Webmaster Notes
Not much was written about John Raymond the first of Belchamp Hall. It is recorded that he married Anne Sparrow of Gestingthope but there is no background how they knew each other or why John would have purchased the manor of Belchamp Walter in 1611.
The first three John Raymonds are documented by me on a single page but there is no background on the purchase
The story of John and Anne's first-born St. Clere is also not known apart from the fact that he did not suceed John I as he was disinherited (presumably due to an unfavourable marriage - although I can find no reference to this)
Oliver Raymond, John and Anne's seconed son, married into the Harris family but this was after the regicide of Charles I and the regime of the Parliamentarians.
I need to check the dates of John I's birth and death as the birth is not on the Freer Tree and I think that the dates I have on the Johns page are wrong.
https://familypedia.fandom.com/wiki/John_Raymond_(c1580-1635) - b.1580 m.1603 d.1635
I am not sure that I trust the Familypedia dates
https://archive.org/details/visitationsofess13metc/page/476/mode/1up
Anne Raymond and Dister
https://familypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Charles_Dister_(1614-1692) - this where the George Scott and the marriage to Anne Raymond came from. Not sure how Benny1982 got his information.
https://forum.familyhistory.uk.com/threads/charles-dister-and-wife-anne-raymond.33520/
Familypedia - my distrust.
When I make a search for John Raymond and Anne Sparrow most of the results lead back to this website. A lot of the others are to FAndom/FamilyPedia - this does not give me a whole lot of confidence.
John Raymond I
John I (of Belchamp Hall) married Anne Sparrow in 1603 and died 1635.
Their oldest son was Oliver Raymond (Parliamentarian) who died in 1679.
Twentyone children
While it seems that it is bit of a departure from the story of John Raymond I the fact that his oldest son and Frances Harris (Raymond) had 21 children complicates things.
Many of these family members are memorialised on the Raymond Family Memorial
The inclusion on both the memorial and a partial list on Alan Freer's section of William the Conqueror's family tree makes analysis of their fates very difficult.
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