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Christian Percival
b.Est 1548
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fradd, Brandon; Richardson, Douglas. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register: The Royal Ancestry of Percival Lowell, Volume: vol. 157. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, October 2003)
page 310. - ↑ From NEHGR 157:311 (Oct 2003)
Weston-in-Gordano was the ancient seat of the Percival family. Edmund Percival, esq., lord of the manor of Weston-in-Gordano died 21 Sept 1551. His inquisition post mortem includes his will dated 24 Aug 1550. In the will, he describes himself as Edmund Percyvall of Weston in Gordon. He leaves his manor of Eastbury in Carhampton to his wife Elizabeth for her life, remainder to his right hier. He names his daughters Elinor, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Christian and gives them £10 each to be received at age 20 or upon their marriages. He also gives £20 each to sons Andrew, Edmund, and Thomas. All these children are described as minors. His son and heir James is to be executor, and overseers are to be Mr. Edmund Gorges and Mr. John Bulbeck, each of whom becomes executors if James refuses to act as executor. The Inquisition Post Mortem mentions that son James was age 21 or more at his father's death. Between 1558 and 1579 James Percival, son of Edmund, sued Walter Symons, clerk concerning tites of Weston rectory, Somerset.
John Bulbeck, named by Edmund Percival in 1550 as an overseer and contingent executor, provides a link between the Percivals and the Lowles. In 1547 Richard Lowle's grandfather, Edmund Leveredge, left his estate in Kingston Seymour, Somerset, to the same John Bulbeck (of Clevedon, Somerset, esquire), if Leveredge's daughters (who were co-heiresses) did not leave male heirs.
We conclude that Christian Percival, named in the 1550 will of Edmund Percival, apparently as his youngest minor daughter, was identical with "Christianna" Percival who married aobut 1570 Richard Lowle of nearby Portbury and who may have been living in Weston-in-Gordano after his death
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