THE LONGS OF
STRETTON ON FOSSE

some notes by P John Partington

 THOMAS LONG  (bef. 1549 - 1614)

The ‘Long’ family from whom we are descended lived for many generations in Stretton on Fosse, a village just off Fosse Way on the southern border of Warwickshire.   (As early as the thirteenth century we find a “Roger Longus” farming the Lord of the Manor’s land in Stretton).  Of this family, our earliest known ancestor was Thomas, who married Margery Proctor in the mid sixteenth century.  They had a son, also called Thomas, in about 1566 (see below).  Thomas died in 1614, and Margery in 1616.  Thomas senior had a sister, Elizabeth, who married a John Proctor (perhaps a brother of Margery) in Stretton in 1561.

THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS  (bef. 1549 - 1614)

Thomas’ son Thomas was baptized in Stretton on Fosse in 1566.  On 21 November 1597 he married Appelin Gardner, still in Stretton, and they had at least two children:  Thomas born in about 1598 and Richard in about 1604 (details below).

THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS  (c. 1566 - aft. 1602)

Thomas’ first child, Thomas, was baptized in Stretton on Fosse in 1598.   In 1621, still in Stretton, he married Elizabeth (surname unknown), and they had seven children:  Elizabeth baptized in 1622, Thomas in 1625, Maria in 1630, John in 1632, Robert in 1635, Sarah in 1638 and Hannah in 1640 (details below).

Thomas’ second child, Richard, was baptized in Stretton in 1604.  On 6 April 1629, still in the village, he married Eglentine Bussell (baptized at Stretton on 6 Nov 1608, the daughter of Henry).  The couple had a son, also called Richard, in about 1630 (details below).

THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS  (c. 1598 - aft. 1638)

Thomas’ first child, Elizabeth, was baptized in Stretton on Fosse in 1622. Nothing else is known of her at present.

Thomas’s second child, Thomas, was baptized in Stretton in 1625 and buried there in 1644.

Thomas’ third child, Maria, was baptized in Stretton in 1630. Nothing else is known of her at present.

Thomas’s fourth child, John, was baptized in Stretton in 1632 and buried there in 1636.

Thomas’s fifth child, Robert, was baptized in Stretton in 1635.  He married Mary (surname unknown) and they had five children:   Thomas baptized in 1670, Mary in 1673, Elizabeth in 1675, Sarah in 1677 and Robert in 1681 (details below).  Mary was buried in Stretton in 1695 and Robert in 1719.

Thomas’ sixth child, Sarah, was baptized in Stretton in 1638. Nothing else is known of her at present.

Thomas’ seventh child, Hannah, was baptized in Stretton in 1640.  In 1679 she married her cousin Richard’s son Henry Long, and they had a daughter, also called Hannah (see below).

THE CHILDREN OF ROBERT  (abt. 1635 - 1719)

Thomas’ first child, Thomas, was baptized in Stretton on Fosse in 1670.  He married Jane (surname unknown) and they had eight children, all baptized in Stretton:  Thomas in 1703, William in 1706, Mary in 1708, Samuel in 1709, another Mary in 1710, Benjamin in 1711, Stephen in 1715 and Jane in 1718 (details below).

Thomas’ second child, Mary, was baptized in Stretton in 1673.  Nothing else is known of her at present.

Thomas’ third child, Elizabeth, was baptized in Stretton in 1675.  She married William White – evidently one of the extended White family, also relations of ours, living in Stretton at that time:  exactly which William is not yet clear.

Thomas’ fourth child, Sarah, was baptized in Stretton in 1677 and his fifth child, Robert, in 1681.  Nothing further is known of them at present.

THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS  (abt. 1670 - aft. 1716)

Thomas’s first child, also called Thomas, was baptized in Stretton on Fosse in 1703.  He was married twice: first to Calti, and subsequently to Catherine, with whom he had three children – Jane baptized in Stretton in 1735, Hannah in 1737 and William in 1740.

Thomas’ second child, William, was baptized in Stretton in 1706;  his third, Mary, was baptized there in 1708;  his fourth, Samuel, in 1709;   his fifth, another Mary, in 1710;  his sixth, Benjamin, in 1711;   his seventh, Stephen, in 1715;  and his eighth, Jane, in 1718.   Nothing else is known of them at present.

THE CHILDREN OF RICHARD  (c. 1604 - 1628)

Richard’s son Richard was baptized in Stretton on Fosse in 1630.  He had at least three children:  Henry, born in about 1652, Richard in about 1655 and Thomas in about 1655 (details below).   Nothing else is known of him at present.

THE CHILDREN OF RICHARD  (c. 1630 - aft. 1663)

Richard’s first child, Henry, was baptized in Stretton on Fosse in 1652.  In 1679, still in Stretton, he married his father’s cousin Hannah Long, and they had a daughter, also called Hannah (details below).

Richard’s second child, Richard, was born in about 1655.  In 1678 he married Anne Parker in Stretton, but nothing else is known of him at present.

Richard’s third child, Thomas, was born in about 1665.   On 26 September 1689 he married Judith Fowler in Stretton, and they had three children:  Richard baptized in 1690, Thomas in 1691 and Mary in 1693 (details below).  Judith died in 1695.

THE CHILDREN OF HENRY  (c. 1652 - aft. 1678)

Henry’s daughter Hannah was born in 1690.  On 17 October 1708 she married our ancestor Robert Brain in Stretton on Fosse.  They had four children:  Camelia born in about 1709, Mary in about 1714, Anthony in about 1718 and Richard in about 1720.

THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS  (c. 1665 - aft. 1688)

Thomas’ first child, Richard, was born in about 1690.   In 1713 he married Sarah Hydon in Stretton on Fosse.  They had five children:  Richard, born in about 1713, Thomas baptized in Stretton in 1717, Judith in 1721, Henry in 1723 and William in 1727 (details below).   Sarah was buried in 1727.

Thomas’ second child, Thomas, was baptized in Stretton in 1691.  He figures in the list of parish clerks of the following century.  He was married twice: first, in 1718, to Mary Hitchcox (who was buried in Stretton in 1720), and secondly in 1725 to Calti Miles, by whom he had three children – Jane baptized in Stretton in 1726 and Anne & Thomas in 1727.  Calti was buried in Stretton in 1728 and Thomas himself in 1730.

Thomas’ third child, Mary, was baptized in Stretton in 1693. Nothing else is known of her at present.

THE CHILDREN OF RICHARD  (c. 1690 - aft. 1711)

Richard’s first child, also called Richard, was baptized at Stretton on Fosse in 1714.  He married Alice, and they had a daughter Mary, born in 1733 (details below).

Richard’s second child, Thomas, was baptized in Stretton in 1717.  He married Mary (surname unknown), and they had four children:  Thomas, baptized in Stretton in 1734, William, baptized there in 1736, Jane, baptized there in 1738, and Samuel, baptized there in 1741.

Richard’s third child, Judith, was baptized in Stretton in 1721;  his fourth child, Henry, was baptized there in 1723; and his fifth child, William, was baptized there in 1727.  Nothing else is known of them at present.

THE CHILDREN OF RICHARD  (c. 1714 - bef. 1769)

Richard’s daughter Mary was baptized in Stretton on Fosse in 1733.  She married our ancestor Anthony Braine at Stretton on 31 October 1757, and they had six children:  John born in about 1757, Hannah in about 1761, Elizabeth in about 1763, William in about 1765, Richard in about 1766 and Camilla in about 1769.  Mary was buried at Stretton on 29 September 1804.

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