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Birth:          ABT 1335 Biddic-Waterville, Durham, England
Death:          BEF 28 Jul 1408 Homidon, Durham, England

Notes
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He [John Faucomberge] m. Joan, widow of Robert del Bowes....and dau. of Sir Robert 
Conyers, of Ormesby, co. York, by his 2nd wife, Aline, Lady of Homildon (e)....
[Complete Peerage, V:280]

(e) She [Joan Conyers] was only child of this Robert (who died in 1390, having 
married, 1stly Julienne, dau. and h. of Sir John de Percy, of Ormesby in Cleveland, by 
whom he had male issue) by his 2nd wife, Aline (widow of Sir William de Dalden, who 
d. in 1369), who was heiress of the manor of Homildon, and of a moiety of the manors 
of Hetton and Biddic-Waterville, all held of the Bishop of Durham. Aline died in 1408, 
when the said Joan, then the wife of Thomas Brounflete, was found, by Inq. taken 28 
July 1408, to be her heir, and aged 30. (Durham Cursitors' Records, no. 2, ff. 84, 
112v, 161v).

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SOUTH BIDDICK,

This village and township, in the chapelry of Penshaw, is situated on the Wear, four 
miles north-east-by-east of Chester-le-Street. It was anciently called Bedyke, probably 
from the Saxon, being surrounded by a dyke or foss. Supposing the present mansion 
to stand on the site of the ancient Bedyk, the whole spot could have been easily 
insulated by a trench communicating with the Wear, and from which circumstances it 
may have received the name of BIDDIC-WATERVILLE, which it bears in some old 
records.

The ancient tenur of South Biddick was in villenage. Boldon Book: "The vilains of 
South Bedic hold their vill to farm, and pay 5s. and provide 160 men to mow in 
harvest, and 36 carts to lead (the lord's) corn at Hocton." In 1335, Alianor de Colley 
died seized of the manor of Souch Bedyk nigh Newbotell, held of the bishop in chief 
by homage, fealty, the fourth part of a knight's fee, and suit at the county court of 
Durham, val. L4, leaving Gilbert, son of Walter de Colley her son and heir, who styled 
himself 'Dominus de Bedyk-Waterville' in 1336, and covenanted with William son of 
Alan Slikeburn that his lands should descend without alienation to his son Roger de 
Colley, and Matilda daughter and heiress of William de Dunelm. The manor was soon 
after held in equal moieties by the families of Dalden and Burnynghill, derived not 
improbably from coheiresses of Roger de Colley. The Dalden's share, by marriage, 
descended in the Bowes family, which ultimately obtained both portions of the manor. 
After the death of the Knight-Marshal, Biddic-Waterville became the seat of George 
Bowes, Esq., his second son by the first marriage, whose son, Sir George Bowes, Knt., 
afterwards of Bradley, and heir male of the whole family, is also styled of Biddic-
Waterville in 1630. This Sir George Bowes dsolde the estate to the Lambtons. [An 
historical, topographical and descriptive view of the county palatine of Durham, 1834, 
Eneas Mackenzie, Marvin Ross, books.google.com, p. 361-2]

NOTE: "Dunelm" is latin for "Durham", making the above William probably the same 
as the William Esshe of Durham in the next citation.

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The following shows Aline's mother, and father & grandfather, along with her 1st 
husabnd involved with the manor of RELLEY in St. Oswalds:

In 1326 William son of William Esshe of Durham gave the vill to Maud his daughter, 
who married Roger, son and heir of Gilbert de Colley, lord of Biddick. Roger granted it 
to Richard son of Gilbert de Durhamin 1343, and in 1359 Sir Thomas Gray kt. 
exchanged it with William Dalden for a moiety of the manors of Felkington and 
Allerden.

From: 'Parishes: St Oswalds's - Manors', A History of the County of Durham: Volume 3 
(1928), pp. 157-174. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?
compid=42615&strquery=biddick durham Date accessed: 04 June 2012.

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The following was a post to SGM, 7 Jun 2012, by John Watson:

Jim, 

In the Durham ipm of Aline, the village of Homildon is also called Pavillion, which I 
believe is close to Sunderland, and not the 
Homildon Hill in Northumberland.

Aline, widow of Robert Conyers. Inq. p.m. taken on 28 July 1408 at Durham. Aline, 
aged 30, the wife of Thomas Brounflete is their 
daughter and next heir. She had been seized for life of the moeity of the manor of 
Hepton, remainder thereof to John son of the said Robert Conyers for life, remainder 
over to the heirs of the said Aline and Robert. The manor of Homildon, alias Pavillion, 
and moeities of the manors of Badykwatervill and Hepton. 45th Annual Report of the 
Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London: 1885) p. 177

Regards,

John

Parents
DE COLLEY Roger (ABT 1305 - AFT 1343)
ESSHE Maud (ABT 1308 - AFT 1336)

Siblings
DE COLLEY Aline (Alianna) (ABT 1335 - BEF 28 Jul 1408)

Marriage To CONYERS Robert (ABT 1325 - BEF 18 Nov 1390)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
CONYERS Robert (ABT 1305 - AFT 1338)
MELTON Johanna (ABT 1310 - )

Children by CONYERS Robert ABT 1325 - BEF 18 Nov 1390
CONYERS Joan (ABT 1372 - 7 Nov 1438)

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