COLWILL OF WEEK ST MARY

 

This family is covered in Ronald Ames Hill, The Colwill/Colwell Families of North Cornwall and Northwest Devon, 2 vols (Star, Idaho, 2005; second printing 2014).

 

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COLWILL

 

1          WALTER COLWILL of Week St Mary, Cornwall, yeoman, was born ca 1568[1] and buried on 1 September 1639 at Week St Mary.[2] He married first,           .[3] He married second, on 4 July 1622 at Week St Mary, MARY HATCH,[4] daughter of Jules and Alice Hatch (see here).

 

Children of Walter Colwill:

i               REBECCA COLWILL.

ii              JOAN COLWILL.

iii            ABIGAIL COLWILL, bur 11 Oct 1673, Monkleigh;[5] m 9 Nov 1630, Landcross, RICHARD PETTLE.[6]

iv             ELIZABETH COLWILL.

 

Children of Walter and Mary (Hatch) Colwill:

2              v              WILLIAM COLWILL (1622-1668); m MARY SLEEMAN.

vi            HONOR COLWILL, bap 7 May 1626, Week St Mary;[7] m 8 May 1650, Week St Mary, CHRISTOPHER HAMBLY.[8]

 

2          WILLIAM COLWILL of Week St Mary, husbandman,[9] was baptised on 15 September 1622 at Week St Mary[10] and buried on 23 April 1668 at Week St Mary.[11] He married on 24 December 1649 at Week St Mary, MARY SLEEMAN,[12] daughter of John and Mary Sleeman (see here). Mary (Sleeman) Colwill was baptised on 10 April 1625 at Boyton and buried on 1 March 1694/95 at Week St Mary.

 

Children of William and Mary (Sleeman) Colwill:

i               JOHN COLWILL, bap 26 Dec 1650, Week St Mary.[13]

3              ii             WILLIAM COLWILL (1652-1712); m MARY CLIFTON.

iii            MARY COLWILL, bap 1 Mar 1654/55, Week St Mary;[14] m 25 Sep 1710, Week St Mary, ANDREW COLWILL.[15]

iv            WALTER COLWILL, bap 14 Dec 1657, Week St Mary.[16]

v              THOMAS COLWILL, bap 28 Feb 1659/60, Week St Mary,[17] bur 5 Feb 1719/20, Week St Mary;[18] m JOAN.[19]

vi            JOAN COLWILL, bap 23 Jan 1661/62, Week St Mary,[20] bur 26 Nov 1739, Kilkhampton;[21] m 2 Apr 1689, Kilkhampton, JOHN POLLARD.[22]

vii           SIDWELL COLWILL, bap 26 May 1664, Week St Mary,[23] bur 24 Feb 1735/36, Bridgerule;[24] m 19 Apr 1688, Bridgerule, JOHN GORDING.[25]

viii          GEORGE COLWILL, bap 9 Mar 1665/66, Week St Mary.[26]

 

3          WILLIAM COLWILL, tailor, was baptised on 2 December 1652 at Week St Mary[27] and buried on 17 May 1712 at Week St Mary.[28] He married on 24 November 1681 at Week St Mary, MARY CLIFTON,[29] daughter of John and Margery (Pearce) Clifton (see here). Mary was baptised on 5 October 1658 at Week St Mary and buried on 21 April 1728 at Week St Mary.

 

Children of William and Mary (Clifton) Colwill:

i               WILLIAM COLWILL, bap 20 Aug 1685, Week St Mary.[30]

ii             MARGERY COLWILL, bap 1 Sep 1687, Week St Mary,[31] bur 11 Feb 1762, North Petherwin;[32] m 25 Aug 1713, North Petherwin, JOHN SHEER[33] (see here).

iii            MARY COLWILL, bap 11 Jun 1691, Week St Mary,[34] bur 13 Aug 1691, Week St Mary.[35]

iv            MARY COLWILL;[36] m 18 Oct 1730, Pyworthy, ROBERT PERKIN.[37]


[1] Ronald Ames Hill, The Colwill/Colwell Families of North Cornwall and Northwest Devon (Star, Idaho, 2005; second printing 2014), 1:182.

[2] Week St Mary parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/C/963.

[3] Walter was evidently married before his 1622 marriage to Mary Hatch. Ronald Ames Hill, The Colwill/Colwell Families of North Cornwall and Northwest Devon (Star, Idaho, 2005; second printing 2014), 2:499, assigns Rebecca, Joan, Abigail and Elizabeth as children of Walter Colwill and Mary Marrais who were married on 23 Oct 1615 at Week St Mary. However, it is implausible for Abigail to have been born so late given her date of marriage. If the Walter Colwill who married Mary Marrais was the same Walter who married Mary Hatch then he was probably married at least three times in total. Alternatively, the Walter who married Mary Marrais may have been the Walter Colwill, labourer, who was buried at Week St Mary on 12 Apr 1620.

[4] Week St Mary parish registers.

[5] Monkleigh parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[6] Landcross parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); National Archives, PROB 11/228/576.

[7] Week St Mary parish registers.

[8] Week St Mary parish registers.

[9] Stuart A. Raymond, Seventeenth-Century Week St. Mary, Cornwall, including an Edition of the Probate Records, 1598 to 1699, 2 vols, University of Adelaide thesis (1988), 2:436.

[10] Week St Mary parish registers. William’s mother’s maiden name is given in his baptism entry.

[11] Week St Mary parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/C/1491.

[12] Week St Mary parish registers.

[13] Week St Mary parish registers.

[14] Week St Mary parish registers.

[15] Week St Mary bishop’s transcripts; Ronald A. Hill, “The Remarkable Will of Anna Smith”, The Genealogist, 24(2010):3-28.

[16] Week St Mary parish registers.

[17] Week St Mary parish registers.

[18] Week St Mary parish registers.

[19] Week St Mary parish registers. Thomas may have later married, on 22 Nov 1709 at Week St Mary, Catherine Cooke.

[20] Week St Mary parish registers.

[21] Kilkhampton parish registers.

[22] Kilkhampton parish registers (giving Joan’s surname as “Collings”); Kilkhampton bishop’s transcripts (giving Joan’s surname as “Colwill”).

[23] Week St Mary parish registers.

[24] Bridgerule parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[25] Bridgerule bishop’s transcripts.

[26] Week St Mary parish registers.

[27] Week St Mary parish registers.

[28] Week St Mary bishop’s transcripts.

[29] Week St Mary parish registers.

[30] Week St Mary parish registers.

[31] Week St Mary parish registers.

[32] North Petherwin bishop’s transcripts. Margery was mentioned in the 1741 will of Anna Smith (Kresen Kernow, AP/S/2959).

[33] North Petherwin bishop’s transcripts.

[34] Week St Mary parish registers.

[35] Week St Mary parish registers.

[36] The 1711 will of George Rattenbury of Week St Mary mentions “Mary Colwill Daughter of William Colwill Taylor” (Kresen Kernow, AP/R/2129).

[37] Pyworthy parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk). The 1741 will of Anna (Clifton) Smith mentions “my Cousin Mary Perkins” (Kresen Kernow, AP/S/2959). Anna also mentions “my Cousin Mary Pengille” and Mary Colwill married Arthur Pengelly at Week St Mary on 3 Apr 1738. However, Arthur Pengelly had a child baptised as late as 1752 so his wife appears to be a younger Mary Colwill baptised in 1714, daughter of John and Joan. See Ronald A. Hill, “The Remarkable Will of Anna Smith”, The Genealogist, 24(2010):3-28.