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Norfolk Jessops
The Jessop line
moved into Norfolk in the 1600s via Francis (of Broom Hall - third
son of Richard Jessopp by Anne Swift). Francis had previously travelled
to Holland with the Rev. John Robinson. He inherited the estate
of Tilne at his father's death in 1581 This estate he sold to his
brother William and on the 24th Jan., 1604-5, he married Frances
White at Worksop. He have returned to England after Robinson's death,
and settled on the borders of Suffolk and Norfolk in the neighborhood
of Beccles. By Frances, his first wife, he became father of Jonathan
Jessopp who became Rector of Colkirk, in the county of Norfolk,
in 1627, and continued to hold the living without molestation through
all the time of the Commonwealth. This indicates that he was a sympathizer
with the Puritan party.
Francis Jessopp
lost his wife Frances sometime in 1636, and on the 27th Mar., 1637,
he as a "widower of Beccles, gent." he married Susanna Chubbs of
Horsham, by whom he had three sons, Thomas, Richard, and Samuel,
each of whom is described as "gent". They all held land and other
property in the county of Norfolk. The family most likley has puritan
leanings, because in 1643 Francis was undoubtedly associated with
Dowsing (who stripped many suffolk churches of their icons and carvings
at Cromwells request). Of his children Thomas Jessopp, "of East
Dereham, gent.," was born in 1638 ; Richard, the second son lived
at Fakenham and seems to have been the man of business (possibly
a solicitor) to the Lord Townsend, of Rainham, and to other of the
wealthy people in that neighborhood. His descendants came to an
end in the male line with Francis Jessopp who was buried at Swanton
Morley (a village about five miles from Dereham) in Feb., 1749,
aged 67 years. A monument to him is still to be seen in the Church,
surmounted by the arms and crest of Jessopp of Broom Hall ; Samuel,
the third son was an iconoclast and a very successful physician
in the county of Norfolk. Of his first wife I know nothing; but
in 1675, he, being described as "Samuel Jessopp, widower, M.D.,
of East Bradenlaw" (norfolk), married Maria Cooper, of Mileham,
spinster. By this second wife he had a daughter, whom he named after
his mother Susanna, and a son whom he named after his father, Francis.
His stock, too, came to an end in the male line by the death of
his grandson, Richard Jessopp, without issue, about 1750.
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