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BIOGRAPHY: Richard Gookins, 2838 Evergreen Ave. NE; Salem, OR 97303 - May 1993; copy in possn of T.Mason (file - Robert Warren) Pg. A312; EXTRACT: two children listed on A319
RESEARCH: The wife and children of Richard are unknown, but we know he was an ancestor of Henry.
Listed in the Canterbury Freemans Rolls (1298-1363) under admittance by redemption and fined 1 m(mark?)
BIOGRAPHY: THE OLDACRE/OLDAKER STORY, by Edward L. Oldaker; 1985; copy in possn of T.Mason (filed - Richard Borden); ; A parchment from Robergia De Bourdoun mentions her two sons "Simon, is weak and sickly; Richard is named for King (Richard the Lion Hearted); he will be strong, a man of iron, wise and peaceful. From him the Borden line will succeed. It is now 154 years since Count William of Normandy defeated and killed the Great Harold, King of England, at Hastings. There fell also Ethelwolf my Saxon mother's grandfather and Lord of all the lands which William the Conqueror gave to his vassal, Francis De Bourdon. My mother (was) Robergia of Kent; my father Francis De Bourdon."
BIOGRAPHY: Genealogy of Borden Family of Shrewsbury, NJ; 1370-1868; typescript of "Borden Scrapbook" & family papers in poss of Charles F. Borden, Shrewsbury, NJ, 1952; p 4; LDS Family History Library Film 0858787, item 6; NOTES: The Bordens originated at Bourdonnay in Normandy. They went into England with William the Conqueror and after the victory of Hastings, 14 Oct 1066, settled down upon lands given them by the new King of England.
BIOGRAPHY: Ralph & Mildred Branson Wandling, ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS & REBECCA BORDEN BRANSON; 1380-1950; 53 pages quoting research by John A Kelly of Haverford College, Penn, pub 190-, filmed by Genealogical Society of Utah, 1976; ; LDS Family History Library Film 0928077, item 11;
REFERENCE: [HYPERLINK http://www.battle1066.com ] The Roll of Battle Abbey A.O. 1066 with William le Roy lists among other: Burdon and Bodin. A copy of this roll was purchased from Glen Crack at the above website in Oct 2001. (See [Scrapbook] image next to Robergia's name.)
COMMENT: By T.Mason on 6Sep2001. It is my intent to report what I find, conflicts and all. However, I verify the existence of the Borden name by using the "Medievil Index to Sources in Britian" and with the reference "They Came with William The Conqueror".
COMMENT: According to the Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia, Julius Caesar was in Britain twice. In Autumn of 55 BC and then the following year he opened his fifth campaign by a second invasion of Britain, "in which he crossed the Thames" River. The Thames does flow through present-day London. When the Roman soldiers set up occupation, they did so on the skirts of this town which they renamed as Londonium. Eventually, London and the Roman camp blended together. As to the point that Julius Caesar never conquered England, the obvious truth is that "England" did not yet exist.
BIOGRAPHY: THE OLDACRE/OLDAKER STORY, by Edward L. Oldaker; 1985; copy in possn of T.Mason (filed - Richard Borden); ; On the old Roman Road (Roman occupation 55 BC to 440 AD) build by Julius Caesar during the conquest and occupancy of Britain, stands the village of Borden about 39 miles from London, 15 miles from Canterbury, and the town of Settingbourne in the County of Kent. London was built on the site of Caesar's camp, and Borden was build on the site of Ancient David Worship and later the site of a Roman Temple. The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the village of Borden was build of stones from these ruins 1134. The Church is in the Parish of Hedcorn and was consecrated in the year 1210. It is the church of the Borden families who have lived in Kent since the Battle of Hastings in 1066 AD.
WILL: "Robergia - A Story of Old England" by Richard Y. Cook, c1905; printed by Philadelphia MCMV; press of Edward Stern & Co. Inc.; Public Library of the City of Boston; copy of pages 79-84 in possn of T.Mason; EXTRACT: THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN THE EAST WALL OF THE PARISH CHURCH AT BORDEN, KENT, ENGLAND. TRANSLATED By MISS W., OF LONDON.
It is by the grace of God alone that I am what I am, and through the merits of His dear Son, my Lord and Master, can I alone hope for life hereafter and forgiveness for my many sins. His blessings and gifts to me have been many and far beyond my deserving. That it may be accounted worthy in His sight that I have purposed the building of a church to His honor and for the services of His true and only religion, is my humble prayer, and that He may vouchsafe the accomplishment of my purpose is my most comfortable hope. And I also pray that He may bless my further purpose with His favor and to the good of those who may come after me. My two boys, which the Lord has given me, are are always in my thoughts. Simon, weak and sickly, may not not see man's estate. Richard, like the great king from whom he took his name, will be a man of iron - strong in war; but God and our lady grant that he shall be wise and peaceful also, for war brings sorrow and suffering, as the women of England and of my line know full well. It is from him that the Borden line shall proceed, and it is to his descendants, in what age and what land I know not that I must deliver this message.
It is now 154 years since Count William of Normandy defeated and killed the great Harold, King of England, on the woeful day of Hastings. There fell also Ethelwolf, my Saxon ancestor, my dear mother's grandfather and the Lord of all the lands which the Norman Conqueror gave to his vassal, Francis de Bourdon, whose grandson, Sir Simon de Bourdon. in the strange chances of life and war, became my father. In the veins of my children - Simon, who will die, as the leech sayeth, and Richard, who will live - is therefore the mingled blood of Norman and of Saxon. I love my children, and may not I, the Lady Robergia, the daughter of Elfrida of Kent and of Sir Simon de Bourdon of Bourdon, and the wife of Sir Francis de Bourdon, erstwhile by marriage with me, lord of all the lands of Bourdon, love those who may come after me, and take account of their welfare and leave to them the message which my sorrows have taught me, and which love for my children's children leads me to give them?
The land of England is indeed in travail. The hand of the Norman is everywhere raised against the Saxon, and the Saxon stands ready to avenge the wrongs done his forefathers. It is war and not peace; injustice and not righteousness; pride and not humble desire to fulfil the laws of God and of religion that I everywhere see. The Saxon tills the soil; the Norman robs him of his rights and of the fruits of his labors. The Norman cannot yield; the Saxon will not; and yet if the dear England which I love is ever to be at peace at home and great abroad, these two must come together. It was but last month that my husband had the thumb cut off the right hand of one of my Saxon serfs because he had killed a stag in the forest, vowing that he should never draw arrow in long bow again. And yesterday a shaft was brought me, which was found quivering in an oak just beyond the moat, and which old Ursula tells me had grazed the cap of my son who was walking there with her. And Gurth, the son of him who was so cruelly mutilated by my husband, I doubt not shot the arrow, for they say he left last night to join Robin Hood in the great Sherwood Forest. And so those who should live together and who, once together, would make England great, do nought but harm to each other - the Norman proud, hasty and unjust; the Saxon stolid, revengeful and unwilling to forget.
And yet in all my sorrows and anxieties it has been given me to see a future for England out of which greatness shall grow, not less because of her power than because of her righteousness, and it is upon the descendants of my son, Richard de Bourdon, who is fourth in the line from Sir Francis de Bourdon, who was himself descended from the de Bourdons of Bayeux, in Normandy, that I charge this duty, out of which alone can good come now or hereafter, that they be true, just and merciful. And upon whomsoever shall find this parchment, written by myself - for with great labor hath my confessor, the good Monk Athelstan, taught me the mysteries of chirography and the art of illumination - I charge that they deliver it to the descendants of My son, Richard de Bourdon, of Bourdon, and that in their day and generation they shall remember to serve God and His dear Son, andBe True - to friendship and to God, for truth is all of this life worth the having, and perfect truth is what the life to come shall reveal to us. It is the prince of darkness that is the Prince of Lies.
Be Just - for the Lord only loaned us that which we have whether of goods or of talents, and in their use we must consider the rights of all men.
Be Merciful - for we shall have no greater claim to the mercy we all shall finally need than that we forgive our brother's faults.
And this hath the Lady Robergia de Bourdon herself written in the year of our Lord 1210.
REFERENCE: [HYPERLINK http://www.battle1066.com ] The Roll of Battle Abbey A.O. 1066 in the Battle of Hastings with William le Roy lists among other: Bodin and Burdon. Read more about this family in each descendant's notes. At some point (maybe before the 13th century) the records are no longer a "novel" but are better substantiated.
It is suggested that Simon was the grandson of Francis DeBOURDON of Bayeux, Normandy (France), who fought under William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. This is yet to be better researched.
Elfreada died in 1193. Simon died about 1195. Both were buried in a vault in the family chapel within their castle walls. Simon and Elfreada's daughter was Robergia DeBOURDON.REFERENCE: HOUSES of AUSTIN CANONS: THE PRIORY OF LEEDS - A History of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1926), pp. 162-65. "Simon, son of Peter de Borden gave the church (of St. Peter and St. Paul) of the village/parish of Borden (Kent, England) to the priory (at Leed's) and it was confirmed as a gift by King John in 1205."
Reference: Helen Allinson, 1995, A Glimpse into Borden's Past; Island Printers; 4 Acorn Street, Sheerness, Kent.
DEATH: On the battlefield of Hastings defending his Anglo-Saxon homeland.