John Speccot

John Speccot

Male - 1677

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  John Speccot (son of Paul Speccot and Grace Halswell); died on 23 Dec 1677; was buried on 10 Jan 1677/78 in Egloskerry, Cornwall.

    John married Honor Eliot on 15 Feb 1663/64 in St. Germans, Cornwall. Honor (daughter of John Eliot and Honor Norton) was born before 19 Oct 1634; was christened on 19 Oct 1634 in Southwick, Hampshire; died before 25 Sep 1692; was buried on 25 Sep 1692 in Egloskerry, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Notes:

    Married:
    • "A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall" edited by Joseph Palsue, Vol. 4, 1872, page 245-6:
    Tresemere is situated in the deanery of Trigg Major and hundred of East; it is bounded on the north by Tremaine and the Devon parish of N. Petherwin; on the east by Egloskerry; on the south by Lancast; and on the west by Treneglos.
    . . . The church was dedicated in September, 1505, to S. Winwolaus who was the first abbot of Landevenac, founded by Count Grallo in Armorica, France; he is said to have died A.D. 504. . . . In the chancel is a piscina with a gabled or pointed head. The royal arms are dated "G.R. II., 1730." On a panel of one of the pews is a part of a shield on which were impaled the arms of Speccot and Eliot. John the son of Paul Speccot, who is supposed to have RESIded at Trehummer in this parish, married in 1661, Honor, daughter of John Eliot, of Port Eliot.

    Children:
    1. John Speccot was born before 19 Apr 1665; was christened on 19 Apr 1665 in Egloskerry, Cornwall; died before 20 Jul 1705; was buried on 20 Jul 1705 in Egloskerry, Cornwall.
    2. Paul Speccot was born before 01 Jan 1665/66; was christened on 01 Jan 1665/66 in Egloskerry, Cornwall; died before 12 Mar 1670/71; was buried on 12 Mar 1670/71 in Egloskerry, Cornwall.
    3. Dorothy Speccot was born before 12 Nov 1668; was christened on 12 Nov 1668 in Egloskerry, Cornwall.
    4. Humphrey Speccot was born before 17 Mar 1668/69; was christened on 17 Mar 1668/69 in Egloskerry, Cornwall.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Paul Speccot (son of John Speccot and Elizabeth Edgcomb); died before 26 Oct 1644 in Penhele, Egloskerry, Cornwall; was buried on 26 Oct 1644 in Egloskerry, Cornwall.

    Notes:


    --- "An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall" Vol. 2, Part 1, by Charles S. Gilbert, 1820, page 266
    SPECCOTT of Penhele, in Egloskerry. --- The family of Speccott, is of great antiquity in the counties of Cornwall and Devon, and of which, was John Speccott, esq. who served in parliament for the county of Cornwall, in the fifteenth of Edward III, 1341. Sir John Speccott, knt. settled at Penhele, in the beginning of the seventeenth century, and was chosen sheriff of Cornwall, in 1622. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe, esq. and sister to Sir Richard Ecgcumbe, knt. by whom he had issue a son Paul, who died at Penhele, in 1644. This Paul Speccott, esq. married Grace, daughter and coheiress of Robert Halswell, of Halswell, in the couty of Somerset, esq. by whom he was father of John, whose son and heir, was the right honorable Sir John Speccott, knt.

    Paul married Grace Halswell. Grace died before 27 Nov 1636; was buried on 27 Nov 1636 in Egloskerry, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Grace Halswell died before 27 Nov 1636; was buried on 27 Nov 1636 in Egloskerry, Cornwall.
    Children:
    1. 1. John Speccot died on 23 Dec 1677; was buried on 10 Jan 1677/78 in Egloskerry, Cornwall.
    2. Elizabeth Speccot


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  John Speccot (son of Humphrey Speccot and Elizabeth Walter); died before 13 Oct 1645.

    John married Elizabeth Edgcomb. Elizabeth died before 1620. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Elizabeth Edgcomb died before 1620.
    Children:
    1. Elizabeth Speccot
    2. 2. Paul Speccot died before 26 Oct 1644 in Penhele, Egloskerry, Cornwall; was buried on 26 Oct 1644 in Egloskerry, Cornwall.
    3. Peter Speccot was born about 1595.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Humphrey Speccot was born about 1532.

    Humphrey married Elizabeth Walter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Elizabeth Walter
    Children:
    1. 4. John Speccot died before 13 Oct 1645.
    2. Edmond Speccot died on 06 May 1620.