Johnson / Bryans Families

Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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Col. Christopher Whichcote

Governor of Windsor Castle
Male Abt 1603 -

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  • Name Christopher Whichcote 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Birth Abt [J] Mar 1603 
    Baptism [J] 20 Mar 1603  Burford, Shropshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Occupation Governor of Windsor Castle  [2] 
    Last Modified 8 Apr 2021 

    Father Christopher Whichcote, of Stoke, co. Salop
              b. 31 Jul 1571  
              d. Between 1 Apr 1620 and 4 Apr 1620 (Age 48 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Fox
              b. Abt 1575 
    Marriage Abt 1597 

    Marriage 18 Feb 1635  Bitton, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Children 
     1. Mary Whichcote
              b. 27 Jul 1640, Little St Helens, City of London, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Abt Aug 1667 (Age 27 years)
    Last Modified 10 Oct 2021 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Christopher Whichcote was born in March 1602/3 and baptised on the 20th at Burford in Shropshire. His parents were Christopher Whichcote of Stoke (in Shropshire) and Elizabeth Fox.

      Career and Family Life
      Christopher was the Governor of Windsor Castle.

      We know for sure that Christopher's wife was called Katherine, as that name matches the baptismal record for their daughter Mary. Ancestry trees give her full name as Katherine Hudson. However, a Boyd's Inhabitants of London record for 1635 gives his wife's names as what looks like "Fordith Catherine". But actually the first word is Judith, and has been crossed out, because whoever filled in this record had got confused with a record from 1631 for Edward Whichcote (Christopher's brother) who had married a Judith Foxcroft. Unfortunately, the details of her actual surname and parents are left empty in this record.

      According to that same record, Christopher and Katherine had:
      1. John, b. 1636
      2. Christopher, b. 1638
      3. Elizabeth, b. 1639, who married Matthias Crabbe
      4. Mary, b. 1640, who married the Rev. John Worthington


      Death
      Ancestry trees give his death as 26 April 1664 in London, with no sources.

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBaptism - [J] 20 Mar 1603 - Burford, Shropshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 18 Feb 1635 - Bitton, Gloucestershire, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S0307] FamilySearch, England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, (familysearch.org), 20 Mar 1603, Chrisfer. Whichcott; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPVL-6VN : 19 March 2020), Chrisfer. Whichcott, 1603.

    2. [S0347] Rev. Canon A R Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, (Harleian Society, 1902-1906), Whichcot of Harpswell; Volume 3, pages 1069-1073.

    3. [S0309] FamilySearch, England Marriages, 1538–1973, (familysearch.org), 18 Feb 1635, Christopher Wharhcotte; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NL9J-YQZ : 13 March 2020), Christopher Wharhcotte, 1635.