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James Donnet
- Preferred Name: James Donnet[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Alternate Name: James of Rainham
- Gender: M
- Burial: 1415 in St Margaret's Churchyard, Rainham, Kent, England at LATI: N1.3639 LONG: E0.611
- FSID: G3LS-12S
- Birth: 1375 in Rainham, Kent, England at LATI: N1.3639 LONG: E0.611
- Death: 1415 in Rainham, Kent, England at LATI: N1.3639 LONG: E0.611
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Debtor: James Donet, of Rainham in Kent. [Milton Hundred]
Creditor: Roger Cheyne of Kent.
Amount: £40. 1390
catalog entry in National Archives. C 241/178/22
"On the chancel floor are four other brasses—one much
mutilated, and the oldest inscribed memorial remaining in
the church—to James Donet, who died in 1409. His arms—
" Argent, three pair of barnacles, extended, gules "—were
formerly in one of the windows. He lived at the manor
of Sileham, about a mile distant, and left a daughter and
heiress, Margery, who married John St. Leger, of Ulcombe,
Sheriff of Kent, 1431, and was by him mother of Sir Thomas
St. Leger, Ambassador to France, and husband of the Princess
Anne, sister of Edward IV., and widow of Henry Holland,
Duke of Exeter. " from RAINHAM CHURCH.
BY THE REV A. J. PEAHMAN, M.A in Archaeologia Cantiana - Vol. 17 1887 p 49.
Preferred Parents:
Father: John Donnet, b. JAN 1357 in Rainham, Kent, England, United Kingdom d. 1385 in Whitechapel, London, England, United Kingdom
Mother: Mrs John Donnet,
Family 1: Donnet, b. 1384 in Rainham, Kent, , England
Family 2: Margaret Cheyne, b. ABT 1382 in Kent, England d. 1408 in Rainham, Kent, England
- Margery Donnet, b. ABT 1408 in England d. 1442 in Ulcombe, Kent, England
Sources:
- Title: UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=60526&h=4528873&indiv=try;
- Title: James Donnet, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2BY-WL2Q : 3 April 2023), James Donnet, ; Burial, Rainham, Medway Unitary Authority, Kent, England, St Margaret Churchyard; citing record ID 174337325, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2BY-WL2Q;
- Title: Millennium File
Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/7249/records/10605159;
- Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/9289/records/6733531;
- Title: RAINHAM CHURCH
Publication: Name: https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/Vol.017%20-%201887/017-10.pdf;
Note: RAINHAM CHURCH.
BY THE REV A. J. PEAHMAN, M.A in Archaeologia Cantiana - Vol. 17 1887 p 49.
Page: transcription of brass as it was in 1880s.
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