Family/Spouse: John Lewis. John was born about 1550 in of, Ifton Hill, Matharn, Monmouthshire, Wales; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIRTH: Calculated> age 16 years in 1551. (Bradney, History of Monmouthshire, vol. 4 pt. 1 p. 126)

DISTINCTION: Gentleman. (Bradney, History of Monmouthshire, vol. 4 pt. 1 p. 126)

RESIDENCE: Hewelsfield. (Bradney, History of Monmouthshire, vol. 4 pt. 1 p. 126)
RESIDENCE: Huelsfeld, Gloucestershire. (Maclean, Visitation of the County of Gloucester: Taken in the Year 1623, p. 67: Gough)
RESIDENCE: Huelsfield, Gloucestershire. (Metcalfe, Gloucestershire Vistations 1682, 1683, p. p. 74: Gough of Wilsbery in St. Briavel's)

A large estate based on the house called HEWELSFIELD COURT was sometimes called a manor but presumably originated as a free tenancy or tenancies held under the manor. It was owned, probably by 1542, by William Warren (d. 1573), who was also an important landowner in St. Briavels. It passed to George Gough, who married William's daughter Mary, and Mary apparently held it as a widow in 1608. Their son William Gough apparently succeeded to their Hewelsfield estate, and it later passed to William's son Richard. Richard Gough left it to his daughters Alice, wife of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, and Eleanor, wife of Sir William Catchmay of Bigsweir, in St. Briavels.

Huelsfidd Court, which claims manorial privileges, belonged to the family of Maddox, and passed by marriage to G. Gough, 1558, whose grandson Richard Gough left it in moiety between his daughters Alice, married to Sir Nicholas Throckmorton ; and Eleanor, married to Sir W. Catchmay, Knt. Of the coheirs of Throckmorton, one moiety was purchased by Robert Symonds, Esq. whose descendant, T. Symonds, Esq. of Pengethly, co. Hereford, sold it to William Turner, Esq. of Upton Bishop, co. Hereford, the present proprietor and occupier of the mansion house.

The other moiety descended to Tracy Catchmav, Esq. and by marriage with his daughter passed to Major James Rooke, pn whose death in mi, it descended to General James Rooke, the present (?1803) proprietor.

George + Mary Warren. Mary (daughter of William Warren and Marian Catchmay) was born about 1540 in of, St. Briavels, Gloucestershire, England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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KINSHIP: Daughter and coheiress. (Bradney, History of Monmouthshire, vol. 4 pt. 1 p. 126)

PROPERTY: She inherited Willsbury, St. Briavels, from her father; in turn, passed to her son Warren. ("St. Briavels", A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 247-271. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk]> date accessed: 19 November 2012)

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of, St. Briavels, Gloucestershire, England

William + Marian Catchmay. Marian was born about 1500; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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of, St. Briavels, Gloucestershire, England