A genealogical account of the Mayo & Elton families of Wilts and Herefordshire and some other adjoining counties, together with numerous biographical sketches : to which are added many genealogies for the most part not hitherto published of families allied by marriage to the family of Mayo and a history of the manors of Andrewes and Le Mote, in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire / by Charles Herbert Mayo.

Mayo, Charles Herbert, 1845-1929.

Date:: 1908

Credit: A genealogical account of the Mayo & Elton families of Wilts and Herefordshire and some other adjoining counties, together with numerous biographical sketches : to which are added many genealogies for the most part not hitherto published of families allied by marriage to the family of Mayo and a history of the manors of Andrewes and Le Mote, in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire / by Charles Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$George Shepheard (III). His father devifes “ to my fon George Sheppard and his heirs for ever all that my mefluage, tenement and farm called Crowe Leafowe, with all the lands, tenements, rents, woods, commons, and hereditaments thereunto belonging, lying and beinge in Mydleton in the countie of Salop, and the revercon and revercons of the fame, in which melTuage the faid George now dwelleth.” He was, perhaps, the George Shepheard buried 9th July, 1673, whofe adrhon was granted to Margaret, his widow, 4th Nov., 1673, and the faid Mar- garet buried, as of Bitterley, 5th July, 1677, and her will, 29th June, proved 24th July, 1677 {ibid.'). She bequeathed her leafehold in Bitterley, to be fold, and her freehold at Hints in Covely, Salop, to be divided among her three fons, one of whom may have been John Shepheard,^ of Crowleafowe, gent.; will, 2nd June, 1681, proved ift 06t., 1688, by Anne, his widow {ibid.). He had iflue: 1. Anne Shepheard, buried 5th December, 1663. 2. John Shepheard, of Crowleafow,^ baptifed 31ft May, 1659, Sheriff of CO. Hereford, 1699, died (it is ftated) in 1716; married 20th May, 1680, at St. John Baptift’s, Hereford, Frances, buried at Dormington, Herefordfhire, 26th June, 1705, daughter and co-heirefs of John Walwyn, of Hellens. 3. Mary Shepheard, baptifed i6th March, 1661-2. 4. Martha Shepheard, baptifed ift July, 1663. 5. Margaret Shepheard, baptifed 31ft [fic] February, 1664-5. 6. James Shepheard, baptifed 30th 061., 1667; buried 12th Feb., 1667-8. 7. Benjamin Shepheard, baptifed 27th Nov., 1672. All the foregoing dates, unlefs where otherwife ftated, are taken from the Bitterley Regifter, John Shepherd and Frances, nie Walwyn, had iflue: i. Frances Shepheard, baptifed at Bitterley, 22nd Feb., 1680-1; died in 1762; married at Dormington, 29th Dec., 1702, to Richard Witherfton, M.A., Re6lor of Sutton St. Nicholas, who dying 19th was buried 20th Od., 1738, at Sutton, and left iffue. ii. John Shepheard, baptifed at Much Marcle (as were the next nine), 6th April, 1682; died in infancy. iii. Wallwyn Shepheard, baptifed 7th Sept., 1683, of whom hereafter. ’ A damafk linen table-cloth, woven with the hiftory of Jacob, 1631, and marked in crofs ftitch the initials of John Shepheard and Anne, his wife, is in the poflelfion of Mifs Mayo, of Riverdale, Dorking, together with three others, of later date, with a dwelling-house in the centre, and the words “Robert Either Shepheard, Richmond.” ’ The Crowleafow property eventually changed hands, for Richard Sheppard, of Hugford, in Middleton, Bitterley, gent., (buried 4th March, 1745-6), in his will, 20th Nov., 1741, proved 15th April, 1746 {ibid.), fays, “ I give to my eldell fon, Richard Sheppard, his heirs and afligns for ever, all that melTuage or tenement, commonly called Crow Leafow, as I lately purchafed the fame.”$

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