*Mums x7 Granparents Part One

Stephen Buley and Mary Simmonds (parents of Thomas Buley)

Stephen Buley and Mary Simmonds
Stephen and Mary married in Tudeley and Capel, Kent England in 1651. Mary has a common last name and attempts to trace her birth have been futile. She was living in Chapel at the time of her marriage. Stephen was born in Brenchley Kent in 1653 to Francis Buley and Mary nee Godden but was living Tudeley when he married.

Edward Bradgate and Sarah Cayley (parents of Prince Bradgate)

This couple married at St James church, Dukes Place London in 1692. Edward was described as a gentleman. Both he and Sarah were given as residents of Brenchley, Kent at that time but at other times Edward was said to be of London which was where the couple settled. There is a possibility he was a bow maker. He was possibly baptised at St Giles Cripplegate London in 1651 to Edward Bradgate and Constance nee Start. He had a sibling with the unusual first name Venetian. Some family connection to Venice? Update- I do not think the 1651 is correct, I think that one died as a young man.

Sarah was born 1669 Brenchley Kent to Josias Cayley and Elizabeth nee Fishenden. She, jointly  her sister, inherited property in Lamberhurst from her paternal uncle William Cayley. This they sold off.

John Moon and Sarah Ward (parents of John Moon).

John Moon and Sarah Ward
This couple married in Rotherfield Sussex in 1690 and there made their home. At marriage Sarah was said to be of Lindfield Sussex, a place with few records online so her birth has not been traced. 

John was born in Rotherfield in 1659 to John Moon and Elizabeth née Turner. He was a farmer, whose father gave him much land before his marriage which he in turn settled upon his future wife as her jointure. After her death it was to go to John's heirs.

William Beane and Mary Munnes (parents of Elizabeth Beane)

They married at Lynsted Kent in 1671 [Source: Parish register scans from Find My Past Kent Marriages]. I have the baptism of neither party yet.

William Studham and Elizabeth Hougham (parents of Sarah Studham)

This couple married at St Peters Thanet in Kent in 1694 . Elizabeth was said then to be a resident of St Peters but there is no baptism for her there. She was instead baptised at Nonnington Kent in 1663 [Familysearch England baptisms from the LDS] to Henry Hougham and Elizabeth née Naylor. Her last name also occurs as Huffam. William was from Canterbury St Northgate. He was baptised there in 1668 to William Studham and Elizabeth. He was a felt maker and freeman of Canterbury.

Richard Stephens and Mary Stone (parents of Elizabeth Stephens)

The baptism records for the village where they have their children gives the mother's maiden names for each child so we know that of Mary despite no marriage having yet been found for her and Richard. Richard's origins are unknown. At his death in 1739 he was a yeoman of Brenchley Kent. He left a will but I do not yet have a copy of it.
Mary was baptised in Brenchley in 1660, the child of Thomas Stone and Mary nee Shelley.

William Brisley and Mary Godden (parents of Edward Brisley).

This couple married by licence at Charing Kent in 1696. William was a well off collier of Stalisfield Kent. He and Mary seem to have owned some property in Chiddingstone, Kent. He was baptised at Charing in 1675 to William and Mary Brisley.

Mary Godden was described as a spinster of Throwley Kent at the time of her marriage. I have not found her baptism. There are a tremendous number of Goddens in Kent.

John and Mary Box (parents of Ann Box)

They probably married in Tonbridge Kent in 1695. In which case she was nee Oliver. More research is needed to confirm this. There is a lot of variant spellings of it all of which suggest the local pronunciation was more like "Bowks". 

Stephen Smith and Elizabeth Franklin (parents of Ann Smith)

This couple married at Buckland near Faversham in 1683 [Source:Mary Smith] The year before that Stephen's first wife Elizabeth had been buried on the same day as an infant daughter named after her. The child had been the third daughter called Elizabeth that the couple had suffered the death of. The first of which, their oldest child Stephen had had her own gravestone in Lynsted Kent where they lived. This is unusual, and implies that her parents were better off than most. On the grave it reads "Childhood and Infancy are from the womb but a dangerous passage to the tomb". [Source Mary Smith]. Stephen and my Mary went on to have several children, which are mentioned along with the two surviving children from his first marriage. The grave, which dates from 1692, says Stephen was a yeoman and that his father was John Smith "late yeoman of Norton Kent". Stephen had Bogle Farm in Lynsted and hired grazing land for his sheep at Teynham Kent.
Elizabeth Franklin was baptised at Faversham Kent in 1653 to Captain James Franklin and Anne [Source Find My Past Kent Baptisms]

Nicholas Hubbard and Ursula Lott (parents of James Hubbard)

Nicholas and Ursula  married at Gillingham Kent in 1676 [Parish register at Medway Archives]. Nicholas was baptised at Mereworth Kent in 1634 to Edward Hubbard and Dorothy née Harris. Nicholas had a prior marriage, to Joan Cuckoe. He and Ursula lived Bredhurst and Gillingham Kent.

More 7x great grandparents to follow. There is a lot of them! And earlier generations.