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  From Rootsweb Hooker surname board: Author: Tim Hooker Date: 16 Dec 200211:15 PM GMT
  
  Rev Zachary is my director ancestor. I have quite a lot on his family but little on Zachary himself - even though he is probably the most interesting character on the pedigree and a very different character from his illustrious father (John) and extraordinarily famous cousin (Richard). I have the pedigree of Seraphin which continued for at least five generations. Balsemus's line continued to present day. (I've met them). Leofrick and Juvenal died relatively young and didn't marry. Theobald and Amethist lived on, apparently unmarried, a became old men. Valentine's line continued to the present day - I'm one of them! I have the full pedigree with dates etc of all these wonderful people. I even have Rev. Zachary's handwritten record of the times of day when his children were born, and his Will and some of those of his family. I'd love to know more about the background to the names he gave his children - they are all highly significant and not at all the names you'd expect a priest to use. However, I cannot find any association with the names Balsemus or Amethyst. Incidently, Balsemus lived at St. Ewe in Cornwall, and even today there hangs on the wall of the church the seating plan showing where he and the rest of the small congregation sat. I think he'd be somewhat tickled to know it was still there after 400 years. 

Details of Zachary's family with Grace Battishill