Thomas Hales, Esq.

The Family of Sir Charles Hales, Knight of Thanington, Kent, England.

NOTE

There is much speculation amongst Hale genealogists of a family connection between Sir Charles HALES of Thanington and Deacon Robert HALE (see tree below), however I know of no documentary evidence proving this link. Research suggests that Sir Charles was definitely a HALES with an "S". Certainly John Burke's "Genealogical and Heraldic History of Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland" (published 1844) traces Sir Charles' family through to 1824 under the name HALES.

The following outline tree of Sir Charles HALES' family has been partly extracted from I.G.I births and baptisms, some of which appear to have been compiled from unproven sources. At this stage I have little documentary evidence to prove the following family outline. This tree is intended as a guide only, and has not been independently verified. Further research is required to produce an accurate family tree.

1 Thomas HALES esq.

Born: Unknown

Died: Unknown

+Jane HOLLOWAY

Born: Unknown

Married: Unknown

Died: Unknown

Father: Clement HOLLOWAY esq.

2 Sir Charles HALES or HALE

Born: c1545, of Thanington, Kent, England.

Buried: 25 Mar 1622 (1623), Thanington, Kent, England.

+Anne HONYWOOD

Born: c1547, of Charing, Kent, England.

Married: c1570.

Buried: 10 Jul 1617, Thanington, Kent, England.

Father: Robert HONEYWOOD esq. of Charing, Kent.

Mother: Mary ATWATER.

http://www.hale-genealogy.com/enghales/kent.htm

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"The Hales Family of Kent," in The Hales Newsletter, New Series, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer 1997):

John atte HALE (or HALES)

Born about 1460 of Canterbury, Kent, England the son of John atte Hale (or Hales) and Juliana _____. One of the barons of the exchequer and seated at the Dungeon, in Canterbury. Married about 1500 Isabella Harvy (or Harry or Harris). She was born about 1470 the daughter of Stephen HARRY. John atte HALE (or HALES) died in 1547. Will dated 20 JUL 1540 names Children and commits John to tomb of wife, Isabella, who predeceased him and was buried at Saint Mary of Bredne [sic; should be Bredin], Canterbury.

Children:

F- Mildred HALES; born about 1502 of Thanington, Kent, England; married about 1534 John HONEYWOOD.

M- James HALES; born about 1506 of Canterbury, Kent, England; married (1) about 1539 Margaret HALES, (2) Joan _____; died in 1555.

M- Thomas HALES; born about 1510 of Thanington, Kent, England; married (1) about 1541 Jane HOLLOWAY, (2) Alice EUYAS. died 1583.

M- Edward HALES; born about 1515 of Tenterden, Kent, England; married about 1542 Margaret HONEYWOOD.

M- William HALES; born about 1520 of Nackington, Kent, England; married about 1545 Mary BOORNE.

[See also Hales, Thomas Glyn, The Hales Chronicles, 3rd Ed., Tucson, AZ: Privately Printed, 2008, p. 806.]

(3) Philipot, John, The Visitation of Kent, Taken in the Years 1619-1621, London, England: Harleian Society, 1898, pp. 58-59:

Joh'es Hales de le Dungen prope civitate Canturi?? Baro' Sec'rio D'ni Regis. [married to] Isabella filia et co-h??res Steph'i Harry fil. Tho: Harry.

[Child:]

Jacobus Hales, miles unus Justiciarior. in co' Placito. [married to] _____ filia et h??res Tho: Hales de Henby [? Henley] super Thames.

(4) Hasted, Edward, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, Volume XI, Canterbury, England: 1800, p. 149:

Sir John Hales, who purchased this manor [of the Dungeon], was son of John, the eldest son of Henry, of Hales-place, in Tenterden, and died about the 1st year of king Edward VI. leaving issue four sons by Isabel his wife, daughter and coheir of Stephen Harvey, by Isabel, daughter and heir of William Brooker. Of the sons, James the eldest was of the Dungeon; Thomas the second son, was of Thanington, ancestor of the Hales's, baronets, of that place and BekeIborne; Edward the third son, was of Tenterden, and ancestor of the Hales's, baronets, of Tenterden, Woodchurch, Tonstall, and now of St. Stephen's; and William, the fourth son. . . .

(5) Hasted, Edward, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, Volume XI, Canterbury, England: 1800, pp. 147-151:

THE MANOR OF THE DUNGEON, the mansion of which, situated just without the city walls, at a small distance westward from the lesser hill of the Dungeon, in the parish of St. Mary Bredin, has been pulled down for some years, and only part of the out-offices are remaining, with part of the garden walls.

This manor, now known by the name of Deanjohn farm, was formerly the property of an antient family called Chiche, one of whom, Ernaldus de Chich, was a person of principal note in the reigns of Henry II. Richard I. and king John, and the aldermanries of Burgate and Northgate, in this city, being then held as an estate in fee, did then belong to him and his heirs, and had continued for some time in his family. Thomas Chiche, who was one of the bailiffs of Canterbury in 1259, and again in 1271, was a principal benefactor to the above church of St. Mary Bredin. John Chich was likewise one of the bailiffs of it in the 23d and 26th years of king Edward III.

In the year 1320, being the 13th of king Edw. II. a definitive sentence was pronounced by Robert Malling, then commissary of Canterbury, on the evidence as well of antient deeds and writings as otherwise, that the hospital of Sr. Laurence, in Canterbury, was entitled to receive not only the tithes of this Manor, but of three hundred acres of land likewise adjacent to it; in consideration of which, John Chiche, who was then lord of this manor, was to receive in autumn for his servants, five loaves of bread, two pitchers and a half of beer, and half a cheese of four-pence; and he himfelf was entitled to receive unum par Chirothcarum ferinarum, one pair of leather gloves, and one pound of wax in candles; and for his servants three pair of gloves. Thomas Chich, son of the above mentioned John, was sheriff of this county in the 15th year of king Richard II.'s reign, and kept his shrievalty at the Dungeon; and his great-grandson Valentine Chich, dying without male issue, this manor was alienated by him about the beginning of Edward IV.'s reign, to Roger Brent, gent. who was of the parish of All Saints, in Canterbury, who died possessed of it, as appears by his will in the Prerogative-office, in Canterbury, in the year 1486, anno 2 Henry VII. and ordered it to be sold for the payment of his debts and legacies; after which it appears by an old court-roll, that in the beginning of the next reign of Henry VIII. John Boteler, or Butler, of Heronden, in Eastry, was become proprietor of it, and he passed it away by sale to Sir John Hales, chief baron of the exchequer; and when Leland visited this part of Kent in the 30th year of that reign, he then resided at this mansion, which afterwards descended down to Sir James Hales, of the Dungeon, who died in 1665, leaving one only daughter and heir Elizabeth, who carried it in marriage first to Sir Stephen Hales, K. B. of Warwickshire, and secondly to George, third son of William Sheldon, esq. of Beoly, in Worcestershire, by neither of whom she had issue. They resided at the Dungeon, where she died in 1678, and as he did a few months afterwards, possessed of this manor and seat, which his heirs alienated in 1680, to Henry Lee, esq. whose descendant Thomas Lee Warner, esq. in 1752, pulled down to the ground this mansion, then known by the name of Donjon, alias the Coventry-house (so called from the lady Coventry's residing in it) leaving only a few of the offices in the front, and the garden walls standing, and near them the farmhouse, with the buildings belonging to it. He died possessed of this estate in 1768, and was succeeded in it by his son Henry Lee Warner, esq. of Walsingham abbey, in Norfolk, the present owner of it.

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