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Tristram Fauntleroy window at Michelmersh Church.""This seventh child, Tristram Fauntleroy, was born in 1452 at Fauntleroy Marsh, and died at �Priory,� in Hampshire. He married Mrs. Joan Holt Viliers, widow of Robert Viliers of Crondall, Wiltshire, who had two children by her first marriage (William Viliers, who became a priest, and a daughter who married George Brooks). Tristram and Joan Fauntleroy had two sons, Byron and John. Tristram Fauntleroy died in 1538 at the �Priory,� a short distance from Michel Marsh Church given to him for his services to Henry VIII in the settlements of church and state during the Reformation. He was master and squire of the Manor of Michel Marsh Church, one of the oldest in England. This church was restored about 1825. His portrait is shown in one of the restored windows, with the notation �Tristram Fauntleroy, who by his generosity and services to the State and Church has left a living memory.� There are also two stone tablets on the wall of the chancel of the Church, and a much larger tablet in the church to the memory of Tristram and Joan Fauntleroy." (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/viewFile/7141/7996) Looking at this Fauntleroy family history, it appears as though Tristram's great great great grandson was the first to bring the family to the then American colony of Virginia. The move to New Harmony did not come until many generations later, in 1827.