Henricus [Harris] / [Hull] / Hill

Personal and Family Information

Henricus was born about 1417, the son of John [Hull] / Hill but his mother is unknown. The place is not known.

His wife was Sionett ap Howell. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their five known children were Thomas (c1440-1485), Johannis (c1442-?), Elizabeth (c1441-?), Johnna (c1443-?) and Alice (c1448-?).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!Note: This Harris line appears in the Visitation as a is likely a branch off the Hill family. The early name is shown as Hill/Hull, but changing to Harris within a couple generations. Henricus [b. ~1417] is placed here as probable son of John Hill [b. ~1392], given the Stockton to Neenton proximity of 9 miles and generational pacing of about 30 years. This placement is provisional and in order to be able to better place earlier Hills found in the area.

!Note: On the Hill / Hull name.

This probably started with Hawkswood. The common scribal abbreviation would be Hauks or even Hask. If the scribe used a long “s” or “ſ”, which can look a lot like an “l” and minimized the “k” flourish, and as also happened a lot, barely wrote the “a”, these can end up looking exactly like Hill or Hull. At some point they likely looked at the written name and decided to use it. Of course the manor may have been on a slight hill as well.

!Source: The Visitation of Shropshire, TAKEN IN THE YEAR 1623, BY ROBERT TRESSWELL, SOMERSET HERALD, AND AUGUSTINE VINCENT, ROUGE CROIX PURSUIVANT OF ARMS;

Marshals and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms. WITH ADDITIONA FROM THE PEDIGREES OF SHROPSHIRE GENTRY TAKEN BY THE HERALDS IN THE YEARS 1569 AND 1584, AND OTHER SOURCES. EDITED BY GEORGE GRAZEBROOK, F.S.A. AND JOHN PAUL RYLANDS, F.S.A.,OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARR1STER-AT-LAW. PART I. LONDON: 1889. page 247.

Hill of Bewdley

Harl. 1396, fo. 149b. Harl. 1241, fo. 18. S., fo. 143b.

Arms : Harl. 1396.-—Or, on a chief vert three bulls' heads couped [erased] of the

first.

Crest.—A bull's head erased or between the horns of a crescent vaire of the first and

azure.

John Hill al's Hull.=…. <<<< Likely father.

!Source: The Visitation of Shropshire, TAKEN IN THE YEAR 1623, BY ROBERT TRESSWELL, SOMERSET HERALD, AND AUGUSTINE VINCENT, ROUGE CROIX PURSUIVANT OF ARMS;

Marshals and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms. WITH ADDITIONA FROM THE PEDIGREES OF SHROPSHIRE GENTRY TAKEN BY THE HERALDS IN THE YEARS 1569 AND 1584, AND OTHER SOURCES. EDITED BY GEORGE GRAZEBROOK, F.S.A. AND JOHN PAUL RYLANDS, F.S.A.,OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARR1STER-AT-LAW. PART I. LONDON: 1889. page 222

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Harris of Stockton

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Henricus Hull al's Harris = Sion'et [Sionett] filia M'red'd ap howll de Geri.

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Joh'es Hill al's Harris de com. Staff. = Jocosa filia Ric'i Acton.

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Johannes Harris de Stockton in com. Salop. = Jonetta filia Simonis Henalt Ar.

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and on to 1623 as Harris.

!Source: HARRIS FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA https://harrisandrelatedfamiliesofvirginia.wordpress.com/2014/04/

8. Adda ab Iorwerth “Ddû, m. Isabel ferch Gruffudd “Fychan”, of Rhuddallt, Rhiwabon, Denbighshire, dau. of Gruffudd “Fychan” ap Gruffudd “Llwyd”, Baron of Glyndyfrdwy, son of Gruffudd “Llwyd” ap Madog “Fychan”, Steward of Oswestry under Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel, 1347 [Bridgeman, History of the Princes of South Wales, pp. 250-252], November 23, 1298, and Elizabeth le Strange, of Knockin, Shropshire.”Sir John l’Estrange, Lord of Knockin, brought for his daughter Elizabeth, from Madoc ap Griffith, the marriage of the said Griffith, his son and heir, for which he paid £50 sterling” [Rot. Parl., vol. 1, p. 306]. John le Strange, 2nd. baron Strange of Knockin, was the father of Roger le Strange; he the father of Alianore le Strange, who m. Reginald de Grey, 2nd. baron Grey of Ruthin; Alianore’s cousin and namesake m. Edward Acton, whose granddau., Jacosa Acton, m. John Hill als Harris, son of Henry Hill als Harris and Sionett, dau. of Meredith ap Howell and Morvydd, dau. of Ieuan ap Dafydd ap Trahaem Goch [ancestor of the Wynns of Gwydir], of the royal line of South Wales.