In 1647, Joseph was a citizen and merchant tailor residing in St Anne Blackfriars, London. In 1650, he is recorded as the guardian of Sir Nicholas Slanning. In 1658 documents relating to the administration of his estate, he is described as of Annington, Sussex.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Burial: 27 October 1657.
Place of Burial: Botolphs, Sussex, Engand (St Botolphs).
The burial is recorded in the parish register.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Presumably, Joseph's father and place of origin are given in his apprenticeship record with the Merchant Taylors, which I haven't yet checked. (I believe the relevant records are kept in the Metropolitan Archives in London.)
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Mary Bassett. Married 5 February 1621 at St Martin in the Fields, Westminster.
The marriage is recorded in the parish registers.
Children:
Frances Valiant (baptized 23 January 1623 in St Andrew, Holborn, London - buried 3 November 1681 in Botolphs, Sussex) married William Scrase.
Evidence
from the St Martin in the Fields register:
[February 1621]
Martis 5 die Josephus Valliant duxt Maria[m] Bassett p[er] ban[nas]
from the St Andrew, Holborn parish register:
[1623 January Christenings] 276 Fraunces Valyant daughter of Joseph Valyant tayler & Mary his wife out of an Ally behind Mr Durants in Chancery Lane baptiz 14 6377
(Richard Durant was a tailor in Chancery Lane. The register generally gives the residences of the parents, preceded by "out of".)
from the PCC will of Edith Swinglehurst, widow (made 8 April 1644/ proved 29 January 1646/7)
...Item I give & bequeath unto Mr Joseph Valyant out of the aforesaid debt foure shillinges over & above the monies that I doe owe unto him for his care Curtesie & kindnes in releeveinge me with monie for the supporte of my life…
(She further acknowledged that she owed him sixteen pounds and made him an executor of her will. Her other executor was Walter Retoricke. Edith was the widow of John Swinglehurst, a tailor. They were recusants. )
from a 1647 marriage allegation:
19 Febry 1647
Which day appeared Joseph Valiant of the p[ar]ish of St Anne Blackfriars London merchant taylor and allegeth that George Port of the p[ar]ish of St Dunstans in the West London gent and a bacheller aged 28 yeares intendeth to marry with Margaret King of the same p[ar]ish of London widdow aged 31 yeares and of the truth of the promised as also that hee knowes of noo lawfull impediment to hinder this intended m[arr]iage hee made faith & desired licence for these p[er]sons to bee m[arr]ied in the p[ar]ish of St Bartholomew London
[signature] Jo Valant
from the Botolphs parish register:
1657 Mr Joseph Valiant gent buried Oct. 27th 1657
The evidence below possibly also relates to Joseph Valiant or his family:
A 1634 marriage bond:
This day appeared personally Thomas Martin of the parish of St Bride’s London Merchant Tailor and a widdower and about 45 years and alledged … he intendeth to marry with Rebecca Valliant of the parish aforesaid widdow and about 28 years … to marry in Stepney or St Brides.
A Mary Vallent was buried 10 October 1652 in St Brides (which was near St Annes, Blackfriars).
A Joseph Valiant was a guardian of Nicholas Slanning, infant son of the Royalist M.P. Sir Nicholas Slanning, who was killed in 1643. The younger Nicholas became 1st Baronet of Maristow. His mother, Gertrude, remarried Richard Arundel, 1st Baron Arundel of Trerice. (Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding,&c., 1643-1660, v. 3, p. 2210).
References
England. Sussex. Genealogies of Families Living in Sussex. A database extraction of John Comber’s Sussex Genealogies (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1931 -). Joseph Valiant.
'Cases before the Committee: March 1650', Calendar, Committee for Compounding: Part 3 (1891), pages 2210-2211.
Index to Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: and now preserved in the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset. (1658, Folio 106).
Parish register of Botolphs, Sussex. Digital images on FamilySearch.org accessed 4 March 2018.
Parish register of St Andrew Holborn. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 15 March 2018.
Parish register of St Martin-In-The-Fields. Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 16 November 2020.
Renshaw, Walter Charles. “Notes on the Scrase Family of Co Sussex”, in The Genealogist (New Series) Volume XX, pages 217 to 221, 1904.
Sussex Burials, Sussex Family History Group, available on Findmypast.co.uk (accessed 18 April 2014).
George Port - Margaret King marriage bond (19 February 1647); digital image on Ancestry.com (accessed 18 April 2014), citing Marriage Bonds and Allegations. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives.