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Agnes SKIRRETT
Est 1556 - Yes, date unknown
Has 5 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name Agnes SKIRRETT Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Est 1556 - Date estimated from estimate of date of marriage. See marriage notes re info. that Edmund Dunriche married an Agnes and a SKIRRETT.
Gender Female Died Yes, date unknown 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 I22224 All Last Modified 9 Mar 2022
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 Edmund DUNRICHE, b. Abt 1555, d. Yes, date unknown Married Est 1578 - In Edmund's answer to the sixth interrogatory on behalf of the defendant Edward Skirrett (dispute re Sortridge, TNA ref: C21/G24/5; deposition given Jan 1637/8), is included: "this Depont saith that he and the said Justice Glanvill marryed two sisters".
Two documents, dated 1588 and 1620, refer to Edmund's wife as Agnes. Whilst it is possible that it was before 1588 or after 1620 that he was married to a Skirrett it is probable that Agnes was Agnes née Skirrett. This is especially so since Edmund's daughter Thomasine was married by William Skirrett, presumably since he was her uncle, provided her mother was a Skirrett, though this could still have happened if her mother had died and her father remarried.
Offspring - In 1600 at St. Stephens in Saltash a Margaret Dunriche married:
"1601. April 13. William Dobell and Margaret Dunriche."
(from "Heraldic church notes from Cornwall", p.135)
Was Margaret their daughter? I think it quite likely, I suspect it is not a coincidence that their daughter Thomasin had also married a Doble, and both Thomasin and their son Giles had married in Saltash parish, but it could be that whilst it was not a coincidence two cousins both married Dobles.
Hence, for the moment, I have not added Margaret as the daughter of Edmund and his wife.
Children2 children Last Modified 9 Mar 2022 Family ID F8770 Family Group Page | Family Chart