Marjorie Chepfield

- 1638

• Name	Marjorie Chepfield
  Gender	Female
  Buried	27 Aug 1638	Horsmonden, Kent, England
  Person ID	I4928	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	27 May 2021

  
  

  Family	Benjamin Austen,   c. 16 May 1591, Horsmonden, Kent, England ,   d. Bef 27 Aug 1638, Horsmonden, Kent, England  (Age ~ 47 years)
  Married	5 May 1617	Horsmonden, Kent, England
  Children	1. John Austen,   c. 19/19 Mar 1617/8, Horsmonden, Kent, England   2. John Austen,   c. 25 Mar 1620, Horsmonden, Kent, England ,   bur. 13 May 1689, Brenchley, Kent, England  (Age ~ 69 years)   3. Mary Austen,   c. 1/01 Feb 1627/8, Horsmonden, Kent, England
  Last Modified	28 May 2021
  Family ID	F2214	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Chepfield is the name in the marriage record and is most certainly a phonetic spelling. Other names in Horsmonden and Brenchley that could be a possibility based on a search of extractions using "Ch" plus a wildcard give: Chacksell, Chiball, Checksell, Checksill, Chexill, Chexsild, Cheldren. Even with all these spellings, I find no christening for a Margaret in these two parishes. 2. Jack Cade's Rebellion of 1450: A Database of Names of those Receiving Pardons, taken from Calendar of Patent Rolls Henry VI 5 (1909) pp. 338-374 accessed from https://familysearch.org. This spreadsheet of about 3449 persons was created by Merton Historical Society in September 2014, and is accessible at http://www.mertonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/index.php?cat=morden&sec=!rebels For more detail on this listing and the event see http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/007%20-%201868/007-03.pdf No one listed with the following surnames (or variations thereof): Acock/Alcock, Barret, Chepfield, Dancy, Dennet, Gateland, Hadwin, Hales, Herbert, Hopper, James, Kitney, Marden, Mills, Morskin, Shelly, Sisley, Straine, Upton, and Vande Wall. 3. The following extraction was made from the "Index to the Kent Lay Subsidy Roll of 1334/5," by H.A. Hanley, B.A. and C.W. Chalklin, M.A., B. Litt <http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/KRV/18/7/313.htm> accessed 11 Feb 2016. From this index, the actual entries are found in "The Kent Lay Subsidy Roll of 1334/5," by the same authors <http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/KRV/18/3/058-172.htm> accessed 12 Feb 2016. The second document more fully explains the history of this Lay Subsity. This was a tax assessed on householders; however, it probably only represents about 50% of the householders since the poorer families were not assessed: No mentions were found for family surnames Acock/Alcock, Barret, Chepfield, Dancy, Dennett, Eagles, Gateland, Hadwin, Hales, Mills, Morskin, Shelley, Sisley, Strain, Vande Wall, Worme. CHRISTENING: 1. Online Brenchley Church records shows a Margaret per https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-23569-46167-26?cc=1952887&wc=M62M-F29:252597701,252665801,252672901 "Chr. 3 Dec 1592, Margaret d. of Steven Cheksill." Another entry same church records is for Margaret Chexsell, dau. of Solomon Chexsell, chr. 6 Oct 1594. One of these two entries is probably the same Margaret Cheksill who marries Azarias Higham in Brenchley 22 Jun 1618. The other may be our Marjorie Chepfield who married 5 May 1617 in Horsmonden. There are no entries in Horsmonden that would work and Brenchley and Horsmonden are only a couple of miles or less apart. People in the two parishes were always intermarrying. Another possibility in Brenchley is a Margaret Cheksill, illegitimate with no father or mother named; however, her chr. record of 7 Nov 1597 is followed quickly with a burial record 18 Nov 1597 with the same baby noted as illegitimate.