HOBSON OF DODWORTH

 

A record of 1577 in the feet of fines relating to property in Dodworth mentions John Hobson, son and heir apparent of Percival Hobson.[1]

 

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HOBSON

 

1          PERCIVAL HOBSON of Dodworth, Silkstone, Yorkshire, tanner,[2] died on 24 June 1578 and was buried on 25 June 1578 at Silkstone.[3]

 

Children of Percival Hobson:

2              i               JOHN HOBSON (ca 1537-1610); m ANN SWIFT.

ii             ALICE HOBSON, bur 9 Jul 1590, Silkstone;[4] m 23 Apr 1564, Silkstone, HENRY CAWTHORNE.[5]

iii            RICHARD HOBSON of Dodworth, yeoman, bur 24 Jun 1623, Silkstone;[6] m 14 Nov 1574, JOAN HALLEY.[7]

iv            WILLIAM HOBSON; m ELIZABETH (          ) SCARBOROUGH.[8]

v              ROGER HOBSON of Barnsley, d 1615.[9]

vi            NICHOLAS HOBSON; m 20 Aug 1578, Silkstone, ANN HAWKSHIRST.[10]

 

2          JOHN HOBSON of Dodworth, tanner, b ca 1537,[11] d 1610;[12] m ANN SWIFT,[13] daughter of John Swift (see here).

 

Children of John and Ann (Swift) Hobson:

i               RICHARD HOBSON of Dodworth, tanner, bap 25 Oct 1563, Silkstone;[14] m 17 Jun 1588, Darton, ELIZABETH MARSH.[15]

ii             ROBERT HOBSON, bap 10 Nov 1566, Silkstone;[16] m 20 Oct 1595, Silkstone, MARGARET WHAITES.[17]

iii            ELIZABETH HOBSON, bap 8 Jul 1571, Silkstone,[18] d 1617;[19] m 2 Sep 1588, Silkstone, RICHARD THORNTON[20] (see here).

iv            PERCIVAL HOBSON, bap 8 Sep 1577, Silkstone.[21]


[1] Feet of Fines of the Tudor Period, part 2 (1888), 104.

[2] National Archives, CP 40/1318.

[3] National Archives, C 142/275/315; Silkstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); will dated 8 Jan 1577, proved 28 Aug 1578 (Borthwick Institute). The will of Percival mentions “Dyones Hobsone my sister”.

[4] Silkstone Parish Registers, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire Parish Register Section transcripts, 17 (2006).

[5] Silkstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[6] Silkstone Parish Registers, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire Parish Register Section transcripts, 17 (2006); will dated 21 Jan 1619, proved 18 Aug 1623 (Borthwick Institute); National Archives, E 124/2.

[7] Silkstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[8] National Archives, C 142/275/315. Perhaps Elizabeth (Heber) Scarborough.

[9] Index of Wills in the York Registry, A.D. 1612 to 1619 (Worksop, 1900), 60. Roger is mentioned as a brother in the 1609 will of John Hobson.

[10] Silkstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). The will of Percival Hobson does not explicitly state that Nicholas was his son but it makes him a residuary legatee and executor. The 1609 will of John Hobson mentions “Joseph Hobson my nephewe” and Joseph, son of Nicholas Hobson, was baptised at Silkstone on 8 Dec 1589.

[11] York cause papers (Borthwick Institute); National Archives, C 142/275/315.

[12] Will dated 2 Jan 1609[/10], proved 9 Jul 1610 (Borthwick Institute).

[13] Will of John Hobson; Feet of Fines of the Tudor Period, part 2 (1888), 105; will of Robert Swift of Bradfield, dated 30 May 1583, proved 28 Jun 1583 (Borthwick Institute); will of John Swift of Silkstone, dated 4 Sep 1558, proved 18 May 1559 (Borthwick Institute). The will of Elizabeth (Hobson) Thornton leaves “unto my mother Hobson my best Cloth gowne”.

[14] Silkstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[15] Darton parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); J.W. Walker, Yorkshire Pedigrees, 3 vols (London, 1942-44), 2:280. The will of Elizabeth (Hobson) Thornton mentions “my Cosen Josuah Hobson” and “his sister Margrett”. Joshua and Margaret, children of Richard Hobson, were baptised at Darton in 1589 and 1592 respectively.

[16] Silkstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). A Robert Hobson of Dodworth was buried on 26 Mar 1612 at Silkstone.

[17] Silkstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). The will of John Hobson mentions “Margrett wife of my sonne Robt Hobson”.

[18] Silkstone Parish Registers, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire Parish Register Section transcripts, 17 (2006).

[19] Will dated 13 Oct 1617, proved 2 Dec 1617 (Borthwick Institute).

[20] Silkstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); Joseph Foster, ed., The Visitation of Yorkshire, made in the Years 1584/5, to which is added the Subsequent Visitation made in 1612 (London, 1875), 579.

[21] Silkstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). Percival was living in 1617 when he was mentioned in the will of Elizabeth (Hobson) Thornton. There was more than one Percival Hobson so full details are unclear. The 1577 will of Percival Hobson mentions “P[er]civall Hobsone sone of Will[ia]m Hobsone”. One Percival Hobson was buried at Silkstone on 19 Mar 1623 (Silkstone Parish Registers, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire Parish Register Section transcripts, 17, 2006), and another apparently died in 1632: Joseph Hunter, South Yorkshire, 2 vols (London, 1828-31), 2:226. Possible wives include Elizabeth Rogers, Ann Norfolk and Ann Westby. There are potentially relevant entries in the feet of fines for wives named Elizabeth and Agnes.