John Hotchkiss / Hoskins

Personal and Family Information

John was born about 1502 in Shropshire, England, the son of Roger Hotchkiss and Elizabeth.

He died in 1557 in Shawbury, Shropshire, England.

He had two marriages/partners. His first wife was UNKNOWN, who he married in ABT 1529. The place has not been found. Their three known children were Roger (c1530-1586), Leonard (c1538-?) and Elizabeth (c1540-?).

His second wife was Elyzabeth Sheyll, who he married on 9 MAY 1541 in Dymock, Gloucestershire, England. Their nine known children were Mary (c1542-<1548), Elysabethe (c1544-?), John (c1545-c1576), Peter (c1547-?), Johan (c1547-?), Mary (c1548-?), Richard (c1549-?), William (c1554-?) and Margaret (1556-?).

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Note 1

!StyleName: Hotchkiss, Sir John of Gose Bradeley and Hawkeswood [~1512 - ~1557]

!Note: Apparent Hawkeswood line.

!Note: According to the Shropshire visitation, the title of “of Hawkeswood” followed possession of the manor, not seniority or knighthood. Although Sir Thomas Hotchkiss was knighted and the eldest son of Sir John, he settled in Somerset and appears not to have retained or passed on Hawkeswood. Instead, his younger brother Roger — who remained in Shropshire — likely held the manor during his lifetime. The estate and associated status subsequently passed to Roger’s descendants, making them the recognized “Hawkeswood” line thereafter, regardless of noble rank. Roger appears to have been granted use of the manor while both brothers were alive, but after his death , the estate likely passed to his son. Upon Sir Thomas’s death in 1554, the title formally followed.

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

https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FSTAFF%2FWILLS%2F012446&tab=this

First name Willus

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 Abrahim <<<< Transcriber’s misinterpretation of eighth word as a name of a person with a will.

Piece description Act books, v. 1-6

Year 1532

Piece surname range -

Probate year 1532

Piece year range 1532-1572

Parish -

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

Place Fushall, , England

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County -

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Country England

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Quibus die et coram nobis comparuit alias Williemus de Gozeth, alias William alias de Hawks-hall, alias

Gozeths absentia, officii de sui feoffatum, et de executore Johannis, publicorum bonorum administratione.

In tenentia notarii missio testamenti de Hawks-Hall desiit, allegavit motae super Willemum.

et Willimus Goza dictus defensor, voluntate populi administratoris super praemissis judicium

innenum Christus born mist. + Pieous ex fidelibus desperunt, dict[um] my with.”

Willimus allegavit bona in notis or oblationes ad, praedectus Notatorii Sucessor or by

concessa † dict[ae] widowed uxorem venditae ad supermemoratum, et factum issued obtained by me

notarii praedictus ad supermemoratum, test[amentum] singulum obtulit secundum

On the 25th of September, Monday, on the feast of Saint Firmin ad praesentem venditionem et allegavit † †

Sunt qualia postea occupata, et Goesum dicti Johannis sub ponere missus

Johannes praescriptum alias cognominatus Gose, est et est ad Nois bequest John oblat †

praesentes dicit et coram praedente, Que es public vassallus † scriptis notary alias

Durante publicis parochialibus juramentos Thomas Hoskes, Thomas per William acceptavit quae juramenta.

and witnesseth in Junii and rent [by] Elizabeth Disowning [claim]

Translation:

On which day and before us appeared alias William of Gozeth, or William, also known as of Hawks Hall,

In absence of Gozeth [or Gozeth’s heir], the office of his feoffate, and of the executor of John, for the administration of public goods.

In the custody of the notary, the delivery of the will of Hawks-Hall had ceased; he alleged that it passed to William.

and William of Goza, said to be the defender, by the will of the people, the administrator of the judgment above

Thus was Christ once born amidst mist. And the pious, from among the faithful, despair — so says my witness

William alleged goods in the notes, or offerings for inspection, [of the] aforesaid Successor of the Notary or by the

Granted † [by the deceased through] the said widowed wife, sold to the aforementioned, and the deed issued obtained by me.

The aforesaid notary [presented] to the aforementioned, the individual will accordingly

On the 25th of September, Monday, on the feast of Saint Firmin to the present sale and alleged † †

They are such as were afterwards occupied, and Goesus was sent under the direction of the said John.

John the prescribed, otherwise known as Gose, is and is to us the bequest John offers †

The present [party] states, and before the presiding official, that he is a public vassal † [as] written in the notary’s record, otherwise.

During the public parochial oaths of Thomas Hoskes, Thomas accepted those oaths through William.

and witnesseth in Junii and rent [by] Elizabeth Disowning [claim].

Note: These two images are linked. The second is more or less a continuation of the first. The first discusses the disposition of estates, particulary Hawks Hall [Hawkeswood] among brothers after Thomas’ death, and the second confirms an administration grant involving William and his mother Elizabeth for managing Roger’s estate—likely in coordination with or as a consequence of Thomas' passing. The transcriber thought the second was someone elses’s will.

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

https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FSTAFF%2FWILLS%2F012886&tab=this

First name Johanis

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 <<<< mis-read of Hawkase, a version of Hotchkiss.

Piece description Act books, v. 1-6

Year 1533

Piece surname range -

Probate year 1533

Piece year range 1532-1572

Parish Alveley

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

Place Alveley, Shropshire, England

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County Shropshire

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Cumpta fuit auditium coram Johanne Hawkase, pars audit fama.

Volo dare notas die Maii 29 et Elizabeth sublitavit ac filed auditorem

receptae ad quid joinus curiae.

Translation:

A hearing was held before John Hawkase, part of the hearing report.

I want to give the notes on May 29 and Elizabeth rose and filed the auditor's

receipt to join the court.

Note: Estate accounting session with Sir John and his mother Elizabeth, after the 1532 death of Sir Roger, as John takes over admin of Hawkeswood under Sir Thomas.

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

https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FSTAFF%2FWILLS%2F012956&tab=this

First name Johis

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 Hoth

Piece description Act books, v. 1-6

Year 1533

Piece surname range -

Probate year 1533

Piece year range 1532-1572

Parish Alveley

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

Place Alveley, Shropshire, England

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County Shropshire

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Latin

Johannes Hotchkiss parochiae de Much Wenlock concessit per Margeria [Sher]

defunct, sola feoffata in June.

Translated:

Granted to John Hotchkiss of the parish of Much Wenlock, by Margery [Sher],

deceased, sole feoffee, in June.

Note: Margery [Sher] abbove could have been the same maiden name as his second wife married 1541, Elyzabeth Sheyll. Could this be his first wife or mother in-law?

Note: Richard Hotchkiss, brother, received a similar grant from Agnes Valece in the same June 1533 session.

!Source: www.familysearch.org England Marriages, 1538–1973

Name: Thomas Gardnor

Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Hotchekys

Event Date: 09 Sep 1560

Event Place: Much Wenlock,Shropshire,England

Spouse's Father's Name: John Hotchekys <<<

!Source: Chancery Prodeedings Series II. Vol. II, 1579-1621

23 | Reynolds, Richard | Hotchkis, John, and Elizabeth his wife | Bagley, Kenwick Wood and Shaburie | Salop

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

First name[s] Elizabeth

Last name Hotchekys

Name note -

Marriage year 1560

Marriage date 09 Sep 1560

Marriage place Much Wenlock

Father's first name[s] John <<<

Father's last name Hotchekys <<<

Spouse's first name[s] Thomas

Spouse's last name Gardnor

County Shropshire

Country England

Record set England Marriages 1538-1973

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Subcategory Parish Marriages

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Notes: from image

M [marriage]

These weare merred at the chappell of Burton by Litoure Earl of O Thomas Gold

lase Vicare Eew. The 9 day of September 1560 Thomas Gardner of Kespass of Acton Burnell & Elizabeth the daughter of John Hotchekys of Gose Bradeley.

!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.

!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]

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

First name[s] Elizabeth

Last name Hotchekys

Name note -

Marriage year 1560

Marriage date 09 Sep 1560

Marriage place Much Wenlock

Father's first name[s] John <<<

Father's last name Hotchekys

Spouse's first name[s] Thomas

Spouse's last name Gardnor

County Shropshire

Country England

Record set England Marriages 1538-1973

Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records

Subcategory Parish Marriages

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

First name[s] Elizabeth

Last name Hotchekys

Marriage year 1560

Marriage date 09 Sep 1560

Marriage place Much Wenlock

Denomination Anglican

Father's first name[s] John <<<

Father's last name Hotchekys

Spouse's first name[s] Thomas

Spouse's last name Gardard

Spouse's residence Acton

County Shropshire

Register date range 1558-1642

Archive reference P198/A/1/1

Page 6

Register type Composite

Record set Shropshire Marriages

Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records

Subcategory Parish Marriages

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

Place Shawbury, Shropshire, England

First name[s] John

Last name Hodgekies

Year 1557

Will year 1557

Parish Shawbury

County Shropshire

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

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Notes: Probate Calendar 1557 Dec 9

!Source: Wiltshire Wills And Probate Index 1530-1881 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBOR%2FWILT-WILLS-SC%2F048889

First name John

Date 1557

Last name Hoskins

Series P2

Year 1557

Archive Wiltshire and Swindon Archive

Type Will

Archive reference P2/3Reg/17A

Place Hilperton

Source https://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/wills_search.php

County Wiltshire

Record set Wiltshire Wills And Probate Index 1530-1881

Country England

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

Occupation Husbandman

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Series title Probate records of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury

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!Source: Wiltshire, Salisbury Wills Index, 1464-1858 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=OR%2FWILTS%2FWILLS%2F00043744

First name John

Document reference P2/3Reg/17A

Last name Hoskins

Country England

Status/occupation Husbandman

Record set Wiltshire, Salisbury Wills Index, 1464-1858

Year 1557

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

Residence Hilperton

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Document type will

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