Person:John Foote (6)

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John Foote
b.Est 1555 Royston, Cambridgeshire, England
d.1616 London, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. Est 1549
  1. Robert FooteEst 1550 - 1608/09
  2. Alice FooteEst 1552 -
  3. John FooteEst 1555 - 1616
  4. Elizabeth FooteEst 1557 -
Spouse and Children
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m. 11 Apr 1581
  1. Susan Foote
  2. Ellen Foote
  3. John Foote
  4. Priscilla Foote
  5. Samuel Foote
  6. Elizabeth FooteAbt 1582 - Bef 1617
  7. Thomas Foote
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Facts and Events
Name[2] John Foote
Gender Male
Birth[1][3] Est 1555 Royston, Cambridgeshire, England
Marriage 11 Apr 1581 St. Mary Woolnoth, City of London, Middlesex, Englandto Margaret Brooke
Will[1] 17 Nov 1616 London, England
Occupation[1] London, Englandgrocer
Death[1] 1616 London, England
Probate[1] 4 Dec 1616
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    51:136.

    WILL:
    John Foote citizen and grocer of London, 17 November 1616, proved 4 December 1616.
    After my debts paid and funeral expenses performed I will that all my goods, chattels and debts, after the laudable custom of the City of London be divided in three parts, whereof I will Margaret my wife shall have one equal part according to the said custom and the second equal part shall be divided, according the the same custom, to and amongst my children, viz John Foote, Thomas Foote, Samuel Foote, Elizabeth Haies, Susan Cutt, Priscilla Clement and Ellen Foote, provided that the sums of money which I have already given in marriage with Susan and Priscilla be reckoned to be in part of that which shall happen to them. I give in charge to all my children that they be dutiful and loving to their said mother as good children ought to be, and loving and kind one to another in all brotherlike affection. To the poor of Royston in Cambridgeshire where I was born five pounds. The poor people of the liberty of the old parish garden. The poor of Christ's Hospital. Loving friend Mr. Dun the minister of our parish. Mr. Culverwell the preacher. To my cousin Robert Foote that sometime was my servant one hundred pounds. My sister Storie. My grandchildren John Hayes and Elizabeth Hayes. My other grandchildren Robert Cutt, Susan Cutt, Thomas Cutt and Elizabeth Cutt. My sister Elizabeth Smith, widow. To my son in law John Hayes and to my said children John, Thomas, Samuel and Ellen Foote one hundred pounds apiece over and besides their portions. The said sons at ages of one and twenty. My sister Alice Sawle. My servant Daniel Foote. Loving friend Mr. Greene the parson of the parish church of Royston. The residue to my wife Margaret whom I make executrix. And I make my son in law Mr. Robert Clement and my loving friend Mr. Thomas Brookes the overseers. I give my shop and warehouse in Royston unto my son Thomas. I give my house and yard in Royston to my other son Samuel. If Thomas and Samuel die without issue male &c. I give said shop and warehouse and house and yardd to my son John.
    Daniel Foote was one the witnesses. Cope, 127.
    [NEHGR 51:136]

    "My sister Storie" is likely his wife's sister, Sara (Brooke) Storie, mentioned in her mother's will.
    NOTE: The boundary between Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire ran through Royston until the 1890s (Wikipedia).

  2. ↑ McCracken, George E. Nathaniel Foote's English Relatives. The American Genealogist. (1977)
    53:193.

    'JOHN FOOTE of Royston, Cambridgeshire, tallow chandler, made his undated will which was probated 18 July 1558 (PCC 34 Noodles, [Abram W. Foote's Foote Family comprising the Genealogy and History of Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield, Connecticut and his Descendants, 1907, 2:645]), in which he leaves ... to wife Helen, ... [to] my brother Foote [that he] oweth to his two eldest children; to wife's brother Richard Warren the younger and to her uncle John Jenawaye of Stoone, ... to son Robert ... to son John Foot ... to Aves Foote and Elizabeth Foote, daughters ... '

  3. ↑ Birth year estimated based on marriage date, and on death date of his father.
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