REVELL OF
HANDSWORTH
In
1576/77, Thomas Revell of Handsworth Woodhouse, miller, settled property on his
daughter Elizabeth and her husband John Hancock of Waleswood.[1]
Elizabeth’s paternity is confirmed by the records of a chancery case of 1621.[2]
It is uncertain whether this
Thomas Revell was the man of that name who was the father of Katherine Revell
who married Godfrey West on 25 May 1579 at Handsworth[3]
and who may also have been the father of Ann Revell who married John Booth on
16 January 1576/77 at Handsworth.[4]
In the chancery case, Elizabeth was described as “daughter & heire” of
Thomas Revell, although that could be referring to specific entailed property.
In the settlement of 1576/77, Elizabeth is said to be one (“unam”) of the
daughters of Thomas.
A Thomas Revell was aged about
fifty-six in 1574 and had lived in Handsworth for fifty years.[5]
Katherine, wife of Thomas
Revell, was buried on 27 April 1580 at Handsworth. Thomas Revell and Ann (More)
West were married there on 7 June 1580 and Ann, wife of Thomas Revell, was
buried there on 6 December 1582.[6]
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REVELL
THOMAS
REVELL of Handsworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, miller, died ca 1585.[7]
Child
of Thomas Revell:
i ELIZABETH
REVELL, d 27 Jan 1615/16;[8]
m 14 Jan 1560/61, Handsworth, JOHN HANCOCK[9]
(see here).
[1] Sheffield Archives, MD5782/1.
[2] National Archives, C 2/JasI/H8/33.
[3] Handsworth parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); 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), 359.
[4] Handsworth parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); Joseph Hunter, Familiae Minorum Gentium, ed. John W. Clay, 4 vols (London, 1894-96), 1:393.
[6] Handsworth parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); Joseph Hunter, Familiae Minorum Gentium, ed. John W. Clay, 4 vols (London, 1894-96), 1:393.
[7] In 1621, Thomas’s grandson Edward Hancock stated that Thomas had died “about thirty yeares since” (National Archives, C 2/JasI/H8/33, C 3/360/11). However, Edward stated that Thomas died before John Hancock, and the inquisition post mortem of Godfrey Hancock indicates that John Hancock died in 1589 (National Archives, C 142/353/80).
[8] National Archives, C 142/353/80.
[9] Handsworth parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).