Johnson / Bryans Families

Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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John Whichcote, of Whichcot

John Whichcote, of Whichcot

High Sheriff of Lincolnshire
Male 1450 -


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  • Name John Whichcote 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Birth Between 1430 and 1450 
    Occupation 1466  [1] 
    High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 
    Residence Stoke, Shropshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Research Status Brick Wall 
    Last Modified 28 Feb 2021 

    Wife Elizabeth Tyrwhit
              b. Abt 1445 
    Children 
     1. John Whichcote, of Harpswell
              b. Est 1470
    Last Modified 6 Oct 2020 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      By extrapolation from younger generations, John Whichcote was probably born in the 1430s or 1440s. We do not know who his parents were. He was the first1 of the family to move to Lincolnshire (probably to Harpswell, which his descendents held for several centuries), from Whichcote in Shropshire.

      Career
      John was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1466. See his son for a note about why I think some sources have misattributed this to the son John, rather than the father John.

      Family Life
      John married Elizabeth Tyrwhit, daughter and co-heir of John Tyrwhit of Harpswell and who in turn descended from the Tyrwhitts of Kettleby.

      Death
      John must have died after 1466, when he was High Sheriff.

      Footnotes
      [1] See The Baronetage of England, Rev. William Betham, Volume 2, Ipswich (1802); Whichcote, p. 40

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsResidence - - Stoke, Shropshire, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Headstones
    John Whichcote and his wife    		John Whichcote and his wife
    Brass engraving of John Whichcote and his wife Elizabeth Tyrwhit.
    St Chad's, Harpswell
    https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3265517

  • Sources 
    1. [S0347] Rev. Canon A R Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, (Harleian Society, 1902-1906), Whichcot of Harpswell; Volume 3, pages 1069-1073.