Family Group Record
Husband
John (Fincet) VINCETT
Wife
Margaret COUCHMAN
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Notes
MARRIAGE
Marriage licence 19 Jun 1633 at Goudhurst - Canterbury Diocese Marriage Licences
In Canterbury Marriage Licences p. 1019 by Joseph Meadows Cowper 1906
"Vincent (Vincett) john, of Cranbrook, yeom. widr. about 70, and Margaret Couchman, sp. about 26 with the
consent of her mother, Rebecca Couchman"
HUSBAND
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John (Fincet) VINCETT
Alt birth abt 1553
Mentioned in father's will John VYNCET
Butcher (not confirmed). Beneficiary and executor of father's will. Surname also VINCENT,VENSETT, VYNCET,
VYNCETT, FINCET, FINCETT.
John Vincett in mother's will. John Vincent - burial.
Original will. Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury. 1638.
1607 Cranbrook Parish Registers Rate Book - John Vincett et vx - 8/4 .
1608 Cranbrook Parish Registers Rate Book - John Vincett et vx - 6/4 .
1609 Cranbrook Parish Registers Rate Book - John Vincett et vx - 8/10.
1610 Cranbrook Parish Registers Rate Book - John Vincett et vx - 6/10 .
1611 No mention
1612 Cranbrook Parish Registers Rate Book - John Vincett et vx - 6/10 .
West Kent Quarter Sessions Records
Victuallers Recognizances
Group of original recognizances taken before William Sedley, Justinian Champneis and Edmund Cook on
FILE - Nicholas Annawaye of Cranbrook, weaver; sureties, John Vincett and John Peende, both of Cranbrook,
yeomen - ref. QM/RLv/228/25 - date: 7 Sept 1610
17 July 1598 Public Record Office: Assizes 35/40/4 M. 74; Damaged. Title Maidstone Assizes.
Richard Glover, Richard Sharpe, .... Taylor, AlexanderCollyer, Timothy Collyer, John Vincet, John Weller, Edward
Leed, Andrew ..., ... Haman, Richard Woodman, Richard Fowler and Stephen Lott, indicted for contempt. 3 May
1598, being sworn as jurors at a hundred leet held at the market cross in Cranbrook, they elected William Sheafe
of Cranbrook yeoman to serve as hundred constable although they knew him to be an infirm man incapable of
discharging the office.
Lewes Archdeaconry Deponets 1585-1694
VINCETT John Cranbrook, Kent yeoman
[25 June] 1616 Ep II /5/10. F 95-6
Age c 60 Born in Cranbrook [c1556] and there all his life. Literate.
Kent Archives - Probate/Court Records. - Archdeaconry Court Miscellaneous. Ref No CCA-DCb-PRC/18/18/110
Date 14 Dec 1624. Scope and Content Plaintiff:Jn Vincett admor; Defendant: Reb Crouchman wid, Cranbrook;
Document: Arts; Case:Test(Eliz Rogers wid, Cranbrook)
Re: Canterbury Cathedral Archives DCb/PRC/18/18/110
The document comes from a lawsuit in an ecclesiastical court - the court of the archdeacon of
Canterbury. John Vincett is the court-appointed administrator of the goods of Elizabeth Rogers, deceased, of the
parish of Cranbrook, Kent. He is bringing a testamentary case against Rebecca Couchman, a widow of
Cranbrook. In the document (called by the technical term of articles) Rebecca is being questioned about certain
matters pertaining to Elizabeth Rogers's goods.
bur. 12 Oct 1638 at St Dunstans.
Will proven in 1638.
Will - speaks of leaving his 'drysalt' to his son Richard. From description of his belongs it seems likely he was a
farmer, like his father (husbandman), and /or a clothier. He speaks of heis 'lynnen, yearn, new cloth, hempe and
flax" and the reference to 'Copper Taynter Hardles' just after his residence ... is significant in that they are tools of
the clothier's trade. Cranbrook reknown for making broadcloth.
Will - There is reference to John's new wife Margaret not getting on with his son Richard as well as to John's "
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Family Group Record
Husband
John (Fincet) VINCETT
Wife
Margaret COUCHMAN
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Notes
HUSBAND
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John (Fincet) VINCETT
(Continued)
brother" Couchman, probably referring to his brother-in-law. The beneficiaries of the will are in the main John's
grandchildren and the surnames identify with the marriages found at Cranbrook and confirming that they are
indeed John's daughters (Source : Maggie Young)
WIFE
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Margaret COUCHMAN
chr. 22 Mar 1604/5 St Dunstans
Married in 1633 aged 26. Did not get on with husband's son Richard (mentioned in John's will

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