Christian Tuckfield1

#2895, ( - between 16 February 1641 and 27 July 1641)

Family

Richard Baldwin b. s 1562, d. c 1636
Her married name was Baldwin.1 
Marriage*1592She married Richard Baldwin, son of Henry Baldwin and Alice _____, in 1592 at Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire, EnglandG.2,3 
18 February 1632/33In Richard Baldwin's will dated 18 February 1632/33, Christian Tuckfield was named as an heir; as "Richard Baldwin, of Dun-Dridge...Yeoman."4 
Death*between 16 February 1641 and 27 July 1641She died between 16 February 1641 and 27 July 1641 at Buckinghamshire, EnglandG.2 
16 February 1640/41She left a will on 16 February 1640/41 at BuckinghamshireG.2 
Probate*27 July 1641Her estate was probated on 27 July 1641 at Court of the Archdeaconry, Buckinghamshire, EnglandG.1 

Citations

  1. [S324] Col. Joseph L. Chester, "Report of Investigations concerning the Family of Baldwin, of Aston Clinton, Co. Bucks", New England Historic Genealogical Register 38 (1884): pp. 160-170, 289-299, 372-376.
  2. [S324] Col. Joseph L. Chester, "Family of Baldwin": p. 168; Christian, wife of Richard Baldwin, had her will "proved in the Archdeaconry Court of Bucks, 27 July, 1641, but her burial is not in the Aston Clinton register, and she was probably buried with her own family, to which the will gives no clew, except that she had a sister Joane, evidently then a widow, but who had had two husbands, named Grover and Chase. She was married to Richard Baldwin at Cholesbury in 1592, as Christian Towckfeild, i. e. Tuckfield.
  3. [S325] Charles Candee Baldwin, Baldwin Genealogy Supplement of 1889 (Cleveland, O.: The Leader Printing Company, 1889), p. 988-9.
  4. [S324] Col. Joseph L. Chester, "Family of Baldwin": pp. 167–168, abstract of the will of as "Richard Baldwin, of Dun-Dridge...Yeoman":
    To Mr. Hall, now the minister of St. Leonard’s, £5.—to Henry Baldwin, son of my brother Sylvester, and my next heir, a close called Brays Bush in Great Chesham & Wendover, paying to the poor of St. Leonards 20 shillings yearly for 100 years; also £20. on condition that he allows those men who have bought wood & timber of me, to cut down and carry the same away peaceably; also 'one coffer with evidences concerninge this mannor of Dundridge & also the evidences concerninge the Chappell land' ; also a malt mill, a Corslet & its furniture, the furniture for one horse for service of the musters, & the tables, frames, forms, cupboards, wainscot, benches & armor in the hall, & the best bedstead in the new chamber—to Christian my wife half my bedsteads not bequeathed, half my bed clothes & linen, half my pewter & brass, and the other moveable goods in the dwelling house to be divided equally between her & my executor; also to my wife Christian 2 of my best beasts, 20 sheep, 3 hoggs, all my poultry, one quarter of wheat & one of malt, & all my wearing apparel, also £20. per annum for her life, and she to have sufficient house room & firewood—to my brother John Baldwin & his son John each £20, the rest of my money in their hands to be paid to my executor— to my sister Mary Salter & her children John, David, Mary & Sarah Salter, each £10— to the children of my sister Jane Bonus, viz. to Henry Bonus £20, James Bonus £10, Christian Bonus £30, Mary Bonus £100 & Jane Bonus £50, to the two latter in full payment of their grandmother’s gifts & of their mother’s goods— to Anne Bryant, daughter ol my brother Robert Baldwin, and to her son Richard Bryant, a freehold tenement &c. in Wendover, also £48. 6. 8— to Henry Stonhill, son of my sister Anne Stonhill, £30. when 21, & 20 acres of free land in Drayton Beauchamp— to Anne Stonhill, daughter of my sister Anne Stonhill, £10.— to Richard Baldwin, son of my brother Sylvester Baldwin, £10— to William Baldwin, son of my brother Sylvester, £10— to Richard Baldwin, son of Silvester Baldwin of Aston Clinton, £10— to each of my brothers & sisters children living at my death, 40 shillings— to Joane Chasse, my wife’s sister, 40 shillings— to William Darley a year’s rent of the messuage wherein he now dwelleth— to Joyce Bernard, widow 20 shillings— to Silvester Tomkins, John Tompkins, & George Baldwin, all of St. Leonards, each 20s. — to Richard Gravener, widow Wilkins, widow Gourney, & Edward Springall, all of Buckland, each 20 shillings— to Richard Arnoll of Chesham, his sister Mary Garratt, Jonas Nuton of Cholsbury, widow Childe of Harridge, Robert Wilkins of Buckland, & Shem Ginger of St. Leonard's, each 20 shillings— to the poor of Aston Clinton 20 shillings, of St. Leonard’s 20 shillings, & of Cholsbury 20 shillings— to each servant in my service at my death 10 shillings—to widow Cocke of St. Leonard’s 20 shillings— residue of all my goods &c. to Sylvester Baldwin of Aston Clinton, son of my brother Sylvester Baldwin, & he to be my executor. (Witnesses, William Grange & Henry Stonhill.).