Sir John Wheatleigh

John Wheatleigh, Esq. of Tingsboro, Somerset, 1) May 31, 1547, m Dorothy Willoughby of Derbyshire, youngest daughter of Arctic explorer, Hugh Willoughby.

She probably died before 1609, for no mention is made of her in his will. He was one of the 164 gentlemen and sailors who accompanied Sir Francis Drake on his free booting expedition to Spanish America and around the world, home via Cape of Good Hope, arriving at Plymouth November 1580.

"Will of John "Wheatleigh Esq.. of Tingsboro, filed at Carew, P. C. C. and dated May 7, 1609, is as follows:

The chain of gold dsposed of my father. John Wheatley V will, shall succeed to our heirs. 'I'n my four younger sons, Israel, Samuel, Philip and Andrew during their lives each £50 by the year, out of the rents of Lindenboro and Glenolden.

To my daughters Elizabeth, Mary and Margery £800, to be raised out of the rents of my manors, Sidglen and Maiden Newton. To my daughter Mary, her mother's wedding ring.

To my brother, Frank Wheatleigh, the remission of a tenement in Maiden Newton. To my brother, Samuel Wheatleigh, the continuation for life of the living at Tingsboro. To my cousin, Edmund AVingate, my books on law and mathematics.

Nathaniel my son and heir executor. John Skinner, clerk.

Sources

1. Hannibal P. (Hannibal Parish) Wheatley. Genealogy of the Wheatley or Wheatleigh family. A history of the family in England and America .. online. (page 1 of 11)

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John Wheatleigh, Esq. of Tingsboro, Somerset, 1) May 31, 1547, m Dorothy Willoughby of Derbyshire, youngest daughter of Arctic explorer, Hugh Willoughby.

She probably died before 1609, for no mention is made of her in his will. He was one of the 164 gentlemen and sailors who accompanied Sir Francis Drake on his free booting expedition to Spanish America and around the world, home via Cape of Good Hope, arriving at Plymouth November 1580.

"Will of John "Wheatleigh Esq.. of Tingsboro, filed at Carew, P. C. C. and dated May 7, 1609, is as follows:

The chain of gold dsposed of my father. John Wheatley V will, shall succeed to our heirs. 'I'n my four younger sons, Israel, Samuel, Philip and Andrew during their lives each £50 by the year, out of the rents of Lindenboro and Glenolden.

To my daughters Elizabeth, Mary and Margery £800, to be raised out of the rents of my manors, Sidglen and Maiden Newton. To my daughter Mary, her mother's wedding ring.

To my brother, Frank Wheatleigh, the remission of a tenement in Maiden Newton. To my brother, Samuel Wheatleigh, the continuation for life of the living at Tingsboro. To my cousin, Edmund AVingate, my books on law and mathematics.

Nathaniel my son and heir executor. John Skinner, clerk.

Sources 1.Hannibal P. (Hannibal Parish) Wheatley. Genealogy of the Wheatley or Wheatleigh family. A history of the family in England and America .. online. (page 1 of 11)

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