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Ancestors of Zachary William RUSHTON

Notes

Surname: WAKELY alias ROCKETT
Forenames : THOMAS
Date of Birth: c. 1575
Place of Birth : Probably Thorncombe
Date of Death: 1648
Father's Name: John Rockett alias Wakely <wakely-sheet-9.html>
Mother's Name: Margaret (?) Balstone
Married (Spouse):
1. Joan Wolmington of Chardstock c. 1600
2. Mary Pysing c. 1623
Issue:
1. John, eldest son b.1602 at Chardstock; heir to grandfather's Chackridge lands in Phillyholme; father of John who married Jean Warry of Chard and had son John (b.Wakely alias Rocket)
2. Thomas, second son b.1604 at Chardstock; first wife a Pysing; second wife Marjorie Pinney d. of Robert Pinney of Hawkchurch; used Wakely and Rockett names; died 1672
3. Robert. b.1607; mentioned in grandfather's will; Commissary of Commonwealth garrison of Weymouth in Civil War; married Elizabeth Derby of Dorchester; had at least 12 children including Thomas, Joseph, Samuel and Robert; normallyused name Wakely.
4. William, (3rd of name), b.1611 at Whitchurch Canonicorum
5. Abraham <wakely-sheet-12.html>, b.l611 at Whitchurch Canonicorum.
6. Stephen, b.1613 at Whitchurch Canonicorum. Wakely to start with, later Wakely alias Rockett.
7. Joane, b.1615 at Whitchurch Canonicarum; buried Thorncombe 1620
8.Mary, ???
9. Edward, b.1621 - BA Oxford in 1642
10.Elizabeth, buried Thorncombe 1623
Siblings:
l. Elizabeth m.Richard Wilkins, had s.Robert, d.Jaane, d.Mary
2. Nicholas b.c1585 d.1660 m.Elizabeth Wolmington sister of Joane, brother Thomas' wife. Sequestrator, Bridport Div. during Commonwealth. Will proved 1661.
Other information:
Thomas was probably named in honour of his mother's father/brother Thomas Balstone, The naming of Thomas's cousin Sylvester provides further evidence of the Balstone connection Sylvesters were included in each of the two generations of Hawkchurch Balstones in the second half of the sixteenth century. Sylvester Rockett alias Wakely is not named in the very full will of John Rockett alias Wakely (Thomas's father) and the naming of the descendants of this Sylvester suggests he was the son of William of Whitestaunton (Thomas's uncle).
Thomas was the co-purchaser of Thorncombe lands with his father and acquired further lands by purchase after his father's death (notably a three thousand year lease of 90 more acres in Holditch) and from his two marriages.
Joan Wolmington, the first wife he married in 1800 brought him lands in Chardstock as well as money. She came from a family which had been established in Chardstock since at least the thirteenth century, taking the name Wolmington from a manor there of which they were probably the original lords. Their decline from gentry to yeomen seems likely to have occurred in the middle of the sixteenth century. Joan's sister Elizabeth Wolmingtan married Thomas's brother Nicholas. In keeping with yeoman customs, both girls received identical legacies from their father, large enough to ensure they got rich husbands; forty pounds each, plus leasehold lands.
Mary Pysing, his second wife came from a rich family that had acquired lands in Hawkchurch in the sixteenth century, but were primarily based in Crewkerne by the seventeenth century.
Before Thomas came into his inheritance he appears first to have lived on the lands Joan Wolmington brought him in Chardstock, and then in Whitchurch Canonicorum.
Unlike his brother Nicholas, Thomas had a very large family and this is known from his father's will, Abraham (the next ancestor we deal with) was probably child six or seven.
It is in the records associated with Thomas and his brother Nicholas that we can build up a fuller appreciation of the conflicting emotions co-existing between the Rockett and Wakely names. They both married as Rocketts but Nicholas then re-registered his marriage as a Wakely, and christened his children as Wakelys. Thomas, however, did not re-register his marriage - but he christened his first children as Wakelys, a later set as Rocketts, and a final set as Wakelys (all in the space of fifteen years) . In one deed he calls himself Wakely alias Rockett and also as Rockett alias Wakely. We signed his will Thomas Rockett but was buried at Thorncombe as Thomas Wakely in 1648. His will was proved in London in 1649 and by its brevity it backs up information given in deeds that he had distributed almost all of his property among his children before his death.

12354. Henry ADAMS

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> FBPD-M7

SOURCE: B3C8 & B9B3 Adams Gen. (J.Gardiner Bartlett) p.71

MARRIAGE: New England Marriages: Prior to 1700 (C. A. Torrey) p. 3

IMMIGRATED: From England 1632 or 1633

NOTE: Colonist-Original ptatentee of Braintree,MA; was Granted 40-acres

12355. Edith SQUIRE

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> FS7J-4P

SOURCE: Mass. Mag. 2:247; Henry Adams Gen. B9B3 p.55

MARRIAGE: New England Marriages: Prior to 1700 (C. A. Torrey) p. 3

12358. Robert WILLIAMS

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 9P3Z-02

12359. Elizabeth STRATTON-STALHAM

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 9P3Z-17

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> J6LG-RP

12364. Thomas WRIGHT

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 2R06-KD

12366. Robert BURNAP Sr.

SOURCE: Reading,MA V.R.; Gen. Hist. of Reading (Hon. Lilley Eaton) p.56-7

MARRIAGE: New England Marriages: Prior to 1700 (C. A. Torrey) p. 120

12367. Ann Agnes MILLER

SOURCE: Reading,MA V.R.; Gen. Hist. of Reading (Hon. Lilley Eaton) p.56-7

MARRIAGE: New England Marriages: Prior to 1700 (C. A. Torrey) p. 120

NAME: Ann/Agnis/Annis MILLER

12418. Andrew FANTANGE