VACHELL, Tanfield (1602-58), of Reading, Berks.

Family and Education

bap. 27 Dec. 1602, 1st and o. surv. son of John Vachell of Warfield, Berks. and Maria, da. of Clement Vincent of Peckleton, Leics.Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvi-lvii), i. 136; A.C. Vachell, ‘The Vachells of Coley’, Berks. Archaeological Jnl. xl. 84. educ. Exeter, Oxf. 17 Dec. 1619, BA 27 June 1622;Al. Ox. adm. L. Inn 21 Mar. 1633.LI Admiss. i. 220. m. (1) 17 July 1633, Anne (d. 1652), da. of Robert Coxe, Grocer, of London, s.p.;G.P. Crawfurd, ‘Vachell of Coley, Reading’, Quarterly Jnl. of the Berks. Archaeological and Architectural Soc. iii. 35-6, 65; Vachell, ‘Vachells of Coley’, 85; Transcripts of the Regs. of …S. Mary Woolnoth, ed. J.M.S. Brooke and A.W.C. Hallon (1886), 401. (2) 26 Aug. 1652, Rebecca, da. of William Leman*, s.p.Clutterbuck, Herts. ii. 414; Crawfurd, ‘Vachell of Coley’, 65; Vachell, ‘Vachells of Coley’, 85. suc. uncle Sir Thomas Vachell 1638,Reg. of the Par. of St Mary, Reading ed. G.P. Crawfurd (Reading, 1891-2), ii. 116. fa. 1640.Ashmole, Antiquities, ii. 436-7. bur. 1 June 1658.Reg. of the Par. of St Mary, Reading, ii. 121.

Offices Held

Local: sheriff, Berks. 1641.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 6. Member, Berks. co. cttee. Aug. 1642.LJ v. 311a. Commr. assessment, Reading 24 Feb. 1643; Berks. 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648;A. and O.; LJ vi. 29a. sequestration, 27 Mar. 1643; accts. of assessment, 3 May 1643; levying of money, Reading 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Berks. 25 June 1644; militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O. J.p. Nov. 1651–?d.Sheffield Archives, EM1480.

: Berks.

Likenesses

Likenesses: miniature, S. Cooper.Berks. Archaeological Jnl. xli. plate.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

VACHELL, Tanfield (1602-58), of Reading, Berks.

Will

20 Mar. 1653, cod. 9 May 1658, pr. 5 June 1667.PROB11/324/204.

Estates

inherited lands at Coley, Reading, Berks. 1635.Crawfurd, ‘Vachell of Coley’, 36-9.

Oxford 1644

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