Raph Hotchkiss

Personal and Family Information

Raph was born about 1590 in England, the son of Gyles Hotchkiss / Hoskins and Mary Eyr.

He died about 1630 in England.

His wife was Katherin Sotherne, who he married on 21 JAN 1615 in Oldbury By Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England. Their two known children were [infant son of Rafe] (c1609-c1609) and Elizabeth (c1614-c1614).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!StyleName: Hotchkiss, Raph of Gose Bradeley [~1590 - ~1630]

!Source: www.findmypast.co.uk Record Transcription: London, Bethlem Hospital Patient Admission Registers And Casebooks 1683-1932

First name[s] Raphe

Last name Hodgkines

Role Patient

Event year[s] 1597

Book year 1597

Hospital Bridewell & Bethlem

Series Minutes Of The Court Of Governors 1559-1689

Archive reference BCB-04

Type Minute book

Year range 1598-1604

Record set London, Bethlem Hospital Patient Admission Registers And Casebooks 1683-1932

Category Institutes & Organizations

Subcategory Hospitals

Collections from England, Great Britain

Note: This record may be for our Raph, but it does little more than list him as a patient.

There is a Henry with his last name spelled the same there the next year.

!Source: ancestry.com England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973

Name: Raph Hockeys

Gender: Male

Marriage Date: 21 Jan 1615

Marriage Place: Oldbury By Bridgnorth,Shropshire,England

Spouse: Katherin Sotherne

FHL Film Number: 599487

!Source: www.findmypast.co.uk Record Transcription: Shropshire Marriages

First name[s] Raph

Last name Hockeys

Marriage year 1615

Marriage date 24 Jan 1615

Marriage place Oldbury

Denomination Anglican

Spouse's first name[s] Catherin

Spouse's last name -

County Shropshire

Register date range 1582-1812

Archive reference P212/A/1/1

Page 10

Register type Composite

Record set Shropshire Marriages

Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records

Subcategory Parish Marriages

Collections from Great Britain, England

!Source: www.findmypast.co.uk Record Transcription: England Marriages 1538-1973

First name[s] Raph

Last name Hockeys

Name note -

Marriage year 1615

Marriage date 21 Jan 1615

Marriage place Oldbury by Bridgnorth

Spouse's first name[s] Katherin

Spouse's last name Sotherne

County Shropshire

Country England

Record set England Marriages 1538-1973

Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records

Subcategory Parish Marriages

Collections from England, Great Britain

!Source: www.findmypast.co.uk Record Transcription: Shropshire burials Transcription

First name[s] Raph

Last name Hotchkis

Birth year -

Death year 1630

Death date ? ? 1630

Burial year 1630

Burial date 19 Jul 1630

Burial place Much Wenlock

Denomination Anglican

County Shropshire

Archive refererence P198/A/1/1

Page 167

Register type Composite

Register date range 1558-1642

Record set Shropshire Burials

Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records

Subcategory Parish Burials

Collections from Great Britain, England

!Source: http://search.shropshirehistory.org.uk/collections/getrecord/CCA_XWB_F_2_2_1_3_4/

Thomas Crutchley vs Ralph Hotchkis

Identity

Document Reference: WB/F/2/2/1/3/4

System Reference: XWB/F/2/2/1/3/4

Details

Level: Item

Date: n.d.

Description: Bond of Thomas Crutchley, defendant, to Richard Littlehales quoted in a case against Ralph Hotchkis, plaintiff.

XWB: WENLOCK BOROUGH [PRE-1835] [c 1180-1844]

XWB/F: JUDICIAL [1590s-1828]

XWB/F/2: Bailiff's Court [1567-1815]

XWB/F/2/2: Bailiff's Court case files [1567-1762]

XWB/F/2/2/1: Bailiff's Court case files [1589-1618]

XWB/F/2/2/1/3: Bailiff's Court case file, 27 Oct 1618 [1618]

WB/F/2/2/1/3/4: Thomas Crutchley vs Ralph Hotchkis [n.d.]

!Notes: Gose Bradeley – Hotchkiss Connection

Gose Bradeley lies about 14 miles from Hawkswood and appears closely tied to the Hotchkiss family from at least the early 1500s through the mid-1600s. The manor was originally held by Wenlock Priory in 1255 and passed through several secular hands following the Dissolution, including Easthope, Ashfield, Leveson, and Lawley. Despite these formal transfers, evidence suggests the Hotchkisses may have held practical or feoffed tenancy throughout. In Sir Roger Hotchkis’s 1532 probate hearings, both John and William are repeatedly identified “of Gose Bradeley,” indicating a substantial connection to the land. This association persists into the next century: Elizabeth, daughter of John Hotchekys of Gose Bradeley, married Thomas Gardnor in 1560, and Edward Hotchkis appears in the 1641–1642 Protestation Returns for Gosebradeley and Presthope. The enduring use of “of Gose Bradeley” points to long-term possession, likely originating in feoffment or customary tenancy, and surviving the religious and political land redistributions of the Tudor period.

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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]