Roger Woodchurch, of Woodchurch^{[1, 2, 3]}

• Name	Roger Woodchurch
  Relationship	with Marion Murdoch Johnson
  Gender	Male
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2023

  
  

  Father

  Ralph Woodchurch, of Woodchurch

  
  

  Wife	Isabel de Wakehurst
  Children	1. Thomas Woodchurch, of Woodchurch
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Woodchurch, in the hundred of Blackburn in Kent, was the habitation of a family of as deep root in antiquity as any in this track who extracted their surname as well as borrowed their first original from this place. Roger de Woodchurch is the first who does occur; who in the ancient evidences and the deeds of this place which are not cloistered within any date finds a frequent mention and from him (as appears from an old pedigree of this family) did it devolve to his grand-child Sir Simon de Woodchurch who is in the register of those eminent persons who accompanied Edward I in his victorious and triumphant expedition into Scotland... this Sir Simon ... by matching with Susan heir of Henry le Clerke of Munside brought a large inheritance to own the signory of Woodchurch; and his successors in gratitude to a family which had added so much of splendor and annexed so plentiful a revenue to this name altered their paternal appellation from Woodchurch to Clerke and so in all their deeds subsequent to this match have written Clerke alias Woodchurch ever since.

  
  

• Sources

  [S0515] Robert Cooke, ed. Bruce Bannerman, Visitations of Kent, 1574 and 1592, (London, 1924), Part 2, Clarke als Woodchurch; p88-90. [S0550] William Camden, Visitation of Warwickshire, 1619, (Harleian Society, Vol. 12, 1877), Clark; p198-201. [S0549] ed. Thomas Wotton, Edward Kimber, Baronetage of England, The, (London, 1771), Clarke of Salford, Warwickshire; p.140-142.