John Baker, of Claypitt

Notes:

John Baker of Claypitt and half of Court Place (inherited from William Gibbe of Claypitt: second son: buried at Clyst St. George 7 August 1638. Will dated 16 May 1638; proved 27 September 1639 in the Principal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter.

The Administration mentions John Baker's brother William, wife Joan, sons John, Daniel, Ralph, daughter Jane. Copy of his son John's nuncupative will, proved 22 August 1701 is in 'Aldenham General Collections', Vol. CI, 33.

John married Joan Fillmore on 16 Apr 1631. Joan was born in 1611. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

married Jane Gibbe. Jane (daughter of John Gibbe, of Claypitt and Cecily Coade) was born in 1582; died after 1631. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 9 Nov 1582, Clyst St George, Devon

Notes:

Aged '40' or more in 1631.

Notes:

Taxed at Clyst St. George 1581, buried there 14 December 1593. Will dated 10 October, proved 20 December 1593 in the Consistory Court of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter or the Archdeaconry Court of Exeter. Monumental Inscriptions in Clyst St. George church.

Succeeded his father at Claypitt. His Monumental Inscriptions are on a brass on the south wall of Clyst St. George church and a tile on the nave floor. Both give December 1594 for his burial, which is obviously wrong, no such burial being in the Register. His will mentions his wife Cecily, son William, daughters Margaret, Christian, and Jane the wife of Baker. Residuary legatee of William, the rector, Rev. William Gybbe.

John married Cecily Coade in 1565 in Clyst St George, Devon. Cecily was born before 1545; died after 1585. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Daughter of ..... Coade and Christian his wife. Married at Clyst St. George 1565: Churchwarden 1597.

The date of marriage of John and Cecily, as also the date of burial of George (father-in-law) are earlier than any entries in the existing Registers of Clyst St. George. They are mentioned in the Preface to the transcription of the Registers, printed in 1899, as to be seen in a MS. book called 'Woodbury Malt Book' into which Matthew Lee of Woodbury copied them from leaves of the Registers which have been lost. The greater part of the said MS. was copied in full in 1854 into H.H. Gibbs' 'Aldenham General Collections', Vol. A., pp. 475-559 and abstracts on pp. 395-6. The MS., written about 1761, was then owned by Lee's grandson, Col. B. W. Lee of Ebford Barton, Woodbury. Besides extracts from the Clyst St. George Registers it contains extracts from the Woodbury Registers, Woodbury Churchwardens' Book and 'Woodbury Malt Book' proper or Church Rate Book. (The last mentioned extracts are printed in the 'Archaelogical Journal, Vol. XL, p. 225).

Cecily's mother, Christian, (buried at Clyst St. George, 1577) married secondly, Roger Matthew (buried at Clyst St. George). Matthew's will, proved by wife Christian, 11 May 1571 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Doctors Commons, London, mentions his step-granddaughters, Margaret Tristram and Julian Gibbe and their father John Gibbe; witness Rev. William Gibbe. Christian's will, proved 4 April 1577 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Doctors Commons, London, mentions her son-in-law John Gibbe and daughter Cecily his wife, her grandson WIlliam Gibbe, her grandaughters Margaret Tristram and Julian Gibbe.

Notes:

Taxed there 1524, 1543 and 1546, bought Claypitt there 1560; buried at Clyst St. George 1562.

Claypitt, which no longer exists, was situated near to and South of the church at Clyst St. George. For George's purchase of it from Lord Wentworth through William, the rector, see entry for Rev. William Gybbe. The agreement shows that it was '1 messuage, 1 garden, 20 acres of land, 1 acre of meadow and 2 acres of marshland'.