Richard Kingsmill

✓ RICHARD KINGSMILL, BAILIFF OF BASINGSTOKE 1456, and LESSEE OF BASINGSTOKE HOSPITAL PROPERTY FROM MERTON COLLEGE 1455-79. THE DOCUMENTED FLOOR of the Kingsmill line as Burke's prints it. ⚠⚠ HE RESTS ON BLGI1912 ALONE, AND THE VISITATION DOES NOT CARRY HIM. The Hampshire visitation pedigree (pp.2-3, read 7 Aug 2026) BEGINS ONE GENERATION LOWER, with 'Richard Kingsmill of Barkham in Com. Berks' - i.e. with his son - and gives nothing above him. A visitation is primary and taken from the family, so its silence is meaningful: EITHER the heralds did not reach back that far, OR the 1456 bailiff and Richard of Doberton are ONE MAN split into two by a later compiler. This rung should be read as ~ rather than ✓ until the Merton College leases of 1455-79 are set against the Basingstoke borough records. Source: THE VISITATIONS OF HAMPSHIRE, 1530, 1575 and 1622-34 (Harleian Society), 'Kingsmill' pedigree at pp.2-3, from MS Harl. 1544 fo.5-7; page images read 7 Aug 2026. A HERALDS' VISITATION - primary heraldic evidence, taken from the family at the time, and a materially better authority than any nineteenth-century printed pedigree. ALSO: Stirnet notes that BEB1841 and BLG1952 both BEGIN with his son Richard of Doberton, whom they describe as 'of BARKHAM, BERKSHIRE' - a seat Burke's LGI does not mention. So this rung is carried by one printing only, and the Berkshire connection of the next generation is unaccounted for here. Source: Stirnet Families Database, 'Kingsmill1' (Kingsmill of Einham/Enham and Kingsmill of Sydmonton), read 7 Aug 2026 - a compilation from BLGI1912 'Kingsmill of Hermitage Park', BLG1952 'Kingsmill of Sydmonton', BEB1841 'Kingsmill of Sidmonton' and the Hampshire Visitations of 1530, 1575 and 1622-34. THE FAMILY'S ORIGIN, stated at the head of the article: 'This family, whose ORIGINAL NAME WAS CASTLEMAYNE, resided at BASINGSTOKE, Hants, FROM THE 12TH TO THE 16TH CENTURY, having received A GRANT OF THE ROYAL MILL THERE, FROM WHICH THEY DERIVE THEIR NAME.' So Kingsmill is a place-name taken from the king's mill at Basingstoke, and the Castlemayne generations above 1456 are NOT given here - note-only, and a real target: the Merton College muniments (which hold the hospital leases naming this man) and the Basingstoke borough records are where the ||THE ARMS, from the visitation drawing and the Burke's blazon, both read 7 Aug 2026|| ARGENT SEMEE OF CROSS-CROSSLETS FITCHEE SABLE, A CHEVRON ERMINES BETWEEN THREE FERS-DE-MOLINE PIERCED OF THE SECOND. Fers-de-moline are MILL-RINDS, the iron centres of a millstone - so the arms cant on the name and on the Royal Mill at Basingstoke from which Burke's says it came. A rare instance of the heraldry independently supporting a stated surname origin. Continuing: Castlemayne/Kingsmill change should be visible. END OF LINE as entered. Source: Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, 'KINGSMILL OF HERMITAGE PARK' p.307, PAGE IMAGE read 7 Aug 2026 (an earlier edition than the 1912 text swept by OCR on 6 Aug - note the different pagination).