John Herbert East Dean (General)

by James Phillips-Evans , Thursday, May 18, 2006, 00:05 (6557 days ago) @ Michael Webb

I have traced this Herbert family back to Thomas Herbert (d. 1697) of Ruardean and his wife Hannah (d. 1704) but that is where the line goes cold as there are no earlier Herberts in Ruardean despite the relative completeness of the parish registers (which go back to the 1540s). However, I have found a Thomas Herbert born in nearby Abenhall in 1640 who does not seem to have married in Abenhall or had any children baptised there so perhaps he moved to Ruardean and founded the Herbert family there. Can anyone confirm/disprove this?