Richard Coffin (1623–1700) of Portledge in the parish of Alwington in North Devon, was lord of the manor of Alwington and served as Sheriff of Devon in 1683.[2]
He was the only son and heir of John Coffin (1593–1622) of Portledge by his wife Elizabeth Hurding, one of the two eldest daughters of Henry Hurding (died 1627) (alias Harding[3]) of Long Bredy, Dorset. The Coffin family had been established at Alwington since the reign of King Henry II (1154–1189), and remained there in unbroken male succession until 1766.[4]
He married three times:
- Firstly in 1644 to Mary Dennis of the family of Dennis of Orleigh, North Devon, near Alwington, without children.[5]
- Secondly in 1648 to Dorothy Rowe (died 1666), by whom he had two sons and nine daughters.[5]
- Thirdly in 1674 he married Anne Prideaux (died 1705), a daughter of Edmund Prideaux (1606–1683), of Padstow, Cornwall, by whom he had a further two sons and two daughters[5]
References edit
- ^ Blazoned as Azure, three bezants between eight crosses crosslet or in Vivian, p.208
- ^ Vivian, p.210, pedigree of Coffin; 1683 per Risdon's List of Sheriffs (regnal date 36 Charles II)
- ^ Vivian, p.630, pedigree of Prust; Risdon, p.236; spelling on his monument in Monkleigh Church: "Hurdinge"
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.442, pedigree of "Pine-Coffin of Portledge". 1766, death of Richard Coffin
- ^ a b c Vivian, p.210
Sources edit
- Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620. Exeter, 1895.