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Sampson Pierce

Male Bef 1558 - 1616  (~ 58 years)


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  • Name Sampson Pierce 
    Born Bef 1558  of Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Buried 7/07 Feb 1615/6  Stalisfield, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5093  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father John Pierce,   b. Bef 1517, , Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 21/21 Feb 1585/6, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Mother Agnes,   b. Abt 1520, , Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 10 Dec 1592, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 72 years) 
    Family ID F2272  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Ann Craft,   b. Bef 1558, of Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 30 Aug 1598, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 40 years) 
    Married 21 Sep 1579  Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Margaret Pierce,   c. 27 Jul 1580, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 6 Jul 1640, of Charing, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 60 years)
     2. Elizabeth Pierce,   c. 20/20 Jan 1582/3, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 2/02 Feb 1582/3, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 0 years)
     3. John Pierce,   c. 27 Dec 1583, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 21/21 Feb 1585/6, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 2 years)
     4. Richard Pierce,   c. 14 Aug 1586, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 4 Dec 1586, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 0 years)
     5. Elizabeth Pierce,   c. 3 Dec 1587, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Jone Pierce,   c. 29 Dec 1591, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Ursula Pierce,   c. 20 Oct 1594, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 6 Jul 1641 to 25 Sep 1641, Otterden, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 46 years)
     8. Henry Pierce,   c. 19/19 Mar 1596/7, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. Susan Pierce,   c. 27 Aug 1598, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 30 Aug 1598, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 0 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F641  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Agnes Gyles,   c. 5 Apr 1574, Sheldwich, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 6 Jul 1640  (Age ~ 66 years) 
    Married 5/05 Mar 1600/1  Sheldwich, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Gabriel Pierce,   c. 24 May 1601, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 6 Jul 1641  (Age ~ 40 years)
     2. John Pierce,   b. Abt 1602, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 4/04 Mar 1602/3, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 1 years)
     3. Elizabeth Pierce,   c. 14 Oct 1603, Challock, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Abigail Pierce,   c. 16/16 Mar 1605/6, Stalisfield, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 6 Jul 1640  (Age ~ 34 years)
     5. Anne Pierce,   c. 13/13 Mar 1607/8, Stalisfield, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 16 Feb 1670, Canterbury St Mary Magdalen, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 61 years)
     6. Michael Pierce,   c. 8 Jul 1609, Stalisfield, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 6 Jul 1640  (Age ~ 31 years)
     7. John Pierce,   c. 14/14 Feb 1612/3, Stalisfield, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 6 Jul 1640  (Age ~ 27 years)
     8. George Pierce,   c. 27 Aug 1615, Stalisfield, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 6 May 1632, Stalisfield, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 16 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2271  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Family Search's "England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-23170-37641-73?cc=1949814 : 20 May 2014), Kent, Diocese of Canterbury > Wills > 1585, A-Z > image 151 of 202; County Record Office, Maidstone. <https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RGZ-985L?i=150&wc=M68V-5M9%3A250713801%2C250719201%2C251233301%3Fcc%3D1949814&cc=1949814>
      Will: John Peers, Challock,1583-1585, PRC/32/35/218, PRC/31/29 P/6, 1585
      England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881
      Will written 29 December 1583, John Peers of Challock, Kent, yeoman
      -to be buried in the church yard of Challock
      -poor of Challock
      -the children of Margarett Farbrace my daughter
      -2 daughters of Elizabeth Widyard? my daughter
      -godson John Vidian
      -children of Mary Bratt my daughter
      -Edward Bratt the son of Mary Bratt my daughter
      -servant Nicolas Worsiter
      -servant Thomas Wodland
      -daughter Christian Peers
      -residue to wife Annes and my son Richard, who are executors
      -wife have profit of all my lands in Kent for her natural life
      -my principal tenement where I now dwell to my son Richard
      -son Sampson Peers
      -if son Richard Peers dies without male heires, in default to son Sampson
      -in default to son Thomas Peers
      -son James Peers
      -Witnesses Serlys Hawker, Richardg Gyles, Rychard Honyfold
      Proved 1585

      2. Extraction of Pierce (and variants thereof) from Challock, Kent, England Parish records (FHL film 1850342) from parish beginning of 1558 until 1635 (this Parish is also called "Challock SS [Saints?] Comos and Damian"):
      -21 Sep 1579, Sampson Pyerce and Ann Crafte mar.
      -29 Jul 1580, Margret Pyerce bap.
      -30 Nov 1580, Rabyge Pyerce bur. (From other Rabyges in the marriage records, this is determined to be a female; perhaps a variant of Rebecca.)
      -20 Jan 1582/3, Elizabeth Pyerce bap.; 2 Feb 1582, Elizabeth Pyerce bur.
      -27 Dec 1583, John Pyerce bap., 21 Feb 1585/6, John Pierce bur.
      -14 Aug 1586, Richard Pierce bap.; 4 Dec 1586, Richard Pierce bur.
      -3 Dec 1587, Elizabeth Pierce bap.
      -17 Feb 1588/9, Sampson Pierce bap.
      -29 Dec 1591, Jone Pierce dau. of Sampson bap.
      -2 Jan 1591/2, Jone Pyerce dau. of Ri. Py. bap.
      -10 Dec 1592, Agnes Pyerce widd. bur.
      -14 May 1593, Nicholas Pyerce and Susan Snoth mar.
      -29 Aug 1594, Thomas Pyerce bap.
      -20 Oct 1594, Ursula Pyerce bap.
      -19 Mar 1596/7, Henry Pyerce bap.
      -20 Jun 1597, Jone Pyerce bur.
      -27 Aug 1598, Susan Pyerce bap.; 30 Aug 1598, Susan Pyerce, dau. of Sampson bur. (Died with her mother Ann.)
      -30 Aug 1598, Ann Pyerce, wife of Sampson bur. (Died with her infant newborn dau. Susan.)
      -12 Jul 1601, Gabriell Pyerce, son of Samson bap.
      -29 Nov 1601, John Pyerce, son of Richard bap.
      -4 Mar 1602/3, John Pyerce, son of Samson bur.
      -14 Oct 1603, Elizabeth Peirce, dau. of Sampson Peirce bap.
      -20 Feb 1612/13, Thomas Peerce bur.
      -16 Sep 1616, Tamsine/Tomsen Peerce/Pearce and Abiah Park mar. [Variant in Canterbury Marriage records]
      -29 Mar 1618, Richard Peerce, son of Sampson bap.
      -8 Aug 1619, Tamasine Peerce, dau. of Sampson bap.
      -20 Jan 1620/1, Andrewe Pierse, son of Sampson bap.
      -19 Aug 1621, Richard Pierce bur.
      -30 Mar 1624, Margaret Pierce widdowe bur.
      -4 Apr 1624, John Pierce, son of Sampson bap.
      -6 Nov 1625, Elizabeth Piers, dau. of Sampson bap.
      -13 Sep 1629, Thomas Piers, son of Sampson bap.
      -27 Dec 1635, Margaret Peirce, dau. of Sampson and Dennie his wife bap.
      Arrangement of extracted entries into probable family groups; note that many of the parish entries lack relationship details (such as who the father is in a baptism); consequently, some of the following is subjective due to limited information:
      Family 1 -- Unknown father and Agnes ___; 10 Dec 1592, Agnes Pyerce widd. bur.:
      -bef 1558 Sampson Pierce, father of Family 2 born. (Parish records begin 1558 and his baptism is not mentioned.)
      -bef 1558 Richard Pierce, father of Family 3 born. (Parish records begin 1558 and his baptism is not mentioned.)
      -30 Nov 1580, Rabyge Pyerce bur. (From other Rabyges in the marriage records, this is determined to be a female; perhaps a variant of Rebecca.)
      -14 May 1593, Nicholas Pyerce and Susan Snoth mar.
      Family 2 -- Parents Sampson Pierce with two wives; Sampson is a son in Family 1:
      Wife #1 -- Ann Craft; 21 Sep 1579, Sampson Pyerce and Ann Crafte mar.; 30 Aug 1598, Ann Pyerce, wife of Sampson bur. (Died with her infant newborn dau. Susan.):
      -29 Jul 1580, Margret Pyerce bap.
      -20 Jan 1582/3, Elizabeth Pyerce bap.; 2 Feb 1582, Elizabeth Pyerce bur.
      -27 Dec 1583, John Pyerce bap., 21 Feb 1585/6, John Pierce bur.
      -14 Aug 1586, Richard Pierce bap.; 4 Dec 1586, Richard Pierce bur.
      -3 Dec 1587, Elizabeth Pierce bap.
      -29 Dec 1591, Jone Pierce dau. of Sampson bap.
      -20 Oct 1594, Ursula Pyerce bap.
      -19 Mar 1596/7, Henry Pyerce bap. (Possibly named for mother's father Henry Craft?)
      -27 Aug 1598, Susan Pyerce bap.; 30 Aug 1598, Susan Pyerce, dau. of Sampson bur. (Died with her mother Ann.)
      Wife #2 -- Not mentioned in Challock but found in Stalisfield: Ann Gyles:
      -12 Jul 1601, Gabriell Pyerce, son of Samson bap.
      -4 Mar 1602/3, John Pyerce, son of Samson bur.
      -14 Oct 1603, Elizabeth Peirce, dau. of Sampson Peirce bap.
      Family 3 -- Father Richard Pierce and Margaret Wattes (marriage found 17 Jul 1588 in nearby Kingsnorth); 19 Aug 1621, Richard Pierce bur.; 30 Mar 1624, Margaret Pierce widdowe bur.; Richard is probably a son in Family 1:
      -17 Feb 1588/9, Sampson Pierce bap. (Sampson becomes the father of Family 4)
      -2 Jan 1591/2, Jone Pyerce dau. of Ri. Py. bap.; 20 Jun 1597, Jone Pyerce bur.
      -29 Aug 1594, Thomas Pyerce bap.; 20 Feb 1612/13, Thomas Peerce bur.
      -16 Sep 1616, Tamsine/Tomsen Peerce/Pearce and Abiah Park mar.
      -29 Nov 1601, John Pyerce, son of Richard bap.
      Family 4 -- Parents Sampson Pierce and Dennie ___ (Sampson is the son in Family 2):
      -29 Mar 1618, Richard Peerce, son of Sampson bap.
      -8 Aug 1619, Tamasine Peerce, dau. of Sampson bap.
      -20 Jan 1620/1, Andrewe Pierse, son of Sampson bap.
      -4 Apr 1624, John Pierce, son of Sampson bap.
      -6 Nov 1625, Elizabeth Piers, dau. of Sampson bap.
      -13 Sep 1629, Thomas Piers, son of Sampson bap.
      -27 Dec 1635, Margaret Peirce, dau. of Sampson and Dennie his wife bap.

      2. Extraction of Pierce (and variants thereof) from Stalisfield, Kent, England Archdeacon's Parish Transcripts (FHL film 1752161, it. 3) from parish beginning of 1563 until 1640. No Parish records exist for this time period. Missing records from Archdeacon's Transcripts: 1564/65-1566/67, 1569/70; 1573/74, 1576/77, 1584/85, 1587/88, 1588/89, 1594/95, 1606/7, 1628/29, 1640-1661, and so forth. Missing records from Bishop's Transcripts: 1601/2, 1602/3, 1604/5-1610/11, 1613/14, 1621/22, 1627/28, 1640/41, 1642-1661 and so forth.
      -2 Jul 1604, Margaret Pearce and Edward Crofte, mar.
      -16 Mar 1605/6, Abigail Peirs d/o Sampson, bap.
      -13 Mar 1607/8, Anne Piers d/o Samson, bap.
      -20 Feb 1609, Elizabeth Piers of Stalisfield and Edward Clinch of Otterden, mar.
      - 8 Jul 1610, Michael Piers s/o Sampson, bap.
      -14 Feb 1612/13, John Piers s/o Samson, bap.
      -1613, Sampson Piers noted as churchwarden.
      -7 Jun 1613, Joanne Piers and James Wise, mar.
      -27 Aug 1615, George Peirs s/o Samson, bap.
      -7 Feb 1615/6, Sampson Piers householder, bur.
      23 Jan 1624/5, Gabriel Piers, s/o Gabriel, bap.
      -23 Nov 1626, Abigail Piers and James the son of Robert Wise, mar.
      -31 Sep 1627, Joseph Piers s/o Gabriel, bap.
      -18 Jul 1630, Jane Peirs d/o of Gabriell Peirs, bap.
      -3 Jan 1632/3, Sampson Peirs s/o Gabriell, bap.
      -5 Jan 1635/6, Thomas Peirs s/o Gabriell and Katherin, bap.
      -7 Apr 1639, John Peirs s/o Gabriell and Katherin, bap.

      DEATH:
      1. Will of Sampson Piers [Pierce] of Stalisfield, Kent 1615.
      Source: "England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881," accessed 14 January 2016, Kent, Archdeaconry of Canterbury, image 462 of 743; Will: Peirs, Sampson at Stalisfield, written 1615, proved 1615, reference PRC/17/57/396, original reference PRC/16/154 P/6.
      Link: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRGP-9BVV?mode=g&i=461&wc=M68K-PP8%3A250713701%2C250719201%2C251294201%3Fcc%3D1949814&cc=1949814
      Extract:
      -Will written 27 January 1615/16
      -Sampson Piers of Stalisfield, Kent, yeoman
      -poor of Stalisfield
      -wife Agnes property until son Gabriel Piers comes to age 21
      -eldest son Gabriel to have the lands etc. in parish of Challock
      -son Michael Piers property in Uppharde? Kent
      -land in Eastry
      -land I bought of my brother Robert Giles [brother-in-law?]
      -son John Piers
      -property in Shadoxhurst, Bekenlden?, Ehcring? and Stalisfield,
      -youngest son George Piers under 21
      -daughter Ursula Piers
      -daughters Elizabeth, Abigail and Anne Piers whom I had by my present wife?
      -daughter Joan the wife of James Wise
      -married daughters
      -nephew Sampson Craft
      -executors son Gabriel Piers and my son-in-law Edward Clinch?
      -Will proved 23 Feb 1615/16


 

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