Person:Elias Tuckett (1)

Elias Tuckett

b.Abt 1597 England

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Michelle Kahler, North Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. Descendants list of Elias Tuckett of Christow, Devon, England. (Aggregate of items researched and collected.).
England. Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837.

'Elies Tuckett of Christow Aged ninty yeares was Buired at Clumpitt in Christow ... 3 day of the ninth Moneth one thousand sixe hundred eghty seven'

The ninth month in 1687 was Nov.

While it might be assumed that his age was exaggerated, it agrees with the age when he was in prison, suggesting both might be correct - or at least, that Elias settled on a particular age at some point in his life and was consistent after that.
↑ Besse, Joseph. A collection of the sufferings of the people called Quakers: for the testimony of a good conscience, from the time of their being first distinguished by that name in the year 1650, to the time of the act, commonly called the Act of Toleration, granted to protestant dissenters in the first year of the reign of King William the Third... (London: Luke Hine, 1753)
1:161.

'ANNO 1678. Elias Tuckett of Christow, aged eighty one Years, blind, and almost deaf, was committed to the Sheriff's Wart at Exon, and continued Prisoner there ten Weeks, at the Suit of John Davis a Justice and Impropriator, for Tithes.'