Anne ‘Joane’ Culpeper

'Jane Colepeper'. Her undated will, written between 1541 - 1549, mentions 2 sons John, daughter Churcher [SIC: Shurley], 2nd daughter Alice, youngest daughter Elizabeth.

Notes

Maiden name “Shorter” is given in Visitations of Sussex 1530 and Dalloway's Hist of W Sussex Vol 1 p16. :

https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000108541981042&

Thomas Fenner of Crawley. 19 H 7. [1503/4] married ... d of ... Shorter. He was the son of Elizabeth, daughter of John Wodye of Iwhurst & Thomas Fenner of Crawley. 39 H 6. [1460/1]. Their son John Fenner of Crawley. 19 H 8. [1527/8] Married ...d of John Goring (Elinor or Eleanor)

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Thomas Culpeper of Crawley, Esq., who from the Inq. P.M. of John Fenner and from the will of his uncle, Richard Culpeper, appears to have been married shortly before 1513 (when her younger son was aged four year) to Anne, the widow of Thomas Fenner, his son, who died shortly before his father. The will of John Fenner, the father, and Thomas Fenner, the son, were both proved in P.C.C. in 1513. John Fenner gives his messuage in Crawley with certain lands to Anne Fenner, late the wife of Thomas Fenner, his son, and nor;• the wife of Thomas Culpeper, for her life. She is also to have his lands in Ifeld called Bonewyks and Westland until her younger son, John Fenner, aged four years, shall attain the age of 21. "Anne" describes herself in her will as "Joane," widow of Thomas Culpeper of Crawley, Esq., and as she mentions no Culpepers in it we may assume that she left no issue by her second husband. Her will is not dated, but was proved between 1541-1549. Her husband, Thomas Culpeper, is probably the defendant in an action, William Williams, clerk, versus Thomas Culpeper.

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A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elrington, S M Keeling and A M Rowland, 'Ifield: Manors and other estates', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 3, Bramber Rape (North-Eastern Part) Including Crawley New Town, ed. T P Hudson (London, 1987), pp. 60-63. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt3/pp60-63 [accessed 3 October 2019].

The manor of BONWICKS was held of Ifield in 1566. (fn. 52) A Walter of Bonwick owned land possibly in Ifield in the 13th century, (fn. 53) and a yardland, 46 a., and rents in Ifield were settled on John Bonwick in 1381-2. (fn. 54) The 110 a. of land together with rents in Ifield settled on Thomas Fenner in 1506-7 (fn. 55) may have been the same, since John Fenner died seised of Bonwicks c. 1513. John's estate, subject to the life interest of his daughter-in-law Anne, then the wife of Thomas Culpeper, descended to his grandson John, (fn. 56) presumably the John Fenner who died seised of Bonwicks manor, then first so called, and 320 a. in Ifield and Rusper in 1566, leaving as heir his son Dudley. (fn. 57) Thomas Gage was said to be lord in 1579. (fn. 58)

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Transcript of the Lay Subsidy Roll of 1524/5 for Sussex, showing Richard Fenner assessed as having an income of £4 from land in Crawley - the amount quoted in the will of John Fenner 1513. Thomas Culpeper, who lived at Rowley house, Lowfield Heath, is paying far and away the most. This could include the obligations of his wife, who held John Fenner's inheritance lands until her children came of age. From http://www.sussexrecordsociety.org.uk/booki.asp?BookId=srs056088&Xi...

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John Fenner In England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858. Name John Fenner Probate Date 7 Sep 1511. Residence Crawley, Sussex, England. AncestryImage

John Fenner of Crawley in Sussex, in the diocese of Chichester. Joan, Allice and Elizabeth the daughters of Thomas Fenner my son, lately deceased. John Fenner the elder and John Fenner the younger, sons of Thomas (both living at the time of the will). Anne Fenner the widow of Thomas. Richard her son.. John Fenner the younger is 4 years old.

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References

• https://archive.org/details/sussexarchaeolog48suss/page/67
• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~lewgriffin/family/g0/p272.htm#i8696 cites
• Col. F.W.T. Attree R.E./F.S.A. & Rev. J.H.L. Booker M.A., "The Sussex Colepepers, Part II", Sussex Archaeological Collections, XLVIII,65-98, (1905)
• https://archive.org/details/notesofpostmorte00greauoft/page/88
• MyHeritage tree