Part III � Barnard-Smythes Family
Generation 5. Edward Barnard (1)
Generation 4. John Barnard., married to Margaret Hill
Generation 3. Edward Barnard (2) , of Downside, England, was married to Christian Whitcomb, daughter of Hugh Whitcomb, of Sherborne, Dorset, England, parents of
Generation 2. Edward Barnard (3) , of Downside, England, was married to Jane Smythes, of Wrainton, Somerset, England. Jane�s father was John Smythes, son of George Smythes, of Wrainton, Somerset, England. Her mother was Joane Dorington.
From - 3d series Vol IV (1902 London) page 178 Genealogical Notes to the Pedigree of the Smythies Family - The Smythes of Wrington and Wyke Court, Yatton, County Somerset.
�The will of John Smythes, dated 6 June 1626, is a Valuable document. It confirms the information given in Harl. MSS regarding his children and supplements it by giving the Christian name of the daughter married to Nicholas Harvey as Sarah, the Christian name of his son John�s wife as Sara, the Christian name of the husband of his daughter Judith, as John, and further, by recording the marriage of his daughter Joane (shown as unmarried in Harl. MSS) to Richard Chichester.
�In it the testator wills �to be buried in the church of Wrington. neere unto the place where my sonne John Smithes was lately buried,� and makes bequests to �the poore of Wrington; Johane my wife; my cosen William Stroud; my son-in-law John Cope; Elizabeth Godwyn my daughter, the wife of Robert Godwyn; my daughter Sara Harvie, wife of Nicholas Harvie; my daughters Jane Barnard, wife of Edward Barnard, gent; Mary Bisse, wife of James Bisse, gent; Johane Chichester, wife of Richard Chichester, gent; and Judith Taverner, wife of John Taverner, gent; my daughter-in-law Mary Cope; my daughter-in-law Sara Smithes, a widowe; my grandchild Johane Stroud, etc. �
Proved by Joane Smythes, the widow, at London on 2 September 1626 (109, Hale.)�
Generation 1. Joanne Barnard, the daughter of Edward Barnard and Jane Smythes, was christened 14 January 1616, in Shepton Mallet, Somerset. She married William Stroud (See Stroud Family, Part III)
Their daughter Joanne Stroud married Thomas Mendenhall (See Mendenhall Family, Part III)
Source: VISITATIONS OF SOMERSET-1623 LDS Library, Salt Lake City