Looking for information about the KEKEWICH family in Shropshire
Thanks for your response Mike. The information came from "The Visitations of the County Cornwall"
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/Cornwall/visitations/index.html ... pages 252-256
Name was Georgius Kekewich. He was preceeded by a Pierce or Peers Kekewich who came into Shropshire from Linconshire. The year as I said was around the 1500's. As you did state they did migrate south to Cornwall / Devon area mid 1500's.
Any leads you get would be helpful.
Thanks again
Skip Kekewich
Nobody of that surname is recorded as paying the 1524 Lay Subsidy anywhere in Shropshire.
Peter
C 142/72/84 at The National Archives shows a John in Shropshire (37 Hen. VIII) and C 1/735/19 involves a case against a Bridgnorth buthcher c.1535.
C1/36/2 also names George Kekewiche v. Margarete, executrix and late the wife of John Wynne.: Detention of deeds relating to lands, &c. in Nordley, also the manor of Lyndeley.: Salop. . Chancery pleadings addressed to the Archbishop of York as Lord Chancellor. Detailed Date: 1465 - 1483
No doubt a further search and some spelling variations might reveal more.
Peter
Crofte in the fee of Asteley Abbots To hold of the chief Lord of the fee for due services Warranty v all men Witnesses: George Whitton, Nicholas Bowlas, Nicholas Bowlas(sic) John Kekewiche, Walter Bayly, Roger Osellran 2 pendent seals on same parchment
Date: 1449 (1093/2/216)
In her interesting but unreliable book, “The Kings Ley - The Story Of The Ancient Parish Of Alveley, Shropshire” (Shrewsbury, 1951), Gladys Howard Thompson of Coton Hall near Alveley, Shropshire, quotes or paraphrases part of a legal document as:
“Salop Abbey rents by oblique, extract 50 items, including Kakewaches, for lands in Nordley, 1492”.
Salop Abbey is presumably Shrewsbury Abbey.
Thompson then goes on to state: “Explanation. – The Kakewaches were an ancient family from Cornwall, who afterwards lived at Nordley.”
Nordley here refers to the manor of Nordley (Kingsnordley) in the parish of Alveley which Thompson has presumably here confused with Nordley near Astley Abbotts, Shropshire.
She provides no further information about Kakewaches in her book.
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Hello Skip
I am wondering why you think your family may have a connection with Shropshire when the records I have looked at locate the family in other parts of the UK, especially the south west.
You should be aware that parish baptism registers did not start in England until 1538 and only a relative few survive from that period. There is a better survival rate after 1598.
Do you have specific information that tells you when your family migrated?
Mike