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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The construction of this family is from several wills and other records (see other notes for those sources):
Parents: John Clench (-1582) of Otterden and his wife Johan are identified in two documents. They are found in Eastling selling real property in the Kent Feet of Fines for 1530/31. In John's will of 1582, land in Eastling (near to Otterden) is part of his legacy. Assuming a marriage no later than 1530, then John would have been born bef. 1505 (age 25 or older) and Johann before 1511 (age 19 or older). John's will in Otterden of 1582 identifies six children -- three sons (Edward, John, and Anthony) and three daughters (Rabech, Benet, and Ane). The will names the wife of Edward as Rose as well as three daughters of Edward -- Jane, Thomason, and Benet. The will indicates that his son John has children, but for Anthony he only says heirs rather than children.
Children (order unknown):
A. [Vicar] John Clench (-1593). The connection as a son is probable but not fully proven. We know the Vicar's son Josias was named as a "cosen" in John's probable brother Anthony's 1609/10 will, which term probably included nephews in that era. We can also place Josias later in life in Eastling where he is buried and where also John of Otterden had legacies in his will. Vicar John would have been born around 1530 since he married his first wife bef. 1555. From his probable father John's 1582 will, we know that he had children (unnamed) in 1582. Since no other John Clinch of that era shows up in the nearby localities except Vicar John, it would lead us to conclude Vicar John to be John of Otterden's son. This John was named as the Vicar of the Tonge parish and is so named with that title in at least one marriage record and in his 24 Jun 1593 will -- in this marriage record, Vicar John marries an Otterden woman. In his will, his current wife Agnes, his son Josias, and his son-in-law Cadwallader Lewes are mentioned. Of the three sons of John of Otterden, all three die in in the same generation with Vicar John in 1593, Edward bef. 1596, and Anthony in 1609/10. Vicar John was most likely married at least three times: the first wife is unknown and the probable mother of his children; he married secondly Mary Bonnce; and lastly Agnes ___ who shows as his wife in his will. Wives and children:
a. Unknown wife who died before 1583. Marriage was probably before 1555 when their son Josias was born:
i. Josias Clench (1555-1632). Parish records show he marries Sara Sharp 8 May 1587 in Tonge and is buried 23 Dec 1632 in Eastling. His age is given in the burial record which calculates a birth in 1555. His wife Sara was probably born sometime before 1568 assuming she was 19 or older at the time of her marriage. She is buried 3 Oct 1602 in Eastling. They have at least three children all christened in Eastling: Jacob c. 20 May 1593, Henry c. 28 Mar 1596, and William c. 5 Aug 1599 and bur. 7 May 1670. Josias also shows up in Quarter Sessions in 1601 and 1606 in Eastling (alternately shown as "Istling"). In one of these records he is named as the Vicar of Eastling.
ii. Sara Clench. Parish records show she marries Cadwallader Lewes (or Lewis) 11 Jul 1586 in Tonge. They have at least three children christened in Luddesdown: William c. 28 Dec 1587, Ursula c. 27 Dec 1589, and Thomas c. 2 Jul 1592. She was probably born before 1567 when she would have been 19 or older at the time of her marriage. From the will of her father, it appears she died before 24 Jun 1593 but after 2 Jul 1592 when her last child was christened. Cadwallader had a will dated 1595 in the Archdeaconry of Rochester (1595p IR 18.417 17).
b. Mercy Bonnce who died before 1596. "Canterbury Marriage Licenses," by Joseph Meadows Cooper, p. 95: "John Clinche, vicar of Tong, and Mercy Bonnce of Otterden. April 3, 1583. She would have died before John's marriage to Agnes who shows as his wife in his 1593 will.
c. Agnes ___ who died after 1596 when she is named in Vicar John's will.
B. Edward Clench (about 1551 - before 1596) married Rose around 1571. They raised a family in Otterden ... Edward died sometime prior to 1596, for on May 27 of that year Rose married John Style in Otterden. Edward, Rose, and their three oldest daughters are named in Edward's father's will of 1582. Edward's daughter Margaret and son might be the same as the "goddaughter Margaret Clinch" and "my cosen Edward Clinch" mentioned in Edward's brother Anthony's 1609/10 will. Children of Edward & Rose Clenche, from the Otterden register:
-Jane Clench (c. 15 May 1572)
-Tomasson Clench (c. 7 Feb 1574)
-John Clench ( c. 12 Aug 1575- bur. 3 Jun 1576)
-Benet Clench (c. 15 Nov 1578)
-Margarett Clinch (c. 13 Aug 1581)
-Edward Clinch (c. 19 Jun 1586 - from 23 Feb 1647 to 21 Sep 1648)
-Elizabeth Clench (c. 12 Apr 1589, Otterden, Kent, England, bur. 27 Mar 1591)
C. Anthony (-1609/10). No wife or children are mentioned in his will, but he does name three Clinches -- goddaughter Margaret and "cosen" Edward who may both be his brother Edward's children; Josias who is Vicar John's son. Anthony is probably the youngest of the three sons since he is mentioned last in his father's will and that he dies 1609/10 versus Edward (bef. 1596) and John (1593).
D. Rabech (deciphering of name from father's will uncertain) Clench. Married to Thomas Allen.
E. Benet Clench. Married to Robert Barnes.[Note: Is Benet Harry mentioned in brother Anthony's 1609/10 will the same person as Benet Clench who married Robart Barnes and was in a second marriage to a Mr. Harry?]
F. Ane Clench. Married to Richard Allen. Ane's father's 1582 will mention unnamed children but does name one son WIlliam Allen.
2. Website of Roy L. Hales accessed 4 Jan 2016 <https://sites.google.com/site/ourkentishgenealogy/surnames/clinch>:
"John and Joan Clench sold a house and 20 acres in Eastling during 1531/1532 (Michael Zell (ed.) "Kent Feet of Fines: Henry VIII," Kent Archaeological Society, Part II, item 1103.
Is this our John?: National Archives Kew (not digitalized) C 1/622/22 [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7476962}
Description:
Short title: Clynche v Lacy.
Plaintiffs: John Clynche.
Defendants: Richard Lacy.
Subject: The manor of Brodhurst [Bredhurst?] which William a Wood mortgaged to defendant. Kent ?
John's will (PRC16/78/6) from Otterden 1582 mentions his wife Joan [and several children]"
3. The will of John's son Anthony Clench does not mention a wife or children but does call an Edward Clinch and a Josias Clinch as cousins and Margaret Clinch as a goddaughter. All three are most likely nephews and a niece -- children of his siblings.
Website wills.canterbury-cathedral.org accessed 5 Jan 2016 shows: Anthony Clinch of Otterden with a will made in 1609 and probated in 1610; register ref. PRC/17/59/180; orig. ref. PRC/16/137 C/17. The will is viewable online at Family Search's "England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881; Archdeaconry of Canterbury; Wills 1610, A-F" images 110-113 of 199 at the following link accessed 5 Jan 2016 <https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GR5F-9XDF?i=110&wc=M68K-5P8%3A250713701%2C250719201%2C251810501%3Fcc%3D1949814&cc=1949814>
The will is difficult to read but my transcription of the main points is as follows:
Anthony Clinche of Otterden, probated 1610
Date of will: March 3, 1609. Even though not stated, it may be old style dating March 3, 1609/10.
Body to be buried at the discretion of his executor.
Money given to the poor of the Otterden parish.
Bequeaths to the widow Swale, "my cosen Edward Clinch," "my cosen Josias Clinch," Richard Boldork?, John Baldorke?, Joan Baldork?, "my goddaughter Margaret Clinch," Bennet Harry, Josias Clinch [again], "my cosen Edward Clinches wife," "my sister(?) Swale(?)," "Ann Baldorf? widdow," John Collard, Widdow Swale [again].
Appoints John Baker (Clark or Clerk?) and Widdow Swale as executors.
Witnesses: John Collard, Nicholas Baker, Joane Dober.
[Note: Is Benet Harry the same person as Benet Clench who married Robart Barnes and by 1609 was in a second marriage to a Mr. Harry?]
4. Concerning the Josias Clinch found in the will of Anthony Clinch as transcribed above:
A. Find-My-Past Parish records:
Josias Clinch and Sarah Sharp, married 8 May 1587 at Tonge, Kent.
Josias Clinch, bur. 23 Dec 1632 at Eastling, Kent, aged 77.
Sara Clinch, wife of Josias, bur. 3 Oct 1602 at Eastling, Kent.
B. The following is found online at the National Archives in Kew:
Quarter session at Canterbury 21 July 1601 <http://www.kentarchives.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=Q%2fS%2fR%2f2%2fm.8&pos=2>
"Similarly against Josiah Clynch, churchwarden of Eastling, for non-payment of 4s. 4d. to Arthur Francklyn, constable of the hundred of Faversham, owing for half a year at the feast of the nativity of St. John the Baptist 1601."
Quarter session of 7 May 1606 <http://www.kentarchives.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=Q%2fM%2fS%2fRc%2f1606%2f111&pos=3>
"Peter Mase of 'Isling' [? Eastling], labourer, in £10, to appear and answer; sureties, Thomas Sturges and Josias Clynch of 'Isling', yeomen."
C. The will of John Clinch, Vicar of Tonge, shows Josias Clinch as his son:
Link: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RPM-4C6?mode=g&i=87&wc=M68K-PM9%3A250713701%2C25071920 (image 88 of 370)
Source accessed 13 Jan 2016: "England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881"; Archdeaconry of Canterbury
Nuncupative Will of John Clinche/Clynce of Tonge, Kent, 1593, PRC/17/50/121b, PRC/16/101 C/8
Will written 24 Jun 1593, nuncapative
-John Clynche clerk vycar of Tonge, Kent
-his goods be divided into 2 parts
-one part to wife Agnes
-one part to son Josyas Clynche [Josias Clinch] and to the children of Cadwalladen Lewes clerk parson of Luddestowne?
-witnesses Tobias Eylham and Goerge Jusyngham?
D. Josias Clench (1555-1632). Parish records show he marries Sara Sharp 8 May 1587 in Tonge and is buried 23 Dec 1632 in Eastling. His age is given in the burial record which calculates a birth in 1555. His wife Sara was probably born sometime before 1568 assuming she was 19 or older at the time of her marriage. She is buried 3 Oct 1602 in Eastling. They have at least three children all christened in Eastling: Jacob c. 20 May 1593, Henry c. 28 Mar 1596, and William c. 5 Aug 1599 and bur. 7 May 1670. Josias also shows up in Quarter Sessions in 1601 and 1606 in Eastling (alternately shown as "Istling"). In one of these records he is named as the Vicar of Eastling. We have a connection in Eastling for the John Clench of Otterden who has legacies there in his 1582 will.
6. Email from Roy L Hales dated 23 Jan 2016 :
"I think the John & Johann Clinch from Eastling real estate deal of 1530/31 and John's will 1582 are the same couple."
Roy also found the following: "There is a John Clynch in the subsidy roll in the 14th year of King Henry VIII (22 April 1523 - 21 April 1524). He paid 4 pence (James Greenstreet, "Subsidy Roll for the Hundred of Faversham, for Ao 14 Henry VIII," Archaeologica Cantiana, Vol XII, 1878, p. 426)." He also notes Eastling is in Faversham Hundred. He also notes he has extensive documentation from the town of Faversham itself, and sees no Clynches, so he believes this entry pertains to one of the outlying parishes -- perhaps Eastling. In my research, I see Milton Regis (the modern name of Milton) is not in the Faversham Hundred, so Eastling could be a better option.
I concur that the Eastling real estate John or 1530 is our 1582 man even though there is the remote possibility there was another couple of this name. Having extracted the Eastling church records, it is evident it was a very small parish with some years having no marriages or maybe only a half dozen baptisms -- so the odds of two similarly named couples would be slim.
As for our John being the son of Thomas and Katherine: We know John was the older of the two sons, John and Thomas, named in Thomas' 1495 will. Their father William is dead by then and their mother is remarried, so the latest he would be born would be circa about 1590. If he is however the same John as the Act of 1508 for John Clench of Milton, then he may have reached his majority of 21 at that time making a birth of about 1487, which would make him 95 at time of death. A definite possibility but some room for some doubt. It doesn't work so well if Thomas' John is not our John because the timeframe doesn't work so well for the early John to be the father of the later John.
7. A court case, unfortunately not digitalized, appears to relate to one of John's sons. National Archives Kew (C 43/10/56) Parties: Cranmer v Clenche Subject: Proceedings on recognizance of debt. Leysdown, rent; Otterden and Monkton County: Kent 29 Elzabeth I (about 1587)
8. John Clenche listed in the following 1559 Otterden probate <http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/Wills/Lbth/Bk26/page%20658.htm> accessed 9 Feb 2016:
"William Goodin of the parishe of Otterden 15 March 1559, husbandman. To be buried within the parryshe churcheyarde of Otterden. To Alice my wyfe the best bed furnished and thone halfe of my moveable goodes and cattells and corne vppon the grounde and every yere 13s. 4d. out of all my landes. Also for the time that she shalbe wedowe one chamber lieng in the west side of my house withe fier and flete. I will my brother in lawe Markes Furminger whome I make mine executor shall have the other half of my goodes etc to the vse of my two sones James and Harrie and shall deliver to them when 21 by even porcens. If they both die then to my two dawghters Mary and Dorathie. To my sonne James all my lands and tenements in the parishes of Otterden and Mounten (sic) when 21 and he shall paie vnto Harrie my other sonne £20, when 21 £10 and the other 40s. a yere (Power of distress for him and the daughters). I will myne executor shall have the government of bothe my sonnes until 21. I will Alice my wyfe shall have the occupienge of all my landes and tenements vntill the feaste of St. Michaell next and I make her oversear. Witnesses: John Ady, Stephen Rooke, John Clenche, John Silver. Proved 26 September 1560 by Mark Furmynger executor. (309a Parker I)."
9. Kent Archaelogical Society "Kent Feet of Fines" <http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/kent_records/KRNS2-1.pdf> accessed 9 Feb 2016:
"24 Henry VIII (CP 25(2) 21/127) (Easter) [This equates to 22 Apr 1532 to 21 Apr 1533 with Easter being 13 Apr 1533.]
1103. Jn Clynche & wife Joan to Thos & Pet Grenstret & Thos Moyle. Mess & 20a land in Eastling. £40. (24)"
DEATH:
1. Canterbury Probate Records; Will for John Clench (Clynche) of Otterden made and probated 1582, Register Ref. PRC/17/44/281, Original Ref. PRC/16/78 C/15, four pages. Extraction of the will:
- John Clench of the parish of Mounton now united with Otterden of the County of Kent, yeoman.
- Will dated 6 July 1582
- Daughter Rabech wife of Thomas Allene
- Daughter Benet late wife of Robart Barnes
- Daughter Ane wife or Rychard Allen
- Willym Allen the son of Rychard Allen my godson
- The three daughters of Edward Clench my son and Rose his wife -- Jane, Thomasson, Benet.
- All the children of John Clench my son.
- All the children of Thomas Allen and Rabech his wife my daughter.
- All the children of Robart Barnes and Benet his wife my daughter.
- The rest of the children of Rychard Allen and Ane his wife except William. [See above for his legacy.]
- Johan my wife -- named as executor.
- Anthony my son and his heirs.
- Some miscellaneous gifts to various people whom I have difficulty deciphering but seems to include:
-servant Margaret Water
-John Amies of Slade?
-William Croffield?
-John Swoth?
-Marye Bucher? loving friend
-church wardens of the parish of Otternden [Otterden]
-iiii poore men [of parish of Otterden??]
-every one of my godchildren
- The legacies include the following locations which may have some bearing on other parishes to study:
-land and wood called Stellys about 7 acres
-Edward my son tenement called Frith and all the lands ... lying in the parish of Eastlynge [Eastling]
-Edward also gets property in Otterden and Moynton
-parish of Minster
-wife Johan gets tenement at Eastling [in the occupacion of William Farmer?]
-Johan property in Moynton?, Otterden, Stalisfyld, after her decease to son Edward
-son Anthonye have water in the pond lyng in the ???? of that I have given unto Edward my sonne
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