5169668. Lord St John Thomas De Poynings
Lord St. John, of Basing, Hants, England.
5169680. Sir John Paulet
Sir John Paulet, Knight, of Paulet and Gotehurst, in the Coumnty of Somerset.
This family is believed to have descended from Hercules Sieur de Tournan, a knight from Picardy, who was granted the lands and manor of Pawlett in Somerset in 1134, and whose descendants were said to have taken the name of that manor (Poole, p. 106). The earliest accurate record of the Paulet/Powlett family dates from 1356.All the genealogy on the Paulets in England was researched for Adelia Stewart Sallee by Ken Smallbone, B.A. (Hons), AGRA, Genealogist & Historical Researcher, 47 Ochil Close, Basingate, Hants RG22 BBY, England: 10 Sept 1987.
Sources:
Burke's Peerage
K.B. Poole: Historical Heraldi Families (David & Charles, 1975)
Visitations of Hampshire (Harl. Soc.)
Oldham Parish Registers
Monumental Inscriptions in Eling Church
Will of Chideock Paulet, PCC 12 Pyckering
Will of Thomas Paulet, PCC 4 Drake
Will of Francis Paulet, PCC 77 Kidd