St. James Church, Norton, Derbyshire, England [2] [3]
1570 Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Mychyel were married on January 22, 1569/70, at St. James Church, Norton, Derbyshire, England. [1]
Robert Taylor was a cutler [a craftsman of sharp-edged steel tools [4]] of Hielaye Briggehouse, Derbyshire, England. Norton is a historic village about 4 miles south of Sheffield city center. The Sheffield region is a center for the Company of Cutlers. [5]
1572 Elizabeth Tayler, daughter of Robert Tayler, of Hielaye Briggehouse, cutler, was baptized on December 14, at St. James Church, Norton, Derbyshire, England. [6]
1578 Robert Tayler, son of Robert Tayler, of Hielaybrigghouse, cutler, was baptized on October 26, at St. James Church, Norton, Derbyshire, England. [7]
1581 Thomas Tayler, son of Robert Tayler, of Hielaybrigghouse, cutler, was baptized on February 14, 1580/81, at St. James Church, Norton, Derbyshire, England. [8]
1595 Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Barboure, als. Harwourth, were married on July 13, at St. James Church, Norton, Derbyshire, England. [9]
1613 On 25 September, Elizabeth, w.[idow?], lately wife Robert Tayler, lately of N[orton?], dec.[eased]. [10]
Research Notes:
Both Robert Taylor and son Thomas were reportedly of Hielaye Briggehouse, Derbyshire, England. Hielay Brigghouse is an archaic 17th-century spelling of Heeley Bridge, which historically straddled the border between Sheffield and Derbyshire. In the 1610s, it referred to a residence and watermill situated near where London Road meets Well Road in the Heeley/Lowfield area, directly north of Norton. A James Tayler lived near there about 1550. [11]
The earliest mention of Heeley I have been able to trace appears in a 'Catalogue of Ancient Charters' (1913) prepared by Mr. T. W. Hall, which gives a Charter dated 1343-4, Sunday next after the Feast of Saint Cuthbert the Bishop (20th March), confirming a grant by John Ryle of Heghlegh to his son Thomas, of a messuage with two crofts of arable land in Heghlegh, Sheffield. Another Charter bearing date 1348 - Wednesday next after the Feast of All Saints (1st November), confirming a grant to John Alayn of Hymelsworth (Hemsworth, Norton), "of a toft* and a half with a building, in Heghelegh" (Heeley). [ * Footnote – Toft, a homestead. ]
In a "Book of Feudal Aids", made for the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1451, a notice of which, edited by Mr. S. O. Addy, appears in the Transactions of The Hunter Archaeological Society [Volume 1, page 137] [12], we find mentioned "Hamelet de Heyle", a place identical with Heeley. In a grant of Queen Mary, A.D. 1553, by which the Church Burgesses were first appointed, and their income and office prescribed, amongst the lands vested in that body are mentioned "two crofts called Malkin Croftes in Heeley in the parish of Sheffield in the several tenures of Thomas Blythe and James Tayler".
In 'Catalogue of Charters and Documents', compiled by Mr. T. Walter Hall (1916) the wills are mentioned of Thomas Roose the elder, of "Helaye Sheffelde", and James Tailior, of Helay, both dated July, 1554. In December, 1555, the Church Burgesses granted a lease to one Rycharde Crooke of two cottages and a close called "ye ladye sprynge" in "Helaye", and in 1595 leased to Robert Garlicke, of Heeley, a "barn or lath house" – "one dole (?) lying in a certain close called Parkefeild in Heely".
Mr. R. E. Leader, in his 'History of the Cutlers' Company' (1905) says that a list of the Earl of Shrewsbury's Sheffield rents, about three hundred years earlier, gives twenty-five water wheels as in existence, one being the "Heylie wheel on the Sheaf". In a Burial Register of Norton Church as far back as the reign of James I, in 1610, is the entry "Thomas Milnes, of Hielay Brigghouse, Milner of the Mylne thear".
James Tailior of Helay named sons Robert, Thomas, George, and James in his will dated 26 July, 1554. Perhaps Robert was a son of James. [13]
1554 July 26th. Will (Engl) of James Tailior of Helay in the parish of Sheffeld, proved 1st October 1556 at York; whereby, he directed that he should be buried "in the churchyearde of Peter and Paull Sheffeld" and his mortuary "accordinge to the lawes of this Realme"; testator gave to Robert his son one half of his ferme and to James (? his son) the other half; that was to say, Robert should have his "howse and the over parlor and the overchamber and James the nether parlor and the nether chamber and the Kitchen"; to Robert his son and James his son (sic) he gave the Marlandes equally between them; to James his son two "weles; that is to say, the whele on the Farrside and the whele in the Nooke and that Robert my sonne shall have one day gryndynge everye weeke and that the said Robert do gyve the said James warnynge on the Sonday what day he will have yt"; to Thomas his son he gave "the whele before the doore and the said Thomas to fynd his parte of horse and harnes for same"; also that James his son should find "for the said too wheles horse and harnes" and that Robert should find for testator's "howse, horse and harnes"; he willed that Robert his son should "nether sell or lett noo parcel of ground for if he doo he to forfete his part to James"; he willed that if James his son "dye within his terme without issue" that his part should return to Robert; also that if James "dye within his said terme his parte of the Marlandes" should return to George Talior (sic), testator's son, and "if he dye as aforesayd the wheles to remayne to Thomas" testator's son; also that George, testator's son, should "suffer the said Thomas and James to gitt whitnynge stones for their own use to the said wheles as long as they lyve"; also that Robert should "pay the rent of this howse this viij yeres"; the rest of his goods his "dettes paid" testator gave to Robert, Thomas, George and James his sons, whom he made his "trewe executors." Witnesses: Thomas Clayton, Edward Pavie, Christofer Chapman, Skargell. Notes: from the wills at York Probate Registry, vol 15-1-130.
See the Norton parish index for Taylor [14] and Mychyel [15]
See also: Taylor research notes for the family of the descendant Samuel Taylor, who emigrated to America. [16]
1564 [8 Elizabeth] Rob. Taylor assaulted Will. Turner. [17]
The Swyfte and Taylor families were involved in trespass transgressions at the Holmegate Court on multiple occasions.
1557 Thomas Taylor and John Swyft and others were fined for trespass [18]
1559 Thomas Taylour, Will Taylor, Ralph Taylour, and John Swyft and others were fined for transgression. [19]
1579 Rob. Swyfte was listed among "Trespassers on rights of common lands" at the Holmesfield Court of Sir John Savage on March 23, 1579/80. [20]
[1] Llewellyn Lloyd Simpson, trans., The Parish Registers of Norton, Co. Derby, Marriages, St. James' Church, Norton, Co. Derby 1559-1812 (1908), 318, [GoogleBooks].
[2] Wikipedia article about St_James,_Norton, content subject to change, [Wikipedia].
[3] Wikimedia Commons image of St. James Church, [URL].
[4] Wikipedia article about Company_of_Cutlers_in_Hallamshire, content subject to change, [Wikipedia].
[5] The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, [URL].
[6] Llewellyn Lloyd Simpson, trans., The Parish Registers of Norton, Co. Derby, Baptisms, St. James' Church, Norton, Co. Derby 1559-1812 (1908), 10, [GoogleBooks].
[7] Llewellyn Lloyd Simpson, trans., The Parish Registers of Norton, Co. Derby, Baptisms, St. James' Church, Norton, Co. Derby 1559-1812 (1908), 15, [GoogleBooks].
[8] Llewellyn Lloyd Simpson, trans., The Parish Registers of Norton, Co. Derby, Baptisms, St. James' Church, Norton, Co. Derby 1559-1812 (1908), 18, [GoogleBooks].
[9] Llewellyn Lloyd Simpson, trans., The Parish Registers of Norton, Co. Derby, Marriages, St. James' Church, Norton, Co. Derby 1559-1812 (1908), 323, [GoogleBooks].
[10] Llewellyn Lloyd Simpson, trans., The Parish Registers of Norton, Co. Derby, Marriages, St. James' Church, Norton, Co. Derby 1559-1812 (1908), 401, [GoogleBooks].
[12] The Hunter Archaeological Society, [URL].
[13] Thomas Walter Hall, Sheffield and Rotherham from the 12th to the 18th century. A descriptive catalogue of miscellaneous charters and other documents relating to the districts of Sheffield and Rotherham with abstracts of Sheffield wills, proved at York from 1554 to 1560 (1916), 87, [HathiTrust].
[14] Llewellyn Lloyd Simpson, trans., The Parish Registers of Norton, Co. Derby, Index, St. James' Church, Norton, Co. Derby 1559-1812 (1908), 635, [GoogleBooks].
[15] Llewellyn Lloyd Simpson, trans., The Parish Registers of Norton, Co. Derby, Index, St. James' Church, Norton, Co. Derby 1559-1812 (1908), 605, [GoogleBooks].
[16] Cook, Ross Keelye, United States. Compiled Genealogical Collections, DGS 8701373, image 213, [FamilySearchImage].
[17] the editors, "The Court Rolls of the Manor of Holmesfield, Co. Derby," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 20 (1898),52-128, at 96, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[18] the editors, "The Court Rolls of the Manor of Holmesfield, Co. Derby," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 20 (1898),52-128, at 87, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[19] the editors, "The Court Rolls of the Manor of Holmesfield, Co. Derby," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 20 (1898),52-128, at 87, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[20] the editors, "The Court Rolls of the Manor of Holmesfield, Co. Derby," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 20 (1898),52-128, at 116, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].