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I am the senior descendant in the male line of Richard Percy/Piercy c. 25 Oct 1766 Chelmarsh, Shropshire, d. 21 Feb 1811 Newcastle under Lyme. He was the son of John Piercy of unknown date of birth, who married at Chelmarsh 4 Sep 1749 to Anne Lewis and produced four sons there, Robert c. 3 Jul 1750, John c. 20 Jul 1758, William c. 25 Mar 1761 and Richard (above), plus two other children who died young. Tenuous evidence suggests that he might have been born around 1710-15 and that his father was a Robert Percy of Shifnal who died in 1748 and was buried at Chelmarsh. According to family legend, a Percy ancestor of mine was a Roman Catholic, who fought with the Jacobites at Prestonpans (1745) and died with a great family secret, before he could pass it on. I have long believed that the secret related to the involvement of an anecstor in the gunpowder plot. I wonder whether maybe your interesting claim will attract to this forum someone with whom this story finds resonance, perhaps a descendant of one of the other three sons mentioned above. (It is said that there was a quarrel over an inheritance, the younger son, my ancestor, prevailing [maybe through the tradition of borough English] and the older sons moving away, perhaps to Pembroke). I have not yet seen a Robert Percy born about 1680-90 who could be a descendant of the plotter's children, but if I have missed something in the Taunton register searches I would like to be told. I am better known in amateur genealogical circles for my work on another ancestral line, WHITEHOUSE, and can be reached via the posting for that surname on the Guild of One-Name Studies website.

Hello Keith, thanks for your information.  The information regarding to the ear;ier Robert is shown on the page titled 'Pilgrimage for the truth'.  I have copied the relevant information below for you. In the search which is dated 06/07/1998 Di Clements discovered Francis son of Robert having been baptised at St Mary Madgalene, 11/11/1998 the burial of Robert in 1641. Please refer to these searches.

One day while researching an old “Dictionary of National Biography” (a reliable source) my brother Graeme discovered an entry that proved it was the Plotter’s son Robert who had married Emma Meade of Taunton and not the Robert Percy under the heading “The Four Percies from the North”.  The other was either an unconnected Robert Percy or an “impostor”.  The two separate sections of the “Beverley Line” were now effectively joined and as confirmation we found ourselves not only in the arena of the title claims but right slap bang back in the middle of the Taunton Parish of St Mary Magdalene registers—our Parish!  Placing the correct Robert (The Plotter’s Son) in the place of the impostor the Table III chart shows him as having only two children, Francis and Richard.  Going back into our genealogist’s reports we found the eldest son Francis had been christened in our Taunton St. Mary Magdalene Parish in 1616 as were three other, unrecorded (in Table III) siblings, two younger brothers (Thomas and James) and a sister Ann.

Sorry I am unsure as to the Robert you refer to having been born at SMM 1680-90.