William Hexstall

- 1481

• Name	William Hexstall  [1, 2]
  Birth	of Heckstall, Staffordshire, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Hextall's Court, East Peckham, Kent, England   [2]
  Alternate birth	of Kent, England   [4]
  Alternate death	1470  [4]
  Death	Between 24 Aug 1470 and 30 Sep 1481  [5]
  Person ID	I19335	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2021

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret Bromley,   b. Bef 7 Nov 1411
  Marriage	Bef 1423  [5]
  Children	+ 1. Joane Hexstall   d. Aft 26 Apr 1467
  Family ID	F11996	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Joan
  Marriage	Abt 1438  [5]
  Children	+ 1. Margaret Hexstall,   b. Abt 1440, of Hextall's Court, East Peckham, Kent, England d. Bef 21 Dec 1497 (Age ~ 57 years)
  Family ID	F18792	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Knight of the shire for Surrey, 1449. Sub-sheriff of Staffordshire 1431-35. He is said in various visitation pedigrees and other genealogical sources to have been a son of Richard de Hexstall and Anne Grovehurst (supposedly a daughter of Richard Grovehurst of Horsmondon, Kent), the former a son of Richard or Thomas de Hexstall and Elizabeth Hewet (definitely a daughter of John Hewet and Catherine Boweles). On 27 Jan 2021, Butler University historian Scott Swanson posted a long post to soc.genealogy.medieval summarizing everything that can be established about this William Hexstall, in the course of which he established that the aforementioned "Richard de Hexstall" almost certainly did not exist, but was instead the result of confusion on the part of Thomas Philipott in his 1776 Villare Cantianum; or Kent Surveyed and Illustrated. Thomas de Hexstall and Elizabeth Hewet existed, and were married to one another, but no evidence exists that they had a son named Richard. A Henry Hexstall married a Joan Grovehurst (daughter or sister and coheir of Richard Grovehurst) by 15 Nov 1466. But nothing exists to confirm the alleged parentage of this William Hexstall.

  
  

• Sources

  [S317] The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Haven, Connecticut: 1933. [S5158] Blechingley: A Parish History by Uvedale Lambert. London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1921. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S376] Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy.