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Thomas WINSLOW.14976. Richard WINSLOW
(1186). "The family was known as early as the 1300s and our line
descends from those who lived in Worcestershire in the 1400s. ... During his
long reign from 1327 to 1377 Edward III did much to stimulate the growth of the
wool and textile industries in England and also trade with other countries.
Members of the Winslow family, which was numerous and active, moved from eastern
homes to good sheep-rearing lands in the west and also to London where a John
Winslow began a dynasty of drapers. The wool producers and drapers aided each
other whenever possible and 'the picture is one of an alert, enterprising, at
times overly enterprising, mercantile-oriented family.' (Coons, p. 7) Our branch
of the family lived in the Severn Valley since about 1425. The first Winslow
whom we can identify as definitely ours is Richard who in the middle 1500s bought
some former monastic lands in Croome Manor." (Bonnie Hubbard) Children
were:
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Thomas WINSLOW.
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