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:
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
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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