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PRIMOGENITOR
OF
THE
LEVERING
FAMILY.
JOHN DE LEVERYNG; born about the year A. D. 1250, at Leverington,
in Cambridgeshire, England, and it is believed that he lived
and died in that ancient town, which was so named in the year
A. D. 870. Nothing is known of his family, except of his son
named Robert.
ROBERT, son of John de Leveryng; born about the year A. D. 1280,
at Leverington, England. We learn by records in the archives
of the Episcopal Palace at Ely, in Cambridgeshire, England, that
Robert, "in the eighth year of the reign of Edward II" (A. D.
1316), became a lessee of the Wisbech Barton Manor. I assume
that his father may have been thirty years the senior of Robert,
and the latter probably thirty-six years of age when he became
an independent land-holder, as the young men of that period
were not so precocious in marriage and business management as
in modern times. Nothing is known of his family.
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