Isaac Wyncoll
(E)
(1593 - 1650)
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Isaac Wyncoll (E), the
only son of his father, Isaac (D), was born
at the Hall at the end of 1593 and was baptised at Twinstead church on
New Year's Day, 1594, his baptism being the first Wyncoll entry in those
church registers.1 He was, therefore, 44 years
of age when he succeeded his father, the whole of whose property he inherited.
He married Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Waldegrave, of the Ferrers, in Bures Hamlet, Essex, great granddaughter of Sir William Waldegrave, of Smallbridge, Bures St. Mary (who died 30th January, 1527)2 By this marriage, the family obtained fourteen additional quarterings to its arms. The arms of this Sir William Waldegrave were
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In proof of the above, the following references are interesting:- Harl. MSS. 1541, fo. 71b., gives the whole of these quarterings to our ancestor, Waldegrave, as does Harl. MSS. 4600, p. 21/12 to Graye of Pelham. Copy of Visitations made by Harvey, Clarancieux Herald, and Harl. MSS. 1531, fol. 55, Visitation of Bedfordshire, 1566, give Graye the quarterings 7 to 14 with the following pedigree, which shows Elizabeth Graye to have been an heiress, and that her husband and heirs were entitled to the quarterings.3 The coat of Waldegrave should bear a crescent for difference, Thomas Waldegrave being the sole male representative of Anthony Waldegrave (second son of Sir William Waldegrave). On the death of Margaret, only child of Thomas Waldegrave, who died at Twinstead in November, 1637 (his brothers, John and William, being dead) his sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, became his co-heiresses. According to Morant, the Waldegrave family is "said to have flourished in this Kingdom before the Conquest and to have been originally seated in Northamptonshire, where they gave name to the parish of Waldegrave. John de Waldegrave, it is reported (see Weever's Funeral Monuments, p.757-758), lost his lands upon the Conqueror's invasion, but having an only daughter and meeting with a namesake of his in William's service that was come out of Germany, upon conferring together they found they were related, and the German promised the other to obtain a restitution of his lands, and a pardon from the Conqueror if he would give him his daughter in marriage. It was accordingly performed. The pardon and re-grant of the lands, in old French, with King William's seal, remained in the possession of the Lord of Navestock Manor in the year 1612" (see Morant's Essex, vol. i. p.181). In right of his wife, Isaac Wyncoll had the manors of Peyton Hall and Ravensfield, which lie on the road leading from Pebmarsh to Bures and Lamarsh.4 I shall treat with the extent and situation of these properties in a subsequent generation. It would appear that Isaac Wyncoll was a Parliamentarian during the civil war. The extracts from Annals of Evangelical Nonconformity in Essex (Davids), given below, are interesting and would forward that idea.5 He had eight children, viz:- (1) Isaac, who died an infant on 24th July, 1620, (2) Thomas (F), (3) Elizabeth, baptised at Bures 23rd October, 1626, (4) Waldegrave, baptised at Bures 6th November, 1628, buried there 20th November, 1628, (5) Penelope baptised at Bures 8th July, 1630, who married Isaac Hubbard, of Pebmarsh, (6) Mary, buried at Twinstead 8th November, 1638, (7) Margaret, baptised at Twinstead 16th November, 1634, buried there 27th November, 1637, and (8) Hannah, buried at Twinstead 25th February, 1680. The gravestone to the memory of the latter was (according to Holman) formerly "by the north wall just within the chancell under the pews" of old Twinstead church. |
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It is now in front of the south porch of the present church.
It bears, on a lozenge shield, the arms of Wyncoll impaling Waldegrave
and also the following inscription:-
M. S.
It would seem that Isaac Wyncoll had a very strong liking for his wife's family, for, in addition to choosing their christian names and surname as the christian names of his children, he spent a great deal of his married life in Bures and baptised his sons Thomas (F) and Waldegrave, as well as his daughter Elizabeth, at that parish church and he himself was buried there (as Morant puts it) "amongst his wife's relatives." The fact that he was 44 years of age when his father died accounts for his non-residence at Twinstead Hall during the early part of his married life. He died intestate Letters of Administration to his estate being granted on 2nd September, 1680, to "Audrey (or Mary) Wincole, relict of Isack Wincole, of Buers in County Essex, deceased."6 He was buried in Bures church on 6th August, 1650, and was in his fifty-seventh year. |