Thomas Hext

  General Notes:

Pedigree from Vivian's The Visitation of Devon, pp. 221, name husband of Jane, daughter of John Fortescue to be John Hext rather than Thomas. John is followed by his second son, Thomas Hex who married a daughter of Humphry Poyntz of Iron Acton. ¹¹⁹⁹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
Thomas Hext of Kingston, Staverton, co. Devon, married Joane Fortesce of Staverton, co. Devon. Thomas senior died before 8 May 1497 according to a writ for Inq.p.m. on estate issued to escheator of Devon. He is referred to as deceased in the Inq.p.m. on the estates of his mother-in-law, Joan (Prutteston) Fortescue. Joane Fortescue was the daughter of John and Joan (Prutteston) Fortescue of Whympston. Joan was named as a widow on the Devon Lay Subsidey Rolls 1524-7 on the 1524 list, but was absent of the 1525 list.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 243E:36

Thomas married Joane Fortescue, daughter of John Fortescue and Jane Preston, in 1470/1475 in Staverton, Devonshire, England.¹⁶⁰ (Joane Fortescue was born about 1450 in Staverton, Devonshire, England ¹⁶⁰ and died in 1525 in Devonshire, England ¹⁶⁰.)