John Culpeper of Wigsell1

Male, #8395, (1531 - 20 Oct 1612)

Father*William Culpeper of Hunton and Wigsell (1509 - 6 Dec 1559)
Mother*Cicely Dingley Barrett (1512 - b 6 Dec 1559)
John Culpeper of Wigsell|b. 1531\nd. 20 Oct 1612|p8395.htm|William Culpeper of Hunton and Wigsell|b. 1509\nd. 6 Dec 1559|p8388.htm|Cicely Dingley Barrett|b. 1512\nd. before 6 Dec 1559|p8390.htm|Walter Culpeper of Calais and Wigsell|b. say 1475\nd. before 24 Jun 1515|p8387.htm|Anne Aucher|b. say 1480\nd. after 4 Sep 1532|p8394.htm|John Barrett of Belhouse in Aveley, Essex|b. 1485\nd. 4 Oct 1526|p8321.htm|Phyllis Barnfield|b. 1490|p8322.htm|

Name Variation  John Culpeper of Wigsell was also known as Culpepper of Wigsell. 
Name Variation  John Culpeper of Wigsell was also known as Colepeper of Wigsell. 
Birth*1531 John was born at Wigsell, Salehurst, co. Sussex, England, in 1531. 
 He was the son of William Culpeper of Hunton and Wigsell and Cicely Dingley Barrett. 
Marriage*say 1560 He married Elizabeth Sedley at Salehurst, co. Sussex, England, say 1560. 
Death*20 Oct 1612 He died at Salehurst, co. Sussex, England, on 20 Oct 1612. 
Burial*21 Oct 1612 His body was interred on 21 Oct 1612 at Salehurst, co. Sussex, England. 
Biography* He was named in his father's will (1559) as 'John Culpeper my eldest son,' and lived out a long and uneventful life at Wigsell. There is no record of his education. If he was not sent to Winchester like his younger brothers, he probably spent some years in residence at one of the inns of chancery: but he was not admitted to any of the Inns of Court. It is thus possible, by the process of elimination, to distinguish him from the other three Johns of his generation.
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All the public testimonies for him are in the acts of Queen Elizabeth's Privy Council ranging from 1558 to 1592. These show him an active Justice of the Peace, included in the quorum of the Commission for the Rape of Lewes and the Cinq Ports of Sussex, in such periodical correspondence relating to the routine of local government as made up his father's public record also.
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The inquisition taken in 1614, after the death of his eldest son (post), testifies that he made a settlement of his estate in 1589 in lieu of a will, and died on October 20, 1612. He was buried in Salehurst, October 21, 1612, as 'Johanes Colepeper, armiger, etatis 82,' whence it may be deducted that he was born the year after his parents' marriage. If there was an MI., it was destroyed in the desecration of Salehurst Church during the Commonwealth.
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Source: Fairfax Harrison, "The Proprietors of the Northern Neck." 

Family

Elizabeth Sedley (say 1534 - 16 May 1618)
Children

Charts Charlemagne's Descendants, Part 2: William Malet to Henry Culpeper of Lower Norfolk
Ancestry of John Culpeper of Wigsel
Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales
Descendants of William Culpeper of Hunton and Wigsell, from 1509: 7 generations
Lew Griffin's Culpepper Ancestry Chart (Great-grandmother Clarissa Eugenia Culpepper Griffin)
Last Edited 3 Jan 2003

Citations

  1. Col. F.W.T. Attree R.E./F.S.A. & Rev. J.H.L. Booker M.A., "The Sussex Colepepers, Part I", Sussex Archaeological Collections, XLVII, 47-81, (1904) http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/sussex/default.htm.