Re: Hiwis, Blanchminster, Turet etc

Tod Farmerie, Louise Staley and Michael Andrews-Reading have all contributed
to this new thread: thanks to all three.

A few points:-
Blanchminster= Whitchurch in Shropshire, but if anybody is trying to trace
the family, you have to be careful in selecting a search string, especially at
the National Library of Wales website- try "blanc?m*: I have even seen
"Blankmostier" in the PRO catalogue!
Hiwis=Huish, mostly based in Dorset
Toret/Turet, son-in law of Haget, is ancestral not only to the
Blanchminsters de Albo Monasterio but also to the Corbets of Caux and Moreton Corbet in
Shropshire, and to the Lestranges ("Stranerius") of Knockin (and later Norfolk),
Leightons and many other Shropshire families.

There are a number of relevant records held in the National Archives,
including:-
IPM of Emma Colshull, wife of John: C138/3/36 (1 HV, Cornwall)
IPM of John Colshull, knight: C138.34.41 (6HV, Cornwall, Devon). He it was
(I think)
who was slain at Agincourt
Proof of age of John Colshull, son of John Colshull, knight: C139/89/67 (16
HVI,
Cornwall)
IPM of Joan Coleshill, d. of John: she died 14th December 1497, but I have
mislaid
my reference to her IPM: she had remarried a Nanfan of Birt's Morton,
Worcs: the
case of Coleshill v. Nanfan, recorded at C44/27/18 in 27 HVI, concerning
the
Cornish manor of Bodannan, might be worth looking at.

There are many relevant family records held in the Cornwall archives - e.g.
Arundell of Lanhearne, references AR/19/2 and 21/3 - which show Joan Coleshill
as the wife of Sir Renfrey Arundel, d.1434, younger son of Sir John Arundel of
Lanhearne, (IPM 13 HVI), ancestor of the Whittingtons of Pauntley, Notgrove,
Upton Solers etc.

As for "Gandewyn", I have him down as a son of Sir Richard Hiwis, by his
marriage to Alice, daughter of Sir Ranulf Blanchminster (MP for Cornwall 1314, d.
1348); Gandewyn is noted as having died in his father's lifetime: perhaps
C138/3/36 will clarify this.