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other of Thomas the ancestor. Two Thomas HARDWICHs were witnesses to the 1656 Will of Richard HARDWITCH. 38 One of those might be Thomas the ancestor. Unfortunately, probate records for the local jurisdictions in Somerset were destroyed during World War II, so identifying Thomas’s ancestry by searching through locally filed Wills and administrations is not possible. 39 Property records might hold the key, if they could be located. 24 Oct. 1668. Thomas HARDICH and his sister Alice FOSTER are mentioned in the Will of their brother William HARDICH [sic] of Bristol, England (formerly of Virginia). The Will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, England, on 8 January 1669. His English Will refers to a Virginia Will, which has been lost. 17 William is sometimes mistakenly identified as the father of James HARDWICK of Virginia. 8 Sep. 1680. The Will of Thomas HARDWICH of Westbury, Somerset, England, was dated 8 September 1680. 18 The following heirs were identified in the Will: • Wife Joan • Son Joseph (“he being beyond the seas”) • Daughter Lydia STONE • Daughter Joan ARNEY • Son Henry • Grandson Thomas ARNEY • Granddaughter Lydia HARDWICH (child of deceased son Thomas) • Granddaughter Mary HARDWICH (child of deceased son Thomas) • Granddaughter Joan HARDWICH (child of deceased son Thomas) • Grandson Thomas HARDWICH (child of deceased son Thomas) • Granddaughter Grace HARDWICH (child of deceased son Thomas) • Son-‐in-‐law John HARDWICH • Son James (“he is now beyond the seas”) • Sister Alice FOSTER • Alice FOSTER’s daughters Joan and Jane Other relatives mentioned in the Will: • Cousin Benjamin ARNEY • Unnamed deceased wife The real estate that Thomas gave to his heirs in his Will consisted of the following: • Hollybrooke (six acres) • Gooseland (two acres) • Rodmeade (two acres) • Lords Place (one and one-‐half acres) • Roussells (house and tenement) • ? Orchard (including housing) • Longwest 17 Will of William Hardich of Bristol from The National Archives, Great Britain (online). 18 Will of Thomas Hardwich of Westbury, Somerset, from The National Archives, Great Britain (online).
• Overtrate • Carland (two acres) • Close at Coenstrale (an enclosed area) • Huiddiewaye (six acres) • Stonieland (one acre) • Rowmore (one acre) • Stokewood (one acre) • Stubble Close (an enclosed area with two acres) • Broadway (one-‐half acre) • Dagghole (house) • Furlonge (twelve acres) • His own house • Rodemeade (two acres) • Honddimoord (three acres) • Gooseland (two acres) Most of the names associated with these properties are likely the names given to Westbury’s fields in medieval times. Some of the properties were leased from others. Thomas may have given away his properties at Rodmeade/Rodemeade and Gooseland twice. Counting them only once, he had at least 40 acres of land and four houses. Because a deceased wife is mentioned in his Will, Joan HARDWICH, Thomas’s wife at the time of his death, was probably not the mother of James HARDWICK. James HARWICH, Thomas’s son and Eunice Verna’s ancestor, was named executor of the Will. Just in case he was not around (he was overseas at the time that the Will was written), trustees were named to act on his behalf. About June 1681. Thomas died and probably was buried in Westbury, Somerset, England. 28 June 1681. Thomas’s Will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, England. 19 1402 John ARMSBY check references – some are probably wrong -‐ wrong dates on books. About 1604. Born, presumably in England (based on entries for Aug. 1635 and Sep. 1655). John ARMSBY of Virginia might be the John ARMISBYE who was likely born in Sep. 1604 in Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England. 20 A quick review using Familysearch.org shows that there are a number of other candidates, however, who were also born in about 1604. 7 Aug. 1635. Jo. ARMSBY, age 30, was among those who embarked on the ship, Globe, of 19 Will of Thomas Hardwich of Westbury, Somerset, from The National Archives, Great Britain (online). 20 Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England, church books, Bishop's Transcripts [LDS Microfilm 0504734]: Baptism, Pinchbeck, 1604; Date: 16 Sept.; Child: John; Father: John Armisbye; Note: "ye Past day" [the birth?].
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