Agnes Baker

Citations

1. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings of New England", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 165,166 (Oct. 2011, Jan. 2012): p. 49: "Walter Roberts was the son of John Roberts of Cranbrook, whose 1461 will provides for John’s wife Agnes and his two sons by her, Walter and Stephen, as well as unnamed and already married daughters by an earlier wife.[72]"; and p. 50 "The 1592 and 1629 Roberts pedigrees and the 1574 visitation of Kent attribute arms to the father of John Roberts’ wife Agnes but omit her father’s name.[74] Fortunately, Agnes’ father is identified as William Baker and his father as Adam Baker in a set of documents held at the East Sussex Record Office.";
   see also ancestry chart on page 66.
2. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings", 166:50: " the father of John Roberts’ wife Agnes...is identified as William Baker and his father as Adam Baker..."
3. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings", 166:50 "The given name of Agnes’ mother may have been Joan. On 25 June 1424, William Baker and his wife Joan sold land in Hadlow, East Peckham, and West Peckham, Kent.^[78] Three years later Thomas Warde of Ticehurst granted to Ralph Shoeswell and his wife Elizabeth “the reversion of all the lands, which Johanna, wife of William Baker, his Mother, held for life in Ticehurst, except two pieces called Smythefeld & Orephetts, which William Warde his Grandfather had of Sir Robt. Passele, Knt.”^[79] Additional records show interactions between Adam Baker, William Warde, and an earlier generation of Shoeswells and identify the location of Adam Baker’s land in Flimwell, Ticehurst."
4. [S520] VWH, estimated from the approximate date of her marriage.
5. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings", 166:46, footnote 55, " Will of John Roberd of the parish of 'Cranebrok,' Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 22 Stokton, PROB 11/4, dated 20 January, proved 7 February 1460/1. John makes provision for the governance and rule of his sons Stephen and Walter until they reach the age of 24 years and specifies that they are to inherit their portions of his estate at that age."
6. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings", 166:51, footnote 77: " Will of Agnes Roberts, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1 Horne, PROB 11/11, will dated 15 February 1494/5 and proved 2 July 1496. Curiously, Agnes did not mention her son Walter Roberts or any of his children. Her tenements and lands called Adam Bakers were to remain to the son of John Tuttesham, one of her executors, following the performance of the terms of her testament and last will."
7. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings", 166:49: "Walter Roberts was the son of John Roberts of Cranbrook, whose 1461 will provides for John’s wife Agnes and his two sons by her, Walter and Stephen, as well as unnamed and already married daughters by an earlier wife."