Ancestral Trails 2016 » John POLHILL (1554-1611)

Persoonlijke gegevens John POLHILL 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1554 in Frenches, Nr Burwash, East Sussex.
• Woonachtig:
• Etchingham, Ticehurst, East Sussex.Bron 1
• Etchingham, Ticehurst, East Sussex.Bron 1
• Hij is overleden augustus 1611 in Frenches, Nr Burwash, East Sussex, hij was toen 57 jaar oud.Bronnen 1, 2
• Hij is begraven op 26 augustus 1611 in St Bartholomew, Burwash, East Sussex.Bron 2
• Een kind van Thomas POLHILL en Margaret CHAPMAN

Gezin van John POLHILL

Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth FOWLE.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 1 mei 1578 te St Bartholomew, Burwash, East Sussex, hij was toen 24 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Sarah POLHILL  ± 1590-1610
2. William POLHILL  1586-???? 
3. Barbara POLHILL  1581-< 1611 
4. Nicholas POLHILL  1586-1654 
5. Susanna POLHILL  1585-> 1627
6. Thomas POLHILL  1588-1637
7. Robert POLHILL  1599-1661 
8. John POLHILL  1579-1613 
9. Henry POLHILL  1585-1616
10. Dorothy POLHILL  1596-????
11. Edward POLHILL  1583-1654 

Notities over John POLHILL

Son of Thomas Polhill and Margaret Chapman.
Issue: John, Barbara, Edward, Nicholas, Henry, William, Thomas, Susan, Dorothy, Robert and Sara Polhill
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John Polhill ‘the elder’ made his will on 23rd August 1611. This was the person who married Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Fowle of Wadhurst. In the opening lines of his will John describes himself as ‘of Ekingham’ (i.e. Etchingham) in Sussex, and as a ‘gent’, but in the course of the will he also mentions Frenches, his property in Burwash. We learn that his wife Elizabeth is still alive, and there is also a reference to his sister Elizabeth Tilman.

William Berry’s pedigree of the Polhills claims that John and Elizabeth Polhill had four sons - John, Edward, Nicholas and Robert - but doesn’t mention any daughters. However, John’s will mentions seven sons and gives their order of birth, as follows: John, Edward, Nicholas, Henry, William, Thomas and Robert. We also learn the names of three daughters: Barbara, Susan and Dorothy.

John Polhill junior married Elizabeth Young, daughter of William Young of Wadhurst. John senior’s will names ‘John Younge the brother of John Polhill my eldest sonne his wife’ as co-executor with his son Edward, and also mentions John Polhill junior’s daughter Elizabeth.

John senior’s second son Edward became rector of Etchingham and inherited the family property at Buckland, seemingly on the occasion of his first marriage, to Deborah Bankworth, daughter of Robert Bankworth of Bow Lane, London. I’ve found a record of the marriage, which took place at the church of St Mary-le-Bow on 29th January 1610. Edward would later marry for a second time, to Jane, daughter of William Newton of Lewes.

The third son, Nicholas, is the first to be mentioned in the will, and he received the generous bequest of eight hundred pounds, equivalent to about £80,000 in today’s money. When taken together with the slighter smaller bequests to his other children, this gives an indication of John Polhill senior’s considerable wealth. According to Berry, Nicholas had two sons and two daughters, though the name of his wife is not known. The fourth son Henry, about whom we have no further information, received his bequest from his father in the form of property in the parish of Goudhurst, Kent.

William and Thomas Polhill, John Polhill senior’s fifth and sixth sons, both appear to have been apprentices in London at the time of their father’s death, since their bequests are conditional on their becoming freemen of the City. Thomas is granted the lease of his father’s house in Soper Lane, near Cheapside, that had been occupied by his son-in-law James Turner (see below). A number of members of the Polhill family seem to have migrated to London, and Thomas Polhill may be the merchant taylor of that name who was active there later in the century. Robert Polhill, the seventh and youngest son of John Polhill senior, is to receive four hundred pounds.

As for John’s daughters, we learn that Barbara is no longer living. She was married to James Turner, mentioned above, and they had a son John, who is to receive five hundred pounds from his grandfather’s will. Another daughter, Susan or Susanna, had married Thomas Harrison at St Clements, Hastings, on 26th May 1608, and they had a son John, who is mentioned in his grandfather’s will. Thomas Harrison is to act as one of the overseers of the will. A third daughter, Dorothy, appears to be as yet unmarried; she receives four hundred pounds.

John Polhill appoints as overseers of his will ‘my beloved friend Mr Thomas Aynscombe, Mr William Fowle, my brother in law, Mr Robert Porter, and Thomas Harrison, my sonne in lawe’. William Fowle was, of course, the brother of John’s wife Elizabeth, and the only surviving son and heir of Nicholas Fowle of Wadhurst. Thomas Aynscombe was a gentleman of Mayfield, who made his own will in 1621.
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