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Richard 843 Gotts of Ryborough
Richard 843 applied for the coat of arms and crest in Cambridge in 1619. He is shown at the bottom of the tree with the crest.
Richard GOTTS of Ryburgh, Gent., late of Clement’s Inn, was admitted to the Inner Temple on the 30th June 1578; he was called to the Bar in November 1590.
He died very shortly after being called and no further information about him personally or about his legal career exists. It appears that his widow Ann 1036 Goodwin remarried, firstly, a Thomas GIBSON Esq of Thorpe next Norwich and secondly, on the 4th December 1617 at West Dereham Sir Thomas DEREHAM. She died in 1625.
Their children include:
Richard 1030
Nicholas 1031
Grizell 1032 m 1604 London St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish St
Frauncis 1033 bp 1586 Stepney St Dunstan
Thomas 1034
Mary 1035
Question: what happened to the family? Did any survive to claim the use of the coat of arms?
Richard 1041 is the top of the tree, married to Margaret 1042 who died c 1600, and a brother Robert 1043 of Walsingham parva.
Their son Robert 835 of Ryborough married Elizabeth 836 Hunt and had children:
Nicholas 835 d 1579 m Rose 842 Browne who had Richard 843 (above) and Mary 844 m Thoms Chalice of Swaffham
Robert 839, whose daughter Sarah 1028 probably married Arthur Jex in South Creake
Thomas 838 m Alice Leaman in Norwich in 1631
Elizabeth 840 m Rob Leaman
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It is also likely that Robert is a son of Richard GOTTS of Little Ryburgh, whose Will (1537) makes a bequest to both a son Robert and to a brother Robert. The latter is said to be of Little Walsingham, which points to a connection with various GOTTS families known to be living at Walsingham in the early 16th century.
Mention is made of an ancestral ring containing the family’s coat of arms in the Will of Nicholas GOTTS of Hempstead-by-Holt ( 1628-1684 ). This heirloom is bequeathed to his son Nicholas junior ( bp Hempstead 1670 ), who married at Hevingham in 1695 and had four children baptised at North Walsham between 1696 and 1701. Unfortunately, nothing further is known about either the ring or this family.
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