Robert Cheney, II

Richard Cheney

• Wife Note Recorded
• Mother Note Recorded

Richardson, Douglas. Heath - Johnson - Morris Update: The Ancestry of Agnes (Cheney) Heath. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1995), 149:175. Robert(C) Cheney (Robert(D)) was born say 1490 and resided in the parish of Waltham Abbey, Essex. The name of his wife is not known. In 1535, at Waltham Abbey, he enfeoffed Humphrey Browne, serjeant-at-law, John Haslywood, gentleman, Robert Cressy, gentleman, and several other men with three crofts called Burnysfields in Upshire in Waltham Abbey, which property he held jointly with Robert Sharnebrooke, William Pratte, Richard Foorthe, Walter Bryght, and Thomas Stacy, all deceased, of the feoffment of Robert Sharnebroke and Hugh Foorthe. The purpose of these enfeoffments is not stated.

"Robert Cheynaye of ye parishe of Waltham in countey of Essex hooll [whole] of mynd & memorye" made his will 26 October 1542, asking to be buried in the churchyard of Saint Lawrence of Waltham.

"... to john Down a bollocke of one yere olde and an other to Wyllyam Donne [sic] his brother ... to Robert Cheyney my sonne a blak cowe ... to Wyllyam Donne a brand yd kow ... to Robert my sonne my bed yt I lye on & all ye hangyngs in ye same chamber & all ye hangyngs in ye hall with a tabull ... to Wyllyam Donne a featherbed & a mattres ... ye ressydew of all my goods in ye hows I gyve to Robert my sonne & Wyllyam Donne ... eqwally betwen them. Item I wyll yt Wyllyam Donn shall have my howse yt I dwell in ... for ye space of v yeres ... and after ye seyd v yeres be ended then l wyll yt ye same howsse shall remaine to Robert my sonne & to ye heyres of his bod ye lawfully begotten and yf ye said Robert my sonne decesse withowte heyres of his bodye lawfully then I wyll ye said howsse shall remaine to Wyllyam Donne & to the heires of his bod ye lawfull ye begottyn ... I wyll that Annes my dawghter shall have a marke [13s 4dJ of Robert my sonne & vj s viij d of Wyllyam Donne within ye space of ij yeres after my decesse ... to ye said Annes ij pewter dyshes ij plates & ij sawsors, these [being] wytnes Wyllyam Pygram Wyllyam Tye john Foster"

Children

1. ROBERT CHENEY, b. say 1520; m. jOAN HARRISON.
2. . AGNES / ANNES CHENEY, living 1542 when she was named in her father's will. She is presumably the daughter who m. __ DONNE, with whom she had two sons, William Donne and John Donne, named in her father's will. She was living as late as 1567, when her brother Robert Cheney bequeathed to his "sister Donne" a close of land for the term of her natural life.