You can't believe everything you read.

[ElizabethHerts]

One of OH's ancestral lines is the Cervingtons of Huntingdonshire.

His 9x-great-grandmother was Susanna Cervington who married Robart Lamb in 1609 in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. Her father was Edward and it is possible his grandparents were Richard and Elizabeth Cervington of Ramsey whose son William was Edward's father.

I was googling and came across this:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=D9I8WWx95ZkC&pg=PA395&dq=Cervington+Huntingdon&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNhtWX-bXSAhWGKMAKHerxDA4Q6AEIQjAI#v=onepage&q=Cervington%20Huntingdon&f=false

Elizabeth Cervington left a will, and the book says that is doesn't say "wife" or "widow".

However, I have downloaded the will from the TNA and it does indeed say:

"In the name of god Amen the twelveth day of februarie Anno Dni
a thousand fyve hundred three score and three I Elizabeth Cervington of Ramsey in the Countie of Huntingdon widdowe ..."

Richard Cervington died in 1559 and left a will.

This family were very closely connected with the Cromwell family.

[kiterunner]

What a blooper!

[ElizabethHerts]

It's rather worrying as sometimes these books contain very rare references to to our early ancestors. In this case I know it is wrong, but it's not always possible to check the veracity of the statement.

[Phoenix]

The book I was looking at yesterday - on tudor and stuart lawyers - stated that "my" John Rosyer inherited a practice from his father. It's an easy and obvious slip: two John Rosyers in the same town with the same profession. But "my" ancestor gives an age at death on his epitaph and his will is consistent with his father dying while he was a toddler and being brought up by his stepfather. I assume the "other" John Rosyer was his uncle.

[Asa]

One of OH's ancestral lines is the Cervingtons of Huntingdonshire.

His 9x-great-grandmother was Susanna Cervington who married Robart Lamb in 1609 in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. Her father was Edward and it is possible his grandparents were Richard and Elizabeth Cervington of Ramsey whose son William was Edward's father.

I was googling and came across this:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=D9I8WWx95ZkC&pg=PA395&dq=Cervington+Huntingdon&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNhtWX-bXSAhWGKMAKHerxDA4Q6AEIQjAI#v=onepage&q=Cervington%20Huntingdon&f=false

Elizabeth Cervington left a will, and the book says that is doesn't say "wife" or "widow".

However, I have downloaded the will from the TNA and it does indeed say:

"In the name of god Amen the twelveth day of februarie Anno Dni
a thousand fyve hundred three score and three I Elizabeth Cervington of Ramsey in the Countie of Huntingdon widdowe ..."

Richard Cervington died in 1559 and left a will.

This family were very closely connected with the Cromwell family.

A second cousin many times removed of mine married Mary Cromwell, aunt of the Protector :)