David A’DENNE^[1]

Abt 1530 - 1585  (~ 55 years)

• Name	David A’DENNE
  Born	Abt 1530	Barham, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	16 Jul 1585	Littlebourne, Kent, England
  Person ID	I13440	Young Kent Ancestors
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2019

  
  

  Father	Thomas A’DENNE, the elder, Esq,   b. Abt 1464, of Denne Hill, Kingston, Kent, England ,   d. 1552, Barham, Kent, England  (Age ~ 88 years)
  Mother	Unknown
  Married	Abt 1495
  Notes	This marriage appears in a privately produced paper titled Denne of Denne Hill, completed July 2010. Sources cited as having been used for Denne of Denne Hill John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1838 vol III pp. 19-21 and Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, 1847 William Berry, County Genealogies, Pedigrees of the families in te County of Kent, London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1830, pp. 194-5. The Visitation of Kent taken in the years 1619-21, R. Hovenden (ed.), Harleian Soc., vol. 42, 1898.
  Family ID	F3583	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margery,   d. Bef 21 Sep 1585, Littlebourne, Kent, England
  Married	30 Sep 1568	Littlebourne, Kent, England   [2]
  Notes	Denne, David of Littlebourne and Margery Parker of Ickham widow. At Ickham, Littlebourne or Wickham. Sep 30 1568
  Children	1. Alice A’DENNE,   c. 9 Jul 1560, Littlebourne, Kent, England   2. Thomas A’DENNE,   c. 4 Oct 1562, Littlebourne, Kent, England   3. Elizabeth A’DENNE,   c. 9 Sep 1564, Littlebourne, Kent, England   4. Mary A’DENNE,   b. Aft 1568, Littlebourne, Kent, England   5. John A’DENNE,   b. Aft 1568, Littlebourne, Kent, England ,   d. Liv 1620  (Age < 50 years)   6. Christopher A’DENNE,   c. 4 Sep 1575, Littlebourne, Kent, England   7. Anne A’DENNE,   c. 5 Jul 1579, Littlebourne, Kent, England   8. Margery A’DENNE,   c. 15 Oct 1582, Littlebourne, Kent, England   9. David A’DENNE
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2022
  Family ID	F4995	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Unknown
  Married	Bef 1568
  Children	1. David A’DENNE,   b. 1558, Littlebourne, Kent, England ,   d. 1620, Littlebourne, Kent, England  (Age 62 years)   2. Alice A’DENNE,   c. 9 Jul 1560, Littlebourne, Kent, England   3. Thomas A’DENNE,   c. 4 Oct 1562, Littlebourne, Kent, England ,   d. Liv 1620  (Age ~ 57 years)   4. Elizabeth A’DENNE,   c. 9 Sep 1564, Littlebourne, Kent, England
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2022
  Family ID	F4997	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Pursuant to the Will of Thomas A'Denne of Barham proved during 1552, David, his son was to receive "...all my lands and tenements lying and being in Barham in fee simple." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Littlebourne 1637 RC Palmqr 6/20/2013 C78/516 thought meet, ordered and and adjudged that the said Certificate and all the matters therein contained be satisfied and confirmed by this present Sentence and the authority of this comte to be performed by all the parties Complianent and Defendant to all intents and purposes according to the tenor and hue meeting hereof. Whereas in the time of St. Michael the Archangel in the eleventh year of the reign of our sovereign Lord the King matiestye? that now is Henry Denne of Littlebourne, in the County of Kent, yeoman, possessed his Bill of complaint into this most honourable court of Chancery against Michael Denne, Richard Austen, Robert Smpson, John Hollam, Thomas Citte and Vincent Billingber, Defendants, declaring by the sitime? that John Littl Lord Archbishop of Canterbury being seized in fee in the au light of his sea of and in the manor of Littlebourne with divers houses, barnes, stables and other buildings, and of diverse arable, meadows and pastures thereunto belonging together with the Batesnall there and refrain rent corne yearly to be taken of ..... lands and tenements there ........... called Coteland Sarley? by Indenture dated vicesimo octavo Novembris quadragesimo primo Elizabeth inter alict did devise, graunt and to ........... let unto DAVID DENNE, Squire, deceased, and JOHN DENNE the elder the said manor, land and tenements and the said rent corn called CotelandSarley to have and to hold for and during the natural lives of DVAID DENNE the younger, JOHN DENNE the younger and MICHAEL DENNE sons of the said JOHN DENNE the elder and the life of the longest liver of them yeilding and paying thereof yearly at our Lady Day and Michaelmas the sum of five pounds nineteen shillings two pence half penny by even and equal portions and also forty quarters of good ...... and sweet wheat full measure before the Feast of Penticost and forty quarters of good clean and sweet barley of like measure before the Feast of St. Valentine yearly and that the said DAVID DENNE the elder and JOHN DENNE the elder by virtue of the said lease and of livery and seisin thereupon had entered into the said manor and premises and were seised thereof accordingly and that the said DVAID DENNE the younger, JOHN DENNE the younger and MICHAEL DENNE were then in full live and being and the said DVAID DENNE the elder and JOHN DENNE the elder did for divers years hold rent corn there being divers lands and tenements in the said parish of Littlebourne and near thereabout, the occupiers and w.... whereof they did and for all the time whereof the memory of man was not to the contrary had used to pay out thereof for and in respect of the said land and tenements unto the said late Archbishop and his predecessors before he and they permit, wuers? and occupiers of the said manor of Littlebourne several quantities of barley rateably and proportionatly to the quantities of the land out of which the same issued and that the same ... then due and payable in manner aforesaid and that about six years before the sitt..... exhibited the said JOHN DENNE the elder by good and sufficient conveyance and ass..ture in the law convey and assign his part or moiety of the said manor and premises and of the said rent corne and aff... his estate and interest therein to the said Complainant by virtue whereof the said Complainant became and was seised of the premises in ...... aforesaid and had ever since and then did pay the moiety of the said rent money and corne unto the Lord Archbishop that now is by season whereof he ought to have and receive the moiety of the said premises and of the said rent corn but the said Defendant with.....or interested of same [this is the only page I have of this document] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Denne David Littlebourne 1585 1586 PRC/17/46/82 PRC/16/84 D/2 PY from PRC/17 - OWD 1586 Will Denne Margery Littlebourne 1586 1587 PRC/17/47/32 PRC/16/88 D/3 1587 ===============================================================================Belcher's Brasses David A'Denne of Littlebourne deceased XVI Jul 1585 aet 55 =============================================================================== CCA-DCc - DEAN AND CHAPTER ChAnt - Chartae Antiquae L - Chartae Antiquae L Title Bond Order Number CCA-DCc/ChAnt/L/389 PreviousNumbers F 75 (Norris); L 363 (late 19th c) Date 8 Mar 1583 Description From: David Denne of Littlebourne, Kent, yeoman To: the dean and chapter of Canterbury Cathedral In £100. The dean and chapter has confirmed a lease of the manor of Littlebourne, including the watermill and the tithe corn, by Edmund [Grindal], archbishop of Canterbury, to David Denne and his sons David and John Denne. The dean and chapter claim the tithe corn as part of the rectory of Littlebourne. David, David and John agree not to take advantage of the dean and chapter's confirmation of the lease if the dean and chapter sue them for tithe owed to Littlebourne rectory. Witnesses: Gilbert Hyde; William Ablett Endorsed 'David Denne' in late 16th cent hand. Extent 1 doc Physical Description Parchment, 1m, seal, remains of wrapping tie Language Latin; English AccessStatus Open ======================================================================================= D'elboux manuscript H-Y #945 Kingston (56-6-r3c04) Robert DENNE bn 1549 d 1594 married Thomasin {L} 979 Littlebourne 58-6-r4c03 Jonathan DENNE otp bn 1627, d 1689 David DENNE of Court Lodge opt bn 1618, d 1675 marr Eliza bn 1625, d 1689 d Michael Page of Cby David Denne mar Mary d 1651 980 Littlebourne 58-6-r4c04 David DENNE d 1657 arms DENNE with the date 1730 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury PRC 17 / 70 / 27, LDS Film #:0188968 Transcribed by Norm Dennie In the name of God Amen, the twentieth day of August, Anno Dao 1630, and in the fourteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles by the grace of God of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the faith. I Agnes Denn of Littlebourne in the County of Kent, widow, being weak of body but of good and perfect memory, God be praised, do make and ordane this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following: Imprimus, I commend my soul unto the hands of Almighty God my Creator Of his sonne Jesus Christ ..... free pardon and redemption of all my sins and I commend my body to the earth from where it was taken there – to – with in hope of ...... To eternal life and to be buried in decent manner in the church yard of Littlebourne aforesaid. Item, I give and bequeath unto the poor of the aforesaid parish of Littlebourne twenty shillings of lawful English money. Item, I give and bequeath unto my sonne John Denn ten pounds of like lawful English money. Item, I give and bequeath unto my sonne James Denn twenty shillings by the ..... of lawful English money to be paid by my Executor hereafter named out of my personal estate on the feast of St. Michael Church Angel and of .... the Blessed Virgin Mary equal and even portions, the first payment hereof to be made on that feast of the feast afore said which shall happen next after my decease. Item, I give and bequeath unto my said sonne James Denn my .... feather bed and my ..... bedstand, one ..... one feather ....., two blankets, one pillow ..... and two payer of sheets. Item, I give and bequeath unto my sonne Thomas Denn ten pounds of lawful English money Item, I give and bequeath unto my .... Margaret Denn five shillings of like money. Item, I give and bequeath unto my .... Mary Denn the like sum of five shillings of like money. Item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Austen .... pounds and tenne shillings of like lawful money of England. Item, my will and meaning is that if my sonne Thomas Denn ....... then my will is that Margaret Austen, Agnes Austen, and Mary Austen, daughters of ..... Austen shall .... tenne pounds which I gave my sonne Thomas to be equally divided between them. Item, the rest of all my goods and chattels and ......... by debts discharged, I give and bequeath unto my sonne Denn whom I do hereby ordayne and make the Executor of this my Last Will and Testament declairing him to ........ in performance of ....... whereof .... And set my hand and seal this twentieth day of August 1630, sealed, and published to be the Last Will and Testament of the before named Agnes Denn this twentieth day of August 1630. Agnes Denn by her make in the presence of David Denn, ....... John Miles, David Daulten Probatum 1630

  
  

• Sources

  [S78] Will, Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), PRC 17/46/82 Film #: 188944, Mar 1586. Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury Vol.46 f.82 Transcribed by Brian Denn In the name of God Amen the 22nd day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred eighty five and in the 28th year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the faith etc I David Denne of the Parish of Littlebourne in the County of Kent, yeoman being sick in body but of good and perfect remembrance (praise be to Almighty God) do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following revoking all former wills heretofore by me made. First I bequeath my Soul unto Almighty God hoping through the merits and precious death of his only son Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour to obtain full remission of all my sins and to be made partaker of his eternal kingdom and my body I will to be buried in the church or churchyard of Littlebourne at the discretion of my Executors. Item I give to the poor mens box of the Parish of Littlebourne six shillings 8d. Item I will and bequeath unto Thomas Denne my son fourscore pounds of lawful money of England to be paid him by £20 a year as if need require by five pounds quarterly within four years next after my decease. Item I give unto Christopher Denne my son three score pounds to be paid him at his age of 21 years if he so long live otherwise I will the said £60 unto Margery my wife. Item I will and bequeath unto Elizabeth Denne my daughter twenty pounds at the day of her marriage or at her age of 22 years which shall first happen. Item I will unto my daughter Anne Denne £20 at the day of her marriage or at her age of 18 years which shall first happen. Item I give to each of my daughters Mary Denne and Margery Denne twenty pounds apiece at their several ages of 18 years or at the several days of their marriages which shall first happen. And if it happen any of my foresaid daughters do die before their several marriages or before they severally shall accomplish their several ages beforesaid then I will that her or their part so deceased shall remain unto such of those my said daughters as shall survive. Item I will unto Alice Parker my daughter six pounds thirteen shillings four pence over and above the marks which her father Paul Parker did bequeath her at the day of her marriage or else at her age of twenty years. Item I will unto David Denne and John Denne my sons all my brewing vessels and three beds for servants with their furniture in the loft behind the back door and all my racks and mangers and two ploughs two courtes(?) and my malt mill. Item my will is that David Denne my son shall not enter upon the farm of my manor of Littlebourne until the Feast of Saint Michael next after my death nor meddle with any profits thereof save from the said Feast but shall quietly suffer Margery my wife to have and enjoy the same wholly during the said time and thenceforth to have the moiety thereof until my son John shall accomplish the age of 21 years if she so long do live. Item my will is that John Denne my son shall not enter upon the said farm until he come to the age of 21 years nor shall meddle with any profits thereof save from the said time if his mother shall so long live but shall quietly permit her to enjoy the same during the said time. Item I give to Alice Rigden my daughter five pounds to be paid to her within one year after my death. Item I give to William Parker my wifes son my sorrel nag that is gelded. Item I will to every of the many servants that I shall have in covenants at the time of my death three bushels of barley and to every of my boys that shall be in covenant at the time of my death two bushels of barley and to each of my maid servants as shall be at the time(?) end(?) of their several covenants if they behave themselves dutifully and do my wife faithful service. The residue of all my goods moveable and chattels unbequeathed my debts being paid and my legacies being performed I give unto Margery my wife whom I make my sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament. Provided always and my will is that if my said wife do marry again then before her said marriage she shall put in sufficient bond unto my overseers of this my testament or to the survivor of them to pay my legacies and to find my children meat drink and apparel until they shall accomplish the age of fourteen years and if any of my children be not content to perform this my last Will and Testament then my will is that he or they shall receive no legacy nor reap any benefit by this my testament anything before mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding. And I make my brother Michael Denne and Valentine Austen of Adisham my overseers of this my testament and I do give to either of them for their pains 10s apiece. Also I give unto Margery Denne my wife my tenement with the lands thereto belonging (which I late purchased of Mr Selby) during her natural life she paying the lords rent and keeping reparations watertight and wind tight and after her decease I give the said tenement and lands unto Christopher Denne my son and to the issue of his body lawfully begotten for ever and for want of such issue to Thomas Denne my son and his heirs forever. Witness whereof I have set my hand to these present by me David Denne. Witnesses thereof Henry Rigden, William Parker, Nicholas Stacy, Thomas Skipworth. Probatum March 1586 [S98] Marriage Licences, Archdeaconry of Canterbury, Joseph Meadows Cowper and Arthur J. Willis, (England, Canterbury: Cross and Jackman, 1892-1898, c1967-1971), First Series, 1568-1617, col. 124, 30 Sep 1568. Denne, David, of Littlebourne, and Margery Parker of Ickham, widow. At. Ickham, Littlebourne or Wickham. Sept 30, 1568