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Richard Davenport Sex: Male | | | |  | | Birth Date | 1543 Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom | | Death Date | 1623 JAN 09 Wigston, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom | | Father | William T Davenport | Born: 1520 Leicestershire, England | Died: 1600 | | Mother | Ann Edwards | Born: 1530 | Died: 1600 | | Richard Davenport
Notes: | Despite considerable work over many years nothing conclusive has yet been found about Richard’s immediate ancestors. Recently, however, DNA analysis of his present day descendants has confirmed that he was a descendant of the ancient Cheshire family and furthermore almost certainly from the Henbury branch. Knowing this, the most obvious possible link is with Edward Davenport (1504 – 1584) MP and Mayor of Coventry whom we know was a Henbury Davenport. However the DNA pattern of his descendants and that of Richard’s rules out a close connection. It has also been suggested that Richard descends from Thomas Davenport (c 1508 - 1558), wool merchant and Mayor of Leicester in 1553/4, but no trace has been found in Leicestershire or elsewhere of Thomas’s only son Harry. (In view of Thomas’s close business connections with Coventry it seems likely that he was from the Coventry family.)
| | Notes: | Richard first appears in the Wigston parish register of 1568 as the father at the baptism of a son, also Richard. Thereafter nine further children are baptised at appropriate intervals, five boys and four girls. In due course all the boys made their living from the land, three in Wigston, one in Kilby, one in Bushby (a village in the parish of Thurnby) and one at Kibworth Beauchamp. There was also the usual distribution for those times across occupations/social positions; three became yeomen, one a gentleman, and the youngest two husbandmen. Dimock Fletcher (see below) states that Richard himself was styled a gentleman though his source for this assertion has not yet been found.
| | Notes: | If we assume that he was, say, 25 when his first son was born then he himself would have been born in 1543 and aged 80 when he died. He married Alice, c 1567, buried 12 Nov 1624 in Wigston. Richard was enrolled as a Freeman of the Borough of Leicester in 1576 as a haberdasher and chandler. There is no record of him serving an apprenticeship and the date is much later than one would expect if this was his principal occupation and source of income; additionally none of his sons followed the trade. Thus one wonders if his membership was principally for social reasons – and his source of income was from the ownership of land. Indeed in 1599 Richard purchased two messuages, two cottages, four gardens, four orchards, and twenty four acres of land from Joan Freman, the widow of Ralph Freman. He was a churchwarden at All Saints, Wigston in 1604.
| | Notes: | Wigston, Leicestershire, UK
| |  | | Birth Date | 1546 Wigston, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom | | Death Date | 1624 Nov 12 Wigston, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom | | Father | | Born: | Died: | | Mother | | Born: | | | Married: 1567 | | | Alice Winifred Goodale Notes: | | | Individual Notes: | | | More Notes: | | | Individual Notes: | | | |
FOR=5067 Ancestors Chart | Parents 2 | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024 persons | - | William T Davenport
b.1520 Leicestershire, England
d.1600 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | Parents 2 | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024-persons | - | Ann Edwards
b.1530 Hartford, Huntingdonshire, England
d.1600 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | 2 persons | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 Persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024 persons | - | | | | |
