EARLY BELKNAPS: HISTORIES and DOCUMENTS  
Alice Belknap (about 1450-unknown): married Henry Finche (about 1445-1494)
Gathered here is the most comprehensive public repository of materials on the Finche 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
Visitation Records
▪ Philipot, John. The Visitation of Kent, Taken in the Years 1619-1621, London, 1898: Finch page 67 http://www.belnapfamily.org/Kent_Visitation_p067.jpg  
page 68 http://www.belnapfamily.org/Kent_Visitation_p068.jpg  
▪ The Visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634. To Which are Added Miscellaneous Essex Pedigrees from Various Harleian Manuscripts: and an Appendix Containing Berry's Essex Pedigrees, part __, pp. __ [TO COME]  
Henry Finche (spouse)
Will
▪ PCC, Vox, 11, (Arch Cant, v. XIII, pp. 326-2)
Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem
▪ IPM, Chancery, 17 Edward IV, no. 32
Printed Genealogies
▪ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 1934, "Winchilsea and Nottingham"
▪ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 1934, "Aylesford"
▪ Brydges, Egerton, Sir. "Finch, Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham." Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical, vol. III, pp. 371-406 1812 http://www.belnapfamily.org/Collins_Peerage_of_England_v3.pdf  
▪ Howard, Joseph Jackson, ed. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, vol. 2 (1876), pp. 324-37: "Finch Genealogy" http://www.belnapfamily.org/Miscellanea_Genealogica_et_Heraldica_v2_(1876)_p324-337.pdf  
http://books.google.com/books?id=PSQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&dq=belknap&source=web&ots=iZu4sblMzw&sig=cf_LwIijZrD_BoCthUjIggOp5ro&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA333,M1  
Books/Periodicals
▪ Camden, William. Britannia (1607), with an English translation by Philemon Holland: "Cantium" (par. 20) http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/kenteng.html  
▪ Greenstreet, James. "Wills and Other Records Relating to the Family of Finch." Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 13 (1880), pp. 321-48
Web Links
▪ Stirnet: Finch http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ff/finch1.htm  
▪ Tudor Place: Finch http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/FINCH.htm  
▪ Wikipedia: Earl of Winchilsea (Winchelsea) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Winchilsea  
Parents
▪ Philip Belknap (about 1426-1457)
Photographs and Images
▪ Finche Family
Last update: 15 Jul 2011
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