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Hercules HILLS
1590 - 1658 (~ 68 years)
Has 6 ancestors and 34 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name Hercules HILLS Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Baptised 12 Apr 1590 Ss. Peter and Paul’s Church, Boughton under Blean, Kent, England 
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 23 Oct 2019)
"The 12th of Aprill was bapt Hercules Hills the sonne of Hercules Hills"
Gender Male Bequest 1631 In his grandfather Augustine Murton's will - As a grandchild, Hercules was left 40 shillings by his grandfather. However, this payment was to be paid out within a year of his cousin Austen Carr receiving Augustine Murton's house and land etc., and this was only to happen after Augustine's daughters had both died. This didn't happen until 1631.
Occupation 1644 Carpenter - From his son Hercules Alumni Cantabrigienses entry
Occupation 1658 Yeoman - From his will. (This does not necessarily contradict the description of him as a carpenter in his son Hercules' Alumni Cantabrigiensis entry as yeoman was as much a status as an occupation)
Will 13 Jul 1658 Written Buried 19 Jul 1658 Ss. Peter and Paul’s Church, Boughton under Blean, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 23 Oct 2019)
"The i9 of July buried Archelus Hills Houshoulder"
(the 9 is backwards, looking rather like an x, with the i suggesting the Roman no. 9. However, other numbers are not Roman, and use an i for a 1 e.g. 3i, and in the year heading at the start and also at the end of 1659 the 9 is also backwards, so it seems safe to assume that the burial was on the 19 - and Hercules did not write his will 4 days after being buried!)
Probate 21 Feb 1658/59 London, England Siblings4 brothers and 2 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
William HILLS, [Children?], b. Est 1520, bur. 29 Feb 1587/88, Ss. Peter and Paul’s Church, Boughton under Blean, Kent, England (Age ~ 68 years) (Grandfather) 
Joan MURTON, b. Est 1554, bur. 21 Sep 1631, Ss. Peter and Paul’s Church, Boughton under Blean, Kent, England (Age ~ 77 years) (Mother) Person ID I29627 All Last Modified 23 Oct 2020
Father Hercules HILLS, [Father?], b. Est 1552, d. 1595 (Age ~ 43 years) Mother Joan MURTON, b. Est 1554, bur. 21 Sep 1631, Ss. Peter and Paul’s Church, Boughton under Blean, Kent, England (Age ~ 77 years)
Other Partners: Laurence BROOKE m. 26 Jan 1595/96; Edmund GOFFE m. 26 Jan 1606/07; Nicholas JUCE m. 20 Jan 1611/12Married Bef 1580 - Estimate of date assumes all Hercules' children were Joan's. If Mary wasn't then they must have married about 1581.
Hercules' wife at the time of his death was Joan; whether she was the mother of all of his children I am not certain, although her children named in her father's will shows that at least all from Augustine on were - i.e. all those known of except Mary (each was to receive 40 shillings). By contrast Hercules' daughter Mary (unlike the others not described as Joan's daughter, but simply as the wife of Laurence Juce was only to receive 10 shillings). Augustine Murton's Godchildren did include Augustine Tilson, one of this Mary's sons by her first marriage. If Mary had lost her mother early in life I guess that Joan and Joan's father could have played a big enough part in Mary's life for her to choose her step-grandfather as a Godfather for her son and (as seems to have been the norm) to have given her son the name of a Godparent, in this case Augustine. Mary had married by the time the will was written, and she may well have received less because her grandfather had given her her portion at the time of her marriage, though two of Joan's three sons had also married before the will was written.
Boughton under Blean marriages in the PRs survive from 1558; the fact that Hercules and Joan's is not there suggests they probably married elsewhere, although it could have been accidentally omitted. If Hercules had been married before the PRs could also be expected to have his previous marriage, unless that too were elsewhere, and his first wife's burial - could have been elsewhere but less likely. No Hills were buried between the baptism of Hercules' children Mary and Augustine, further suggesting that Mary was Joan's daughter.
Family ID F11401 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Mary HARMON, bap. 26 Dec 1594, St. Michael’s Church, Hernhill, Kent, England , bur. 21 Oct 1665, Ss. Peter and Paul’s Church, Boughton under Blean, Kent, England (Age ~ 70 years) Married 25 Nov 1613 St. Michael’s Church, Hernhill, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 23 Oct 2019)
"Hercules Hilles and Mary Harmon were maried the xxvth of November"
Children11 children Last Modified 4 Jan 2020 Family ID F11412 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 23 Oct 2019)
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Wills (transcripts) 
The will of Hercules Hills
(Probably) my 11 x great grandfather