Dame Jane Skipwith

Family

Henry and Jane (Hall) Skipwith had a son, Sir William Skipwith, of Cotes, Knight, M. P. for Leicester 1604, died 1610. He married, 1st, Margaret, daughter of Roger Cave, of Stamford, co. Northants., who died 1594, and 2nd, Jane, daughter of John Roberts, and relict of John Markham. She was buried April 4, 1630. She was the testator above. The will shows she was married three times, the first to John Walpole, Esq.

Jane Roberts, Dame Skipwith (b. bef. 1546/7 - bur. 04 Apr 1630 Prestwold, Leics.), is the daughter and heir of John Robert[e]s, esq.of Wollaston, co. Northants. (temp Hen VIII).[1]

The Ashton pedigree asserts that her mother is Cassandra ferch William [ap Rhese of Washingley in Lutton, co. Hunts] (b. c. 1530 - d. 1590).

If the family pedigrees are right, she was probably born at the tail end of Henry VIII's reign, and lived to see Charles I succeed to the English throne.

She was certainly born before her half-brother Christopher Ashton, was buried on 16 December 1548.

Siblings

Jane is the eldest of her mother's children. All of her biological siblings were either the children of Peter Ashton or Adlard Welby. She also had a number of step-siblings.

Comments

”[The gentleman who made the abstract of this will said, with some justification, that when he finished he felt that Dame Jane was the Aunt of the world. It is an interesting will to Virginians. Not only was her husband ancestor of the Virginia Skipwiths, but it is possible, if her various relations could be studied, (they only could be in Eng- land) it would be found that she was the connecting link of a number of other Virginia families. . ”

References

• Virginia Gleanings in England (Continued) “Dame Jane Skipwith of Cotes, co Leic, widow. Will dat. 20 Oct 1629” Archive.Org
• “Green, E. Pedigree of the family of Ashton of Spalding and Grantham, co. Lincoln” GoogleBooks
• “Virginia Gleanings in England.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 27, no. 1, 1919, pp. 50–58. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4243712