Individual Details
Thomas Templer
(1638 - Bef 24 Jul 1688)
For very many years the grandfather of James of Stover I was believed to be a Captain William Templer who came over with William III from Holland as a Captain of his Guards, This myth was gladly accepted by the Templer family for over 150 years and was even perpetuated in the highly reputed Burkes Landed Gentry. It was most convenient at the time James daughter An was to marry into the aristocratic Devon family of De la Pole. It enabled the humbler Templers to assume armorial bearings and so rank with the De la Poles. Much family intrigue must have gone on at the time!
The cause of the wrong assumption was a page in the burial register of St Johns, Exeter, which reads as follows:- 'A Captain of the Prince of Orange was buried 11 December 1688.' That is all; there is no name, but the entry, occurring among those of so many Templers may have enabled a later generation to assume that the unnamed Captain was a Templer, and on that assumption to adopt him as an ancestor. He may have been a Templer, although it does not seem likely, but he certainly was not an ancestor of the Stover line or of any other now identifiable branch. One other circumstance in connection with the Captain is worth recording. There is a possibility, faintly evidenced, that his burial was at the expense of the Parish and if this was the fact, it may have suggested the detail in the legend of the Captain, which makes him insolvent at his death.
The true ancestor of our Stover line and the son of Richard the cordwainer did in fact die in the year 1688, but it was at St. Mary's Steps (to which parish he and his brothers seem to have removed from St. Johns in the 1660's.), that he was buried, five months before the Captain at St Johns. It is at least due to his departed spirit that his name should be restored to the place which belongs to it.
Thomas had a much humbler career than the mythical Captain of Guards. Apprenticed in 1670 to his stepfather, James Gyles, as a chandler, he became a 'Sope Boyler' (the occupational description taken from the will, of the Testator himself). This Thomas was the uncle of Ann referred in the Exeter Cathedral register of baptisms as having been baptized there in 1654. The wills of Thomas' grandfather Richard and his grandmother An between them identify not only Richard's children and grandchildren by name but also Richard's father Alexander, the husbandman of North Petherton.
Thomas had an 'interest' in numerous Exeter parishes chiefly St. Johns and St Mary Steps. We do not know where he married Joan Huddy in 1667 for the marriage was by licence and the actual location not yet traced. There is a possibility that she outlived him and married a second time in 1689 to Perriam Thomas.
Ron Lewin - 1983
1679 Overseer of the Poor Rate - St John's Exeter - Paid 6d Poor Rate
The cause of the wrong assumption was a page in the burial register of St Johns, Exeter, which reads as follows:- 'A Captain of the Prince of Orange was buried 11 December 1688.' That is all; there is no name, but the entry, occurring among those of so many Templers may have enabled a later generation to assume that the unnamed Captain was a Templer, and on that assumption to adopt him as an ancestor. He may have been a Templer, although it does not seem likely, but he certainly was not an ancestor of the Stover line or of any other now identifiable branch. One other circumstance in connection with the Captain is worth recording. There is a possibility, faintly evidenced, that his burial was at the expense of the Parish and if this was the fact, it may have suggested the detail in the legend of the Captain, which makes him insolvent at his death.
The true ancestor of our Stover line and the son of Richard the cordwainer did in fact die in the year 1688, but it was at St. Mary's Steps (to which parish he and his brothers seem to have removed from St. Johns in the 1660's.), that he was buried, five months before the Captain at St Johns. It is at least due to his departed spirit that his name should be restored to the place which belongs to it.
Thomas had a much humbler career than the mythical Captain of Guards. Apprenticed in 1670 to his stepfather, James Gyles, as a chandler, he became a 'Sope Boyler' (the occupational description taken from the will, of the Testator himself). This Thomas was the uncle of Ann referred in the Exeter Cathedral register of baptisms as having been baptized there in 1654. The wills of Thomas' grandfather Richard and his grandmother An between them identify not only Richard's children and grandchildren by name but also Richard's father Alexander, the husbandman of North Petherton.
Thomas had an 'interest' in numerous Exeter parishes chiefly St. Johns and St Mary Steps. We do not know where he married Joan Huddy in 1667 for the marriage was by licence and the actual location not yet traced. There is a possibility that she outlived him and married a second time in 1689 to Perriam Thomas.
Ron Lewin - 1983
1679 Overseer of the Poor Rate - St John's Exeter - Paid 6d Poor Rate
Events
| Birth | 1638 | Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Marriage | 1667 | Joanna Huddy | |||
| Death | Bef 24 Jul 1688 | Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Burial | 24 Jul 1688 | St. Mary Major, Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Will Admon | 22 Sep 1688 | P.R.Exeter | |||
| Occupation | Sope Boyler or Chandler, apprentice to John Gyles (step father) |
Families
| Spouse | Joanna Huddy (1640 - 1707) |
| Child | Jane Templer (1675 - ) |
| Child | Richard Templer (1677 - ) |
| Child | Thomas Winter Templer (1679 - ) |
| Child | Johanna Templer (1682 - ) |
| Child | John Templer (1685 - ) |
| Child | Richard Templer (1685 - ) |
| Father | Richard Templer ( - 1653) |
| Mother | Joane Pearce ( - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Templer ( - 1690) |
| Sibling | Richard Templer (1631 - 1680) |
| Sibling | Ann Templer (1635 - 1635) |
| Sibling | John Templer (1635 - ) |