♀Honora (surname unknown)

Honora (buried 17 September 1627) was a woman of Pitminster, in Somerset, England, who outlived her husband, the landholder Robert Trott, by more than twenty-seven years, and the mother of Richard Treat, later a settler of Wethersfield in the Connecticut Colony^W. She was the tenth great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through her son Richard Treat (1584–1669).

Marriage and family

She married Robert Trott, who held land at South Trendle in the manor of Taunton. Their six children were baptized at Pitminster between 1564 and 1584: Alice, John, Mary, Agnes, Tamsen and, the youngest, Richard. Three of them married within a year of one another: Mary to Robert Babb, a widower, in October 1597, and John to Edith Priest and Agnes to John Aplin in 1598.

Widowhood

Robert was buried at Pitminster on 16 February 1599. On 4 March 1600 the land at South Trendle passed to their son Richard, on condition that Honora should have and hold it during her widowhood. She did not marry again: she was buried at Pitminster on 17 September 1627, entered in the register as “Honour Tratt Widowe”.

Notes

Her name

The family’s records name her only as Honora or Honour, and her surname is not known. Some online family trees call her Honour Yumbert, but no record gives that name.

Sources

Her burial, her children’s baptisms and marriages and the grant of 1600 come from The Treat Family (1893), by John Harvey Treat, which prints the Pitminster parish register and the Taunton manor registers. Hale, House and Related Families (1952) gives the same burial date.