17th Generation
83584 John Schedde.476, pp. 8-10 Born ca 1450. Possibly Sudbury.

He married about 1480, but his wife’s name is unknown. Evidence for more than one child has not been found.

John “was under age at the time of the death in 1467 of his father, by whose will he was left a house in the parish of Cherwyth. No records concerning him have been found at Sudbury later than 1483, and evidently about 1485, he settled on the place left to him by his father where he later appears. Cherwyth, Charwryth, Chauryth or Chawreth is in the Hundred of Dunmow in the County of Essex, about twenty miles south-west of Sudbury, and in recent centuries has been generally known as Broxted; the parish consists of two very ancient manors, Chawreth which lies north of the church and Broxted which lies south of it; the parish was generally known by the name of the northern manor until about 1550, but since then has been called Broxted.”

“About 1485 John Schedde removed from Sudbury to his place in Chawreth (now Broxted) in Essex. In 14 Henry VIII. a subsidy was granted to that monarch by Parliament, which was practically as inclusive as a male poll-tax, as even farm laborers and servants were taxed for their mere wages. The subsidy was paid in two installments, in 1523 and 1524. For the first payment in 1523 the roll for Chawreth in Dunmow Hundred, co. Essex, shows John Shedd, Sen. taxed 4d. for goods rated at 20s. and John Shedd [Jun.] taxed 20s. on goods rated at £20. For the second payment in 1524, John Shead [Jun.] continues on the list as taxed 20s. on £20; but John Shedd, Sen., disappears from the list, so it is to be con-
cluded that he died in 1523, at the age of over seventy years.”

“An examination of these subsidy rolls of 1523-24 for the two hundred parishes of the western half of County Essex shows no other Shedd; so it seems evident that these two John Shedds in Chawreth (now Broxted) in 1523 were father and son, and ancestors of all the Shedds in that vicinity during the following century.”

Child:
41792 i. John (ca1480-1542)

91136 William Fairbank.319, pg. 176

Child:
45568 i. John





18th Generation
167168 John Schedde.476, pp. 4-8 Born ca 1415.

“He begins to appear on the manor court rolls of Sudbury in 1445, or about eight years after the death of his father, and is mentioned on them frequently for over a score of years until his death early in the year 1467.” Most of the court appearances were over instances of either trespass or debt. This seems to be the case for several other generations of Sheds, making one wonder what brought about all these cases of mutual offense.

“Further information about John Schedde is derived from his will which shows that he was a fuller (as his father had been), that he was a man of good substance for his times, and that he left a widow and three adult children at his death early in 1467. His will was written by the priest in Latin (testamentary documents before 1500 being always in that language) and was filed in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Norwich but later proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the probate courts of England all being ecclesiastical, and not civil jurisdictions, until 1858. ... Appended is a translated full abstract of his will. At that time money had at least thirty times its present [time of writing ~1885 purchasing value.

In the name of God, Amen, the I6 day of March, A.D. 1466/7, I John Schedde of Sudbury, in the Diocese of Norwich, fuller, weak in body but sound of mind, make my testament as follows, I commend my soul to God, St. Mary the Virgin, and all the saints of Heaven; and I will my body to be buried in consecrated cemetery in said Sudbury. I give to the high altar of St. Peter's Chapel in Sudbury, 3s. 4d. I give to the reparation of St. Gregory's Church in Sudbury, 3s. 4d. I give to the Friars of Sudbury, for the reparation of their house, 5 marks [£3:6:8]. I give to the Friars of Clare 3s. 4d. I will that masses be celebrated in St. Peter's Chapel for a year after my decease, for my soul and for the souls of my parents, my executors paying to the priest 8 marks 6s.8d.sterling [£5:13:4]. I give for the reparations of the Chapel of St. Peter in Sudbury, 6s. 8d. I give to the reparations of the church of Lamarsh [County Essex], 6s.8d. I bequeath to my wife Alice a house with appurtenances in the Parish of All Saints in Sudbury. I bequeath to my said wife Alice all my household utensils and £20 in money. I bequeath to my son William 10 marks [£6:13:4] in money. I bequeath to my son John when of age a house with all appurtenances lying in Cherwyth. I give to my daughter Lettice and to her sons 7 marks [£4:13:4] in money. I will that the mansion I live in and the two adjoining houses be sold by my executors to pay my debts and legacies. I bequeath to Emme Goldyng 6s. 8d. I will that if William my son desires, he may purchase the house in which he lives in preference to any other person. All residue of goods to Simon Sparrow and William Gebelon of said Sudbury, whom I ordain and constitute my executors; and I give to them for their pains 20s. Proved 24 Apr. 1467.”

He married Alice Unknown476, p. 7 ca 1440 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England.476, p. 7 most likely location.

They had the following children:
i. William476, p. 7 (ca1440-)
ii. Lettice476, p. 7 (ca1446-)
83584 iii. John (ca1450-)

167169 Alice Unknown.476, p. 7





19th Generation
334336 John Schedde.476, pp. 2-4 Born ca 1390 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.

“Since 1554 Sudbury has been an incorporated borough, and it comprises three parishes. All Saints, St. Gregory, and St. Peter, the last-named being in ancient times a chapelry of St. Gregory. The three churches are fine structures of flint and rubble, built principally in the fifteenth century, of which St. Gregory is the most ancient and imposing.”

“Our knowledge concerning John Schedde is obtained from some ancient manor court rolls of Sudbury which state that he was a fuller (or woolen cloth refiner). The mentions of John Schedde extend from 1420 to 1437,” comprising primarily court appearances for instances of trespass.

No will has been preserved, and his wife’s name is unknown.

Prior to John Schedde, b. ca 1390, one must look back one hundred years to the late thirteenth century to find John de Schedde, “the earliest person who has been found bearing the Shedd family name in England. He appears at Edwardstone, County Suffolk, in 1327, as assessed two shillings on a subsidy roll or tax list of a grant made by Parliament to the King in the first year of the reign of King Edward III.

Edwardstone is a small rural parish in Suffolk about sixty miles north-east of London and its church is about five miles east of the center of Sudbury, the nearest important town; the population of Edwardstone is now [ca 1885] about five hundred and of Sudbury about ten thousand. The church of Edwardstone is an ancient flint structure built in the fifteenth century. The Shedd family name is thus first found in the very heart of the region of England (Suffolk and Essex) from which was derived three centuries later over half of the twenty-five thousand Puritan founders of New England before 1650, the principal percentage of whose blood was of Anglo-Saxon origin, with small amounts of Norman, Danish and Briton strains. Adjoining Edwardstone on the east is Groton, the home of Gov. John Winthrop the leader in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1650.

The ‘de’ before the surname Schedde indicates it to be a place or locality surname, this first John being ‘of" or ‘at’ Schedde. The most plausible explanation for use of the word as a name seems to be residence at a ridge, in the sense of the word still preserved in ‘water-shed.’ This John de Schedde is the sole person of the name in Suffolk and Essex in this subsidy roll of 1327 with over twenty-five thousand heads of families representing for the two counties probably a population of nearly one hundred and fifty thousand souls.

It therefore seems reasonable to believe that he was the direct ancestor of Scheddes who appear in the immediate vicinity of Edwardstone on records about a century later, from one of whom, John Schedde (born about 1390) of Sudbury, only five miles west of Edwardstone, an unbroken line can be traced in Essex down to Daniel Shed, who emigrated to New England before 1642 and established the family in the New World. But the lives and even the names of the two (or possibly three) generations between John de Schedde of Edwardstone in 1327 and his undoubted descendant John Schedde of Sudbury remain for the present shrouded in oblivion. During this period of English history only scant records now remain concerning the mass of the population.”476, pp. 1-2

Child:
167168 i. John (ca1415-)


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