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| Name |
Robert HONYWOOD |
| Prefix |
Sir |
| Christened |
18 Sep 1545 |
Royton, Lenham, Kent, England  [1] |
| Born |
27 Sep 1545 |
Royton, Lenham, Kent, England |
| Gender |
Male |
| Person ID |
I20092 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
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| Notes |
- Source of the following:
Vol. 1: Atwater History And Genealogy, 1901
by Atwater, Francis, p. 15
Robert Atwater of Royton, in Lenham, was a man of fortune and a Justice of the Peace of the county. He married, probably shortly after 1500, Catherine Bright, [Honywood Evidences," Topographer and Genealogist—Vol. 2, 175] of Royton. They had twelve sons and two daughters. The sons all died of the plague before the birth of the daughters. These were Joyce, who married Humphrey Hales, only son of Sir James Hales of the Dungeon, Canterbury, and Mary, the youngest, born in 1527, who married Robert Honywood, then of Hene- wood, in Postling, in Kent.
In the lists of tenures [Landsdowne MSS., No. 309.] and in the histories of the county of Kent, Robert Atwater appears as owner in the reign of Henry VIII., of the following named manors.: Puttwood in Ospringe, Provenders in Norton, fcewley in Houghton, Malherbe, Petts and Newcourt in Charing, Down Court and Royton in Lenham. The first two are stated to have been sold to Sir James Hales, the remaining five are shown by histories of Kent, to have passed by the marriages of the daughters to the Hales and Honywood families.
p. 16-17
The manor of Bewley remained in possession of the Hales, descendants of Robert Atwater, for many generations.
Down Court continued in possession of the Honywood family in 1798, the date of the latest history.
Petts and Newcourt were at that date in possession of de¬ scendants of Robert Atwater, by his daughter Mary.
Honywood and Royton were in possession of such descendants at least until the year jj 6 i.
The will of Robert Atwater, dated at Charing, three miles from Royton, last day of August, 1563, and proved May 5th, 1563, is on record in Canterbury. In the will he mentions other lands in Egertoh, Smarden, Ulcomb and Headcorn, adjoining parishes, and names his two sons-in-law, executors. He makes bequests to “every of my brother’s children without naming them as would be / natural, if well known in'the neighborhood.” His brother was probably not living for he makes no other mention of him'.
Robert Honywood, grandson of Robert Atwater, eldest son of his daughter Mary, began in 1612, during the life of his mother and continued after her death in 1620, records of his family and estate. “This MSS., which is in the possession of George Booth Tyndale, Esq., E. S. A., is a volume of one hundred and fifty-seven leaves of paper partially filled, stitbhed in a stout parchment cover."
These records were published in different volumes of the “Topographer and Genealogist," London, in 1853, and after under the titles, “ Posterity of Mary Honywood,”* and “ Honywood Evidences,” already referred to under fhe latter title. From these the following extract is taken:
“Katherine Bright was married to Robert at Waters,-.my grandfather, and by him had twelve sohnes who all died of ye plague after wh wear borne. Joice, who afterwards was ye wife of Humphrey Hales, Esq., and after of Edward Isaak, Esq., and after that was wife of Sir Rowland Clark, Knight, and Mary who was married to Robert Honywood, my father.”!
There can be no doubt that Robert Atwater was a devoted adherent of the reformed religion. His two daughters and only children visited the reformers in the prison. Letters are published written to them by the martyr, John Bradford, while im¬ prisoned in the Tower of London
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- [S175] Honywood Evidences, Robert Honywood, 1612, (The Topographer and Genealogist Vol.2 (1853). London: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, Westminster, 1853.), The Topographer and Genealogist, Vol. 1, p. 569, 1612.
" A noate of the birth dayes of ye children of Robart Honywood and Mary at Waters, as they ar ffownd in ye church booke,
vtt, the dayes of ther christeninges :
1. Robart Honiwood, ther eldest child, was baptysed 18th
Septembris 1545."
pp 169-185, 189-192, 256-269, 312-339, 433-446
The date of the baptism disagrees with the reported date of birth in Vol. 1, p. 569 of the Topographer and Genealogist, vizt. "P. 398, at foot, add, "My father maried my mother in Febr. 1543, as by her owne speeche appears, affirminge that she was maried at Shroftyde, and the lycence for mariadge is so dated, and that also apeareth true by the indentures of mariadge yt passed betweene my father and grandfather Waters. My mother also saieth yt I was born at Royton uppon M's [Michaelmas] eve's eve was twelve moneth following, wch was ye 27 of September 1545. And so am I at M's eve's eve 1612 of the age of 67 yeares.""
Query, "28,'' inasmuch as he says of himself, in another place, (vide vol. i, p, 569,) " I was borne at Royton uppon M's eve's eve .•• which was y• 27 of September 1545?" The error probably was in the church register from which the dates were taken.
- [S175] Honywood Evidences, Robert Honywood, 1612, (The Topographer and Genealogist Vol.2 (1853). London: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, Westminster, 1853.), pp 169-185, 1853.
" A noate of the birth dayes of ye children of Robart Honywood and Mary at Waters, as they ar ffownd in ye church booke,
vtt, the dayes of ther christeninges :
1. Robart Honiwood, ther eldest child, was baptysed 18th
Septembris 1545."
pp 169-185, 189-192, 256-269, 312-339, 433-446
The date of the baptism disagrees with the reported date of birth in Vol. 1, p. 569 of the Topographer and Genealogist, vizt. "P. 398, at foot, add, "My father maried my mother in Febr. 1543, as by her owne speeche appears, affirminge that she was maried at Shroftyde, and the lycence for mariadge is so dated, and that also apeareth true by the indentures of mariadge yt passed betweene my father and grandfather Waters. My mother also saieth yt I was born at Royton uppon M's [Michaelmas] eve's eve was twelve moneth following, wch was ye 27 of September 1545. And so am I at M's eve's eve 1612 of the age of 67 yeares.""
- [S175] Honywood Evidences, Robert Honywood, 1612, (The Topographer and Genealogist Vol.2 (1853). London: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, Westminster, 1853.), The Topographer and Genealogist, Vol. 1, p. 569, 1612.
Mem. I maried my :first wife Dorothe Crooke ye 3 of July
1569, and by her I had these children following: vtt.
1. Dorothe Honiwood, my first child, was borne at London
uppon Thursday ye 25 of December 1572, between ye hewers of
xii b and one in ye morninge, and was baptized the Sonday fol .•
lowing at ye parish church of St. Gregoryes neere Powles in
pp 169-185, 189-192, 256-269, 312-339, 433-446
The date of the baptism disagrees with the reported date of birth in Vol. 1, p. 569 of the Topographer and Genealogist, vizt. "P. 398, at foot, add, "My father maried my mother in Febr. 1543, as by her owne speeche appears, affirminge that she was maried at Shroftyde, and the lycence for mariadge is so dated, and that also apeareth true by the indentures of mariadge yt passed betweene my father and grandfather Waters. My mother also saieth yt I was born at Royton uppon M's [Michaelmas] eve's eve was twelve moneth following, wch was ye 27 of September 1545. And so am I at M's eve's eve 1612 of the age of 67 yeares.""
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