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Jasper Swindells of Tytherington2

Ancestry untraced - assume born c. 1580

Children

Jasper, baptised ? (d. 1631)
Anne, baptised on the 15th of January 1615 at Macclesfield, Cheshire (d. 1630)
William, baptised on the 24th of May 1618 at Macclesfield, Cheshire (d. 1631)
Humpherie, baptised on the 21st of January 1620/1 at Macclesfield, Cheshire (?d. 1621)
Humfrey, baptised on the 8th of February 1622/3 at Macclesfield, Cheshire (d. 1632)
Anne, baptised on the 28th of January 1632/3 at Macclesfield, Cheshire

?Buried on the 3rd of January 1634/5 at Macclesfield, Cheshire3

Notes

1    Jasper the son of Humfrey Swyndels died c 1578. Jasper the son of Philip Swyndels de Titerington was buried at Macclesfield in July 1611.

2    The will of Margaret Swyndels of Bollington - widow of Jasper Swyndles - does not mention a son Jasper.

3    Possibly another Jasper, eg Jasper's father

4   1676 Last will and testament of .Jasper Swindells of Rainow? in the County of Chester a yeoman , 3 folio sized sheets 2 of which are written on both sides, legible early document. in English. Sold on e-bay 20 Nov 05 £9.99

5    Frequency of Jasper in Presbury baptisms 1560 - 1812? from IGI batch P012381

Swindells 79 Jasper Swindell 1 1593; Other Jaspers 10

Compare   John      758
                Thomas  598
                William   414
                James    329
                Edward   200
                Richard   126
                Peter      109
                Henry       98
                Francis     58
                Humphrey 32
                Philip        28
                Geoffrey    19
                Jasper       11
                Christopher 6
                Michael      1

"Redmonds: Christian names in local and family history".(p81) - of immigrant French family in 16th Century "..they used distinctive first names such as Jasper and Adam, both very unusual in England at that time. (p88) 'Its later use may have owed more to the reputation of Jasper Tudor, the Earl of Pembroke and uncle to Henry VII.'

Online Document PROB 11/1742

Will of Jasper Swindall , Bookseller of Bishopgate Street , without the City of London

Date: 1828.