EWENS
From The Visitation of Somerset, 1623
John
, of Wincanton Somerset, England
b c 1560 died after 1626
married Elizabeth KEYMER,
of Pendomer Co. Somerset
England
c1580.
Somerset archive records show -
SUDDON manor was
recorded in 1344 (fn. 38) and was held with Wincanton manor (fn. 39) until the
attainder of John, Baron Zouche, in 1485. In 1486 it was granted to Sir William
Willoughby in tail male (fn. 40) and by 1502 seems to have been held by Giles,
Baron Daubeney. It may have descended like Wincanton manor to Richard, son of
John, Baron Zouche, before 1547 when he sold a moiety of Suddon, no longer
called a manor, to George Broughton. (fn. 41) In 1556 Broughton sold to John
Dyer (d. c. 1559) whose son Lawrence (d. 1578) appears to have settled it on
John's second wife Jane (d. c. 1596) with remainder to her son by her first
marriage, John Byfleet. (fn. 42) It may have come into the possession of John Ewens by 1601. (fn. 43)
In 1626
John and his son, also John, sold their estate at Suddon to
George Harvey
only known child of John & Elizabeth was
c John of Suddon, Somerset, England, ref (Visitation of Somerset 1623)