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 1522 - 1579 (57 years)
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| Name |
Sylvester Estes |
| Birth |
1522 |
Deal, Kent, England  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Mariner [4] |
| Death |
0___ 1579 |
Ringwould, Kent, England [2, 3] |
- The village of Ringwould was first recorded more than 200 years before the Domesday survey, in an Anglo-Saxon Charter dated 861 AD under the name of Roedligwealda (the forest of Hredel’s people). The site of a Roman period farm has been identified close to the present Ripple windmill; which is in the parish, although metal detector finds and other relics which have been found, suggest that the area was populated well before the Roman invasion. The oldest coin ever found in England was discovered by a metal detectorist working close to Ringwould. It seems probable that the village was established sometime during the Anglo-Saxon period, probably in the 6th century AD, and certainly well before the Norman Conquest of 1066.
The village of Ringwould has about 350 residents and is about the size today that it was when our ancestors lived nearby or in the village itself.
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| Burial |
7 Jun 1579 |
St. Nicholas Church, Ringwould Cemetery, Ringwould, Kent, England [6] |
- In the Ringwould church records, Sylvester’s burial is the very first Estes record, recorded thus:
Jan. 7, 1579 - Silvester Eastye buried
His grave is unmarked ...
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| Person ID |
I37307 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
13 Nov 2018 |
| Father |
Nicholas Estes, b. 1495, (Deal) Kent, England d. 1533, Deal, Kent, England (Age 38 years) |
| Mother |
Anne LNU, b. (Deal, Kent) England |
| Marriage |
(1520) |
(Deal) Kent, England [4, 6, 7] |
| Family ID |
F13788 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Joan LNU, b. (Deal) Kent, England d. 1561, (Deal) Kent, England |
| Marriage |
1545 |
Deal, Kent, England [1, 4, 6] |
| Children |
| | 1. Jone Estes, b. 1547, Deal, Kent, England |
| | 2. Henry Estes, b. 1549, Deal, Kent, England |
| | 3. Robert Estes, b. 1555, Fordwich, Nonington, Kent, England d. 1616, Fordwich, Nonington, Kent, England (Age 61 years) |
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| Family ID |
F13787 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 1522 - Deal, Kent, England |
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| Marriage - 1545 - Deal, Kent, England |
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 | Death - 0___ 1579 - Ringwould, Kent, England |
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 | Burial - 7 Jun 1579 - St. Nicholas Church, Ringwould Cemetery, Ringwould, Kent, England |
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| Notes |
- Roberta J. Estes, DNA Genealogist presents a beautifully written history of Sylvester Estes (c1522-1579) published July 19, 2014, entitled, "Sylvester Estes (c1522-1579), Fisherman of Deal, 52 Ancestors #29"
View her commentary:
http://dna-explained.com/2014/07/19/sylvester-estes-c1522-1579-fisherman-of-deal-52-ancestors-29/
end [5]
- Sylvester saw a lot of changes in his lifetime. His father died when he was 11 or 12, leaving his mother a widow. Sylvester may well have been apprenticed to the mariners to learn a trade in order to be able to support himself, and possibly his widowed mother and younger siblings as well.
Changes were afoot in England itself as well. England was in the process of politically becoming a Protestant nation with the King at the head of the church, instead of a Catholic nation with the Pope at the head of the church. In the 1530s, Henry VIII wanted to remarry because his wife did not produce a male heir, and his Catholicism prevented that, especially when the Pope refused to annul his marriage. As a result Henry renounced Catholicism and became Protestant, ordered the destruction of all things Catholic, such as monasteries and abbeys. The churches “became” Protestant overnight, along with their parishioners. In some places, of course, there was strong resistance and the resisters were called ‘recussants.’ That did not seem to be a problem in Kent.
In addition to the national issues, there were local and regional problems to contend with as well.
In October 1536, when Sylvester would have been about 14, four Flemish ships entered the Downs, landed and plundered the local boats of their “herrings, hogbushes, arrows and beer.” A few days later, those same ships robbed a Deal fishing boat of its entire catch and then sent a pinnace ashore on St. Leonard’s Day (November 6 and feast day at Deal’s St. Leonard’s church) to cut the cable of Captain Rychardson’s boat and tow it away. Rychardson’s inventory of his losses reflects a typical fishing boat of the time – two long bows, sheaves of arrows, barrels of beer, bread, candles, boots and bonnets. Sylvester’s ship probably was provisioned with the same things.
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- Based on church records, we know that Sylvester and Jone had 3 children. It’s likely that they had several more who may have died or not been reflected in the records. If they were married about 1545 and Jone died in 1561, according to the burial record, they would have had 16 years as a married couple to produce offspring, so they could have been expected to have had approximately 8 children. The births of those children would only have been recorded in church records after 1559. This suggests that there are several children born, and probably buried, as children. However, given that daughter Jone was married in Ripple in 1563, it wouldn’t hurt to check the Ripple church records to see if Sylvester and Jone’s children were baptized there. Marriages traditionally took place in the bride’s church, although just two years earlier, Jone’s mother, Jone, was buried at St. Leonard’s in Deal.
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