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WALCOT

FAMILY

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Number of people in the Walcot Family in my tree:

73 male

45 female

Total 118

The Walcot name may have slight variations in spelling e.g. Walcott, Wallcott or the
same permutations of Wolcot.

* Sir John Walcot was living at Walcot, Co Salop (Shropshire), England, in the sixth
year of the reign of King Richard ll (circa 1383). He married and had an only daughter
and heiress,

* Jane Walcot. She married the welsh Lord of Garthmael, David ap Rees ap Iorwerth
ap Trahairn (ap stands for "son of" as the Normans use the prefix "Fitz") and had a son,

* Ievan who took the name of Walcot by the desire of his mother, heiress of Walcot
and inherited the Walcot estates. He married Anne, daughter of John Mynd. And had a
son,

* Roger Walcot (born about 1349) married Edith, a daughter of Sir W Downes,
Knight, and had a son,

* Sir Philip Walcot, Knight, married probably about 1401, Julian, daughter of John
Herley of Hereford. Their son,

* John married in about 1437, Maud (Matilda), daughter of Sir Richard (de)
Cornewall, (Cornwall) Baron of Burford descended from King John of England (and
beyond; see Ralph Ryther, born ca 1445 and died 1520, who married Maud Percy).
Their great-grandson,

* John Walcot (born ca 1530) of Walcot, married Margaret, daughter of Edmund
Plowden of Plowden Hall, Shropshire. Their son,

* John Walcot who died before 1582, married Mary Newton and had two sons and
two daughters of which

* Charles Walcot (died 1596) married Margaret Eisham as his first wife and had a son

* Charles Walcot who married about 1610 as his second wife, Elizabeth Games. They
had five children of which

1. Mary Walcot born about 1629, married Charles Minchin, son of John, an
adventurer in Ireland

2. Col. Thomas Walcot (died 1683) of Croagh, Co Limerick, Ireland. He was
executed in 1683 for his part in the Rye House Plot. This was a conspiracy to
assassinate Charles II and his brother, James, Duke of York as they travelled from
Newmarket races to London past Rye House in Hertfordshire. The plot was aborted
but was betrayed to the government. However, his attainder was reversed (8 William
III) (Howell's State Trials ix., p 669; Kennet, iii, 400) in favour of his eldest son, John
Walcot. Col. Thomas married Jane Blayney and had nine children, of which

* Catherine Walcot (born ca 1658) married William Fitzgerald of Six-Mile-Bridge and
Moy Castle, Co Clare, Ireland. Their daughter Eleanor Fitzgerald (born ca 1701)
married John Minchin Walcot (He assumed the surname Walcott on succeeding to the
Croagh Estate on the death of his kinsman John Walcott in March 1736. Educated at
Trinity College, Dublin, he was called to the Irish Bar in 1726; was MP for Askeaton
1751.