Oliver Webb Esq (abt. 1581 - abt. 1635)

Born about 1581 in Rodbourne Cheney, Wiltshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died about 1635 at about age 54 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Oliver Webb (aka Richmond alias Webb) was the eldest son and heir of Edmond Richmond alias Webb and Katherine St John.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

He married Mary, daughter of Nicholas Fuller of Chamberhouse, Berkshire.^[1][3]

The Inquisition Post Mortem for his father Edmond, was taken at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, on 25 Sept 19 James 1 (1621). It referred to his manor of Overraughton alias Wroughton which he had conveyed in 1613 to his son and heir Oliver, and to Oliver's wife, Mary, daughter of Nicholas Fuller, Esq. deceased. Edmund died on 26 March 17 James 1 (1619?) at Rodbourne Cheney, Wiltshire, and his son and heir Oliver Webbe was 38 years and upwards at the time of his father's death.^[6][7]

Oliver was said to have died on '25 Mar 1635'^[8] but as his will was proved 10 Feb 1634/1635^[4] there is a problem with that date.

It appears that he had no surviving children.^[4]

According to his Inquisition Post Mortem^[8] Oliver's heir to the lands at Wroughton, Wiltshire, was his brother John Richmond alias Webbe.

Summary of the Will of Oliver Richmond alias Webb 1635

The will of Oliver Richmond als Webb of Marlborough, Wiltshire, Esq., was dated 12 Apr 1634 and proved 10 Feb 1634/1635.^[4][9]

He made bequests including to:

• "Edward Richmond als Webb my brother John his eldest son"
• his sister mistress Mary Blunt
• his sister mistress Elinor Mills
• his nephews John Blunt, Oliver Browne, Oliver Vilet
• his niece Katherine Richmond als Webb who lived with him
• his nieces Anne Masklyn, Katherine Masklyn, Katherine Browne, Katherine Nicholson and her sisters
• his cousin Oliver Nicholas son of his cousin Edward Nicholas
• his brother in law Mr Benedict Browne
• his sisters Browne, Vilett and Masklyn

His Executors were his cousin Edward Nicholas, William Diggs, Benedict Browne and William Sadler.

For a full transcript see H I Richmond.^[4]

Inquisition Post Mortem 1635

Inquisition taken 18 Aug, 11 Charles I [1635] before Nicholas Yonge, gent., escheator, after the death of Oliver Webbe, esq.^[8]

Oliver Webbe was seised of the manor of Overtowne alias Overwroughton, lying in the parish of Wroughton alias Ellington ; and divers lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in Overwroughton, to the said manor belonging.

The IPM referenced an Indenture dated 10th April, 10 Charles I [1634], made between himself, by the name of Oliver Webbe alias Richmond, of the one part, and William Digges, gent., Edward Nicholas, gent., Benedict Browne, gent., and William Sadler, gent., of the other part. The Indenture referred to Edward Richmond alias Webbe, son and heir-apparent of John Richmond alias Webbe, brother of the said Oliver, and of Elizabeth Nicholas his former wife.

"Oliver Webbe died 25th March last past ; John Richmond alias Webbe is his brother and next heir, and was then aged 40 years and more."

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Visitation of Wiltshire 1565. Edited by Metcalfe, W.C. Published by William Pollard & Co. 1897. Richmond otherwise Webb Pedigree pp 64-65 Internet Archive.
2. ↑ Wiltshire Visitation Pedigrees 1623. With additional pedigrees and arms collected by Thomas Lyte of Lyte's Cary, Co. Somerset 1628. The Publications of the Harleian Society. Vol LV and LVI. Edited by G D Squibb. 1954, pp 236-237 Pedigree of Richmond alias Webb.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} The Four Visitations of Berkshire. Rylands, W H (Ed.), Vol I. Publications of the Harleian Society, 1907. Richmond alias Webb Pedigree p 125 Internet Archive.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4} Richmond, H I. Richmond Family Records. Vol II, The Richmonds Alias Webb of Wiltshire, 1935, pp 175-179 pdf.
5. ↑ Richmond, H I. Pedigree of Richmond alias Webb of Draycott Folliot, Wilts. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Fifth Series, Vol. VII, 1929-1931, pp 41-49.
6. ↑ Transcript of Inquisition Post Mortem: fortunatus.
7. ↑ Richmond, alias Webb, Edmund: Wilts. Inquisition Post Mortem. 19 James I. 1621-1622. C 142/389/97. The National Archives, Kew.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Abstracts of Wiltshire Inquisitiones Post Mortem. Charles I. Fry,G S and Fry, E A (Editors). British Record Society. 1901, pp 437-438 Internet Archive.
9. ↑ Will of Oliver Richmond alias Webb of Marlborough, Wiltshire. 10 February 1635. PROB 11/167/142. The National Archives, Kew.

• The Visitation of Wiltshire, 1565, by William Harvey. Clarenceux King of Arms (Harleian MS. 1565), Together With Additional Wiltshire Pedigrees (From Various Harlean MSS), ed. by Walter C. Metcalfe (Exeter: William Pollard & Co., Printers, North Street, 1897) [Available from Google Books] RICHMOND otherwise WEBB of Rodburne. p. 64-65. ""This descent testified by S'r Richard S't George, Kt., Clarenceux, King of Armes, by whose appointment it was done, an'o 1633. And entred into this book by mee, Jo. Withie, but is not entered at all in the Office."