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s. and h. of Thomas Nanfan† by his w. Joan. JUST1/1519, rot. 94; CP40/648, rot. 355; J. Maclean, ‘Birt’s Morton and Pendock’, Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. x. 193, 218. m. by Jan. 1418, Margaret da. and coh. of John Megre† (d.1419) of Truro, 2da. The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 712; Reg. Stafford ed. Hingeston-Randolph, 278; C1/42/96-99. Maclean, 195, 218 suggested that John Nanfan might have been James’s son by a first marriage to Geta, da. and coh. of Gregory Pennek, but C1/42/97 names Nanfan’s gds. John Trenewith, the son of his da. Joan, as his ‘cousin and heir’, as well as heir to the Megre property.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Cornw. 1427, 1429, 1432, 1433, 1449 (Feb.), 1453.
Coroner, Cornw. by Mar. 1432-July 1433.
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Main residence: Trethewell in St. Eval, Cornw.
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