Joan (Sheafe) Knatchbull (abt. 1530 - 1566)

Born about 1530 in Cranbrook, Kent, England

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Knatchbull — married about 1553 in Kent, England

Descendants

Died 1566 at about age 36 in Mersham, Kent, England

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Biography

This profile is part of the Sheaf Name Study.

Joan was born about 1530. She was the daughter of Richard Sheaffe and Elizabeth Andrews.

In about 1553 she married Richard Knatchbull. They had at least 5 children:

• John (1556)
• Richard (1559)
• Elizabeth (1560)
• Katherine (1562)
• Alice (1563)

Joan died in 1566 and was buried at Mersham, Kent on 2 Sep 1566.^[1] A tablet in the church at Mersham, dedicated to her son Richard, records the following family information:

Here lieth the body of Richard Knatchbull, esq. of Mersham, who died the 20th of January 1590, being of the age of 36 yeeres; he was the eldest son of that Richard Knatchbull who lieth at the entrance of this chancel, who had two wives; the first was Joane Sheaf, by whome he had two sonnes, this Richard and John, and fowre daughters, Alice, Ann, Elizabeth, and Katherine. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Kent Burials Transcriptions, Find My Past.
2. ↑ Kent Archaeological Society,Some Monumental Inscriptions of Mersham Church, Noted by Rev Bryan Faussett 1758, Kindly typed up for the website by Pat Tritton Mersham