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William HILLS
1592 - 1631 (~ 38 years)
Has 6 ancestors and 8 descendants in this family tree.
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Name William HILLS Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Baptised 30 Jul 1592 Ss. Peter and Paul’s Church, Boughton under Blean, Kent, England 
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 23 Oct 2019)
"The 30th of Julie was bapt Willm Hills the sonne of Hercules Hills"
Gender Male Will 7 Mar 1630/31 Written Occupation to 7 Mar 1630/31 Kersey maker - From his will
Died Between 7 Mar 1630/31 and 11 Mar 1630/31 - Between writing his will and being buried
Buried 11 Mar 1630/31 Ss. Peter and Paul’s Church, Boughton under Blean, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 29 Sep 2020)
"The 11th of March buryed William Hills housholdr"
Probate 19 Mar 1630/31 Consistory Court, Canterbury, Kent, England Bequest Between Nov 1631 and Nov 1632 In his grandfather Augustine Murton's will - As a grandchild, William 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. The second to die was William's mother Joan and she only died a few months after William himself had died. I guess his surviving children would have inherited this.
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 I29633 All Last Modified 10 Apr 2023
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 Marie LEDGER, bap. 25 Apr 1596, St. Michael’s Church, Hernhill, Kent, England , bur. 12 Nov 1630, Ss. Peter and Paul’s Church, Boughton under Blean, Kent, England (Age ~ 34 years) Married 8 Jun 1618 St. Michael’s Church, Hernhill, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 29 Sep 2020)
"William Hills and Marie Ledger were married the viiith Day of June - 1618"
Children6 children Last Modified 30 Sep 2020 Family ID F11416 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