1420 "Conveyance from Joan de Fynderne, relicta Joh. de Fynderne, to John Makworth, Dean of Lincoln, Thomas Blount, Henry de Knyveton, Henry de Bothe, John de Irton, John Lathebury, and Thomas Bradeschawe, of her third part of the manor of Fynderne which she holds as dower, viz., all the chambers, with "le Parler, Norcere, Pantre, Botre, Wynceller," in the north part of the Hall, and a long house "under one roof," extending on the east towards "le Gaytehouse," and on the west towards the pool and several lands in the high field on "le Crow-nest," in "le middel forlonge," in "le Gores," on "le Foulthorne," in "le Gallemedowe," in "le Blakmeyre," in "le Ouerclose de Pottloke" called "Overhenmarshe,'' in "le Pottlokfeld" extending on the north towards "le Lytillwallehyll," which the said Joan holds in dower in Pottloke (except a part of the long house aforesaid which is called "le Werkhouse "); to hold in trust till Robert fil. et her. Joh. de Fynderne arrives at full age, or in case of his death, till the full age of the next heir, etc. Witn. Alvered de Lathebury, chev., Reginald de Lathebury, Henry Wychard, Thomas Makworth, John Crowker. Dat. Th. b. F. of St. Martin [11 Nov.], 8 Hen. V. [1420]. (Okeover.)" [1]
There are records for John Fynderne dated 9 Richard II and 13 Henry IV. John Fynderne was siesed of a manor called Strelly's Part at Repton. [2]
"The pedigrees of the ancient and important family of Findern, do not carry us back further than Robert de Fynderne, temp. Edward II [Harl. MSS. 1092, f. 76, etc.], but we have incidental allusions to them of an earlier date. Walter de Findern was one of the witnesses to a charter relative to Repton Priory early in the reign of Henry III [3]; and Nicholas Findern was one of the eye-witnesses of a remarkable meteor that startled the good people of Alvaston, on September 18th, 1253, and which was thought of sufficient importance to be chronicled in the annals of Burton Abbey [Cott.MSS., Vesp. B. III.,f. 41]. Isabella seems to have been the daughter of John and Catherine Findern, who were living in the reign of Henry IV. Her husband was Henry Bothe, of Arleston, in the adjacent parish of Barrow-on- Trent, and their daughter, Alice, was the first wife of Sir Nicholas Fitzherbert, of Norbury [4]. Henry Bothe died in 1446. With respect to the Bothes, see the previous account of the church of Barrow-on-Trent, and the subsequent one of the church of Sawley." [5].
[1] Isaac Herbert Jeayes for Sir Henry Howe Bemrose, Descriptive catalogue of Derbyshire charters in public and private libraries and muniment rooms (London: Bemrose & Sons, 1906), 157, item 1280, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[2] Llewellynn Jewitt, "Findern and the Fyndernes," The Reliquary 3 (1862-3), 185-99, at 194, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[3] "History of Repton, in Derbyshire," The Topographer for the Year 1790 containing a variety of original articles, Vol. ii (London: 1790), 249-60,263-84, at 254, [HathiTrust].
[4] J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 3, "the Hundred of Appletree and Repton and Gresley" (1877), 235, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[5] J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 4, "the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch" (1879), 314, [GoogleBooks].