Ancestors of Captain Arthur Fenner

Thomas Fenner 

Thomas Fenner (a Ven, Venner) was born ca. 1500, son of Roger at Fenne of Gibbshaven. As an adult, he was a resident of Rowfant, Worth, Sussex, England. In 1524, he was named as “Thomas a Ven” in the Lay Subsidy Rolls, parish of Slaugham, county Sussex. He died in 1548 and left a will under the name Thomas Venner, kept in Sussex Wills and Administrations in the District Probate Registry at Lewes, Archdeaconry of Lewes: Book A 1, 1541–1549 (now held by the East Sussex Record Office). His son Roger also left a will at Lewes.

  1. John [b ca. 1523 at Worth; d 1610] of Hedgecourt.

  2. Jane [b ca. 1532]

  3. Thomas [b ca. 1534; d 1601] of Horne.

  4. William [b ca. 1535] of Worth.

  5. Mary [b ca. 1537] of Worth.

  6. Roger [b ca. 1538; d 1617] of Worth and East Grinstead.

Lineage:
John | Roger | John | Roger | Thomas | Thomas | Arthur || Capt. Arthur

Sources:
1. Information from the work of Jen Blyth on Ancestry.com
2. Calendar of Wills and Administrations in the Archdeaconry Court of Lewes in the Bishopric of Chichester (1901), pp. 13, 176: Google

 
 

Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, GE DD-2987. Map produced by John Speed, engraved by Jodocus Hondius, 1610.