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- John Wakeman of Drayton, second son named in the will of Roger, was living, obviously on his father's property, in Chaddesley, for years before his father's death, and had doubtless been left in charge of the old home when the rest of the bishop's family went to Gloucestershire. By his father's will he was to have the Drayton estate as his own property for forty years after the death or marriage of the widow, but meanwhile he would be under the necessity of paying regular rent to his eldest brother William. The situation was not satisfactory, and soon after 1557 he removed with his family from the parish. The names of his children identify him perfectly. He was a son of Roger and nephew of Richard (of Beckford), and had a sister Anne; and the parish record of Chaddesley states that on August 9, 1545, he married Joan , and that his children were baptized as follows: Roger, September 12, 1546; Anne, March 7, 1548-9; John, May 10, 1552 (buried May 20, 1554); John February 20, 1554-5; Richard, January 1, 1556-7 (buried February 15, 1556-7) No trace of any of the five survivors is found later in the well-kept parish register of Chaddesley, except that it bears evidence to the subsequent return of the younger John, no doubt after the beginning of the term of forty years during which John of Drayton was to possess the ancestral estate. The nature of the evidence relating to the return of the younger John cannot be indicated clearly without due mention of other Wakemans then in the parish.
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Abt 1523 - 1635 (112 years)