Talk:Richard Chiverton

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I propose to edit his parentage to "Henry Chiverton" and "Emlyn Buller". I am aware that various sources give Richard Chiverton and Isobel Polwhele (in fact his grandparents) but there really cannot be any doubt about the matter. Henry Chiverton was one of the two co-signatories of the family pedigree in the Visitation of Cornwall in 1620, and gives his son Richard as then aged 4. (in fact Richard was baptised in London in 1616; Henry must have been visiting his relation John Chiverton, the co-signatory of the pedigree, at the time of the Visitation). Emlyn Buller's aunt was the daughter of another Lord Mayor of London, Sir Rowland Hayward, which goes some way to explaining why this branch of the Chivertons had moved to London, and makes any risk of misidentification micoscopically small. The real oddity of the pedigree is a few generations back; while Henry and John Chiverton were clearly aware that they were related (probably closely enough for Henry to be visiting and staying with John) the pedigree does not show how they were related, and modern scholarship has been unable to establish the relationship fully (Henry's great-grandfather Richard need to be placed in the pedigree). Markd999 (talk) 15:13, 11 December 2013 (UTC)