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John GLANVILLE
Est 1566 - 1612 (~ 46 years)
Has 6 ancestors and 33 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name John GLANVILLE Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Est 1566 Gender Male Residence 1 Feb 1599/00 Launceston, Cornwall, England 
- Referred to in an indenture which his uncle John Glanville was party to on 1 Feb 1599/1600 (where referred to as gentleman of Tavistock)
Civic duty From 1607 to 1608 Launceston, Cornwall, England Mayor of the Borough of Dunheved - List on the Launceston then! website shows 'John Glanville' as Mayor for the year 1607-8, following in the footsteps of his master and aunt's Dionis' husband, William Grills. There was a change of mayor each year in the borough at this time, but with the same names performing the office again a few years later. His early death meant John did not appear again, but his son Oliver did.
Occupation 1612 Launceston, Cornwall, England Merchant - Described himself as such when he wrote his will
Will 27 Jan 1611/12 Written Died Between 27 Jan 1611/12 and 20 May 1612 - Between writing his will and it being proved
Probate 20 May 1612 Prerogative Court of Canterbury, London, England Siblings1 brother and 1 sister Patriarch & Matriarch 
Richard GLANVILLE, d. Yes, date unknown (Great Grandfather)
Jone CORNISH, d. Yes, date unknown (Mother)Person ID I20605 All Last Modified 24 Jan 2024
Father Thomas GLANVILLE, b. Est 1539, d. Between 1589 and 1 Feb 1599/00 (Age ~ 50 years) Mother Jone CORNISH, d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F8157 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 1 Christian ESTCOTT, d. Abt 1588 Married 12 Feb 1587/88 St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, Launceston, Cornwall, England - John's wife shown in Vivian (Cornwall Visitations, Glanville p. 177, from 1620 Visitation info.); on tree signed by Oliver, presumably the son of this couple.
Date and place of marriage from transcribed data on FamilySearch, where given as 12 Feb 1587, OS or NS not clear. This image of a transcription clearly has Jan - Feb entries in a year after April - Dec, and also shows the marriage as in 1587, so it seems safe to assume the date is OS, Names given as Christian Eastcott and John Gianvile. From LDS film 246763, 'Cornwell County monumental inscriptions and parish register extracts, abt. 1700-1900.', parish register extracts 1563-1812 for Parish Church of Launceston; source of extracts not given.
The short time between the marriage and Christian's death (no more than 7 months) means that few if any of John's children could be the children of Christian, although shown as such in Vivian (Cornwall Visitations).
Last Modified 30 Mar 2023 Family ID F8821 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 2 Mary SKIRRETT, b. Est 1570, d. Aft 1637 (Age ~ 68 years)
Other Partners: Christopher BROOKING m. Abt 1614Married Abt 20 Sep 1588 St. Eustachius’ Church, Tavistock, Devon, England - The date I show is that on which the uncle of the groom "did p[ro]cure a marryadg to be had & solempnized ..." (details below). I think this is probably not the date of the marriage, but an earlier one - possibly when a licence was obtained, or a settlement agreed.
It was John's uncle, also called John Glanville, who made the arrangements, and
"in further good will to this Defendt did bestowe uppon him his marriage dynn[er] and certeyne money of his owne purse, and to the same m[ar]iage invyted div[er]se of the chieffest inhabitantes of the said Towne of Tavistocke the most parte of them beinge very neere allyed unto this Defendt or his said wieffe, wch frinds and allyantes so invyted to the said marryage together wth the said John Glanvyle and the said Nicholas Glanvyle were contented of meere good will to accompany this Defendant and his wiefe ^ the next daye home to the Towne of Launceston being the place where this defendant had settled himselfe to dwell, whose coming beinge knowen to the Townsemen of Launceston aforesaid div[er]se of the maisters and best inhabitantes of the same Towne in very kind and curteous mann[er] mett wth this Defendant and the Rest about 3 myles from the Towne and accompanyed them into the Towne of Launceston".
[source - see note 2 below]
This clearly implies the marriage had taken place in Tavistock.
Vivian (Cornwall Vistations, pedigree signed by Oliver, presumably son of John) gives name of Mary but shows all John's children were by his first wife, Christian. This could be an error in Vivian - a line in the wrong place linking the children to the wrong marriage. A book produced in 1882, i.e. after Vivian published his first edition of Cornwall Vivistations (1874), claims that 'The Herald's Visitation of Cornwall says that John Glanville had issue by Christiana, but the Parish Registers of Launceston asserts that she died one year after her marriage.' ; the actual date given for Christian's death is May 1588. Although the book is not a reliable one, there is other evidence in support of this:
1. Mary is described as the mother (rather than step-mother) of Oliver in both John's will and the decree in a Chancery Court case. Whilst in-laws and occasionally step-children / parents etc. were sometimes referred to without the inclusion of 'in-law' etc. the amount of evidence here does seem to point to Mary being the mother of John's children.
2. In a Star Chamber case (ref. STAC 5/C3/18, answer of John Glanville and Francis Dunne) this marriage, of John Glanville to Mary Skirrett, is described as being arranged by another John Glanville, uncle of this John to the other John's wife's sister "about the xxth of September in the xxxth yere of her mates Raigne the said John Glanvyle of naturall love & affection wch he bare to this Defendant [this John Glanville] being his brothers sonne did p[ro]cure a marryadg to be had & solempnized betweene the said Defendt and a sister of the said John Glanvyles wiefe being brought upp in Tavistocke ..."
Children7 children Last Modified 24 Jan 2024 Family ID F8503 Family Group Page | Family Chart