Sir Thomas Stewkley, Sheriff of Devon

• Sir Thomas Stucley1
• M, #587337, d. 30 January 1542
• Last Edited=28 Oct 2012
• Sir Thomas Stucley was the son of Nicholas Stucley and Thomasine Kokeworthy.2 He married Anne Wood.1 He died on 30 January 1542.1
• He lived Affeton.1
• Child of Sir Thomas Stucley and Anne Wood
  • 1.Sir Hugh Stucley+2 d. 6 Jan 1559
• Citations
• 1.[S37] BP2003 volume 3, page 3800. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• 2.[S37] BP2003. [S37]
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p58734.htm#i587337 _____________________
• TREWYNNARD, William (by 1495-1549), of Trewinnard, Cornw.
• b. by 1495, prob. 1st s. of James Trewynnard of Trewinnard by Philippa; bro. of James. m. (1) by 1530, Jane, wid. of Robert Shilston, 2s. 1da.; (2) Thomasin, da. of Sir Thomas Stukely of Affecton in East Worlington, Devon, wid. of John Bere (d.1531) of Huntsham, Devon. suc. fa. by 1530.2
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/tr... __________________

Huntsham

• Huntsham is a small village and civil parish, formerly a manor and ecclesiastical parish, in the Mid Devon district of Devon, England. It lies within the Diocese of Exeter.[2]The nearest town is Tiverton, approximately 5.8 miles (9.3 km) to the south-west. The parish covers 2,930 acres (1,190 ha) and has a population of 157.[3] Prior to the 19th century Huntsham was within the historic Tiverton Hundred. The iron age fort Huntsham Castle is situated within the parish.
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Descent of the manor

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  • Bere
• .... etc.
• John Bere (1470-1524)(son), who married Elizabeth Chalvedon (d.1538), daughter of John Chalvedon
• John Bere (1494-1531) (son), who married Thomasine Stucley, daughter of Sir Thomas Stucley (1473-1542) of Affeton, Sheriff of Devon in 1521.[24] Thomasine survived her husband and in 1538 remarried to William Trewynard.
• Thomas Bere (1522-1589) (son), was heir to his grandmother Elizabeth Chalvedon.[25] He married Joane Keynes (d.1588) daughter of Humphry Keynes
• .... etc.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsham _______________________
• The School of Shakspere: Biography of Sir Thomas Stucley. The famous history ... edited by Richard Simpson
• http://books.google.com/books?id=dlkJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Lew...
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• CAPTAIN THOMAS STUCLEY was the third son of Sir Hugh Stucley (died Jan. 6, 1560), of Affton, on the river Taw, near Ilfracomb, Devonshire, by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Lewis Pollard on of the Judges of the Common Pleas. Prince, in his Worthies of Devon, tells us that the Judge was born about 1465 and died about 1540, and had by his wife, Elizabeth Hext, two-and-twenty children, eleven sons and eleven daughters; and that the daughters were all married 'to the most potent families in the county, most of them knights, as the first to Sir Hugh Stucley, the second to Sir Hugh Courtenay of powderham, the third to Sir Hugh Pawlet of Stamford Peverel, the fourth to Sir John Crocker of Lineham, &c. .... etc.
• It appears that Sir Lewis Pollard died, not in 1540, but on the 21st of October, 1526. That his children, who lived to be recorded in the Visitations, were eleven in all; five sons-- Hugh, Richard, John, Robert, and Anthony; and six daughters-- Grace, Elizabeth, Jane, Agnes, Thomasin, and Philippa. I cannot discover any Hugh
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• Courtenay of Powderham, or any intermarriage of the Courenays and Pollards in the generation in question. But Elizabeth, the second daughter, was married in succession to Sir John Croker and Sir Hugh Trevanion, of Carey-hayes, in Cornwall. Grace, the eldest daughter, does not appear to have been married at all. Possibly she was the nun of Canon Leigh, called in religion Margaret, to whom her father, alone of his daughter, left a legacy in his will.
• The father of Sir Hugh Stucley was Sir Thomas Stucley (died Jn. 30, 1543), a Knight of the body to King Henry VIII., in 1516, and whose name is found on the sheriff roll for Somerset and Dorset .... etc. His wife was Anne, the daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Wood of Bingley. .... etc.
• In Benolt's Visitation of Devon, Ao 22 of Henry VIII., the family name of the Stucleys of Affton is spelt Steretchley, and that of the Stucleys of Trent, Somerset (who were identically the same persons), Strevokley. There is also another family name, Stratcheley of Stratchley, which seems to have been originally the same. .... etc.
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• By his wife, Jane Pollard, Sir Hugh Stucley was father of four sons and four daughters: Lewis, Anne, Mary, Elizabeth, George, Thomas, Hugh, Agnes. Lewis was married when his grandfather, Sir Thomas, settled his estates in 1535, and though he does not then seem to have had a male heir, he must have had daughters. One of them, Mary, was married successively to Tristram Larder, and to Sargeant Prideaux. The latter died in 1558, leaving three children; the woman who had time to be twice married, and to have this family by her second husband, in 1558, was probably born some years before 1535. If, then her father Lewis was born about 1510 (which would make him 25 years old in 1636), it is presumable that his brother Thomas, the subject of the present sketch, was born sometime before 1520. _________________________
• Biography of Sir Thomas Stucley. The famous history of the life and death of ... By William Shakespeare, J. W. M. Gibbs
• http://books.google.com/books?id=GLsHFixWu88C&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Lew... ______________________________

Sir Thomas was Sheriff of Devon. He held manors of Affeton, East and West Worlington (both with advowsons), Mewshaw (with advowson), Bridgerule, Drayford, Huntshaw, Thelbridge (with advowson), Studleigh, Bradford Tracey, and Pyllaven in Devonshire.

He died on 30 January 1541/42 at Affeton, Devonshire, England, at age 66 years, 7 months and 6 days. His estate was probated in 1542 [at 34 Henry VIII].

We are indebted to Wendy (Gwendolyn Jean Edmands) Pearson for research in this line.

See "My Lines"

(http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/p437.htm#i23329)

from Compiler: R. B. Stewart, Evans, GA

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• 'Stukeley1'
• It appears to us that the name of this family varied more than most. Nevertheless, BP1934 uses "Stucley" throughout whilst Vivian mainly uses Stewkley for the early generations but moves to "Stucley" for the later generations of most of its branches. When we first prepared this page we used "Stukeley" as that was probably the most common version used in references to the family from elsewhere. This page was reviewed in July 2012 using Vivian. At that time we considered renaming the page "Stucley1" but decided to retain it as above.
• Richard Stucley or Styvecle of Trent, Somerset (a 1414, to Somerset from Huntingdonshire?)
• m. Elizabeth (d 10/18.04.1414, dau of John FitzRoger of Chedworth, widow of John Bonvile)
  • 1. Roger Stucley or Styvecle (b c1398, a 1414)
  • 2. Hugh Stucley or Styvecle or Stewkley of Affeton, Sheriff of Devon (a 1448)
  • m. Katherine Affeton (d 26.03.1467, dau/heir of John Affeton of Affeton (by Elizabeth, coheir of Sir Roger Manningford of Dorset), m2. Sir William Bourchier of Fitzwaren)
    • A. Nicholas Stucley or Stucle or Stewkley of Affeton
    • m1. Thomasine Kokeworthy (d 29.11.1477, dau of John Kokeworthy or Cockeworthye of Yarnescombe, widow of Robert Chudleigh)
      • i. Sir Thomas Stucley or Stewkley of Affeton, Sheriff of Devon (b 24.06.1473, d 30.01.1542)
      • m. Anne or Elizabeth Wood (a 1542, dau/heir of Sir Thomas Wood of Clyffe)
        • a. Sir Hugh Stucley of Affeton (b c1495, d 06.01.1559)
        • m. Jane (not Philippa) Pollard (a 1559, dau of Sir Lewis Pollard of Great Grilleston)
          • (1) Lewis Stucley of Affeton (b c1528, d 01.12.1581)
          • m1. Dorothea or Anne Hill (dau of Sir Giles Hill, widow of Christopher Hadley)
            • (A) John Stucley of Affeton (b c1551, d 15.01.1610-1)
            • m1. Frances St. Leger (dau of Sir John St. Leger of Amery by Catherine, dau of George Nevill, Lord Abergavenny)
            • m2. (19.07.1597) Mary Redman (d 26.12.1648, dau of John Redman of Thornton)
            • (B) Scipio Stucley (vicar of Dean Prior) had issue
            • m. _ Weeks of Honichurch
            • (C) Hugh Stucley
          • m2. Janet Powlett of Dorset
            • (D) Lewis Stucley (cleric) had issue
            • m. Margery Arscott (dau of John Arscottt of Dunsland)
            • (E) Johanna Stucley
            • m. Anthony Pollard of Way
            • (F) Margaret Stucley
            • m. John Hays of Witheridge
          • (2) George Stewkley
          • (3) Thomas Stewkley or Stucley or Stukeley had issue
          • This is the Thomas who is thought by some to have been an illegimitate son of King Henry VIII.
          • m. _ Powlett
          • (4) Hugh Stewkley of Hartland had issue
          • (5) Amiss Stewkley
          • m. Frances Pollard (dau of Sir Richard Pollard of Horwood)
            • (A) Anthony Stewkley had issue
            • m. _ Clotworthy of Meshaw (widow of _ Oland)
            • (B) Sibill Stewkley
            • m. Bartholomew Clotworthy
            • (C) Joan Stewkley
            • m1. _ Crewys
            • m2. _ Wood of Morton
            • (D) Frances Stewkley
            • m. Philip Davy
            • (E) Polynora Stewkley
            • m. John Nott of Lapford
            • (F)+ other issue - Lewis, Damaris
          • (6) Anne Stewkley
          • m. William Bellew of Alverdiscott
          • (7) Mary Stucley
          • m1. Tristram Larder of Upton Pyne
          • m2. John Prideaux of Nutwell (b c1520, d 29.09.1558)
          • (8) Elizabeth Stewkley
          • An Elizabeth of this generation is shown as wife of Sir John Wadham of Edge but we suspect that this may be confusion with an earlier Elizabeth - see below.
          • (9) Agnes Stucley
          • m. John Giles of Bowden (bur 30.11.1606)
          • (10) Katherine Stewkley
          • m. John Carew of Bickleigh
          • (11) Awdrie Stucley
          • m1. William Yeo of Braunton
          • m2. (27.01.1562-3) Roger Giffard of Tiverton Castle (b 1533, d 08.10.1603)
        • b. Thomas Stewkley of Colridge (a 1542)
        • m. Alice Spurston of Cheshire
          • (1) Augustine Stewkley of Colridge had issue
          • (2) Anne Stewkley
          • m. John Copplestone of Engesford
        • c. Maurice Stewkley
        • m. Allice Ffaringdon (dau of Charles Ffaringdon)
          • (1) Edward Stewkley
        • d. Margery (Margaret) Stukeley
        • m. Charles Farringdon of Farringdon (b c1500)
        • e. Thomazin Stewkley
        • m1. John Beare of Hunsham (b c1494, d 05.06.1531)
        • m2. William Trewynard
        • f. other issue - Christopher, George
    • m2. Ann Pomeroy (d before 07.04.1526, dau of Edward Pomeroy of Berry Pomeroy, widow of Robert Budockshyde, m3. Thomas Dudley)
      • ii. William Stewkley of Kene, Devon (b c1480)
      • m. Joane Stowell (dau of John Stowell, sister of John of Codleston)
        • a. Christopher Stewkley
        • m. Mary Foorde (dau of Edward Foorde of Plimtree)
          • (1)+ issue - John of Farindon, Andrew of Warkleigh (had issue), Grace, Ann, Elizabeth, Mary
        • b. Mary Stewkley
        • m. Henry English
        • c. Ann Stewkley
        • m. William Anthony
        • d. Elizabeth Stewkley
        • m. Thomas Moore of Taunton
        • e. Katherine Stewkley
        • m. John Carew of Bickley
      • iii. Anne Stukeley
      • m. William Dennis of Orley
      • iv. Jane Stukeley
      • m. Philip Baynard of Lackham (b by 1471, d before 21.05.1522)
      • v. Elizabeth Stucley or Stukeley (d before 07.04.1526) apparently of this generation, of this marriage
      • m. (before 31.08.1512) Christopher Fleming, 8th Lord Slane (d 08.1517/8)
    • B. Alice Stukeley
    • m. Sir Thomas Beaumont of Gittisham
    • C. Elizabeth Stukeley probably of this generation
    • m. Sir John Wadham of Branscombe & Merifield (d 1502)
• Main source(s): Visitation (J.L. Vivian (1895), Devon, 1531+1564+1620+additions, Stucley of Affeton), BP1934 (Stucley)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ss4tz/stukeley1.php _____________________