"Robert (Bettes), b. about 1612/13; 'aged about 26' 15 May 1639. He was a tailor. He was the 'cousin Robert Bettes, son of Aunt Mary Bridger of West Peckham' in the will of Smalehope Bigge, 3 May 1638; and the 'Cousin Betes living about Lengly' in the will of John Bigge, 17 Aug. 1640. As Robert Bettes of Leeds (co. Kent), tailor, bachelor, he had a licence to marry, 15 May 1639, and did marry, at Harrietsham, co. Kent, 21 May 1639, Margaret Topley of Harrietsham, then aged about 28."