 1631 - 1702 (~ 70 years)
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| Name |
Cressett, Robert |
| Christened |
5 Jun 1631 |
Cound, Shropshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
29 May 1702 |
Cound, Shropshire, England |
| Person ID |
I10536 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
7 Jan 2015 |
| Father |
Cressett, Richard, b. Abt. 1610, Of Upton Cressett, Shropshire, England , bur. 16 Apr 1677, Upper Cressett, Shropshire, England (Age ~ 67 years) |
| Mother |
Huxley, Jane, c. 14 Apr 1611, St Lawrence Jewry and St Mary Magdalene, London, England , bur. 6 Sep 1640, Upper Cressett, Shropshire, England (Age ~ 29 years) |
| Married |
1 Nov 1628 |
Edmonton, Middlesex, England |
| Notes |
- Memorial:
Richard Cressett d 1677 & his wife Jane, shown with their 2 sons Robert and Richard and 3 daughters Catherine, Elizabeth and Alice. The shield bears the Cressett arms.
Jane died 6th September 1640 aged 29. She was the daughter of George Huxley/Uxley 1627 of Wyre Hall, Edmonton and Catherine daughter of John Robinson and Martha Croixtone (Catherine m2 Robert Needham, 1st Viscount Kilmorey d1629)
Richard Cressett was the son of Edward 1623 and Elizabeth daughter of Sir Henry Townshend of, Bracon Ash, Norfolk by Susan Hayward
Children
1, Richard d 1638 (died young)
2. Robert m Catherine daughter of Sir Robert Berkeley of Spetchley
3. Catherine m Sir Walter Acton of Aldenham Hall, Morville d1665
4. Elizabeth
5. Alice
Memorial signed by "Fra Gigg Sculptor". The original has been moved to Monkhopton church.
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| Family ID |
F3385 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Pre-nuptial Settlement 5460/3/14 16 October 1652 These documents are held at Shropshire Archives
Contents:
1. Rd Cressett of Upton Cressett, esq.
Robt Cressett, son and heir apparent of Rd Cressett
Jn Lee of London, gent.
2. Sir Robt Berkeley of Spechley, Worcs, knt, Sergeant at Law Catherine his eldest dau.
3. Wm Berkeley of Cotheridge, Worcs, esq.,
Edw. Pitt of Kyre, Worcs, esq.
4. Wm Pawlett, gent., 1 of the servants of Sir Robt Berkeley
Consideration: the marriage intended shortly between Robt Cressett and Catherine Berkeley, and £2,000 to Rd Cressett from Sir Robt Berkeley, and £1,000 to be secured to be paid by Sir Robt to Rd C. on 25 May next.
1. covenant to levy a fine to 4. of the manors of Upton Cressett, Cound, Holgate, and Felhampton; the capital messuage of Upton Cressett now or late in the occ. of Rd Cressett; a water corn mill and other mills, dovehouse, park or enclosed ground for deer there, and lands and woods, etc. held with the capital messuage of Upton Cressett, which demesnes are called Broad Meadow, the little Parke Meadow, the Town Close Meadow, the Brickekill Meadow, and Pousefoote of which part is now used in tillage, the Mill Meadow, the Birchin Land, the Baulmen, the great Heathernes, the Little Heathernes, the butfields, the Bridge End Close, the Dead-pitt of which part is in tillage, the 3 sheep fields, Criddons Wall, the 2 Cowleys, the Parke, the heath without the Park, part of the 2 meadows belonging to the water corn mills and 2 hopyards (c.3a) with all houses and cottages held with the same in or near Upton Cressett, Meadowley, Lye, Criddon and Underton, now or late in the occ. of Eliz. Corser, widow, Wm Page, Jn Dod, Thos Pinches, Hen. -, ?Rd Page, Martin Weale, Fras Kandland, Rd Lewis, Jn Garbett, Wm Symonds, Chas Dudlick, --Farmer, Hen. Hayes, Thos Cheese, Anne Gallimore and Fras Cressett under Rd or Edw. Cressett, father of Rd, and all property including the capital messuage in Cound, in Over Cound or Lower Cound and Harnage, called the Weare Meadow,the Park, the Cow Pasture, the Meadow by Severn, the Meadow before the house, the Stokin, the Belch?, the hopyard, the Nechlesse, the great meadow, the Pardiches, the Lower Nechles, the field by Harris, the heath, the hownet, the field by the Barn, the inclosure in Ritons field, Harris Acres, the Mills, Richards Yards, Horsecroft, Hoods Meadow, Otleys common field, land or ground (c.10a) and Gosnells Stank Leasow and Mosterly, with houses now or late in the occ. of Jn Richards, Edw. Cressett, Jn Bennet, Thos Dod, Hen. Gosnell, Jn Jukes, Jn Wellins, Edw. Granger, Jn Adams, Thos Jukes, Thos Phillips, Thos Granger, Jn Farmer, tanner, and Jn Farmer jnr.
Trusts and uses not abstracted.
Schedule of grants or estates not over 2 lives now in being or not determinable before 1 Nov. 1652, of houses and lands in the fine and recovery; names of tenants, old yearly rents and increased rents.
Another schedule of leases not over 3 lives or for a certain number of years or held by copy for 3 lives or at will, etc.
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