John Still - Family

Family

John Still married twice:

• Firstly to Anne Alabaster (d.1592), (or Arblaster), daughter of Thomas Alabaster, a cloth merchant of Hadleigh, Suffolk. A monumental brass in her memory exists in Hadleigh Church. Her brother John Alabaster was twice mayor of Hadleigh. They had the following progeny:
  • John (died young 1577-81), buried at Hadleigh.
  • Nathaniel (1579–1626). Baptised at Hadleigh in 1579, died 1626 at Hutton, Somerset. He married Jane Whitmore (d.1639, buried Bath Abbey), a daughter of William Whitmore (d.1593), a haberdasher of Balmes Manor, Hackney and of Apley Hall, Shropshire. Jane's nephew was Sir Thomas Whitmore, 1st Baronet (1612–1653). They had a son who died young, and five daughters and co-heiresses: (1) Anne (b.1613) married John Codrington of Codrington and Didmarton, Glos., to whose family passed the manor of Hutton; (2) Jane (b.1614) married Sir James Pyle of Compton Beauchamp, Berks.; (3) Elizabeth (b.1618), living in 1639; (4) Daughter 4, unnamed; (5) Mary (b.1620?) married John Dennis (d.1660) of Pucklechurch, Glos., Sheriff of Gloucestershire and son of Henry Dennis (d.1638), who had married as his second wife Nathaniel's widow Jane. There is an incised stone mural tablet in baroque surround in Hutton Church depicting Nathaniel and his wife and children kneeling in prayer.
• Secondly after 1592, Jane Horner, daughter of Sir John Horner of Mells Manor, Somerset, High Sheriff of Somerset. They had the following progeny:
  • John Still, of Shaston St James, buried in St James's Church, Shaftesbury. Married Margaret Grubham Howe, da. of Sir George Howe, of Berwick St Leonard, Wilts., and sister of Sir George Grobham Howe, 1st Baronet (d.1676), M.P. for Hindon, Wilts., of Berwick St Leonard, Wilts.
  • Thomas Still (d.1631) of Somerton, Som. Buried at St James's, Shaftesbury. Married Bridget, da. of Gawen Champernoune esq. of Dartington, Devon by Lady Gabrielle Roberta Montgomery, da. of Gabriel, comte de Montgomery (d.1574), a leader of the French Huguenots.