Robert(B) Noyes (Nicholas(C), Robert(D)) was born probably at Cholderton, Wiltshire about 1518 [He was "of the age of 80 years or thereabouts" on 25 April 40 Elizabeth I [1598] [Chancery Proceedings, Town Depositions, C24/268] and he died after 17 November 1599 when he was listed on the subsidy roll of 42 Elizabeth I. … He married before 1568 a woman whose name is presently unknown. … Robert Noyes was listed in the subsidies of 10 September 13 Elizabeth I (1571) and 42 Elizabeth I [1599/1600] [Subsidy Rolls, E179/198/284; E170/198/336]. While we have been taught to look with suspicion on ages given in round numbers, Robert's 1598 deposition suggests that he was nearly fifty years old when his first child was born. When Richard Noyes of Manningford Bruce in 1590/91 gave a small legacy to "every of the sonnes of Robert Noyes of Showlderton," the implication was that there were at least two boys and probably more. We find evidence of only two.
