BADCOCK OF
WHITSTONE AND WEEK ST MARY
An
abstract of a 1685 court record relating to the administration of the estate of
John Badcock, rector of Whitstone, mentions the
rector’s sons Henry, Robert and Thomas Badcock, daughter Honora Geare, grandchildren William, John, Thomas and Mary Metherell, and son-in-law John Metherell.[1]
One of the parties in the administration record for Henry Badcock of Whitstone in 1692 is Thomas Badcock of Week St Mary and it
therefore appears that the rector’s son Thomas Badcock was the one of that name
who had children baptised at Week St Mary between 1692 and 1702. This is
supported by Thomas Badcock of Week St Mary being named in a 1698 chancery case
as the “next Freind and Guardian” of Henry Badcock of
Whitstone, son of Henry and Joan (Good) Badcock.[2]
Thomas Badcock of Week St Mary was also mentioned in an indenture of 1709/10
together with Henry Badcock of Whitstone and his wife
Parthesia and William Martin of Plymouth, distiller.[3]
This Henry Badcock was the same Henry, son of Henry and Joan (Good) Badcock,[4]
and William Martin was a brother of Ann Martin, Thomas Badcock’s wife.[5]
John
Badcock married Dorothy (Penkevell) Good in 1656/57
but he evidently had a previous wife, as his sons Henry and Robert were born
before that date. The dates of birth of Elizabeth’s children also suggested
that she was a daughter of John’s first wife,[6]
whereas Honor and Thomas were not married until 1682
and 1691 respectively, giving a higher chance that they were from the second
marriage. It seems that John Badcock’s first wife was named Susanna as the
parish registers of Monkleigh show the baptisms of
three children of “Mr John Badcock”, John in 1638/39, Henry in 1641,
and Elizabeth in 1644, the mother being identified by the latter two entries as
“Mris Susan” or “Mris
Susanna” Badcock. John Badcock had been appointed curate of nearby Langtree in
1634.[7]
John
Badcock may have been closely related to Robert Badcock who was vicar of Poughill in the 1610s.
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BADCOCK
1 JOHN BADCOCK, rector of Whitstone, Cornwall, was buried on 13 January 1684/85 at Whitstone.[8]
He married first, SUSANNA.[9]
He married second, on 4 March 1656/57 at Launcells,
DOROTHY (PENKEVELL) GOOD,[10]
widow of John Good and daughter of Thomas and Dorothy (Mathew) Penkevell.[11]
She was baptised on 4 January 1625/26 at St Kew[12]
and buried on 29 January 1676/77 at Whitstone.[13]
Children of John and Susanna Badcock:
i JOHN
BADCOCK, bap 8 Feb 1638/39, Monkleigh.[14]
ii HENRY BADCOCK of Whitstone, gentleman, bap 2 Sep 1641, Monkleigh,[15]
bur 30 Nov 1691, Whitstone;[16]
m(1) 24 Jan 1669, Whitstone,
JOAN GOOD;[17]
m(2) 26 Apr 1682, Whitstone, MARY (CHAPMAN) PETERS.[18]
iii ELIZABETH BADCOCK, bap 26 Jun 1644,
Monkleigh,[19]
bur 13 Jan 1684/85, Whitstone;[20]
m JOHN METHERELL.[21]
iv ROBERT BADCOCK of St Columb Minor, minister, b ca 1651,[22]
bur 13 Aug 1685, St Columb Minor.[23]
Children of John
Badcock:
v HONOR BADCOCK, bur 15 Dec 1690, Whitstone;[24]
m 13 Sep 1682, Whitstone, JOHN GAYER.[25]
2 vi THOMAS BADCOCK (bur 1713); m ANN
MARTIN.
Child of John and Dorothy (Penkevell) (Good) Badcock:
vii SUSANNA BADCOCK, bap 11 Jan 1664/65,
Whitstone,[26]
bur 28 Jan 1664/65, Whitstone.[27]
2 THOMAS BADCOCK of Week St Mary,
gentleman, was buried on 26 March 1713 at Week St Mary.[28]
He married on 4 August 1691 at Week St Mary, ANN MARTIN,[29]
daughter of William and Elizabeth (Pomeroy) Martin (see here). She was
baptised on 18 October 1666 at North Tamerton and
buried on 19 April 1727 at Week St Mary.
Children of Thomas and Ann (Martin)
Badcock:
i JOHN BADCOCK of Week St Mary,
yeoman, bap 23 Jun 1692, Week St Mary,[30]
bur 15 Sep 1751, Week St Mary.[31]
ii ANN BADCOCK, bap 8 Mar 1693/94,
Week St Mary,[32]
bur 4 Apr 1721, Week St Mary.[33]
iii MARY BADCOCK, bap 28 Feb 1695/96,
Week St Mary,[34]
bur 15 Jun 1740, Week St Mary;[35]
m 9 Jun 1718, Week St Mary, RICHARD FEATHERSTONE[36]
(see here).
iv HENRY BADCOCK of Week St Mary,
yeoman, bap 3 May 1698, Week St Mary,[37]
bur 24 Mar 1772, Week St Mary;[38]
m 7 Dec 1729, Tremaine, ELIZABETH GAYER.[39]
v WILLIAM BADCOCK, bap 23 Jun 1700,
Week St Mary,[40]
bur 4 Nov 1741, Week St Mary.[41]
vi ROBERT BADCOCK of Marhamchurch, yeoman, bap 6 Jul 1702, Week St Mary,[42]
bur 3 May 1783, Marhamchurch;[43]
m 5 Nov 1729, Whitstone, MARTHA ROWLAND.[44]
[1] Olive Moger’s abstracts of testamentary causes, series 1, 1393 (Devon Archives).
[2] National Archives, C 7/24/13.
[3] Kresen Kernow, AD158/4. See also National Archives, C 10/396/7.
[4] Joseph Polsue, A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, 4 vols (Truro and London, 1867-72), 4:25.
[6] Thomas Metherell, who was listed third among the sons, was baptised on 12 Feb 1677/78 at Clawton.
[8] Whitstone parish registers.
[9] Monkleigh parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[10] Thomas Taylor, ed., Cornwall Parish Registers: Marriages, vol. 23 (London, 1914), 106; St Kew parish registers.
[11] National Archives, C 10/472/169; Sir John Maclean, Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, 3 vols (London and Bodmin, 1872-79), 3:74; Joseph Polsue, A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, 4 vols (Truro and London, 1867-72), 4:25.
[12] St Kew parish registers; Sir John Maclean, Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, 3 vols (London and Bodmin, 1872-79), 3:74.
[13] Whitstone parish registers.
[14] Monkleigh parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[15] Monkleigh parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[16] Whitstone parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/B/2281.
[17] Whitstone parish registers.
[18] Whitstone parish registers. The Mary Peters who married Henry Badcock seems to be the Mary Chapman who married Henry Peter at North Petherwin in 1676. One of the parties in the administration record of Henry Badcock is Degory Chapman of North Petherwin, and administration of the estate of Mary Badcock alias Chapman of Whitstone was granted in 1698 (Kresen Kernow, AP/B/2473).
[19] Monkleigh parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[20] Whitstone parish registers.
[21] Olive Moger’s abstracts of testamentary causes, series 1, 1393 (Devon Archives); entry for John Badcock in Oswyn Murray’s testamentary abstracts, vol. 2 (Devon Archives).
[23] St Columb Minor parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/B/2058.
[24] Whitstone parish registers; Joseph Polsue, A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, 4 vols (Truro and London, 1867-72), 4:321.
[25] Whitstone parish registers.
[26] Whitstone bishop’s transcripts.
[27] Whitstone bishop’s transcripts.
[28] Week St Mary bishop’s transcripts; Kresen Kernow, AP/B/2857.
[29] Week St Mary parish registers. The marriage is also recorded under the same date in the North Tamerton parish registers.
[30] Week St Mary parish registers.
[31] Week St Mary parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/B/3905.
[32] Week St Mary parish registers.
[33] Week St Mary parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/B/3075.
[34] Week St Mary parish registers.
[35] Week St Mary parish registers.
[36] Week St Mary parish registers.
[37] Week St Mary parish registers.
[38] Week St Mary parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/B/4321.
[39] Tremaine parish registers.
[40] Week St Mary parish registers.
[41] Week St Mary parish registers.
[42] Week St Mary parish registers.
[43] Marhamchurch bishop’s transcripts; Kresen Kernow, AP/B/4556.
[44] Whitstone parish registers.