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Colyton Devon

"Sir John Pole 1st baronet dyed at Bromely St Lenordis in the county of Midelsexe the XVlth day of Aprill and was buried at Colyton in the county of Devon the Xlllth day of July 1658"

 

Sir John Pole c1589-1658 lies back to back with wife (& stepsister) Elizabeth How 1628 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/196T48k71D

John was the son of William Pole 1635 and Mary 1605 flic.kr/p/iKvVVM eldest daughter of Sir William Peryham / Periham of Fulford & Crediton www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11669251276/ by 2nd wife Anne daughter of John Parker of North Molton.

 

He m 1614 Elizabeth heiress daughter of Roger Howe 1606 merchant of London and his father's second wife Jane 1653 +++ daughter of William Simmes / Symes 1597 of Chard & Elizabeth Maria Hill

Children

1. Sir William 1614-1649 died in his father lifetime m1 Grace dsp 1638 flic.kr/p/cGrznj www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/A6kUi040d3 daughter of Sir Thomas Trenchard 1657 & Elizabeth daughter of Christopher Morgan & Elizabeth Winter; .m2 Catharine 1642/43 only daughter of Henry St. Barbe & Amy Rogers, having 4 daughters

2. Martha b 1614 m William Everitt

3. Elizabeth Pole 1617 - 1628

4. Sir Courtney 1618-1695 www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member... m Urith daughter of Thomas Shapcote attorney of Exeter

5. Katherine Pole 1620 - 1621 died an infant flic.kr/p/iKvcsc

6. Jane 1625–1668 m John Croker

 

For many years Sir John was MP for Devonshire, and lived in London for long periods. He was created a Baronet by Charles I in 1628 .

Sir John lived through anxious times, during the later days of Charles I, and the Civil Wars. The Poles being always staunch Royalists. About the time that the Parliamentarian forces destroyed Colcombe Castle a fire broke out in Shute House.

 

+++ Jane asked in her will "to be buried in the aisle of the church at Colaton where my last husband Sir William Pole, knight, and my dear daughter first wife of Sir John Pole, baronet, lie interred"

(In the forefront is an early 1700s chime barrel)

Church of St Andrew , Colyton Devon

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