Holdstock
The following is a brick wall I have struggled with for thirty years and my cousin Joyce for around fifty years! If some help is forthcoming from fellow members, it will be greatly appreciated.
We are looking for a potential connection to our ancestor GREGORIUS HOLDSTOCKE from WILLIAM HOLSTOCK. Please ignore the differences in surname spellings, there are over twenty variants.
GH was born in 1550 in Harbledown Kent, and was buried 11th August 1605, but as yet his parentage is unknown.
WH is thought to be have born around 1520, probably in London. There is a possibilty he had a brother John, described as a Woodmonger and it's the business of wood which gives rise to the possble family connection.
WH was an Admiral - "Comptroller of the Queen's Navie." He oversaw the supply and victualling of the ships required by Sir Francis Drake, to face the Armada. Some of the timber was procured from woodland owned by Kent Holdstocks'. Another reason to hope for a connection. We know that the invoice for the wood was never paid, maybe it was never rendered, as WH died in office 1589. He was buried in a family tomb in St Mary at Hill church, which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London. Also, he was Church Warden there in 1556.
His marriage was around 1543 to Margaret Powell, from a pedigreed Welsh family. Margaret died in 1563 and William married again in 1564, Agnes Clunn. WH lived at Orsett Manor in Essex, a house now occupied by Gillian Shepherd MP.
Thank you.
We are looking for a potential connection to our ancestor GREGORIUS HOLDSTOCKE from WILLIAM HOLSTOCK. Please ignore the differences in surname spellings, there are over twenty variants.
GH was born in 1550 in Harbledown Kent, and was buried 11th August 1605, but as yet his parentage is unknown.
WH is thought to be have born around 1520, probably in London. There is a possibilty he had a brother John, described as a Woodmonger and it's the business of wood which gives rise to the possble family connection.
WH was an Admiral - "Comptroller of the Queen's Navie." He oversaw the supply and victualling of the ships required by Sir Francis Drake, to face the Armada. Some of the timber was procured from woodland owned by Kent Holdstocks'. Another reason to hope for a connection. We know that the invoice for the wood was never paid, maybe it was never rendered, as WH died in office 1589. He was buried in a family tomb in St Mary at Hill church, which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London. Also, he was Church Warden there in 1556.
His marriage was around 1543 to Margaret Powell, from a pedigreed Welsh family. Margaret died in 1563 and William married again in 1564, Agnes Clunn. WH lived at Orsett Manor in Essex, a house now occupied by Gillian Shepherd MP.
Thank you.
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