Genealogy Windsor-Cicognani » Stephen Pitcher (1500-1523)

Persoonlijke gegevens Stephen Pitcher 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1500 in Waltham, Lincolnshire, England.
• Hij is overleden mei 1523 in Coldred, Kent, England, hij was toen 23 jaar oud.
• De biologische ouders zijn John Pitcher en Barbara Hamilton
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 10 juni 2014.

Gezin van Stephen Pitcher

Hij heeft/had een relatie met Rose Pitcher.

Kind(eren):

1. Henry Pilcher  < 1493-> 1523
2. Thomas Pilcher  < 1523-????
3. Jesse Pilcher  < 1523-????
4. Josanna Pilcher  < 1523-????

Notities over Stephen Pitcher

2 ADDR
3 CTRY England
2 ADDR
3 ADR2 Coldred
3 CTRY England

Notes for IRIN # 196, Stephen Pilcher

Sources of information on Stephen Pilcher and wife Rose LNU and their children include:
•Will (PRC 15/262) of Stephen Pilcher, died 1523; Proved by son Henry Pilcher
•Will (PRC 33/31) of John Pilter, died 1558.
•Also monumental inscription in Coldred church
•Parish record for data on Christian Pilcher, wife of Thomas Pilcher, buried Coldred, April, 1569.

Stephen's will in 1523 gave 2 ewes towards cost of windows in Coldred Church. Son Thomas was left the lands in Coldred, and son John was left 11 ewes, 1 mare, 1 colt and a tenement Geddynge in the parish of Wooten.

Julian Pilcher's genealogical research has Stephen's birthdate as "abt 1440, in Coldred, Kent, England."

Stephen's will refers to grandchildren. Thus, to calculate the approximate year of Stephen's birth, we can use the following:
•Assume son Henry is the oldest, old enough to prove his father Stephen's will.
•Stephen died in 1523 with 5 living children, presumably 2 years apart, so he would have to have been married before 1513.
•Assume Stephen was married at age 20, thus he would have to have been born before 1493.
•Since the will mentions grandchildren (plural), his oldest son (presumably Henry) would have to have been at least 25 in 1523, so Henry would have been born before 1498. This moves Stephen's marriage back to before 1497, and Stephen's birth back to before 1477.
•Since sons Thomas and John were both left property in the will, the youngest of these 3 sons (whether Henry, Thomas or John) would probably have been about 25. This could back up the likely birthdate of Stephen another 6 years to before 1471.

Were Stephen born, as Julian's records suggest, about 1440, he would have been old enough in 1523 to have great-grandchildren as well. Julian's date would require much later age at marriage, a fairly advanced age at death (83 years) for that period of history, more unnamed children, and/or greater space between the births of his children.

Thus, I [cp] believe the Pilcher genealogy is fairly well proven back to Stephen Pilter's (Pilcher's) birth about (or before) 1471. The generations backward in time from Stephen Pilter are suspect. An example is that Julian's records next say that Stephen Pilter's father was also claimed to be a Stephen Pilter, born in Waltham, Kent, in 1410. Waltham and Coldred are some 12 miles apart, and families rarely spread out that far at the time in history. So this claim is unlikely.

According to Uncle Frank Pilcher, he met a Pilcher in Folkestone, England, in the early 1980's, who maintained that the original Pilcher was a Hugenot refugee who spelled his name Pyllcherre and came to England in the fifteen hundreds.

There is a book of Pilcher Family Records, printed in England, and of which I have a copy, that does allege that the name is Norman-French and is recorded in northern France back to the 1100's or earlier, with the same style spelling as above. Perhaps Frank's informant had read the same book?/CP

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