Origin of the Smailes family. 1520's Thornton Dale, Yorkshire

Do you have links so we take a look, both to the external source and any corresponding Geni profiles?

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/m/a/John-F-Smailes/PDF... - this is the link to the 'Direct Descendants of Smailes' lineage/family tree.

John Smailes this is Smailes' geni profile, I created.

I traced my lineage through my fathers father to Richard Smailes, made an intelligent assumption that he was the son of William Smailes and Priscilla Crumpton, because my great grandfather, + his father were named Thomas Crumpton Smailes, tho. Cru. Smailes, I was the son of William Smailes, and Anne Brown, Will. Was the son of Richard Smailes (named above) and Betty Beal. I found Richards ancestry on Mundia.com; as the Richard in a members family tree had the same birth/death dates, and was born in the general area the descendants were born in.
I know a lot about Priscilla's ancestry (up until William Crumpton, after which I made a shaky assumption connection, as a page from the same site says that might be the connection between the Crumptons, who were descendants of Edward I, and the crumptons of Scarborough; but not too much about William Smailes' ancestry-

Priscilla SMAILES

So you have a nice tree sketched out, now you need to search out facts and flesh it out. I put links to sites and / or upload documents to the profile as I go along son I can revisit and have the notes handy.

Have you looked into geography yet? Quite important always, and very helpful in tracking an early modern English family.

As your 17the cousin I connect with your tree Keziah Crompton so I'll see if I can add any value around there.

Other cousins, please chime in!

Thanks Erica :)

I just found an ebook to look through that might cover some of these families

http://www.archive.org/details/accountofboynton00coll
An account of the Boynton family and the family seat of Burton Agnes (1914)

Jetho I found reference to to your "tree top" Smailes here
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jelly...

There's a will - might be fun to try and track it. Anyway that validates your work so far, and you should add the will citation information. I would think Smailes is a surname in Yorkshire, 1523, father of a yeoman (freeholder) - but who knows how spelled or written or pronounced. Dig into the history of Thornton Dale!

I'll take. Look now; thank you so much Erica :)

http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000013247599138

This May also help
http://www.albany1820.com/transcriptions/Data/Bathurst/marriages/me...