WATKINS, JANE [SSNE 8294]

Surname

WATKINS

First name

JANE

Nationality

DUTCH

Social status

OFFICER'S WIDOW

Text source

Jane Watkins was the wife of Evan Watkins, who served as the sergeant-major of Colonel Sir Thomas Morton's regiment in the expedition to the Ile de Rhé (1627), until he was killed on 29 October 1627. In 1629, Jane Watkins petitioned the Privy Council of England for his arrears of pay (£103, 11 shillings, eight pence) which Sergeant-Major Watkins had willed to her and their two children. The Privy Council ruled in favor of Mrs Watkins, and also noted that she was "a stranger, [who] hath been long a suitor [to the council] and hath no other occasion to stay here but onely to receive that money," implying that she was to return to the Dutch Republic upon payment of the arrears. 

 

Sources: 

Acts of the Privy Council of England, 1629-1630, (45 vols., London, 1890-1964), pp. 305, 397.

Spring, Laurence, The First British Army: The Army of the Duke of Buckingham, 1624-1628 (Solihull, 2016), p. 239. 

Keywords: Female, widow

This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.

Service record

ENGLAND,

Arrived 1627-10-29

Departed 1629-05-24

Capacity PETITIONER, purpose WIDOW