John HATCHE^[1]

Abt 1415 - Aft 1464  (~ 49 years)

• Name	John HATCHE
  Born	Abt 1415	Sellindge, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Miller
  Confirmed Ancestor?	Y
  Died	Aft 15 Nov 1464	Sellindge, Kent, England
  Person ID	I5231	Main
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2023

  
  

  Family	Agnes MNU,   b. Jun 1413,   d. ?
  Children	+ 1. Thomas HATCHE,   b. Abt 1442, Sellindge, Kent, England ,   d. Aft 1464, Sellindge, Kent, England  (Age ~ 23 years)   2. William HATCHE,   b. Abt 1446, Sellindge, Kent, England   3. John HATCHE,   b. Abt 1444, Sellindge, Kent, England
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2023
  Family ID	F1882	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The Hatch family has lived for at least six centuries in the Co of Kent, England. The family name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon noun HAEC, Middle English HACCHE, later HATCH meaning gate or wicket. The surname appears in the hundred of Calehill, Co. Kent, as early as 1328, the form during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries being ATTE HACCHE. It is clear that the name was originally assumed by a man who dwelt near or at some gate or wicket, such, for instance, as might have been found at the entrance to the village churchyard or to the grounds of the manor house.   The ancient family took its name from the place of its habitation in the parish of South Moulton, Devonshire, England. The earliest record of the name is found in the doomsday book of A.D. 1086 under the form Hacke in 1273. The name Richard de la Hacke appears in the rolls of Wiltshire and that of John Atte Hache in those of Oxfordshire. —— JOHN AT HECCHE, of Sellinge, in the hundred of Street, co. Kent, the testator of 1464, was born probably about 1415 and died not earlier than 15 Nov. 1464. He married AGNES who was living when his will was made. He was probably a miller. He was undoubtedly descended from some of the Atte Hacches found in the hundred of Calehill, in the subsidies of 1327/8 and 1372/3. These subsidies do not name the parishes in which the persons assessed lived; but the hundred of Calehill comprised the parishes of Charing, Westwell, Egerton, Little Chart, and Pluckley, as well as parts of several other parishes. Contemporary with the above John at Hecche of Sellinge were several of the name in Charing, probably his brothers and cousins, who left wills not given in this article. The mention of his lands in Westwell and Charing places his origin in that ancient Atte Hacche family, and he is the first of the name in Sellinge or vicinity of whom record has been found. His will names his wife Agnes and three sons. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The, (NEHGS, Boston, MA), 70:253. [S1] New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The, (NEHGS, Boston, MA), 70:252-3.