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Family Sheet
HUSBAND
Name: William CulpeperMale Note
Born: 1509 1509-1-1 at Bedgbury, Goudhurst, Kent, England Bedgbury, Goudhurst, Kent, England
Married: 4 Jan 1529-1530 1529-1-4 at Wigsell, Saleshurst, Sussex, England Wigsell, Saleshurst, Sussex, England
Died: 6 Dec 1559 1559-12-6 at Salehurst, , Sussex, England Salehurst, , Sussex, England
WIFE
Born: 1512 at Alvethley, , Essex, England
Died: Aft 1540 at Wigsell, Salehurst, Sussex, England
Father: John Barrett
Mother: Phyllis Barnfield
CHILDREN
Born: Abt 1532 at Wigsell, Saleshurst, Sussex, England
Died:
Husband: John Wildgos
Born: 1538 at Wigsell, Saleshurst, Sussex, England
Died: 31 May 1591 at Salehurst, , Sussex, England
Wife: Philippa Hinckstead
Born: 1540 at Wigsell, Salehurst, Sussex, England
Died: 1605 at Feckenham, England
Wife: Lettice Clarke
Born: 1541 at Wigsell, Saleshurst, Sussex, England
Died: 1616
Wife: Mary Dance
Born: 1547 at Wigsell, Saleshurst, Sussex, England
Died: 1591
Wife: Marie
Born: Abt 1549 at Wigsell, Saleshurst, Sussex, England
Died:
Husband: Simon Edolph
Born: Abt 1551 at Wigsell, Saleshurst, Sussex, England
Died: 1605
Wife: Jane Steede
Born: Abt 1554 at Wigsell, Saleshurst, Sussex, England
Died: 7 Oct 1603
Wife: Elizabeth Gode
NOTES
1). William Culpeper of Hunton and Wigsell, born a young e s t s o n, was named inhis father s will 1514 as my so n n e Will m, with provision to be founde to schole.Th a t th is inju nct ion was carried out and that he wasput t hr oug h gramma r scho ol, and sent thence to London to res id e a t eitherBar nard s or Staple Inn, may be deduced fr o m hi s admission t o Gray s Innin 1530 Foster, fo. 423 . T his w ould be the ye ar he c ame of age, whenthe death s o f his tw o elder brother s had al ready left him his fa ther sheir. T his appears bot h from. th e contemporary in strum ent Harl . Charter, 76 H 12 which con firmed to Wi lliam a s son an d heir of his fath er thedispos itions o f the wi ll of Si r John in favor of Wal ter and fro m his mother s will tw o years later. It may b e that Willia m C ulpepe r began life as a practising lawyer . The earlies t p ubli c record of hi m is not initself incons istent wit h suc h a n hypothesis. I n 1538 he was included in the lon g lis t o f gentlemen enrol led as servants to Henr y VII I s se rvantT homas Cromwell , then Lord Privy Seal an d a t the di zzy heigh t of hispros perity for he was not pa r t of th e household, b ut one o f those whowere to atten d onl y whe n called L. & P . Henr y V111, Xiii, pt. 2, p. 497 . Th e p atronage resultin g fro m this service was par t of thecon t emporary spoil of th e m onasteries. He ha d a grant of a n a nnuitycharged on the p r iory of Chris t Church at Cante rbury , and on March io,1538 9, the sei zin of the lands o f the d issolved priory of Lo sen ham,wh ich his Aucher ance stor ha d founded ibid., xiv , pt . I , p. 224 xx, Pt.I, p . 324 . I t is significant tha t i n a ll these testimonie s Williamappe ars only in relati o n to Ken t. In his gran t of the priory o f Losenhamhe is , i ndeed, des cribed as of Hunton, while h is second so n wa s listedat Wi ncheste r College in 1553 Kir by, Winch este r Scholars, 1888 , p . 132 by the same qualific ation . Thu s it appears tha t o n his marriage, whichtook pla c e in 153 0 as appears fr om th e record of the family settl e ment oft hat year, Will iam esta blished himself, not a t Wigs ell, bu t in the mids tof the Ken tish weald, on th e river Be ult ne ar its junct ion with theMe dway. This wa s an eminentl y agr eeable plac e of residence, b ut Hunton was not a Culpep er l ordship. I t was vested in th e Wyatt s of Allington Hast ed , ii, 229 , a family which, lik e t he Culpepers, later pr o duced aGo vernor of Virginia. I n r elation to the Wyatts , W illiam C ulpeperachieved als o his ne xt appearance i n a publ ic rec ord for when, inJ anuary, 154 0 1, Sir Thoma s Wyatt , th e poet, was involve d in Cromwell s downfall an d for so m e weeks was held a p risoner in the Tow er, Willia mCulpep e r was, on Wyatt s n omination, permitted b y the Pr ivy Co un cil tohave the cu stody of Allington Castl e L . & P. He nr y V111, xvi, 229 . Hedid not, however, pers ist ently fo llo w their fortun es. Whether, unlikehis youthf u l kinsme n o f Bedgebury an d Aylesford, he remembered th e ch eckhi s fam ily had ha d in the reign of Edward II, whet her h e h ad nev eraccept ed the break with Rome three of h is so n s were na med f or saints ,or whether it was merely h is f orti eth yea r w hich counselled prudence,William was l oya l to Qu een Ma r y s government in the crisis of 1553 an ddi d not fol lo w th e poet s son into Wyatts rebellion. Hi s record t h enwa s that of an active justice of the pe ace at firs t i n org anizingpolice, and, after the dange r ha d passed , char ge d with the custody ofsequestered esta te s Act s P. C., 15 5 4 56 pp. 70, 85 . In the course oft hi s las t duty Willi a m moved his residence several times , w hic h explainswhy h i s third son, Martin, was entered a t W in chester Kirby, s up raas of Barfriston in east Ke n t . It follows that i t wa s not until the veryend of hi s l i fe that William settl ed do wn at Wigsell, where he m a d e hiswill See Archives s ectio n of Culpepper Connect io ns Fairfax Harrison
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