Richard Becher (abt. 1540 - 1619)

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Died Aug 1619 at about age 79 in Bletchingley, Surrey, England

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Richard Becher was born in England.

Biography of Richard BECHER of 1540

Richard Becher, born about 1540 in or near Penshurst, Kent, England,

Richard Becher is the son of James Becher and his wife Elizabeth Unknown

Richard Becher was one of at least five siblings:

• Richard Becher, born about 1540 in England, who married Elizabeth Barber, of Stangrave, Bletchingly, Surrey after 1565, and inherited her father's estate at Stangrave, Bletchingly, Surrey in 1580. They had two children, Edmund Becher, and Richard Becher.
• John Becher, born about 1541, and who married Margaret Waters and had seven children, before passing away about 1596.
• James Becher born about 1552-1556, and named after his father, who married Elizabeth Streatfield on December 31, 1577 according to archival documents found in a A2A document at the UK Archives. James Becher, . has four children.
• Edward Becher, born before 1555 in England, married Agnes and had six children. Daughter Dorothy gave him grandchildren.
• Henry Becher, born 1557, and probably baptized on 23 April 1567 Shorne, Kent. No records of marriage. More research is needed.

Richard Becher married Elizabeth Barber, of Stangrave, Bletchingly, Surrey after 1565, and inherited her father's estate at Stangrave, Bletchingly, Surrey in 1580.

• Edward Barber of Blechingley held Stangrave, Bletchingley at his death in 1580, when it passed by the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to the family of Beecher of Kent, in whose hands it remained until 1676, when a daughter [Mary] and heiress conveyed it by marriage to Thomas Northey, ancestor of Millicent Parkhurst, who with her sisters sold the property to the Clayton family. (fn. 163) The Northeys pulled down the old house in 1740 and built one called Ivy House.

From: 'Parishes: Blechingley', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4 (1912), pp. 253-65. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43061&strquery=Beecher. Date accessed: 15 May 2007.

• Richard Beecher and his wife Elizabeth, executrix of Edward Barber, deceased v Richard Dirkyn, Edmund Frere and George Hodges. Contested will. The manor of Gaston in Bletchingley, Surrey, held on lease granted by Thomas Reede esquire.

Short title: Becher v Hodges [UK Archives]

He was named as the eldest son of James Becher of Penshurst in the 1568 will of his Uncle Henry Becher. His brothers John & James were also named.

Richard Becher had six children, Edmund, William, Richard, John, Anthony & Richard Becher, .

Richard Becher passed away August 1619 and was buried at St Mary, Bletchingly, Surrey, England on the 9th August 1619.

Places associated with Richard Becher include Chiddingstone, Kent and Stangrave, Bletchingly, Surrey.

Richard Becher/ BEECHER of Bletchingley, Gentleman, 10 Jan 1616/17 (to be buried in the church; to poor £1) I am possessed of a lease in right of my wife of lands called Stangraves in the tenure of Edward Barber, gentleman in Blechingley for sixty years and land belonging to my elder son Edmund Beecher, £20 for life, and then to his assigns demise by counsel learned in the law of Richard Beecher my younger son in messuage called Beechers alias Browinges in Chiddingstone and Penshurst, Kent when 21; residue to my wife Elizabeth Beecher, exec. Witnesses: Edmund Beecher; Isaac Wright; Richard Heath (X); Robert Harvie (X); Joan Goodwyne (X) Proved: 15 Nov 1619 to relict [DW/PA/7/10 ff.172v-173v; DW/PA/5/1619/10]

SURREY COATS OF ARMS Surrey Heritage BECHER or BEECHER of Stangrave in Bletchingley, from 1580 to 1676. Arms: Vairy Argent and Gules, on a canton Or a stag head cabossed Sable. As quartered on the monument in Bletchingley Church to Edward Northey, (d.1743), of Stangrave, whose father Thomas Northey married Mary, daughter and heir of Richard Becher, son of Richard Becher, both of Bletchingley, son of Richard Becher of Chiddingstone, Kent. (MB ii 312)

Sources

• Will of Henry Becher, Haberdasher & Citizen of London. Written in 1568 & proved 1571 PCC.

'Parishes: Blechingley', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4 (1912), pp. 253-65. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43061&strquery=Beecher. Date accessed: 15 May 2007.

NOTE: The sources below are online genealogies. If anyone has additional details on primary source documents, or photos thereof, please upload here.

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~becher/henry_becher%20and%20Alice%20Heron.htm

• Rootsweb World Connect "Becher Family of Cork, England and Australia" by J. Stiles - http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=becher&id=I3