Individual Notes
Note for: Robert (Water) Atwater, ABT 1500 - 1565
Index
Event: I142
Type: REFI
Will: Date: 31 AUG 1563
Note: Approved May 5, 1565
Atwater
From --- Atwater, History and Genealogy
Compiled by Francis Atwater in 1901
Page 1
The earliest mention of the name known to the writer is in the County of Kent, in the Parish of Stone where the name Godefried ate Water occurs in connection with the Manor of Eylvarton before the year 1257. The earliest mention of then name Atwater found in England appears in a Chartufary of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, that of Godefried ate Water of Eylvarton in the parish of Stone, near Faversham in the County of Kent before the year 1257... Parish of Ospringe and that of Stone in which the name appears before 1257 are contiguous parishes..... Their original from which they primitively issued was from about Ospringe for there I find Robert Atwater possessed of lands at his death which was in the 5th year of Edward III in 1332..... 1332 John Atte Water appears possessed of lands......... in Kent.
Mr. E.E. Atwater writes:
I went again to Kent in 1887 to ascertain with as much exactness as possible what relation between Robert Atwater of Royton Chapel and the other Atwaters in his neighborhood.....
p.27 (Relationship of Robert Atwater of Royton Manor to other Atwaters at Royton .... not ... determined. .... Hasted, the historian of Kent, in recording confirmation of Arms to Robert Atwater of Clarencieux .... indicates in a beginning of a pedigree chart that he had a brother with children but without naming them... again in his will bequests to each of his brothers children indicating the brother was dead, and all his children nearby and so well known that it was not necessary to name them) .... my first study was the diocesan register at Canterbury.. as my eyes ran over the list of baptism in Lenham my attention was arrested by the name of Anthony Thompson who as the record testifies was baptized Aug 30, 1612. I recognized the name as belonging to my own ancestors.. The blood of the Atwaters and Thompsons commingled two centuries before.... in the veins of Anthony Thompson whose mother was, I believe a granddaughter of Robert Atwater of Royton Chapel. He (Robert Atwater) married (probably) shortly after 1500 Catherine Bright of Royton. They had 12 sons and 2 daughters. The sons all died of the plague before the birth of the daughters. These were Joyce who married Humphrey Hales only son of Sir James Hales of The Dungeon, Canterbury, and Mary the youngest born in 1527 who married Robert Honeywood then of Henewood in Postling in Kent. Robert Atwater of Royton, in Lenham was a man of fortune and a Justice of Peace in the County .... In the list of tenures and in the histories of the County of Kent, Robert Atwater appears as owner in the reign of Henry VIII of the following named Manors,
Puttwood in Osprings, Providers in Norton
Bewley in Boughton, Malherbe in Charing
Pette in Charing, Newcourt in Charing
Downcourt in Lenham, Royton in Lenham.
The will of Robert Atwater, dated at Charing, three miles from Royton, last day of August 1563 and proved May 5, 1565 is on record at Canterbury... "Atwater" in his will and "Water alias Atwater" in the calendar of wills, and his grandson Robert Honeywood has written it both "AtWater" and "Water in his Honeywood Evidences". Robert Honeywood, grandson of Robert Atwater, eldest son of his dau Mary, began in 1612 during the lifetime of his mother.... records of his family ... referred to under the title of "Honeywood
Evidences" Others written - Latin, ad Aquam and de Aqua .. "Atwater is Attwater", "Atte Water", "Attewater" so styled because it is probable the family had formally their residence near some fountain or stream.
p20 Mary Atwater, the youngest of the two daughters of Robert Atwater of Royton was born at Royton in 1527. She was married in Feb 1543 at the age of 16 to Robert Honeywood of Postling in Kent. She received from her father the Manors of Pette and Newcourt in Charing and Dawn Court and Royton in Lenham, which by the marriage became the property of her husband. They resided at Royton in Lenham and Pette in Charing. At the latter place her husband died in 1576 and was buried in the Church of Lenham. They had 16 children, 2 died young. Extracts from article entitled "Posterity of Mary Honeywood by her son Robert. "My father married my mother in 1543" .. "my mother departed this life at my house in Markeshall upon Tewesday ye 16 day of May, 1620 in ye 93 year of her age and according to her desyer was buryed in Lenham Church in ye County of Kent, uppon Saturday then following" . Mrs. Homewood lived to see three hundred and 67 of her descendants, 9 of them in the fourth generation.... ("a dinner was once given by her to a family party of two hundred of her descendants").. who had at here decease ... descended from her 367childern, 16 of her own, 114 grandchildren, 228 in 3rd generation, 9 in 4th ... on many accounts distinguished, but chiefly for her Christian character.
Individual Notes
Note for: Katherin (Catherine) Bright, AFT 1505 -
Index
Event: I143
Type: REFI
Birth Note: Birthplace is also given as Royton, Kent County, England