♂John Farway

John Farway (died before 1415) was a landholder of Penhallam^W, in Jacobstow, Cornwall, whose lands were divided between his two daughters after his only son’s death. He was the nineteenth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Margaret Farway (died before 1421).

Life

His name was also written Fareway. He is said to have married Agnes Longland, the third daughter of John de Longland of Grove, in South Brent, Somerset, and his wife Isabel de Beaupre. Agnes Longland and John Farway married before 20 January 1385, when she was about fourteen. They had one son, John, and two daughters, Margaret and Joan. The Farways bore a black shield with a silver chevron between three silver scallop shells, in heraldic terms “Sable a chevron between three escallops argent.”

John died before 1415. By then Agnes, his widow, had married again, to Robert Coker of Lydeard St. Lawrence, in Somerset.

The family

Their son, John Farway, of Lydeard St. Lawrence in Somerset, was his father’s son and heir. He was living on 21 September 1419, the date of the inquisition post mortem^W held after his mother’s death, but he died before 1421, and his two sisters became his co-heirs. Joan, the younger daughter, married Walter Stawell, the son and heir apparent of Sir Thomas Stawell of Cothelstone, in Somerset; through her share she inherited the manor of Penhallam, and she was living in 1423.

Notes

Sources

John’s marriage, children and arms are from Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edition (2011), vol. 1, p. 174, a compiled genealogy. Richardson cites a Furneaux family pedigree printed in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol. 1 (1834), pp. 243–248, and another dated 1421 printed in Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, vol. 16 (1920), pp. 281–285; the Benolte visitation of Somerset (printed 1885), p. 108; the 1623 visitation of Somerset (Harleian Society, vol. 11, 1876), pp. 106–107; and the Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 16 (1974), p. 71.

His death

No date is given for John’s death. Richardson calls Agnes his widow when she married Robert Coker, before a settlement dated 1414–15, so John died before then.

The family pedigrees

The Furneaux pedigree printed in 1834 says that “Anne [Longland] maryed John Farwaye, and had bytwixte them 2 doughters, the one maryed with Stowell, the other with Berkley.” Both Furneaux pedigrees name only the two daughters, who became the heirs; the son appears in the Benolte visitation as “John ffareway, sonn and heire.” The arms are given in the 1623 visitation and in Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, vol. 11 (1909), pp. 193–195.