Sir Calthorpe Parker

  General Notes:

Sir Calthorpe Parker was knighted by King James I at Whitehall, London before his coranation on 23 July 1603 and in 1612 was the High Sheriff of Suffolk.

The will of Sir Calthorpe Parker:

I give and bequeath unto Dame Mercye. my now wife, my capital messuage or manor home of my manor of Erwarton with the orchards, gardens, mills, dovehonses &c. to have and to hold until my eldest son shall accomplish his full age of one and twenty years. The manor of Gaynes and other estate to be in the charge of the executors, a portion of the rent to be employed for the benefit of the younger children. The three hundred pounds paid to Sir Stephen Soame to he employed for me in the East Indian Company I give, with the profits arising of the said Adventure, unto my daughter Anne Parker. to be paid at her day of marriage or age of one and twenty years. Other bequests to daughters Anne and Mary Parker. To my sister Dame Katherine Cornwallis fifty pounds. I do same and appoint my assured loving brothers in law Nathaniel Baroardiston Esquire, Thomas Soame of London Esquire and my trusty and assured friends, William Cage of Ipswich. Suffolk, gentlemen, and John Gaseley of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, yeoman, my true and lawful executors. 1 do give and bequeath unto Dame Mereye my wife my capital and new built messuage in Great Wenham, Suffolk, and lands, meadows, pastures and fennes in said town of Great Wenham or Capell to have and to hold during her natural life. And after her decease I give them to Stephen Parker my second son and to his heirs forever.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Marriage: to Mercey Soame, 27 February 1598, St Pancras Soper Lane, London.

Calthorpe married Lady Mercy Soame, daughter of Sir Stephen Soame and Lady Ann Stone, on 27 February 1598 in St Pancras Soper Lane, London. (Lady Mercy Soame died on 5 July 1636 in Erwarton, Suffolk and was buried on 5 July 1636 in Erwarton, Suffolk.)