Roger Hill, of Taunton

Roger Hill Find a Grave The Toose family is revealed in The Visitation of Somerset (visSom, page 111), which shows Alexander Toose and his unnamed first wife (uxor prima) as parents of Johannes (John) Toose. Alexander later married the widow of John Combes (relicta Johannis Combes), who was the mother by her prior husband (John Combes) of Johanna (Joan) Combes. John Toose of Taunton subsequently married Joan Combes, his stepsister, and they were the parents of Margeria (Margery) Toose, who married Roger Hill. (Why this pedigree is in latin is not explained.)

This Visitation actually displays the wife of Roger Hill of Taunton as Alicia, elder sister of Margeria. The Hill page (50) shows Roger's wife as "Margery d. and h. of . . . ."

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• Abstracts of Somersetshire wills, etc: copied from the manuscript ..., Volume 1 By Frederick Arthur Crisp, Frederick Brown
• http://books.google.com/books?id=PElFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=J...
• Pg. 34
• ROGER HILL, of Taunton, Somerset, Merchant. Will dated Jan. 6, 1544, proved Apr. 8 1546, by Margery the relict. [7 Alen.] To the High Awter in Mawdelyn Church, 20/. Bequest for divers religious services. To an honest priest to sing for my soul for 20 years, for every year L5. In alms, L100. To Alice my daughter, L100 at 21 or marriage. My sons William & Robert. My daughter Margaret. My daughter Jone, that was at Buckland, 40/. My eldest son, John Hill. Alexander Togwell, my son in law, a pack of wre cloths. Residue to Margery my wife. William Portman, Exq'r, & Alexander Togwell, Overseers, L4 each. My wife to be Extrix, & if she refuse, then William, Robert, Marg't, & Alexander, my four children, to be Exors, & my wife then to have L500.
• MARGARET HILL, of Taunton, Somerset, widow. Will dated June 1, 1548, proved Feb. 14, 1550, by the Exors. [5 Bucke.] To be buried in S't Mary Magdalen, Taunton, near my husband. My son William Hill's three children. The three children of Alex. Togwell. My god-daughter Mary Portman, & to Henry Portman, L3. 6. 8 each. To my son in law, John Whyt, L3. 6. 8. To Sir John Hill & his sister Joan Hill, 10/ each. My apparell between my four daughters. My late husband, Roger Hill, "whose soul Jesu pardon," by his last will constituted me his Extrix. Residue to my son Robert Hill, Exor. Sir William Portman, kn't, my son William Hill, & Alexander Togwell, my son in law, Overseers. To John Cuffe & Will. Halley, 20/ each.
• A. 33. B. 50. WILLIAM HILL, of Poundsford, Somerset, Esq'r. Will dated June 6, 1592, proved Apr. 20, 1594, by Roger Hill. [31 Dixy.] My daughter Ellinor Hill, 200 marks. My daughter Luce Lawrence, L100. My son Gabriel Hill, 100 marks. My son John Hill, L100. Tho's Hill, L20. Benjamin Hill, L40. My son Alexander2. Residue to my son Roger Hill, Exor. M'r John Colles, & my son Alexander, Overseers.
• A. 33. JOHN HILL, of West Martyn, Wilts, esq. Will dated Apr. 27, 1602, proved Feb.2 1602-3, by Hugh Hill. [19 Bolein.] All my goods, &c., to my brother Hugh Hill, of Splat, by Taunton, esq.
• ROGER HILL, of Poundsford, Somerset, gent. Will dated Dec. 22, 1606, proved May 24, 1609, by W'm Hill. [42 Dorset.] To be buried at Pitminster. My father, William Hill, dec'd. My wife Mary3, an annuity of L30, & to have rooms in my dwelling house at Poundsford. My son Roger Hill. My son John Hill, under 21. My daughters, Ann Shute, Frances Shaplin [Chaplin], & Elizabeth Sampson, three angells each, for three rings. My son William Hill, Exor. My friend John Pyne, esq'r, & my brother Alexander Hill, gent., Overseers.
• ALEXANDER HILL, of Taunton, Somerset, Gent. Will dated Dec. 12, 1613, proved Jan. 28, 1613-14, by Robert Hill. [3 Lawe.] My wife Alice4. My daughter Elizabeth Hill. My daughter Godsall. My son Robert, Exor. Overseers, John Symes, esq., & Thomas Strowde, gent, both of Pitminster.
  • 2. Alexander and Roger were sons by 1st wife.
  • 3. Daughter of John Hassard of Lyme.
  • 4. Daughter of John Hassard of Lyme.
• JOHN YOUNGE, of Coliton, Devon. Will dated Aug. 13, 1610, proved Oct. 1, 1613. [63 Fenner.] My son Walter. My wife Alice. My brother in law, John Starre, of Beare. My brother in law, Hercules Pyne. My daughter Mary Fry, & her husband William Fry. My daughters, Joan Mallacke, Alice Cockeram, Ann Hill, & Jane Hill. My son in law Richard Mallacke. Roger, William, Mary, Ann, & Jane Hill, children of my son in law, William Hill, of Poundsford. Lusse & Mary Hill. My sister Ellen S . . . . My sons in law, Will. Hill & Rob't Hill.1
• Pg. 36
  • 1 ? Roger. No son Robert is named in Visitation of Somerset.
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• The Antiquary, Volume 32 edited by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson
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• https://archive.org/stream/antiquary32slsniala#page/222/mode/1up
• Pg. 222 Short Notes and Correspondence.
• HILL OF SPAXTON.
• Since the notes on this family were published in the Antiquary of June last, they have been found to need correction in various ways, and the annexted tabular pedigree may be of interest as being more exact, it is believed, than previous attempts. It is founded mainly an that printed in Nichols' Collectanea (i. 409) from one compiled about 1530, and on those in Sir J. Maclean's Trigg Minor (i. 42), and Lieutenant Colonel Vivian's Visitations of Cornwall (p. 227).* The chief blemish of the two latter is the identification of Robert Hill, of Spaxton (not Spraxton) with his contemporary namesake Sir Robert Hill, of Shilston, as Judge of the Common Pleas, and last husband of Joan, the daughter and heir of Sir Otto de Bodrugan. This mistake was made by Foss in his Lives of the Judges, and has thus crept into the Dictionary of National Biography; so that it is well to point out (1) that Robert Hill, of Spaxton, died "on Sunday, on the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist," in the first year of Henry VI., i.e., on April 25, 1423, while his namesake, the judge, was acting in 1425; and (2) that Isabell Hill (Fychet) was married to Robert Hill in 1396, and was still living in 1416, being mentioned in Dame Latymer's will, while Joan de Bodrugan had married the other Robert Hill before 1408, and died about 1428.
• The property of John Hill, of Spaxton, was, according to Sir J. Maclean, divided among the four heirs in 1529. The Waldegraves seem to have received the bulk of the Somerset property, and the Cloptons that in Devonshire and Cornwall. William Clopton, however, sold his share, and thus (about 1562) the Rouses, of Devonshire, had possession of Halton and Dittesham; the last of the Clopton family at Liston seems to have been Dr. Poley Clopton, who died in 1730. Robert Hussey, of Sleaford, was the second (or third) son of Sir William Hussey, Chief Justice of the King's Bench; Thomas Hussey left a daughter and heir, Elizabeth, who married Thomas Stidolph, of Mickleham in Surrey, and their son, Sir Francis, was a man of some note in the first half of the seventeenth century (Manning's Surrey, ii., 651). George Babington, who married Helen Ellis, seems to have been the second son of Sir Anthony Babington, of Dethick, by his second wife (Katharine Ferrers); if this be so, he must afterwards have married Anne Constable, who on his death, became the second wife of Sir Anthony Thorold. George Babington left no children. . . . . .
• Hill, of Poundisford. This family having been mentioned, an outline of their pedigree is annexed, based on the Somerset Visitation of 1623, and Le Neve's Pedigrees of the Knights (Harleian Society), the confused account in Toulmin's History of Taunton (1822), and the monumental inscriptions in Lipscombe's History of Buckinghamshire (iv., 445).
• (1) William Hill 'c. 1450-1510), probably a grand-son of Robert Hill, of Spaxton, settled at Taunton. He married Eleanor __ , and was succeeded by his son,
• (2) Roger Hill, of Taunton, who married Margery , by whom he had three sons and two daughters. One son, Robert, resided at Yard, or Yard House, near Taunton ; a name suggestive of the manor of Yarde, in Combe Flory, held by Robert Hill, of Spaxton, one of the few properties in the long list of his possessions {Cal. Inq. Post Alortem, iv., 70), which may have been patrimonial. This Robert Hill, of Taunton, was twice married ; one son, Hugh, is described as " of Splot," and had a son James. Another of Roger's sons, apparently the younger, was
• (3) William Hill, of Poundisford, in Pitminster, a village to the south of Taunton. He also was twice married, and had fourteen children. One of these, Alexander, lived at Taunton, and his monument stated that he died December 14, 1613. The heir, however, was .... etc.
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• William Hill m. Eleanor
  • 1. Roger Hill of Taunton Visitation (Weaver, Somerset, 1551+1575+1595, Hill) identifies Roger's wife and mother of her children as Alice Towse, Visitation (1623) shows the mother of Roger's children as a Margery so we prsume that Alice Towse was Roger's 2nd wife. m1. Margery
    • A. William Hill of Poundsford, Somerset m1. Ann Trowbridge (dau of John Trowbridge of Clyton)
    • m2. Lucy Ryves (dau of John Ryves of Dorset)
    • B. Robert Hill of Yard near Taunton m1. Alice Clark
    • m2. Eleanor Martyn (dau of Sir James Martyn)
    • C. John Hill (dsp)
    • D. Margaret Hill m. Alexander Togwell
  • m2. Alice Towse (dau of John Towse of Somerset (by Joan Combes), m2. Sir Thomas Grenville of Cornwall)
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Generation No. 2

2. ROGER**(-32 )HILL (WILLIAM**(-4)1 HILL) was born Abt. 1485 in TAUNTON, SOMMERSET, ENGLAND;or ca 1470-75, and died 1546 in TAUNTON, SOMMERSET, ENGLAND?. He married (1) ALICE (?) HILL 1500. He married (2) MARGERY (?) HILL Abt. 1510 in TAUNTON, ENGLAND?. She was born Abt. 1495 in OF, POUNDISFORD, SOMMERSET, ENGLAND.

More About ROGER**(-3 )HILL:

Burial: Occup-Merchant

Children of ROGER**(-3 )HILL and ALICE HILL are:

i. SIR JOHN3 HILL, b. Abt. 1505; d. LIVING IN 1548; d.s.p..

ii. JOANE HILL, b. Abt. 1508; d. LIVING IN 1548; d.s.p..

Children of ROGER**(-3 )HILL and MARGERY HILL are:

iii. ROBERT (-2)3 HILL, b. 1512, POUNDISFORD, SOMERSET, ENGLAND; d. 1581, LIVED IN TAUNTON, ENGLAND; m. (1) ALICE CLARK; m. (2) ELEANOR MARVIN.

More About ALICE CLARK:

Burial: HAD CHILDREN

More About ELEANOR MARVIN:

Burial: HAD CHILDREN BY BOTH WIVES

3. iv. WILLIAM**(-2) HILL, b. 1515, OF, POUNDSFORD, S, ENGLAND (OR BORN-1525); d. June 06, 1592, POUNDSFORD, OF PITMINSTER, ENGLAND (OR DIED-1594).

v. MARY (-2) HILL, b. 1529, POUNDISFORD, SOMERSET, ENGLAND; m. JOHN WHITE; d. (THOUGHT TO HAVE MARRIED HIM.).

vi. MARGARET (-2) HILL, b. 1533, POUNDISFORD, SOMERSET, ENGLAND; m. ALEXANDER TAGWELL.

vii. ALICE (-2) HILL, b. Abt. 1535, TAUNTON, SOMMERSET, ENGLAND; d. ALICE WAS A MINOR AT THE TIME OF HER FATHER'S DEATH-1546.

Husband: William Hill (H400)

  Born: ABT 1525         at: of Poundisford,Somerset,Eng   Married:                  at:   

  Died: 6 JUN 1592       at: of Poundisford,Somerset,Eng  

Father:Roger Hill

Mother:Margery or Margaret Towse or Toose

       Other Spouses: Ann Trowbridge   NOTES     Wife: Lucy Ryves (R120)

  Born: ABT 1530         at: ,of Drstsh Co,Eng  

  Died:                  at:   

Father:John Ryves

Mother:

       Other Spouses:  NOTES  CHILDREN

  Name: Lucy Hill

  Born: ABT 1562         at: of Poundisford,Somerset,England   Married:                  at:   

  Died:                  at:    Spouses: LIVING     NOTES     Name: Benjamin Hill

  Born: ABT 1564         at: of Poundisford,Somerset,England   Married:                  at:   

  Died: BEF 27 FEB 1657  at:    Spouses:  NOTES     Name: Thomas Hill

  Born: ABT 1570         at: of Poundisford,Somerset,England   Married: 4 MAY 1595       at:   

  Died:                  at:    Spouses: Margerie Weeks   NOTES     Name: John Hill

  Born: ABT 1571         at: of Poundisford,Somerset,England   Married: 1600             at: Plymstock,Devon,England  

  Died:                  at:    Spouses: Jane Gaud   NOTES  

GEDCOM Note

Biography==Roger Hill of "Taunton" was born on January 10, 1495, at Poundisford, Taunton, Somerset, England. His father, William Hill, had establishedthe family seat at Poundisford, just south of Taunton, in what was a deer park, owned by the Bishop of Winchester, who had hunted there since early Medieval times. The Hill family began as tenants, although they were of the gentry, landowning, social class. Eventually, as their fortunes rose in the 15-16th Centuries, they came to own the entire estate, divided in two parcels for two family branches.

Roger Hill is said to have had two wives. In about 1515 he first married Alice (Alicia), the older daughter of John Toose of Taunton and Johanna Combes, his wife. They had two children:

1. Joan Hill, b. ca. 1516
2. John Hill, b. ca. 1518Both were named in their father's 1544 Will but apparently neither hadan heir as the family estate at Poundisford was inherited by Robert Hill, Roger's first-born by his 2nd wife, Margery Toose, younger sisterof Alice (Toose) Hill, who must have died between 1518 and 1522.

In 1523, Roger Hill married Margery Toose. They had 5 children:

1. Robert Hill b: 1525 in Somerset, England
2. William Hill, b: 1527 in Poundisford, Somerset, England
3. Edward Hill b: 1528 in England
4. Margaret Hill b: 1530 in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England
5. Alice Hill b: 1531 in Poundisford, Somerset, England Roger Hill became a wealthy wool merchant in the early 15th Century. He was knighted in about 1540. He wrote his Will in January 1544 and it was proven shortly after his death, on April 8, 1546. He named hiswife, Margery, as his Executor.

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   Roger Hill and the Hill Family Wills:<ref> Abstracts of Somersetshire wills, etc: copied from the manuscript ..., Volume 1, By Frederick Arthur Crisp, Frederick Brown, 1827. Pg. 34 </ref> : ROGER HILL, of Taunton, Somerset, Merchant. Will dated Jan. 6, 1544,proved Apr. 8 1546, by Margery the relict. [7 Alen.] To the High Awter in Mawdelyn Church, 20/. Bequest for divers religious services. To an honest priest to sing for my soul for 20 years, for every year L5. In alms, L100. To Alice my daughter, L100 at 21 or marriage. My sons William & Robert. My daughter Margaret. My daughter Jone, that was at Buckland, 40/. My eldest son, John Hill. Alexander Togwell, my son in law, a pack of wre cloths. Residue to Margery my wife. William Portman, Exq'r, & Alexander Togwell, Overseers, L4 each. My wife to be Extrix, & if she refuse, then William, Robert, Marg't, & Alexander, my four children, to be Exors, & my wife then to have L500. : MARGARET HILL, of Taunton, Somerset, widow. Will dated June 1, 1548,proved Feb. 14, 1550, by the Exors. [5 Bucke.] To be buried in S't Mary Magdalen, Taunton, near my husband. My son William Hill's three children. The three children of Alex. Togwell. My god-daughter Mary Portman, & to Henry Portman, L3. 6. 8 each. To my son in law, John Whyt, L3. 6. 8. To Sir John Hill & his sister Joan Hill, 10/ each. My apparellbetween my four daughters. My late husband, Roger Hill, "whose soul Jesu pardon," by his last will constituted me his Extrix. Residue to myson Robert Hill, Exor. Sir William Portman, kn't, my son William Hill, & Alexander Togwell, my son in law, Overseers. To John Cuffe & Will.Halley, 20/ each. : WILLIAM HILL, of Poundsford, Somerset, Esq'r. Will dated June 6, 1592, proved Apr. 20, 1594, by Roger Hill. [31 Dixy.] My daughter EllinorHill, 200 marks. My daughter Luce Lawrence, L100. My son Gabriel Hill, 100 marks. My son John Hill, L100. Tho's Hill, L20. Benjamin Hill, L40. My son Alexander.<ref>2. Alexander and Roger were sons by 1st wife.</ref> Residue to my son Roger Hill, Exor. M'r John Colles, & my sonAlexander, Overseers. [A. 33. B. 50.] : JOHN HILL, of West Martyn, Wilts, esq. Will dated Apr. 27, 1602, proved Feb.2 1602-3, by Hugh Hill. [19 Bolein.] All my goods, &c., to mybrother Hugh Hill, of Splat, by Taunton, esq. : ROGER HILL, of Poundsford, Somerset, gent. Will dated Dec. 22, 1606,proved May 24, 1609, by W'm Hill. [42 Dorset.] To be buried at Pitminster. My father, William Hill, dec'd. My wife Mary,<ref> 3. Daughter of John Hassard of Lyme. </ref> an annuity of L30, & to have rooms in my dwelling house at Poundsford. My son Roger Hill. My son John Hill, under 21. My daughters, Ann Shute, Frances Shaplin [Chaplin], & Elizabeth Sampson, three angells each, for three rings. My son William Hill, Exor. My friend John Pyne, esq'r, & my brother Alexander Hill, gent., Overseers. : ALEXANDER HILL, of Taunton, Somerset, Gent. Will dated Dec. 12, 1613, proved Jan. 28, 1613-14, by Robert Hill. [3 Lawe.] My wife Alice.<ref> 4. Daughter of John Hassard of Lyme.</ref> My daughter Elizabeth Hill. My daughter Godsall. My son Robert, Exor. Overseers, John Symes, esq., & Thomas Strowde, gent, both of Pitminster. : JOHN YOUNGE, of Coliton, Devon. Will dated Aug. 13, 1610, proved Oct. 1, 1613. [63 Fenner.] My son Walter. My wife Alice. My brother in law, John Starre, of Beare. My brother in law, Hercules Pyne. My daughter Mary Fry, & her husband William Fry. My daughters, Joan Mallacke, Alice Cockeram, Ann Hill, & Jane Hill. My son in law Richard Mallacke.Roger, William, Mary, Ann, & Jane Hill, children of my son in law, William Hill, of Poundsford. Lusse & Mary Hill. My sister Ellen S . . . . My sons in law, Will. Hill & Rob't Hill. <ref> 1 Roger. (No son Robert is named in Visitation of Somerset).</ref>

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• Roger Hill, of Taunton
• Abstracts ofSomersetshire wills, etc: copied from the manuscript ..., Volume 1, By Frederick Arthur Crisp, Frederick Brown, 1827. Pg. 34
• Find A Grave Memorial# 119246046 - Roger Hill

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