EARLY BELKNAPS: HISTORIES and DOCUMENTS  
Elizabeth Belknap (about 1424-1471): married William de Ferrers (about 1412-1450)
Gathered here is the most comprehensive public repository of materials on the Ferrers family into which a branch of the Belknap family married.
Click on the links below to access biographical and historical information about this family:
Date(s) Item/Image Link
Chancery Records (UK National Archives)
Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Henry VI
Ferrers, Elizabeth [Belknap], who was the wife of William [Ferrers] of Charteley, kt. Assignment of dower: Berks, Oxon 1450-1451 C 139/144/50
Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward IV
Ferrers de Chartely, Elizabeth [Belknap], Lady de Northants 1471-1472 C 140/36/5
Printed Genealogies
Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B. The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press) 1896 http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Archive:The_Ancestry_of_John_Whitney%2C_Chapter_V  
http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Archive:The_Ancestry_of_John_Whitney%2C_Chapter_VIII  
The Complete Peerage, vol. __, "Ferrers of Chartley"
Burke, Bernard. Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, 1883 ("Burke's Extinct Peerage"), "Ferrers of Chartley"
Burke, Bernard. Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, 1883 ("Burke's Extinct Peerage"), "Ferrers of Derby"
Burke, Bernard. Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, 1883 ("Burke's Extinct Peerage"), "Ferrers of Wemme"
Hinson, Colin. The English Peerage or, a view of the Ancient and Present State of the English Nobility, (London, 1790), vol. II, "Devereaux, Viscount Hereford" http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/History/Barons/viscounts1.html  
Report: Famille de Ferrers 2004 http://www.belnapfamily.org/Ferrers.pdf  
Visitation Records
Fetherston, John, ed. The Visitation of the County of Warwick in the Year 1619 (1877), pp. 278-80.  "Devereux" http://www.belnapfamily.org/Visitation_of_the_County_of_Warwick_1619.pdf  
Land Holdings
"Parish: Southoe." A History of the County of Huntingdonshire, Victoria County History, vol. 2 (1932), pp. 346-54 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42513  
Parish: Lapworth." A History of the County of Warwick, Victoria County History, vol. 5: Kington hundred (1949), pp. 108-116 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57052  
"Parish: Solihull." A History of the County of Warwick, Victoria County History, vol. 4: Hemlingford Hundred (1947), pp. 214-29 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42685  
Web Links
Stirnet: Ferrers http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ff/ferrers1.htm  
Tudor Place: Ferrers http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/FERRERS.htm  
de Ferrers Research Interests http://www.btinternet.com/~Russell.Robinson/Ferrers.htm  
Medieval Lands: England, Earls: Derby (Ferrers) http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm  
Parents
Sir Hamon Belknap (about 1380-1429)
Joan Boteler (about 1398-before 1473)
Photographs and Images
Ferrers Family
Last update: 11 Jul 2008
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