Vailes Vails Vale Vales Vals Vayles Veales family

Zacchariah VAILES married Elizabeth NORRIS at Heybridge near Maldon in 1667 but they baptised their children at Witham. He was soon in trouble with the law, indicted for poaching partridges. Finally in 1694 he was found guilty of three separate thefts on the same night and sentenced to be hung. A few years later, his son also named Zecchariah was also hanged for theft.

Another son named John became a weaver and married Elizabeth PULLIN at Witham. They had a son named John born about 1690 who lived at Duck End in Witham and married Mary SAVAGE there in 1715. At this time they already had a daughter, Sarah, who married Matthew WENDON, another weaver, at Witham in 1737.

INDEX OF MARRIAGES ON THE VAILES FAMILY TREE

SURNAME DATE/PLACE MARRIAGE TREE MARRIED TO:

BARWELL Robert 16Dec1767 Witham ESS VailT0 VAILES Sarah

BRIDGE John 27Oct1728 Witham ESS VailT0 VAILES Hannah

LONG George 18Nov1732 Witham ESS VailT0 VAILES Mary (wid)

NORRIS Elizabeth 1Aug1667 Heybridge ESS VailT0 VAILES Zecharie

PULLIN Elizabeth 13Apr1691 Witham ESS VailT0 VAILES John

SAVAGE Mary 4Sep1715 Witham ESS VailT0 VAILES John

TUNBRIDGE Elizabeth 23Feb1733 Witham ESS VailT0 VAILES William

WENDON Matthew 15Jul1737 Witham ESS VailT0 VAILES Sarah

WOLECAR Anne 29Jul1700 Braintree ESS VailT0 VAILES William

OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS

1) B9 Origin of Zechariah VAILES c1640. Did he come from Gt. Leighs?

2) B9 Were there two separate hangings of Zechariah VAILES, father and son, or did the father escape the first hanging only to be sentenced again?

3) B8 Where were John & Elizabeth (PULLIN) between their m at Witham in 1691 and the first baptism at Witham in 1708? Did they have a son John about 1692 (and also sons Thomas c1700 and William c1710)?