Richard Hotchkiss / Hoskins

Personal and Family Information

Richard was born about 1462 in Shropshire, England, the son of John Hotchkiss and Margaret Heynes.

He died in 1557 in Bettim Regis, Shropshire, England.

His wife was UNKOWN. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their four known children were William (c1481-c1559), John (c1483-1533), Humfrey (c1485-1540) and Roger (c1503->1533).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

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Note 1

!StyleName: Richard Hotchkiss of Ashe, Whitchurch [~1462-1557]

!Note: Educated at Eton College, with records placing him there in both 1475 and again in 1479. This extended schooling period aligns with the pattern established by his father, Sir John Hotchkiss, who also sent other sons through elite institutions. Richard later appears in the Shrewsbury Burgess Roll as a smith and leaves a 1557 will naming him of Ashe , Shropshire, further cementing his identity and lineage within the Hotchkiss estate line.

!Note: Branch Summary – Richard of Ashe

 This Hotchkiss branch led the family’s wool and cloth production. They managed the expansion into Wales and northern Shropshire. They were the first Hotchkiss branch to have a knight formally dubbed after Sir John.

 Their heirs gained estates in this order: Ashe in Whitchurch, Petton, Acton Burnell, Cotton, Burseley twice, and Ampthill. These locations placed them near key Welsh border regions for wool trade. Their march-side connections included:

  Caernarvonshire through Whitchurch with new Surname Hookes established.

  Montgomeryshire through Lydbury North

  Glamorganshire through Bridgwater near Pendoylan

 In addition to their westward expansion into Wales, this branch also established a strong presence in northern Shropshire, especially around Market Drayton, Stoke-on-Trent, and surrounding areas.

These settlements solidified their control of wool production and cloth-making across both border and interior regions.

 By the 1500s, this branch was not only raising sheep but making the cloth themselves, which led to manufacturing innovations.

 A later descendant was Samuel Hotchkiss born 1622 died 1663. He moved to Connecticut and started a line known for manufacturing and business. These include:

  In France – Société Anonyme des Anciens Etablissements Hotchkiss et Compagnie produced machine guns, tanks, and cars,

  In England – Hotchkiss Ordnance Company worked on military supplies,

  In the United States – E H Hotchkiss Company invented the stapler,

  In the United States – H G Hotchkiss International Prize Medal Essential Oil Company became known for essential oils,

 This branch was known for cloth making, invention, manufacturing and building new industries.

!Source: Berkshire, Eton College Register, 1441-1698 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBOR%2FSCH-ETON%2F204%2F1952&tab=this

First name Richard

County Berkshire

Last name Hodgekyns

Country England

Year 1475

Category Education & work

School name Eton College

Subcategory Schools & Education

Place Eton

Collections from England, Great Britain

!Source: Britain, School And University Students https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBOR%2FSCHOOLREG%2FSDE%2F020853&tab=this

First name Richard

Publication title Eton College Register, 1441-1698

Last name Hodgekyns

Year range 1441-1698

Year 1479

Publication year 1943

Boarded year 1479

Record set Britain, School And University Students

Institution Eton College

Category Education & work

Town Eton

Subcategory Schools & Education

County Berkshire

Collections from Great Britain, England, Scotland

Country England

!Source: Shrewsbury Burgess Roll,

Shropshire archæological and parish register society,

Authors: Shrewsbury [England], Herbert Edward Forrest,

Editor: Herbert Edward Forrest,

Publisher: Printed by W.B. Walker, 1924,

Original from: the University of California,

Digitized Jun 12, 2010, 322 pages

Other possible early Hotchkiss family.

Hotchkiss.

William, of S., draper, s. John of Pulverbatch 1495

William, of S. smith, s. Richard of Ashe, Whitchurch. 1519 <<<<

Richard, of S., carpenter, s. William of Petton, husbandman. 1559.

Richard, of S., clothworker, s. Thomas, of Abbots Betton, yeoman. 1623.

!Source: Sussex, Chichester Consistory Court Wills Index, 1482-1800 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBOR%2FOR%2FCHICONSISTWILLS%2F00010674

First name Richard

Country England

Last name Hoskins

Document type Registered will <<< Not death or probate

Entry year 1544

Archive reference STC I/5/5

Place West Wittering

Record set Sussex, Chichester Consistory Court Wills Index, 1482-1800

Original text West Wryttryng, Sussex

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

Court Chichester Consistory

Subcategory Wills & Probate

County Sussex

Collections from England, Great Britain

!Source: www.findmypast.co.uk Record Transcription: Staffordshire, Dioceses Of Lichfield And Coventry Wills And Probate 1521-1860

Place Upton Magna, Shropshire, England

Place Bettim Regis, , England <<< [possibly Betton Abbots - just NW of Berrington]

First name[s] Richd

Last name Hodgekies

Year 1557

Will year 1557

Parish -

County -

Country England

Series description Registered wills and original wills, administrations and inventories, 1494-1860, and, act books, 1532-1638 for Diocese of Lichfield Episcopal Consistory Court

Piece description Calendar of wills and admons.

Piece surname range A-L

Piece year range 1494-1650

Record set Staffordshire, Dioceses Of Lichfield And Coventry Wills And Probate 1521-1860

Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Collections from England, Great Britain

Notes from image: Probate date was 9 December 1557.

!Source: VCH SHROPSHIRE, Wem Rural, Northwood http://www.vchshropshire.org/_Wem_Rural_Texts/Northwood.pdf

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A tenement in the lord’s demesne named ‘the castellstede’ is recorded in 1561.51 Its 17 a.

contained a close named ‘fordecrofte’, suggesting it was located near the Roden. A medieval

fortification at the strategic river crossing into Wales is possible, however, there is no later

record of it. This location also coincides with the exclave of Wolverley township, bounded by

the Roden and, on the landward side, enclosed by a curvilinear ditch, whose origin may

therefore be connected to this putative castle.

About 2 km to the northeast stood the ‘vowry cross’, depicted on the 1631 map as standing in

isolation just outside bounds of Northwood. The custom of advocaria was claimed by Ralph <<<< Not our Northwood.

le Botiler as lord of Wem in 1255, so it is likely that a ‘vowry cross’ then existed at the

boundary of Wem and Whixall to signify where his authority began and ended.52 The cross is

not mentioned in extant documentary records until 1612, however.53

Footnotes:

51 Survey 1561, 166–7.

52 Rot. Hund. II, 58b; VCH Wem, 134.

53 SA, 167/5A, 18 Apr. 1612. A ‘new inclosure called the Bowry Crosse’ in 1648: ACA, MS

508, f. 30r.

Note: 1. First this is not our Northwood. This is next to Wem Moss National Nature Reserve, near Whixall and Wolverley and Market Drayton and Whitchurch, which is the area of Richard Hotchkiss of Ashe, Whitchurch [~1462 - 1557]. That actually says it might be good to research it more fully sometime. The family network with the le Botelers, shown in the marriage of Thomas de Ferrers [1305 - 1353] to Ankaret le Boteler [1310 - 1361] around 1350, might help Richard’s choice of location, just down the road from Wem.

2. Please understand that this other Northwood was not part of Wem, but was included in its Church Advowson, with the border marked by a vowry cross.

Apparently the Church Advowson for Wemme included this other Northwode.

!Source: William le Boteler [abt. 1331 - 1369] https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Butler-3351

Born about 1331 [uncertain] in Wem, Shropshire, England [uncertain]

Died 14 Aug 1369 at about age 38 in Wem, Shropshire, England [uncertain]

— Inquisition Post Mortem 1369

Inquisition Post Mortem of William Botiller, Botyller, or le Botiller, of Wemme, knight, following a writ of 20 August, 43 Edward III [1369].[10]

Wemme. The manor [of Wemme] [extent given], with the advowson of the church, held of the king in chief by service of two-thirds of a knight’s fee. He held it in fee tail, as above. The extent includes woods called ‘Northwode,’ ‘Brokhurst’ and ‘Shutles,’ two parks with deer, a fishpond, a market held every week on Sunday, and a fair on the feast of SS. Peter and Paul. <<<< Not our Northwood.

Sources:

10.0 10.1 M. C. B. Dawes and J. B. W. Chapman, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 206', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 12, Edward III [London, 1938], pp. 284-303. Inquisition Post Mortem of William Botiller, Botyller, or le Botiller, of Wemme, knight [Item 324]. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol12/pp284-303 [accessed 12 July 2021].

Note: 1. First this is not our Northwood. This is next to Wem Moss National Nature Reserve, near Whixall and Wolverley and Market Drayton and Whitchurch, which is the area of Richard Hotchkiss of Ashe, Whitchurch [~1462 - 1557]. That actually says it might be good to research it more fully sometime. The family network with the le Botelers, shown in the marriage of Thomas de Ferrers [1305 - 1353] to Ankaret le Boteler [1310 - 1361] around 1350, might help Richard’s choice of location, just down the road from Wem.

2. Please understand that this other Northwood was not part of Wem, but was included in its Church Advowson, with the border marked by a vowry cross.

Apparently the Church Advowson for Wemme included this other Northwode.