Robert Brett

- 1540

• Name	Robert Brett  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 Sep 1540  [3, 4]
  Alternate death	Abt 1542  [5]
  Person ID	I7989	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	15 May 2018

  
  

  Family	Thomasyne Pillond,   b. of Pilland, Pilton, Devon, England
  Children	+ 1. Joan Brett
  Family ID	F4615	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Or Bright, Brite, etc. Escheator of Devon, 1527. Last steward of Pilton priory before the dissolution, after which he purchased the prior's house, now called "Bull House."

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S699] The Visitations of the County of Devon, Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620, with additions by J. L. Vivian. Devon: 1895. [S1982] Frederick Brown, "The Brett Family." Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 28:79, 1882. [S1981] Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, Etc., Copied from the Manuscript Collections of the Late Rev. Frederick Brown by Frederick Arthur Crisp. 1887., year only. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.