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"The Martyns of Athelhampton, Dorset, came to England from near Bayeux in Normandy. The lands at Athelhampton came into the possession of the Martyn family in 1350 through the marriage of Sir Richard Martyn of Waterston, and a little over a century later, about the time of the Battle of Bosworth, Sir William Martyn built the beautiful manor at Athelhampton which still stands today. The last of the male line at Athelhampton was Sir Nicholas Martyn, who died in 1595, leaving his four daughters as his heiresses. The novelist Thomas Hardy wrote two poems about Athelhampton, and used it as the setting for one of his short stories (Athelhampton).
MARTIN, of Tours, was a general in the army of William the Conqueror ; and, in 1077, conquered the Cantred of Camoys and Dirlington, in Pembroke shire, and of which he was afterwards given the barony."
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Ancestrees
Abt 1050 - Aft 1086 (~ 37 years)
