32 History of the Parish of All Cannings. 



The following names, occuring in the earliest register, are still 



borne by families living in the place, an evidence of the fixed 



nature of the population. Alice Russ, 1579 : Henry Hiscox, 1579 : 



Jane Hibbard, 1581 : Thomas Birrott, (Berrett) 1581 : William 



Clement, 1581 : Camberlan (Chamberlain) 1597 : William Merrett, 



1581 : Alice Pottinger, 1585 : Frankling, 1598 : Christopher 



Masling, 1580 : John Beak, 1583 : John Godman (Goodman) 1585 : 



John Dornford (Durnford), 1581 : Edward Tucker, 1608 : William 



Swanborough, 1608 : John Tasker, 1614 : William Simes (Sims), 



1618 : Richard Baylie, 1620 : Mary Rabbet, 1622 : John Stevens, 



1622 : Elizabeth Page, 1631 : Daniel Parry, 1633. Thus it 



appears that in a population under 650, more than twenty names 



may be traced back in the parish registers for 200 years and 



upwards. Several names now lost to the parish are met with 



in the earlier register, some of them belonging to respectable 



families, e.g., Beasant, 1613 : Sloper, Shakerlie, Rurasey, Probander, 



Lankaster, Holloway, Knowlman, Dorchester, Goddard, Neate, and, 



in 1585, Cromwell. This last name is met with in the Devizes and 



and Stanton registers, as well as those of some of the neighbouring 



parishes, as at Erlestoke, Potterne and Kcevil. The name is also 



found in the Lacock register. Mr. Waylen, in his History of 



Devizes, (p. 295.) remarks — " One of the younger sons of Sir Henry 



Cromwell, grandfather to the Protector, was Sir Philip Cromwell, 



of Biggin, near Upham, knighted by James I., and it is from his 



branch that certain of the sons are supposed to have migrated into 



Wiltshire, a fact confirmed by the coat of arms which Edmondson 



gives to the Wiltshire family of Cromwell alias Williams. Another 



of the younger sons of Sir Henry Cromwell, aforesaid, was Henry 



Cromwell, Esq., of Upham, whose name, as Henry Cromwell, alias 



Williams, in connexion with that of his wife, who was the widow 



of (Francis ? ) Jones, Esq., of Newton Tony, appears as the patron 



of that living in 1617." The names also of Nicholas, and Ernie, 



occur frequently in the parish register. Of the former family we 



shall speak presently at some length ; of the latter we shall give 



some particulars in an account of Etchilhampton, to which place 



they more properly belong. 



