Ho16 Sir William Hody of Pillesdon was the son of Lord Chief Justice John Hody( Ho17) and Elizabeth Jewe (Je17), heiress of John le Jewe of Whitfield and Beerhall in Devon and Alice Pillesdon, and grandson of John Hody of Stowell in Somersetshire.
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Married: Eleanor Malet, daughter of Baldwin
Malet (Ma18) and sister of Hugh Malet
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Chief Baron Exchequerer |
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Ho15-1 Mary Hoddy d 19 Nov 1587) m Thomas Carew of Haccombe Ho15 Agnes Hody m Robert Cary Ca15 Ho15-1? Joan Hody m William Chudleigh of Portledge and had Ho15-1-1 Richard Chudleigh |
Hody, of Netheway, in Brixham. — Sir John Hody, of Stowel, in Somersetshire,
acquired this place in marriage with the heiress of Cole, who had a residence
also at Pillesdon, in Dorsetshire; his son, Sir John Hody, Chief Justice
of the King's Bench, married the heiress of Jewe, of Whitfield, and Beerhall,
in Devon; the posterity of his elder son continued at Netheway for several
descents. John Hody, Esq., sold Netheway in 1696, and left Devon. Edmund
Hody, M. D., of this branch, was of London in 1750. Hugh and Arthur, two
younger sons of Christopher Hody, Esq., of Netheway, who wrote their name
Huddy, were of Brixham in 1620: the co-heiresses of Hugh married Burland,
of Dorsetshire, and Hody, of Northover, in Somersetshire. Sir William
Hody, second son of the Lord Chief Justice, was Chief Baron of the
Exchequer, and ancestor of the Hody's of Pillesdon, in Dorsetshire, and
Crewkerne, in Somersetshire. Robert Hody, Esq., who was of Crewkerne in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, had two sons; John, the elder, who was of
Beerhall, (Thorncombe,) in Devon, left an only daughter married to Bowditch;
the next son was ancestor of the Hodys, of Northover, in Somersetshire;
of which branch was the learned Dr. Humphry Hody, archdeacon of Oxford,
who died in 1706.
Arms of Hody: — Argent, a fesse party, per fesse indented, V. and S. between two cottises counterchanged. Crest: A bull passant, Argent. From: 'General history: Families removed since 1620', Magna Britannia: volume 6: Devonshire (1822), pp. CLXXIII-CCXXV. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50555. Date accessed: 23 January 2008. |