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 Bef 1560 - 1616 (~ 56 years)
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| Name |
Anne CLOOKE OR CLOKE |
| Born |
Bef 1560 |
| Gender |
Female |
| Buried |
14 Oct 1616 |
Elham, Kent, England  |
| Person ID |
I5646 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
19 Jul 2021 |
| Father |
John CLOOKE OR CLOKE, b. liv 1511, Elmsted, Kent, England , d. Bef Mar 1581, Elmsted, Kent, England (Age ~ 70 years) |
| Mother |
Margaret GAY, b. Abt 1516, Of Elmsted, Kent, England , bur. 1582, Elmsted, Kent, England (Age ~ 65 years) |
| Married |
24 Nov 1538 |
Elmsted, Kent, England |
| Family ID |
F4252 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Jeoffrey RUCK, b. Bef 1558, bur. 5 Feb 1595/1596, Elham, Kent, England (Age ~ 38 years) |
| Married |
10 Jun 1588 |
Elham, Kent, England |
| Children |
| | 1. John RUCK, c. 15 Mar 1589/1590, Elham, Kent, England , bur. 30 May 1626, Elham, Kent, England (Age ~ 36 years) |
| | 2. Anna RUCK, c. 7 Apr 1594, Elham, Kent, England , bur. 2 May 1633, Elham, Kent, England (Age ~ 39 years) |
| | 3. Lawrence RUCK, c. 4 Nov 1597, Elham, Kent, England [Adopted] |
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| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Family ID |
F2011 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Daniel Cloke, John Cloke are witnesses to the Will of Jeffery Ruck, her husband.
At elmsted from KAS MIs
14. On the floor a brass plate (coat of arms lost): Here lyeth buried the body of John ?C?LOKE late of Northleighe in this parish Gentleman who departed this life the 21st of January Anno 1617 Ætatis sue 58 Veni vidi vici Thus death triumphs and tells us all must die Thus we triumph, to Christ by death to flie To live to dye, is not to dye but live To dye to bliss is blessed life to give Aske how he lived and thou shalt know his end He died a saint to God, to poore a friend.
71. On a Loose Plate (now fixed again into N.C. floor) Here lyeth buried the Body of John CLOKE late of North Leigh (in N.E. of psh. just off Stone St. W. side) in this Parish, Gent. who departed this Life ye 21st of January A. 1617/8. Aetatis suae 58. Veni, Vidi, Vici. Thus Death triumphs, and tells us all must die./ Thus We triumph, to Christ, by Death, to fly./ To live; to die, is not to die, but live./ To die to Bliss, is, Blessed Life to give./ Ask how he liv’d, and thou shall’t know his End./ He died a Saint; To God, to Poor, a Frend.
50. (Now gone: slab is in floor near S.E. L of S.C.). Here is also a very Ancient Altar Tomb on ye Flat Stone of which have been 4 Coats of Arms, and 3 Figures (a Man & 2 Women) in Brass. 2 of ye Figures are lost; that wch. remains is of a woman standing in a praying Posture – 1 Of the Coats also is lost. The 3 remaining re as follows. [3 shh. in line: I. 1&4). Gu. crusilly & 3 lions rampt. or (GAY). 2&3). Per pale arg. & purp. on a Λ arg. 3 +s botony sa. II. (GAY, ¼ly) imp. Az. a lion rampt. or. III. The Same as The Second (written)].
58. Pray for The Sowlys of Cristofer GAY, Agnes and Johan his Wyfes, ther Childer, and all Cristen Sowlys – On Whose Sowlys, Jesu have Mercy. Under ye Angel is a Lyon Rampant, as in ye Above Coat. (* This Gay, according to Philpot was ye Possessor of Evington, before it came into ye Hands of ye Honeywoods – he tells Us, that, One Christopher Gay, sold it to John HONEYWOOD Esq. abt. the beginning of the Reign of HENRY 7).
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Tentative ancestors:
John Cloke m. Margaret Gay, of Elmsted
Agnes Cloke wife? of Jeoffrey Ruck
1555–1629
BIRTH 3 FEB 1555 • Elmsted, Kent
DEATH MAR 1629 • Elham
grandparents:
Samson Cloke
Edith Maxted her father being Hammond Maxted
great=grandparents:
Thomas Cloke
Marion
great-great-grandparents:
Henry Cloke and Joan
Grantparent on Gay side:
Christopher Gay of Denton bc 1485
Thomas Wood m. Ales Cloke at Elham 19 Jul 1575
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1566
In the name of God, Amen, the 13th day of the month of March and in the 9th year of the reign of our
sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England, France and Ireland Queen etc and in the year
of our Lord God a thousand 5 hundred 66, I, JOHN CLOKE the elder of parish of Kingsnorth in the
County of Kent, husbandman, being whole in mind and perfence remembrance thanks be but to
Almighty God do ordain and make this my present Testament and last Will in manner and
form following,
First I give and bequeath my soul unto Almighty God my make and redeemerand unto all the blessed company of heaven my body to be buried in the churchyard of Kingsnorth aforesaid.
First, I will unto JOHANE my daughter at her day of marriage if she then be living the sum of 3 pounds 6 shillings 8 pence or else at the age of 23 years if she fortune to fail be married and under [die] the age then I will her marriage money to remain unto her other sisters.
Item, I will unto unto ELIONOR and ALYS my other two daughters and unto either of them 3 pounds 6 shillings 8 pence and at the age above limited or else at day of marriage if they fortune to live if any of them ... one to be the others heir.
Item the residue of all my other moveable goods I will unto JOHANE my wife bringing up my children and heirs the which JOHANE I ordain and make to this my present testament my sole Executrix.
Item, I will unto JOHANE my daughter and MICHAEL my son and unto either of them a heifer which my mother her Eqanmoder [Squamother] have when the come to the age of 24 years for increase for them.
Witness to this my Will Testament
William Assherst
and Christofer Penyost
This is the last Will of me the foresaid JOHN CLOKE the elder made and declared the day and year above
written of all my tenement, kitchen and barne with all my lands to the same tenement belonging
I do will unto JOHANE my wife for term of her natural life to the performance of this my present
will and to the bringing up of my children and after her life I will my forsaid tenement unto
THOMAS CLOKE my son and to his heirs paying unto JOHAN and MICHAEL his brothers 10 pounds a pieceof them with in
3 years next after it he shall become the possession thy of and if it fortune that JOHANE his said mother to
fail before the said THOMAS cometh to the age of 21 years then I will that he shall not pay the
sum 10 pounds unto his said brothers until he comes to the age of 21 years and if THOMAS my said son
fail under age without heir then I will my said tenement and lands shall remain unto MICHAEL
my said son and to his heirs paying unto JOHN his brother the 10 pounds before willed, given and five pounds more which the sum MICHAEL should have had out of the same tenement and the other five pounds to pay unto his three sisters
at the days and times which the said THOMAS should have payed the sum. Item, I will further that JOHANE my wife
shall do no mannor of stripe nor waste but only for the necessary reparations of of the same tenement during her life
and I do ordain and appoint to be my oversee MICHAEL CLOKE my brother.
Probate 17th April 1567 to Executrix named in the Will
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IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN, the 23 day of December one thousand, five hundred and twenty-sixty, I, NICOLAS CLOKE, of the parish of Kingsnorth in the County of Kent my being sick of body but of perfect and good remembrance do ordain and make my last Will and Testament,
First, I bequeath and give my sould unto God Almighty and my body to be buried in the churchyard of the said Kingsnorth.
Item, I give and bequeath to the reparations of the church of the said parish 6 shills and 8 pence to be delivered or paid within one quarter of a year after my decease.
Item, I give to the poor of the said parish 6 shillings 8 pence to be distributed and paid within one quarter of a year after my decease.
Item, I give all my moveable goods unto MARGARET, my wife, for to pay my debts and legacies and I make and odain my said wife my sole and only Executor. And THOMAS BAYLY her father to be overseer of this my Will.
I also I ordain and appoint THOMAS ALLEN [?], clerke and THOMAS ALLEN to be keepers and guardians of ALICE AND MARY CLOKE my brother ROBERT CLOKE'S daughters.
This is the last Will and Testament of me the above said NICHOLAS CLOKE for my houses, lands and tenements,
First I do give and bequeath my house, lands and tenements unto MARGARET my wife for the term of her natural life and after her decease I do give and bequeath my said house, lands and tenements unto ALICE CLOKE the daughter of my brother ROBERT CLOKE, deceased, forever by that condition that the said ALICE CLOKE shall release unto MARY CLOKE her sister her part of the house, lands and tenements that did pertain to their father, ROBERT CLOKE, called Shepley Hatch and if the said ALICE CLOKE will not do and make such release unto the said MARY CLOKE her sister of all the lands and tenements that did pertain to their father that then the said MARY shall shift and have part and part like with the said ALICE in my said lands and tenements northing withstanding it.
Witnesses at the making of the said Will
Thomas Allan Clerck
Edwrd Asherst
and Henry Isond with many other
Probatim fuit pus testamentis coram venerablis viro vico Stephan Lakes legum doctore officiali etc. 7th die mensis January anno domini mx lvi computaco em calie Anglicanie 1586 iuramentis HENRICI POWNDE et EDWARDI ASHERST testin etc. ac approbatum etc commissquam exectoris comissum es executus iuraitus etc. Inventarin extu es ad [illegible word]
1586
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN, the third day of March in the year of our Lord God 1581 and in the 34th year of the reign of our sovereign lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England, France and Ireland, Queen, defender of the faither, etc., I, MARGARET CLOKE, widow of the parish of Elmsted, in the County of Kent being in good and perfect remembrance God by praised do ordain and make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following,
First, I will and bequeath my soul unto Almighty God and my body to be buried in the church of Elmsted beside my late husband, JOHN CLOKE.
Item, I bequeath to the poor people of the said parish of Elmsted 6 shillings 8 pence to be paid to them within one whole year after my decease by mine Executors.
Item, I will to four men to bear me to the church 16 pence equally to be delivered.
Item, I bequeath to my daughter BET my best ...sell.
Item, I bequeath to my daughter BULLFINCH my best gown.
Item, I bequeath to my son SAMPSON CLOKE'S wife a bed haser with a cut face.
Item, I bequeath to all my children's chilren two shillings a piece to be paid within one whole year after my decease.
Item, I bequeath to DANIEL CLOKE my son 30 pounds that is to say 24 pounds in good and lawful money of England and 6 pounds in hansoll? scose? to be paid to him when he shall accomplish the age of 21 years upon conditions following that is to say that he the said DANIEL shall seal a release to THOMAS LOCKE his brother of all those lands that were JOHN CLOCKE's his father provided always that if the said DANIEL CLOKE do refuse to seal a release for the lands and agaytamie? for the monavegca? that then he shall lose the benefit of this my said Will and further I will the said 30 pounds to him given shall remain to THOMAS CLOKE 20 pounds thereof and the other ten pounds to remain to EDMAN CLOCK, his brother.
Item, I give and bequeath to ANNES CLOKE my daughter 20 pounds whom I make and ordain my full and sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament.
Item, I bequeath to JOHN CLOKE my son my wedding ring.
All the residue of my moveable goods, my debts and legacies first contented and paid shall remain to ANNAS CLOKE my Executrix.
I make and ordain overseers of this my last Will and Testament HAMAN BET and THOMAS CLOKE to whom I give for their labout 10 shillings a piece.
Item, I bequeath to JOSIAS CLOKE my son the bed in the chamber of the flower alias hustandete?.
Item, I bequeath to EDMAN CLOKE, my son, his father's gown, one pair of sheets and a bolster.
Item, I bequeath to CATHRYNE my daughter my little gold ring.
Item, I bequeath to my son EDMOND'S wife my best neckerchef.
Item, I bequeath o my son THOMAS' wife my mockado? kyrchefe.
Item, I bequeath to SAMSON my son avelre? [another?] and alame?
Item, I bequeath to DANIEL my son anethr [another?] alaune.
Witness to this my present Will
Thomas Cloke, Samson Cloke, Josias Cloke
and John Mount and 7 others
Probatum fuit huismodi testamentus coram duo officilis 16 May Ao 1582 iurate THOMAS CLOAK, SAMPSON CLOAK, JOHN CLOK and HAMONIS BETT, testim etc
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In Elmsted:
The manor of Dane, now called Deane court, above mentioned, remained in the name of Cloake for some time, when, in 1662, Mr. Samuel Cloake held it. It afterwards passed to the family of the Elmes, of Marcham, in Berkshire, who dying in 1789, devised it by will to his nephew, Thomas Timms, esq.
THE YOKE OF EVINGTON is an estate and seat in the south-west part of this parish, over which the manor of Barton, near Canterbury, claims jurisdiction. The mansion of it, called Evington-court, was the inheritance of gentlemen of the same surname, who bore for their arms, Argent, a sess between three burganetts, or steel caps, azure; and in a book, copied out from antient deeds by William Glover, Somerset herald, afterwards in the possession of John Philipott, likewise Somerset, there was the copy of an old deed without date, in which William Fitzneal, called in Latin, Filius Nigelli, passed over some land to Ruallo de Valoigns, which is strengthened by the appendant testimony of one Robert de Evington, who was ancestor of the Evingtons, of Evington-court, of whom there is mention in the deeds of this place, both in the reigns of king Henry III. and king Edward I. After this family was extinct here, the Gays became possessed of it, a family originally descended out of France, where they were called Le Gay, and remained some time afterwards in the province of Normandy, from whence those of this name in Jersey and Guernsey descended, and from them again those of Hampshire, and one of them, before they had left off their French appellation, John le Gay, is mentioned in the leiger book of Horton priory, in this neighbourhood, as a benefactor to it. But to proceed; although Evington-court was not originally erected by the family of Gay, yet it was much improved by them with additional buildings, and in allusion to their name, both the wainscot and windows of it were adorned with nosegays. At length after the Gays, who bore for their arms, Gules, three lions rampant, argent, an orle of cross-croslets, fitchee, or. (fn. 2) had continued owners of this mansion till the beginning of the reign of king Henry VII. Humphry Gay, esq. alienated it to John Honywood, esq. of Sene, in Newington, near Hythe, and afterwards of St. Gregory's, Canterbury, where he died in 1557, and was buried in that cathedral.
BOTTSHAM, antiently and more properly written Bodesham, is a manor in the western part of this parish. About the year 687 Swabert, king of Kent, gave among others, three plough-lands in a place called Bodesham, to Eabba, abbess of Minister, in Thanet, and in the reign of king Edward the Consessor, one Ælgeric Bigg gave another part of it to the abbey of St. Augustine, by the description of the lands called Bodesham, on condition that Wade, his knight, should possess them during his life. (fn. 7) The former of these continued in the monastery till the reign of king Canute, when it was plundered and burnt by the Danes. After which the church and lands of the monastery of Minster, and those of Bodesham among them, were granted to St. Augustine's monastery, and remained, together with those given as above-mentioned by Ælgeric Bigg, part of the possessions of it at the taking of the survey of Domesday, in which record it is thus described:
In Limowart left, in Stotinges hundred, Gaufrid holds Bodesham of the abbot. It was taxed at one suling. The arable land is two carucates, and there are, with eight borderers, wood for the pannage of fifteen hogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth four pounds, and afterwards twenty shillings, now four pounds, A certain villein held it.
Hugh, abbot of St. Augustine, and his chapter, in the year 1110, granted to Hamo, steward of the king's houshold, this land of Bodesham, upon condition that he should, if there should be occasion, advise and assist him and his successors in any pleas brought against him by any baron, either in the county or in the king's court.
Hamo above-mentioned, whose surname was Crevequer, had come over into this kingdom with the Conqueror, and was rewarded afterwards with much land in this county, and was made sheriff of it during his life, from whence he was frequently stiled Hamo Vicecomes, or the sheriff. He lived till the middle of king Henry I.'s reign; and in his descendants it most probably remained till it came into the possession of the family of Gay, or Le Gay as they were sometimes written, owners of the yoke of Evington likewise, in which it continued till it was at length sold with it, in the beginning of Henry VII.'s reign, to Honywood, as has been fully mentioned before; in whose descendants it still remains, being now the property of Sir John Honywood, bart. of Evington.
In the church:
The south chancel, dedicated to St. John, belongs to Evington, in which there are several monuments, and numbers of gravestones, the pavement being covered with them, for the Honywood family, some of which have inscriptions and figures on brasses remaining on them. Underneath this chancel is a large vault, in which the remains of the family lie deposited. On the north side of this chancel is a tomb, having had the figures on it of a man between his two wives: and at each corner a shield of arms in brass for Gay. On the capital of a pillar at the east end of this tomb is this legend, in old English letters, in gold, which have been lately repaired: Pray for the sowlys of Xtopher Gay, Agnes and Johan his wifes, ther chylder and all Xtian sowlys, on whose sowlys Jhu have mcy; by which it should seem that he was the founder, or at least the repairer of this chancel. Underneath is carved a shield of arms of Gay.
Footnote 2: 2. In the Visitation of the county of Kent, anno 1574, is a pedigree of Gay.
TR 14 SW ELMSTEAD MAXTED STREET
3/118 Maxted Street Farm
II
Farmhouse. C17 or earlier, with C18 facade. Red and grey brick in
a Flemish-type bond. Right cross-wing brick on ground floor, tile-
hung above. Plain tile roof. Main range, with cross-wing to right
flush to front, projecting slightly to rear. Main range 1½ storeys,
cross-wing 2 storeys. Flint footings. Main range roof hipped to
left and hipped down to wing to right. Cross wing has higher eaves
and lower ridge than main range, roof hipped to front. Brick stack
in front slope of roof, to left of centre of main range. Irregular
fenestration of 3 windows; one two-light eaves dormer with hipped
plain tile roof to left end of main range, and another to right, and
one three-light casement to wing. Boarded door behind open timber-
framed porch with hipped plain tile roof under stack. Interior not
inspected.
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- [S98] Marriage Licences, Archdeaconry of Canterbury, Joseph Meadows Cowper and Arthur J. Willis, (England, Canterbury: Cross and Jackman, 1892-1898, c1967-1971), 26 Feb 1596.
Beane, John, of Elham, and Agnes Rucke, s.p., w. [of the same place, widow]. Feb. 26, 1596
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