Henry Crispe (abt. 1500 - 1575)

Born about 1500 in England

Husband of Anne (Haselhurst) Crispe — married 23 Jul 1545 in Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, England

Died 24 Aug 1575 at about age 75 in England

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Biography

Nicholas was son of Henry Crispe as described in Hasted's a history of the parish of Whitstaple, Kent:

John Quekes, esq. of Quekes, whose sole daughter and heir Agnes carried it in marriage to John Crispe, esq. afterwards of Quekes, whose descendant Nicholas Crispe, esq. resided here at the time he served the office of sheriff, at the latter part of the first year of queen Elizabeth; but it still continued the property of his father Sir Henry Crispe, before whom he died in 1564, and was buried in this church, leaving only one daughter Dorothy. (fn. 10) Sir Henry Crispe died possessed of it in 1575, but his grandson of the same name, of Quekes, sold this manor in 1605, to Thomas Paramor...^[1]

Nicholas had one child, daughter Dorothy per this history.

According to the "Visitation of Kent" Nicholas Crispe's mother was Anne, daughter and heir of George Haselhurst. The matching WikiTree profiles for his parents are Henry Crispe and Anne Haselhurst although these profiles are inadequately sourced currently.^[2]

The Kent Visitation also listed a son John Crispe who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Roper (this seems likely to be the right Roper family, ages and location matches well enough).

Given all this, if Nicholas died in 1564 with a 10 year old daughter, she was born 1554. Assume Nicholas married in 1553 and was 25 at first marriage, that places his birth about 1528. Therefore his father was probably born by about 1500 and his mother by about 1503 (obviously these figures are rough and could be very different).

People mentioned in his will dated 24 Nov 1573, proved 5 Nov 1575:

m1. Katheryn (deceased)

m2. Ann

Children:

1. John
2. Edward
3. Henry
4. George
5. Ann, m. ___ Brown
6. Jane, m. ___ Johnson

Siblings:

1. William
2. John

Cousins:

1. Richard Crispe
2. Henry Crispe

Sources

1. ↑ Edward Hasted, 'Parishes: Whitstaple', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 8 (Canterbury, 1799), pp. 505-517. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol8/pp505-517
2. ↑ The visitation of Kent : taken in the years 1619-1621 by John Philipot, Rouge Dragon, Marshal and Deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux by Camden, William, 1551-1623; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645; Hovenden, Robert, 1830-1908; Harleian Society Publication date 1898 p. 73

• Crisp, Frederick Arthur. The Parish Registers of Birchington, Kent (Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1899) Page 2. Marriage record.
• Crisp, Frederick Arthur. Collections Relating to the Family of Crispe (Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1882) Vol. 1, Page 5-7.
• Hasted, Edward. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent (W. Bristow, Canterbury, 1799) Vol. 8, Page 511-12.
• The Visitation of Kent, taken in the years 1619-1621, The Publications of The Harleian Society (The Society, London, 1898) Visitation Series, Vol. 42, Page 73.
• Cigrand, Bernard John. History of the Crispe Family (Chicago, Ill., 1901) Page 92.
  • Monument at Quex, 5th tablet:
  • "Sir Henry married also for his second wife Ann, the daughter of John Haselhurst, Esq., by whom he left fower sonnes and two daughter, and died A.D. 1575."