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Mary SKIRRETT
Est 1570 - Aft 1637 (~ 68 years)
Has 5 ancestors and 33 descendants in this family tree.
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Name Mary SKIRRETT Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Est 1570 - Mary's father's name is shown as John Skirrett in Vivian (Cornwall Visitations, Glanville tree p. 177, where he is shown as of Whitchurch; info from 1620 visitation, signed off by Oliver, presumably Mary's son). There were, though, two John Skirretts, father and son, who could theoretically have been the father of Mary. The younger, born about 1554 is young enough to be unlikely. There is also no evidence I have come across of him having a son Edward.
Frustratingly Mary's husband John Glanville refers to 'my brother Skirrett' in his will but, unlike for everyone else mentioned there, does not give his Christian name!
However, later in the same will he does refer to Edward Skirrett; it seems likely that he was the 'brother Skirrett' referred to.
While both the above suggest that John the elder was the father of Mary, stronger evidence is in the answer of Mary's husband John in a Star Chamber case (ref. STAC 5/C3/18). In this a reference is made to their marriage being arranged by John's uncle John, the significant words being in bold (my emphasis):
"John Glanvyle of naturall love & affection wch he bare to this Defendant 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".
Gender Female Died Aft 1637 - Living when her husband John Glanville wrote his will in 1612.
Died after Chancery Court case which resulted in final decree in 1637, which speaks of her as a defendant.
Siblings5 brothers and 3 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 I21516 All Last Modified 24 Jan 2024
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 1 John GLANVILLE, b. Est 1566, d. Between 27 Jan 1611/12 and 20 May 1612 (Age ~ 46 years)
Other Partners: Christian ESTCOTT m. 12 Feb 1587/88Married 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
Family 2 Christopher BROOKING, bur. 1627, St. Mary’s Church, Totnes, Devon, England Marriage License 16 Dec 1613 Exeter, Devon, England - From Vivian's Marriage Licences of Exeter Diocese, shows 'Christopher Broking of Tottnes, Merchant, and Mary Glanfield of Launceston.'
Married Abt 1614 - Assumed from marriage licence.
No indication of this marriage in Vivian's Visitations, but a widow Mary Brooking, who had been the wife of John Glanvile of Launceston and who was 'mother' of Oliver was a defendant in a Chancery Court case of 1637.
Last Modified 4 Oct 2016 Family ID F8648 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- Mary's father's name is shown as John Skirrett in Vivian (Cornwall Visitations, Glanville tree p. 177, where he is shown as of Whitchurch; info from 1620 visitation, signed off by Oliver, presumably Mary's son). There were, though, two John Skirretts, father and son, who could theoretically have been the father of Mary. The younger, born about 1554 is young enough to be unlikely. There is also no evidence I have come across of him having a son Edward.
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Married - Abt 20 Sep 1588 - St. Eustachius’ Church, Tavistock, Devon, England 
Child - Mary GLANVILLE - 20 Apr 1596 - St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, Launceston, Cornwall, England 
Marriage License - 16 Dec 1613 - Exeter, Devon, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
