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    Cobbe, Robert

    Male Abt 1550 - 1607  (~ 57 years)


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    • Name Cobbe, Robert 
      Born Abt 1550  Of St Mary Le Bow, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Buried 19 Feb 1606/07  St Mary Le Bow, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I05233  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 24 Apr 2015 

      Family Barnes, Jane,   b. Abt 1558, Of All Hallows, Honeylane, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Between 1597 and 1605, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 39 years) 
      Married 26 Sep 1575  All Hallows Honeylane, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
       1. Cobbe, Elizabeth,   d. 24 May 1603, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [Natural]
      +2. Cobbe, Margret,   c. 22 Sept 1577, St Mary Le Bow, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1605  (Age ~ 29 years)
       3. Cobbe, Richard,   c. 4 Jan 1579, St Mary Le Bow, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1605  (Age ~ 27 years)
       4. Cobbe, Elyne,   c. 24 May 1580, St Mary Le Bow, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1605  (Age ~ 26 years)
       5. Cobbe, Robert,   c. 24 May 1581, St Mary Le Bow, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 May 1581, St Mary Le Bow, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 0 years)
       6. Cobbe, Nathanial,   c. 10 Jun 1582, St Mary Le Bow, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1605  (Age ~ 24 years)
       7. Cobbe, Martha,   c. 30 Jan 1586, St Mary Le Bow, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jun 1652, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 66 years)
       8. Cobbe, Mary,   c. 9 Jun 1588, St Mary Le Bow, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location
       9. Cobbe, Henry,   c. 10 Aug 1589, St Mary Le Bow, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 03 Mar 1595, St Mary Le Bow, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 5 years)
      Family ID F01581  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Will of Robert Cobbe, Girdler of Saint Mary Le Bow, City of London
        Date 21 February 1607
        Catalogue reference PROB 11/109

        'St. Mary le Bow 104/6', Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire: Cheapside; parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane (1987), pp. 231-236. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=1602
        By his will, dated 1591 and proved 1592, Baker left his 2 tenements in Hosier Lane alias Bow Lane in the parish of St. Mary le Bow, now or late held or occupied by Robert Cobb, girdler, and Thomas Rivington, merchant tailor, to his wife Elizabeth for life, with remainder to his daughter Judith Bennet and her heirs for ever. Robert Cobbe, citizen and girdler, of St. Mary le Bow parish, died in 1606 or 1607 but it is not clear whether he was then occupying 6A

        In 1537 the hospital granted to Stephen Cobbe, citizen and haberdasher, a lease of the properties at the old rent for a term of 50 years beginning in 1550, ...Stephen Cobbe paid the rent to the Mercers' Company in 1542-3, and from then until 1588 the descent of the property under this lease was identical to that of 19B and C (q.v.). In 1588-9 Robert Cobbe, son and assign of Stephen, paid the rent and in 1589-91 ....
        From: 'St. Mary Colechurch 105/20', Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire: Cheapside; parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane (1987), pp. 527-528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=4704 Date accessed: 26 February 2009.


        On the capitalist side, Robert Cobbe, citizen and girdler , was a charter investor in the East India Company, and one of Elizabeth I's privateers, preying primarily on the Spanish Main per the records of the High Court of Admiralty. He owned a ship named the Margaret, no doubt named after his first-born daughter...