Sir Richard Chiverton (1616-1679)
And the Cornwall Connection
The following record of Sir Richards ancestry and family
tree is certainly a matter of interest, but that appears to be
all.
I think I have spent far too much time on this individual,
for he is not related to our Cheverton family in any way that I
can discern, but I still hope that some connection may be
established
between
the
Chevertons
of
the
IOW
and
the
Cheverton/Chivertons of Cornwall.
However, we start with the year 1087 when Sir Richard de
Chiverstone Knight (son of Sir William de Chiverstone Knight) is mentioned
in the Domesday Book of 1086 as holding the estates of
Chiverstone in Devon, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. In the
year 1221 (his descendant) Sir Henry de Chiverstone, Knight, died, and
his daughter and heiress the Lady Anne de Chiverstone, married William
Le 6th Compte de Meulan, Vicompte de Pont-Au-darner, and 3rd Earl of Worcester
etc.
He held the estates of Chiverstone in Devon, Cornwall,
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (in right of his wife).
In the year 1227 his French estates were forfeited. Their
eldest son Sir John de Chiverstone, 7th Compte de Meulan and 4th Earl of
Worcester, was summoned to Parliament as a Baron. In the year 1226
he was living at his estates of Chiverstone, St Pirams and
Trevyrion in Cornwall. A branch of the family held the Isle of
Wight Manor until 1346 when it passed into other hands. In the
year 1415 the ‘de’ in front of Chiverstone was dropped and from
then on became Chiverton. In the years 1547 - 1549 Sir Henry Chiverton,
7th Compte de Meulan Knight, was Commissioner of Cornwall, and he was
MP for Cornwall and Knight of the Shire from 1552 to 1558. He
died in the year 1563.
In the year 1615 Henry, the 20th Compte de Meulan (grandson of Sir
Henry) married The Lady Emlyn Buller, a daughter of Francis Buller de gure
26th Compte de Brionne of Shillington Manor in Cornwall, claimant to
the Earldom of Devonshire, being cousin and co-heir of Edward Courtenay,
2nd Marquis of Exeter and 12th Earl of Devon, Compte de Brionne and Baron of
Oakhampton.
Henry died in 1620 aged 23 years, and was succeeded
by his son Sir Richard, born in 1616.
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Sir Richard (our most illustrious ancestor?? – see above Plate,
was the first Cornishman to be Lord Mayor of London. His title
was Richard Chiverton, 21st Compte de Meulan and he became an Alderman of
the City of London in 1649, High Sheriff of London 1650-1651, and
Lord mayor of London 1657-1658. He was Knighted twice; firstly by
Oliver Cromwell on the 12th March 1658, and secondly by King Charles
2nd on 22nd October 1663. Richard was the second son of Richard and
Isabel of Trehunsey, near Callington in Cornwall; the old Manor House
is in ruins now. Richard’s father was on the Admission Register of
Lincolns Inn, London, in 1570. His elder brother, Henry, was
admitted in October 1612.
Sir Richard’s Ancestry in Cornwall
Sir Richard Chiverton was from a prominent family as we shall
see. His pedigree was established in 1620 on occasion of the
visitation of the Heralds to Cornwall. Later, when Richard achieved
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some fame as Lord Mayor, an effort was probably made to enlarge
the pedigree; his signature appears on a paper showing at the
beginning a John de Chiverton of Trevivion living in the 40th year of the
reign of Henry III (1256).
Richard was in error however because
his line can only be traced with certainty back to John of
Perranuthnoe who died in 1318. Also, records show that Richard’s
father as sometimes Richard and sometimes Henry. Richard signed a
pedigree favouring Henry, which I suppose to be correct.
The family seat was at Prehunsey, where in the nearby church
at Quethiock, are buried Sir Richard’s parents, Richard and Isabell.
Ancestors on the female side have included:Lucy Trendenham
Melior de Eglosmerther
Thomasin Boscawen Rose
Joan Whalisborough
Clarence Cowling
Thomascine Earl
Alice Kyngdon
Isabell Polewhele
Richard Chiverton 1617 and wife 1631 - QUETHIOCK
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The inscription at the bottom of the above copy of the brass
states:
Richard
m
Isabell
Chiverton
Polwhele
of Trehunsey
died 1617
daughter of
Digoris
______________________________________
│
│
│
SIR RICHARD
HENRY
ELIZABETH
Lord Mayor
of London 1657
Eldest son
and others
Further translations of the above memorial stone appear on
page 8.
Both Richard’s mother (Isabell Polewhele) and paternal grandmother
(Alice Kyngdon) were members of old Cornish families. We will look
briefly at the Kyndons and the Polewheles before tracing the line
of Chiverton descent.
In the Quethiock church can be seen the brass of Roger Kyngdon
who died on March 3rd1471-2.
This well engraved brass above is
in good condition and shows Roger in civilian clothes, together
with his wife and 16 children.
The 11 sons are conspicuous by
their height and costume. It has been supposed that the one in
ecclesiastical dress was Master Walter Kyngdon sometime of the
parish of ‘Seynt Martens by Loo’ in Cornwall, while the tallest son
(who has a crown displayed on his left shoulder) was probably
Edward Kyngdon, Yeoman of the Guard in 1461 and 1484. The family
lived at Trehunsey through five generations, but Thomas, who died
before 1557 was the last of the male line. He was survived by
two daughters, Alice, who married Henry Chiverton, and Anne, who wed
William Vivian.
After the death of Thomas, the considerable Kyngdon property
was divided between the daughters, the part going to Alice and her
husband Henry Chiverton being:
3 messuages, 6 gardens, one cottage, two corn mills,
one forge, one dovecote, 100 acres of land, 20 acres of
meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 10 acres of woods, and 40
acres of furse and heath in Treunsey (alias Prehunsey),
Treunsey Milles, Trehunsey Cote, and Quethiock.
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Note re. Obscure OE terminology: Messuages – ‘A
portion of land intended to be occupied or
actually occupied as a site for a dwelling house
with outbuildings and adjacent land assigned to
its use.’
Barton – a barley enclosure, courtyard
or farmstead.
Subsequently the whole of the Barton and farm at Trehunsey in
Quethiock was vested in the Chiverton family.
Sir Richard’s mother Isabell was a Polewhele, her ancestors from
distant time having lived in the place of her name. Visi and Ulivin
of Polhai are mentioned in the Domesday Survey, and Drogo of Polewhele
received lands from Empress Maud the daughter of Henry I about
1140. Several generations later a continuity of ancestry is
established in the reign of Edward III.
By the reign of Edward IV (about 1475) Polewhele Castle was in
ruins, and the family moved later to Trencreke. Here Digorie married
Katherine the third daughter of Robert Trencrete of Prencrete; she bore
him seven sons and four daughters including Isabell. We read that
the Polewhele descent can be traced to the present day.
Sir Richard’s pedigree recorded by the Heralds commenced about
the year 1380 with Thomas Chiverton who lived in the parish of Paul;
it was agreed at the time by William and Henry his great, great
grandsons. Further research has suggested a connection back to
John de Cheverton who lived in the year 1256. “He is presumed as
having had two sons - Ralph and Thomas, the latter of whom is
supposed to be the father of John de Chiverton of Perranzabuloe who
died in 1318”
This John was OF Chiverton and not John Chiverton, for no one
then had surnames as we know them today.
There were no parish
records of baptism, so that if Sir Richard with his £3,000 a year
could not trace further back why should we expect to do better
today?
There has been published however a history of the family
Wyke of North Wyke, in which a William is variously described as
William de Wigornia (1227), William de Wray (Moretonhampstead), and William
de Cheverston (Kenton), in the reign of Henry III. This William had a
son John de Chiverston, Knight of Trevivian, Cornwall, living in the year
1250; some researchers have accepted that he was also the John of
Perranzabuloe.
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It is perhaps worth recording these assumptions but, as
already noted, Richard’s ancestor was John Chiverton of Perranuthnoe and
not John Chiverstone of Perranzabuloe. As already noted in my open
letter there have been efforts made in the past to establish Sir
Richard’s ancestry (since discredited) beginning with Robert Count de
Meulan who died in the summer of 1118. He had owned property in
Worcestershire and had appointments in Leicester in 1101.
His
son Robert, who was also Count of Meulan, suffered the loss of his
estates in Normandy but was created Earl of Worcester in 1144. His
son was in turn Earl of Worcester and married Mabel, the daughter of
Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, and son of King Henry I. From this marriage
came the William of Wigornia, Wray and Cheverston.
So, the Chivertons in Cornwall have been mistakenly linked
with the Counts of Meulan, and that John Cheverton of Thorley was at
Cheverton Manor, and was said to have been the 26th Vicompte de Meulan,
and Peter (alias Price Petros), the compiler of the document, claims
to be the 40th Viscompte de Meulan de la Pont du Domer.
There had been
Chivertons in Cornwall from 1200 to 1700, (and one was the Seneschal
of Aquatain) but when the principal families moved to London the
name died out in Cornwall.
There were however some other
Chivertons of note, and we must return to Perranzabuloe and to what I
believe to be a correct record.
John of Perranuthnoe was perhaps the John de Cheverdon listed as a
witness to a deed concerning land at Odiham, Hampshire, circa
1300.
He was the father of Reginald who by his wife Melior, the
daughter of Robert de Eglosmerther, had a son John, who married the
daughter of John Boscawen Rose, and had a son Thomas who heads the
Herald’s pedigree.
This Thomas lived at the Barton of Kerris in
Paul that was for several generations the home of the Chivertons.
Reference to the tree of Richard’s ancestry shows that a
James had three sons.
Descent from the eldest died out in the
next generation, but James was ancestor of the Trehunsey Chivertons,
while the descendents of William continued to reside in the parish
of Paul. James Chiverton the second son of James Chiverton of Kerris had
a son William who was the father of Henry Chiverton, M.P. for Cornwall
in the sixth year of the reign of King Edward IV.
After the war with France (1546) Henry VIII’s last government
passed an act empowering him “to take into his hands all
chantries, hospitals, colleges, free churches, fraternaties,
guilds, and other possessions.” Commissioners were appointed to
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enquire into the revenue, one of these being Henry Chiverton. The
new government of the boy king Edward VI also needed money, and so
Henry and others were at work during the winter of 1547—8. They
confiscated silver and other things to the value of over £700, in
Cornwall, although about £1,000 had been the earlier return from
the dissolution of the monasteries. Their records show they had
removed 235k ounces of silver plate, 7,600 hundredweight of
church bells and 40 fodder of lead.
Also, at this time,
proclamations were being made in London forbidding the use in
churches of candles at Candlemass, ash on Ash Wednesday, and
palms on Palm Sunday. All images were to be removed, and there
was to be no more making of holy bread and holy water.
Next on the throne was Mary, and her counselors soon wrote
to the Cornish Commissioners instructing them to restore the
plate; but much had been lost or otherwise disposed of.
Henry
Chiverton, in a disposition, reported that there remained some
silver “defaced in my mother’s hands.” There was particular
reference to the plate of ‘St James of St Clere’; there was also
a silver cross weighing 60¾ ounces of which “John Trelawney had 44
ounce and Henry Chiverton the rest”.
The heiress of Trehunsey made Henry a Knight of the Shire in 1563
and, he had two sons - Henry and Richard.
Henry Chiverton, son and
heir, also became M.P. for Cornwall in the reign of Philip and
Mary, and for Bodmin in the first year of the reign of Mary. It
seems that the loss of the silver was not held against the
Chivertons for we read that “the true type of West Country
representative (in Parliament) at this time was Henry Chiverton”.
He married Mary, the daughter of John St Aubyn of Clowance, by whom he
had an only daughter Zenobia buried at Gwinear in 1680.
Someone
has said about a government report of this time:- “one comes on
every page upon the names of the Cornish gentry, Chiverton, Penrose ..
Killigrews, who did not distain to pick up here a morsel, and there
a morsel”.
Sir Richard Chiverton, heir by his elder brother Henry, married
Isabell, the daughter of Digory Polewhele, by whom, according to the
ledger stone attached to the wall in the South transept of
Quethiock Church, he had eleven children, of whom only two are
named in the Visitations. The engraving has been said to be “of
the worst possible execution”, and certainly the appearance of
these two unlikely ancestors (Plate 3) is frightening. Two
scrolls surrounding the heads read, “Richard Chiverton esquire dyed
28 day of Ivly AD 1617 and “Isabell his wife the 25 day of May
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1631”.
Between the two effigies is a shield of arms bearing
the Coat of Chiverton impaling Polewhele (“Sable, a saltire engrailed
ezzmine in chief a pile or”).
Underneath the effigies are two
rather curious verses:1.
For Richard Chiverton:
“Friends (who ere you be) forbeare
On this stone to shed a teare,
Keep thine oyntment, for indeede
Bountye is made good by neede.
Here are they whose amber eyes
Have embalm’d the obsequies,
Who will thincke you doe them wronge
Offeringe what to them belonge.
Besides this their sacred shrine,
Sleights the myrrhe of others eyene.
Then forbeares When these growe dry
We will weepe both thou and I.”
2.
For his wife Isabell:“My birth was in the Moneth of May
And in that moneth my nuptiall day.
In May a mayde a wife a mother
And now in May nor one nor other.
So flowers flourish soe they fade
So things to be undone are made
My stake neere withers yet there bee
Some lovely branches sproute from mee.
On (which) bestowe thine Aprill rayne
So they the livelier may remayne
But heere forbeare for why tis sayd
Teares fit the livinge not the dead.”
The figures of the little children who appear on the stone
are all represented as girls although two at least were boys.
What became of the unrecorded ‘sprouts’ is not known, and the
absence of records suggests that died young.
The two recorded
in the pedigree of Chiverton are Henry (who signed the Herald’s
return of ‘1620’) and Grace, who was buried at Quethiock 1611; they
were probably the two eldest children.
Richard had died intestate but there is in the Bodmin Probate
Registry “A trewe Inventorie of all the goodes and chattles of
Richard Chiverton”, shows that the sum total of his “personality”
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amounted to £46-4s-2d. Although from an inquisition taken after
his death, it appears he was also “seized of the capital
messuage, barton and farm of Trehunsey, two corn mills called
Trehunsey Mills, one messuage and lands in Venn and Venndowne, and
four messuages in Treweise, all in the parish of Quethiock; also of
the Manor of Tregindale, Menheniot, and divers other lands in the
parishes of Lanhydrock, Lanivet, St Enoder, Filley, Ludgvan, Cambourne, St
Gluvias and
Constantine”.
So,
£46.00
the
value
of
his
‘personality’, is rather misleading!
Isabell left a will, which she signed, and some details are of
interest. She left “the poore of Quethiocke 20 shillings”, each
of her servants 2 shillings, and, “my sonne Richard Chiverton a
peece of twenty twoe shillings”. “To Martha Chiverton daughter of
Richard Chiverton my sonne ½ a peece.”
She mentioned by name a
number of relatives, and she remembered the writer of the will,
but there is no mention of son John, on the Isle of Wight,had he gone
to the Island in disgrace?
It is more likely that he did not
exist.
The eldest son Henry had married Emlin Buller. They had two
sons, Richard and Francis, who were left orphans in 1628.
These
boys came under the protection of their uncle Sir Richard Buller.
Later, in 1642 the elder son made a legacy in favour of his other
uncle, Richard the “Alderman of London”.
Henry’s daughter Elizabeth married Richard Lynam, the Vicar of
Quethiock (c 1628).
She was the mother of a large family most of
whom died without children before 1676.
The Reverend Lynam had
been executor of his mother-in-law’s estate -(Emlin Buller) that
had included a “tin works called Creeke Toll and other tin workes”.
He also received the residue of her goods, which in total had
been valued at £108-10s-8d.
On his death in 1657 he appointed
his brother-in-law Richard (Alderman) overseer of his will.
On the death of his brother Henry, Richard (the Alderman of
London) became heir of the Trehunsey estate, which in turn passed
to his son-in-law, Sir John Coryton, whose family eventually
inherited Trehunsey. So passed the Chivertons of Trehunsey, at much
about the same time as the other branch of the family, which had
continued to live in the old home at Paul.
The descent from
William of Paul has a connection with the famous Cornish family of
Godolphin.
And so we come down to another William, the last of the
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Chivertons of Paul, who died in 1628.
Of particular interest is
Thomas, brother of William, who was a J.P., is noted in books
written about his period, and who left for posterity a listing of
old Cornish births and deaths:- “Thomas Chivarton’s book of Obits”.
William’s heirs included nephews Thomas Trewen and William Arundell.
This latter died in 1708 leaving a son William Arundell of Menadarva,
baptised at Cambourne in 1703 He was the last of the Chiverton line
in Cornwall.
At the age of ten Richard was apprenticed to William Grinwade of
the Eastland Company, and became an accredited merchant in 1625.
By the year 1641 he had offices in Fenchurch Street, and was a
Liveryman in the Skinner’s Guild. His income was such as to
require £4 for the Poll Tax. From 1654 to 1671 he was a Governor
of the Eastland Company that traded cloth to the Baltic in
exchange for corn.
When in office he proclaimed Richard Cromwell
(Oliver’s son) as the Protector following the death of Oliver in
1658. In 1661 he was named as one of the proposed Knights of the
Royal Oak, as having an income of £3000 a year from estates in
London and Middlesex. Although already a wealthy man, he was
beneficiary in 1650 from the will of his soldier nephew, Richard,
who had seen service with Parliament in 1643. His brother Henry
was then already dead.
In the year 1650 he purchased Chiverton Manor in the Isle of Wight
(also Chiverton Farm) the ancestral home of his ancestors.
His only
son John died in 1650 and was buried at Calbourne, Isle of Wight,
and two months later his grandson John Chiverton was born (September
1650).
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Chiverton Farm/Chiverton Manor
After the Civil War Richard was a ‘Receiver of one per cent
of Merchant’s goods for redemption of Captives’. He was described
in a Royalist tract of 1648 as one ‘of such Aldermen and Common
Councell men as have great profits by the continuance of the
warre, Excife, Taxes, and the proceedings of the two houfes of
Parliament’.
Sir Richard was first elected to the Aldermanic bench for
Portsoken Ward in 1649, he transferred to Cordwainer Ward in
1655, and to Cripplegate in 1663. He also represented Dowgate
(1652), and finally Bridge Without in March 1666. In all this he
had the distinction of being one of only three Aldermen to serve
in five Wards. High office was largely bought in those days,
although the period records show ‘no foreigners could be
Aldermen’ who must also be ‘good and discreet men, who in morals
and temporal goods are fit to be a judge and Alderman, and most
fit to support the honors and burthens of the City’. Not all
those who qualified were willing to serve, however, and fines
varied from £100 to £800. Despite the qualifications many were
dismissed for ‘being in debt’ or ‘living in obscene lodgings’, or
because they were ‘scandalous and disgraceful in conversation’.
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Richard avoided all this, remaining an Alderman for 30 years,
and becoming Sheriff in 1650. Then, on October 15th, 1657,
‘Alderman Chiverton of Cripplegate, Lord Mayor Elect of the City
of London for the year ensuing, was by the Recorder and Aldermen
presented to His Highness (Oliver Cromwell) in the usual manner for
approbation, and His highness approved of the said election’. He
was Mayor at the time of Cromwell’s death, and his name appears
first on the list of Privy Councilors who proclaimed Richard
Cromwell (Oliver’s son) as Protector. Shortly before this there
had been an attempt at a Royalist uprising in the City that the
authorities prevented. Afterwards the Mayor (Sir Richard), Aldermen
and Sheriffs, with the City’s Recorder, waited on the Lord Protector
to congratulate him upon ‘the deliverance of his person, the City
and the whole Nation’. So pleased was Cromwell with the City at
the critical period of 1658 that he conferred the honour of
Knighthood on Richard and upon John Ireton who succeeded him in the
Mayoralty.
Richard was 51 years of age when proclaimed Mayor in 1667.
There were the usual festivities, and on October 29th, 1657, a
performance of ‘London’s Triumph’ was given in honour of ‘the
truly deserving Richard Chiverton, Lord Mayor of London, at the cost
and charges of the Right Worshipful Company of Skinners’.
Sir Richard did not meddle in the politics of the day, and it
is likely that he was an ordinary man with no special gifts. He
was, however, in May 1650, ‘appointed among others in committee
to treat with persons chosen of the twelve great City Companies
touching the City’s interest in Ireland’. We have his likeness on
Plate 1, and it is possible that another portrait exists showing
also one of his daughters. He became a City Father in 1662, and
in October 1663 was knighted for a second time. He was the last
Alderman to remove from another Ward to Cripplegate, and we read
that ‘Mr. Alderman Chiverton declared his consent to remove from ye
Ward of Cordweyner whereof he is now Alderman to the said Ward of
Cripplegate’.
He continued to represent Cripplegate until accepting the
sinecure Aldermancy of Bridge Without in March 1666-7.
By the
year 1668 he was living at Clerkenwell Green and paying £345 a
year rent for his mansion. This was a large sum, only one other
of the 47 houses on the ‘greene’ being valued at more. This house
was probably on the South side where ‘this row of houses had then
pleasant gardens before and behind’.
In this fashionable area
there lived the Duke of Newcastle, five Lords, seven Knights and
many other eminent persons.
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He was president of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, having been
elected on February 8th 1660. However, in the books of the
hospital under the date 15th December 1675 there is the following
minute:
“Whereas Sir Richard Chiverton Knight, declaring his age
and indisposition of body, and his great imperfection
for want of his hearing, that he could not so well
hear or understand the motions and debate of the
Court,
thereupon
he
thought
fit
to
make
his
resignation of the place to be any longer President,
and desired the Governors to elect a person as they
saw fit. Whereupon the Court, being sensitive of the
great pains Sir Richard had taken for many years in the
affairs of the Hospital, it was therefore unanimously
agreed to give him thanks which was accordingly done
and performed by Sir Thomas Player.’
In June 1644 Richard had purchased an estate at Walthamstowe
comprising several acres, orchards, barns and dwelling houses.
We cannot be certain whether he ever lived there, but certainly,
in 1685, a considerable part of the property (which can be
identified in deeds still held by the Walthamstowe Corporation)
was leased to Maria Spencer, a widow of London. This Maria was the
Mary Burren, daughter of Lady Chiverton of Totteridge, Herts, who
married Thomas Spencer in 1668. So we see that, apart from
considerable properties in Cornwall, Sir Richard owned property in
the London area, at Clerkenwell, Walthamstowe and Totteridge. He
also owned a house in Spelhurst, Kent then known as ‘Ferbies’, as
well as Chiverton Manor on the Isle of Wight.
In 1672 Richard was old and ailing, being described as capable
at doing neither much good nor hurt. Also, in that year, it was
reported to the King Charles 2nd of Richard that ‘in the summer he
seldom appears in the Cittie. Sir Richard (and others) having not
lived in London nor built houses for themselves since the Great
Fire of I665, they have neither encouraged the building of the
City nor have they any great interest among the inhabitants,
being strangers to them.’ More charitably, it was recorded that
‘he lived long and was styled the Father of the City’.
Sir Richard had married about the year 1653, the lady being the
said Marry Burren, a widow and daughter of Anthony Biddolph, who was a
prominent man in the city.
From this union came William,
baptised in 1655 (and buried in 1673), and a daughter, Elizabeth,
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born about 1653.
This Elizabeth married in 1679 Sir John Coryton of
Newton Ferrers who became MP for Newport in 1679, and for
Callington in 1685 and 1689. The family eventually inherited the
estates in Cornwall.
In Richard’s will there is no mention of sons or of property
on the Isle of Wight.
He directed: ‘As for my real estate I
have disposed of the same by several settlements, part for the
benefit of my daughter Elizabeth’.
His daughter Ann, who was the
sole executor, married John Charlton of Apley, Staffs, at the Earl of
Bridgewater’s Chapel in 1677, and was living at the Chiverton property
in Totteridge in 1685.
On July 31st 1667, ‘Sir Richards Lady’ was buried at the Chancel
of St James, Clerkenwell, as was Sir Richard on November 21st 1679
he was 73 years of age. His motto, ‘Invicta Labore’, his crest,
Out of a castle triple crowned a demi lion all proper’, and his
arms, Argent on a mount in base vert a tower triple towered
Sable’ (see plates 2 & 3)
When Sir Richard Chiverton died on 21st November 1679, his
Cornish estates passed to his daughter The Lady Elizabeth Coryton, wife
of Sir John Coryton Baronet. His grandson John, now 22nd Compte de Meulan,
succeeded to the estates of Chiverton, Cheverton, Apse, Ashley and Alvington
in the Isle of Wight, and of Totteridge in Middlesex. He married The
Lady Spencer, the natural and illegitimate daughter of Charles 2nd.
He was an Alderman of Newtown 1699—1701, in which year he died.
His son Thomas (b.1672), now 23rd Compte de Meulan, succeeded to the
estates on the Island, married his cousin Mary Coryton the daughter
of Sir John Coryton Baronet, and his wife Lady Elizabeth, (nee Chiverton).
His Lordship died in 1732. His eldest son John (b. 1689) now the
24th Compte do Meulan, became Lord of the Manor of Chiverton, Apse,
Alvington, Ashey, Rowborough etc. He married Grace Urry, a daughter
of William Urry, Esquire, of Sheat Manor (Isle of Wight). He died in
1764 and was buried at Newchurch. He had three sons:
(1)
Thomas, the 25th Compte de Meulan, Lord of Chiverton,
Rowborough, Ashey, Alvington and Totteridge, the
(b.1732)
(2)
Le Compte William Chiverton of Apse,
of the Chevertons of Apse.
(3)
Le Compte David Chiverton of Whitefield, (b.1741).
the Chivertons of Chale and Wilmingham.
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(b.
1738).
eldest,
Ancestor
Ancestor of
Thomas married Mary Worsley, a daughter of Sir Robert Worsley, 4th
Baronet of Appuldurcombe. His Lordship died in 1795 and was buried in
Newchurch. He had only one son John, the 26th Compte de Meulan, Lord of
Chiverton etc. (b.1735).
He married Francis Wheeler, a daughter of
Granville Wheeler, Esquire, of Ottoden Manor in Kent in the year
1773.
The Lady Catherine Maria Hastings Wheeler was a daughter of
Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntington. They had issue:
(1)
Edward. (b. 1775) 27th Compte de Meulan and Lord of Chiverton.
(2)
The Lady Elizabeth Chiverton who married Linnington of Chale, and had
issue.
(3)
The Lady Maria Chiverton, (b.1780), died unmarried 1820 and was
buried at Newchurch
(4)
The Lady Anne Chiverton who married William Bull, esquire, of
Northcourt and had issue, a son William Chiverton—Bull, Esquire
of Northcourt, and a daughter Sarah Chiverton-Bull, who married
Mr. Bartlett of Bartlett’s Farm, ancestor of the present Lord of
the Manor (Squire Newham)
Edward married Elizabeth Scott in 1799, a daughter of Michael
Scott, Esquire, of Basing Park, High Sheriff of Hampshire 1778—
1779, and had issue (this Lordship died in 1820) – Thomas, 28th
Comte de Meulan, Lord of the Manors of Chiverton, Ashey, Alvinqton and
Totteridge. (b.1802) He developed the family trait of drinking
and gambling: he squandered the estates, and before he died he
sold Asbey, Alvington and Totteridge and his property in France.
He died without issue — was succeeded by his sister The Lady Mary
Chiverton, now Contesse de Meulan and Lady of the Manor, (b. 1804). She
married in 1830 the Monsieur Le Marquise de Coleness of Southcliff Hall (Isle of
Wight). She died in 1875 and was buried at Niton.
Monsieur Le
Marquise died 1876.
They were both succeeded by their eldest son Isaac Le 15th
Marquis de Coleness and 30th Compte de Meulan (b.l834). He also fell into
the family trait of drinking and gambling and lost a lot of
money. He died without issue in 1881 aged 53 years, and was
succeeded by his brother Samuel Le 16th Marquise de Colenatte and 31st
Compte de Meulan (b.1842) - He was forced to sell Chiverton Manor
and Southcliff on account of his brother’s debts and losing a lot
of money when Kirkpatrick’s Bank went bust. He sold Chiverton to
Lady Mary Cordon of Northcourt. Monsieur Le Marquise died in 1922 and
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was buried at Niton.
His mother rented Chiverton Manor to her
cousin Jane Chiverton—Jolliffe, Esquire of Yafford, who were in residence
since 1871. The present Lord of the Manor is a Mr. Newham who as
stated as being descended on the maternal side from the Chivertons
of Cheverton.
Ancestry Chart for Sir Richard Chiverton
Sir William de Chiverstone
│
Sir Richard de Chiverstone c.1087
│
Sir Henry de Chiverstone d.1221
│_______________│______________________ │
Ann de Chiverstone
m
William, Earl of Worcester
____________________│_______________│
│
Sir Henry de Chiverstone d.1563
Sir John de Chiverstone
The name ‘de’ Chiverstone was dropped in 1415
│_______________________________________│
│
Henry de Chiverstone
m
Emily Buller
│
d.1620 Grandson to Sir Henry
│__________________________│______________________________________________________│
Richard Chiverton
│
Elizabeth
│
Francis (M)
│
Richard Chiverton
d.1617
m
│
Isabell Polewhele
6 children named
│__________________│______________ __│___________________│_______________│_______________│
Sir Richard Grace d.1611 John d.1650
b.1616
d.1657 ? 1679
Elizabeth
Martha
1616-79 Alderman & Lord Mayor of London
1657 Lord Mayor of London under Protectorate
1667 Lord Mayor at Restoration
Purchased Chiverton Manor/Farm IOW 1650
Sir Richard
m
Marry Burren
1653
d.1667
16
Henry – Eldest son
____│____________________│__________________│___
William
Elizabeth
Ann
b. 1655
b.1653
d.1673
│
│______________________________________│______
Elizabeth
m
Sir John Coryton
│________________1679__________________________
John
m
Grace Urry
b.1689
│
d.1764
│_________________ │______________________│
Thomas
William
David
b.1732
b.1738
b.1741
│
│___________________________________________________________________│
Thomas
m
Mary Worsley
1799
│______________________________│__________________________________│
John ?ID 169
m
b.1735 ?1748
d.1826
Francis Wheeler ?ID 186
1773?1774
?b.1753
d.1786
│________________________│___________________________│_______________________│
Anne Chiv’
Elizabeth Chiv’
Maria Chiv’
│
b.1780
d.1820
Edward
b.1775
Anne Chiverton m William Bull
│______________________│____________________________│
William Chiverton-Bull
Sarah Chiverton – Bull
Edward
m
b.1775
Elizabeth Scott
1799
│ ___________________│__________________________│
Mary Chiverton
Thomas Chiverton
b.1804
1802
│
Mary Chiverton
b.1804
d.1875
m
Monsieur Le Marquisse
1830
d.1876
│
│____________________________________│
Isaac
b.1834
d.1881
Samuel
b.1842
d.1922
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