General Notes

SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File #   (familysearch.org)
AWTP:
"My best guess - A Work Perpetually In Progress" Matthew Gerrior xspertone@@yahoo.com (who has generously contributed the following research at AWTP):
"New England Historical & Genealogical Register, vo l 71, pg 238: "Ralph Jocelyn, of Hide Hall, Sawbridgeworth , co. Herts, and of the manor of Shellow-Bowels in the pari sh of Willingale-Doe, co, Essex, born at Shellow-Bowels 1 3 Dec 1275, died after 1312-13 and before 1323. He marrie d first Anne Sandys, eldest daughter of William; and second ly Maud Sutton, daughter of Sir John, Knight, who married s econdly Roger de Berners and died in 1354-55. Ralph Jocely n succeed his brother Thomas about 1284, and had livery o f his father's lands in Oct 1297, having proved his age. I n his deposition on this occasion, Ralph de Merk of Roothin g, co. Essex, aged forty years, stated that Ralph Jocelyn , son of Thomas, was twenty-one years of age on the Feast o f St. Lucy the Virgin previous, that he was born at Shello w and was baptized in the parish church of Willingale-Doe o n the fourth day after his birth, and that he,the deponent , held him at the font and gave him his name. Ralph Jocely n held court at Shellow-Bowels in 1298. On Oct 8, 1302, h e held one and a half knight's fees in Shellow and Sawbridg eworth. In 1309 he was a commissioner to collect a tax in H ertfordshire, for the war with Scotland. He was living Fe b 24, 1312/13."