Person:Thomas Westcott (1)

Thomas was the second son of Thomas and Mary, and "followed the Court in the time of King Henry VIII (1509-1547), came to Devonshire with Sir Thomas Dennis of Holcomb-Burnell, knight, Chancellor to Queen Ann of Cleves"^[1].

Disputed Lineage

See the web article The Ancestry of the Westcotts of Raddon by Mr Brooke F Westcott^[3], whose aim is to "correct some fiction and give some facts about the early Westcotts".

1. ↑ Whitman, Roscoe L. (Roscoe Leighton). History and genealogy of the ancestors and some descendants of Stukely Westcott: one of the thirteen original proprietors of Providence Plantation and the colony of Rhode Island with especial mention of the Westcotts of Cheshire, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and the Westcotts of Milford, Otsego County, New York and some of the allied families. (Oneonta, New York: Otsego Publishing Co., 1932)
   1:7.

   Thomas married, first, Anna Walker, daughter of John Walker and Alice Collacutt, "no issue of record".
   Thomas married, second, Alice Walker, sister of his first wife Anna.
   
   "Thomas died Mar. 28, 1549, and Alice, Oct. 6, 1557."

   Whitman has confused the wives - the second was the daughter of John Walter and Alice Collacot, but the first was Ann Wilson, widow of John Raddon (according to Thomas Westcote).

2.   Westcote, Thomas. A view of Devonshire in MDCXXX : with a pedigree of most of its gentry. (Exeter: W. Roberts, 1845)
   p. 622.

   "Thomas Westcote, (second son [of Thomas Westcote and Mary Westcote]) ... was much desired in marriage by Ann, daughter of Wilson, the relict of John Raddon, of Shobrook, whom he married, sans issue; secondly he married Alice, daughter and heir of John Walter of Comb, and of Alice his wife, daughter and heir of John Collacot, of Collacot in Winkleigh, esq., and had issue Philip, and died March 28th, 1549."

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} The Ancestry of the Westcotts of Raddon.

   "He [Whitman] says that Thomas, the testator in question, died on 28 March 1549, but in fact his will had already been proved by then, on 13 June 1548."

   It is assumed that the error was in incorrectly treating 28 Mar 1548 as 1548/49.

4. ↑ Birth estimated 100 years after estimated birth of his great-grandfather.