General Notes

[spelman.FTW]

REFN: 682
JOHN SPILMAN, the second John Spilman of Great Baddow, married Marge ry.
Her maiden surname is not known. It may have been Palmer, as in her will
given below she mentions her sister, Margaret Palmer, although, of
course, this may have been her sister's married name. She also names her
son, Edward Sexton, and three other Sextons, John, Robert, and Edward,
the two last being sons of John. It is, of course, possible that Edward
Sexton was her son-in-l aw, but it is also possible that her marriage to
John Spilman had been precee ded by an earlier marriage to one Sexton,
that Edward and John were children of this marriage, and that Robert and
Edward, sons of John, were, therefore, her grandchildren. On the other
hand, she makes her Executors her sons, John Spyllman, John Hycks, and
Edward Sexton, and of these John Hycks was probably her son-in-law, as in
her will she mentions a daughter, Joan Hix. Several be quests to persons
of the name of Buncheley may indicate that this was her mai den name.