Here is a marriage license that pertains to someone who died in New England.
[Dean and Chapter of Westminster.]
--1667/8, Jan. 25. Giles Master, Bachelor, & Elizabeth Harcourt, Spinster.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Allegations_for_Marriage_Licences_Issued/iqwKAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22elizabeth+harcourt+spinster%22+master&pg=PA44&printsec=frontcover
_LeNeve's Knights_ says that this Giles Master "dyed in New Engld[,] there buried," and identifies his wife Elizabeth as being related distantly to the first Lord Harcourt:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005695583&view=1up&seq=622&skin=2021&q1=harcourt%20master
Samuel Sewall's diary, under Feb. 28, 1688/89, notes, "Mr. Giles Masters, the king's attorney, dies." He was buried shortly thereafter.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Diary_of_Samuel_Sewall/sfYSAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=foster+is+buried+and+mr+masters&pg=PA205&printsec=frontcover
He is #250 in the NEHGS "Roll of Arms."
His son, Sir Harcourt Master, may have English descendants.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bibliotheca_Topographica_Britannica/ObWjZvX0Bs0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=harcourt
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Select_Cases_and_Other_Authorities_on_th/e5k_AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22harcourt+masters%22&pg=PA643&printsec=frontcover
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Notes_and_Queries/p5wgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=liittleton%20masters
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Gentleman_s_Magazine_London_England/X0UdAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22mr+harcourt+master%22&pg=PA725&printsec=frontcover
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_History_of_the_city_of_Canterbury_of/ejDKRHdRnE8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22giles+master%22+harcourt&pg=PA183&printsec=frontcover
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_general_and_heraldic_dictionary_of_the/aB0IAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22harcourt+masters%22&pg=PA510&printsec=frontcover
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Bath_Guide_Or_Useful_Pocket_Comp/FX5dAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22mr+harcourt+masters%22&pg=PA45&printsec=frontcover
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Solicitors_Journal_and_Reporter/Jgs5AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22mr+harcourt+master%22&pg=PA356&printsec=frontcover
https://wellcomelibrary.org/moh/report/b19956502/4#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harcourt_Masters
See here for speculation that the Katherine Masters married 1688 in Boston to Thomas Child, Painter-stainer, was a relative of this Giles. She later married a second husband, Lancelot Lake of Boston.
https://archive.org/details/bostoniansociety09bost/page/n1107/mode/2up?q=giles
It might seem more likely from the subsequent discussion of T. Child's will that Katherine's maiden name was Martin.
Gyles Master, subject of this thread, was bap at Canterbury 20 Jan 1644
On Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 6:41:45 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't looked through all your references yet, but do they identity the second wife of Harcourt Master, whom LeNeve only says dr of the Earl of Leicester, as Elizabeth Sydney specifically?Yes, I think some peerage works show the contemporary Earl of Leicester with a sister Elizabeth Sydney married to Harcourt Master or Masters.
I haven't looked through all your references yet, but do they identity the second wife of Harcourt Master, whom LeNeve only says dr of the Earl of Leicester, as Elizabeth Sydney specifically?
On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 11:36:10 AM UTC-4, Johnny Brananas wrote:
On Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 6:41:45 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:Dame Anne, first wife of Sir Harcourt Masters, was a daughter of Henry Hunter, Citizen and Merchant of London, by his wife Joanna Barnard ("Hunter of Beech Hill" [Berkshire]).
I haven't looked through all your references yet, but do they identity the second wife of Harcourt Master, whom LeNeve only says dr of the Earl of Leicester, as Elizabeth Sydney specifically?Yes, I think some peerage works show the contemporary Earl of Leicester with a sister Elizabeth Sydney married to Harcourt Master or Masters.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Genealogical_and_Heraldic_History_of_t/93M-AQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22henry+hunter%22+harcourt&pg=PA1024&printsec=frontcover
She is buried at Allhallows Barking:
1719, Decr 15. Dame Anne Masters.
[Tomb on the floor of the south aisle, inscribed: "Ann Masters, wife of Sir Harcourt Masters, Aldn. by whom she had 19 childn., whereof ten survived, deceased Decr 10, 1719, aged 42."]
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044081208381&view=1up&seq=124&skin=2021&q1=harcourt
On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 11:36:10 AM UTC-4, Johnny Brananas wrote:
On Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 6:41:45 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:Dame Anne, first wife of Sir Harcourt Masters, was a daughter of Henry Hunter, Citizen and Merchant of London, by his wife Joanna Barnard ("Hunter of Beech Hill" [Berkshire]).
I haven't looked through all your references yet, but do they identity the second wife of Harcourt Master, whom LeNeve only says dr of the Earl of Leicester, as Elizabeth Sydney specifically?Yes, I think some peerage works show the contemporary Earl of Leicester with a sister Elizabeth Sydney married to Harcourt Master or Masters.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Genealogical_and_Heraldic_History_of_t/93M-AQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22henry+hunter%22+harcourt&pg=PA1024&printsec=frontcover
She is buried at Allhallows Barking:
1719, Decr 15. Dame Anne Masters.
[Tomb on the floor of the south aisle, inscribed: "Ann Masters, wife of Sir Harcourt Masters, Aldn. by whom she had 19 childn., whereof ten survived, deceased Decr 10, 1719, aged 42."]
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044081208381&view=1up&seq=124&skin=2021&q1=harcourt
I wonder if this is Henry and Joanna as above?
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/4fa22c2f-d9d1-46bc-aab2-dcae1ec26837
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