Michell/Phillips, 17th Century Documents

[Cornish Terrier]

I mentioned in a PM to Trencrom about the usefulness of a combination of documents from the 17th Century so thought I would give an example here based on Michell and Phillips of Zennor.
The documents in question are:-
1. A Church Rate of about 1613
2. The 1641 Protestation Returns
3. The 1662-64 Hearth Tax

If we work around these documents with surviving PR's and BT's and also Wills we should be able to form a reasonable picture.

Because both Michell and Phillips had some connections with Morvah and Towednack I have also had a quick scan of the latter two documents for those Parishes.

1641 Morvah - Henerye PHILIPS
1641 Towednack - Robert MICHEL

1662/4 Morvah - Nil
1662/4 Towednack - Nil

So now let us take a look at Zennor.

1613

Matthew PHILLEP
John PHILLEP
Thomas MYCHELL

1641

Robart MICHELL
James PHILLIP
Henry PHILLIP
Ralphe MICHELL
George MICHELL
Thomas PHILLIP
Israel MICHELL
James PHILLIP
John PHILLIP
James MICHELL

1662-64

Robert MITCHELL, jun
George MITCHELL
Cornelius PHILLIPS
Thomas PHILLIPS
Alice PHILLIPS
Francis PHILLIPS

Hearths not mentioned in the former Returns:-

Rob MICHELL & Anne PHILIPS & the occupants

** Because of their borders with Morvah I have decided to have a quick check of Gulval and Madron.

1641 Gulval

Edward MICHELL
John MICHELL

1662-64 Gulval

I believe my copy was provided by Zenobia who added a note saying there were NO PHILLIPS in that Parish at the time but there was a HENRY PHILLIPS at St Keverne.

1641 Madron

Lawrence MICCHELL
Willm MICCHELL
William MICHELL

1662-64 Madron

None Found

It would appear, then, that Gulval and Madron may be removed from the equation thus leaving us, basically, with Zennor to work on.

This gives us a 'skeleton' scenario for which, hopefully, surviving BDM's and Wills will enable us to create a 'body'.

The very interesting thing in the above is the highlighted HENRY PHILLIPS.

Were there TWO Henry Phillips
Or did the same man somehow manage to sign the Protestation in two different Parishes

There will be more on Henry to come.

[trencrom]

I would be inclined toi read this as two Henrys.
Also I see that there were two Jameses in Zennor at that time.

[Cornish Terrier]

The James Phillips part of this seems relatively easy.

1. James Phillips named in the Will of his brother Thomas Phillips dated November 1642.

2. James s/o Matthew Phillips who married Alice at Zennor in 1625 and left his own Will in 1645.

Henry Phillips is a different matter.

The one who is obvious and was probably the man at Zennor would be the son of Thomas Phillips and was named in the Will of his grandfather Matthew Phillips of Zennor in 1628 along with brothers James and Matthew.

The other Henry is, at the moment, a mystery.