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Themis is the Titan goddess of law, order, and prophecy. She gave birth to the Horae, the seasons, who determine the timing of all things in this world and beyond. The scales of justice are associated with her. The oracle at Delphi was founded by Themis and her mother Gaia. both of them are in associated with prophecy. She was an early bride of Zeus, and acted as his councilor, instructing him in divine law. Man made law often is in direct conflict with divine law. Themis defends her mother Gaia, the earth. In this age of eco-consciousness and efforts to both save and restore natural resources in peril, Themis is the pure spirit of ecology. She defends the beings, all the animal, mineral, and vegetable offspring of the Earth. In the War of the Titans, she took the side of the Olympians. She was the most important goddess in the first generation of Olympians. Today her significance is as a defender of our earthly mother. Can you think of people or institutions that embody divine justice?
My 12th great-grandmother arrived in Massachusetts Colony before 1632, and joined the church in Charlestown with her well respected husband. Her unusual first name is often misspelled in records, but it is an old English name.
Note: From “The Great Migration Begins…”: :’Goodith’ was a distinct given name, not to be confused with ‘Judith’, and not to be interpreted as ‘Goodwife,’ as has been done. “The Winthrop Society shows Goodith’s birth as circa 1585 and death as before 1632.
Judith Gillman was also known as Goodith Gillman. She was born in 1594 at Bermondsey, London, England. On 22 April 1606 at St. Olive, Southwork, Surrey, England, Judith married William Learned. Judith Gillman and William Learned were admitted to the church on 6 December 1632 at Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Judith Gillman died on Friday, 24 June 1661 at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at age 67 years.
[S466] Ancestral File. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, 1994. [S14] Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts 1629-1818. 1879. Reprint Somersworth, New Hampshire: New England History Press, 1982.
WILLIAM LEARNED d. Woburn, MA 1 Mar 1646, m. GOODITH GILMAN, d. 24 Jan 1661.
William Learned came from Bermondsey, Surrey, England and settled at Charlestown in the Massachusetts Bay in or before 1632, possibly in 1630 with the Winthrop fleet. He and his wife Judith were admitted to the First Church of Charlestown on Dec. 6, 1632, their names being the first two on the list of members. “1632, 10 mo., day 6, William Learned and Goodeth, his wife, were admitted”, being the first admissions after the separation from the Boston Church. He became a freeman on May 14, 1634 and a Selectman on Feb. 13, 1635-6. On March 2, 1637 he was chosen one of four to divide, for stinting, the common land, and on Feb. 12, 1637-8 he and Mr. Greene were appointed to settle the wages of the school-master.[2] On April 26, 1638 William Learned and five others were on a committee “to consider of some things tending toward a body of laws”
William was a subscriber to the town orders for Woburn, drawn up at Charlestown Dec. 18, 1640. In 1641 William moved to Woburn where he was one of the seven original members of the church on August 14, 1642. He was chosen constable April 13, 1643 and Selectman of Woburn in 1643 and 1645. These offices were only given to trusted and respected men.
Goodith Gillman (1592 – 1661)
is my 12th great grandmother
Sarah Learned (1604 – 1652)
daughter of Goodith Gillman
Mary Ewer (1637 – 1693)
daughter of Sarah Learned
Mehitable Jenkins (1655 – 1684)
daughter of Mary Ewer
Isaac Hamblin (1676 – 1710)
son of Mehitable Jenkins
Eleazer Hamblin (1699 – 1771)
son of Isaac Hamblin
Sarah Hamblin (1721 – 1814)
daughter of Eleazer Hamblin
Mercy Hazen (1747 – 1819)
daughter of Sarah Hamblin
Martha Mead (1784 – 1860)
daughter of Mercy Hazen
Abner Morse (1808 – 1838)
son of Martha Mead
Daniel Rowland Morse (1838 – 1910)
son of Abner Morse
Jason A Morse (1862 – 1932)
son of Daniel Rowland Morse
Ernest Abner Morse (1890 – 1965)
son of Jason A Morse
Richard Arden Morse (1920 – 2004)
son of Ernest Abner Morse
Pamela Morse
I am the daughter of Richard Arden Morse
When I returned to Oakmont, PA this year to see my old friends from childhood I was not thinking about politics or history. I was intrigued to find out what my old home and school looked like, and how my old friends are today. The reunion was a resounding success and a big memory jog. We toured the school where I attended grades K-4, then returned for 7-8th grades. I left after the 8th grade to live in Venezuela as a petroleum princess. This week as we watch the footage and remember where we were when we heard the news JFK had been shot I can clearly picture it. We were in the gym, which had a large dividing wall between the girls and boys for the hour. When we finished the wall was always removed at the end of the school day. On that day when the wall was parted and we saw they boys we were also listening to the loudspeaker system announce to use that the president had been shot in Dallas. It was surreal and many of us started to cry. I am not sure if I cried or not, but I remember being in shock. We talked about it when we were on tour of the school and I had almost a flashback of the feeling on that day. We went home and learned that he had died. My parents did not vote for him but they were very upset about the assassination. After 50 years we all have a chance to process what happened to us and to the world on that day in Dallas. We may have been 8th graders but we all had mature feelings about the frightful news about our country.
When I think of an ideal day I have plenty of time and plenty of tasty snacks. The weather can be any way, but my awareness is high. When I think of the Thanksgiving season and the Black Friday vision of what is to come I become a serious holiday prepper. I am not preparing for the zombie apocalypse or the end of civilization, but for the temporary insanity of all the world shopping to be shopping. I am preparing to stay home, work very little, and dine in some fine establishments close to my home for holiday meals to savor, remember, and pay chefs to create. I will not find myself at Trader Joe’s, or any other grocer, the night before Thanksgiving because I will not need any groceries for my meal. I have what I need, reservations at Maynard’s. Situated in the old train station and across the street from Hotel Congress, this fancy restaurant gets rave reviews, and we have never tried it.
For our big December family gift to ourselves we are taking our coon hound to Scottsdale to her favorite hotel, Kimpton FireSky. She loves the dog centric customer service, and all the other guest dogs. We love to dine at Posh, right across the street. We will drive up for the improvisational cuisine and a break from being at home. There are many cute small businesses in Scottsdale that create a flavor in the old downtown that we enjoy. We like the art galleries and will probably hit a local farmers’ market or two while we are up there. It will be citrus and date season, and although Phoenix is no longer very agricultural, there will be some local products we don’t have down here in Tucson.
For Christmas Eve we have reservations to dine very close to home at Pastiche. This week you can buy gift cards at Pastiche that come with a 25% bonus. Next week the bonus goes down to 20%. I am armed with my $125 worth of Pastiche gift cards which I purchased for only $100. I am so ready to party. I am completely into the idea of doing no cleaning, cooking, or entertaining, other than inviting friends to join us out on the town. I used to enjoy a labor intensive, baking, crafting, decorating, cocktail partying holiday cheer. Now that is all just way too much effort. I appreciate the labor and creativity that chefs and restaurants can provide, while I take it easy and be grateful that there is no clean up after my nap.
Wishing for gifts changes over time. The kinds of things we want and what we believe we will gain from them may become more complex, or more simple than in childhood. When giving gifts my style is to prefer to share an experience, like a meal, a concert or class. When receiving I am the same. I have so much physical stuff I can’t really imagine owning more. The burden of taking care of worldly goods eventually comes with diminishing returns. Sometimes we are sentimental about objects and cling to them because they remind us of a person, place, or event. Certain things we made ourselves are important beyond reason because they mark our proficiency at a certain time. Things require space and some attention. As we acquire more stuff and it all needs attention, we may be loosing something more than just usable space.
I was very impressed the first time I studied with the Dalai Lama of Tibet in 1993. He gave us Buddhist teachings as well as his own point of view. One of the outstanding exercises I have always remembered from that teaching was about acquisition. He said:
He wanted us to be aware that the thrill is usually much diminished as soon as the object becomes our own. After owning something for a while we notice that it did not give us the total satisfaction we had expected from it. This is called buyer’s remorse..it is also called attachment. So caveat emptor all you little elves out there; Once you have your thing you will have to deal with it and find a place to put it.
John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby
John Neville Baron Neville de Raby Spouse (s) Maud Percy
Elizabeth Latimer, 5th Baroness Latimer Issue Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Thomas Neville, 5th Baron Furnivall
Elizabeth Neville
Alice Nevile
Maud Neville
Eleanor Neville
John Neville, 6th Baron Latimer
Elizabeth Neville Noble family House of Neville Father Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby Mother Alice Audley Born 1328 Died 17 October 1388
John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, KG (1328 – 17 October 1388) was born at Castle Raby, County Durham, England to Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby and Alice de Audley. He fought in the Battle of Neville’s Cross on 17 October 1346 as a Captain in his father’s division. He was Knighted in 1360 and after his father’s death in 1367 he succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron Neville of Raby. In 1368 he served as the English ambassdor to France. He was Admiral of the King’s fleet and served in the wars against the Scots and French. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1369. Neville married Maud Percy, daughter of Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy and Idoine de Clifford. After Maud died in 1379 John married a second time to Elizabeth Latimer, daughter of William Latimer, 4th Baron Latimer.
Children
Six children by Maud Percy
Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1364–1425)
Thomas de Nevill, 5th Baron Furnivall (1377–1406)
Elizabeth de Neville (b. 1379)
Alice de Nevile (1379–1433)
Maud de Neville (b. 1379)
Eleanor de Neville (1379–1441), married Ralph de Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley. They were parents to Catherine de Lumley.
Two Children by Elizabeth Latimer
John de Neville, 6th Lord Latimer (1382–1430)
Elizabeth de Neville, Baroness Latimer (b. 1388)
Baron Percy
References
thePeerage.com Accessed May 13, 2007
Peerage of England Preceded by
Ralph Neville Baron Neville de Raby
1367–1388 Succeeded by
Ralph Neville
I enrolled again in Amazon’s 30 day trial of the Prime membership. I have done this before but not paid much attention to all the benefits. They allow you to quit within the trial period, which I did. Now I have been on a book diet for a year, and am curious about Kindle and the lending library. I had Kindle on iPad, but the Amazon Prime offer will only be available to members who own a Kindle devise. We have wanted to dump cable television for a while and wonder if the streaming video content from Amazon would be one way to wean ourselves. Amazon is not making it easy for Apple customers to get into the video program. I can watch on my iPad, but to get it on my big TV I had to buy a streaming device. I quickly found that Roku is compatible and the unit was very reasonably priced. The Kindle Fire HD fancy reader was on sale too. Since I can have instant gratification with the 2 day free delivery I decided to wrap up all the household holiday shopping on the spot, on the laptop. On Tuesday I will have, via free delivery service:
If our household can’t find enough entertainment and reading material to enjoy while we snack away on our marzipan from Germany we are just too lame for holidays. All we need to add are a few tasty homemade treats and some quality time entertaining our friends. During the holidays I like to drive even less than usual, so having everything we need at home is key to my enjoyment. If I am missing anything, Amazon will deliver it for free in 2 days. That is reassuring. I do feel that I have done some very Prime shopping. They will probably keep me on for the year this time.
I was born in 1951 when this map had very little activity. We had drills in my elementary school for bomb preparedness. My parents voted Republican, and strongly opposed JFK. I remember the cold war well as a formative part of my thinking. My parents, and later the national government, seemed either unaware or unethical to me. In my family history there are knights and military heroes. In modern times my uncles fought in WWII, but my father was nearly blind, so he did not serve. I believe the atom bomb has changed the potential for corruption, destruction, and total Armageddon. What was settled with swords in the middle ages is now settled by dangerous committee. Human nature has not changed all that much, but the swiftness and anonymity with which all creation can now be destroyed is daunting.
My 17th great-grandmother is buried in Nottinghamshire, England. She was a baroness. I can tell we are headed for confusion because my mother is also related to these de Nevilles. My mother’s ended up in Jamestown, Virginia, while these Nevilles on my dad’s side are all ancestors of the poet, Anne Dudley Bradstreet.
Maud NEVILLE , 6th Baroness Furnival Sex: F Birth: ABT 1392 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England Death: ABT 1423 in Worksop Priory, Nottinghamshire, England
Maud, Baroness Furnivall(e) in her own right according to later doctrine (d. c 1423), daughter and heiress of Thomas Neville, 5th Lord (Baron) Furnivall(e) in right of his 1st wife. [Burke’s Peerage]
Maud de Nevill(e), de jure Baroness Furinvall(e) in her own right; b. c 1392; m. by 12 Mar 1306/7, as his 1st wife, Sir John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford, who, however, before his creation as Earl in 1442 was called to Parliament as Lord (Baron) De Furnyvall or De Halomshire (sic.) in right of his wife 26 Oct 1409, and d. c 1423. [Burke’s Peerage, p. 2241]
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Maud de Neville, Lady Furnivall, b. c 1392, d. c 1423, daughter of Thomas Nevill, Lord Furnivall, by his wife, Joan Furinvall, Lady Furnivall. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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He [John Talbot] m. 1stly, bef. 12 Mar 1406/7, Maud, according to modern doctrine suo jure Baroness Furnivalle, elder daughter of Thomas (Neville), Lord Furnivalle, and only child and heir of (his 1st wife) Joan, according to modern doctrine suo jure Baroness Furnivalle, only daughter and heir of William (de Furnivalle), Lrod Furnivalle. She, who was b. c 1392 sat at Queen Katherine’s Coronation banquet in Westminster Hall, 21 Feb 1420/1. She d. about 1423 and was buried in Worksop Priory, Notts. [Complete Peerage XI:698-704]
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BARONY of FURNIVALLE (VI)
MAUD NEVILLE, suo jure Baroness FURNIVALLE, elder daughter and heir of Thomas NEVILLE, LORD FURNIVALLE, and only child of her mother Joan, daughter and heir of William, LORD FURNIVALLE. She married, before 12 March 1406/7, as 1st wife, John TALBOT, 2nd son of Sir Richard TALBOT, of Goodrich [LORD TALBOT], by Ankarette, his wife. She was aged 15 and more at her father’s death. On 3 May 1407 the King took the fealty of John Talbot, and John and his wife, the said Maud, had livery of all the lands which her father had held by the courtesy after the death of Joan his wife, and also of Maud’s moiety of the tenements which her father had held in his demesne as of fee. [Complete Peerage V:591, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
From jweber site
Maud Neville , 6th Baroness Furnival
The article on Maud in CP V reads (in full):
FURNIVALLE
BARONY BY WRIT.
VI. 1407. 1. Maude Neville, elder da. and h. of Thomas Neville, Lord Furnivalle, and only child of her mother, Joan, da. and h. of William, Lord Furnivalle, all above named. She m., before 12 Mar. 1406/7, as 1st wife, John Talbot, 2nd son of Sir Richard Talbot, of Goodrich [LORD TALBOT], by Ankarette, his wife, both above named. She was aged 15 and more at her father’s death. On 3 May 1407 the King took the fealty of John Talbot, and John and his wife, the said Maud, had livery of all the lands which her father had held by the courtesy after the death of Joan his wife,(d) and also of Maud’s moiety of the tenements which her father had held in his demesne as of fee.(e) John Talbot was sum. to Parl. from 26 Oct. (1409) 11 Hen. IV to 26 Feb. (1420/1) 8 Hen. V, by writs directed _Johanni Talbot_, with the additions, _domino de Furnyvall’, de Furnyvall’_, or _de Halomshire_. He was heir of his niece, Ankarette, da. of his elder br., Sir Gilbert Talbot, of Goodrich and Whitchurch [Lord Talbot]: she d. 13 Dec. 1421,(f) after which date the writs summoning him to Parl. were directed _Johanni Talbot_, with the addition of _militi_ or _chivaler_, only. His 1st wife, the said Maud, was bur. in Worksop Priory.(g) On 20 May 1442 he was cr. EARL OF SHROPSHIRE, but is commonly known as Earl of Shrewsbury. He was slain in battle at Castillon on the Dordogne, 17 July 1453, and was bur. at Whitchurch, Salop: M.I.* See Shrewsbury, Earldom.
(d) _Fine Roll_, 8 Hen. IV, m. 11.
(e) All Thomas Neville had thus held was three messuages and a virgate of land in Peaton and Diddlebury, in Corve, Dale, Salop. (_Close Roll_, 8 Hen. IV, m. 12).
(f) Ch. _Inq. p. m._ (on Ankarette, da. and h. of Gilbert Talbot chr.), Henry V, file 58, no. 44. See Talbot. [Ref: CP V:591]
(g) _Monasticon_, vol. vi, p. 123.
Maude de Neville (1392 – 1421)
is my 17th great grandmother
John Talbot (1413 – 1460)
son of Maude de Neville
Isabel Talbot (1444 – 1531)
daughter of John Talbot
Sir Richard Ashton (1460 – 1549)
son of Isabel Talbot
Sir Christopher Ashton (1493 – 1519)
son of Sir Richard Ashton
Lady Elizabeth Ashton (1524 – 1588)
daughter of Sir Christopher Ashton
Capt Roger Dudley (1535 – 1585)
son of Lady Elizabeth Ashton
Gov Thomas Dudley (1576 – 1653)
son of Capt Roger Dudley
Anne Dudley (1612 – 1672)
daughter of Gov Thomas Dudley
John Bradstreet (1652 – 1718)
son of Anne Dudley
Mercy Bradstreet (1689 – 1725)
daughter of John Bradstreet
Caleb Hazen (1720 – 1777)
son of Mercy Bradstreet
Mercy Hazen (1747 – 1819)
daughter of Caleb Hazen
Martha Mead (1784 – 1860)
daughter of Mercy Hazen
Abner Morse (1808 – 1838)
son of Martha Mead
Daniel Rowland Morse (1838 – 1910)
son of Abner Morse
Jason A Morse (1862 – 1932)
son of Daniel Rowland Morse
Ernest Abner Morse (1890 – 1965)
son of Jason A Morse
Richard Arden Morse (1920 – 2004)
son of Ernest Abner Morse
Pamela Morse
I am the daughter of Richard Arden Morse
Since last November I have visited my ancestral homeland at Plimouth Colony in Massachusetts. The museum and displays helped me to more vividly picture what those Pilgrims were doing in the 1600s. I have many ancestors who arrived on the Mayflower, and I am not overly impressed with that fact. I am, however, truly grateful to learn that I am Wampanoag. I study history by learning about my family tree. Thanksgiving, as taught in elementary school, has very little to do with the real events that took place at the time. There was a feast and celebration, and there was a great deal of unease about these English people who built a fort around their town and put cannons on the second story of their church. These Pilgrims, who are depicted to children as seeking religious freedom, only believed in religious freedom for themselves. They had been repressed in Holland for their beliefs and wanted a place where their somewhat radical thinking would not clash with any royal Euros. They did not propose to extend religious freedom and tolerance to the native people they encountered in America. They proposed to convert them to Christianity, their own style of Christianity.
Harvard was endowed and sustained in business by conversion of native people. The Indian College was used to educate and convert natives. If they had not come up with donations based on this premise, Harvard may never have become the institution it is today. My tenth great grandfather Thomas Dudley signed the charter for Harvard because he was the colonial governor when it opened. His daughter and my 9th great grandmother, Anne Bradstreet, was a poet and wife of Simon Bradstreet, also a colonial governor.
I am not as proud of them as I am of Quadequina. I have taken sides in the Thanksgiving story. I think the Pilgrims were rude to say the least. We build it up as a story about peace and religion, but it was a story of imperialism. When I learned that all the historic wampum belts have gone to England to be kept in museums I became angry. A very cool Wampanoag elder who worked at Plimouth gave me some very wise advise about that. She told me there was no point in being angry about the past. She is obviously correct, but my feelings have changed about history, Massachusetts Colony and all that it meant, and the fable of Thanksgiving. There is more bitterness that the peach pie reveals. It makes me wonder exactly how my tribe feels when they celebrate this holiday. It looks like the tribe may open a casino on Martha’s Vineyard. It is fair to give them access to the wealth and the weakness of the white people on that island. There is plenty for everyone. Turn about is fair play, even if it comes hundreds of years later.