Person:Nicholas Wilbore (2)

Nicholas Wilbore
m. Abt 1500
  1. Nicholas Wilbore1504 - 1583
  2. John WilboreAbt 1508 - Abt 1527
  3. Joan Wilbore1512 -
  • HNicholas Wilbore1504 - 1583
  • W_____ AnnAbt 1506 -
m. ABT 1594/1597
  1. Ann Wilbore1546 -
  2. Joseph Wilbore1549 - 1620
  3. Susan Wilbore1551 -
  4. Thomas WilboreAbt 1553 - 1628
  5. Mary Wilbore1553 -
  6. William Wilbore1555 - 1615
  7. Robert WilboreAbt 1556 -
  8. Joshua WilboreAbt 1558 -
  9. Nicholas Wilbore1560 - 1611
Facts and Events
Name[1] Nicholas Wilbore
Gender Male
Birth? 1504 Colchester, Essex, England
Alt Birth? Abt 1520 Colchester, Essex, England
Alt Marriage 1524/1546 to _____ Ann
Death? 16 Sep 1583 Braintree, Essex, England
Marriage ABT 1594/1597 Colchester, Essex, Englandto _____ Ann

Nicholas Wilbore married a woman named Ann in his hometown of Colchester, then moved to Braintree, an Essex town 40 miles northest of London. There they raised a family of five boys and three girls, all of whom remained in the area for their entire lives and all of whom were buried in a cemetery at Sible Hedingham, a village about six miles from Braintree.

Nicholas's will was made 27 Nov. 1582 and proved in Braintree, Essex Co, England 16 Sept. 1583 Nicholas's occupation was:Woolen Draper. He was 79 when he died. Nicholas Wilbore was originally of Colchester, but in 1548 we find him in Braintree, when he sold Le Stone house to John Jr., and Alice Wilbore of Colchester. He was very well to do with much real estate and other property in Braintree, Stisted, and Bocking. He evidently hired much help in the woolen business and also owned a large mill in Braintree which was used by him as a pasturage for his sheep, called Skitts Hill. Nicholas can be placed in the class with the Paycock family, a well known family of woolen merchants of the sixteenth century, whose house is still in existence in Coggeshalle, County Essex. According to Nicholas' will he owned the following real estate. In Braintree, Cherkson, And the Guante. Tenement called Wolnes in Sisted, land he bought of Robert Polye called by the name of Cops Wood, Hamstall, his house called the checker with tenements, a field called Bartletts, The Slade, a meadow called Wheland farm in Stisted, a groce called Hollis Grove and a coppiehold shop in the market place of Braintree with two rooms over same, and a hill called Skitts Hill. 1

References
  1. A. Donovan Faust (Foust). A Family History: The Ancestors of Thomas Wilson Faust. (1997).
  2.   Faust, Donovan. A Family History.

    "The Wilbores lived during tumultuous royal and religious times. The reign of willful and volatile Henry VIII (he of the six wives), was followed by confusion after his death when three queens were on the throne during a period of 11 years, with accompanying radical changes in religious doctrines with each change of monarch. The Roman Catholic church had been thrown out by Henry only to return under Mary I, (accompanied by 300 Protestants being burned at the stake), then reversed again in favor of the Church of England when she was succeeded by Elizabeth I. All of this may have affected the daily lives of average citizens such as the Wilbores very little but it certainly would have been most upsetting to their religious rituals."