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William HALKE
Est 1530 - 1563 (~ 28 years)
Has 8 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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Name William HALKE Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Est 1530 - Estimate a guess to fill in the gap between known children and their approximate or estimated dobs.
Probably after his possible grandfather Thomas Rose wrote his will in 1526. ('Possible grandfather', because was his father widowed and remarried, hence the gap between children?)
Gender Male Died Between 1558 and 1563 - I think that William being mentioned in the part of his father's will quoted in the IPM but not otherwise being mentioned in his father's IPM means that William had died in the intervening years, but I could be wrong about this. Having now seen his father's will in full I see there were other sons not mentioned in the IPM, presumably because they were not to inherit land with which the the IPM was concerned.
Siblings5 brothers and 1 sister Patriarch & Matriarch 
John HALKE, b. Est 1433, d. 1492, Wye, Kent, England
(Age ~ 59 years) (Great Grandfather) 
Agnes ROSE, b. Est 1495, d. Bef 1558 (Age ~ 62 years) (Mother)Notes - An Inquisition Post Mortem was held for a William Halke in 1563. I have just started looking at this*, and so far am not clear if the IPM was for this William or his father.
His father had died in 1558, and his will is quoted in the IPM, it mentions four sons including William. Later in the IPM the ages are given of the other 3 sons but not William. I think it most likely that the IPM was for this William's father and that this William had died in the intervening years, but it may be that the IPM was for this William.
* - it's not a very long document but it's in Latin, and whilst I find the IPM of Sampson Halke some 40 years later reasonably easy to read, my paleographic skills are somewhat challenged by this earlier one.
Person ID I17458 All Last Modified 5 May 2019
Father William HALKE, b. Est 1493, bur. 7 Nov 1558, Ss. Gregory and Martin’s Church, Wye, Kent, England (Age ~ 65 years) Mother Agnes ROSE, b. Est 1495, d. Bef 1558 (Age ~ 62 years) Married Between 1505 and 1511 - I did estimate 1517 from approximate dob of first known son - though there could be daughters or chidlren who didn't survive born earlier. Agnes was not married when her grandfather Thomas Rose wrote his will in 1505, but I suspect she was the 'Agnes Halke' named in the will of this Agnes's grandfather's wife, Agnes Rose (formerly Andrew). That will refers to 'Agnes Halke suentyme my s[er]vant' but I don't think being servant to Agnes wife of John Rose means she couldn't also have been her step-granddaughter.
Was it this William, i.e. the father of Sampson and his siblings, who died in 1558, who had been married to Agnes Rose?
Both Thomas Rose, father of Agnes, and the Richard Halke who died in 1546 left bequests to the children of William, namely Richard and Thomas. That points very strongly it being the William son of Richard who died in 1546 who married Agnes.
Clearly this William was the son of a Richard, but was he the son of the Richard who died in 1546? Sampson who died in 1488 also left a son Richard, could he too have had a son William?
Having examined the wills there is nothing in that of Sampson (d. 1488) to suggest he owned anything outside of Wye. By contrast, the John who died in 1492 left property in Hastingleigh, Elmstead and Brabourne to his son Richard. And the Richard who died in 1546 left property in Hastingleigh and Elmstead to a godson (who I suspect was also a grandson). There is no mention of Brabourne - perhaps that land had already passed to his son William in his lifetime.
When Agnes's grandfather John ROSE wrote his will in 1505 he referred to 4 daughters of his son Thomas, all of whom were unmarried.
By the time Thomas wrote his will in 1526 she was married.
This points to William and Agnes marrying between 1505 and 1526, and to them having had 2 sons by the time Thomas wrote his will, so the marriage must have been at least a little before 1526.
This ties in with William whose IPM shows he had a son Richard, the oldest named in the document, born about 1518.
The more I look at the wills and other documents the more I think that it was my ancestor William who was married to Agnes Rose and that his father was the Richard who died in 1546.
For example, William's son Richard, clearly the son of this William since he mentions brothers John, Sampson and Christopher in his will, and sister Joan, etc., appears to have had the same servant as his probable grandfather Thomas Rose. He left bequests to Prowdes, relations of Agnes Rose's (though this alone would not be good evidence, since the way a certain social class intermarried it is quite possible they were also relations on his father's side).
The large gaps in ages between the children named in William's inquisition post mortem could be due to them being from different marriages. The span, though, is not too great for one mother and it could simply be that there were children in the middle who pre-deceased their father or were female (and so not mentioned in in inquisition post mortem). Looking at William's will and other documents not only shows evidence of one or more daughters, but also of 2 sons living when he died but not named in the IPM.
The 's' at the end of a word can be hard to distinguish from a flourish in old hand-writing, but there is nothing after 'wiff' in the request in William's will (register copy) for him to be buried in Wye Church 'besides my wiff'. Since there was no bequest to a living wife, this does suggest William was only married once and Agnes was the mother of all of his children.
(Unless an 's' in the original will was mis-read as a flourish when the register copy was made; unfortunately the original will appears not to have survived).
Family ID F6989 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- Estimate a guess to fill in the gap between known children and their approximate or estimated dobs.