Thomas Fytche

Abt 1465 - 1514  (~ 49 years)

• Name	Thomas Fytche  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1465	Wicken Bonhunt, Essex, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Apr 1514	Lindsell, Essex, England   [1]
  Person ID	I3521	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2024

  
  

  Father	John Fytche,   b. Abt 1437
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Juliana Unknown,   b. Abt 1437
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Y  [1]
  Family ID	F992	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Agnes Algore,   b. Abt 1472, Bynwoods, Essex, England
  Marriage	22 Dec 1490  [1]
  Children	1. Richard Fytche,   b. Abt 1492  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Margaret Fytche,   b. Abt 1494  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. William Fytche,   b. Abt 1496  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Thomas Fytche,   b. Abt 1498  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 5. Roger Fytche,   b. Abt 1500, Lindsell, Essex, England d. 12 Jan 1558/59, Panfield, Essex, England (Age ~ 59 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Katharine Fytche,   b. 1503   d. 1505 (Age 2 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Joan Fytche,   b. 1511  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F983	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2024

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1465 - Wicken Bonhunt, Essex, England Death - 21 Apr 1514 - Lindsell, Essex, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Biography from wikitree: Found to be heir of his father by inquisition at the manor court of Widdington on 9 April 1468, he being then aged 3 years. On 9 Nov 1487, Thomas was admitted to his inheritance of land at the Widdington manor court. The clerk quoted from the record of 9 Apr 1468 noting the death of John Fytche. Thomas and Agnes were married before 22 Dec 1490: Court record, dated 22 Dec 1490: "To this court came Robert Algore & Margaret, his wife...and surrendered into the hands of the lord a tenement called Bynwodes...and the lord re-granted the same to the said Margaret and her daughter, Agnes, wife of Thomas Fytche." One might speculate that Agnes was less than 21 years old when she married and that her mother acted temporarily as custodian for her. Thomas and Agnes had 11 children -- six sons & five daughters -- as pictured on the church brass at St. Mary's. On 21 Dec 1497 in Essex , Thomas Fytche "took from hands of the lord" 12 acres of land in field called Baresley next tenement called Hubberdes, etc. in tenure of said Thomas Fytche, etc. In Nov 1505, "Thomas Fitch, as son and heir of Juliana Fitch, admitted to three roods of land and one acre of meadow in field called Cressewelfeld and Cresswelmedowe etc. formerly belonging to Juliana wife of John Fitch who was after wife of Richard Westely, which Richard Westeley after the death (a long time before this court) of Juliana, for 30 years held said land and occupied without licence and authority of this court." On 21 Dec 1511, "Thomas Fytche and Agnes his wife exchange for one acre of land called Blakacre lately in tenure of Margaret Yorde, widow and Robert her son, one acre of land caled Ryklottes-acre lately in tenure of Robert Algore." His death was reported at the Court of the Manor of Lindsell 23 December 1514 and at the Court of the Manor of Widdington 9 November 1514. His grave is in the center aisle of the old parish church at St. Mary's in Lindsell. A brass, commemorating Thomas (and Agnes) is set in the floor before the chancel arch. The inscription (on a plate 17 x 2-1/2") immediately below the principal figures reads (translated): Here lies Thomas Fytche and Agnes his wife, which same Thomas died the twenty-first day of April in the year of our Lord 1514; on whose souls may God have mercy." There is also a set of stained-glass portraits in the east window over the altar; portrayed in separate are two couples at prayer: one portraying Thomas & Agnes, and the other their son William and his first wife, Elizabeth. These may have been commissioned by William, who had bought Lindsell Hall in 1529 and got title to the church in 1543. Sources A Fitch Family History - English Ancestors of the Fitches of Colonial Connecticut by John T. Fitch, publ. 1990 by Picton Press, Camden, Maine History of the Fitch family A.D. 1400-1930 : a record of the Fitches in England and America, by Roscoe Conkling Fitch, publ. 1930 http://billputman.com/the-genealogy/canaday-related-families/Fitch1.pdf The Fitch Family, based on John T. Fitch's A Fitch Family History.

  
  

• Sources

  [S386] John T Fitch, William Fytche of Little Canfield and his Descendants, (Name: Newbury Street Press; Location: 101 Newbury St Boston, Mass; Date: 2001;).