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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Reed, Paul C. The English Ensigns: Ancestral of Thomas(1) Ensign of Scituate, Massachusetts, and James(1) Ensign of Hartford, Connecticut. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan, Apr, Jul 2000)
p. 237. - Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Wills of Selected Famous Persons. Digitized images. Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 1. The National Archives, Kew, England
PCC Will of John Baker of Battle, Sussex 1587 The National Archives, Kew: PROB 11/70/311.
link PCC Will of John Baker of Battle, Sussex 1587
Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers. Name of Register: Spencer Quire Numbers: 1 - 40. Will of John Baker of Battle, Sussex.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Date: 20 May 1587
Reference: PROB 11/70/311
will written 11 September 1584
John Baker of Battell [Battle], Sussex
-to be buried in church of Battle
-bequests to the poor
-every godchild
-sometime servant William Cada
-servant Elizabethe Hardwell
-brother [in law?] Thomas Nicoll my sservant
-every other servant
-daughter Dorothie unmarried
-son Michaell Baker
-son Thomas Baker
-wife Elizabeth as sole executrix
-overseers Mr Pelham of Battle and Thomas Isted and my cousin Thomas Aynscomb
WILL
-list of properties not extracted
-..used for bringing up of all my children...
-son Michaell under 23
witnesses Thomas Ainscombe John Porter Thomas Isted Thomas Russell Stephen Collen Thomas Collen
probate 20 May 1597 by Elizabethe relict and executrix
order the original here
- Bannerman, William Bruce (ed.). The visitations of the county of Sussex: made and taken in the years 1530 by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms; and 1633–4 by John Philipot, Somerset Herald, and George Owen, York Herald, for Sir John Burroughs, Garter, and Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux. (London: Mitchell & Hughes [for the Harleian Society], 1905)
Baker pedigree Vol LIII, p 101.
- BIRTH: John, "aged 30 years and more," was identified as the son and heir of his father, John Baker in his inquisition post mortem, taken at Lewes, 12 June 1557, abstracted in F. W. T. Attree, ed., Notes of Post Mortem Inquisitions Taken in Sussex. 1 Henry VII to
1649 and After, Sussex Record Society, vol. 14 (London, 1912), 13. The inquisition further explains that John was the 2d son behind William who was alive on 8 July 1547 when John received the manor of Isenhurst in Mayfield and Waldron from his father.
MAR: W. Bruce Bannerman, ed., The Visitations of the County of Sussex Made and Taken in the Years 1530… and 1633-4 , Publications of the Harleian Society, visitation series, vol. 53 (London, 1905), 101. Wife was daughter of Richard Isted of "Moate House" in Mayfield. This is confirmed by the will of Richard Isted's widow Joane Isted of Mayfield, who mentioned her daughter Elizabeth Baker and son-in-law John Baker in her will of 11 Aug 1557, proved 7 Nov 1558, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, reg. will, TNA, PROB 11/41/260, online image (ancestry.com).
DEATH: Date of death from his inquisition post mortem, taken at Uckfield, 4 Apr 29 Eliz. [1587], abstracted in Attree, Notes of Post Mortem Inquisitions Taken in Sussex, 13. Also see the will of John Baker of Battle, 11 Sept 1584, proved 20 May 1587, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, reg. wills, TNA, PROB 11/70/311, online image (ancestry.com).
OCC: Yeoman (inquisition post mortem)
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