Frances Valiant

Events

Date of Baptism: 14 January 1623.

Place of Baptism: St Andrew, Holborn, London.

The baptism is recorded in the parish registers.

Date of Burial: 3 November 1681.

Place of Burial: Botolphs, Sussex, Engand (St Botolphs).

The monumental inscription is given by Lower (p. 9). The burial is recorded in the parish register ("Francis Scrase, wife of Mr William Scrase, was buryed Novemb. 3. 1681.")

Relationships

Father: Joseph Valiant (buried 27 October 1657).

This relationship is given by Lower (p. 15), Genealogies of Families Living In Sussex (citing Comber 3:239), and Renshaw (1904, p. 217). It is recorded in Frances's baptism record.

Mother: Mary Bassett.

Frances's baptism record gives her mother's name as Mary. Mary's surname is given in her marriage record.

Spouse: William Scrase (about 1620 - 1683).

This relationship is recorded in their monumental inscription given by Lower (p. 9). It is also given by Renshaw (p. 70), the Visitation of Sussex (p. 97), and Genealogies of Families Living In Sussex (citing Comber 3:239).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Charles Scrase (baptized 23 November 1649 at Botolphs, Sussex).

Frances Scrase (baptized 27 December 1650 at Botolphs, Sussex) married Thomas Symonds 14 February 1675 in Arundel, Sussex.

Elizabeth Scrase (1652 - buried 24 October 1694 at St Clement Danes, Westminster) married Henry Byne.

William Scrase (1654 - buried 12 February 1714 at Botolphs, Sussex) married Mary Lintott (Goreing) 21 December 1684 in St Stephen, Coleman Street, London. William was a great-great-great grandfather of the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Richard Scrase (baptized 16 November 1655 at Botolphs, Sussex - 1675).

Mary Scrase (baptized 2 April 1657 at Botolphs, Sussex) married John Humphrey in 1678.

Charles Scrase (baptized 16 August 1663 at Botolphs, Sussex - buried 19 March 1675/6 at Botolphs, Sussex).

Henry Scrase (baptized 29 January 1666 at Botolphs, Sussex). Henry was apprenticed in the Vintners’ Company in 1682.

Susan Scrase married William Chate in 1687.

Barbara Scrase.

References

England. Sussex. Genealogies of Families Living in Sussex. A database extraction of John Comber’s Sussex Genealogies (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1931 -). Frances Vallant.

Lower, Mark Anthony, “Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Scrase” in Sussex Archaeological Collections, Volume 8 (London: John Russell Smith, 1856).

Hughes-Clarke, Arthur William, and Edward Bysshe. The Visitation of Sussex, anno domini 1662, made by Sir Edward Bysshe. (London: [Harleian Society], 1937).

Parish register of Botolphs, Sussex. Digital images on FamilySearch.org accessed 4 March 2018.

Parish register of St Andrew, Holborn. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 15 March 2018.

Renshaw, Walter Charles. “Notes on the Scrase Family of Co Sussex”, in The Genealogist (New Series) Volume XX, pages 217 to 221, 1904.

Renshaw, Walter Charles. Searches in the History of the Family of Byne or Bine of Sussex (London: Chiswick Press, 1913); digital image Open Library (https://archive.org/stream/searchesintohist00rens#page/n5/mode/2up : accessed 12 March 2014)