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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. Concerning the Josias Clinch:
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.
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