Thomas Hotchkiss / Hodgkins

Personal and Family Information

Thomas was born about 1485 in Shropshire, England, the son of Richard Hotchkiss / Hodgkins and Margery.

He died before 1534 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

His wife was Jone. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their three known children were John (c1503-?), Roger (c1507-?) and Robert (c1527-?).

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Note 1

!Stylename: Hotchkiss / Hodgkins, Thomas, of Salop [~1485 - >1526]

!Note: Likely another son of Richard Hotchkiss , appearing in the 1528 probate series alongside siblings John, Clement, and possibly Margery. The location—Everdon—appears repeatedly in this set, suggesting it may have been the site of the primary family residence. This record likely reflects inheritance arrangements or administrative transfer of property, not Thomas’s death. A 1533 probate in Barlestone, Leicestershire, may represent continued administration of the same estate; not indicative of death at that date. Also appears in a 1533 Staffordshire act book entry , consistent with continued probate from his father's estate.

!Source: The National Archives. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/75765638-cbff-427a-be37-3e3d9cda4370

27 - Devon Archives and Local Studies Service [South West Heritage Trust]

1038 M - SIMCOE

1038 M/T - TITLE DEEDS

1038 M/T/13 - NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

Litchborough

Catalogue description Deed of gift 1. John Malory of Lichbarow gent. 2. William Pynnok of Lichbarow ...

This record is held by Devon Archives and Local Studies Service [South West Heritage Trust]

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Reference: 1038 M/T/13/96

Description:

Deed of gift

1. John Malory of Lichbarow gent.

2. William Pynnok of Lichbarow

Premises: half a virgate of land in the fields of Lichbarow now in the tenure of Henry Haukyns

Attorney: William Aras of Lichbarow

Witnesses: Richard Folwell, Thomas Colyn, Richard Colen, Thomas Robard, John Neele, Thomas Hopkyns of Lichbarow

Date: 1509

Held by: Devon Archives and Local Studies Service [South West Heritage Trust], not available at The National Archives

Language: English

Note: Location is Litchborough, Northamptonshire.

!Source: Staffordshire, Dioceses Of Lichfield And Coventry Wills And Probate 1521-1860

https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FSTAFF%2FWILLS%2F282536&tab=this

First name Thomas

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

Last name Hayward <<<< From image: Hotchkys

Piece description Registered wills, v. 1-2 Registered wills, v.

Year 1526 <<<< will dated from image 21 Jan 1526 Julian or 1535 Gregorian

Piece surname range A

Probate year 1526

Piece year range 1516-1540;1665-1680

Parish Shrewsbury

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

Place Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

County Shropshire

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Country England

Collections from England, Great Britain

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Testamentum Thome Hotchkys de Salop

In dei nomine Amen the xxi day of January lo 1526 I Thomas Hotchkys of Pryors Ditton out of Salop sound of mynde and wasting to broke in body make my testament & last wyll in the maner & forme folowyng. I bequethe my soule to God almighty & to lady saynt mary & to all the holy company of hevyn and my body to be buried in Parish Church my God.

Singing to the Son's rigors the Paramore is There on palme Sunday. Item I wyth Eons to God powers of Prayers to guide us.

Dirige and masse and for first I bequeth burying. Item I ordayne to God above my gost on day of my burying in light

both time by time my treaser yet I posess lend me vigor & cap'[abilitie]s for to organize in passing I pose. Item to the

master utmost of like mynd Is it the tystator of pyousity and : this to the eithos of our lady in the Soule

Item: giv George Tylor my bonyfides to pay forward viijᵈ; and to sell outright my largest chair for good payment and the use of

this manage: It[em]. to Roger my son 26 pence for expenses & porcion : It[em]. to John my Son for expense 6 pence and of any of my

Said other excess I wyll that to the bringing up & the costs of labor and of that supporting all the said children well

Item I wyll that my executors pay for my sowle & my wyffes sowle. Item I bequeth to Robt Gregor

my best gown: Item I bequeth to John McGregor my brown gown. Item my best jaket to my brother John. The

resydue of all my goodes abovesaid not bequethed I leve to the disposic̄on & satisfyeng of Jone my wyfe and Robert 6 months along.

Probatum fuit testamentum coram officialem Archinat de Salop.

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Mentioned:

George Tylor

Roger my son

John my son

Robert Gregor

John McGregor

my brother John

Jone my wife

Robert 6 months along on 21 Jan 1526 Julian, so born about April 1527

—

Note: Carefully looking at the name with secretary hand, using the instruction manual of the time, we have

H o [tc]h ki e ſs [long s small s] - the fact that the tail goes forward on the middle h - it doesn't look at all like a secreatary hand y.

Note: Julian calendar year starts March 25 while Gregorian starts January 1. England officially used the Julian calendar until 1752.

!Source: Staffordshire, Dioceses Of Lichfield And Coventry Wills And Probate 1521-1860 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FSTAFF%2FWILLS%2F080967&tab=this

First name Thos

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

Last name Hayward

Piece description Calendar of wills and admons.

Year 1526

Piece surname range A-L

Will year 1526

Piece year range 1494-1650

Parish Shrewsbury

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

Place Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

County Shropshire

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Country England

Collections from England, Great Britain

Note: Index

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!Source: Northamptonshire And Rutland Probate Index https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FP%2F395029989%2F1&tab=this

First name Thomas

Folio or page 198

Last name Hopkyns

Microform 4

Birth year -

Reference Archdeaconry Court of Northampton:Wills, Administrations and inventories, and accounts

Year 1528

Number 478

Place Everdon <<

Record set Northamptonshire And Rutland Probate Index

Country England

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

Series 1ST

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Type Will

Collections from Great Britain, England

Book or box D

!Source: Staffordshire, Dioceses Of Lichfield And Coventry Wills And Probate 1521-1860 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FSTAFF%2FWILLS%2F080977&tab=this

First name Thos

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

Last name Hayward

Piece description Calendar of wills and admons.

Year 1530

Piece surname range A-L

Will year 1530

Piece year range 1494-1650

Parish Shrewsbury

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

Place Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

County Shropshire

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Country England

Collections from England, Great Britain

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Note: Index. ame page as 1526 entry.

!Source: Leicestershire Wills And Probate Records, 1500-1939 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FLEICS%2FWILLS%2F00033370&tab=this

First name Thomas

Description Wills Register Book

Last name Hopkyns

Year range 1526-1533

Year 1533

Archive reference PR/I/252

Residence Barlestone <<

Archive Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland

Residence county Leicestershire

Record set Leicestershire Wills And Probate Records, 1500-1939

Death year -

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

County Leicestershire

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Country England

Collections from England, Great Britain

!Source: Staffordshire, Dioceses Of Lichfield And Coventry Wills And Probate 1521-1860 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FSTAFF%2FWILLS%2F012882&tab=this

First name Thome

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

Last name Hopkyns

Piece description Act books, v. 1-6

Year 1533

Piece surname range -

Probate year 1533

Piece year range 1532-1572

Parish -

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

Place Myston, , England <<

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

County -

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Country England

Collections from England, Great Britain

!Source: Staffordshire, Dioceses Of Lichfield And Coventry Wills And Probate 1521-1860 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FSTAFF%2FWILLS%2F081037&tab=this

First name Thos

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

Last name Hopkyns

Piece description Calendar of wills and admons.

Year 1533

Piece surname range A-L

Will year 1533

Piece year range 1494-1650

Parish Marston <<

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

Place Marston, , England

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

County -

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Country England

Collections from England, Great Britain

!Source: Staffordshire, Dioceses Of Lichfield And Coventry Wills And Probate 1521-1860

https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FSTAFF%2FWILLS%2F081046&tab=this

First name Thos

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

Last name Hyllys <<<< Most likely mis-write of Hawkys, a standard abbreviation of Hotchkiss and similar names.

Piece description Calendar of wills and admons.

Year 1533

Piece surname range A-L

Will year 1533

Piece year range 1494-1650

Parish Drayton

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

Place Drayton, Shropshire, England

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

County Shropshire

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Country England

Collections from England, Great Britain

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Index entry, probably written years after the fact.

Notes: Thomas father Richard Hodgekyns’ had just died and he had previously inherited via a probate which was processed in Daventry because that’s where

the archdeacon’s court for Drayton’s jurisdiction sat — but his assets in the matter were in Drayton, so Thomas is most likely inheriting here.

!Source: Leicestershire Wills And Probate Records, 1500-1939 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FLEICS%2FWILLS%2F00021840&tab=this

First name Thomas

Description Wills and inventories

Last name Hopkyns

Year range 1534

Year 1534

Archive reference

Residence Theddingworth <<

Archive Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland

Residence county Leicestershire

Record set Leicestershire Wills And Probate Records, 1500-1939

Death year -

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

County Leicestershire

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Country England

Collections from England, Great Britain

!Source: Staffordshire, Dioceses Of Lichfield And Coventry Wills And Probate 1521-1860

https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FSTAFF%2FWILLS%2F013449&tab=this

First name Johes

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

Last name Hardyng <<<< The “tchki” characters in Hotchkiss are over-written by the scribe to save space, making the name difficult to read.

Piece description Act books, v. 1-6

Year 1534

Piece surname range -

Probate year 1534

Piece year range 1532-1572

Parish Alveley

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

Place Alveley, Shropshire, England

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

County Shropshire

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Country England

Collections from England, Great Britain

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Transcription:

Quo die comparuit quod Johanes Hachyng filius et executor cum filius

Victor Hachyng probatum de bene vocavit et quam multa servieb executori

in test’ dicti patris sui ad quod judicem mandavit predictus, Johanes Hotchkiss dicti

certus and teste dict defuncti

£9 p[ro] Thomas Conat parcell’ in mitigandus after mortuus [Tho] [page torn]

April repeat xx d to december inclusive of January Joh'es, Rog', cum Jone [page torn]

Translation:

On which day appeared that Johannes Hachyng son and executor with his son

Victor Hachyng testified about the good he called and how much he served the executor

in the testimony of his father, to which the aforesaid sent the judge, the said Johannes Hotchkiss

sure and witness the said deceased

£9 for Thomas Conat parcel' in mitigation after death [Tho] [page torn]

April repeat xxʃ to December inclusive of January Joh'es, Rog', cum Jone [page torn]

Note: The “tchki” characters in Hotchkiss are over-written by the scribe to save space, making the name difficult to read.

Note: xx ʃ = 20 shillings = £1, ʃ is a symbol for shillings. 9 payments of £1 = £9