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A Hext Collection. May 2003 |
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I cannot confirm any of what is here, I have not sought to, -after all it is just for fun!
Using Google has been the simplest means to find these items.
My reason for this research is that Andrew Pomeroy, born about 1582 son William Pomeroy and Mary Bevill,
whomarried a Jane Hext daughter of Digory Hext of Launceston |
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Where did Jane Hext daughter of Digorie Hext of Launceston connect to the Hext family of Kingstone? |
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Jonathan Hext kindly sent me this |
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Hext - The meaning of the name puzzled me. I am no further forward to discover that in Old English numerous old forms of comparison were in use,which have not come down to Modern English, as herre, ferre, lenger, hext meaning higher, farther, longer, highest. Having contacted the Hext family historian Jonathan Hext he confirmed but still cannot entirely explain |
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In Hextiana Frances Margery says that a Thomas Hext living in Launceston in 1573 was probably the 2nd son of the John Hext who sold Kingstone to the Barnhouse family in the 16th century |
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This Thomas was an alderman for the town in 1588 his name appears on the list of gentlemen who were called upon to provide the government with money at the time of the Spanish Armada -March 27, 1588 - �25. |
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The Hext family arms were |
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Digory Hext was living in Launceston about this time He married 1st Anne, daughter of John Stone of Trevigo ;had a son Thomas a daughter Jane. After Anne died he married 2nd;Julian Wadham of St Stephen by Saltash on September 13th, 1596. He died in about 1603 |
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�Ore, a tower (castle) with three battlements port open between 3 battleaxes Sable. |
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In the burial register of St Thamas' church, Launceston there is an entry 1586, Feb 22nd, Thomas Hecks, the son of Digorie Hecks |
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The family originated in Kingston near Staverton which is close to Totnes in Devon and just over a hill or two from Berry Pomeroy. |
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I also found Digory Hext in Access to Archives www.a2a.org.uk negotiating a lease for a house and lands in Fowey Cornwall in 1599 negotiating with the Rashliegh family |
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Thomas Hext appears in 1408 in Kingstone, Staverton near Totnes in Devon. Since there were Hexts in Widecombe before that, its possible they came from there, having made money in wool. At that time Ashburton ,the nearest town to Widecombe and Totnes next down the line to the sea and the port of Dartmouth. Totnes was an important centre for the Devon wool trade. I surmise that Thomas Hext could have been a wool merchant or maybe a clothier. |
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Kingstone Staverton near Totnes in Devon as it is today |
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Clothiers were the medieval professional class, and they got very rich. They traded buying and selling wool making huge profits in the process.
I would guess that he made a lot of money and invested it in buying land and building him a large house to reflect the significance of his position in local society as the highest or most important merchant in Totnes at the time.
Who knows, however Totnes was then a port , so he could have been a merchant trading in almost anything! |
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Lancarffe. The manor of Lancarffe or Lancoff, held of the honor of Bodmin or of S. Petrock, belonged, temp. Richard II, and for several years afterwards, to the family of Whalesborough, who then held it under the Bevilles; it ;is now in severalties. In the 15th century the barton belonged to the family of Opie; afterwards successively to the Crossmans and Bullocks. |
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Lancarffe was bought by the Bulluck family in 1685 from John Mounsteven, Esq., secretary to the Earl of Sunderland, when secretary of state; his descendant, Mr. Hender Mounsteven sold it in 1787, to Francis John Hext, Esq., father of Admiral William Hext of Tredethy, the present proprietor. The mansion has latterly been occupied as a farm house. (From a History of Cornwall (pg. 99) |
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A medieval Devon wool merchant with the spare cash would buy land and build a big house to demonstrate his wealth and status, as described in my booklet 'Dyed in the Wool ' |
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In the town of St. Austell liveth Henry Hawkins, Gent. attorney at law,;younger brother of Mr. Hawkins of Creed, who by his judgement, skill, care, and pains in his callings hath exalted his famo and estate to a great degree. He married Scobell, and giveth for his arms, argent, on a saltire sable, five fleurs-de-lis. His two sons by Scobell died without issue, and his daughters were married to Hoblyn, Moyle, Hext, and Hawkins of Helston and the youngest of that sex, with all his land and riches, was married ;to Tremayne of S Ewe, Esq. (19th century gazetteer) |
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http://www.geocities.com/wooltucker.
They also endowed churches with vast sums of money, for religion was a major part of everybody?s life in those days |
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�Digory Hext of Launceston reference found in Nigel Batty Smiths database� at� http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk ref his second wife Julian Wadham. |
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Hext Family |
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�List of seats and/or estates from the Historic Manuscripts Commission |
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Trenarren in St Austell area, |
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Lancarffe in Bodmin, |
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Lostwithiel, |
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Redruth, Cornwall , |
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Pinhoe, Exeter Devon |
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Hext of Kingstone near Staverton Totnes. |
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Trenarren has an eastern aspect and opens towards the sea. It formerly belonged to a manor of the same name, which was given by Robert de Cardinham to the priory of Tywardreath, temp. Richard I., and has since been divided. Trenarren belonged latterly to Thomas Hext, Esq., who resided in the family; mansion there. The property included a still lake, a leat, a creek, a cove.� (Circa 1880) |
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Merther in S. Austell, bordering on the sea, joining to the Parr, was formerly the seat of the Laas, |
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The family also went into Dorset, to Somerton .
Sir Edward Hext was Lord of the Manor and a benefactor to the town |
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