COSTENTINE OF KETTLEWELL
The Rylstone parish registers include a summary of the family of Thomas Cockson, including his baptism and burial dates and a list of his children. Thomas is there stated to have “Marryed with Agnes Costentyne”.[1] Thomas’s will confirms that his wife was called Agnes[2] and the 1609 will of Robert Costentyne of Kettlewell mentions “Agnes Cockson my daught[e]r”.[3]
The 1578/79 will of Margaret Richardson, widow (requesting burial at Kettlewell) leaves “to Heline Roberte Constyntyne wyfe & to M[ar]garet her doughter a Cowe and to Thomas Constinetyne ther sone a Cowe” as well as “to Richarde Roberte & M[ar]garet Constyntyne Henry Constintyne children to everie of them a sheepe” and “unto Henry Constyntyne and to Eline Roberte Constyntyne wyfe a feder bed betwene them & to agree thone of them w[i]th the other for ther p[ar]t[es]”. The testator makes “Roberte Constynetyne” her executor and residuary legatee. It appears that the Robert married to Ellen is the one being made executor and that he was a different person from the Robert who was son of Henry, although the will is not explicit. The impression given is that the testator Margaret Richardson may be the mother of Ellen, Robert’s wife, but the relationship is not actually stated. The will also suggests that Margaret’s maiden surname was Blackborn as she includes legacies to “Henry Richarde Jane & Jennet Blackborne my brother Will[ia]m children”.[4]
The Henry Costentine mentioned in Margaret’s will was probably the one of that name, residing at Conistone, who made his own will in 1608, mentioning sons Richard and Robert. An Edmund Richardson is also mentioned and the will was witnessed by Robert Costentine the elder.[5]
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COSTENTINE
ROBERT COSTENTINE of Kettlewell, Yorkshire, yeoman, died ca 1610.[6] He married ELLEN.[7]
Children of Robert and
Ellen Costentine:
i MARGARET COSTENTINE; m HENRY
ATKINSON.[8]
ii THOMAS COSTENTINE, rector of Taxal, Cheshire,[9]
bur 10 Jun 1631, Taxal;[10] m
25 Sep 1609, Disley, ANN DOWNES.[11]
iii RICHARD COSTENTINE of Kettlewell, d
ca 1656;[12]
m 16 Jun 1625, Conistone, MARGARET WIGGLESWORTH.[13]
iv AGNES COSTENTINE, bur 22 Dec 1665,
Rylstone;[14]
m THOMAS COCKSON[15]
(see here).
v ISABEL COSTENTINE.
vi ELIZABETH COSTENTINE.
[1] Rylstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). This “right reckoning of these Cocsons” is after the baptisms and marriages for 1623.
[2] Will dated 8 Mar 1626[/27], proved 21 Jun 1630 (Borthwick Institute).
[3] Will dated 31 Aug 1609, proved 26 Apr 1610 (Borthwick Institute).
[4] Will dated 7 Jan 1578[/79], proved 20 Jan 1578/79 (Borthwick Institute).
[5] Will dated 8 Aug 1608, proved 16 Jul 1609 (Borthwick Institute).
[6] Will dated 31 Aug 1609, proved 26 Apr 1610 (Borthwick Institute).
[7] Will of Robert Costentine, dated 31 Aug 1609, proved 26 Apr 1610 (Borthwick Institute); will of Margaret Richardson, dated 7 Jan 1578[/79], proved 20 Jan 1578/79 (Borthwick Institute).
[8] The will of Margaret Richardson, dated 7 Jan 1578[/79] and proved 20 Jan 1578/79 (Borthwick Institute) mentions Margaret, daughter of Ellen, wife of Robert Costentine. The will of Robert Costentine includes legacies to Margaret, wife of Henry Atkinson, and to Henry’s children, so it seems likely that this was the same Margaret. The wording of Margaret Richardson’s will allows for the possibility that the legatee Margaret was a daughter of Ellen but not a daughter of Robert.
[9] John Peile, Biographical Register of Christ’s College, 1505-1905, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1910-13), 1:217; will of Robert Costentine, dated 31 Aug 1609, proved 26 Apr 1610 (Borthwick Institute); National Archives, PROB 11/162/675. Robert’s will mentions the expense of having his son Thomas educated at university, and the will of Thomas, rector of Taxal, mentions property at Kettlewell.
[10] Taxal parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); National Archives, PROB 11/162/675.
[11] Disley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); William Fergusson Irvine, ed., Marriage Licences Granted within the Archdeaconry of Chester, vol. 1 (Edinburgh and London, 1907), 65.
[12] Will dated 24 Mar 1652[/53], proved 1661 (Borthwick Institute).
[13] Conistone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). The 1652/53 will of Richard Costentine of Kettlewell names his wife Margaret. The nuncupative will of William Riplay alias Clarke of Coniston, made ca 18 Jan 1627/28 and proved on 19 Apr 1632 (Borthwick Institute) supports the identification of the Richard Costentine who married Margaret Wigglesworth as Richard Costentine of Kettlewell.
[14] Rylstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). The will of Agnes’s son John Cockson, made in 1654, indicates that his mother was still living at that time (National Archives, PROB 11/266/540).
[15] Rylstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); will of Robert Costentine, dated 31 Aug 1609 and proved 26 Apr 1610 (Borthwick Institute).