chosen Sheriff at the same time with himself, but, excused for ill-health, died 1623, aged 68. Ralph's only child and heir. Jane, married Sir George Sands of Lees Court, Throwley, Kent.

2. Sir Ralph Freeman, Master of the Court of Requests, and Master of the Mint, was seised in 1619 (as I learn from a deed in the Brooking-Rowe Bequest to Exeter Public Library), together with William Freeman and Ralph Freeman, all of London, Esquires, in a fulling mill (i.e., cloth factory), messuage, and land, in Buckfastleigh, Devon. A " Sir Ralph Freeman of London," according to Risdon, " lately had a lease " of the manor of Ashburton in the same county.

In 1600 Martin Freeman, citizen and Fish- monger of London, and Christopher Freeman, of Heigham Ferrers, co. Northants, sold the manor or mansion-house of Flaunchford in the parishes of Reigate and Buckland, Surrey, with lands, messuages, &c., lying in the parishes and hamlets of Reigate, Buck- land, Horley, Leigh, and Betchworth.

" Shortly after " 1631, Samuel Freeman 11 of Mailing " (near Maidstone, Kent) went to New England. He is supposed to have been a brother of Edmund Freeman, born about 1590, who, leaving his mother resident in Reigate, went over in 1635, was co-founder of Plymouth Colony, of which he became assistant governor in 1641, and a large land- owner in Sandwich, Cape Cod. He was " a man of consideration in England," "brought with him much valuable plate," and "presented the colony with twenty corselets or pieces of plate -armour." He acted, it is said, as confidential agent of the

Merchant Adventurers, and corresponded with Mr. John Beauchamp, a London merchant who had married Edmund's sister, and who lived (at any rate for a time) with the motiher in Reigate. In 1649 Beauchamp wrote to Edmund's son-in-law in New England notifying him that he was " sending out Cloth and Bibles" to him, and mention- ing "my brother Coddington " and "my brother William Freeman."

While not wishing to trouble any one for references to standard printed works, I should be glad to learn of any modern com- pilations or private records that might yield connecting links between the above-named persons, or between them and the Lawrence family, through whom one of the Sir Ralphs is found to be descended from progenitors of the George Washington.

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

G. RUMNEY, OR ROMNEY, RECUSANT.

Wanted the parents, wife, and children of George Rumney or Romney, recusant, mentioned in Westmorland and Cumber- land (Queen Eliz.), and of St. Clement Danes parish, London (James I.), when an order was made for his property to be estreated into the Exchequer, 1611. What property ? Was Lancelot Romney of Yanwath, West- morland, his brother ?

George Romney' s cousin was Andrew Hilton, recusant and martyr, of Burton in Warcop, whose mother was Anne, dau. of Gilbert Wharton, or Isabel Barton of Orms- head (Ormside), Appleby. A cousin of Hilton's was the Rev. James Warcop, and an uncle Rev. Nich. Pulleine. MRS. LAW.

SIR W. ROMNEY, LORD MAYOR. Are any descendants living of Sir William Romney, Haberdasher, Lord Mayor of London, who died 1611 ? His son William (also knighted, [ think) married Margaret Bo water, and lad a son William, a little boy in 1633. The Lord Mayor's grandfather Robert Romney was of Tetbury, Gloucestershire. Who were lis parents ? MRS. LAW.

ROMNEY FAMILY AND LORD LIFFORD. 'n 17 a Romney is said to have been brother to Lord Lifford. How was this ?

MRS. LAW.

THOMAS BARROW, ARTIST. Are any descendants living of Thomas Barrow, artist ? He lived last at Southall, Middle- sex, and died, I think, about 1820. His daughters were Mrs. Kennal and Mrs. Ann Walker. MRS. LAW.

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