Pawseys of Shimplingthorne
David Meldrum 23 Feb 2015
pawsey@davidmeldrum.net
This web site is intended as an active
record of how far 2 groups of Pawseys have got in
researching their common ancestors.
The trees are too big to put up here
but a few generations of James Pawsey and Sarah
How and John and
Mary Pawsey of Hawkendon the two trees we are
interested in, show what we are talking about.
There is a problem that in the early 1500s
the name was not stable and several examples exist of the same family being
spelt in different ways.
In the parish records of Shimpling for
example the same family is spelt Pawsey and Pausey. Shimpling record 1559-1561
The earliest Pawseys
we have found are from a tax return for Suffolk, called subsidy return
The 1524 Subsidy return shows:-
p36 Stanstede
John Palsey £5
2s 6 p
Hartest Thomas Palsey
4s 8p
p346 Lakford John Palsey Labourer 3s 4p
The 1568 Subsidy return shows:-
Shempling William Pawseye £3 in goods Tax
2s 6P
There must have been a family of Pawseys in
the late 1400s which were dispersing by 1524
John Palsey in 1524 and William Pawseye in 1568 had goods of value £5 and £3 respectively
We are tracing Thomas Palsey of Hartest and
John Palsey labourer of Lackford.
Parish registers did not start till 1538, and
sadly not all the relevant ones start then or are complete.
The fact that the only Pawsey in the subsidy returns by 1564 is William Pawseye in Shempling we feel is
very likely to be related to John Palsey of Stansted a village only a mile away.
At that time the first appearance of a Pawsey occurs in a Parish record
that of William Pawsey whose daughters died in the record
above.
How did the Pawseys come to be in this area?
Very close to Stanstead, Shimpling and Shimplingthorne are the wool towns of Lavenham and Long Melford.
They were very rich trading towns dealing with the Flemish
weavers and traders.
There are common Flemish names of that period which are
homophones for Palsey, Pausey
and Pawsey indeed even today those spellings are sometimes interchanged.
It has been suggested that the Pawseys
could have been Huguenots fleeing the French. Calvin started his writings in 1530 and it was not
until 1560 that the Huguenots came into being.
Flemish were fleeing the French in the
1400s but mainly due to the 100 years war and its aftermath.
We have
traced our two Families back to Shimplingthorne in
the 1710s
It was
at Shimplingthorne that William Pawsey’s family settled . It is not known whether
they were weavers or traders. The family prospered and were still in Shimplingthorne 150 years later .
Bizarrely,
John Pawsey now owns Shimplingthorne wood !!! 500
years later.
We have
now traced Bob, Geoff and Jim’s ancestors to the early 1500s John Palsey’s
descendants this is only 10
generations, The whole tree as ancestors follows here Bob’s Ancestors
It does
look as if we have the skeleton tree for All the Palseys,
Pauseys and Pauseys.
We are trying to examine all
the relevant Parish records in the 1500s
Link here
It is
very likely that we will bring Cilla, Anne John &
Rodney into the same tree. Current interest James Pawsey possibly born
1692
Roger
Pawsey (father of Frederick who had the Ancient House)
married Sarah Taylor, the marriage certificate
calls him Richard Pawsey. We are trying to sort that out. link here.
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Links
to Parishes we (Bob Pawsey, Jim Pawsey and David) are working on:-
Alpheton (Bishops transcripts only)
Boxted ( 2 Marriages
1762, 1795)
Great Barton (Later ancestors
of Bob)
Hartest (Where Thomas Palsey
was in 1524)
Hawkedon
(Bob ancestors 1720s)
Ipswich St Matthew (Looking for early Pawsey marriage)
Rede (Both branches were in this area in the mid
1700s)
Shimpling (the Main trunk needs editing and reconcilliation
)
Somerleyton
(Looking for early Pawsey marriage)
Somerton (Pawsey Parsey
Parsley interchanged)
Stanningfield (Looking for ancestors of James)
Stanstead (early marriage)
If you are interested or have anything to add please let us
know at pawsey@davidmeldrum.net
DSM
23rd Feb
2015
