Christopher Bennett (bef. 1576)

Born before 6 May 1576 in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England

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• Baptism

BENNETT Christopher 06 May 1576 Robert

http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/H_m_w/Wiv/Index.html

He is mentioned in his fathers will of 1603

• Robert Bennet's will was probated in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in London (P.C.C. 94 Bolein), and in it he mentions many children and relatives.

The twenty and eight of August One Thousand Six Hundred and three…I Robert Bennet of Wyveliscombe in the Countie of Somerset, Tanner, to be buried in the parishe Church of Wyveliscome as neare my wief as maie be, …To my son Xofer 50 pounds. To my son Edward 30 pounds. To my son William 40 pounds. To my daughter Elizabeth 50 pounds. To my son-in-law John SOULE the debts he oweth me being 13 pounds 10 shillings. To my daughter Dorothy 50 pounds. To my sonne Richard 10 pounds, if he live five months after the date hereof, if he die it is to be divided between his brothers and sisters….The rest of my goods I give & bequeath to my son Thomas whom I make my whole and sole executor…my daughter Elizabeth (then unmarried) …my son William (to) be put in bonds to his brothers Robert and Edward….

Witnesses: Robert Edney, William Edney. (Signed) ROBERT BENNETT.”

Proved last of November 1603 by Thomas Bennett.

From: Bennett, Archibald F., Finding Your Forefathers In America (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft Company, c 1957), 86-87.

Notes

These is a marriage of a Christopher Bennett in Illchester Somerset in 1622 with one child. Again inconclusive. I have not checked the US at all.

Acknowledgements

This person was created through the import of Dickinson Family Tree.ged on 31 March 2011.