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Facts and Events
Nicholas Roy was baptised on 27th September 1720 at Pagham on the Sussex coast, son of Elizabeth Roy, formerly Ewen, and her husband, Nicholas Roy. In 1728, when Nicholas was eight years old, his mother died. Nicholas’s father died in 1743.
Nicholas was married on 10th September 1749, aged about 29, to Sarah Mattchem in the nearby village of Appledram (or Apuldram). They returned to Pagham, having four daughters baptised there between 1755 and 1764.
Nicholas worked as a wheelwright, and several times appears to have taken on apprentices between about 1750 and 1787, with one of the apprenticeship records specifying that he lived in the hamlet of Lagness in the parish of Pagham. Nicholas also owned freehold land in Pagham which was sufficiently valuable to give him the right to vote. He is recorded as having voted for the two winning candidates in the 1774 election.
Sarah died in 1795. Nicholas outlived her by eleven years. His daughter Mary died aged 40 in 1805, after which Nicholas appears to have written a will giving Mary’s share to her husband, Nicholas’s son-in-law, Henry Boyles.
Immediately before his death, Nicholas was described as being a wheelwright of the nearby city of Chichester. He died aged 85, and was buried back at Pagham on 6th May 1806.
References
- ↑ Church of England. Parish Church of Pagham (Sussex). Parish registers for Pagham, 1707-1901. (Chichester: West Sussex County Council).
Anno D[omi]ni 1720 / Sep[tembe]r 27 / Nicholas Son of Nicholas Roy & Elizabeth his Wife
This baptism has been linked to the Nicholas Roy who married Sarah Mattchem on the basis that it is in the same parish he was said to live when he married and in which they had their children and were buried, and is at about the time implied by the age quoted at Nicholas's burial.
- Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices’ Indentures (The National Archives, Kew).
1750 / Oct[obe]r 2nd / [No] 4 / Nicholas Roy of Pagham Sussex Wheelwright / H[enr]y Son of Ja[me]s Harris
1758 / Febr[uar]y 10 / [No] 38 / Nicholas Roy of Pagham County of Sussex Wheelwright / Richard Bennet
22 July 1775 / [No] 2 / Nicholas Roy of Pegham in Co[unty] Sussex Wheelwright / Tho[mas] Barber
16 June 1781 / [No] 20 / Nicholas Roy of Lagness Pagham Sussex Wheelwright / Francis Hearwell
20 Sept[embe]r [17]87 / [No] 43 / Nicholas Roy of Pegham Co[unty] of Sussex Wheelwright &c. / W[illia]m Page
- Poll Books & Electoral Registers (London Metropolitan Archives, London).
1774:
Nicholas Roy of Pagham, freehold property in Pagham
Voted for Lennox and Wilson, (both victorious candidates) and not Peachey.
- ↑ Church of England. Parish Church of Pagham (Sussex). Parish registers for Pagham, 1707-1901. (Chichester: West Sussex County Council).
Burials in 1806 / May 6th Nicholas Roy aged 85 years [1720/1]
- Dean’s Peculiar of Chichester: Probate Diaries (West Sussex County Council, Chichester).
1806 / Dec[embe]r 8, St Andrew
The Will of Nicholas Roy, deceased, was proved by William Redman and Thomas Burbery the Executors named therein, with a Day} last of June, under £450
- Great Britain. Estate Duty Office. Index to Death Duty Registers 1796-1903
IR 26/321/17.
No.20
1806
Date of the Probate and Sum sworn: 8th December / under 450L
Name and Description of Testator or Testatrix: Nicholas Roy of the City of Chichester, Wheelwright
Name and Place of Abode of Executor or Executrix: W[illia]m Redman and Tho[ma]s Burbery
Legatees, kindred and legacies:
Grandson, William Roy: Working tools absolutely
Daughters, Sarah, Ann, Bett, and son in law, Hen[r]y Boyles: Residue equally
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