In the ongoing question of the Southill/Fulnetby connection I needed to consult the visitations again. Sadly I no longer live near a library that has the visitations in print. I used to work at Widener Library which had them or I could use them at the NEHGS Library in Boston.
But online, Stirnet.com has transcribed the visitations and made them searchable. It costs money to see the results, but it was only about $20 for a one month subscription.
As I remembered, the John Fulnetby who marries a Dymoke is given as a son of another John Fulnetby and daughter of Gerard Sothill/Southill. Also it gives that the John and Dymoke couple have a daughter Elizabeth Fulnetby who marries a Gerard Southill. So you can see that some connection between the Fulnetby and Sothill families exist but they are confused as to where and what generation.
The Gerard Sothill who married Elizabeth Fulnetby is given as the son of another Gerard Sothill who married Muriel Slavin. (In the Sothill visitation). If the timeline holds then the Sothill daughter who married the senior John Fulnetby should be a daughter of Gerard Sothill and Muriel Slavin. This would connect Thomas Bradbury with further medieval ancestry. The Slavins descend from the Ros family.
Stirnet was easy to subscribe to and easily searchable. It is certainly worth the money for the information it contains.
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