John COBLEY

Birth:

Abt 1460

of Brightley, Devonshire, England

Father:

John COBBELEIGH

Mother:

Isabel DE BRIGHTLEY

Notes:

                       Source:" The Ancestry of Margaret Wyatt..." by Charles Knowles Bolton

    source completes this entry with note under John's name:
    "Vis(count).Devon 1620 p. 134."

    Arms: "Quar(ter) gu(les) and sa(ble), in the 2d and 3d quar(ters), a bird,
    the former holding in it's beak a cross patee fitchee, the latter a cross
    crosslet fitchee argent; over all on a bend engrailed or 3 hurts."

    Cobleigh/Cobley

    Weis, Frederick, "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists : Who came to New
    England between 1623 and 1650."

Jane FORTESCUE

Birth:

Abt 1464

of Brightley, Devonshire, England

Father:

William FORTESCUE

Mother:

Elizabeth CHAMPERNOWNE

Notes:

                       Source:"The Ancestry of Margaret Wyatt..." by Charles Knowles Bolton
    wherein is cited for this entry: Lord Clermont's "Hist(ory) of the
    Fortescues".

    Weis, Frederick, "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists : Who came to New
    England between 1623 and 1650."

    Weis gives Jane's father as either William Fortescue of Preston in Devon
    or John Fortescue of Wympston.
    Weis says N & Q XXVI "says John, and that her mother d. 1501, and her
    bro. Hugh of Preston, d. 1567, states Joan's monument carries a shield..."
    Weis says "DA 34: 692, 91, state she was dau. of William of Preston."

Children

Marriage

Margaret COBLEY

Birth:

Abt 1490

of Brightley, Devonshire, England

Death:

25 Dec 1547

Roger GIFFORD, SIR

Marr:

Abt 1513

of Brightley, Devonshire, Engl

Notes:

                       Source:"The Ancestry of Margaret Wyatt..." by Charles Knowles Bolton
    Weis, Frederick, "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists : Who came to New
    England between 1623 and 1650."

    death date might be 25 Dec. 1547

    Weis gives an Inquisition post mortem for her estate on 15 Oct. 1547

    IGI  , June 1991 gave her last name as Cobley.

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John Cobley - Jane Fortescue

John Cobley was born at of Brightley, Devonshire, England Abt 1460. His parents were John Cobbeleigh and Isabel De Brightley.

He married Jane Fortescue . Jane Fortescue was born at of Brightley, Devonshire, England Abt 1464 daughter of William Fortescue and Elizabeth Champernowne .

They were the parents of 1 child:
Margaret Cobley born Abt 1490.