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Dalton, alias Smith (ibid. , p. 5) . It would seem that they were cousins, if not brothers . Bartholomewreturned to Douay in the July to try again, but without success he left 15 April 1600 ad alia potius quam ad studia aptus " (ibid., pp. 7, 18). In 1629 he purchased the Manor of Sherfield Englishfrom the junior line of the Tichbornes . Then there appears " BartholomewSmith of the Soke, Winchester ," who has a brother William. The Victoria County History of Hampshire (iv , 511), presumes that these are the sons of the purchaser of Sherfield English . After the Civil War Bartholomew ( II) and his brother were in trouble over their estates ( see text, p. 2). In 1654 Bartholomew was High Sheriff for Hampshire . He added to the family possessions Kings Worthy, Wallop, Bereleigh and Ervill's Exton .
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A Bartholomew Smith was buried in Winchester Cathedral 23 April 1670 , and his wife, Margaret , 19 October 1655 (Hants Parish Registers ). Is this Bartholomew I , the Douay student? Bartholomew II, his son , had issue: (1) John, son and heir, a commoner of Oriel, who died there of smallpox 1 November 1660 (see Mrs. Bryan Stapleton ) ; (2) Margaret , who joined the Benedictines at Cambrai in 1652 , aged 16, and died there 14 August 1680 (C.R.S., xiii , 48) ; ( 3) James, born in Winchester in 1645, educated at Douay , D.D. 1680 , President of Douay 1682-88, V.A. Northern District 1688 , died 13 May 1711. The Vict. Co. Hist . several times states that James joined a religious order in 1685 and that all the father's property passed to his younger brother, (4) Bartholomew III , " who left three sons and four daughters. ' From which we gather that Bartholomew II died
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The fifth child of Bartholomew II was Mary, who married
10 John Wybarne of Hawkswell , Kent ; 20 George Bolney . She was buried in Old Chelsea Church in 1716.
Bartholomew III, or " Bartholomew of Stoke Charity," married Frances Short , who died 11 September 1729 (see text, p. 156 , M.I. No. 42). He had succeeded to the estate by 1716. The three sons mentioned above were William , James and Thomas, who all died of smallpox in 1723 : the eldest son, Bartholomew IV , was already dead (see text, p. 155, note). Their four daughters were Anastasia , Elizabeth, Frances and Isabella . Isabella became a nun at St. Monica's , Louvain, and later Prioress, dying there in 1754. Elizabeth ( Mrs. Betty," C.R.S., i, 188) was alive in Winchester and unmarried in 1735. There is some reason to believe that she retired to the cloister . Anastasia married William Sheldon and died in 1745. Frances became the wife of Alexander Wells of Brambridge and died in 1756 , the last of the Smiths of Winchester . John Smith, who died in 1728 ( M.I. No. 40, p . 156), is un-
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