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Getting dissed by Boba Fett is not exactly the stuff that dreams are made of...

William Fendick Esq. deceased itemised Bill to Executors, 1866, Bristol, Middlesex 4-5 by North West Kent Family History Society

William Fendick Esq. deceased itemised Bill to Executors, 1866, Bristol, Middlesex

An itemised account from John Hawley to the Executors of the Estate of William Fendick. Executors, Henry Fendick, Robert Fendick, John B. Fendick.

Probate Registers show William Fendick of 41 Cambridge Street, Pimlico died 1 April 1866. Henry Fendick of 46 Fore Street, City of London, Linendraper, Robert Fendick of 23 Portland Square, Bristol, Surgeon and John Brasnett Fendick of 126 Holloway Road, Oil and Italian Warehouseman, the sons of William were the Executors.

The family appear to have originally been from Walton, Norfolk.

Farrah Fawcett repaint Collector Doll getting her hair set to have that Angelic Glam look by Donna Brinkley by Celeb Toys

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Farrah Leni Fawcett is known as the world's Sexiest Star of all time... she will forever be one of Hollywood's greatest Icons. She was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the younger of two daughters.[3] Her mother, Pauline Alice January 30, 1914 – March 4, 2005), was a homemaker, and her father, James William Fawcett (October 14, 1917 – August 23, 2010), was an oil field contractor. Her sister was Diane Fawcett Walls (October 27, 1938 – October 16, 2001), a graphic artist. She was of Irish, French, English, and Choctaw Native American ancestry. Fawcett once said the name Ferrah was made up by her mother because it went well with their last name.

A Roman Catholic, Fawcett's early education was at the parish school of the church her family attended, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Corpus Christi. She graduated from W. B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, where she was voted Most Beautiful by her classmates her Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior years of High School. For three years, 1965–68, Fawcett attended the University of Texas at Austin, living one semester in Jester Center, and she became a sister of Delta Delta Delta Sorority. During her Freshman year, she was named one of the Ten Most Beautiful Coeds on Campus, the first time a Freshman had been chosen. Their photos were sent to various agencies in Hollywood. David Mirsch, a Hollywood agent called her and urged her to come to Los Angeles. She turned him down but he called her for the next two years. Finally, in 1968, the summer following her junior year, with her parents' permission to try her luck in Hollywood, Farrah moved to Hollywood. She did not return.

Upon arriving in Hollywood in 1968 she was signed to a $350 a week contract with Screen Gems. She began to appear in commercials for UltraBrite toothpaste, Noxema, Max Factor, Wella Balsam shampoo and conditioner, Mercury Cougar automobiles and Beauty Rest matresses. Fawcett's earliest acting appearances were guest spots on The Flying Nun and I Dream of Jeannie. She made numerous other TV appearances including Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, [Mayberry RFD]] and The Partridge Family. She appeared in four episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man with husband Lee Majors, The Dating Game, S.W.A.T and a recurring role on Harry O alongside David Janssen. She also appeared in the Made for TV movies, The Feminist and the Fuzz, The Great American Beauty Contest, The Girl Who Came Giftwrapped, and Murder of Flight 502.

She had a sizable part in the 1969 French romantic-drama, Love Is a Funny Thing. She played opposite Raquel Welch and Mae West in the film version of, Myra Breckinridge (1970). The film earned negative reviews and was a box office flop. However, much has been written and said about the scene where Farrah and Raquel share a bed, and a near sexual experience. Fawcett co-starred with Michael York and Richard Jordan in the well-received science-fiction film, Logan's Run in 1976.

In 1976, Pro Arts Inc., pitched the idea of a poster of Fawcett to her agent, and a photo shoot was arranged with photographer Bruce McBroom, who was hired by the poster company. According to friend Nels Van Patten, Fawcett styled her own hair and did her make-up without the aid of a mirror. Her blonde highlights were further heightened by a squeeze of lemon juice. From 40 rolls of film, Fawcett herself selected her six favorite pictures, eventually narrowing her choice to the one that made her famous. The resulting poster, of Fawcett in a one-piece red bathing suit, was a best-seller; sales estimates ranged from over 5 million[12] to 8 million to as high as 12 million copies.

On March 21, 1976, the first appearance of Fawcett playing the character Jill Munroe in Charlie's Angels was aired as a movie of the week. Fawcett and her husband were frequent tennis partners of producer Aaron Spelling, and he and his producing partner thought of casting Fawcett as the golden girl Jill because of his friendship with the couple. The movie starred Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith and Fawcett (then billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors) as private investigators for Townsend Associates, a detective agency run by a reclusive multi-millionaire whom the women had never met. Voiced by John Forsythe, the Charles Townsend character presented cases and dispensed advice via a speakerphone to his core team of three female employees, whom he referred to as Angels. They were aided in the office and occasionally in the field by two male associates, played by character actors David Doyle and David Ogden Stiers. The program quickly earned a huge following, leading the network to air it a second time and approve production for a series, with the pilot's principal cast except David Ogden Stiers.

Fawcett's record-breaking poster that sold 12 million copies.

The Charlie's Angels series formally debuted on September 22, 1976. Fawcett emerged as a fan favorite in the show, and the actress won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Performer in a New TV Program. In a 1977 interview with TV Guide, Fawcett said: When the show was number three, I thought it was our acting. When we got to be number one, I decided it could only be because none of us wears a bra.

Fawcett's appearance in the television show boosted sales of her poster, and she earned far more in royalties from poster sales than from her salary for appearing in Charlie's Angels. Her hairstyle went on to become an international trend, with women sporting a Farrah-do a Farrah-flip, or simply Farrah hair Iterations of her hair style predominated American women's hair styles well into the 1980s.

Fawcett left Charlie's Angels after only one season and Cheryl Ladd replaced her on the show, portraying Jill Munroe's younger sister Kris Munroe. Numerous explanations for Fawcett's precipitous withdrawal from the show were offered over the years. The strain on her marriage due to her long absences most days due to filming, as her then-husband Lee Majors was star of an established television show himself, was frequently cited, but Fawcett's ambitions to broaden her acting abilities with opportunities in films have also been given. Fawcett never officially signed her series contract with Spelling due to protracted negotiations over royalties from her image's use in peripheral products, which led to an even more protracted lawsuit filed by Spelling and his company when she quit the show.

The show was a major success throughout the world, maintaining its appeal in syndication, spawning a cottage industry of peripheral products, particularly in the show's first three seasons, including several series of bubble gum cards, two sets of fashion dolls, numerous posters, puzzles, and school supplies, novelizations of episodes, toy vans, and a board game, all featuring Fawcett's likeness. The Angels also appeared on the covers of magazines around the world, from countless fan magazines to TV Guide (four times) to Time Magazine.

The series ultimately ran for five seasons. As part of a settlement to a lawsuit over her early departure, Fawcett returned for six guest appearances over seasons three and four of the series.

In 2004, the television movie Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels dramatized the events from the show with supermodel and actress Tricia Helfer portraying Fawcett and Ben Browder portraying Lee Majors, Fawcett's then-husband.

In 1983, Fawcett won critical acclaim for her role in the Off-Broadway stage production of the controversial play Extremities, written by William Mastrosimone. Replacing Susan Sarandon, she was a would-be rape victim who turns the tables on her attacker. She described the role as the most grueling, the most intense, the most physically demanding and emotionally exhausting of her career. During one performance, a stalker in the audience disrupted the show by asking Fawcett if she had received the photos and letters he had mailed her. Police removed the man and were able only to issue a summons for disorderly conduct.

The following year, her role as a battered wife in the fact-based television movie The Burning Bed (1984) earned her the first of her four Emmy Award nominations. The project is noted as being the first television movie to provide a nationwide 800 number that offered help for others in the situation, in this case victims of domestic abuse. It was the highest-rated television movie of the season.

In 1986, Fawcett appeared in the movie version of Extremities, which was also well received by critics, and for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.

She appeared in Jon Avnet's Between Two Women with Colleen Dewhurst, and took several more dramatic roles as infamous or renowned women. She was nominated for Golden Globe awards for roles as Beate Klarsfeld in Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story and troubled Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton in Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story, and won a CableACE Award for her 1989 portrayal of groundbreaking LIFE magazine photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White in Double Exposure: The Story of Margaret Bourke-White. Her 1989 portrayal of convicted murderer Diane Downs in the miniseries Small Sacrifices earned her a second Emmy nomination[20] and her sixth Golden Globe Award nomination. The miniseries won a Peabody Award for excellence in television, with Fawcett's performance singled out by the organization, which stated Ms. Fawcett brings a sense of realism rarely seen in television miniseries (to) a drama of unusual power Art meets life.

Fawcett, who had steadfastly resisted appearing nude in magazines throughout the 1970s and 1980s (although she appeared topless in the 1980 film Saturn 3), caused a major stir by posing semi-nude in the December 1995 issue of Playboy.[citation needed] At the age of 50, she returned to Playboy with a pictorial for the July 1997 issue, which also became a top seller. The issue and its accompanying video featured Fawcett painting on canvas using her body, which had been an ambition of hers for years.

That same year, Fawcett was chosen by Robert Duvall to play his wife in an independent feature film he was producing, The Apostle. Fawcett received an Independent Spirit Award nomination as Best Actress for the film, which was highly critically acclaimed.

In 2000, she worked with director Robert Altman and an all-star cast in the feature film Dr. T the Women, playing the wife of Richard Gere (her character has a mental breakdown, leading to her first fully nude appearance). Also that year, Fawcett's collaboration with sculptor Keith Edmier was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, later traveling to The Andy Warhol Museum. The sculpture was also presented in a series of photographs and a book by Rizzoli.

In November 2003, Fawcett prepared for her return to Broadway in a production of Bobbi Boland, the tragicomic tale of a former Miss Florida. However, the show never officially opened, closing before preview performances. Fawcett was described as vibrating with frustration at the producer's extraordinary decision to cancel the production. Only days earlier the same producer closed an Off-Broadway show she had been backing.

Fawcett continued to work in television, with well-regarded appearances in made-for-television movies and on popular television series including Ally McBeal and four episodes each of Spin City and The Guardian, her work on the latter show earning her a third Emmy nomination in 2004.

Fawcett was married to Lee Majors, star of television's The Six Million Dollar Man, from 1973 to 1982, although the couple separated in 1979. During her marriage, she was known and credited in her roles as Farrah Fawcett-Majors.

From 1979 until 1997 Fawcett was involved romantically with actor Ryan O'Neal. The relationship produced a son, Redmond James Fawcett O'Neal, born January 30, 1985 in Los Angeles.[26] In April 2009, on probation for driving under the influence, Redmond was arrested for possession of narcotics while Fawcett was in the hospital.[citation needed] On June 22, 2009, The Los Angeles Times and Reuters reported that Ryan O'Neal had said that Fawcett had agreed to marry him as soon as she felt strong enough.

From 1997 to 1998, Fawcett had a relationship with Canadian filmmaker James Orr, writer and producer of the Disney feature film in which she co-starred with Chevy Chase and Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Man of the House. The relationship ended when Orr was charged with and later convicted of beating Fawcett during a 1998 fight between the two.

On June 5, 1997, Fawcett received negative commentary after giving a rambling interview and appearing distracted on Late Show with David Letterman. Months later, she told the host of The Howard Stern Show her behavior was just her way of joking around with the television host, partly in the guise of promoting her Playboy pictoral and video, explaining what appeared to be random looks across the theater was just her looking and reacting to fans in the audience. Though the Letterman appearance spawned speculation and several jokes at her expense, she returned to the show a week later, with success, and several years later, after Joaquin Phoenix's mumbling act on a February 2009 appearance on The Late Show, Letterman wrapped up the interview by saying, I'm sorry you couldn't be here tonight and recalled Fawcett's earlier appearance by noting we owe an apology to Farrah Fawcett.

Fawcett's elder sister, Diane Fawcett Walls, died from lung cancer just before her 63rd birthday, on October 16, 2001.[33] The fifth episode of her 2005 Chasing Farrah series followed the actress home to Texas to visit with her father, James, and mother, Pauline. Pauline Fawcett died soon after, on March 4, 2005, at the age of 91.

Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006, and began treatment, including chemotherapy and surgery. Four months later, on her 60th birthday, the Associated Press wire service reported that Fawcett was, at that point, cancer free.

Less than four months later, in May 2007, Fawcett brought a small digital video camera to document a doctor's office visit. There, she was told a malignant polyp was found where she had been treated for the initial cancer. Doctors contemplated whether to implant a radiation seeder (which differs from conventional radiation and is used to treat other types of cancer). Fawcett's U.S. doctors told her that she would require a colostomy. Instead, Fawcett traveled to Germany for treatments described variously in the press as holistic aggressive and alternative. There, Dr. Ursula Jacob prescribed a treatment including surgery to remove the anal tumor, and a course of perfusion and embolization for her liver cancer by Doctors Claus Kiehling and Thomas Vogl in Germany, and chemotherapy back in Fawcett's home town of Los Angeles. Although initially the tumors were regressing, their reappearance a few months later necessitated a new course, this time including laser ablation therapy and chemoembolization. Aided by friend Alana Stewart, Fawcett documented her battle with the disease.

In early April 2009, Fawcett, back in the United States, was hospitalized, with media reports declaring her unconscious and in critical condition, although subsequent reports indicated her condition was not so dire. On April 6, the Associated Press reported that her cancer had metastasized to her liver, a development Fawcett had learned of in May 2007 and which her subsequent treatments in Germany had targeted. The report denied that she was unconscious, and explained that the hospitalization was due not to her cancer but a painful abdominal hematoma that had been the result of a minor procedure. Her spokesperson emphasized she was not at death's door adding - She remains in good spirits with her usual sense of humor ... She's been in great shape her whole life and has an incredible resolve and an incredible resilience. Fawcett was released from the hospital on April 9, picked up by longtime companion O'Neal, and, according to her doctor, was walking and in great spirits and looking forward to celebrating Easter at home.

A month later, on May 7, Fawcett was reported as critically ill, with Ryan O'Neal quoted as saying she now spends her days at home, on an IV, often asleep. The Los Angeles Times reported Fawcett was in the last stages of her cancer and had the chance to see her son Redmond in April 2009, although shackled and under supervision, as he was then incarcerated. Her 91-year-old father, James Fawcett, flew out to Los Angeles to visit.

The cancer specialist that was treating Fawcett in L.A., Dr. Lawrence Piro, and Fawcett's friend and Angels co-star Kate Jackson – a breast cancer survivor – appeared together on The Today Show dispelling tabloid-fueled rumors, including suggestions Fawcett had ever been in a coma, had ever reached 86 pounds, and had ever given up her fight against the disease or lost the will to live. Jackson decried such fabrications, saying they really do hurt a human being and a person like Farrah. Piro recalled when it became necessary for Fawcett to undergo treatments that would cause her to lose her hair, acknowledging Farrah probably has the most famous hair in the world but also that it is not a trivial matter for any cancer patient, whose hair affects [one's] whole sense of who [they] are. Of the documentary, Jackson averred Fawcett didn't do this to show that 'she' is unique, she did it to show that we are all unique ... This was ... meant to be a gift to others to help and inspire them.

The two-hour documentary Farrah's Story, which was filmed by Fawcett and friend Alana Stewart, aired on NBC on May 15, 2009.[47] The documentary was watched by nearly nine million people at its premiere airing, and it was re-aired on the broadcast network's cable stations MSNBC, Bravo and Oxygen. Fawcett earned her fourth Emmy nomination posthumously on July 16, 2009, as producer of Farrah's Story.

Controversy surrounded the aired version of the documentary, with her initial producing partner, who had worked with her four years earlier on her reality series Chasing Farrah, alleging O'Neal's and Stewart's editing of the program was not in keeping with Fawcett's wishes to more thoroughly explore rare types of cancers such as her own and alternative methods of treatment. He was especially critical of scenes showing Fawcett's son visiting her for the last time, in shackles, while she was nearly unconscious in bed. Fawcett had generally kept her son out of the media, and his appearances were minimal in Chasing Farrah.

Fawcett died at approximately 9:28 am, PDT on June 25, 2009, in the intensive care unit of Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, with O'Neal and Stewart by her side. A private funeral was held in Los Angeles on June 30. Fawcett's son Redmond was permitted to leave his California detention center to attend his mother's funeral, where he gave the first reading.

The night of her death, ABC aired an hour-long special episode of 20/20 featuring clips from several of Barbara Walters' past interviews with Fawcett as well as new interviews with Ryan O'Neal, Jaclyn Smith, Alana Stewart, and Dr. Lawrence Piro. Walters followed up on the story on Friday's episode of 20/20. CNN's Larry King Live planned a show exclusively about Fawcett that evening until the death of Michael Jackson several hours later caused the program to shift to cover both stories. Cher, a longtime friend of Fawcett, and Suzanne de Passe, executive producer of Fawcett's Small Sacrifices mini-series, both paid tribute to Fawcett on the program. NBC aired a Dateline NBC special Farrah Fawcett: The Life and Death of an Angel; the following evening, June 26, preceded by a rebroadcast of Farrah's Story in prime time. That weekend and the following week, television tributes continued. MSNBC aired back-to-back episodes of its Headliners and Legends episodes featuring Fawcett and Jackson. TV Land aired a mini-marathon of Charlie's Angels and Chasing Farrah episodes. E! aired Michael and Farrah: Lost Icons and the The Biography Channel aired Bio Remembers: Farrah Fawcett. The documentary Farrah's Story re-aired on the Oxygen Network and MSNBC.

Larry King said of the Fawcett phenomenon,

TV had much more impact back in the '70s than it does today. Charlie's Angels got huge numbers every week – nothing really dominates the television landscape like that today. Maybe American Idol comes close, but now there are so many channels and so many more shows it's hard for anything to get the audience, or amount of attention, that Charlie's Angels got. Farrah was a major TV star when the medium was clearly dominant.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner said Farrah was one of the iconic beauties of our time. Her girl-next-door charm combined with stunning looks made her a star on film, TV and the printed page.

Kate Jackson said,

She was a selfless person who loved her family and friends with all her heart, and what a big heart it was. Farrah showed immense courage and grace throughout her illness and was an inspiration to those around her... I will remember her kindness, her cutting dry wit and, of course, her beautiful smile...when you think of Farrah, remember her smiling because that is exactly how she wanted to be remembered: smiling.

She is buried at the Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles.

The red one-piece bathing suit worn by Farrah in her famous 1976 poster was donated to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (NMAH) on February 2, 2011.[65] Said to have been purchased at a Saks Fifth Avenue store, the red Lycra suit made by the leading Australian swimsuit company Speedo, was donated to the Smithsonian by her executors and was formally presented to NMAH in Washington D.C. by her longtime companion Ryan O'Neal.[66] The suit and the poster are expected to go on temporary display sometime in 2011–12. They will be made additions to the Smithsonian's popular culture department.

The famous poster of Farrah in a red swimsuit has been produced as a Barbie doll. The limited edition dolls, complete with a gold chain and the girl-next-door locks, have been snapped up by Barbie fans.

In 2011, Men's Health named her one of the 100 Hottest Women of All-Time ranking her at No. 31

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Ancient version (left) of the Star Destroyer, a little to big to be at scale at the Executor.

The new version, at the right.

William Fendick Esq. deceased itemised Bill to Executors, 1866, Bristol, Middlesex 1 by North West Kent Family History Society

William Fendick Esq. deceased itemised Bill to Executors, 1866, Bristol, Middlesex

An itemised account from John Hawley to the Executors of the Estate of William Fendick. Executors, Henry Fendick, Robert Fendick, John B. Fendick.

Probate Registers show William Fendick of 41 Cambridge Street, Pimlico died 1 April 1866. Henry Fendick of 46 Fore Street, City of London, Linendraper, Robert Fendick of 23 Portland Square, Bristol, Surgeon and John Brasnett Fendick of 126 Holloway Road, Oil and Italian Warehouseman, the sons of William were the Executors.

The family appear to have originally been from Walton, Norfolk.

Draft Conveyance, William Young to William Vawden, 24, Avenue Road, Margate, 1913 p1 - 2 by North West Kent Family History Society

Draft Conveyance, Mr. William Young to Mr. William Vawden, 24, Avenue Road, Margate, 22nd December 1913.

Details Indenture 11th August 1884 between Edward Johnson Newby and Henry William Young. Henry William Young in his Will of 27th January 1890 (died 8th December 1897) named his two sons as Executors, William Young and Frank Young (Died 29th November 1911 at Devonia Rickmansworth, Hertford).

Indenture 21st December 1883 between Robert Thomas Hiscocks and Edward Johnson Newby

Evening date with new shoes! by KagemushaX

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Executor, Malevolent & Inquisitor by Fabrice Neaud

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Inquisitor (behind), original design, super star destroyer

Abstract of Title Trustees of Will of John F Clark to Lewknor Cottage, Picton Road, Ramsgate Kent, 1904 p 5a-6 by North West Kent Family History Society

Abstract of Title Trustees of Will of John F Clark to Lewknor Cottage, Picton Road, Ramsgate Kent, 1904. List several previous Indentures etc.plus value of any houses and what and what cannot be built on the Land. First 19th & 25th March 1799 redemption of Land Tax by John Garrett.

Amongst many others:

28th August 1866 Indenture between Sir Robert Garrett, George Young, Edward Newman, Robert Beckford Johnstone, John Francis Bontenis.

7th July 1876 John Frederick Clark died. His wife Mary Ann Clark and son-in-law Birches Frost Wills are named as Executors and Trustees

2nd December 1878 Agreement between John Frederick Clark and Jennings Butler for £100.

28th December 1896 Jennings Butler died and by his Will of 1895 Thomas Newman, Alfred Thomas Brewer and his Niece Isabella Butler Long made Trustees and Executors of his Will.

5th March 1898 Isabella Butler Long died.

15th September 1902 Indenture of Mortgage between Mary Ann Clark, Widow of Ramsgate, Birches Frost Wills, Carpenter, Ramsgate, Sarah Kingdom Klug of 112 Clifton Hill, St Johns Wood, London, Widow.

John Frederick Clark born circa 1821 at Ramsgate was a Carpenter/Builder. He married twice: Elizabeth Hooper Moses 30th June 1844 at Ramsgate and Mary Ann Bobey 23rd October 1871 at St. Lawrence, Kent.

05/08/2020 Designação da Eletronorte como agente executor do Programa Mais Luz na Amazônia, no estado do Amapá - AP by Palácio do Planalto

(Brasília - DF, 05/08/2020) Palavras do Ministro de Estado de Minas e Energia, Bento Albuquerque.

Foto: Isac Nóbrega/PR

Sir Edward Denny, nephew of Elizabeth I's surrogate mother Kat Ashley by Ann Longmore-Etheridge

Edward Denny was the son of the courtier Sir Anthony Denny and Jane Champerknowne, sister of Elizabeth I's governess and lifetime surrogate mother, Katherine Ashley.

It is possible that Sir Anthony named his son after his royal ward, Edward VI. Both parents died while Edward was still a child and he was left, apparently, in the guardianship of his mother's executor, John Tamworth. Sir Anthony made sure his son would be well looked after by leaving him certain lands in Hertfordshire.

Edward Denny's first public appointment seems to have been as 'Receiver General of the counties of Southampton, Wilts, and Gloucester', but early in 1573 he was directed by Elizabeth I to go to Northern Ireland on an expedition formed by Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex to 'reduce' the turbulent district of Clannaboy, in Ulster, and install English settlers. The Earl's mission was constantly delayed and Denny, having sold his stock and part of his revenue to raise the £400 needed to 'furnish' himself for the trip, drew heavily on that amount while waiting in London to depart for Ireland. The ill-fated expedition finally set off in the summer of 1574, but for various reasons it turned out to be a complete failure.

Denny then appears to have done some 'privateering' on his own account, first by capturing a Spanish ship in 1577, and in 1578 taking a Flemish ship, the 'Tennen', off of Portland. That same year he joined a colonising venture to America under the leadership of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his step-brother Walter Raleigh, both of whom were sons of his mother's sister Catherine and, consequently, his first cousins. But this expedition of discovery, initiated by Gilbert and sanctioned by Elizabeth, was also a failure. One ship turned for home through lack of supplies after just two days, and two months later the remaining ships headed back to Plymouth after being severly hampered by storms, mutinees, sickness, and the deaths of many crew members.

In Jul 1580, both Denny and his cousin, Walter Raleigh, were put in charge of two hundred soldiers and sent to Ireland to put down the rebellion of the Earl of Desmond. Their fee was £100 each, but in Sep that year Denny was already expressing his dissatisfaction with the task. In a letter to his cousin, Sir Francis Walsingham, he wrote:

'I find alreadie my Ireland journey will rather decaie me quite, than amend me anything, and for this kind of service it is so graceless, so devoid of reputation – in respect of the service never seen; but it happens still in boggs, glinnes and woods, as in my opinion it might better fit mastives than brave gentlemen that desier to win honour'

Denny went on to say in his letter that he would only stay on in Ireland because of the love he bore towards Lord Grey. At that time Arthur, Lord Grey de Wilton was the newly appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland – a close friend of Denny and connected to him by marriage.

In Nov that year he was finally able to account for himself at Smerwick Bay when he assisted Lord Grey in the siege of Fort del Ore, held by a large body of Italian and Spanish mercenaries who were assisting the Irish rebellion. Denny and his company fought off four counter-attacks by the besieged mercenaries and eventually took their unconditional surrender.

For this action he was highly commended by Lord Grey and given the honour of delivering his dispatch announcing the capture of the fort to the Queen. In the Autumn of 1581 Denny was put in command of another expedition to Ireland, this time to quash the rebellious O'Tooles who held the mountains near Dublin. His success was such that he returned to England later that year with the head of their chieftain, Garret O'Toole, and the following Jan received formal thanks for his services from the Queen and Council.

Denny then seems to have been frequently employed by the Queen as her private messenger, and it was at court, in 1582, that he met Margaret Edgecumbe. She came from the ancient family of Edgecumbes of Mount Edgecumbe in Cornwall, daughter of Piers Edgecumbe MP, and Margaret Luttrell, whose own mother was a descendant of Edward I, and second cousin to both Catherine Howard and Anne Boleyn. At the age of 18 Margaret became a Maid of Honour to the Queen and within five years was one her majesty’s favourites.

Her acquaintance at court with Edward Denny led to marriage in 1583, or early the following year, and as a wedding present the Queen obtained from Richard, Bishop of London, a 21-year lease on Rectory Manor House to be assigned to Sir Edward.

In 1584, Denny made a bid for a seat in parliament as a knight of the shire but was defeated in the election. Afterwards he reverted to his interests in Hertfordshire, but in 1587 was granted possession of the castle at Tralee in southern Ireland, along with its six thousand acres of rich land, at a charge of £100 per annum payable to the Crown. This was part of Queen Elizabeth's plan to improve England’s control of Ireland, and thousands of acres of land in Munster belonging to the Earl of Desmond were confiscated (including the castle of Tralee which had been the Desmonds chief seat for nearly 400 years). Also Sir Walter Raleigh (he was knighted in 1585) and otthers received land.

In 1588 Denny's previous service in Ireland was rewarded when Sir William Fitzwilliam, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, dubbed him Knight Banneret of Bishop’s Stortford. In that year the Spanish Armada was beaten off and any remaining ships chased into the North Sea where they continued to sail around the coast of Scotland in a desperate attempt to get back to Spain. A violent storm near Tralee caused that most of the ships were wrecked and Edward’s wife, Margaret, ably assisted in capturing many Spaniards.

Sir Edward, by this time High Sheriff of County Kerry, had been in Dublin at the time of the incident but a neighbouring Englishmen, Sir William Herbert, accused him of seizing for himself the treasure of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, cast up by the wreck of the Spanish High Admiral’s flag-ship near Tralee. To allay the situation Sir Richard Bingham, Governor of the Province of Connaught, offered to resign his office in favour of Denny taking his position. An agreement between them was struck and the details later confirmed before Lord Deputy Fitzwilliam.

Denny then returned to England to gain consent for the unopposed position of Governor but never took up the post and was soon back serving in Northern Ireland. From there he returned to Kerry and shortly after sailed for England with his wife and young family aboard a ship captained by George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, who had put in at Dingle to take on water and provisions on his return from the Azores.

In 1591, at the Queen’s command, Sir Edward was employed on naval service as commander of relief ships sent to Admiral Lord Thomas Howard, at that time in the Azores looking for Spanish treasure ships.

But by now the Munster plantation in Ireland had proved a failure, and on his return to dry land Sir Edward found his property at Tralee had become an unprofitable burden on his resources. His debt in non-payment of rent to the Exchequer was substantial, but with friends in ‘high places’ the debt was waived in 1592.

A further bid for parliament in 1593 resulted in yet another defeat, this time by a protégée of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Despite this, his ambition was finally realised in 1595 when he became MP for a Cornish borough – coincidently the same county from which both his mother and wife had originated. It would seem, though, that his finances were not all they should have been at this time and that Elizabeth probably gave him a helping hand. Records of 1595 show that the deceased Bishop of London made, 'by her majesty's appointment', a 'gratification' of £500 out of Starford [sic] to Sir Edward Denny, and on 17 Oct that same year an assignment was made to him of the Manor of Stortford to take effect on 5 Nov 1614. Such a 'gift' would certainly have made him financially secure in old age.

But in 1598 Edward’s Irish estate was lost to the rebellious Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and on 12 Feb 1599 he died, aged 52, from what was said to be a sickness acquired while 'in his countrie's service's' [sic]. His body was laid to rest at Waltham Abbey church in Essex – near to his birthplace – and Margaret had a stately monument erected within the church to his memory.

Due to events between the year they were married and his death in Feb 1599, it’s possible the Dennys never actually lived in Rectory manor house as a couple. Margaret Denny isn’t recorded as taking up residence until 1600 – the year administration of the property was granted to her – but she did continued to live there for the next 48 years.

In 1614 her brother’s son, Thomas Edgecumbe, died in Rectory manor house, and in 1642 she gave shelter to her grandson’s widow (Lady Ruth Denny) and her seven children after they fled the Rebellion in Ireland.

That same year saw the start of the English Civil War (1642–1646) and soon after the first major conflict at Edgehill, King Charles I came to Bishop’s Stortford to visit Margaret Denny at this house. In recognition of her loyalty and that of her family, he gave her a charter of protection, signed and dated 19 Dec 1642, which read:

'Our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby signifi, charge and commande all our Colonels, Lieutenant-Colonels and Captains, and all their officers and souldiers of our army whatever, that they shall not do, or suffer to be done any act of force or violence, or offer any interruption or disturbance whatever to the Lady Denny, her Family, goods, or Manor House, being Stortford Manor House or parsonage, in the parish of Stortford, in our county of Hertford. Herein fail you not, as you would incur our heartiest displeasure, and will every one of you answer at your uttermost peril'

Margaret died on 24 Apr 1648, aged 88. After the expense of taking in and caring for her grandson’s widow and seven children in 1642, she abandoned her original wish to be buried alongside her husband at Waltham Abbey and requested in her will that ‘cost be spared and my body be buried in Stortford Chauncell’.

The above text is taken, in part, from 'Biography of Sir Edward Denny' compiled for the 'Hertfordshire Directory of Biography' by Rev H.L.L. Denny BA, 1905.

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Larkin Cardin Story_Page_1 by James Cook

Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee Newspaper feature story called Homefolks Dated December 2003found by cousin Nelda Cardin Goins in November 2009.

Great-grandson inherited Kin's traits

Descendant of Larkin Cardin says he admires his ancestor

Enjoyed his Liquor, Whisky, Tea and “Pulling Leg”

HE CAN'T READ or WRITE, but he is tremendously proud of his great-grandfather Larkin Cardin, and he can spin yarns about the Monroe County pioneer that make the person hearing them almost wish that Larkin was ¬their ancestor.

Larkin grew up with a father who was a shrewd business man, a father who enjoyed his liquor including hot toddy; a mixture of hot tea, honey, lemon and whiskey. The Revolutionary War or no, they would not have given up their tea. They may have grown their own, ¬used herbal tea or sassafras tea, but they would not have given up tea. They took afternoon naps, after which it would be teatime.

Teatime included food and talking, the Cardin’s were big on talking. Certain occasions meant only one thing to a Cardin, talking ¬and telling stories. Teasing or pulling someone's leg and relating the latest gossip.

CARDIN GOSSIP

In the Cardin Family it would be hard to decide who was more gossipy, the men or the women. The Cardin’s had a keen sense of humor and never missed an opportunity to use it. A proper tea would have been served, using things having belonged to ancestors.

Arts of blacksmithing & Violin

Larkin's father taught him the art of blacksmithing, just as his father had taught him. Larkin's father also taught him to play a violin as his father had also taught him.

Broidery, Hope Chests & Dowry

Larkin's sisters would have been taught to set a proper table and serve a proper tea. His sisters would have been instructed in broidery and would have spent many hours perfecting it. Each girl would have received a hope chest between the ages of six to eight-years-old. Each girl would have spent her single years filling the chest, in part with assorted linens that she would have embroidered and monogrammed with her initials. This would have been part of her dowry. None of the girls would have dreamed of marriage without a proper dowry, and her linens ¬and embroidery would warm her soul and fill her with pride until the day she died.

Education & Shrewd Businessman

LARKIN RECEIVED AN education and he in turn ¬became a shrewd businessman. He was stingy and was I said to have the first dollar he ever made. He supplied his families’ needs and doled out money as needed, but no one in the family ever knew where he kept his gold hidden.

Sugar Cane, Popcorn, Watermelon & Lullabies

The Cardin’s specialized in the growing of their weak¬nesses of sugar cane, popcorn and watermelon. Of course, they also grew other crops.

Every evening they would pop popcorn in the fireplace. The family would sit around the fireplace and talk, sing and play musical instruments. Children were lullabied to sleep by violin music. As chil¬dren, some Cardin’s ruined their teeth by chewing on sugar cane. In a business deal no one ever came out on top, except for Larkin Cardin, unless his son, Jordan Cardin, succeeded a time or two.

Of course, Larkin taught his sons blacksmithing¬ and violin.

Larkin Reaches Forward In Time to the Great Depression

JORDAN CARDIN (1820 to July 14, 1842 Monroe County, Tn, 6th child of Larkin Cardin & Elizabeth Sentell, wife was Nancy Jane North) TAUGHT his son, John Leonard Cardin (June 1862 to Feb 5, 1926 wife was Sarah Elizabeth Massengale), and he taught grandfather, Harvey Johnson, the arts of blacksmithing and violin. The blacksmithing saved my grandparents during the Depression. In a way, it is like Larkin reached forward in time to teach succeeding generations.

Ice-Skating Cardin Winter Pastime

In winter, when and where a Pond, Lake or River was frozen over, the Cardin’s were ice-skating. Each family member owned his or her own pair of ice skates.

Christmas Special Cardin Holiday

Christmas was a big holiday for them. Maybe it was a German influence. (Larkin’s wife, Elizabeth Sentell, was of German descent. She was born in Halifax North Carolina on March 1, 1787 and died March 17 1866 in Monroe County, Tennessee.). Every year they had a very special fruitcake. It took a full year to properly prepare it for the event. The fruitcake had to be properly wrapped and tightly stored. Then for a full year liquor would be poured over the fruitcake until moist, then checked often, and more liquor poured on. After a year, one whiff was enough to knock a person out. No one could wait for a slice.

Voices Into a Whisper

IT IS A FACT that Larkin Cardin owned slaves, as many as 40 at a time. I wish this had not been so, but it was. The only thing worse than a slave owner is a slave trader. My Cardin’s would lower their voices into a whisper while putting a hand to the side of their mouth to whisper that Larkin had been both. Some Cardin’s never touched the sub¬ject.

I would like to get this out in the open and find out more about this. I am so sorry that any ancestor of mine would do such a thing in Monroe County, Tennessee.

THE “BIGHOUSE”

Larkin's house was known as the "big-house”. The Cardin’s had a yearly reunion there. I was told that we have Black ¬Cardin relatives and I would like to meet them.

GRAVE DECORATION

Once a year, my grandmother made cemetery rounds to decorate graves. Several times I went with her. There was a small Cardin cemetery and in this small cemetery were tomb¬stones and in one connected area, there were fieldstones. My grandmother said the field¬stones marked the graves of Cardin slaves. I used to stand there and wonder what they looked like, what their names were, how they died and how old were they when they died, whether they left descendants and if they knew where their ancestors were buried and how I could let them know. I always felt a special marker should be put there and I won¬dered how many were field slaves or house slaves and how many were relatives?

LARKIN’S HOUSE TORN DOWN

I have a picture in my head of Larkin's house. It stood until about the 1950's. I think.

It was torn apart carefully, piece by piece, looking for Larkin's lost gold. My uncle so went there looking for Larkin’s gold.

THE MYSTERY OF LARKIN'S LOST GOLD

LARKIN CARDIN never allowed any family member to know where in the house he kept his gold hidden. He had house servants (slaves) who the Cardin’s talked about as if they were family. They always said the servants knew far more about the family than the rest of the family and no secrets could escape them.

Civil War: Larkin hanged but is saved by Slave

One day during the Civil War period, a slave warned Larkin that Union Bushwhackers were riding to the house.

Larkin told his family and his slaves to go hide in a cave on his property. Larkin being as stubborn as he was stingy, said he was staying with the house to protect his gold. Later, when the bushwhack¬ers left, everyone came out of the cave and made their way back to the house. A slave was the first person to find Larkin hanging from the attic rafters and saved his life by cutting him down. I was told that Larkin lived some weeks or months after this. Larkin had been hung by the bushwhackers to force him to reveal the whereabouts of his gold. He never did tell them. I was also told that after the hanging he could not talk but when asked where the gold was hidden, pointed to the fireplace in the parlor.

Larkin Cardin died in 1866 just after the Civil War ended. He was 84 years old, born in Goochland, Virginia and lived from 1782 to November 16, 1866. In 1868 Larkin’s son Jordan Cardin was appointed administrator to the Larkin Cardin estate.

Slaves Leave and Larkin’s Ghost Haunts His Home

As soon as Larkin died the slaves all ran away. The family searched and searched for the gold. The house was lived in continuously by Cardin’s until it was torn down. However, as soon as Larkin died, the occupants were awakened every night by a loud thump coming from the attic. It sounded like the thump Larkin's body had made by hitting the floor when the slave cut the rope that had been thrown over an attic rafter and stretched about Larkin's neck.

THE CARDIN RESI¬DENTS of Larkin's house were soon scared and suffer¬ing from disturbed sleep. The attic was on a landing at the top of walk upstairs. The door was a keyhole door. In the process of investigating the source of the noise the attic was completely sweep clean. Not even a piece of paper remained in it. The door was locked for good with the in¬tentions of never ever entering the attic again. The thump¬ing continued and the family had to live with it.

The Cardin’s could only reach one conclusion as to the source of thumps. It was Larkin Cardin's ghost. Every¬one whoever spent a night in Larkin's house heard the thumps. And the thumps con¬tinued until the house was torn down.

Larkin Cardin’s Family Among Earliest Monroe County Settlers

The Larkin Cardin family was among the earliest settlers of Monroe County, first buying land which had previously been the reservation of Bell Rattle, a Cherokee Indian. This Indian reservation was located on Cain Creek in what is still known as Bell Town, hence the name.

Larkin Cardin’s petition to the Tennessee State Legisla¬ture is shown on page 122 of Volume I, Part 1 of this his¬tory.

Larkin’s Parents were Robert Carden born Goochland City, Virginia 1742 and died Monroe County, Tennessee 1848 and Elizabeth Robards born 1742 in Goochland City, Virginia and died Monroe County, Tennessee in 1847. The name is spelled ‘Carden’, but most present day families (including ours) spell the name ‘Cardin’. Our first Cardin ancestors to arrive in America were Robert Carden born 1630 in Hackney, Middlesex England and died in 1684 in Rappahannock, Virginia and Robert’s wife was Elizabeth Moss born 1634 England and died 1688 in Rappahannock, Virginia. Currently our earliest known Cardin ancestor is John Carden 1575 in Carden, Cheshire, England and died in Isle of Wright, Virginia and wife M. Hedger born 1578. Our Cardin family at this date in 1575 therefore originates from Carden, Cheshire, England. Future DNA testing of a Cardin male Y-chromosome would take us earlier in time.

Larkin gave each of his eleven children a quarter section of land, a cow and a team of horses when they married and began a family of their own.

He owned forty slaves and when the Yankee soldiers tried to hang him during the Civil War to take his money, it was one of his slaves that cut him down and saved his life.

He also owned and operated a blacksmith shop on his farm in the Ball Play area of Monroe County.

1868 Jordan Cardin was appointed administrator to Larkin Cardin deceased. Will of Larkin Cardin

Larkin Cardin Will in Bk. A, Pg. 175 I, --being old, my wife dead, and having eleven children--. To be buried by my wife. To son James J. and to dau. Patsy Erwin the lands they live on. To son Robert H. NWQ or Section 15. To son Jones land where he lives. To son Leonard land where he lives. To dau. Caroline Evans, Nancy Morelock all that Morelock owed me for land, and also $50.00. To dau. Edaline Ellis land where she lives. To dau. Hetty Heflin $800.00. Some property to be sold and divided between James Cardin, Abner Ervin, Robert Cardin, Jonas Cardin, Leonard Cardin, Caroline Evans, Jourdin Cardin, Nancy Morelock, Washington Ervin, B.D. Ellis, and Leander Heflin. Execs. James, Leonard, Jordan Cardin. Wits. Larkin F. Cardin, F.M. Bradford, Francis M. Satterwhite. Exec. 3/17/1866. Codicil 11/16/1866. Redivision of lands to children. Wits. W.J. and L.F. Cardin. Codicil #2 not dated--Some land to R.H. Cardin. Wits. Benedict Ellis, David Baker. Probated Dec. 1866.

Larkin Cardin had a brother, Leonard Cardin, who, accord¬ing to his will found in court records, was old in 1854. He stated that his second wife was Sintha and that their children were: Catherine Cardin Clowers, Leonard and Joseph Callaway Cardin.

His first wife’s children were John, Paly, Reuben Adeline, Larkin, Malinda J. Cardin Case, Alfred, Andrew and James Cardin.

Leonard Cardin stated in his will that his children by his second wife were to have his land when they came of age. The children of his first wife had already received their share.

The executors of his will were his second wife and son, Larkin Cardin. The witnesses were Larkin Cardin, Jr., Leo¬nidas Taylor and Jacob F. Peck.

Leonard Carden here is the brother to our Larkin Cardin and father of Larkin F. Carden

Will of Leonard Carden

Leonard Carden, was born in 1780 in Virginia. He died in 1857 in Monroe County, TN. He married Tabitha Peace (1793-1847). They had the following children: Paty Polly, Andrew, Adaline, Reuben A., James M., Catherine, John L., Alfred, Malinda J., Larkin F., Adria, Joseph C. and Amos. Sometime before 1850, he married Sintha Henson who was born in 1822 in Buncombe County, N. Carolina. She died in Monroe County, TN. Children of Leonard and Sintha were: Leonard, Caroline, Andra A., Sarah, Joseph Callaway, and Stonewall Jackson.

Leonard's will is dated 6 Dec 1854. See History of Monroe County, TN. Vol.

#3, by Sarah G. Sands, (DPL G976.8888S221hi).

His will is in Will Book "A", Monroe Co., TN.

"In the name of God amen, I Leonard Carden being old but of sound mind and memory knowing before long shall have to die I desire to make this my last will and testament revoking all others. Item 1st I give my soul to Almighty God who gave it to me, and my ...to be buried...my surviving friends and all my debts paid and all that is due me collected.

Item 2nd John Carden, Paty, Rueben, Adaline, Larkin & Malinda Case, Alfred Carden, Andrew Carden, and James Carden, all those are my first wife's children and I have given to them each what I have allowed them.

Item 3rd To my wife Sintha I give to her all the land that I own and all the property that I am possessed of except one cow and calf during her life in widowhood, and for my wife to give to each of her children one cow and calf, one bed and furniture as they get free and leave her.

Item 4th I give to Catharine Clauers one cow and calf and her bed she has got.

Item 5th I give to my son Leonard Carden one half of my land when he comes of age and the other half to Joseph Calloway Carden when he comes of age and their mother is still to remain on the land as above mentioned. I want that if my wife shall die before my youngest son comes of age for my executor to rent out his part of the land for him till he comes of age and let him have the profits for which I appoint my wife Sintha and my son Larkin Carden my executors hoping they will discharge their duty as such. In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and fix my seal this the 6th day of December 1854.

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This Larkin is the nephew of our Larkin Cardin. His father Leonard was our Larkin’s brother.

Larkin F. Cardin, a stirring and energetic farmer of the Fourteenth District of Monroe County, Tenn., was born in the Spartanburg District, S. C., August 4, 1816. He is the son of Leonard and Tobitha (Peace) Cardin. The Cardin family originally came from England. Leonard Cardin was born in Virginia, and died in Monroe County, Tenn., in 1857, at an advanced age. He moved to South Carolina in his younger days, and to Monroe County, Tenn., in 1817. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, a farmer and a Democrat. The mother was born in South Carolina about the same time as her husband, and died in Monroe County, Tenn., about 1847. She was of German descent. Of their ten children our subject is the seventh. He remained with his parents until sixteen years of age, and secured his education at Scruggs Academy. He then went to the State of Georgia, and was cook for a company of railroad hands for two years, after which he came to Polk County, Tenn., and taught school for seven years. At the end of this time he came to Monroe County, and again engaged in teaching school, which occupation he followed for three years. During this time, February 29, 1850, he married Miss Nancy Henderson, a daughter of Robert Henderson. She was born in Monroe County, Tenn., in 1827, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Nine children were born to this union, seven now living: Malinda J., Cornelius P. and Florence A., (twins), Decatur A., Sarah A., Marcus C. and Winnie L.; Julia A. and Penelope died in infancy. Part of the land our subject now owns belonged to his wife; the rest he bought of other persons. He has served as school commissioner for thirty-six years, and as justice of peace for twenty-six years; is a member of the Baptist Church, and a Democrat in politics.

The remains of the old Cardin-Hunt cemetery are located on the farm of Boyd H. Burns, on the Bell Town road, about 2½ miles northeast of Tellico Plains, across the road from the Burns home.

There are at least sixteen tombstones which are still readable. The first row is unmarked fieldstones.

The second row is Marie Blair born March 9, 1917, died 1920; Sarah Rider born 1859, died 1907; Austin Rider born 1847, died 1911; Etter Lou Rider born Jan. 29, 1883, died 1928.

Third row are Florence Hunt born Sept. 1, 1876, died 1878; sister, Bertha D. Hunt born August 27, 1883, died 1897, sister; M. J. Cardin, wife of W. J. Cardin, born Dec. 25, 1850, died 1898, mother; William J. Hunt born Jan. 5, 1847, died 1923, father.

Fourth row are Alfred, son of W. M. Cardin, born March 6, 1872, died 1880; Arty M. Cardin born April 5, 1825, died May 28, 1883.

There are many unmarked graves among the above mentioned. In many of the old court records of Monroe County, the name is spelled ‘Carden’, but most present day families spell the name ‘Cardin’.

Larkin Cardin Story_Page_2 by James Cook

Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee Newspaper feature story called Homefolks Dated December 2003found by cousin Nelda Cardin Goins in November 2009.

Great-grandson inherited Kin's traits'¬