Robert CLENCH

- Bef 1633

• Name	Robert CLENCH  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	22 Jun 1572	Coddenham, Suffolk, England   [1]
  Death	Bef 12 Jul 1633	Witcham, Cambridgeshire, England   [1]
  Notes	"Robert Clench was for a time a landowner at Bottisham and after 1610 moved to Witcham in the Isle of Ely, where the early parish registers are lacking and the Bishop's Transcripts are very incomplete; no burial record has been found for him or for either of his wives. The executors named in his will, his friend Stephen Jellett, his brother John Clench and his nephew Almott Clench, all declined to serve as such and instead accepted appointment as administrators cum testamento annexo. He devised his house and land in Witcham to his [unnamed] wife and daughter Priscilla Clench, made special provision for his eldest daughter Susanna Felton, and left the residue of his estate to his [unnamed] six younger children. Susanna and the six younger children, in this case named, were bequethed £4 each in the will of their grandmother, Susanna (Smyth) (Webbe) Fowkes, wido of Thomas Webbe and of John Fowkes, on the condition that their father, Robert Clench, who had married Joan, a daughter of the testatrix, make no claim against the estate." "An unsuccessful attempt has been made to locate probate and other records relating to the four sons of Robert Clench. Even in their absence, and the daughter of Thomasine being unmarried when her father's will was made, the identification of Thomasine, wife of Edmund Frost, with Thomaine, second surviving daughter of Thomas Clench, seems clear. Since the eldest daughter married at age 25, Thomasine's marriage at age 26 is not objectionable; their brother Robert Clench, whose family retained a connection with Bottisham, did not marry until he was over forty years of age." [1]
  Person ID	I7438	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2011

  
  

  Family ID

  F5399

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• Sources

  [S30] NEHGR, Vol. 153, pp. 278-290, 1999. (Reliability: 3).