Robert Holbrooke
Life
- 1557Bornbapt. 13 Mar 1557/8 or 14 Mar 1558/9, Norton Malreward, Somerset, England
Robert, son of Thomas Holbrooke. The FamilySearch index has 13 Mar 1558 (probably 1557/8); Spear reads 14 Mar 1558/9.
documentedprobable - 1616DiedMar 1616/17, Queen Charlton, Somerset, England
Will dated 15 or 16 Mar 1616/17, proved 3 July 1617. Buried Queen Charlton 27 Mar (indexed 1616, probably 1616/17). That the Queen Charlton yeoman is Thomas's son is inferred.
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Family
- Father
- Mother
- Spouse
- Elnor (Elinor)
Executrix. Perhaps the Elinor Holbrooke alias Hedges, widow, of Chew Stoke (will 1627).
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Pedigree
Notes
Yeoman. His father’s will (1571/2) left him the lease of a farm at Compton Dando with a tenement called Cases and a cottage called Busshes, and a wain and four oxen; with his brother John he was named in his mother’s Compton Dando lease of 1565. Overseer and witness of his mother’s will (1592). His daughter Melior was baptised at Compton Dando on 4 Oct 1605, and he was at Queen Charlton by 1609, when his son Robert was baptised there on 4 Nov.
His will names his wife Elnor, son Robert, daughters Jone (eldest), Katherine and “Milliard” (Melior), and “William Holbroke the sonne of John Holbrooke my brother deceased.” That nephew is now taken to be a younger man than his brother William of Glastonbury. Davis (1945) read “Milliard” as a married name; the register copy and the Compton Dando baptism show it was Melior.