Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Burial: 14 April 1551.
Place of Burial: Rowley Regis.
The burial is recorded in the parish register.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
Brother: John Wylotes.
Thomas mentions his brother John in his will.
Spouse: Margaret (or Margery).
Thomas’s probate inventory mentions “Margare Forest wyff of the sayd testator” and William Forest. The 1566 will of William Forest of Halesowen names his wife, Margaret.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Joan Wylotes married Edmund Darby.
John Wylotes
Thomas Wylotes (buried 17 January 1621/2 in Rowley Regis) married Ellen[?] Chambers alias Ireland.
Evidence
Thomas’s will:
In the name of god amen the yere of our lord a. 1551 the xi Day of Aprel / in the v. yere of Edward the VI. by the grace of god of England Fraunce & Ireland kyng/ Defendare of the fayth & in earthe of the churche of England and Ireland imediatly under god supreme head. / I Thomas Wylotes of Rowley in the diosis of Worsetr of a good and parfett mynd & memorye but sycke in body make my testament and last Wyll in man’r and forme folowing fyst I beqeuthe my soule to Jesus Chryst my body to the Earthe/ Item I bequethe to my wyfe all suche goods and Cattell with the encrease of them which I had with her at the tyme of my mariage remayning yet unspent/ Item I bequethe to my wyffe vij li of laufull money of England with a pasture Called Upland that is tayken of Roger Higewat’r all my time in thys condicyon that she shall nothyng meddle with my takyng of Holon' / Item I bequethe to my wyffe the howsse that I dwell in withappurtenances for the space of iiij yeres/ yf she kepe her selfe wydow, and Dwell upon it her self/ except the smythy and a Chamber for my ij sonnes to lye in/ and after those iiij yeres I bequethe the sayd howse withappurtenances to John my sonne all my time Item I bequethe to thomas my sonne my tayking of Holon’ all my time/ the Rest of all my goods Cattell & taykyngs unbequethed/ my Detts payed my Wyll performed my body brought to the earthe I geve and bequethe to John and thomas my sonnes to be deuyded indyfferentlye betwyxtt them/ and yf eyther of them doe dye before the come to the age of xviij yers than I wyll that the one halfe of his porcyon shalbe geven to hys other brother & the other halfe to the Chyldren of my brother John Wylotes/ And yf the bothe Dye before the age above wryten the whole of one of theyr porcyons shalbe deuyded the one halfe to my Wyfe yf she than lyue/ the other half to my brothers Chyldren as is aboue specyfyed the Resydue to be Disposed at the discretyon of my ouersears hereafter named I Ordayne and make to be my faythfull executorys John and Thomas my sonnes also I Wyll and Desyre my welbeloued Wyllm Martin and Edmund Darby to be my ouersears of thys my last Wyll sevyng eyther of them for ther paynes taykyng x s/ these witnesis Adam Javan Curat/ John Wylotes with other./
A inventorye of the goods of thomas wylotes deceasyd made the xxx day of Aprell the 6 yere of edwardthe vi by the grace of god of England Fraunce & ireland kyng defender of the fayth etc the sayd goods being valued & prised by Wyllm marten Edmund darby John Adinbroke John Russell
Imprimis iij sylver sponis xij d
Item iiij gyeldyngs ij mares ij Coltes v li
Item kyne & heffers xij li
Item fyue tocks yeres old & ij tock yer olyng iij li iij s iiij s
Item all man’r of implements belongyng to hys smythy v li
Item iij brasse potts with a chaffr – xxxij s iiij d
Item iiij pannes fyue Cauldrons with a skellett
Item fuye candelstyckes with a Chaffyng dyshe vj d
Item viij platers ij po[..]es fyue sawars
Item vij couerterfort dyssys iij dalts with a pueter pott xx s viij d
Item ij frying panes a crissett a shedeye ij hogys
Item a pere of [...rts] a handart. A axe ij hachets
Item ijj lytle fyre tonges a pots[...esse] a fyre sufyll vj d
Item implements of howssehold mad of wood vj s viij d
Item ij fetherbedds ij flock bedds iiij bolstres
Item ij bedsselyngs viij cloth twylls ij syngle twylls
Item one couerlett iiij blanckes one pollowe
Item iij pillows ores[?] iij mossyngs[?] iiij li viij s
Item xxti pre of shetis with one od shet xl s
Item iij towels iiij bordclothes vj table naplyns x s
Item a stryk of maltt vj d viij d
Item the pryc of all man’r of ywys vj li
Item swyne geess hennys x s
Item goods lat margare Forest Wyffe of the sayd testator as yn the introrgrye[?] of Wyllm Forest apperyng xiij li ij s viij d
Item ij fermes in valuyes v li
Summa lxxij li ij s iiij d
exhit apud whiche 5 february 1551
Dettes which the sayd testatt’r doth owe/
In primis to John Inkes of Bageley ij s viij d
Item to John Chartwryght maiori [...]
Item to Richard Taylor of [...] xx s
Dettes od to the sayd testator
In primis Phylypp Darby liij s iiij d
Item Crosse the synar liij s iiij d
Item James Foley liij s iiij d
Item thrustand grannger iiij d vij d ob
Item John Russell ix s vj d
Item Roger Simons iij d iiij d
Item John Danckes xviij s iiij d
Item Wyllm Ruston xj s
Item Rychard Byrchynshaw vij s
Item Ryc Parnell - ij s
Item John turton xx d
Item Wyll Crow[?] hambrman[?] iiij s iiij d
Item Robert Bell xj s iiij d
Item the sayd Robert for the [...asse] of a Calf xlviij mrkes
Item Wyll Danckes xx d
Tot xij li iij s ix d
[Proved 5 February 1551/2]
References
Rowley Regis Parish Register. (Staffordshire Parish Registers Society, 1912).
Will of Edmund Darby of Oldbury. Proved 1658 in the Consistory Court of Worcester.
Will of Thomas Wylotes of Rowley. Proved 1551 in the Consistory Court of Worcester.
Will of William Forest of Cradley. Proved 1566 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.