Thank you for your response. Now it gets interesting! In my tree, copied as I say from the Furneaux family website, Henry and Cicely only have two sons, William 1579 and Henry 1584/5. William married Joane Chadder and had Henry, Christopher, William, Thomas, John and Peter. So So no son John; no James and Robert sons of William. They are however born later than the last son I had, Peter, so it is possible but why are the older six sons not mentioned in the will?
I was wandering after I looked into this, why the older six children of William were not mentioned in their grandfather Henry's will also.
What I will say is that from the book it is only an abstract of a will, and not the original will itself.
In 99 percent of the wills I have viewed, the testator does though mention all of their grandchildren.
And this throws up some queries I have about William Furneaux's wife Joan/ Joane Chadder:
She was married to William Furneaux at Paignton on the 31st of July 1598.
Now there are quite a few trees on Ancestry.co.uk who have her being baptised at Paignton in 1567/1568, the daughter of a George.
Now if this same lady was the mother of their youngest child Robert, baptised at Paignton in 1622, that would make her 54 years old when he was baptised.
I notice that there is a six year gap between the baptism of Peter Furneaux baptised in 1613, and James, son of William baptised in 1619.
If Jane Chadder was indeed baptised around 1568 this would make her 45 when Peter was baptised. Which IF that is the correct woman for the wife of William Furneaux, I think would be much more likely indeed. Yes, it is a bit of a mystery I'm afraid.
Henry Furneaux married Dorothy Necke/Neeke at Paignton in 1607. On the 26th of October 1619 in Paignton we have this burial, from the original register on Find My Past. I have put a question mark after "jun" because I'm not sure if it does say that. But I think it does:
"Wife of Henry Furneaux jun(?)." -
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fdev%2f007270962%2f00254What I can definitely confirm about William Furneaux baptised 1579 in Paignton is this:
He outlived his son Christopher:
Christopher Furneaux (bap. 24 Jan 1600 in Paignton), was a reverend of Buckfastleigh. He married Sybil Dolbeare on the 5th of September 1625 at Buckfastleigh. He was a Schoolmaster there, and ordained to the Priesthood in 1628.
Christopher's father in-law John Dolbeare was also Vicar of Buckfastleigh. John was born in Ashburton, Devon around 1579. He was listed as being age 19, when he matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on the 5th of May 1598. He gained a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford, on the 11th of February 1602. His only child "Sibly" (Sybil), was baptised in 1604 at Ashburton.
Christopher Furneaux and Sybil had these children all baptised in Buckfastleigh between 1626 - 1638:
John, William, Henry, Samuel, Mary, Joan, Christopher, Sybil, Richard, Edith.
Christopher Furneaux was buried in Totnes on the 7th of July 1641.
The following is from Find My Past:
The front of the Buckfastleigh parish register (in Latin) states that he was buried on the 7th of July 1641 in Totnes. From the original image of Buckfastleigh Parish register, near the front of the book on Find My Past, and also recorded in "Genealogical Et Heredita": Furneaux: "July 7 1641 Christopherus Furneaux, Clerus sepult fuit in Ecclia Toton." This is the only burial recorded in Totnes on that date. Here is a link to this original image. -
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBPRS/DEV/BUR/742403Christopher's burial was also recorded in Totnes. But in the Totnes register they put his name down mistakenly as Henry:
From the original register in Totnes: (July 1641): "The 7th was buried Mr Henry Furnace, minister of gods words." That burial date is also recorded on his Oxford University record.
Somebody who is a 9x great grandson of Christopher Furneaux noticed this mistaken burial entry at Totnes. But they did not know that his burial was also recorded in the Buckfastleigh register:
https://someolddevonchurches.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/the-parish-and-priory-church-of-st-mary-totnes/Anyway, Christopher died. His father in-law John Dolbeare then made his Will at Buckfastleigh, on the 2nd of June 1642. In the will he mentioned among others his only child, his daughter Sybil Dolbeare, and Sybil's ten children born from Christopher Furneaux deceased.
William Furneaux (father of Christopher) who was born in 1579 was named as an overseer of John's will. He nominated "William Furneaux of Payngton (Paignton) grandfather to mine executor" to be an Overseer of the will, alongside Peter Cliffe, brother of his wife Mary. His grandson John Furneaux (baptised in 1626) was named as executor. All of his grandchildren were under the age of 21 years.
For anyone who has access to Ancestry, John Dolbeare's Will can be viewed here:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/5111/40611_310652-00364/983964?backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/108837364/person/422014990060/factsJohn gave a lot of money for this time to his granddaughters, and land and chattels to his grandsons. He appears to have been relatively wealthy for the times.
Sorry for waffling on, but I thought this may be of interest to some people.
Thank you.
