Thomas Lord Culpeper 2nd Baron of Thoresway1

Male, #8478, (before 21 Mar 1635 - 27 Jan 1689)

Parent*John Lord Culpeper 1st Baron of Thoresway (7 Aug 1599 - 11 Jul 1660)
Parent*Judith Culpeper (b 1 Jun 1606 - Nov 1691)
Thomas Lord Culpeper 2nd Baron of Thoresway|b. before 21 Mar 1635\nd. 27 Jan 1689|p8478.htm|John Lord Culpeper 1st Baron of Thoresway|b. 7 Aug 1599\nd. 11 Jul 1660|p8477.htm|Judith Culpeper|b. before 1 Jun 1606\nd. Nov 1691|p8889.htm|Thomas Culpeper of Wigsell|b. 1561\nd. before 19 Sep 1613|p8391.htm|Anne Slaney|b. circa 1575\nd. before 26 Feb 1602|p8443.htm|Sir Thomas Culpeper of Hollingbourne, the Elder|b. before 8 Dec 1575\nd. before 27 Jan 1661|p8879.htm|Elizabeth Cheney|b. say 1582\nd. 27 Oct 1638|p8881.htm|

Name Variation  Thomas Lord Culpeper 2nd Baron of Thoresway was also known as Lord Colepeper 2nd Baron of Thoresway. 
Name Variation  Thomas Lord Culpeper 2nd Baron of Thoresway was also known as Lord Culpepper 2nd Baron of Thoresway. 
Birth*before 21 Mar 1635 Thomas was born before 21 Mar 1635. 
Baptism21 Mar 1635 He was baptized at Hollingbourne, co. Kent, England, on 21 Mar 1635.  
 He was the son of John Lord Culpeper 1st Baron of Thoresway and Judith Culpeper. 
Marriage*3 Aug 1659 He married Margaretta van Hesse at The Hague, Holland, on 3 Aug 1659. 
Marriage*say 1670 He married Susanna Willis say 1670. 
Death*27 Jan 1689 He died at Saint James Street, London, England, on 27 Jan 1689. 
Biography* Thomas, bap. 1634, succeeded his father as second Lord Colepeper, and by his marriage with Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Jean Van Hesse, Seigneur de Perschill and Wena in Holland, had an only daughter and heiress, Catherine.
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The 2nd Lord Colepeper was not a very estimable character. After his death, 27th Jan., 1688/9, his widow stated that her late husband had two houses in London, one in St. James' Street, the other in Hammersmith. He died in St. James' Street and she was living at Leeds Castle, not having had the least notice that he was sick until some time after his decease. She immediately went to London and buried him, and wants to administer his estate in order to pay his debts, which she is informed are very great and many. But Susanna Willis, alias Weldon, alias Laycock, who had been living with him at his house in St. James' Street, has the key of his closets and has possessed herself of everything.
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In her answer Susanna Willis mentions her two daughters by Lord Thomas Colepeper, Susan, wife of Sir Charles Englefield, Bart. (married at St. James', Westminster, 22nd Feb., 1685/6) and Charlotte, aged 13. By indenture in 1688 Lord Colepeper granted to her daughters land at Solihull, co. Warwick, the tithes of Mayfield, the Manor of Thoresway, 24 acres at Wittersham, land near Kent Bridge, in Wittersham, yielding £7. 10s. 0d. per annum, land in Erith, Lesnes and Plumstead, valued at £72 per annum, land in Buriton, co. Southants, 260 acres of marsh at Lydde and Bromehill, worth £185 per annum, a farm in Loose, Eastfarlegh and Maidstone, yielding £30 per annum. Then she mentions a will of Thomas Lord Colepeper, in which he revoked all his other wills, especially his last one, Aug. 23rd, 1681, and he settled on his natural daughter Susan, Wife of Sir Charles Englefield, an annuity of £100 for life out of Thoresway Manor and £3,000 portion, £3,000 to his natural daughter Charlotte, his house in Hammersmith to Susanna Weldon, alias Willis. The Manor of Arreton, Isle of Wight, to his natural daughter, Charlotte. The residue of his property to Katherine, his daughter, who is executrix.
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A Bill in Parliament to annul the above gifts, whether by deed or will, to Susanna Willis, alias Weldon, alias Laycock, and her two illegitimate children, was rejected in the House of Lords 15 Jan 1689/90.
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The preceding all from "The Sussex Colepepers", published in the "Sussex Archaeological Collections", Volume XLVII, 1904, pp 67-69 For a much lengthier discourse on the 2nd Lord Culpeper, see Chapter 3(c) of Fairfax Harrison's "Proprietors of the Northern Neck", found on Culpepper Connections! at: http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/3c-holling.htm. 

Family 1

Margaretta van Hesse (12 Jan 1635 - before 12 May 1710)
Child

Family 2

Susanna Willis (say 1645 - )
Children

Charts Charlemagne's Descendants, Part 2: William Malet to Henry Culpeper of Lower Norfolk
Descendants of William Culpeper of Hunton and Wigsell, from 1509: 7 generations
The Culpepers of Hollingbourne, from 1539 to present? (Possibly extinct)
Last Edited 2 Oct 2002

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.