Johnson / Bryans Families

Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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Christopher Whichcote, of London

Merchant Tailor
Male Abt 1530 - 1583  (~ 53 years)

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  • Name Christopher Whichcote 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Birth Abt 1530 
    Occupation Merchant Tailor  [1] 
    Will [J] 12 Jan 1576  [1] 
    Death 18 May 1583  Stoke, Shropshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Burial 21 May 1583  St Dunstan-in-the-West, City of London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Last Modified 7 Oct 2020 

    Father Thomas Whichcote, of Harpswell and Dunston
              b. Est 1500  
              d. Between 14 Nov 1540 and 10 Dec 1540 (Age ~ 40 years) 
    Mother Katherine Norton
              b. Bef 1524 

    Wife Lucy Bosvile
              b. Abt 1535  
              d. Aft 1576 (Age ~ 42 years) 
    Children 
     1. Christopher Whichcote, of Stoke, co. Salop
              b. 31 Jul 1571  
              d. Between 1 Apr 1620 and 4 Apr 1620 (Age 48 years)
    Last Modified 5 Oct 2020 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Ancestry trees have Christopher Whichcote born 1530 at Whichcote Hall, with no sources. He could certainly have been born in the 1520s but no later than 1541 (his father died in 1540).

      Family Life
      Christopher married Lucy Bosville, daughter of Thomas Bosville of Ardsley and Newhall and his wife Anne Sutton, presumably before 1570. This marriage is mentioned in Lincolnshire Pedigrees1; however, if we look at the Bosvile pedigree (e.g. in Foster's County Families of Yorkshire2) we see that Lucy Bosvile is supposed to have married ___ Mangall and her sister, Ellen, was the one who married ___ Whichcote. It's hard to know which of the two is correct, though it's definitely clear that whoever she was, she was daughter to Thomas Bosvile of Ardsley. For this tree, I'll stick with Lucy as the right sister because Linconlshire Pedigrees seems to have more complete detail of this generation and couple than the Bosvile pedigrees.

      Christopher and Lucy had the following children:

      1. John, m. Mary Powell
      2. Christopher, b. 1571 and who married Elizabeth Fox
      3. Margaret, who married Edmund Hall of Gretford


      Death
      Per Lincolnshire Pedigrees1, Christopher Whichcote died on the 18th of May 1583, whereas Betham's Baronetage3 has him dying in on the 3rd of March 1609. He definitely died in 1583 as his will from that time clearly names his sons John and Christopher, and his brothers Robert (deceased), Leonard and Anthony.

      Footnotes
      [1] Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Rev. Canon AR Maddison, Volume 3, Harleian Society (1904), page 1070
      [2] Bosvile of Ardsley, Gunthwaite and Ravenfield; Pedigrees of The County Families of Yorkshire, Volume 1, (1874)
      [3] The Baronetage of England, Rev. William Betham, Volume 2, Ipswich (1802), pages 40-43

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 18 May 1583 - Stoke, Shropshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 21 May 1583 - St Dunstan-in-the-West, City of London, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S0347] Rev. Canon A R Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, (Harleian Society, 1902-1906), Whichcot of Harpswell; Volume 3, pages 1069-1073.

    2. [S0143] Ancestry, England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, (ancestry.co.uk), 6 Jun 1583, Xpoferi Whichcott.

    3. [S0325] FamilySearch, England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991, (familysearch.org), 21 May 1583, Christopher Whitchcott; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDHZ-YWG : 17 March 2020), Christopher Whitchcott, 1583.