Worth family of Exeter

[keithj]

Greetings,
Hunting again.....
In the will of one Edward Foxwell (PCC) died 1693, there are three Worth grandchildren listed. These are John, Anne and Elizabeth Worth. Hunting through the PRs for Exeter gives (for these three only) birth years of 1671 for John, 1672 for Anne and 1674 for Elizabeth, with a father of Mr Frances Worth.  I don't think that Francis is of the Worths of Worth (the manor at Washfield). There are 6 other grandchildren listed, all with the surname Walrond, being the children of Henry Walrond and Margaret Foxwell dau of Edward and his wife Anne (see below). The Walrond grandchildren are actually that, grandchildren.
Further, Edward Foxwell married Anne Burrington at Sandford, Devon in 1639 and, as far as I can tell had only one child, Margaret (b. 1641 at Sandford) who married (I have no idea when) Henry Walrond of Bradfield, Devon. The source for this is Burke's Landed Gentry for 1934.
Note that there is an Edward Foxwell who married Elizabeth Unknown and had 6 children at Combe Raleigh (all 6 are listed in the PRs). My view is that these are two separate Edward Foxwells.
So to my question, given the flexibility of the various relational terms throughout history, does anyone know who Frances Worth's wife was? There is some indirect information that it may be Anna, but that's conjecture at this point. Or did Edward Foxwell have other children with Anne Burrington (I can't find any).
And I forgot: There's an MI at St Petrocks as follows

P.M.
Francisci et Alexandri
Worth, filiorum Hen. Worth
de Worth in agro Devon armiger.
Ille in commune concilium civitatatis Exon
Meritissime ascitus de civibus optime
mervit, quibus ingentem spem sui nominis
excitaverit 9 die Julii 1675 desideratissimus obijt,
Hic vero natu non virtute minor juvenis
Lectissimus summo cum suorum dolore
vitam cum morte commutavit 18 die
Octobris 1680
H.M,
Maria soror : maestis ex testamento
Alexandri fratris charissimi haeres posuit.
Hie etiam jacet Anna Worth ejusdem
Fran, uxor quae obijt 3 Apl. 1686.

Thanks most kindly,
Keith

[DOB7]

FYI - there is also a burial for a Symon, sonne of Mr Francis WORTH 16 Jan 1670 Exeter St Pancras.

[ciderdrinker]

Good Morning
Let's start with a couple of burials
Mr Edward Foxall at St Pancras Exeter 1.2.1692/3
Margaret Foxall wife of Mr Edward Foxall  at St Pancras 21.3.1687.

So Edward's wife must have been Margaret.
Daughter Ann/Anna future wife of Francis Worth bapt at St Petrock 25.4.1647 d of Edward and Magaret Foxall.

Her memorial with Francis at St Petrock suggest he was indeed from Worths of Washfield
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131198365/francis-worth

(looking at it I think Henry Worth  and Elizabeth Fry were his grandparents not parents .He was baptised at Washfield  4.5.1645 s of Henry so with so many Henry's it's difficult to know).

Ann/Anna would be 24 when her first child John Worth was born so that fits.

Going on to the Walronds ,You say they are great grandchildren but the Will says grandchildren.
Could it be that Edward Foxall who married Ann Burrington was your original Edward and his first wife. Margaret born 1641 ,would be Anna's older sister. Childbirth was a dangerous event in the seventeenth century and the death of the mother wouldn't be unusual. He then remarried someone called Margaret.
Like you I can't find a record of the marriage.

Ciderdrinker

[keithj]

Good Morning
Let's start with a couple of burials
Mr Edward Foxall at St Pancras Exeter 1.2.1692/3

> I have this burial

Margaret Foxall wife of Mr Edward Foxall  at St Pancras 21.3.1687.

> I didn't have this burial

So Edward's wife must have been Margaret.
Daughter Ann/Anna future wife of Francis Worth bapt at St Petrock 25.4.1647 d of Edward and Magaret Foxall.

Her memorial with Francis at St Petrock suggest he was indeed from Worths of Washfield
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131198365/francis-worth

> Agreed.....

(looking at it I think Henry Worth  and Elizabeth Fry were his grandparents not parents .He was baptised at Washfield  4.5.1645 s of Henry so with so many Henry's it's difficult to know).

> According to Vivian's Visitations of Devon, the parents of Henry Worth (father of Francis) were
> Henry Worth of Worth and Dorothy nee Bampfylde.

Ann/Anna would be 24 when her first child John Worth was born so that fits.

Going on to the Walronds ,You say they are great grandchildren but the Will says grandchildren.

> No, I said they were grandchildren.

Could it be that Edward Foxall who married Ann Burrington was your original Edward and his first wife. Margaret born 1641 ,would be Anna's older sister. Childbirth was a dangerous event in the seventeenth century and the death of the mother wouldn't be unusual. He then remarried someone called Margaret.

> Ah, I hadn't picked the Margaret as a second wife. Thanks so much.

Like you I can't find a record of the marriage.

Ciderdrinker

At the moment I'm going with the wife of Francis Worth as Ann Foxwell because of the will of Edward Foxwell. I've put a , admittedly rather poor, translation of the MI below:

A Translation (my somewhat primitive attempt):
Francis and Alexander
Worth, children of Henry Worth
Of Worth in county Devon, armiger
He served excellently in the Common Council of Exeter
Where his name was exalted
On 9 July 1675 he died
He was born not inferior in virtue to the young
The most distinguished with the sorrow of his fellows
He exchanged life for death 18th day of October 1680
H.M.
Sister Mary: you have left
The heirs of your beloved brother Alexander, here also
Lies Anna Worth, the wife of the same Fran, who died on April 3, 1686.

There is a burial of a Mrs Ann Worth on 6 April 1686 at St Petrock, Exeter.

Thanks for the information,
Keith