Complex sentence: Haynes was likely born at Messing, Essex, England, the eldest son of John Haynes and the former Mary Michel, his family an armigerous gentry or'visitation family' who had lived at Codicote, Herefordshire and at Great Haddam.
Split into simpler sentences: Haynes was likely born at Messing, Essex, England, the eldest son of John Haynes and the former Mary Michel. The family was an armigerous gentry or'visitation family' who had lived at Codicote, Herefordshire and at Great Haddam.