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In this section, you will find a list and description of places associated with our family history, which you can visit.
A green check mark  next to the name of a site means that I have personally visited it.
ENGLAND
GREATER LONDON
East End
PATERNAL
Stepney
The City
MATERNAL and PATERNAL
Farringdon
- Site of Fleet Prison, 14 Farringdon Street. Where our ancestor, Roger Mainwaring, was improsioned in 1628 by Parliament for publishing two sermons that advocated absolutism in regard to the monarchy.
Fleet Street
- St. Bride's Church Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 8AU.. Where our ancestor, John Ashe, was buried on March 19, 1703 O.S./1704 N.S. after he died at "Dyers by Stone Wharf" in London while serving as agent for Presbyterians in Colleton County, South Carolina who opposed a law establishing the Church of England as the official church of the colony. The law, which was annulled in 1704 "by Queen Anne in her privy council," would have disenfranchised anyone not belonging to the official church.
Holborn
Hatton Yard (present-day Hatton Place?). On 22 September 1672, Thomas and Mary Haycraft took their infant daughter Mary to be christened at St. Andrew's. The record identifies Thomas as a "Joyner" and states that his daughter was born at "his house…in Hatton Yard." Portpool Lane. On 8 November 1682, John and Hannah Haycroft (as it was spelled in the St. Andrew's Parish register) had their son James baptized at St. Andrew's. The register states further that John was a "Victualer" (a vendor or retailer of food and drink, including possibly alcoholic beverages) by trade and that the family resided at "ye sward[?] in Perpoole Lane." Perpoole Lane, today known as Portpool Lane, still runs east-west, just as it did in 1682, for a distance of about two or three blocks, between Gray's Inn Road and Leather Lane. Saffron Hill. On 13 July 1690, a child named John Haycroft, "born on Saffron Hill," was christened at St. Andrews, with the parents listed as John and Katherine Haycroft. Unfortunately, the parish register records that John Haycroft "son of John Haycroft from George yard Saffron Hill" died on 14 September 1691 at the tender age of one. Brooke's Market. On 27 December 1719, James Haycraft, son of James Haycraft (hereinafter referred to as "James Haycraft, Sr.") and his wife Hannah, residing at "Brook's Markit" [sic], was christened at St. Andrew's. Gray's Inn. Court records from the 1744 trial of James Haycraft, Jr. say that he and his cohorts first tried to fence stolen goods at a stall near :Gray's Inn Gate, the exact location of which is unknown. Central Criminal Courts Building ("The Old Bailey:). formerly Newgate Prison. Where James Haycraft, Jr. was incarcerated, tried on a charge of burglary, and sentanced to transportation to America in 1744. St. Andrew's Church, Holborn. Where James Haycraft, Jr. was baptized in 1719. St. Peter West Cheap Church, St Peters House, 130 Wood St, London EC2V 6DL. Where Christopher Branch and Mary Addie were married in 1619, immediately prior to immigrating to Virginia. Building no longer standing, but there is a small park on the site.
West End
MATERNAL and PATERNAL
Westminster
St Martin-In-The-Fields church, at Trafalgar Square. Where James Neale was baptised in 1619. - St. Margaret's Church (adjacent to Westminster Abbey). Where Christopher Branch's mother, Valentia Sparke, was buried circa 1600.
Angel Court, Storey's Gate, where James Haycraft, Jr. and his "wife," Ann Henly, resided prior to arrest for burglary in 1744, Angel Court now longer exists. Site now occupied by the Queen Elizabeth Centre. Petty France. James Haycraft, Jr.'s cohorts, Samuel Smytheman and Peggy Easton resided on this street priot to arrest for burglarly in 1744. Westminster Palace (Houses of Parliament. In 1593, our ancestor, William Branch, was a Member of Parliament in the original buildings that were replaced in the 19th century by the present building. Another ancestor, Sir Richard Brooke, was an MP during the reign of King Charles I. Banqueting House (site of execution of King Charles I). One of our ancestors, Captain James Neale,was not only very close to Charles I, and carried out a number of missions on his behalf in other countries, but also when Charles was executed by the Puritans in 1649, James Neale was reportedly on the scaffold with him at Whitehall, as one of his attendants, each of which received from the king a mourning ring and a lock of his hair! Apparently, Neale, who was Catholic, was also a friend of Lord Baltimore, who invited him to come to Maryland after the king's death. After he arrived and sent up his "plantation," Baltimore sent him to Amsterdam, to more or less warn the Dutch (who were then colonizing what is now New York and New Jersey) not to get too close to Maryland!
South of the River Thames
MATERNAL and PATERNAL
Southwark
Greenwich
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KENT
Tilbury
In 1619, Christopher Branch and his wife, Mary, departed from Tilbury Hope (a section of the River Thames) aboard The London Merchant, bound for Virginia.
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LANCASHIRE
Clitheroe
- Browsholme. Believed to be the ancestral home of the Parker family from which we are descended.
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LINCOLNSHIRE
Kirkby-on-Bain
- Kirkby-Upon-Bain. The town where Anthony Lumpkin and Mary Melbourne (parents of Jacob Lumpkin) were married in 1633.
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OXFORDSHIRE
Abingdon-on-Thames
- Read about the Braunche (or Branch) Family in Abingdon
- John Branch (died 1488) and his wife, Avise, lived in a house on West St. Helen's Street.
- Grave of Richard Branch, St. Helen's Churchyard.
- In 1554, Elizabeth, the widow of Richard Branch owned three rental properties, of which two are still standing: 51 East St. Helen's Street and 55 East St. Helen's Street
- During the time she owned the above-named properties, Richard Branch's widow, Elizabeth, lived in the Bury (fortified place) on Lomard Street.
- Site of the Bull Inn, owned first by Richard Branch's son, Thomas, and then, after 1565, by Thomas' brother, William Branch.
- William Branch was a governor and also master of Christ's Hospital four times between 1572 and 1593, and also mayor of Abingdon four times between 1563 and 1588. In 1593 he represented Abingdon in Parliament.
Oxford
- All Soul's College Chapel, Oxford. John Branch, who died in 1488, was a master arpenter who helped construct All Souls College. He not only selected and prepared the timber from which the college was built, but also may have designed the hammer-beam roof of the chapel. Another ancestor, Roger Mainwaring, was graduated from All Souls with a B.A. in 1608 and an M.A/ in 1611.
- Wadham College. Robert Brooke, a Londoner by birth, was graduated from here with a B.A. in 1620 and an M.A. in 1624.
Hinton Waldrist and Longworth
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SURREY
Weybridge
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WILTSHIRE
Could be the ancestral home of the MILES family.
Corsham
- Reportedly the birthplace and familial home of ancestor John Ashe, an immigrant to South Carolina. GOOGLE MAPS LOCATION
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