History and genealogy of the Bicknell family and some collateral lines, of Normandy, Great Britain and AmericaComprising some ancestors and many descendants of Zachary Bicknell from Barrington, Somersetshire, England, 1635 .. . and established its baronialcharacter by founding a monastery through the wealth and in-fluence of Lord Amalbert de Pavilly. On the conquest of Eng-land in 1066, William the Conqueror, being a Norman, distrib-uted the manorial estates of England to Normans of high rank,or to those who had rendered valuable military service. The mar-riage of the Paveleys with the lEstras
History and genealogy of the Bicknell family and some collateral lines, of Normandy, Great Britain and AmericaComprising some ancestors and many descendants of Zachary Bicknell from Barrington, Somersetshire, England, 1635 .. . and established its baronialcharacter by founding a monastery through the wealth and in-fluence of Lord Amalbert de Pavilly. On the conquest of Eng-land in 1066, William the Conqueror, being a Norman, distrib-uted the manorial estates of England to Normans of high rank,or to those who had rendered valuable military service. The mar-riage of the Paveleys with the lEstras gave a pure Norman bloodto the original John de (Paveley) Bykenhulle. To what extent theNorman blood of the Paveley-Bicknells was changed from 1300to 1600, we cannot state, but it is probable that Anglo Saxonand other strains had entered the vital stream in the veins ofZachary and John Bicknell, who settled at Weymouth, Mass.,in 1635. We have thus blazed the way for the future genealogist andhistorian of the family, from Lord Amalbert de Pavilly, ofPavilly, France, 664 A. D., to Zachary Bicknell, 1590, a periodof 926 years. To him I assign the privilege of setting up theguide posts of the generations that lie
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