Anne FOUNTAIN ( - )

1. Anne de la FOUNTAIN married Thomas MERES.

 

Sir Thomas MERES Knight was born in 1634. He was a Knight, MP for Lincoln. He died in 1715. He and Anne de la FOUNTAIN had the following children:

 

+2	Frances MERES (1669-1733)

Second Generation

2. Frances MERES, daughter of Sir Thomas MERES Knight and Anne de la FOUNTAIN, was born in 1669. She was baptised on 2 July 1669 in St. Mary Magdalin, Lincoln. She married George WHICHCOT on 11 November 1699 in London. She was buried on 10 April 1733 in Harpswell, Lincs.. She died in August 1733.

 

Pl F7/2/1/13 15.7.1737 24.9.1777
Agreement by the coheirs at law to divide Sir John Meeres' estates; 15 July 1737

First Party: Dame Elizabeth Pettus of Racketh, Norfolk, widow.
Second Party: Thomas Hayley of Bedford Row, Middlesex, Esq.
Third Party: Thomas Whichcot of Harpswell, Lincolnshire, Esq.

Attested copy articles of agreement for the division of the estate of the late Sir John Meres between his three coheirs at law:cc (1) receives the mansion house and manor of Kirby Bellers, lands and premises there and at Asfordby and Stonesby, Leicestershire, and the advowsons of Kirby Bellers and Stonesby. (2) receives the manor of Scotton, Lincolnshire, lands and premises there and at East Ferry, Harwick, Sidworth, Finton and Holton and the advowson of Scotton, in the counties of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, and lands in the City of Lincoln. (3) receives the manor of Hiptoft Hall and lands and premises in Boston, Skirbeck, Kirton, Frampton, Fosdyke, Algarkirk, Sibsey, Wynthrope and Burghe, Lincolnshire; and Nonsuch House and other messuages and lands at Nonsuch in the parish of Tunbridge, Kent. The £ 8000 mortgage on the estates passing to (2) to be redeemed from Sir John Meres's personal estate. London property and fee farm rents at Tonbridge and Speldhurst, Kent to remain undivided. Schedule showing the value of the estates taken by each party and the monies paid by (1) to (2) and (3) to equalise their portions. Recites the background to the transaction, the rental income of the various estates, etc.
Examined, 24 Sept. 1777.
No. 13.

 

Colonel George WHICHCOT MP, of Harpswell, son of Sir William WHICHCOT of Fotherby ( -c. 1657) and Lady Margaret CLIFTON (c. 1628-c. 1697), was born in 1653. He was christened on 6 June 1653. He was baptised on 8 June 1653 in Fotherby, Lincs.. He died circa 5 September 1720. He was buried on 9 September 1720 in Harpswell. He and Frances MERES had the following children:

 

+3	Thomas WHICHCOT (c. 1700-1776)
+4	Katherine WHICHCOT (1701-1787)
+5	John WHICHCOT (1702-1750)
+6	Elizabeth WHICHCOT (1705-c. 1774)

Third Generation

3. Thomas WHICHCOT MP, son of Colonel George WHICHCOT MP, of Harpswell and Frances MERES, was born circa 1700. He was a Politician. He died on 30 September 1776.

 

4. Katherine WHICHCOT, daughter of Colonel George WHICHCOT MP, of Harpswell and Frances MERES, was born in 1701. She was baptised on 21 October 1701. She died on 4 July 1787.

 

5. Revd. John WHICHCOT, son of Colonel George WHICHCOT MP, of Harpswell and Frances MERES, was born on [Julian] 1 January 1702. He was a Clergyman. He died on 29 September 1750.