Ancestral Trails 2016 » John POLHILL (1579-1613)

Personal data John POLHILL 

• He was born in the year 1579 in Burwash, East Sussex.
• Resident: Burwash, Sussex.Source 1
• He died September 1613 in Frenches, Nr Burwash, East Sussex, he was 34 years old.Source 1
• He is buried on September 15, 1613 in St Bartholomew, Burwash, East Sussex.Source 2
• A child of John POLHILL and Elizabeth FOWLE

Household of John POLHILL

He is married to Elizabeth YONGE.

They got married on November 2, 1603 at St Bartholomew, Burwash, East Sussex, he was 24 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth POLHILL  1605-1654
2. John POLHILL  -1651 

Notes about John POLHILL

Inherited family property 'Frenches' at Burwash.
Issue: Elizabeth and John Polhill

John Polhill the younger, eldest son of the John Polhill who made his will in 1611, only outlived his father by a couple of years. He made his will in 1613, describing himself as of Frenches in Burwash, the property he inherited from his father. The will mentions ‘my loving mother Elizabeth Polhill’, his father-in-law William Young of Wadhurst (not John Young as in Berry’s account) and his brother-in-law John Young.

John also mentions his brothers Edward, Nicholas, Henry, William, Thomas and Robert Polhill, his sister Dorothy, ‘sister [Susan] Harrison’, and his ‘brother’ [actually brother-in-law Thomas] Harrison. Other familiar figures from his father’s will include his ‘Aunt Tilman’ , Thomas Aynscombe, and his nephew John Turner, son of his late sister Barbara.

John appoints three of his uncles as overseers of his will: William Fowle, Nicholas Miller and Walter Henley. William was the brother of his mother Elizabeth Polhill née Fowle. Touchingly, the very last bequest in this will reads: ‘I give to my Uncle Fowle my hawke’. Walter Henley or Hendley is almost certainly the ‘gent’ of Lamberhurst, Kent, who made his will in 1616, in which he mentions both William Fowle of Riverhall and John Dunmoll, the husband of another Fowle sister. I assume Henley’s wife must also have been a Fowle sibling. I’m not sure about Nicholas Miller, though the 1622 for someone of that name in Wrotham, Kent, includes references to a member of the Tilman family and to a goddaughter with the surname Hendley.

The will of John Polhill junior includes bequests to his daughter Elizabeth, who is to receive eight hundred pounds, and to his son John, who is bequeathed money to pay for him to be educated at university, and to proceed to the Inns of Court. We know that this third John Polhill would marry Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Gilbourne of Shoreham and that they would have three children: John, who died in 1689; Elizabeth, who married Henry Buskyn of Gore Court; and Edward. This third in the line of John Polhills died in 1651.
https://mprobb.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/three-polhill-wills/

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