Person:Roger Ruscoe (1)

Roger Ruscoe
b.Abt 1585
  • HRoger RuscoeAbt 1585 - 1618
  • WSarah _____Abt 1590 - Aft 1618
m. Bef 1610
  1. Mercy RuscoeAbt 1610 - Aft 1668
  2. John RuscoeAbt 1613 -
  3. Katherine RuscoeAbt 1616 -
Facts and Events
Name[1] Roger Ruscoe
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1585
Marriage Bef 1610 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child (Mercy).
to Sarah _____
Will[1] 16 May 1618 Nuncupative.
Will[1] 17 May 1618 Nuncupative codicil.
Death[1] 17 May 1618 Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England
Probate[1] 26 Jun 1618 Administration to the widow.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1. Roger Ruscoe, in Seymour, George Dudley, and J. Gardner (Joseph Gardner) Bartlett. The English Home and Ancestry of Richard Seamer or Semer of Hartford, Conn. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1917)
    71:112-13.

    "1. Roger Ruscoe or Rescoe, of Sawbridgeworth, co. Herts, England, born probably about 1585, died 17 May 1618, having made his nuncupative will on the previous day. He married Sarah, who survived him. He was probably a son of Widow Hannah Ruscoe, who was buried at Sawbridgeworth 5 Aug. 1634, aged about 80 years. This family name is extremely rare in England, having been found in a very few instances and only in the counties of Essex and Herts. The earliest mention yet found of the name is in 1545, when John Rouscoue, alien, was assessed 3s. 4d. for goods at Great Dunmow, co. Essex, in a subsidy of 37 Henry VIII. (Lay Subsidies, 109/297.) This place is about ten miles east of Sawbridgeworth and the same distance north of Chelmsford. The name Ruscoe is probably of Flemish or Dutch origin, and evidently the family came into England during the sixteenth century, when there was considerable Huguenot immigration from across the English Channel, especially of textile workers, who settled in the cloth-manufacturing towns in Essex and Suffolk."

  2.   Seymour, George Dudley, and J. Gardner (Joseph Gardner) Bartlett. The English Home and Ancestry of Richard Seamer or Semer of Hartford, Conn. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1917)
    71:106.

    "The nuncupative Will of Roger Ruscoe of Sabridgeworth, co. Herts, laborer, made 16 May 1618, gave all his goods to his wife Sarah. Witnesses: Tho: Crispe, George Jacob, Rich: Robson, Dorothy Tyler. The next day (on which he died) he gave said goods, after his wife's death, to his son John, except 20s. each to his daughters Mercy and Katherine. Witnesses: Avice Walden, Alice Heath. Administration was granted 26 June 1618 to relict Sarah. (Commissary Court of London for Essex and Herts [Somerset House], 1618, original will.)"