Thirteenth Generation

6344. John BATT¹⁸² was born about 1520 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He died between 10 October 1557 and 15 ??? 1557 at the age of 37. He was buried in St. Thomas's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. John was a Tanner. In his will, he asked that he be buried next to his father in St. Thomas's.

Salisbury was also known as New Sarum.

A very early Batt was mayor of London in 1240. Batts were jurors in inquisitions post mortem in Wiltshire in 1362 (Henry Bat) and in 1370 (John Batte), it is probable that the family had very early roots in that county.

6345. Margaret THISTLETHWAITE died before 30 July 1560 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. She was buried in St. Edmund's, Salisbury. Thwaite was an early name for a clearing in a forest, used primarily in the north of England. The Thistlewaite family of Wilshire was said by Henry St. George and Sampson Lennard, the heralds who visited that county in 1623, to have been founded by Alexander Thistlewaite, "descended from Thistlethwaite of Thistlethwaite in Com Ebor (Yorkshire)."

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