♂Walter Deane

Walter Deane (died between 1585 and 1591) was a yeoman of South Chard, in the parish of Chard in Somerset, England. He was the eleventh great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his son William Deane (died 1634).

Family

On 12 November 1565 Walter Deane and Joan Walsele were married at Buckland St Mary, in Somerset. They had a son, William, and two daughters, Eleanor and Joan, all three named in both their parents’ wills. William was most likely the William Deane of South Chard who died in 1634, and whose son Walter sailed from Weymouth in 1637 and became an early settler of Taunton, in Plymouth Colony^W.

Will and death

He made his will on 7 July 1585. He named his wife Joane and his daughters Eleanor and Joane, and made his son William executor. He died some time after, and the will was proved on 10 July 1591 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury^W. Joan outlived him and died a widow at Chard in 1597.

Notes

Sources

The marriage, the two wills and Walter’s place in the family come from John B. Threlfall, “Additions to the Deane Ancestry in England”, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 139 (1985), pp. 324–325. Walter’s will is registered as PCC 56 Sainberbe; Joan’s will of 29 March 1597, proved 10 May 1597, is abstracted in the Somerset Record Society’s volume of wills. The marriage at Buckland St Mary is from Threlfall’s transcript of the parish register, as listed by H. Clark Dean in NEHGR 147 (1993), p. 252.

His son William

Threlfall calls Walter Deane of South Chard “the earliest proven ancestor of John and Walter Deane” of Taunton: “He was their grandfather”. The wills of Walter and Joan name their son William but neither names his sons, so the link to William Deane of South Chard, who made his will in 1634 and named sons John and Walter, rests on Threlfall’s study.

An earlier generation

Threlfall adds that Walter was “probably the grandson of John and Joan (Selwood) Deane”, pointing to the will of Nicholas Selwoode of Chard, made 29 May 1494. That generation is not taken further here.