'Maior1'
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Families covered: Maior of Leicester, Maior of Market Harborough
| Nichols identifies the arms of the following family as "Argent, two bars Sable, in chief three mullets pierced of the second". | |||||||||||||||
| Anthony Maior (bur 08.02.1632, Rector of Rempston) | |||||||||||||||
| m. (26.05.1596) Constance Emondson (bur 31.04.1627) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | John Maior (bpt 14.10.1602, bur 14.04.1661) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (02.11.1620) Jane Farmer (b 1697-8, d 11.04.1676, dau/coheir of William Farmer of Leicester) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Anthony Maior of Leicester (bpt 25.11.1621, bur 19.013.1677) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Mary Dixon (b 1622-3, d 04.09.1649, dau of Rev. John Dixon of Leicestershire) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Elizabeth Maior (d infant) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Deborah Gippes (a 1682?, dau of Rev. George Gippes of Aylstone) | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | John Maior of Leicester (b 13.07.1660, dsp 1703, of Gray's Inn, 5th son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Susanna (b c1677, d 09.03.1705) | |||||||||||||||
| iii.+ | other issue - John (bpt/d 1651), John (bpt 1655, d 1661), Anthony (bpt 1657, d 1662), George (bpt 1659, a 1682), Thomas (b 1661, a 1682), Daniel (bpt 1654, d 1656), Deobrah (d 1670) | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Gabriel Maior (b 1653, bur 29.01.1679) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alice | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Benjamin Maior (bpt 12.12.1662) | ||||||||||||||
| C. | Daniel Maior (b 1625) | ||||||||||||||
| i. | Daniel Maior (d 1666) | ||||||||||||||
| D. | William Maior of Leicester (bpt 25.11.1631, bur 25.11.1708, Baillie, youngest son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary (b 1648-9, d 09.06.1729) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | William Maior of Barwell (bpt 13.04.1669, a 1720, 2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (09.01.1710) Elizabeth Adderley (b c1672, d 14.12.1720, dau of Wolstan Adderley of Weddingtoin) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Elizabeth Maior (b 17.05.1713, d 20.02.1713-4) | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | John Maior (bpt 24.11.1673, d 04.06.1739, Rector of Harby) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary( d 12.05.1717) | |||||||||||||||
| iii. | John Maior of Leicester (bpt 13.05.1679, bur 02.11.1697) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Hervey of Ickwell Bury | |||||||||||||||
| a. | John Maior of Leicester & Barwell (b 03.01.1696, d before 1740) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (08.10.1716) Katherine Byrd (d by 1749, dau of William Byrd of Claybrook) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Mary Maior (bpt 28.03.1731, d 14.08.1805) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1772) John Lwyd (a 1808, rector of Swithland) | |||||||||||||||
| (2)+ | other issue - John (bpt 07.07.1718, a 1740, d unm before 1750?), Susanna (bpt 01.09.1723, bur 28.09.1723), Jane (bpt 18.03.1724), Susanna (bpt 11.04.1727, d young) | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Jane Maior (b 09.05.1698, d 14.11.1767) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anthony Oneby of Barwell (bur 06.09.1727) | |||||||||||||||
| iv. | Thomas Maior of Little Glen & Blaby (bpt 10.10.1680, bur 26.06.1761) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anna Maria Stokes (b 1702-3, bur 25.07.1679, dau of Rev. Edward Stokes of Blaby by Eleanor, dau of Laurence Carter of Leicester) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Thomas Maior of Market Harborough (b 14.01.1731, d 07.03.1782, 3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary French of Wardenton (b c1743, d 04.12.1796, heir of Edmund French of Market Harboroiugh) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | William French Maior of Market Harborough (a 1808, captain) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Mary Maior (b 16.05.1771) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (27.04.1800) William Arnold (MD) | |||||||||||||||
| (3)+ | other issue - Thomas (b 08.1774, d young), Edmund of Blaby (b 08.1776, a 1808, captain), Thomas (b 19.01.1778, d infant), Anne (b 12.041779), Elizabeth (b 01.06.1780, d 03.02.1789) | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Anna Maria Maior (b 16.01.1732, dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| m. O. Wright | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Mary Maior (b 16.05.1771) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edward Stokes of Meltoin Mowbray | |||||||||||||||
| d.+ | other issue (d unm) - William (b 1727-8, d 01.03.1774, rector of Laughton), Edward Stokes (b 19.03.1728, d infant?), Edward Stokes (b 29.10.1738), John (b 08.06.1740), Anna Maria (b 4.05.1727, d young), Mary (b 17.10.1733, dsp infant?) | ||||||||||||||
| v. | Mary Maior (bpt 03.03.1660, bur 06.03.1726) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Euseby Ashby of Blaby (b c1661, dsp 29.11.1741) | |||||||||||||||
| vi.+ | other issue - Thomas (bpt 20.10.1662, d 1664), Elizabeth (bpt 25.01.1665, d 1670), Anne (bpt 23.08.1667), Elizabeth (bpt 17.10.1671, d infant?), Elizabeth (bpt 05.12.1676) | ||||||||||||||
| E.+ | other issue (d unm) - Thomas (bpt 04.01.1628), John (bpt 25.11.1631, bur 27.11.1673) | ||||||||||||||
| 2.+ | other issue - Gabriel (bpt 09.01.1608-9, bur 29.07.1624), Elizabeth (bpt 1598, d infant?), Mary (bpt 1599), Margaret (bpt 1601), Elizabeth (bpt 1604, d infant?), Elizabeth (bpt 1606) | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John Nichols, vol 4, part 2, 1811, 'Pedigree of Maior of Leicester, Barwell, Glen Parva, and Blaby', p482)
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