Page No. - 299

Marriage*

3 Aug 1659

She married Thomas Lord Culpeper 2nd Baron of Thoresway at The Hague, Holland, on 3 Aug 1659 at age 24.²

Child

Catherine Culpeper+

Last Edited

15 Jun 2011

Citations

Col. F.W.T. Attree R.E./F.S.A. & Rev. J.H.L. Booker M.A., "The Sussex Colepepers, Part I", Sussex Archaeological Collections, XLVII,47-81, (1904)http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/sussex/default.htm.
Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm
Chapter 3c.
Public Records Office, National Archives, London.
Image of will at: /archives/uk/wills/images/Alexander_of_Hollingbourne_1695.pdf.
Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm
P.C.C. Irby, 3., Will dated November 29, 1691 and proved January 5, 1694/5.
Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm
Will of Margaret Lady Culpeper, widow, Baroness Dowager of Thoresway, P.C.C. Smith, 145, Will dated May 8, 1710, Proved June 19, 1710.
Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm.
Public Records Office, National Archives, London.
Will of John 3rd Lord Culpeper, dated 12 Aug 1710, transcribed by Charles Andrew Grigsby. Image at: http://gen.culpepper.com/archives/uk/wills/images/John_Baron_of_Thoresway_1719-1.pdf and
http://gen.culpepper.com/archives/uk/wills/images/John_Baron_of_Thoresway_1719-2.pdf.
E-mail written 2007 to Warren Culpepper from Charles Andrew Grigsby, England, e-mail address.

Catherine Culpeper¹

Female, #8948, (1670 - May 1719)

Father*

Thomas Fairfax Fifth Lord Fairfax of Cameron

Mother*

Margaretta van Hesse

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Culpepper.

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Colepeper.

Birth*

1670

Catherine was born in 1670.

Death of Father

27 Jan 1689

Her father Thomas Lord Culpeper 2nd Baron of Thoresway died on 27 Jan 1689 at Saint James Street, London, England.

Marriage*

circa Oct 1690

She married Thomas Fairfax Fifth Lord Fairfax of Cameron circa Oct 1690.

Married Name

circa Oct 1690

As of circa Oct 1690, her married name was Fairfax.

Birth of Son

22 Oct 1693

Her son Thomas Fairfax Sixth Lord Fairfax of Cameron was born on 22 Oct 1693 at Leeds Castle, Leeds, co. Kent, England.

Birth of Son

9 Jul 1697

Her son Henry Culpeper Fairfax was born on 9 Jul 1697 at Leeds Castle, Leeds, co. Kent, England.

Birth of Son

6 Nov 1706

Her son Robert Fairfax Seventh Lord Fairfax of Cameron was born on 6 Nov 1706 at co. Kent, England.

Death of Spouse

6 Jan 1710

Her husband Thomas Fairfax Fifth Lord Fairfax of Cameron died on 6 Jan 1710.

Will

8 May 1710

She is mentioned in the will of Margaretta van Hesse on 8 May 1710.²

Death of Mother

circa 10 May 1710

Her mother Margaretta van Hesse died circa 10 May 1710 at Leeds Castle, Leeds, co. Kent, England.²

Will

12 Aug 1710

She is mentioned in the will of John Lord Culpeper 3rd Baron of Thoresway on 12 Aug 1710.^3,4

Death*

May 1719

She died at Leeds Castle, Leeds, co. Kent, England, in May 1719.

Burial*

1 Jun 1719

Her body was interred on 1 Jun 1719 at Broomfield, co. Kent, England.

Biography

Catherine married Thomas, 5th Baron Fairfax, of Cameron, in Scotland, and had a daughter Frances, who married Denny Martin, Esq., and conveyed the estate of Leeds Castle, in Kent, to his family, now represented by C. P. Wykeham-Martin, of Leeds Castle.⁵

Biography*

Catherine Culpeper (daughter of Thomas, second Lord Culpeper), 1670?-1719, Lady Fairfax, grew up and spent her life at Leeds Castle; but there being no entry of her baptism in the Bromfield register, which records all her children, it follows that she was born elsewhere. The available evidence, though meagre, is that that event in the history of the Northern Neck of Virginia took place in Holland in the year 1670.

Diligent search for a baptismal record has been made, without result. It is necessary, therefore, to argue such evidence as is available (See note 1 below):

The family tradition, recorded by Mr. Wykeham-Martin, is that Lord Culpeper separated from his wife soon after marriage, was later reconciled to her and finally left her after the birth of their only child. There is evidence to bear out the first part of this tradition in the record of the issue of a passport in May, 1661 'for the wife of Lord Culpeper to go to Holland with her servants, luggage, coach and six horses' (Cal. State Papers, Domestic, 1660-61, p. 234).

That Lady Culpeper refused to return to England because her husband was openly living with another woman, and that, by advice of his friends, he sought to induce her to preside over his household at Carisbrooke Castle in order to quiet the criticism of him in the Isle of Wight which eventually resulted in his having to resign his post there, may be inferred from the record (ibid., 1661-62, p. 69) of a leave of absence granted to Lord Culpeper in February, 1662, with permission to go beyond sea 'on private concerns.' But there the unsatisfactory testimony ends.

Parish registers at The Hague, in the Isle of Wight, in Kent and in London have been searched in vain for the baptism of the child whose birth followed the temporary reconciliation, whenever it was. Apart from her baby portrait, which has not been convincingly dated, the first evidence for that child is the mention of her by her father in the letter he wrote to his sister Judith from Massachusetts, October 5, 1680, on his way back to England after his first tour of duty as Governor of Virginia (Va. Hist. Register, iii, 189): 'I shall now marry Cate as soon as I can and then shall reckon myself to be a Free man without clogge or charge.'

It may be objected that this is evidence for a birth earlier than 1670, for on that hypothesis she would be only ten when the letter was written; but it may be answered that in the seventeenth century marriages were 'arranged' almost in infancy: e.g., Lord Culpeper's elder brother, Alexander (Alexander Culpeper of Greenway Court), married a girl of 12. What is persuasive for the date 1670 is that, there being no record of Lord Culpeper during the two years from December, 1668, when he resigned the governorship of the Isle of Wight, until March 1670/1, when he was appointed to the Council for Foreign Plantations, it may be argued that he was absent from England during that period, and that the reconciliation with his wife and the birth of the child occurred on the Continent. This would fit with the family tradition that he left his wife finally immediately after the birth of his daughter; because his first illegitimate daughter by Mrs. Willis was born in 1671.

Named for her maternal grandmother, 'Cate' makes her first appearance on the public record in January, 1689/90, a year after her father's death, when 'Lord Culpeper's bill' in the House of Lords described her as 'his only cliild, Mrs. Katherine Culpeper' (Historical MSS. Commission, House of Lords MS. 1689-90, p. 434).

It was during the following spring that Philip Ludwell (Philip Ludwell of James City, VA) left England to return to Virginia with a commission to open a proprietary land office in the Northern Neck; and in the earliest land grants recorded in the books he then opened, she is recorded as the proprietor under the same designation, 'the Honourable Mistress Katherine Culpeper.' This status lasted, however, only a few months, for in the autumn of 1690 she married. Thenceforth, during twenty years until her husband's death, she disappears, as a wife of her time was wont to do: her husband had become the proprietor of the Northern Neck in her right and took personal charge of that business in the attempt to solve its problems. She, herself, is silent: even in the Northern Neck land grants she is recited during this period simply as 'Katherine, his wife.'

That her husband had his imagination stirred by the Virginia estate appears from the diligent and conservative attention he gave it. It was the fifth Lord Fairfax who prevented the liquidation of the proprietary. When, in the autumn of 1690, Lord Howard suggested to him that the charter of 1688 was tainted, he declined to sell out to the colony at the nominal price proposed (Va. Mag., ix, 32), just as he declined later to exchange the proprietary with the Crown for the 'lott and cope, and office of Bergmaster in the Wapentake of Wicksworth,' co. Derby (Acts P. C., Colonial, vi, 95). When the Assembly proceeded to hostilities (Journals 11. B., 1660-93, p. 371) he met the innuendo against his wife's father squarely and countered effectively. It was he who went before William III's Privy Council with the petition dated May 21, 1691, praying that the circumstances of the sealing of the charter of 1688 be examined by the law officers of the Crown, and that the title thereto be specifically confirmed to the representatives of Lord Culpeper who should be found entitled thereto. In all this he was entirely successful. The petition was referred to the Attorney General (Sir John Somers) who, having examined the record and heard counsel for Virginia as well as Lord Fairfax, reported that there was no ground 'for vacating the said Letters Patents by scire facias or otherwise.' Whereupon an Order in Council was entered on January 11, 1693/4 (Acts P. C., Colonial, ii, 188), adjudging that the

said grant did Pass in all the usual Methods of Grants of that Nature' and that 'the Petitioners Margaret Lady Culpeper, Thomas Lord Fairfax, Katherine his wife and Alexander Culpeper, Esqr. be permitted to enjoy the benefit of the said Letters Patents according to Law, so as they keep strictly to the Tenor thereof, in Execution of the several powers and authorities thereby granted; of which all Persons whom it may concern are to take notice.

It was the fifth Lord Fairfax again who procured the second Richard Lee to attorn to the proprietors for his Westmoreland lands and so break the ice of local resistence; who enlisted Robert Carter as the proprietary agent in 1702; and who backed Carter up in his claim of 1708 that the proprietary boundary was the south fork (Rapidan) and not the north fork (Hedgman's) of the Rappahannock. It was thus during Catherine Culpeper's coverture and by her husband's efforts that her doubtful title to the Northern Neck was established beyond all future cavil; and an estate which had been practically without value when she inherited it was nursed to the point of producing for her an income of £500 per annum and, by its subsequent growth, of assuring her children of the means to support their place in the world.

While the dowager Lady Culpeper seems consistently to have supported Lord Fairfax in these proceedings, his wife did not appreciate them. She wanted to be quit of Virginia. When her husband died, in January, 1709/10, leaving his own estate in great disorder, and was followed to the grave in a few months by her mother, Lady Fairfax's anger against her husband blazed. She listened to dark counsels of land agents (Fairfax Correspondence, ed. Bell, 1849, iv, 242), and peremtorily removed Robert Carter from the agency in Virginia, appointing in his place Edmund Jenings and his youthful nephew, Thomas Lee. Her state of mind after having taken these measures, which were to prove costly, is reflected in a letter she wrote contemporaneously to her eldest son, then at Oxford (Fairfax MSS. Bodleian Library, Oxford).

I have done all I can in business in London now, but it is all very bad. Your father hath destroyed all that can be for you and me both; but I will do all that is in my power to get something again, and I do hope you will deserve it of me in time.

This is the only record Catherine Culpeper has left to speak for her on the surviving record, until eight years later she dictated her will. That her sentiment had meanwhile hardened rather than softened is apparent in the disposition of her estate she then made. She had become suspicious even of her heir and instead of turning her estate over to him, then a man of twenty-six, she sought to tie his hands indefinitely by vesting her property in her neighbours and kinsmen, William Cage of Milgate (Note 2), and Edward Filmer of East Sutton (Note 3), in fee on trust' upon an elaborate entail.

She m., 1690, Thomas Fairfax (1657-1710), fifth Lord Fairfax of Cameron. As in the case of her birth, primary evidence of the date and place of the marriage is lacking. It seems likely, therefore, that, like her birth, that marriage was celebrated in Holland. The lack is, however, supplied, nearly contemporaneously, by a dispatch of November 6, 1690, from Lord Howard of Effingham to the Virginia Council (Va. Mag., ix, 32): '1 have already spoken to my Ld. Fairfax, who married Mrs. Culpeper who administered (sic) to my Lord Culpeper, abt. the Northern Neck.' It thus appears that Catherine Culpeper was married in the autumn of 1690.

She died at Leeds Castle at the end of May, 1719, and was buried, beside her mother, in the vault she had built in Bromfield Church (Note 4), June 1, 1719, as 'the Rt. Honble. Catherine Lady Fairfax, Dowager.' That her eldest son resented her lack of confidence in him appears in the fact that he erected no MI. over her tomb.

Her will follows:

P. C. C. Browning, 105
Will dated April 21, 1719
Proved June 23, 1719.

Catherine Lady Fairfax, Baroness Dowager of Cameron, in the Kingdom of Scotland. To be bur. in psh. church of Broniefield near my late mother Margaret Lady Culpeper. To my eldest son Thomas Lord F. the reversion of the manor of Greenway Court, to which I am entitled at end of a term of years, for life: & to the heirs male of his body; in default to the heirs of his body; in default to my youngest son Robert F. in fee. To sd. son Robert F. £1,000 out of sd. manor, at 21; also £3,000. To my son Henry Culpeper F. £100 only,'having already advanced for him about £1,400 in buying him a Commission in the Army. To my eldest daur. Margaret £500. To my daur. Frances £2,500 at 21 or marriage with consent of my exer; also £100 a year for maintenance meanwhile. To my daur. Mary £2,000, at 21 or marriage with exer's consent; also £80 a year meanwhile. To William Cage of Milgate in prsh. of Bersted, Kent, esq., & Edward Filmer of East Sutton, Kent, esq. all my manors etc. in Isle of Wight, co. Southampton & in co. Kent & all lands in Virginia in fee on trust for payment of legacies etc., & then for my eldest son Thomas Lord F. for life; remr. to sd. Trustees as Contingent Remainder Trustees; remr. to his sons successively in tail male; in default to my son Henry Culpeper F. & his sons similarly; in default to my son Robert F. & his sons similarly; in default to my daurs. in common, in tail; in default to my right heirs. Rest of personal estate among my sons & daurs. equally. Sd. William Cage to be sole exer. Whereas in lifetime of my late daur. Catherine F. I entered into a Bond to George Sayer esq. Dec for payment of £800 to her, which I intended as a legacy; who dying intestate I have taken out Admon. to her goods, but she left no personal estate; and whereas all my children are entitled to part of the moneys due on the Bond; such children as shall not have released their claim in my lifetime shall release same to my exer. Witns. D. Fuller, Jno. Mason, E. Finch. Prob. by William Cage esq., exer.⁶

Note*

Footnotes to the preceding biography:

Note 1: In view of the necessity for this argument it is interesting that there probably existed in Virginia as late as 1875 good evidence for the missing date. The sixth Lord Fairfax brought out with him in 1747, and left with his personal effects at Greenway Court, a Culpeper family Bible. This passed with the house to Thomas Bryan Martin's devisee (Cf. Kercheval. 3d ed. 1902, p. 160) and on March 29, 1879, her descendant, Mr. William C. Kennerley of White Post described its fate as follows (MS. penes me):
     Immediately after the acknowledgment of your letter of the 19th inst., I went over to my brother's, at Greenway Court, for the purpose of procuring the old family Fairfax (sic) Bible, which I intended to send you as a present; and was shocked to learn that it was burned in the conflagration of the wing of my brother's house in '75... I especially regret the loss of the Bible as it contained a Register of the births and deaths of more than a dozen Fairfaxes and Martins, 'Thomas,' 'Bryan,' 'Rev. Denny Fairfax,' and marriages of Lady Colepeper Fairfax, the mother, I presume, of Lord Fairfax, and others which I do not remember.
     The loss of this Bible is the more to be regretted because it seems to have contained a record of entries by Margaret, Lady Culpeper, and her daughter. The family Bible which is still extant at Leeds Castle is a Fairfax as distinguished from a Culpeper record, and throws no light on the problems here considered. See notes 53 and 54 post.

Note 2: Col. William Cage, who was Sheriff of Kent in 1695 and M.P. in 1702, 1710 and 1713, was a grandson by his first marriage of that William Cage of Milgate in Bersted, who, in 1637, married, secondly, Joan Culpeper, a sister of Lady Fairfax's grandmother and, in consequence, is called 'brother' by the first Lord Culpeper in his will (Berry, Kentist Genealogies, p. 273; Harl. Pub., xxvi, 232; and the MI. of Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas Culpeper, the elder, ante); but he was of kin to Lady Fairfax because his mother was a daughter of her grandmother's brother, Sir Cheney Culpeper. Lady Fairfax had depended upon this 'cousin' for business advice for some time before she made her will. Thus in her letter to her son, December 15, 1711 (The Fairfax Correspondence, iv, 244) she says 'Colonel Cage is a great and entire friend to me and you have reason to respect him.' When Fairfax went out to Virginia the second time he took with him one of this family. See the lively fox hunting letter of J. Cage, written from Belvoir to Capt. Lawrence Washington at Mount Vernon (undated, but before 1750) in Conway, Barons, p. 245.

Note 3: This Edward Filmer had been a practising barrister of the Parliamentary bar but was soon to become, on the death of his father in 1720, the third baronet of his house. It was to him that Lord Fairfax referred in his letter to George Fairfax, April 6, 1747 (Neill, p. 77): 'I have sent you by Captain Cooling of the Elizabeth two dogs and one bitch of Sir Edward Filmer's hounds which he promised you.' He must have declined Lady Fairfax's trust as he does not appear with Col. Cage in the Northern Neck grant books. The Filmers of East Sutton were also, through the St. Legers and the Scotts, of kin to the WigselI Culpepers (Cf. the will of Samuel Filmer, 1670, P. C. C. Penn. 58, in Va. Mag., xi, 181) ; but they have their own claims to the interest of Virginians. They descended from that Samuel Argall who was one of the early Governors, and had maintained their relation with the colony. Thus. in 1643, Henry Filmer was a resident of Warwick County, serving as a burgess and justice of the County Court. He was a brother of that convinced and uncompromising royalist, Sir Robert Filmer, author of the Patriarcha (Dict. Mat., Biog., re-issue ed., vi, 1304) and a great great uncle of Lady Fairfax's trustee. For this family, see the Visitation of Kent, 1619; Berry, Kent; Va. Mag., xv, 181.

Note 4: Bromfield was originally a parish, served by a religious of the priory of Leeds. The boundaries, practically limited to the lands held of Leeds Castle, have been maintained; but since the dissolution of the priory the church has been annexed to the rectory and church of the adjacent Leeds parish which was erected within the priory lands. As a consequence, Bromfield now ranks as a chapel. Vested by Queen Elizabeth in the Archbishop of Canterbury, the advowson of Leeds and Bromfield has since been held by that prelate, who collates a perpetual curate (Hasted, ii. 484, 486).
     Catherine Culpeper, Lady Fairfax, had all her children baptized in Bromfield chapel and later built there a family vault where she buried her mother, and was herself interred, as were a number of her descendants. The Bromfield register thus became a genealogical source record for the last generation of the proprietors of the Northern Neck.
     For these considerations the Virginia Assembly gave the name Bromfield to the parish created in Culpeper in 1752 (Hening, Vi, 256) ; but neither Bishop Meade nor Dr. Philip Slaughter (see the comment on the name in St. Marks Parish, p. 80) had the clew to that designation.⁶

Family

Marriage*

circa Oct 1690

She married Thomas Fairfax Fifth Lord Fairfax of Cameron circa Oct 1690.

Children

Charts

The Culpepers of Hollingbourne, co. Kent, England (Possibly extinct): Descendant Chart

Last Edited

21 May 2011

Citations

Col. F.W.T. Attree R.E./F.S.A. & Rev. J.H.L. Booker M.A., "The Sussex Colepepers, Part I", Sussex Archaeological Collections, XLVII,47-81, (1904)http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/sussex/default.htm.
Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm
Will of Margaret Lady Culpeper, widow, Baroness Dowager of Thoresway, P.C.C. Smith, 145, Will dated May 8, 1710, Proved June 19, 1710.
Public Records Office, National Archives, London.
Will of John 3rd Lord Culpeper, dated 12 Aug 1710, transcribed by Charles Andrew Grigsby. Image at: http://gen.culpepper.com/archives/uk/wills/images/John_Baron_of_Thoresway_1719-1.pdf and
http://gen.culpepper.com/archives/uk/wills/images/John_Baron_of_Thoresway_1719-2.pdf.
E-mail written 2007 to Warren Culpepper from Charles Andrew Grigsby, England, e-mail address.
Col. F.W.T. Attree R.E./F.S.A. & Rev. J.H.L. Booker M.A., "The Sussex Colepepers, Part I", Sussex Archaeological Collections, XLVII,47-81, (1904)http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/sussex/default.htm.
Page 69.
Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm.

Thomas Fairfax Fifth Lord Fairfax of Cameron^1,2

Male, #8949, (1657 - 6 Jan 1710)

Father*

Henry Fairfax Fourth Lord Fairfax of Cameron

Mother*

Frances Barwick

Birth*

1657

Thomas was born in 1657.

Death of Mother

14 Feb 1684

His mother Frances Barwick died on 14 Feb 1684.

Death of Father

13 Apr 1688

His father Henry Fairfax Fourth Lord Fairfax of Cameron died on 13 Apr 1688.

Marriage*

circa Oct 1690

He married Catherine Culpeper circa Oct 1690.

Will

29 Nov 1691

He is mentioned in the will of Alexander Culpeper Surveyor General of VA on 29 Nov 1691.^3,4

Birth of Son

22 Oct 1693

His son Thomas Fairfax Sixth Lord Fairfax of Cameron was born on 22 Oct 1693 at Leeds Castle, Leeds, co. Kent, England.

Birth of Son

9 Jul 1697

His son Henry Culpeper Fairfax was born on 9 Jul 1697 at Leeds Castle, Leeds, co. Kent, England.

Birth of Son

6 Nov 1706

His son Robert Fairfax Seventh Lord Fairfax of Cameron was born on 6 Nov 1706 at co. Kent, England.

Death*

6 Jan 1710

He died on 6 Jan 1710.

Burial*

10 Jan 1710

His body was interred on 10 Jan 1710 at St. Martin's in the Fields, Westminster, London, England.

Biography*

Thomas Fairfax (1657-1710), fifth Lord Fairfax of Cameron, of the nineteenth recorded generation of his family, was the representative of a junior branch which had been seated since 1558 at Denton, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and in 1627 had been raised by Charles I to the peerage of Scotland with the title of Lord Fairfax of Cameron. His father was Henry Fairfax (1631-1688) of Oglethorpe, who succeeded, 1671, as fourth Lord Fairfax on the death of the Parliamentary general, and then became also 'of Denton.' Baptised in Bolton Percy, April 16, 1657, he was entered in the pedigree his father certified at the Visitation of Yorkshire, 1665, as 'aet. 8 ann., 8 Aug., 1665.' He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxon, November 10, 1675, 'aged 18' (Foster) ; but seems soon thereafter to have transferred to St. Johns College, Cambridge; which university was in the tradition of his family (Venn; and Cf. Torry, Founders and Benefactors of St. Johns, 1888, p. 52). In 1685 he was first returned to Parliament as burgess for Malton (Official Returns of M.P.s, 1878), so that when his father died in the last year of James II and he succeeded to the title, he was already a person of sufficient importance of make it count that he 'heartily concurred in the revolution of 1688.' He was one of the small band of gentlemen who, in November of that year, under the leadership of the earl of Danby, seized York in the interest of the Prince of Orange (Luttrell, Brief Relation, i, 478; The Memoirs of Sir John Reresby (ed. Cartwright, 1875), 411 ff. Fairfax was, for this reason, one of the Yorkshiremen to whom James II made specific advances after he got to France; and he was in consequence confined, for a brief season, in the Tower. See the Information of the Jacobite agent, John Lunt, 1694, in Historical MSS Comission, 14th Report, Appendix pt. iv, p. z94; Luttrell, iv, 60). To the convention Parliament he was returned as Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire, being the seventh of his family to attain that responsibility in, what is more remarkable, the sixth successive generation. In that capacity he sat in the House of Commons thenceforth continuously until the act of Union with the Crown of Scotland (1707) disqualified him, as being a Scots peer (Luttrell, vi, 232).
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During this period he became also an active officer in William III's Household cavalry and saw service in Ireland in the Boyne campaign and later in Flanders (Luttrell, ii, 233, 585; iii, 258). His subsequent military career, proved by entries in the State Papers, was summed up in George William Fairfax's entry in the Leeds Castle bible, 1761, as follows: 'On 31 December, 1688, he was made Lieut. Colonel of the third regiment of Horse Guards, whence he was promoted, 20th January, 1693, to the King's Own Regiment of Horse, and on 9th March, 1701, made Brigadier General.'
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Although he served as Deputy Lieutenant for Kent, as well as for Yorkshire (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1702-3, p. 394); and his children were all born at Leeds Castle, he lived chiefly in Yorkshire, at his house on Castle hill in the city of York and at Denton Hall, and practised at both places an abundant hospitality (Markham, Admiral Robert Fairfax, p. :231). At Denton there is a pleasant glimpse of him in Thoresby's diary for September, 1702 (Atkinson, Ralph Thoresby, 1885, ii, 64). Thoresby noted that he 'was glad to observe the continuance of so religious an order in the family, all the servants, etc., being called in to daily prayers.' Lord Fairfax showed him 'the gardens, the hawks, horses, brood mares and foals, for which 80 l. has been refused;' but Thoresby was best pleased in the old library, 'for which my lord is preparing a new place.' The next day, 'My Lord very kindly rode with us part of the way and showed us four of his oxen, that are the largest, finest beasts that ever I beheld.'
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The anxiety of the third Lord Fairfax to provide for his daughter, the Duchess of Buckingham, had, however, deprived his successors of the income which the first Lord Fairfax had left to support the family dignity (See Appendix); the fifth Lord Fairfax had moreover inherited an extravagance which was characteristic of his race. The confusion of Lord Culpeper's affairs did not permit of relief from that estate, and in consequence, despite frequent filips of patronage from the government (Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1689-90, pp, 438, 447), Fairfax became heavily burdened by debts, aggregating 'near two and twenty thousand pound.' In December, 1709, being then in his fifty-third year, he was in London harassed by his creditors. The land agent and the servant who alone attended him persuaded him to go into concealment. A letter addressed to his wife two months later (The Fairfax Correspondence, iv, 242) rehearses what followed:
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'I cannot learn any other reason Williams had in taking my Lord away, but to have the better opportunity of plundering him when dead, which he saw would soon happen: he was removed the 13th of December and died the 6th of January. He had several notes of Sir Francis Child and a bag of guineas before him a quarter of an hour before he left Pall Mal1; and a porter carried him from the chocolate house in the same street, from Mrs. Margett [his daughter], forty pounds; and as no creditors were paid at his last lodging or knew where to find him, Williams or his man took his monies when he was dead or dying. The servant was a creature of Williams' and one that he helped my Lord to.'
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It was thus that, far from his own people, Fairfax died on January 6, 1709/10; and on the January 10th following, was buried at St. Martins in the Fields, as the parish register records. Subsequently, an MI. was set up in Otley Church (Whitaker, Loidis and Elnwte), which has since disappeared.
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His will was as follows:
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P. C. C. Young, 45.
Will dated December 30, 1709.
Proved June 4, 1711.
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Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Cameron in North Britain. All my manors etc. estate real & personal (except shares of wreck granted to me by Her Majesty by indenture under Great Seal dat. 3 Apr. 1707) to Sir John Bucknall of Oschay, co. Hertf. knight, Robert Fairfax of Saint Clements Danes, co. Middx. esq. Bryan Fairfax jun of St. Margarets Westminster esq. & Bybye Lake of Middle Temple London esq. in fee on trust to pay debts and legacies, & then for my son Thomas F. in fee. Sd shares of wreck to Henry Hawker of St. Annes Westminster esq. on trust as to 30 of the shares for my younger children, two shares to sister Mary Fairfax, two others for sd. Bryan Fairfax, one share for sd Robert Fairfax & rest for my sd. son Thomas F. Sd. Sir John Bucknall & other trustees to be exers & guardians of my son Thomas F. during his minority. Witns. Stephen Crowe, Letitia Crowe John Hudson. Prob. by Bibye Lake esq. one of the exers. Power reserved for Sir John Bucknall knight, Robert Fairfax & Bryan Fairfax the other exers.
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Source: Fairfax Harrison, "The Proprietors of the Northern Neck."

Will

12 Aug 1710

He is mentioned in the will of John Lord Culpeper 3rd Baron of Thoresway on 12 Aug 1710.^5,6

Family

Catherine Culpeper

Marriage*

circa Oct 1690

He married Catherine Culpeper circa Oct 1690.

Children

Last Edited

4 Feb 2011

Citations

Dr. Patricia Petit of Washington DC, compiler, Tricia's Southern Genealogy Homepage, 1999.
http://members.tripod.com/~Bonestwo/,.
Col. F.W.T. Attree R.E./F.S.A. & Rev. J.H.L. Booker M.A., "The Sussex Colepepers, Part I", Sussex Archaeological Collections, XLVII,47-81, (1904)http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/sussex/default.htm.
Public Records Office, National Archives, London.
Image of will at: /archives/uk/wills/images/Alexander_of_Hollingbourne_1695.pdf.
Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm
P.C.C. Irby, 3., Will dated November 29, 1691 and proved January 5, 1694/5.
Public Records Office, National Archives, London.
Will of John 3rd Lord Culpeper, dated 12 Aug 1710, transcribed by Charles Andrew Grigsby. Image at: http://gen.culpepper.com/archives/uk/wills/images/John_Baron_of_Thoresway_1719-1.pdf and
http://gen.culpepper.com/archives/uk/wills/images/John_Baron_of_Thoresway_1719-2.pdf.
E-mail written 2007 to Warren Culpepper from Charles Andrew Grigsby, England, e-mail address.

Susanna Willis¹

Female, #8950, (say 1645 - )

Birth*

say 1645

Susanna was born say 1645.

Marriage*

say 1670

She married Thomas Lord Culpeper 2nd Baron of Thoresway say 1670. Susanna was the mistress, but not a wife, of Thomas, Lord Culpeper.²

Married Name

say 1670

As of say 1670, her married name was Culpeper.

Biography*

Susanna was the mistress, not legal wife, of Thomas Lord Culpeper.

Will

12 Aug 1710

She is mentioned in the will of John Lord Culpeper 3rd Baron of Thoresway on 12 Aug 1710.^3,4

Family

Children

Last Edited

6 Jun 2011

Citations

Col. F.W.T. Attree R.E./F.S.A. & Rev. J.H.L. Booker M.A., "The Sussex Colepepers, Part I", Sussex Archaeological Collections, XLVII,47-81, (1904)http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/sussex/default.htm.
Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm
Chapter 3c.
Public Records Office, National Archives, London.
Will of John 3rd Lord Culpeper, dated 12 Aug 1710, transcribed by Charles Andrew Grigsby. Image at: http://gen.culpepper.com/archives/uk/wills/images/John_Baron_of_Thoresway_1719-1.pdf and
http://gen.culpepper.com/archives/uk/wills/images/John_Baron_of_Thoresway_1719-2.pdf.
E-mail written 2007 to Warren Culpepper from Charles Andrew Grigsby, England, e-mail address.

Susanna Culpeper

Female, #8951, (1672 - 1720)

Father*

Sir Charles Englefield of Englefield, co. Berks, Bart.

Mother*

Susanna Willis

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Culpepper.

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Colepeper.

Birth*

1672

Susanna was born in 1672.

Marriage*

15 Feb 1685/86

She married Sir Charles Englefield of Englefield, co. Berks, Bart. at Saint James, co. Middlesex, England, on 15 Feb 1685/86.¹

Married Name

1686

As of 1686, her married name was Englefield.

Birth of Son

after 1686

Her son Thomas Englefield was born after 1686.

Death of Father

27 Jan 1689

Her father Thomas Lord Culpeper 2nd Baron of Thoresway died on 27 Jan 1689 at Saint James Street, London, England.

Death*

1720

She died in 1720.

Biography*

The allegation for the mar. lic., February 15, 1685/6 (Harl. Pub., xxiv, 179), read, 'Sir Charles Englefield, Bart. of Englefield, Berks, Bachr., about 16 & Susanna Culpeper, Spr., abt. 14, natural dau. of Thomas Lord Culpeper, who alleges: at St. James or St. Giles in the Fields, Middx.'
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Of the family of Englefield, believed to be of Saxon origin, there is a full notice in the Barowetages of Wooton (1771 , i, 123) and Betham (1802, i, 147). See also D. N. B. for several of the family.

From these authorities, supplemented by G. E. C. (all of whom duly record the m.) it appears that Susan Culpeper's son, Thomas, and dau., Charlotte, both died young; that her will was pr. December 6, 1720; and that her husband was bur. at Englefield, s.p.s., whereupon the Englefield title and estates passed to another branch of that family.²

Family

Marriage*

15 Feb 1685/86

She married Sir Charles Englefield of Englefield, co. Berks, Bart. at Saint James, co. Middlesex, England, on 15 Feb 1685/86.¹

Children

Charts

The Culpepers of Hollingbourne, co. Kent, England (Possibly extinct): Descendant Chart

Last Edited

10 Jun 2011

Citations

15 Feb 1685-6 Sir Charles Englefield, Bart, of Englefield, Berks, Bachr, abt 16, & Susanna Culpeper, Spr, abt 14, natural dau. of Thomas, Lord Culpeper, who alleges; at St James or St Giles in the Fields, Middx.
Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm
Chapter 3c.

Sir Charles Englefield of Englefield, co. Berks, Bart.

Male, #8952, (1670 - 1728)

Birth*

1670

Charles was born in 1670.

Marriage*

15 Feb 1685/86

He married Susanna Culpeper at Saint James, co. Middlesex, England, on 15 Feb 1685/86.¹

Birth of Son

after 1686

His son Thomas Englefield was born after 1686.

Death of Spouse

1720

His wife Susanna Culpeper died in 1720.

Death*

1728

He died in 1728.

Family

Susanna Culpeper

Children

Last Edited

10 Jun 2011

Citations

15 Feb 1685-6 Sir Charles Englefield, Bart, of Englefield, Berks, Bachr, abt 16, & Susanna Culpeper, Spr, abt 14, natural dau. of Thomas, Lord Culpeper, who alleges; at St James or St Giles in the Fields, Middx.

Charlotte Culpeper

Female, #8953, (1677 - after 1702)

Father*

John Pershall of Sugnal, co. Staff.

Mother*

Susanna Willis

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Culpepper.

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Colepeper.

Birth*

1677

Charlotte was born in 1677.

Marriage*

1690

She married John Pershall of Sugnal, co. Staff. in 1690.

Married Name

1690

As of 1690, her married name was Pershall.

Birth of Son

1691

Her son Thomas Pershall was born in 1691.

Death*

after 1702

She died after 1702.

Biography*

The allegation for the mar. lic., May 15, 1690 (Harl. Pub., xxvi, 311) read, 'John Peshall Esq. of St. Margarets, Westminster, Bachelor, 21, & Madam Charlotte Culpeper of St. James in the Fields, Middx., Spinster, 15; consent of her mother, Madam Susanna Welldon, alias Willis: at St. Edmunds, Lombard Street.'

Wotton's notice (1771, i, 120) of Charlotte Culpeper's children is as follows: 'John [Peshall] who m. Charlotte ' dau. of Thomas, Lord Colepeper, and dying v.p. was buried July 3. 1706, had two sons, Thomas, baptized August 18, 1691, and another son, who both died young; and three daus., 1) Frances bapt. September 16, 1693, m. Thomas Ireland, Esq. of co. Salop, who d. 1718, leaving a son; 2) Charlotte, baptized March 7, 1696, who d. young; 3) Arabella, baptized 1702 [who] m. January 23, 1730, the Rt. Hon. J. Campbell, viscount Glenorch and now [1771] earl of Breadalbane in Scotland, by whom he had issue: George, who died an infant, and John, the present viscount Glenorch. She died at Bath, September 10, 1762.'

As Wotton was writing, John, the second son of the earl of Breadalbane, was killed in a duel, s.p.s., November 14, 1771, in his 34th year. See G. E. C. Complete Peerage, s. v. Breadalbane. The Irelands of Shrewsbury seem also to be extinct.¹

Family

Marriage*

1690

She married John Pershall of Sugnal, co. Staff. in 1690.

Children

Charts

The Culpepers of Hollingbourne, co. Kent, England (Possibly extinct): Descendant Chart

Last Edited

6 Jun 2011

Citations

Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm
Chapter 3c.

John Pershall of Sugnal, co. Staff.

Male, #8954, (1669 - 1706)

Father*

Sir Thomas Pershall Third Bart.

Birth*

1669

John was born in 1669.

Marriage*

1690

He married Charlotte Culpeper in 1690.

Birth of Son

1691

His son Thomas Pershall was born in 1691.

Death*

1706

He died in 1706.

Biography*

The Peshalls of Eccleshall were created baronets in 1611. From the notice of them in G. E. C. Complete Baronetage, it appears that this John was the heir to the baronetcy, sat in Parliament, 1701-02 as burgess for Newcastle-under-Lyme, and died, 1706, s.p.m.s.,v.p; and that on the death of his father, 1712. s.p.m.s., the baronetcy became extinct; though it was subsequently claimed by another family of Peshall.
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Source: Fairfax Harrison, "The Proprietors of the Northern Neck."

Family

Charlotte Culpeper

Children

Last Edited

29 Sep 2001

Humphrey Clarke of Westhalks in Kingsnorth, Kent

Male, #8955, (1501 - )

Birth*

1501

Humphrey was born at Kingsworth, co. Kent, England, in 1501. For the Clarke ancestry, see the Clarke pedigree in Visitation of Kent, 1592 or in the Visitation of Warwickshire, 1619.

Marriage*

say 1550

He married Margaret Mayne say 1550.

Birth of Son

say 1555

His son Walter Clarke was born say 1555 at England.¹

Family

Margaret Mayne

Children

Last Edited

20 Jan 2011

Citations

E-mail written Nov 2010 to Warren Culpepper from Tim Clarke, e-mail address.

Sir Martin Culpeper of Deane, co. Oxon

Male, #8956, (say 1580 - 25 Jun 1604)

Father*

Dr. Martin Culpeper of Feckenham in Astwood, co. Worc.

Mother*

Lettice Clarke

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Culpepper.

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Colepeper.

Birth*

say 1580

Martin was born at Deane, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, England, say 1580.

Marriage*

25 Feb 1598

He married Joyce Aston at Charlecote, Warwickshire, England, on 25 Feb 1598.

Birth of Son

circa Apr 1604

His son Martin Culpeper was born circa Apr 1604 at Astwood, Feckenham, Worcestershire, England.

Will*

1 Jun 1604

He made a will on 1 Jun 1604.

Nuncupative (oral) will, proved October 8, 1605, as P.C.C. Hayes, 66.¹

Death*

25 Jun 1604

He died on 25 Jun 1604.

Burial*

26 Jun 1604

His body was interred on 26 Jun 1604 at Feckenham, Worcestershire, England. His widow erected to him, in Feckenham church, an elaborate altar tomb with recumbent figures, which were engraved for Nash (Worcestershire, i, 156, 443), who gives the monumental inscription as follows:
Under this monument lieth the body of Sir Martin Culpeper, of Deane, in the county of Oxford, Knight, son and heir of Martin Culpeper of Astwood, esq., and Lettice the daughter of Henry Clearck of Westhawke by Asheford in the county of Kent, esquire. He married Joyce, the eldest daughter of Sir Edward Aston of Tix-hall in the county of Stafford, Knight, and of Ann the only daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, co. War., Knight. He had issue one son and three daughters and left this life 26 June 1604: aetatis suae 25. The lady Joyce Culpeper, in memory of his virtue, and in perpetual testimony of her love, erected this monument..¹

Biography*

He m. 1598 (Ph. Warzv., iii, 92) at Charlecote, co. Warw., Joyce, dau. of Sir Edward Aston of Tixhall, co. Stafford by a Lucy of Charlcote; and by her had Martin, who was bur. in Feckenham, September 8, 1605, as 'Marten the sonne of Sir Marten Culpep'; and three daughters, two of whom survived him, He was knighted by James I at Whitehall, May 14, 1604 (Nichols, Progresses of James I, i, 438), and died a month later, aet.25, leaving a nuncupative will, declared June 1, 1604, which was proved October 8, 1605, as P.C.C. Hayes, 66.¹

Will

1 Oct 1605

He is mentioned in the will of Dr. Martin Culpeper of Feckenham in Astwood, co. Worc. on 1 Oct 1605.²

Note*

Mar 2000

On my visit to Feckenham Church in March 2000, the monumental inscription cited above was mounted on the wall. However, the tomb with recumbent figures was nowhere to be found.³

Family

Joyce Aston

Marriage*

25 Feb 1598

He married Joyce Aston at Charlecote, Warwickshire, England, on 25 Feb 1598.

Children

Charts

The 12th century Culpepers of England: Descendant Chart (16 generations, Males only)

Last Edited

21 May 2011

Citations

Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm.
Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm
Will of Dr. Martin Culpeper of Astwood in Feckingham; P.C.C. Hayes, 88; Will dated October 1, 1605; Proved December 12, 1605.
Warren L. Culpepper (#1942), Former publisher of Culpepper Connections.

Joyce Aston

Female, #8957, (say 1576 - 2 Jan 1619)

Father*

Sir Edward Aston of Tixhall, co. Stafford

Mother*

Anne Lucy of Charlecote, co. Warwick

Birth*

say 1576

Joyce was born say 1576.

Death of Father

1 Feb 1597

Her father Sir Edward Aston of Tixhall, co. Stafford died on 1 Feb 1597.

Marriage*

25 Feb 1598

She married Sir Martin Culpeper of Deane, co. Oxon at Charlecote, Warwickshire, England, on 25 Feb 1598.

Married Name

25 Feb 1598

As of 25 Feb 1598, her married name was Culpeper.

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Culpepper.

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Colepeper.

Birth of Son

circa Apr 1604

Her son Martin Culpeper was born circa Apr 1604 at Astwood, Feckenham, Worcestershire, England.

Death of Spouse

25 Jun 1604

Her husband Sir Martin Culpeper of Deane, co. Oxon died on 25 Jun 1604.

Death of Son

7 Sep 1605

Her son Martin Culpeper died on 7 Sep 1605.

Will*

13 Dec 1613

She made a will at Deane, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, England, on 13 Dec 1613.

In the name of God Amen the Thirteenth of December in the year of our Lord God according to the computation of the Church of England One Thousand Six Hundred and Thirteen and in the year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord James by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland Kind defender of the Faith or that is to say of England France & Ireland the Eleventh and of Scotland the Seven and Fortieth: I Dame Joyce Culpeper of Deane in the Parish of Spelbury in the County of Oxford, Widow being weak and sickly on body but of good and perfect remembrance and also praise be to Almighty God therefore; Do make and Declare this my Last Will and Testament in writing thereby both in Deed and in Law All other former Will and Testaments.
     First, I recommend my Soul unto the hands of my God my Creator and Redeemer by whom and by means of the second person Jesus Christ I only trust and believe assuredly to be saved and to have full remission of my sins; and I commend my body to be buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Feltham by my Husband under my Tomb in such Honest and Decent manner as by the good discretion of my Executors and expressly shall deem convenient.
     And whereas I the said Dame Jayne Culpeper being heretofore being seized for the term of my life and for the Life of Lettice (Lettice Culpeper) and Anne (Anne Culpeper) my daughters of the Srithams Manor House of the Manor of Dean in the said County of Oxford and of all the Houses, Buildings, Lands, Tenaments and Hereditaments thereto belonging; and of one Close of pasture ground called the Coneyger Close and one Close called the Pool Close and all the Closes, Lands, Tenements and premises being in Dean aforesaid to my loving Brothers Sir Walter Aston , Knight and Baronet Crown (Sir Walter Aston) and Thomas Aston Gent and their heirs to the use of me the said Dame Joyce and my assigns for and during the term of four year and nineteen years.
     Yet, I the said Dame Joyce and my said Daughters or any of us should live so long , and afterwards to the use of the said Sir Walter Aston, Knight and Thomas Aston and their heirs for and during the term of the life of me and my said Daughters and the life of the longest liver of us upon trust and confidence never thereof to dispose and employ the premises and the *nes and profit thereof to and for such as and intents and purposes as I the said Dame Joyce by my Last Will and Testament in writing or by any other writing to be sealed and subscribed by me in the presence of three or more witnesses Thereto limit and declare and for merit of such information to and for the use and benefit of my Executors and Administrators. Now for the disposing of my Estate and interests in same and equity of me and to the premises I design and Bequeath unto the said Lettice Culpeper my Eldest daughter the said Manor House and all Houses, Buildings, Gardens and Yards thereunto belonging and the said Closes of pasture ground called the Corryger Close and the hole Close and one other called the Long close being parcels of the premises and next adjoining to the said Manor House with all and Singular their appertaining to have and to hold the same unto her the said Lettice my Daughter for and during the term of her natural life and after her Death to my said Daughter Anne Culpeper for and during the term of her natural life.
     And further I give and devise all the rest and residue of the said Lands, Tenaments and Premises unto my said Daughters Lettice and Anne; To have and to hold the same to then the said Lettice and Anne and their Assigns for and during the term of their natural lives and the lives of everyone of them (except one Testament which I give unto William Collins of Deane which he now dwelleth in together with the land the he occupieth wit the same and after his Death to his son Thomas Collins during the life of me or any of my said Daughters if the said Thomas shall bee long lived.
     Item, I give and bequeath unto my said daughters Lettice and Anne all my Plate, Jewells, Apparel and Household stuff whatsoever whereof I shall be possessed at the time of my Decease as well as those which now I have as such which hereafter I shall buy to be equally divided between them by the discretion and appointment of their supervisor. Item, I give and bequeath to every of my Brothers and Sisters ( except my brother Thomas Aston in token of my hearty Love and affection towards them &***** being of the piece of forty shillings with & it & the Lead engraved upon each being that I do give unto them.
     Item, I give and bequeath to my loving Brother Thomas Aston One Hundred Pounds.
     Item, I give unto every one of my Household Servants who shall leave me at the time of my Death, Five Pounds.
     Item, I do constitute and appoint my said Daughters Lettice Culpeper and Anne Culpeper Executors of this my Last Will and Testament in whom I make especial trust and confidence.
     And I do constitute and appoint my said loving Brother Sir Walter Aston of the honourable order of the Bath the Knight and Baronet Empresario of this my Last Will and Testament to whom I give and Devise the sum of Forty Pounds to be by him to be stored in Plate to and for his own use in regard of his pains to be taken *** about the performance of this my Last Will and Testament in whom I respect special trust and confidence for his honest care and **** in that behalf and in the addressing and directing my said Executors.
     In witness whereof I have to this Last Will and testaments sett to my hand and Seal the day and year first above written.
Joyce Culpeper.
     Sealed and delivered and in these words interlined between the nine and twentieth and thirtieth lines Viz (except one Testament where I give unto William Collins of Deane which he now Dwells in together with the Lands that he occupies with the same: and after his Death to his son Thomas Collins during the life of me or any of my said Daughters, and also enter lined betwixt the thirtieth and one and Thirtieth lines ( vis the said Thomas shall for long live) before the sealing and Declared in the presence of Francis Hargreves & Henry Hoode.^1,2

Death*

2 Jan 1619

She died on 2 Jan 1619.³

Burial*

3 Jan 1619

Her body was interred on 3 Jan 1619 at Feckenham, Worcestershire, England.³

Family

Sir Martin Culpeper of Deane, co. Oxon

Marriage*

25 Feb 1598

She married Sir Martin Culpeper of Deane, co. Oxon at Charlecote, Warwickshire, England, on 25 Feb 1598.

Children

Last Edited

21 May 2011

Citations

Public Records Office, National Archives, London.
Image of will at: /archives/uk/wills/images/Joyce_of_Spelsbury_1619.pdf.
E-mail written 2007 to Warren Culpepper from Charles Andrew Grigsby, England, e-mail address.
Transcribed the will from PRO image.
Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm.

Martin Culpeper

Male, #8958, (circa Apr 1604 - 7 Sep 1605)

Father*

Sir Martin Culpeper of Deane, co. Oxon

Mother*

Joyce Aston

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Colepeper.

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Culpepper.

Birth*

circa Apr 1604

Martin was born at Astwood, Feckenham, Worcestershire, England, circa Apr 1604.

Baptism

26 May 1604

He was baptized at Deane, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, England, on 26 May 1604.

Death of Father

25 Jun 1604

His father Sir Martin Culpeper of Deane, co. Oxon died on 25 Jun 1604.

Death*

7 Sep 1605

He died on 7 Sep 1605.

Burial*

8 Sep 1605

His body was interred on 8 Sep 1605.

Charts

The 12th century Culpepers of England: Descendant Chart (16 generations, Males only)

Last Edited

21 May 2011

Sir Edward Aston of Tixhall, co. Stafford

Male, #8959, (1551 - 1 Feb 1597)

Father*

Walter Aston

Mother*

Elizabeth Leveson

Birth*

1551

Edward was born at Tixhall, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, in 1551.

Marriage*

say 1574

He married Anne Lucy of Charlecote, co. Warwick say 1574.

Marriage*

He married an unknown person .

Birth of Son

say 1578

His son Sir Walter Aston was born say 1578.

Death of Father

2 Apr 1589

His father Walter Aston died on 2 Apr 1589.

Death*

1 Feb 1597

He died on 1 Feb 1597.

Research note*

19 Oct 2013

To: Warren Culpepper
Subject: Culpepper Family Tree - Sir Edward Aston of Tixhall, co. Stafford

Sir Edward's first wife was Mary Spencer, daughter of Sir John Spencer of Althrop, Northamptonshire. Mary died in childbirth and he son died a few days later.

Sir Edward's second wife, Anne Lucy, bore him seven children: Walter (Lord Aston); Edward, who married Anne Sadler, the only daughter of Lee Sadler (sometimes Sadlier);Thomas; Joyce; Elizabeth; Anne; and Jane.
....
Daniel Aston.¹

Family 1

Anne Lucy of Charlecote, co. Warwick

Marriage*

say 1574

He married Anne Lucy of Charlecote, co. Warwick say 1574.

Child

Joyce Aston+

Family 2

Child

Sir Walter Aston

Last Edited

11 Feb 2014

Citations

E-mail written Oct 2013 to Warren L. Culpepper from Daniel Aston, e-mail address.

Sir Stephen Culpeper of Chipping Campden, Glouchester

Male, #8960, (1581 - 13 Jul 1611)

Father*

Dr. Martin Culpeper of Feckenham in Astwood, co. Worc.

Mother*

Lettice Clarke

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Colepeper.

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Culpepper.

Birth*

1581

Stephen was born in 1581.

Will

1 Oct 1605

He is mentioned in the will of Dr. Martin Culpeper of Feckenham in Astwood, co. Worc. on 1 Oct 1605.¹

Death of Father

circa 9 Oct 1605

His father Dr. Martin Culpeper of Feckenham in Astwood, co. Worc. died circa 9 Oct 1605.

Death*

13 Jul 1611

He died on 13 Jul 1611.

Biography*

The testimonies for him are the mention in his father's will of 'my Son Sir Stephen C;' his own will (P.C.C. Wood, 62) in which he describes himself as 'Stephen C. of Campden, co. Glouc., Knight;' and the entry of his burial in Feckenham, July 13, 1611, as 'Sr. Steaven Culpep, Knyght.' Neither Metcalfe, Nichols nor Shaw records his knighthood.
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That he m. appears from the mention in his will of 'my wife, Elizabeth, ' and the probate of that instrument by 'Dame Elizabeth C., relict and executrix' (who is not otherwise identified), but it does not appear that he left issue. Not only is the reference to him in his father's will qualified 'if he have issue a son,' but his own will neither names nor makes provision for any children. That will was, however, dated July 11, 1606, and so it is not conclusive against subsequent issue. That there was no male issue in any event appears conclusively by the fact that immediately after Stephen's death, John Culpeper entered into possession of Astwood in pursuance of the provision of the will of Dr. Martin Culpeper, contingent upon Stephen's death s.p.m.
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Source: Fairfax Harrison, "The Proprietors of the Northern Neck."

Charts

The 12th century Culpepers of England: Descendant Chart (16 generations, Males only)

Last Edited

13 Feb 2011

Citations

Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm
Will of Dr. Martin Culpeper of Astwood in Feckingham; P.C.C. Hayes, 88; Will dated October 1, 1605; Proved December 12, 1605.

Mercy Culpeper

Female, #8961, (say 1582 - 1629)

Father*

Dr. Martin Culpeper of Feckenham in Astwood, co. Worc.

Mother*

Lettice Clarke

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Colepeper.

Name-AltSpell

This surname is sometimes spelled Culpepper.

Name-Comm

Commonly known as Mary.

Birth*

say 1582

Mercy was born at Hanbury, Oxfordshire, England, say 1582.

Married Name

say 1602

As of say 1602, her married name was Sandys.

Marriage*

say 1602

She married Sir Samuel Sandys of Wickhamford, co. Worc. say 1602.

Death of Father

circa 9 Oct 1605

Her father Dr. Martin Culpeper of Feckenham in Astwood, co. Worc. died circa 9 Oct 1605.

Death of Spouse

18 Aug 1623

Her husband Sir Samuel Sandys of Wickhamford, co. Worc. died on 18 Aug 1623.

Death*

1629

She died in 1629.

Burial*

1629

Her body was interred in 1629 at Wickhamford, Worcestershire, England.

Biography*

Her father named her in his will 'my daughter Sandys,' and appointed 'my son-in-law Sir Samuel Sandis of Ombersley, Worcs. Knight,' one of his trustees and executors. Her burial in 1629 among the Sandys at Wickhamford, with an elaborate MI., is recorded by Nash (Worcestershire, ii, 221, 462.
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Her husband was the eldest son of Archbishop Edwin Sandys by his second wife, Cicely, dau. (by a second marriage) of the Thomas Wilford who had married Elizabeth, sister of William Culpeper.
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By this marriage Mercy Culpeper was included in the innermost circle of the founders of Virginia. Her husband, long M. P., was a member of the Council of the Virginia Company, of which his two younger brothers were officers: Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629) as Treasurer and chief executive, and George Sandys (1577-1644), who translated Ovid while resident at Jamestown, as Secretary. She was, moreover, herself the mother of that Margaret Sandys who m. Sir Francis Wyatt (1588-1644), Governor of Virginia, 1621-26, and 1639-42. See Va. Mag., xvii, 292.]
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Source: Fairfax Harrison, "The Proprietors of the Northern Neck."

Family

Sir Samuel Sandys of Wickhamford, co. Worc.

Marriage*

say 1602

She married Sir Samuel Sandys of Wickhamford, co. Worc. say 1602.

Child

Margaret Sandys

Last Edited

21 May 2011

Archbishop Edwin Sandys¹

Male, #8962, (1516 - 8 Aug 1588)

Birth*

1516

Edwin was born in 1516.

Marriage*

say 1555

He married Cicely Wilford say 1555.

Birth of Son

28 Dec 1560

His son Sir Samuel Sandys of Wickhamford, co. Worc. was born on 28 Dec 1560.

Birth of Son

9 Dec 1561

His son Sir Edwin Sandys was born on 9 Dec 1561.

Birth of Son

2 Mar 1577

His son George Sandys was born on 2 Mar 1577.

Death*

8 Aug 1588

He died on 8 Aug 1588.

Family

Thomas Wilford of Hartridge in Cranbrooke, Kent

Children

Last Edited

14 Sep 2002

Citations

E-mail written 1999 to Lew Griffin from Trudy Standridge, e-mail address.

Cicely Wilford

Female, #8963, (after 1534 - )

Father*

Mother*

Rose Whetenhall

Birth*

after 1534

Cicely was born after 1534.

Marriage*

say 1555

She married Archbishop Edwin Sandys say 1555.

Married Name

say 1555

As of say 1555, her married name was Sandys.

Biography*

The 4th Pres. James Madison comes from Cecily's line.

Birth of Son

28 Dec 1560

Her son Sir Samuel Sandys of Wickhamford, co. Worc. was born on 28 Dec 1560.

Birth of Son

9 Dec 1561

Her son Sir Edwin Sandys was born on 9 Dec 1561.

Birth of Son

2 Mar 1577

Her son George Sandys was born on 2 Mar 1577.

Family

Marriage*

say 1555

She married Archbishop Edwin Sandys say 1555.

Children

Last Edited

27 Nov 1999

Sir Samuel Sandys of Wickhamford, co. Worc.

Male, #8964, (28 Dec 1560 - 18 Aug 1623)

Father*

Mother*

Birth*

28 Dec 1560

Samuel was born on 28 Dec 1560.

Death of Father

8 Aug 1588

His father Archbishop Edwin Sandys died on 8 Aug 1588.

Marriage*

say 1602

He married Mercy Culpeper say 1602.

Will

1 Oct 1605

He is mentioned in the will of Dr. Martin Culpeper of Feckenham in Astwood, co. Worc. on 1 Oct 1605.¹

Death*

18 Aug 1623

He died on 18 Aug 1623 at age 62.

Biography*

He was a long M.P. and a member of the Council of the Virginia Company.

Family

Mercy Culpeper

Child

Margaret Sandys

Last Edited

14 Sep 2002

Citations

Fairfax Harrison, The Proprietors of the Northern Neck - Chapters of Culpepper Genealogy, Richmond, VA: The Old Dominion Press (Privately printed), 1926, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Film #929429. Transcription available online at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/default.htm
Will of Dr. Martin Culpeper of Astwood in Feckingham; P.C.C. Hayes, 88; Will dated October 1, 1605; Proved December 12, 1605.

Sir Edwin Sandys

Male, #8965, (9 Dec 1561 - Oct 1629)

Father*

Mother*

Birth*

9 Dec 1561

Edwin was born on 9 Dec 1561.

Death of Father

8 Aug 1588

His father Archbishop Edwin Sandys died on 8 Aug 1588.

Death*

Oct 1629

He died in Oct 1629 at age 67.

Biography*

Treasurer and Chief Executive of the Virginia Company during 1617-1620. His influence gave Virginia its first legislature in 1619 and he was "a sincere, devoted friend" of the Leyden Puritans.

Last Edited

14 Sep 2002

George Sandys

Male, #8966, (2 Mar 1577 - Mar 1644)

Father*

Mother*