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Emma Pitts

From the notes of Sir Charles Louis Woollcombe: "It seems to have been a tradition in the family and it is recorded in most of the pedigrees that Robert Woollcombe married Emma, elder daughter of and co-heiress of John Pitts, and that William Woollcombe his younger brother married, Joan, the younger daughter and co-heiress. In the pedigree drawn up at the College of Arms the wife of Robert is thus described, but it appears to me to be utterly wrong. In the pedigree at the British Museum entitled 'Visitations of Devon 1620', the wife of Robert the elder brother is not given, but the wife of William is described as 'Joan daughter of John Pittes of Pitton and his heir'. In the Inquisition post mortem of John Pitts it is stated 'Joan Pitts his daughter and next heir was aged 5 on 22 December last. This inquisition was held on 5 October 1558. She was therefore born in 1553 (surely 1552 - NW). Among the Ashbury papers is a document dated November 1558 arranging for the custody, wardship and marriage of Joan Pitts, the daughte and next heir of John Pitts, gentleman, deceased. Also another deed dated 19 June 1577 granting to William Woollcombe and Joan his wife, as in the right of his said wife, daughter and heir of John Pitts, deceased, the lands held of Reginald Mohan and others under the crown. This proves that Joan was the sole heir of her father. No mention is made of Emma in the inquisition p.m. of John Pitts, or in either of the above deeds. We know that the wife of Robert Woollcombe was called Emma from his will and from a deed dated 10 October 26 Elizabeth Regina, ' from Emma Woollcombe, widow of Robert Woollcombe of Holland to her son John Woollcombe.' William Woollcombe, the father of Robert and William in his will left legacies to three sons and one daughter of Robert. The will was dated 12 December 1569, and even if John Pitts had married when he was 18 it would have been impossible for a daughter of his to have had four children before 1570."