James Phelps

Abt 1520 - Abt 1587  (~ 67 years)

• Name	James Phelps  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1520	Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1587	Probably Tewkesbury, England   [1]
  Person ID	I1581	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	11 Aug 2011

  
  

  Family	Joan (wife of James Phelps) [?]   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Y  [1]
  Children	1. William Phelps,   c. 2 Aug 1560, Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloustershire, England d. Abt 1611 (Age ~ 50 years)
  Family ID	F524	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2011

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  The Phelps family came originally from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England according to Tewkesbury Abbey church records. Tewkesbury is a town in Gloucestershire, England. It stands at the confluence of the River Severn and the River Avon, and also minor tributaries the Swilgate and Carrant Brook. It gives its name to the Borough of Tewkesbury, of which the town is the second largest settlement. Tewkesbury is named after Theocalious, a hermit who founded Threwshon, adapted to Tewkesbury over the years, in the 7th century. Evidence of a church predating the abbey suggests that a considerable settlement rose up on the site previous to the Norman Conquest and monastic buildings from the years immediately following the conquest can still be seen surrounding Tewkesbury Abbey, which was begun in 1090 and consecrated on 23 October 1121. Tewkesbury was the site of the Battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471. At the "Bloody Meadow," south of the town, Edward IV's Yorkist forces defeated the House of Lancaster in a historic battle of the Wars of the Roses with a bloody aftermath. Tewkesbury was incorporated during the reign of Elizabeth I. Like many towns in the west of England, Tewkesbury played an important part in the development of religious dissent. English Dissenters in Tewkesbury contributed to the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, and Samuel Jones ran an important academy for dissenters, whose students included Samuel Chandler, future archbishop Thomas Secker and Joseph Butler, in the early 18th century. [2, 3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S420] Judge Oliver Seymour Phelps of Portland OR and Andrew T. Servin of Lenox MA , Phelps Family of America, (Eagle Publishing Co., Pittsfield, Mass, 1899), p70 (Reliability: 3). [S420] Judge Oliver Seymour Phelps of Portland OR and Andrew T. Servin of Lenox MA , Phelps Family of America, (Eagle Publishing Co., Pittsfield, Mass, 1899). [S535] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tewkesbury (Reliability: 3).