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John SKIRRETT
Est 1554 - 1583 (~ 29 years)
Has 5 ancestors and 44 descendants in this family tree.
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Name John SKIRRETT Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Est 1554 - Estimated from John being the oldest son, and approximate date of birth of his brother William (described as eldest son in Chancery Court case of 1630)
Gender Male Occupation 1576 Attornie - On p.90 of Tavistock PRs (Worth) is a reference to an attorney called John Skerrit. I think it was probably this John.
Died 1583 - I think it was probably this John for whom admon was granted in 1583. A Chancery Court case suggests his mother remarried about 1572, which means his father must have died by then.
Siblings4 brothers and 4 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
Thomas SKIRRETT, b. Est 1495, d. Aft 1524 (Age ~ 30 years) (Grandfather)
Thomasine LANDERE, b. Est 1530, bur. Between 3 May 1594 and 3 May 1595, St. Eustachius’ Church, Tavistock, Devon, England
(Age ~ 64 years) (Mother) Person ID I21181 All Last Modified 11 Jan 2021
Father John SKIRRETT, Gent., b. Est 1525, d. Bef 1572 (Age ~ 46 years) Mother Thomasine LANDERE, b. Est 1530, bur. Between 3 May 1594 and 3 May 1595, St. Eustachius’ Church, Tavistock, Devon, England (Age ~ 64 years)
Other Partners: John GLANVILLE m. Abt 1572Married Bef 1560 - Thomasine had been married to John Skirrett before she married John Glanville (according to Chancery case of 1630 - TNA ref. C 2/ChasI/S55/8)
A son of her son William Skirrett was born about 1584, so the marriage was unlikely to have been any later than 1560, given that William was her third son.
Alumni oxonienses shows an age for William at matriculation suggesting he was born about 1562; her children are not likely to have been born closer than a year apart suggesting the oldest born no later than 1560, possibly a few years earlier.
Offspring - Names and birth order of sons John, Edward and William recorded in answer in Chancery Court case, TNA ref: C 2/ChasI/S55/8. Thomas is not mentioned in that document (possibly because neither Thomas nor any descendants were livng, or at least had no claim to compete with those in the case), but he is in the Skirrett pedigree in Vivian (citing information provided by Edward for the 1620 visitation); the visitation however makes no mention of John or William so the order of all 4 sons is not clear. Son William named a son Anthony, and an Anthony married in Plymouth in 1598 - possibly Anthony was a son of John and Thomasine as well.
Vivian shows 3 daughters of John and Thomasine. Alice clearly was their daughter from the Chancery case, the other two shown by Vivan, Margery and Loveday, are not mentioned in that Chancery case. The date of both marriages would mean they were marrying relatively late in life, if they really were daughters of Thomasine and John. Whilst possible I think they are more likely the daughters of another John (if their father was named as 'John' in the marriage licence info that Vivian saw). Loveday at least appears to have had children both by her marriage to Henry and a subsequent marriage; if she had been the daughter of John and Thomasine as Vivian shows she would have been too old. (I suspect the marriage licence info does not name their father, and am guessing they were the daughters of John and Thomasine's son William - to be investigated further).
In addition, Mary is described as a sister of Alice in an answer in a Star Chamber Case (see birth notes of Mary for details).
The unnamed daughter is from a reference in a Chancery Court case deposition in which Edmund Dunriche claims he and 'Justice Glanvill' had married two sisters.
Family ID F8369 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Johane, d. Yes, date unknown Married - Answer in Chancery Court case of 1630 refers to there being living children of John at that time but only names Charles. ('... John Skyrrett had issue one Charles Skyrrett & other Children yet livinge').
Wife's name
"Tavistock records" book contains an entry from the CWs accounts for 1588-89 "Skyrrett, garden late in tenure of John Skyrrett, on higher side of the waye leading to lnscombe, ij";" - it seems probable that the John Skyrrett referred to was this John, and Johane his widow.
Did a daughter Alice marry Robert Burdon?
Vivian p.115, citing the 1620 visitation (Harl. MS. 1164, fo. 40) shows an Alice, daughter of 'John Skerick of South Tavistock' was married to Robert Burdon, of Burdon in High Hampton.
Robert and Alice had children shown by the visitation to have been born c.1599, 1606 and 1608. No age or date given for others who died young so their first could have been earlier. This suggests Alice could have been a daughter of this John and his wife.However, I am concerned that the description recorded by Vivian is 'of South Tavistock' - Tavistock is not usually prefixed with South, should it be South Tawton? There seem to have been family/ies in South Tawton with similar names around this time. In particular, there was an Alse, daughter of John SHERIT (I think, surname faint and not clear) baptised in Hatherleigh in 1564. Hatherleigh is a neighbouring parish of Highampton and so Robert and Alse may well have known each other; perhaps it was this Alse who was living in South Tawton at the time of her marriage.
Children2 children Last Modified 11 Jan 2021 Family ID F8370 Family Group Page | Family Chart