bur. 03/09/1702	Burwash, Sussex

Marriages/Partnerships

m. 09/05/1667	Nicholas Swaine	Burwash, Sussex	bur. 30/04/1679
m. 30/09/1679	John Heathfield	Heathfield, Sussex	bur. 29/04/1710

Children

bap. 23/07/1680	Mary Heathfild		bur. 05/02/1763
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Also known as

Eliz Heathfield, Eliz. Swain, Elizabeth Heathfeild, Elizabeth Swane, Elizabetha Heathfield

Did You Know?

• The marriage of Nicholas Swaine and Elizabeth Bungar is listed in a section of the parish register headed 'matrimonia 67' and is reported in the Bishop's Transcript for 1667. I suspect the heading is wrong, though, and the marriage actually occurred in 1666. There is no section for marriages in 1666 and there is a second section for marriages in 1667 on the next page of the register.
• I had expected that the John Heathfield who married Elizabeth Bungar in 1679 was the son of John Heathfield and Elizabeth Mone who was baptised in March 1655/6. But his will of 1707 refers to his daughter Elizabeth Heathfield as 'Elizabeth Clifton'; it seems likely that she had married in 1685, so the son of John and Elizabeth was too young to be her father.
• The way John Heathfield initially refers to Mary Heathfild in his will is puzzling - he refers to her as 'my daughter in Law Mary Cruttenden'. Mary's mother Elizabeth Bungar had been married previously, but it seems very unlikely that Mary was a product of that marriage - she was baptised as 'the daught' of John Heathfield by Eliz his wife' well over a year after the burial of Elizabeth's previous husband (and ten months after John and Elizabeth's marriage) and when she married Joseph Crottenden in 1701 it was as 'Mary Heathfild'.
• In January 1675/6 Nicholas Swaine appointed 'Henry Cruttenden of Heathfeild in the said County of Sussex Mercer' one of the executors of his will. His widow Elizabeth Bungar's daughter from her subsequent remarriage, Mary Heathfild, married Joseph Crottenden in 1701.

Documentary Sources

Locations

09/05/1667	Church, Burwash, Sussex
30/09/1679	Church, Heathfield, Sussex
03/09/1702	Heathfield, Hailsham, Sussex
03/09/1702	Church, Burwash, Sussex

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