♂Gilbert Satchfield

Gilbert Satchfield (buried 3 January 1577/8) was a baker in London, of the parish of St Peter upon Cornhill^W. His will was spoken, not written: a nuncupative will^W, declared on 2 January 1577/8, the day before his burial. He was the twelfth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Katherine Satchfield (1569–1627).

Family

He and his wife Anne had eight known children. The two eldest, Margaret and Elizabeth, are said to have been baptized at St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street^W, in 1549 and 1550/1; Mary, John, William, Richard and Thomas were baptized at St Peter upon Cornhill between 1555 and 1566, and Katherine, the youngest, on 27 May 1569.

Death

Gilbert was buried at St Peter upon Cornhill on 3 January 1577/8, entered in the register as “Mr Gilbert Satchfeld Baker”, and his will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury^W on 6 January. Anne outlived him by eight years. She made her will on 20 June 1586, leaving “Katherine Satchfield my daughter” fifty pounds and a long list of household goods, and was buried at St Peter upon Cornhill on 27 June. Their son William, a bachelor and, like his father, a baker, was buried there on 1 September 1586.

Notes

Sources

His burial, Anne’s burial and the baptisms of the younger children are in the parish register of St Peter upon Cornhill, printed by the Harleian Society (his burial is on page 125). His will is among the wills of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PROB 11/60). Robert Charles Anderson set out the family in “The Conant Connection: Part One”, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 147 (1993), pages 234–239, which places Gilbert in the parish of St Peter’s Cornhill and summarizes both his will and Anne’s.

The two eldest daughters

The baptisms of Margaret (July 1549) and Elizabeth (10 January 1550/1) at St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, come from Boyd’s Inhabitants of London as cited in online family trees, not from the parish register itself.

Dates

In England the year then began on 25 March, so his burial on 3 January 1577/8 fell in what is now counted as January 1578 (see Old Style and New Style dates^W).