Nicholas Chaloner (abt. 1581 - 1646)

Born about 1581 in Edburton, Sussex, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Agnes (Seale) Chaloner — married 14 Jul 1612 in Chiltington, Sussex, England

Descendants

Died 1646 at about age 65 in East Chiltington, Sussex, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Nicholas Chaloner was baptized June 18, 1581. He was the son of Nicholas Chaloner of Chiltington and his wife Elinor Balcombe.^[1][2] He married Agnes Seale. ^[3][4]

His will of 1646 mentions daughter Jane Challoner (sole executrix), wife Agnes, son John, son Maddokes [his son-in-law, Thomas Maddox], son and daughter Ragnoles (?), son Nicholas, son Richard. ^[5]

"In 1510 John Wody and Anne his wife conveyed a moiety of the manor [of Chiltington Ferring] to Richard Culpeper, (fn. 29) John Chaloner of Cuckfield, and others. John Chaloner in 1520 left the (? whole) manor of Ferrings to his son Nicholas, (fn. 30) who held it as ½ knight's fee of the manor of Portslade, and who died in 1566, when it appears to have passed to his son Richard, who died in 1610. (fn. 31) Richard's son and heir Nicholas died in 1613 (fn. 32) and was succeeded by his son, also Nicholas. (fn. 33) He held the manor no longer by military service but in socage, by rent of 8d. a year, by charter of the lord of the manor of Portslade. (fn. 34) He died in 1646 (fn. 35) and the manor descended in the family of Chaloner (fn. 36) until 1729..."

Title: Conveyance (bargain and sale). Consideration £800; Nicholas Challoner, jun., of Stantons in Chiltington in Westmeston, gent. to William Alcock, of Lewes, gent. Reference: LYTTON/477 Description: Five parcels of land called Wights (40a.) with a barn built thereon, land called Highburrow (6a.), Usbands yard (4a.), Plumardens (3½a.) in Plumpton.   Witnesses: Adam Cosham, Francis Challoner, Thomas Binall and John Challoner. Date: 28 September 1643 Held by: West Sussex Record Office, not available at The National Archives

Title: Conveyance (bargain and sale), in consideration of £390, from Nicholas Challoner, snr., of Chiltington in Westmeston, gent., and Agnes, his wife, to John Michell of Warnham, yeo. Reference: WISTON/1398 Description: Barn, lands, tenements and hereditaments (44a.) in Horsham, in occ. of Thomas Thorneden, called Slaughterford alias Langhurst, abutting S. on Langhurst Wood, W. and N. on watercourse, E. on land of Richard Middleton, gent.   Recites lease, 24 July 1628, for 10 years, at the yearly rent of £17, to Thomas Thorneden of Slinfold, yeo. Date: 2 Jan 1637/8 Held by: West Sussex Record Office, not available at The National Archives

Reference: LYTTON/476 Title: Covenant to levy a fine. Nicholas Chaloner, jun., of Chiltington in Westmeston, gent. to Henry Ward, of Bolney, gent. and William Awcock, of Hamsey, gent. Description: Barn and 50a. land called the Wighte and Usbands yard and Wales Field (6a.). Witnesses: William Kennye and Synon Tillinghast. Date: 10 April 1641 Held by: West Sussex Record Office, not available at The National Archives Language: English

Sources

See pedigree of Challenor of Chiltington in which he is noted as eldest child. Baptisms show he had an older brother named Richard who must have predeceased him and was replaced with another brother named Richard.^[6]

1. ↑ "England, Sussex, Parish Registers, 1538-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2QW-FCGM : 11 March 2018), Nycolas Challoner, 1581.
2. ↑ Index to Registers of Edburton, Sussex, 1558-1673 By Frederick Arthur Crisp
3. ↑ *Benolte, Thomas; Philipot, John; & Owen, George. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. London: The Harleian Society, 1905. Vol LIII, p 64.
4. ↑ The History and Antiquities of Lewes and Its Vicinity. ... With an ..., Volume 2 By Thomas Walker HORSFIELD, p. 246 [1]
5. ↑ Will of Nicholas Challoner the elder of Chiltington in the parish of Westmeston, 16 Nov. 1645.
6. ↑ The History and Antiquities of Lewes and Its Vicinity. ... With an ..., Volume 2 By Thomas Walker HORSFIELD, p. 246 [2]

• "Parishes: East Chiltington," in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7, the Rape of Lewes, ed. L F Salzman (London: Victoria County History, 1940), 98-102. British History Online, accessed October 7, 2020, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/pp98-102.