Wadham & Hitchen
A small area around Saltash Passage was known as 'the Cornish Patch' & was historically part of Cornwall until transferred to the county of Devon in 1844 to the parish of St Budeaux in 1895. It is mentioned specifically in the Reform Act of 1832 (which defined the divisions for parliamentary elections) in which it is described as ''A small Part of the Parish of St. Stephens by Saltash which lies on the Eastern Side of the River Tamar'.
Saltash also played a significant role in English history. It was a Royalist stronghold during the English Civil War as were most of the rural areas. In 1643, it suffered a devastating siege by Parliamentarian forces when the Royalist garrison held out for several months before finally surrendering. This event had a lasting impact on Saltash, with many of its buildings and walls damaged. Nevertheless, the town managed to rebuild and thrive in the post-war years.
Wadham
Julian WADHAM 2nd wife of Digory HEXTE , merchant & Mayor of Launceston
married on 13 DEC 1596 in St Stephen's, Saltash, they do not seem to have had any children
She was daughter of Sir George WADHAM & her mother was Dorothy HECHINS or Hitchen
Sir George born about 1540 in Catherstone, Dorset, died 5 Jun 1605 in St. Stephens, Saltash,
There are memorials at Saltash & in Whitchurch, Canonicorum, Devon,
Dorothy Hitchens widow Wadham of Saltash died in about 1624
After Digory Hext's death in 1600 Julianna married a 2nd time
2nd husband was John Cottell 3rd son of Walter Cottell by his wife Jane Browne ;
They married on 22 Jane 1601 at Boyton (five miles north of Launceston.)
They had a son Thomas & 2 daughters Dorothy & Hester.
Other Cottell s married Pomeroys in nearby St Mellion
Joan Tregarthin (died 1583) & her two husbands, John Kelloway & John Wadham .
Sir George Wadham apparently married Dorothy Hichins in Weymouth 1570
Sir George Wadham Whitchurch, Canonicorum near Weymouth Eng has brasses to the memory of William Hitchings showing also George and Dorothy Wadham. "It is in the east end of the north aisle of this spacious church, and consists of a large raised tomb, with blank shields below, and above cunningly carved reredos of slate, containing at the top kneeling effigies of himself in half armour and his wife with cap and ruff, and below, what is intended to represent his only daughter Dorothy wife of George Wadham, also kneeling with her ten children, five sons and five daughters also kneeling behind her."
Wadham's grave stone ("he died 7 Sep1606") is on the church floor nearby. They moved to Plymouth! See: Devonshire: Pole;"Disertations on Devon" & Prince "Worthies of Devon" 588, ed 1701. George also had a dau Anne Kirton buried in St. John's chapel Westminster Abbey.
Dorothy Hichins placed a monument to her parents and grandparents at St. Stephen's Saltash, in 1593.
IPM named heir Hitchins Wadham whose will dated 4 Nov 1624 was proved 13 Nov 1626. West country studies show d "1.5.1626".
St Stephen by Saltash church
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101140379-church-of-st-stephen-saltash/photos/223719#.YHVEH0hKh7M
The church has a corner with 3 elaborate C1600th slate monuments to Hetchens family of HOLE ; William Hechin and his wife Frances Dynham of Wortham; d 1593 beneath it a slate to his daughter Dorothy and her 11 children -and next to that one a memorial to her husband George Wadham of Catherston ; a third monument is the Arms of Hechin (argent a cross potance quarterly gules & azure between four lions' heads erased sable) impaling Dynham (gules four fusils in fess a border ermine)
I found a 1566 WILL of William Hechens of Hole mentions son William and John and daughter Dorothy and Elizabeth Cowling wife of Thomas Cowling
These appear to be the children of George & Dorothy Wadham of 7 boys 4 girls
Julian Wadham who married Digory Hext on 13 Sep 1596 – EDB 1570
Elizabeth married John NICHOLS 1601
William Wadham death & Will 1623 St Stephen by Saltash
John WADHAM parish register of Saltash shows John, Gent son of George bur 1615. He is shown as Waddom. Had Children
Henry WADHAM c: 4 OCT 1572 in St Stephen, Saltash, Con,
Sir Hitchins WADHAM b: 1586 in Saltash, Cornwall, wife mentioned in Dorothy's IPM 16 ??
As youngest daughter of her father a wealthy farmer in Saltash area Dorothy was left 12 sheep – her older siblings getting gilt cups with lids and silver spoons
Had Children Antony WADHAM c: 1 MAY 1587 in St Stephen, Saltash, Con
Dorothy WADHAM c: 17 MAR 1589/90 in St Stephen, Saltash, Con, married Digory Langherne 1609
Pricilla WADHAM b: ABT 1592 in Saltash, Cornwall married John SMITHE St Stephen by Saltash 1595
Julia WADHAM b: ABT 1594 in Saltash, Cornwall,
Anne WADHAM b: ABT 1596 in Saltash, Cornwall,
Nicholas WADHAM b: ABT 1598 in Saltash, Cornwall, Had Children
George WADHAM b: ABT 1580 in Catherstone, Dorset, there is a George Wadeham married by Exeter Diocese licence 1627 to Margaret Gennis
Brother John Wadham was born about 1568 in Catherstone, Lewistone, Dorset, Eng.
He died 30 Jul 1615 in St. Stephen, Saltash, Cornwall, Eng.
John Wadham named in The Plymouth Black Book, Includes Freemen 1612
married Alice on 4 May 1584 in St. Andrew's , Plymouth. He became a Mayor of Plymouth, Eng. 1631 and MP 1640 ; a merchant shipper out of Plymouth. It is said he owned "Roebuck" and "Rayne Deare"
Cornwall Public Records, By Peter Wadham 1995/6.
Weymouth
In 1583 Captain Richard Clark departed from Weymouth to join Sir Humphrey Gilbert in his discovery of Newfoundland. Trading links were then established and continued until such time as the Newfoundland trade and fishing became more associated with Poole.
In 1588 some of the English ships sailed from Weymouth to meet the Spanish Armada. Six of those ships were of Weymouth and carried over two hundred Weymouth men. There ensued a battle off Portland and the ship San Salvador was captured and brought into the harbour.
Weymouth was the port of departure for some of the first ships sailing to America. In 1623 Robert Gorges, the son of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, left Weymouth with emigrants to settle in Wessagusset, New England. He was appointed Governor of the colony, which then changed its name to Weymouth. The ship Abigail set sail from Weymouth in 1628 carrying many Dorset emigrants bound for New England. This passage was particularly important as it carried the first governor of Massachusetts, John Endicott. A memorial commemorating this is sited by the harbour steps. See also Emigrant Ships departing Weymouth.
In the 1640s there was fierce rivalry once again during the English Civil War. Weymouth suffered badly and several hundred Dorset men were slain in one night of intense fighting in 1645.
John WADHAM b: ABT 1568 in Catherstone, Lewistone, Dorset,
John Wadham gent Will probated 1584 Weymouth PCC captain of castell of Sandisfoote besyde Waymouth; Catherston, Dorset; Tilhowse beysde Rockbeare, Devon- Tillhouse Farm is a large property near ROCKBEARE, a small straggling village, six miles E.N.E. of Exeter, and 5 miles W. of Ottery St. Mary, - currently derelict
WADHAM in SALTASH found 6
Julian Wadham & Digory Hext married 13 Sep 1596 - 5 years before Jane Hext his daughter married Andrew Pomeroy
Dorothy Wadham married Digory Langherne 1609
Elizabeth married John NICHOLS 1601
Precilla Wadham married John SMITHE St Stephen by Saltash 1595
William Wadham death & Will 1623 St Stephen by Saltash
Anne Wadham 1694 Will
Dorothy Wadham widow 1627 Will at St Budeaux IPM ; Hitchens Wadham, gent., son and heir
Katherine who married James Kirton of Castle Cary Som and her dau Ann who died 1603
PLYMOUTH
Nicholas Wadham married Mary Wycott 20 July 1629
Mary Wadham dau of Nicholas Bb 22 Aug 1630 died age 5 in 1635 Plymouth St Andrews
Nicholas Wadham married Mary Deacon 16 Jan 1630 Plymouth St Andrews
Judith Wadham dau of Nicholas Bb 2 Sept 1632 in Plymouth St Andrews
HITCHEN/ Hechin
Dorothy Hichins was born about 1550 at Kenesbury, Cornwall, Eng.
Kenesbury was a mystery & I could not find it in the Saltash area -
until I remembered
' A small area around Saltash Passage was known as 'the Cornish Patch' & was historically part of Cornwall until transferred to the parish of St Budeaux C19th .' and out Kenterbury popped in St Budeaux parish '
GENUKI St Budeaux included the hamlets, &c., of King's-Tamerton, Henicknowle, Whitleigh, Saltash Passage, Kinterbury
Just south of the Albert Bridge crossing on the Tamar Kinterbury Creek very close to Devonport Dockyards today. Hole Creek & Hole farm are/were just across the estuary with the ancient ferry crossing nearby. There, 200 years later in 1805, a gunpowder works was established alongside Kinterbury Creek for the purpose of restoring damp or damaged gunpowder offloaded from ships.
Today it is a nature reserve.
The land owning Hitchen family had a farm called 'Hole' . Today it is. a small industrial estate with the China Fleet Country Club & Golf Course near by. see map at foot of page
1566 William Hechins the elder of Hole in the parishe of St Stephens next Saltash in the County of Cornwall one of the gentlemen of the queen
By the date this has to be the Grandfather of Dorothy Hitchen wife of Sir George Wadham of St Stephen by Saltash
WILL & PROBATE 1566 There is evidence of some affluence in this will
The Will of William Hechins Gentleman of St. Stephens by Saltash 1566 15th March
In the Name of god amen the fivetenethe daye of August thousande fyve hundred three score and sixe and in the eighte yere of the reigne of moast gracious and sovereigne Ladie Elizabeth By the grace of god Quene of England France and Yreland Defender of the Faithe etc.
I William Hechins the elder of Hole in the parrish of St Stephens by Saltash in Cornwall one of the gentlemen of the quenes maiesens moast honerable chappell ( this I suspect refers to being a member of the local chapel of Queens Mason) having and enveying my perfect remembrannce Doe make this my testament declaring therin my last and most effectyall Will in manner and forme as hereafter followe the First I bequeathe my soull to allmightie god and my boddie to be buried in o Lady Ile within the parrisshe churche of saint Stephanes aforsaid if it plese god so to appointe
Item I give and bequeth to the poor mens Box within the parish churche aforsaide tenne shillinges and other tenne shillinges to the poore mens Box within the chapel of Nicholas in Saltasshe aforesaide
Item I give and Bequethe to Johan now my wife my silver Goblet percell gilt without Cover; a fetherbed, a Coverlett ,a pare of sheetes, a pare of Blankettes, a Bolster and a pillowe,
Item I give and Bequethe to William Hechins my son and heir my Best silver Cupp gilted and the Cover , one dozen of sylver spones, my best Fetherbed, my best Coverlett,my Best pare of sheetes ,my Best pare of blankettes ,my best Bolster ,one of my best pillowes and pillowtie, 2 oxen or stears and 40 sheepe of the ages of two yeres and upwardes
Item I give and bequeathe to same William Hechins my wholl Leasse estate interest and terme of yeres whiche I have as yet to coom and undetermined of and in the garbe and Rectorie of sainte Stephans next Saltassh afforsaid under and uppon this speciall condicion that he the said William hechins his Executorres and Assignes shall yerelie contente satisfie and pay or cause to be pend contented satisfied and payd unto
Alice Hechins my daughter fowre £4 poundes of good and lawfull monney of England for and during all and as many yeres as Be yet to coom of and in the leasse made and grannted of the Pectore aforsaide if she the same Alice doo so long lyve
And other fower £4 poundes of like monney to Elizabethe Cowling yerelie during all the saide yeres if she the same Elizabeth Doo so long lyve And that for the better assueraunce and suer payment of the severall Annuities aforesaide according to my trewe meaning herin , the the same William shall within one monethe next after my deathe assuer the same unto the fornamed Alice and Elizabethe by such good couveyar and assuerance in the Lawe as their lerned counsell can or may devize in that behalf
Item I give and bequethe to the same Alice Hechins my second best sylver Cuppe gilted and the Cover a Fetherbedd a Coverlett a pare of Blankettes a pare of sheetes a Bolster a pillowe a pillowtie one dozen of sylver Spones and twoe kyene Kine
Item I give and Bequeathe to the forenamed Elizabeth Cowling my thirde Best silver Cupp gilted and the Cover ,my littell silver Salt, percell gilte a dozen of silver spones and twoe kyone
Item I bequethe to everie of Thomas Cowlinges children ten,sheepe,
Item I give and bequethe to Dorothe Hechins twelve shepe of the of the ages of two yeres and upward
ItemI give and bequethe to John Hechins my son a Fetherbedd a Bolster and twoo kyone
The residewe of all my gooddes Cattalls Chattalls and debtes whatsoever they Be and not herin gevin and bequethed I give and bequithe the same to the forenamed William Hechins my sonne and heyre
And hym I do constitute ordane and make to be my soll Executo of this my Last will and to pay my dettes funeralls and Legacies and to use and dispose the rest as he shall thinck expedit? (very smeared document here)
In Wittnes of a troth. I have to Bothte the partes of this my Will indented putt my hande and Seale the day and yere first above written By me William Hechins.
Probate (From the Latin)
The above written will was proved in London before master Walter Haddon, Doctor of Laws, Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, on the 3rd day of the month of December in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and sixty six, on the oath of Thomas Willet, notary public, proctor for William Hechins, executor named in this will, to whom administration of all and singular the goods etc was granted well etc sworn on the Holy Gospels.
Source: National Archives ref. PROB 11/48/639 Transcribed by Angela Wood, Latin translation by Richard Samways
As the youngest daughter this Dorothy didn't get much in 1566, just 12 sheep, but this was the inheritance of William who became father of Dorothy Wadham & I dont have his Will .
In her will Dorothy Hitchen Wadham of 1624 left.....to the poor of Saltash £6; to the poor of St. Stephens £5;
to Elizabeth Wadham, daughter of Frances Wadham, '* my daughter deceased, " £10 ;
to each of the daughters of Kitchens Wadham, " my son," £50 ;
also £50 to " Nicholas Wadliam, son of Kitchens Wadham, and two pieces of damask, to be carefully kept by him in remembrance of me."
Ladt Dorothy Wadham was daughter of William Hichens, of Hole , son of William Hichens, of Kenerbury, near Saltash ( St Budeaux) by his first wife Joan, daughter and heir of John Peveral, by Katherine, daughter and heir of Robert Trethewey), who, according to the parish register, was buried here nth December, 1593.
He married Frances, daughter of William Denham, of Wortham, who died before her husband, that burial being recorded in the Register as 12th February, 1592, as Frances, wife of William Hechins, gent.
According to Visitation pedigree (Col. Vivian, p. 214) they had only twodaughters, co-heirs,one was Dorothy wife of George Wadham, of Catherston, co. Dorset, whose children were Hichins Wadham, Dorothy & Elizabeth
CREST Hichens: imp. Gu. four fusils conjoined in f ess erm., in chief a crescent for difference ;
Western Antiquarian 1882
ST. STEPHEN'S, SALTASH. Lying near the old monument of the two William Hitching and Wadham, in this church can be seen a fine old floor-slab, for all that I know, covering the spot where the old worthies and their spouses were interred. The monument and stones were probably placed in the church by Dorothy, relict of George Wadham, daughter and heiress of William Hitchings and Frances, his wife.
The inscription around the margin informs us that commemorates George Wadham Esq ; sometime of Catherstone in Dorset , who died 7th September, 1806, and Dorothy his wife, ' when God shall call her '
When the "call” was made for Mistress Dorothy Wadham (1624) her remains were laid by the side of those of "Wadham's Warthe,
There are faint traces of a fine shield of arms, bearing the achievements of Wadham impaling Hitchinga, only it may be noticed that the cross is the variation of the cross-fleury, known in heraldry as ''Bottonoe.
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In some part of Elizabeth's reign, one Master Hechons, or Hitohins, held a lease of the great tithe of St. Stephens. The visitor to this interesting ohurch will see that this worthy man is commemorated on the fine old monument in the south-east part of the north aisle, by his arms impaled on a shield with those of Dinham.
There are traces of an inscription, but they are too illegible to afford any evidence of its curioaity.
There are two shields of arms.— 1st. Argent, a cross fleury quarterly, azure, and gules, between four lions* heads, erased, langued, of the second, (Hitchings.) impaling. Gules, four fusils conjoined in fesse, ermine, a crescent for difference. (Dinham.) seen here right
The other is Wadham impaling Hitchen - which AJP has not found
It standeth in St. Stephens parish : the sheafe whereof, together with other faire revennues, M. George Wadham enioying in the right of his wife, the daughter and heire to master Hechins, liberally bestoweth in continuall hospitalitie.- Carew
Local Man Francis Drake returned in 1580 from his great voyage around the world, carrying huge quantities of bullion plundered from Spanish settlements and ships. His ship, Golden Hind, was brought up the Tamar, and the treasure was unloaded here (probably at Antony Passage) so that it could be safely stored in Trematon Castle while arrangements were made for a train of pack-horses and wagons to carry it to the Tower of London.
In 1587 Drake (by now Sir Francis), having taken the great carrack San Felipe during his raid on Cadiz, brought her back to Saltash where her cargo, some hundreds of tons of precious gems and bullion together with chests of rare spices and bales of silk and velvet, was discharged and inventoried, to the wonder of the townsfolk.
Its total value was £114,000 (the equivalent of nearly £25 million today) – the richest single 'prize' ever brought back to England.
GEORGE Wadham in Tim Sandbergs Rootsweb https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/218597/I35714/george-wadham/individual
Rootsweb Name: George Wadham 1Birth: ABT 1530 in Catherstone Lewiston, Dorset, Eng
Father: Sir John Wadham: Birth: ABT 1500 in Catherstone, Lewiston, Dorset. Death: in Catherstone, Lewiston, Dorset Mother: Elizabeth Cruwys of Cruwys Morchard, Devon
St Stephen by Saltash Church
Wadham of Catherstone
founder of Wadham College Oxford
Dinham impaling Hechin
Sir Richard Chudleigh, knight, married Mary, daughter of Sir Nicholas Wadham, of Merrifield, knight,
issue Lawrence, James, (sans issue,) Christopher, Elizabeth, (first wife of Sir John Gilbert, sans issue ; 2nd wife of Sir Henry Thynnc, knight); Margaret, (married to Richard Halse of Keuedon,) Ann, (married to James Coffin of Portledge ; secondly to Edward Whiddon, of Chagford, esq.)Devonshire,
MARY WADHAM was born about 1470 of Devonshire, England, to Nicholas de Wadham (1444-1542) and Lady Jane Hill (1470-1557.) She married Richard Chudleigh about 1488 of Merrifield, Devonshire, England.
Mary Wadham died in 1535 age 65.
An account of St Budeaux published in 1856 records that at that time the population of the parish had just reached 1,000, of whom only 30 or so were entitled to vote. At that time, the parish of St Budeaux was rich farming country centred around the ancient parish church perched high above the river Tamar. The parish itself stretched over 2,500 acres of land and included the hamlet of King's Tamerton, half-a-mile away; Salt Ash (Saltash) Passage, one mile west; Honicknowle, Knackersknowle (Crownhill) and Whitleigh to the east. Of this land 100 acres between Ernesettle and Saltash Passage had recently been reclaimed from the bed of the river.
Wadham BAPTISMS at StStephens by Saltash
1572 Hechin, son of George Wadham, Esq.
1586 Anthony, son of George Wadham, Esq.
1589 Dorothy, daughter of George Wadham, Esq.
1595 Juliana Othoupia (?) baptizat fuit a professionem fidi spondentibus pro in Nicho. Wadham et Julia et Dorothea Wadham filia me Georgi Wadham, ar.
which translates as
..she was baptised by the professional of the faithful ' bailed on' behalf of Nicho. Wadham and Julia and Dorothy Wadham I am the daughter of George Wadham, ar. Wadham and Julia and Dorothy Wadham daughter, George Wadham, Ar.
OR 'she was baptised by the Vicar -fidi spondentibus translates as ' bailed on' maybe misspelled 'sphodeo' as in promised to the church by baptism .
1606 Priscilla, daughter of Nicholas Wadham.
1611 Frances, daughter of Hichin Wadham, gent.
1614 William, son of Hichins Wadham, gent.
1615 George, son of Hichins Wadham, gent.
1650 M— , daughter of Elizabeth Wadham, widow.
The above curiosity was a different Julia Wadham, ours was a daughter of Sir George & his wife Dorothy - Married to Digory Hext in 1596 she might have been very young but not a nursing infant !
Hechin BAPTISMS at StStephens by Saltash
1558 John, son of John Huchin.
1561 Roger, son of John Huchins.
1562 Thomas, son of John Huchins.
1567 Dorothy, daughter of John Huchins.
1583 John, son of William Hichins.
1587 Dorothy, daughter of William Hechins.
1605. Nov. 24. Dorothy, daughter of Hechins Wadham, gent.
1606 Elizabeth, daughter of Hechin Wadham, gent
1607 Nicholus 1st son & heir Hichins Wadham, gent.
1611 Frances, daughter of Hichin Wadham, gent.
1613 Robert, son of John Hichins.
1614 William, son of Hichins Wadham, gent.
1615 George, son of Hichins Wadham, gent.
