Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameThomas Upton 
Birthabt 1410, Cornall, England
Death1470
FatherJohn Upton (~1390-1450)
MotherMargaret Mulys (~1392-)
Spouses
Birthabt 1412
Death1464, England
FatherSir John Trelawny , Knight (~1386-)
MotherAgnes Tregodick (~1388-)
ChildrenWilliam (~1435-~1491)
Notes for Thomas Upton
Thomas UPTON was born at Cornwall, England, the son of John Upton and Margaret Mulys.
He married Johanna, daughter and heir of [Sir] John Trelawny [Kt.], by his wife Agnes, daughter of Robert Tregodick. Johanna died in 1464.
Their children were:
* John, of Upton, married Agnes;
* William, of Launceston, and after 1477 of Trelaske and Upton, married (1) Isabel Rosmadres, had one child, married (2) Joane Palmer, had three children;
* Isabel; and
* John, of Pushlinch in parish of Newton Ferrers and hundred of Ermington, Devon, born in 1432, married Agnes Pennells (or Peverel).
"The reader whose attention has never been called to a curious custom of our ancestors, which is now, happily, extinct, may feel incredulous at finding assigned to Thomas Upton two sons both bearing the name John, and both, apparently, living at the same time. Yet nothing can be more certain than that it was not an infrequent thing in England, even as late as the seventeenth century, for parents to give a child a christian name already borne by a living brother or sister of the infant. In my own slender reading I have met at least a dozen instances of this custom, and I could mention one instance where three brothers, all living at the same time and all legitimate, each bore the name William. It will be observed that in the pedigree from the 'Visitation of Devon in 1620' these two Johns are placed in the next generation; but that that arrangement is erroneous is amply proven by the deed of William Uppeton of Trelaske noted at page 79, as well as by abundant other evidence."
"In 1453 he leased land to Thomas Mohun. In 1455 he received a release of lands from John Trelawny. On 24 January 1461 John Palmer released to him, to John his son and Elizabeth his wife, lands in Maysters Park and Hervena in parish of Alternum, Cornwall. In 1469 he gave his lands in Upton Hays to Joanna Trelawny and William Mennynick."
He died in 1470.
He married Johanna, daughter and heir of [Sir] John Trelawny [Kt.], by his wife Agnes, daughter of Robert Tregodick. Johanna died in 1464.
Their children were:
* John, of Upton, married Agnes;
* William, of Launceston, and after 1477 of Trelaske and Upton, married (1) Isabel Rosmadres, had one child, married (2) Joane Palmer, had three children;
* Isabel; and
* John, of Pushlinch in parish of Newton Ferrers and hundred of Ermington, Devon, born in 1432, married Agnes Pennells (or Peverel).
"The reader whose attention has never been called to a curious custom of our ancestors, which is now, happily, extinct, may feel incredulous at finding assigned to Thomas Upton two sons both bearing the name John, and both, apparently, living at the same time. Yet nothing can be more certain than that it was not an infrequent thing in England, even as late as the seventeenth century, for parents to give a child a christian name already borne by a living brother or sister of the infant. In my own slender reading I have met at least a dozen instances of this custom, and I could mention one instance where three brothers, all living at the same time and all legitimate, each bore the name William. It will be observed that in the pedigree from the 'Visitation of Devon in 1620' these two Johns are placed in the next generation; but that that arrangement is erroneous is amply proven by the deed of William Uppeton of Trelaske noted at page 79, as well as by abundant other evidence."
"In 1453 he leased land to Thomas Mohun. In 1455 he received a release of lands from John Trelawny. On 24 January 1461 John Palmer released to him, to John his son and Elizabeth his wife, lands in Maysters Park and Hervena in parish of Alternum, Cornwall. In 1469 he gave his lands in Upton Hays to Joanna Trelawny and William Mennynick."
He died in 1470.