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Yeomen and Kinsmen
My 10th great grandfather Stephen Byne, a yeoman farmer in Burwash, Sussex, married my 10th great grandmother, Mary Manser, in January 1611/12.
The King James Bible was published in the previous year, and just a few months before their wedding, Shakespeare’s The Tempest was performed for the first time.
I’ve written about Stephen Byne and his family in earlierposts.
In this post, I want to explore the family background of his wife Mary.
John manser biography
She was the daughter of John Manser of Wadhurst, a village just a few miles from Burwash. The date of Mary Manser’s birth is not known, but it was probably some time in the 1590s. Mary was one of two children born to John Manser and his wife Jane Snatt who are known to have survived their parents.
The other was Mary’s brother Christopher, who would also marry into the Byne family.
John Manser, who was probably born in about 1570, was one of the younger sons of Robert Manser or Maunser of Hightown, Wadhurst. Robert was th