BEDFORDSHIRE JACOBS

The following information has largely been taken from the internet. It offers a basis for a sketch pedigree that someone else may like to work on. What I find interesting is the fact that the names William and Walter occur in the late 13th/early 14th centuries in a good many other counties, for example, those of Somerset (William Jacob and Walter Jacob both MPs for Bridgewater in 1295 and 1298 respectively), those of Kent, those of Cambridgeshire. I would not rule out the possibility that some relate to the same people, who owned land in more than one county.

These Jacobs owned land in and around Syvesleshoe (Selsoe) and Henloe in Bedfordshire. We find a William Jacob paying 12¾d tax in the Lay Subsidy of 1309 in Flytte and Siveleshoe, and 2/6 in the Subsidy of 1332. There are many references in other sources to Jacobs in Bedfordshire, especially in Dunstable.

William Jacob de la Felde   =   Alice

(1273-1298)

Walter Jacob

(1300-1302)

William, the son of Walter   =   Alice

(1302-1324)

William Jacob                            John Jacob   =   Alice Makehayt, the widow of

(1362-1375)                              (1359-1389)        Richard Makehayt

William Jacob   =   Elena           John Jacob

(1408-1439)                                              (1408-1411)

William Jacob                             Richard Jacob

(born before 1411)                     (1436)

John Jacob

(1543)

John Jacob of Lothbury

(1671)