This list falls into four parts. The first part consists of the names of people who lived

in Seavington St. Mary in the sixteenth century. I have no direct evidence of their relationship

to my family, but the size of the community at that time (there were only 27 households in the parish in 1563) makes it likely that they were part of my ancestral line.

The second part relates to the family of William Vile/Ville. There is a break in the records

between 1718 and 1760 such that I have as yet no direct evidence of a link between this family

and the Viles of Glastonbury, but the Glastonbury Viles came from Seavington St. Mary,.and the name Hugh Vile  runs through William's family and that of the Glastonbury Viles, but I have found no other Hugh Viles in the whole country at that time, not even amongst the Viles of neighboring parishes..

The third part, beginning with the marriage of Hugh Vile in Glastonbury in 1760

is based upon consecutive records running down to the present time.

The fourth part begins with the exodus from Somerset and follows the history through London to Kent and Minnesota.

1. The Sixteenth Century

Thos. Violl                  billman, Somerset Muster 1569

Thomas Viell             Sevington Vaux (Seavington St. Mary), Subsidy of 1581

Alice Viall                   widow, Sevington Vaux (Seavington St. Mary), Subsidy of 1581

2. The Family of William Vile 

William Ville(Vyle,Vile) married Agnes

             born c. 1593, Seavington St.Mary, Somerset

             married c. 1619

             will dated 1658 refers to sons Hugh and Thomas Ville and

            daughters Katherine and Prudence. Will proved 1659

Hugh Ville married Jane

             born c. 1620-30, Seavington St. Mary

             a Hugh Vile is recorded at Yeovil in 1670

 John Vile  Seavington St. Mary   c. 1680-1730

                 a John Vyles married Elizabeth Hutchins "both of Sevenhampton St. Mary"

                                    at Puckington, 8 Feb. 1702

                In 1718 he initiated a suit against Joseph Hutchins and in the pleadings

                his father is named as Hugh and his mother as Jane (Vile v Hutchins)

[There is a gap in the records here. So far I have no direct evidence of a link between

John Vile and the two Hugh Viles below] 

3. The Glastonbury Viles

Hugh Vile witness to the marriage of Hugh Vile at Glastonbury,1760

                   a Hugh Vile was buried at Seavington St. Mary in 1763  

Hugh Vile of Sevington Abbotts, married Elizabeth Spurlock,

                at St. John's, Glastonbury,1760

                Children: Hugh 1761, Seavington St. Mary; John, 1762

                and Sarah, 1765, both at Glastonbury.

Hugh Vile married Julian Boldy, 1781, at Maker, Cornwall/Devon.

                Baptised at Seavington St. Mary, 1761, he was a soldier

                in the Somersetshire Militia. She came from the parish of

                Shapwick in Somerset. A son, Hugh, was born in   

                Shapwick in 1782, followed by Sarah in 1785 and

                William in 1788. Their son, James, was baptised at St.

                John's, Glastonbury in 1790.

James Vile(s) married Hannah Amesbury at Meare, Glastonbury,

                 1811. They had two sons, James, born in 1817 and William, born in 1820.

William Vile(s) married Elizabeth Hawkins at Street Parish Church

                  in 1841. Baptised at Meare in 1820, he was living at

                 Hill Head in Glastonbury in 1861.They had at least seven

                 children, including my great, great grandfather, Ephraim,

                 who was born in Glastonbury in 1855.

4. London and Beyond 

Ephraim Vile married Martha Annie Cooper at St. Luke's Church

                  Bedminster, Bristol, in 1875. In 1881 they were living

                  in London. Martha died in 1883, and Ephraim

                  remarried to Lizzie Thurlow in 1901, when they were

                  living at 7 Rosina Cottages, Hackney.

Maurice William Vile married Mary Irons at Hackney in 1900.

                  Born in Bristol in 1876, moved to London with his

                  parents and was living in Morning Lane, Hackney, in

                 1901.

Edward Maurice Vile born in Hackney 23 April 1901

           married Elsie May Crawley, 27 August 1925

Maurice John Crawley Vile born 23 July 1927, Hackney

           married Margaret Annie Coughtrey 1949 (divorced)

           married Gillian Collinge 1973 (divorced)

           married Nancy Johanna Gaffield 1992

John Mark Vile born 7 December 1962, Oxford, England

            married Alison Hawkins 1985 (divorced)

            married Sarah Wells 2009

            Samuel John Vile born 31 January 1990, Oxford, England

            Robert David Vile  born 14 November 1991, Oxford,

                                               England

Richard Geoffrey Vile born 19 July 1964, Oxford, England

           married Sadie Long-Fox 1988 (divorced)

           married Rosa Maria Diaz Marcano 1998

            Oriana Isabel Vile born 1 March 1998, London

            Sebastian Edward Vile born 30 August 2000, Rochester,

                       Minnesota