Stephen Roberts1

#2562, (after 20 January 1437 - 4 June 1470)
Relationship13th great-granduncle of William David Lewis
Father*John Roberts2 ( - c 1461)
Mother*Agnes Baker2 (s 1410 - 1496)
Birth*after 20 January 1437He was born after 20 January 1437 at EnglandG; (he was not yet 24 years of age at the time of his father's will.)3 
20 January 1461In John Roberts's will dated 20 January 1461, Stephen Roberts was named as an heir, to inherit his portion when he reaches the age of 24.4 
Death*4 June 1470He died on 4 June 1470 at Kent Co., EnglandG.5 

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]"
    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", 166:49: "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."
  3. [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."; and 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.[72]" See also ancestry chart on p. 66.
  4. [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."
  5. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings", 166:46, footnote 56, mentioning " a transcription of the “Inquisitione after ye deathe” on 4 June 1470 of Walter’s brother Stephen" found in a 1592 pedigree [i.e., 165:248, footnote 13, Rev. William Hayley, “Sussex: viz. Genealogica, Vol. II” (British Library Add. MS 6347, fol. 1–6, pages numbered 1–9 in Hayley’s hand correspond to fol. 2–5 and the front of fol. 6)].