Robert Chilcott and Joan Fulbroke
Parents William Chilcott and Mrs Mabel Every (50%)
Thomas Fulbroke and Joane Kendall
An email from Geoff Court discusses the link
from Robert to William and Mabel in some detail.
His conclusion with which I concur is a definite unproven
See his emails on George and Frances' page
Fo my 50% rating is optimistic?
Robert Chilcott (b abt 1637 Breedy Dorset, m Joan Fulbroke)
Christopher Chilcott
(b 1665 Beaminster Dorset, m Hannah
Langford 1690 Bridport Dorset, d 1725 Tintagel Cornwall)
William
Chilcott
(b 1700 Tintagel, m Rebecca
Williams 1739 North Hill Cornwall, d 1744)
Charles the Giant
Chilcott (b 1742, m Mary Jose
1768 St Juliot Cornwall, d 1815)
Langford
Chilcott (b 1769 Tintagel, m Ann
Medling 1800, d 1823 Tintagel)
Charles Chilcott (b 1802 Tintagel, m Mary Strout 1822 Tintagel, d 1869
Launceston Tas)
Mary Chilcott (b 1827
Tintagel, m John Cubit 1845 Longford, d
1874 Deloraine Tas)
Ellen Adelaide Cubit (1856
Westbury, m William Mitchell 1880
Sandridge, Melb, d 1937 Wodonga, Vic)
Ernest Harold Mitchell
(b 1887 Whiteford, m 1914 Liela
Muriel Roach, d 1960 Wodonga)
Robert Chilcott
William Chilcott
Mary Chilcott
Joan Hunter, descended from
William Chilcott (b 1700 above) and his first wife, Hannah Henwood
supplied some interesting wills and comments
I
have the will of Joan Chilcott (d. 1707). I have felt she’d
be a good fit for Robert’s wife, but even though she mentions
Robert’s 3 sons (& Christopher’s daughter, Elianor) in the
will, the bequests are small. The bulk of the estate goes to
Weary & George Bryant jr. I have the .pdf of the will if
you don’t have it yet. Claire Freestone in Somerset is doing
a One-Name Study of the Chilcott name and shows Robert’s wife as
Joan.
There is also a
will of Robert Chilcott of Bridport dated 1684 that really only
muddies the waters further:
Comment Les Rowley
Go with Joan of the will above, but we won't
follow her line till we get stronger evidence. As Joan Hunter
says, the issue still is whether Christopher's father Robert is the
same person as William's son Robert. My guess is an 80% probability.
Will of Robert Chilcott 1684
(Hare #87) Prob 11 376 page 312,
In the name of
God, Amen. Whereas Robert Chilcott of Bridport in the County
of Dorset, gent, have lately made [two wills] in the first of
which my nephew William Chilcott,
my niece Mary Simes and
my mother-in-law Joane Fulbrook
were legated and my brother Mr
William Chilcott was executor and in the other my said
brother my William Chilcott and my nephew William [my notes say S
but I think they should say C] son of my said brother Mr William
Chilcott was legated and my said mother-in-law Joane Fullbrooke
executrix now know ye that I the said Robert Chilcott being still
sick and weak of body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be to
Almighty God having ?ravelled? and made void my two former wills
by me made as aforesaid do now make and ordain this to be my last
will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say
first I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God
my creator and redeemer and my body to be decently buried and as
for such worldly goods as God hath been pleased to bless me withal
I give dispose and bequeath unto every one of the legatees in my
said first will Named twenty shillings apiece to buy each of
them a mourning ring and as for my said mother-in-law Joan
Fulbrooke I recommend and leave her to the care and discretion of
my said brother Mr William Chilcott my executor hereafter named
doubting not but he will as he hath promised me that so much
regard to her and care of her as if she were his own mother and
lastly I give devise and bequeath unto my said brother Mr William
Chilcott all other my goods and chattels whether moveable or
unmoveable or of what nature kind or quality soever whom I make
whole and sole executor of this my last will and testament
revoking annihilating frustrating and making void all other will
or wills my me here to fore made or intended to be made in witness
whereof I the said Robert Chilcott have hereunto put my...
Comments by Joan
IGI
shows Mary Chilcott Syms bpt. 06 Sep 1683 in Burton Bradstock,
d.o. Samuel Syms & Mary. (Bet her last name’s Chilcott.)
If the
above Robert were ours, though, one would think he’d mention his
sons, Christopher, Robert & William, so perhaps he’s a
cousin. That being said, there was a marriage between Thomas
Fulbroke and Joan Kendale on 29 Apr 1629 in Allington, Bridport,
Dorset. This may be the Joan Fulbrook of the above
will. She’d be abt. 75 yrs old at the time of the
will.
Coincidentally,
Thomas Fulbrooke had a daughter, Elinor. Christopher
Chilcott named one of his daughters Elianor, perhaps after an
aunt? Speculation, I know.
On to Robert
Chilcott’s parents, William & Mabella. Mablen Bragge m.
Alexander Every in 1626, in Thorncombe near Axminster,
Dorset. Their daughter, Elizabeth was b. 1628 in Whitchurch
Canonicorum, Dorset. She is mentioned in her step-father’s
will, as is her father, Alexander:
Acknowlegements:
Thanks to Joan Hunter for the information on this page
Research Notes
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR Apprenticeship Papers
APPRENTICESHIP INDENTURES
FILE - Susannah
Harris;
daughter of Elizabeth Harris, widow, to William Chilcott of North
Mapperton, yeoman - ref. PE/ BE/OV 5/1/10 - date:
24 Feb 1698/9
FILE - John
Fudge
to Susannah Chilcott, widow - ref. PE/BE/OV 5/1/47
- date: 26 Jul 1736
FILE - Mary
Maby
to Robert Chilcott, husbandman - ref. PE/BE/OV
5/1/91 - date: 31 Mar 1750
Email from Trish Gardner, 12
May 2008, to follow up
http://archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk/History/blundellscholars.asp
(use edit > find) contains info on William Chilcot 1679 and was a Blundell fellow
of Balliol College, Oxford. How is he related
Christopher (b.1665) who attended Oxford also?
http://www.oldtowns.co.uk/Devon/tiverton.htm
(use edit > find) contains info on Robert Comyn (he’s noted with the term ‘alias
Chilcott’) who was a nephew of
Blundell who began the Blundellian
scholarships to Balliol College, Oxford, as mentioned in links
above. It might explain why Christopher and William attended
there. I believe the name Comyn had a bad reputation
politically, so perhaps he used the alias Chilcott. Is there a spilt around the
1600’s or shortly before into the agriculturalist and those
interested in the arts?
I found the
William and Mabella notes on the net, then George Chilcott, Milverton, Somerset, 1560, then William Chilcott, Stogumber, Milverton, same date, then Henry Chilcott 1532. Are they all connected/related?
Notes from Julian Higgins in GR
The name
Chilcott is of Anglo-Saxon origin and came from when the family
were based in the chapelry of Chilcote, which was in the parish of
Burton-on-Trent, in Derbyshire. The surname belongs to the long
list of Anglo-Saxon names which are based on pre-existing towns,
villages etc. First found in Dorset, where they were seated from
ancient times predating the norman conquest.
Bronwin
Heslop (GR) has Robert dying in 1687 - no other info
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