Thomas Hotchkiss

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Thomas was born about 1626 in Shropshire, England, the son of Guilielmi [William] Hotchkiss and Margaretae.

He died in JAN 1671. The place is not known.

He had two marriages/partners. His first wife was Elizabeth, who he married in ABT 1647. The place has not been found. Their three known children were Sarah (c1648-?), Alice (c1649-?) and Margaret (c1651-c1662).

His second wife was Mary, who he married in ABT 1645. The place has not been found. Their six known children were Thomas (c1646-1718), Francis (1654-?), John (c1662-c1711), Cornelius (c1664-1724), Michael (c1668-?) and Joyce (c1671-?).

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Note 1

!Alias: Hodgekees

!Source: Madeley Parish Records.

buried: listed as pauper. Sometimes shown as 1670 rather than 1671, due to double date of the time.

The Julian calendar year starts March 25 while Gregorian starts January 1.

!Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_[New_Style]_Act_1750

To align the calendar in use in England to that on the continent, the Gregorian calendar was adopted,

and the calendar was advanced by 11 days: Wednesday 2 September 1752 was followed by Thursday 14 September 1752.

The year 1752 was thus a short year [355 days] as well.

!Source: www.findmypast.co.uk Record Transcription: England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975

First name[s] Thomas

Last name Hochkis

Gender Male

Birth year -

Birth place -

Baptism year 1626

Baptism date 11 Aug 1626

Residence Wroxeter, Shropshire, England

Place Wroxeter

County Shropshire

Country England

Father's first name[s] Guilielmi

Father's last name Hochkis

Mother's first name[s] Margaretae

Mother's last name -

Record set England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975

Category Birth, Marriage & Death [Parish Registers]

Subcategory Parish Baptisms

Collections from England, Great Britain

!Source: www.findmypast.co.uk Record Transcription: England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975

First name[s] Thomas

Last name Hochkis

Gender Male

Birth year -

Birth place -

Baptism year 1626

Baptism date 11 Aug 1626

Place Wroxeter

County Shropshire

Country England

Father's first name[s] Gulielmi

Father's last name Hochkis

Mother's first name[s] Margaretae

Mother's last name -

Record set England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975

Category Birth, Marriage & Death [Parish Registers]

Subcategory Parish Baptisms

Collections from England, Great Britain

!Source: ancestry.com England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975

Name: Thomas Hochkis

Gender: Male

Baptism Date: 11 Aug 1626

Baptism Place: Wroxeter, Shropshire, England

Father: Guilielmi Hochkis

Mother: Margaretae

FHL Film Number: 1701383

!Source: archive.org Shropshire Registers Wroxeter

Anno 1626

Thomas Hochkis, ffilius Guliemi Hochkis et Margaretae uxoris, baptizatus 11 Augusti.

!Note: This marriage took place during the English Civil War, and events in Madeley during that war must have affected the family and the local records.

!Note: Records previous to the start of the Mdeley Parish records may have been in Much Wenlock Parish. Early records [1560] from Much Wenlock refer to "Gozebradley" and "Burton Chapel" as where the earliest Hotchkisses in Much Wenlock were from.

!Source: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/.../C%2008%20downloads%201%20May%202018.xlsx C 08 downloads 1 May 2018.xlsx - The National Archives

id 15037

piece ref c 8/96/115

division Mitford Division

short title Orton v Jones

plaintiffs Mary Orton, Elizabeth Orton and Margaret Orton, infants by Thomas Jones their guardian

defendants Matthew Jones, Margery Jones his wife, Elizabeth Tayler, >>> Thomas Hotchkiss, Mary Hotchkiss his wife <<<, Margery Jones and Margaret Jones

subject property in Harley, Shropshire

document type bill and answer

1650

1650/01/01 to 1650/12/31

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id 23261

piece ref c 8/144/69

division Mitford Division

short title Orton v Hotchkis

plaintiffs Mary Orton, Elizabeth Orton, Margaret Orton, Anne Orton, Sarah Orton and Jane Orton by [unknown] Ruckley and wife

defendants >>> Thomas Hotchkis, Mary Hotchkis his wife <<<, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret Jones and Margery Jone

subject property in Much Wenlock, Shropshire

document type bill and two answers

1661

1661/01/01 to 1661/12/31

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!Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/ - History

The settlement of Madeley is recorded as far back as the Domesday Book. The town was founded prior to the 8th century, and subsequently became a market town, in the 13th century. Mining of coal began before 1322, and of ironstone by 1540.[2]

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The town played a role in the English Civil War, as it was home to a garrison of Royalist soldiers in 1645, although this was abandoned after the fall of Shrewsbury. Two months following this, Paliamentary forces occupied the parish church.[2] Madeley is also home to a barn in which King Charles II hid after the Battle of Worcester in 1651.[3]

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In the 17th century, Madeley was a small market town, but local tradesmen began to specialise: working in the river trade and in mining. In the 18th century, The Iron Bridge was built between Madeley Wood and Coalbrookdale.

!Source: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22888 - British History Online Much Wenlock

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Sponsor Victoria County History

Publication A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 10

Author C R J Currie [Editor], A P Baggs, G C Baugh, D C Cox, Jessie McFall, P A Stamper

Year published 1998

Supporting documents Note on abbreviations

Pages 399-447

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Citation 'Much Wenlock', A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 10: Munslow Hundred

[part], The Liberty and Borough of Wenlock [1998], pp. 399-447. URL:

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22888. Date accessed: 01 March 2008.

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BRADELEY, formerly Goose [or West] Bradeley, was held of Wenlock priory in 1255 by Robert de

Beysin, lord of Broseley, [fn. 45] though descendants of Eadric of Wenlock, lord of Bourton in

1086, seem to have had an interest there in the late 13th century. [fn. 46] John Easthope, lord of

Easthope, had property in West Bradeley in 1427, which his feoffees conveyed in 1440 to John

Ashfield of Much Wenlock. [fn. 47] In 1443 Ashfield [d. c. 1455] held the reputed manor of

Bradeley, [fn. 48] and John Ashfield [d. 1506] held it of John Harewell, lord of Broseley.

Ashfield was succeeded by his son Christopher, [fn. 49] who sold Bradeley to John Leveson in 1544.

[fn. 50] A year later Leveson sold it to Richard Lawley, purchaser of Bourton and Callaughton.

[fn. 51] The estate descended thereafter with Bourton. [fn. 52] A connexion with Broseley remained

in 1620. [fn. 53] Still reputed a manor in 1799, [fn. 54] Bradeley seems later to have been

absorbed into Bourton manor. [fn. 55]

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In 1281 a rent of 24s. in Bradeley was given to Limebrook priory [Herefs.] by Sir Reynold of Lee,

[fn. 56] and the priory seems to have retained it until its surrender in 1539. [fn. 57]

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The chapel of the HOLY TRINITY, Bourton, so dedicated by 1897, [fn. 18] was never assigned a

separate district. Bradeley people were baptized there by the 14th century, [fn. 19] a wedding was

allowed in 1538, [fn. 20] and burials were made by 1673, [fn. 21] but no baptism or burial

registers were kept until 1841 [fn. 22] and there was no licence for weddings until 1955. [fn. 23]

A service of Our Lady, endowed with land at Bradeley, was said to have existed before the

Reformation. [fn. 24]

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A 'parson' was mentioned in 1556, [fn. 25] but the separate benefice dated from 1770 when

endowments of £200 each were provided by the Revd. Francis Southern, Sir Robert Lawley, and Queen

Anne's Bounty. In 1771 Queen Anne's Bounty gave £400 more to meet the Southern and Lawley

benefactions, [fn. 26] and that year the living was recorded as a perpetual curacy in the vicar's

gift. [fn. 27] Its value was £40 in 1793. [fn. 28] Queen Anne's Bounty gave another £200 in 1826.

[fn. 29] In 1851 the endowment included Black House farm [in Bettws-y-crwyn] [fn. 30] worth £50 a

year, while £6 a year came from the Bounty. [fn. 31] The vicar himself held the curacy 1788-1833

and 1870- 1926. [fn. 32] R. H. G. More, minister of Shipton, [fn. 33] served the cure unpaid

1833-69 [fn. 34] assigning the income to an assistant curate, [fn. 35] a practice adopted by the

vicar after 1870 [fn. 36] but discontinued before 1898. [fn. 37]

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In 1716 there was a weekly service, with sermon. [fn. 38] In 1851 there were two Sunday services

in summer and one in winter. Morning attendance averaged 95 adults, afternoon 25. [fn. 39]

Congregations at the end of the 19th century 'represented all classes'. [fn. 40]

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The small plain chapel stands on a hill above the village. It is built of sandstone and limestone

rubble and has a chancel with north vestry and a nave with south porch, north aisle, and

timber-clad west bell turret. [fn. 41] The nave seems from its south doorway [integral with the

nave plinth] to have been built in the 12th century. The plain cylindrical font seems contemporary

with it. The upper part of the nave south wall was rebuilt later in the Middle Ages; there was

formerly a square-headed window east of the porch. [fn. 42] The porch is later than the rebuilt

south wall. The chancel was heightened, probably in the later Middle Ages; there was a late 13th-

or early 14th-century square-headed window, since blocked, in its south wall, and the head of

another remains in the east wall over a 19th-century gothic window. In 1844 a Norman aisle was

added to the nave at Lady Lawley's expense, [fn. 43] presumably with the chancel arch and two nave

windows, which are in the same style. A north vestry was added to the chancel later in the

century.

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A large ornate wooden pulpit dates from the later 16th or earlier 17th century, and panels of the

same period are used in the 19th-century reading desk, lectern, and dado. The communion rail is

earlier 18th-century. There were two bells in 1552; [fn. 44] four new ones were cast by Thomas

Rudhall in 1770. [fn. 45] The plate consisted in 1961 of a silver chalice, paten, and flagon, all

dated 1774, and a silver paten of 1885. [fn. 46] The funeral hatchment of Lord Wenlock [d. 1834]

hangs in the aisle. The pews are of 1844 [fn. 47] and so, probably, is the west gallery, which has

a stair from the aisle. The only stained glass, in the chancel east window, was dedicated in 1955.

[fn. 48] The communion table dates from c. 1972. [fn. 49]