Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 1474.
The date is given in the Victoria History of the County of Sussex (Volume 6, sub Horsham: Manors and Other Estates).
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
According to Attree, who is followed by the History of Parliament, the Michells of Stammerham were a junior branch of the Michells of Cuckfield, who had been established there from the 13th century: "From the fact of a small copyhold property, called Lower Moonhill, held of the Manor of Pangdean, the descent of which was to the youngest son, remaining for some centuries after in a junior branch of the family of Michell, of Stammerham, in Horsham, and from the Horsham and Cuckfield families, both bearing the same arms -- sable, a chevron between three escallop shells, argent -- the Horsham family with a mark of cadency, it seems likely that the Cuckfield Michells were the oldest branch, and that the Stammerham Michells obtained their subsequent importance in the county by the marriage of the heiress of Stammerham."
Spouse: Alice.
This relationship is given by Comber (1:230). It is supported by a fine given by Salzman (no. 2888).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
John Michell married Margaret.
Henry Michell (died 1513) married Alice.
Evidence
from the West Sussex Record Office catalogue:
Demise
26 May 1465
By Thomas Covert and Richard Stenyng to John Aldratte and Elizabeth Michell, daughter of John Michell of Stamerham in Horsham, of all those lands and tenements, rents and services in Regewyk and Byllyngeshurst which they lately had by feoffment of the said John Aldratt To hold to the said John Aldratte and Edithe Michell and the heirs of their bodies of the chief lords of that fee &c. Reversion in default of such heirs to the right heirs of the said John. 2 tags, seals gone
References
Attree, F.W.T. “Cuckfield Families: The Michells” in Sussex Archeological Collections volume 53 (1910) pp. 109 - 130.
Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, and Louis Francis Salzman. An abstract of feet of fines relating to the county of Sussex. (Lewes, England: Sussex Record Society, 1903, 1908, 1916).
Horsham: Manors and Other Estates, in Page, William; Susan M Keeling; Louis Francis Salzman; and C. P. Lewis. The Victoria history of the county of Sussex. (London: A. Constable, 1905-). Volume 6, Part 2, pages 156 to 166.
John Michell in England. Sussex. Genealogies of Families Living in Sussex. A database extraction of John Comber’s Sussex Genealogies (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1931 -).
Swales, R.J.W. and A.D.K. Hawkyard. “Michell, John I (by 1491 - 1546), of Cuckfield, Suss.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558 (ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982).