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Saint Leger Codd (bef. 1638 - 1706)

Col Saint Leger Codd
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Biography

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Saint Leger Codd was a Virginia colonist.

Saint Leger Codd,[1] born in England c. 1635[2] (or later): St Leger Codd, "s/o Wm Codd and Mary", was baptized 23 November 1638 in Kent, England (Lenham parish records).[3][4]

He was admitted to Gray’s Inn, London on 1 May 1656. The admissions register describes him as son and heir of William Codd, late of Wateringbury, Kent.[5]

Saint Leger Codd,[6] son of William Codd and Mary St. Leger, immigrated to Lancaster County, Virginia before 18 April 1670, when he was named a justice in that county. He later settled at Wicomico, Northumberland County.[7] In 1682, he was Burgess for Northumberland County.[8]

Marriages

He married four times:
  1. 23 October 1660 to Beatrice Pett at St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey.[9][10] See Research Notes, below.
  2. before 11 May 1670 to Anne Mottrom, widow of Richard Wright and David Fox, and daughter of Col. John Mottrom.[7][11]
  3. to Anne Bennett, widow of Theodorick Bland (died 23 April 1671)[12] and daughter of Richard Bennett (Governor of Virginia 1652-5). Anne died at Wharton Creek, Kent County, Maryland, November 1688.[7][13][14]
  4. to Anne Hynson, widow of Benjamin Randall and Joseph Wickes, and daughter of Thomas Hynson.[7]

Children

by Beatrice Pett:
  • James Codd, named in the Will of Beatrice's brother William Pett (proved 1692) as her son[15]
  • Beatrice Codd who married Richard Thornton in 1689[16][17] and is described in the Will of her uncle William Pett as sister of James[15]
  • Elizabeth Codd, named in the Will of her kinsman Peter Pett as daughter of Saint Leger Codd[18]
by Anne Mottrom:
by Anne Bennett (see Research Notes, below for discussion of Beatrice):
Saint Leger Codd and his last wife Anne Hynson had no children.[7]

Death and Will

Colonel Saint Leger Codd removed to Cecil County, Maryland where he died 7 November 1706.[7]
He left a will dated 9 September 1706 and proved in Kent County, Maryland on 8 April 1708. It appoints his sons Berkley and St Leger as executors, along with Thomas Smyth of Kent, England. He bequeathed his American property to Berkley and St Leger; his property at Wateringbury, Lenham and elsewhere in Kent, "Old England", to his son James; £5 to his daughter Beatrix; and 5 shillings to his daughter Mary Perdison or Padison (it is hard to be absolutely sure of the name).[19][20]

Research Notes

Forename

This profile had shown his nickname as "Saint", but did not include text to support it.[21]
'Saint Leger', more normally 'St Leger' in English usage of the last few centuries, is a compound first name. The less usual form 'Saint Leger' is what appears in the Tyler Index entry for his baptism.[3]

Marriage to Beatrice Pett

Douglas Richardson does not list St Leger Codd's first wife Beatrice Pett. Besides the parish register record of their marriage[9][10], there is other evidence for his marriage to her:
  • In a Prerogative Court of Canterbury Will, proved in 1692, William Pett mentions several times James Codd, his nephew and son of his "late sister deceased" Beatrice.[15] Douglas Richardson gives James’s mother as Anne Mottrom[7], but this Will points to his mother being Beatrice Pett, and that is consistent with his being left St Leger’s English properties. The Will also mentions Beatrice wife of Richard Thornton, describing her as sister of James Codd: there is a record of Beatrice's marriage on 18 June 1689 in which her birth name is given as Codd.[16][17]
  • In a Prerogative Court of Canterbury Will, proved in 1680, Peter Pett leaves £50 to his "kinswoman Elizabeth Codd daughter of St Leger Codd".[18] Elizabeth is not listed in Magna Carta Ancestry.
  • St Leger Codd left his son James his properties in Kent, England, and his Virginia properties to James's half-brothers St Leger and Berkley.[19] That suggests that James may have resided in England, while the half-brothers were in North America.

Children

James. see Research Note on Marriage to Beatrice Pett. His son James is named as son of Beatrice (Pett) Codd in her brother's will.[15]
Beatrice. The Research Note on Saint Leger's marriage to Beatrice Pett shows the evidence for his having had a daughter Beatrice by her. In Magna Carta Ancestry, Douglas Richardson says that St Leger Codd and his wife Anne Bennett, whom he married after April 1671, had a daughter called Beatrix.[7] It is conceivable that St Leger Codd had two daughters called Beatrice by two different marriages - though if that is so, it is odd that his 1706 Will refers to a daughter Beatrice without specifying the mother.[19] Or Magna Carta Ancestry may be mistaken in its identification of Beatrice’s mother - which is quite possible given that the entry for St Leger Codd seems to be written without awareness of the evidence for a 1660 marriage between him and Beatrice Pett.
Elizabeth. Saint Leger's daughter Elizabeth by his first marriage to Beatrice Pett is not listed by Douglas Richardson. Her existence is proved by Peter Pett's Will.[18]
Mary Sarah Pattison: Saint Leger's will leaves a small bequest to a daughter Mary, whose married surname appears in the handwriting in the Will to be Perdison/Padison.[19] Richardson lists a daughter Sarah by his marriage to Anne Mottrom, and names Sarah's husband as Thomas Pattison.[7] A number of trees on the web identify Thomas Pattison's wife as 'Mary Sarah Codd'.

Sources

  1. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol III, pages 481-484, SAINT LEGER
  2. ↑ Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011, Douglas Richardson, pg130
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Kent, England, Tyler Index to Parish Registers 1538-1874." See page 9, image 114 of 128 (a few page off from the link, which is behind a paywall: Ancestry.com).
  4. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, 11 February 2018, Familysearch; citing item 3, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,736,839
  5. ↑ Joseph Foster (ed.). Register of Admissions to Gray’s Inn, 1521-1887, privately printed by the Hansard Publishing Union, London, 1889, p. 277, Internet Archive, accessed 2 May 2019
  6. ↑ Codd, St. Leger - A1803; died 1707/8 Kent Co., MD; Northumberland Co., Lancaster Co.: 1680-82, 1684 (Burgess). accessed 15 September 2021
  7. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry, Vol III, page 483 SAINT LEGER #16.ii.a
  8. ↑ "Northumberland County," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Jan., 1896), pp. 179-180 (Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; DOI: 10.2307/1914953). Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1914953
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Image at Ancestry, accessed 2 May 2019
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Transcript on on FindMyPast, accessed 2 May 2019
  11. ↑ "Fox Family," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Jul., 1908), pp. 59-64 (Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; DOI: 10.2307/1921498). Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1921498
  12. ↑ Richardson has Theodorick Bland's death as 23 April 1671. The Encyclopedia of Virginia (accessed 30 March 2018) has it as 23 April 1672, and shows Anne's marriage to Codd as "ca. 1676" with her death as "probably November 1687" (Richardson has November 1688). Duplicate profiles for son Saint Leger Codd had birth years of 1674 (now changed to 1676) and 1680. ~ Noland-165, 30 March 2018
  13. ↑ Wikipedia: Richard Bennett (Governor) shows her as Anna, died November 1687 (accessed 13 February 2018).
  14. ↑ Joan Gundersen and the Dictionary of Virginia Biography, "Anna Bennett Bland (d. 1687)" (Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 10 Nov. 2016), Web (accessed 13 February 2018).
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Image of William Pett’s Will viewable on Ancestry, accessed 2 May 2019
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Parish Register of St Dionis Backchurch, City of London, image on Ancestry
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, (FamilySearch: 10 Feb 2018), Richard Thornton and Beatrice Codd, 18 Jun 1689; citing Saint Dionis Backchurch, London, London, England; FHL microfilm 535722, 535723, 942 B4HA V. 3.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Image of Peter Pett’s Will viewable on Ancestry, accessed 2 May 2019
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 Image of Will available on Ancestry
  20. ↑ "Mottrom--Wright--Spencer--Ariss--Buckner," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Jul., 1908), pp. 53-59 (Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; DOI: 10.2307/1921497). Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1921497 (p 55): mistakenly says
  21. ↑ Removed from "Other Nicknames" datafield 13 February 2018.
  • Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol IV, pp 536-539 SAINT LEGER
  • Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, volume 1, Lewis Historical Publishing Company 2015, p. 215, Internet Archive, accessed 1 May 2019

Acknowledgements

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Magna Carta Project

This profile was reviewed and approved for the Magna Carta Project in Jan 2020 by Thiessen-117.
Saint Leger Codd is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry as a Gateway Ancestor (vol. I, pages xxiii-xxix) in a Richardson-documented trail to Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Vere (vol. III, pages 481-484 SAINT LEGER). Most of the profiles in this trail were badged in 2015 with the profiles of Saint Leger and his mother later developed and badged 25 November 2019. In January 2020, the project badged the profiles that connected him to an existing trail to Hugh le Bigod and Roger le Bigod.
Saint Leger Codd also connects to trails reviewed/approved in 2015 by the Magna Carta project through Ursula Neville to Magna Carta surety barons Hugh le Bigod, Roger le Bigod, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, John Fitz Robert, John de Lacy, and Saher de Quincy.
All the Codd trails are set out below.
See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails and the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".

Magna Carta Trails

Badged (2019) Richardson-documented trail to Vere (MCA III:481-484 SAINT LEGER):
Gateway Ancestor Saint Leger Codd (badged/100% 5-star)
1. Saint Leger is the son of Mary St Leger (badged 2020)
2. Mary was the daughter of Warham St Leger (badged/100% 5-star)
3. Warham was the son of Anthony St Leger (badged/100% 5-star)
4. Anthony was the son of Warham St Leger (badged/100% 5-star)
5. Warham was the son of Anthony St Leger (badged/100% 5-star)
6. Anthony was the son of Isabel (or Elizabeth) Haute (badged 2020)
7. Elizabeth was the daughter of Elizabeth Tyrell (badged/100% 5-star; re-reviewed 17 Jan 2023)
8. Elizabeth was the daughter if Anne Marney (badged/100% 5-star; re-reviewed 19 Jan 2023)
9. Anne is the daughter of Elizabeth Sergeaux (badged/100% 5-star; re-reviewed 19 Jan 2023)
10. Elizabeth is the daughter of Philippe Arundel (badged/100% 5-star)
11. Elizabeth is the daughter of Edmund de Arundel (badged/100% 5-star)
12. Edmund is the son of Richard de Arundel (badged/100% 5-star)
13. Richard was the son of Alice de Warenne (badged/100% 5-star)
14. Alice is the daughter of Joan de Vere (badged/100% 5-star)
15. Joan is the daughter of Robert de Vere (badged/100% 5-star)
16. Robert is the son of Hugh de Vere (badged/100% 5-star)
17. Hugh is the son of Magna Carta Surety Robert de Vere
Badged trails to Quincy (x2), the Bigods (x2), the Clares, Lacy, FitzRobert:
16. Robert de Vere is the son of Hawise de Quincy (badged/100% 5-star)
17. Hawise is the daughter of Magna Carta Surety Saher de Quincy
12. Edmund de Arundel is the son of Isabel le Despenser (badged/re-reviewed 2020)
13. Isabel is the daughter of Hugh le Despenser (badged/100% 5-star)
14. Hugh is the son of Isabel de Beauchamp (badged/100% 5-star)
15. Isabel is the daughter of Maud FitzJohn (badged/100% 5-star)
16. Maud is the daughter of Isabel Bigod (badged/100% 5-star)
17. Isabel is the daughter of Magna Carta Surety Hugh le Bigod
18. Hugh is the son of Magna Carta Surety Roger le Bigod
4. Anthony St Leger was the son of Ursula Neville (badged/100% 5-star; re-reviewed 30 Jan 2023)
5. Ursula is the daughter of George Neville (badged/100% 5-star; re-reviewed 31 Jan 2023)
6. George is the son of George Neville (badged/100% 5-star)
7. George is the son of Edward Neville (badged/100% 5-star)
8. Edward is the son of Ralph Neville (badged/100% 5-star)
9. Ralph is the son of Maud Percy (badged/100% 5-star)
10. Maud is the daughter of Idoine Clifford (badged/100% 5-star)
11. Idoine is the daughter of Robert Clifford (badged/100% 5-star)
12. Robert is the son of Isabel Vipont (badged/100% 5-star)
13. Isabel is the daughter of Isabel FitzJohn (badged/100% 5-star)
14. Isabel is the daughter of Isabel Bigod (badged/100% 5-star)
15. Isabel is the daughter of Magna Carta Surety Hugh (Bigod) le Bigod
16 Hugh is the son of Magna Carta Surety Roger Bigod
11. Idoine Clifford is the daughter of Maud de Clare (badged/100% 5-star)
12. Maud is the daughter of Thomas de Clare (badged/100% 5-star)
13. Thomas is the son of Richard de Clare (badged/100% 5-star)
14. Richard is the son of Magna Carta Surety Gilbert de Clare
15. Gilbert is the son of Magna Carta Surety Richard de Clare
13. Thomas de Clare is the son of Maud de Lacy (badged/100% 5-star)
14. Maud is the daughter of Magna Carta Surety John de Lacy
9. Ralph Neville is the son of John de Neville (badged/100% 5-star)
10. John is the son of Ralph de Neville (badged/100% 5-star)
11. Ralph is the son of Euphame Clavering (badged/100% 5-star)
12. Euphame is the daughter of Robert FitzRoger (badged/100% 5-star)
13. Robert is the son of Roger FitzJohn (badged/100% 5-star)
14. Roger is the son of Magna Carta Surety John FitzRobert
12. Euphame Clavering is the daughter of Margery Zouche (badged/100% 5-star)
13. Margery is the daughter of Ellen de Quincy (badged/100% 5-star)
14. Ellen is the daughter of Roger de Quincy (badged/100% 5-star)
15. Roger is the son of Magna Carta Surety Saher de Quincy




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Cayley-55 Michael Cayley
I have now added profiles for his first wife and for those children who did not have them, and amended profiles of other wives and children to reflect information about his first marriage and his offspring by that marriage. If anyone spots any typos (I frequently have to put typos right) or other slips, please correct them or put a comment on the relevant profile or message me. Thanks.
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Cayley-55 Michael Cayley
I have now revised the profile to incorporate the first marriage to Beatrice Pett and information about her children, and added some rather lengthy research notes. I will move on to adding a profile for Beatrice P. creating profiles for children who don't have them, and revising a little the existing profiles for 2 children. There may be one or two typos to pick up in what I have done already. Do correct them if you spot them.
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Cayley-55 Michael Cayley
Thanks, Liz. As agreed, I will add info with sourcing. I will probably do this tomorrow: it is well into evening here and I have had hours on Wikitree today so my concentration is slipping.
posted by Michael Cayley
Noland-165 Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Thanks Michael - I sent you a reply. Thanks for improving the profile!
posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Cayley-55 Michael Cayley
Liz - I was drafting some research notes on wives and children when I saw that you had started work on amending the profile. I will email them to you in case they are helpful. Michael
posted by Michael Cayley
Cayley-55 Michael Cayley
It is Berkley with no ‘e’ after the 'k' in the Will. Spelling of names at this date could of course be variable. His name appears several times in the Will and the handwriting for the name is very clear and the spelling is consistent.
posted by Michael Cayley
Noland-165 Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Michael - could you check the spelling on the will for son... Berkeley (with an extra e) usually, which is what's in Richardson's Royal Ancestry.
posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Cayley-55 Michael Cayley
One more piece of evidence for the English marriage. St Leger Codd's Will, dated 9 September 1706, leaves his property in Kent, England to his son James, a bequest of £5 to his daughter Beatrix, and one of 5 shillings to daughter Mary Perdison or Padison (that is what the surname looks like; currently Wikitree shows her married name as Pattison). Yet more indication of an English marriage. His American property is left to sons St Leger and Berkley (for Berkley there is no current Wikitree profile though he is mentioned in the bio), and they are executors along with Thomas Smyth of Kent, England. Image again on Ancestry.
posted by Michael Cayley
Cayley-55 Michael Cayley
The soc.genealogy.medieval discussion refers to a Will of William Pett proved in 1692. Parts of this long Will are hard to decipher in the images on Ancestry, but it clearly refers to "James Codd sonn of my late sister Beatrice Codd deceased" (he is named several times in the Will, including as William Pett’s nephew), and a Beatrice Thornton wife of Richard Thornton for whom there is a 1689 marriage record giving her LNAB as Codd and indicating she was 21 or over at the time of that marriage. There is another Pett Will from England with images on Ancestry - of Peter Pett, proved in 1680 - naming his "kinswoman Elizabeth daughter of St Leger Codd", which is further evidence for St Leger Codd having had a marriage in England. The evidence seems to stack up conclusively.
posted by Michael Cayley

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