_Richard COBBS ______+
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_Edward COBBES ______|
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_Edmund COBBES ______|
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|--Thomas COBBES
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[N585]
He was born in Cobbs Court, Romney, Kent. It is recorded that he sold his brother John all his interest in a field called Cobbs Close, in the "14th year of the reign of Henry 6th" (1436). It is believed he moved to Chislete, Parish of Reculver, at this time. The name of his wife is lost, but it is known he had at least one son John
Thomas, the younger brother of John, the "Advocante" left the Romney Marsh in the middle of the 15th century and settled in the neighborhood of Reculver, where his descendants remained for two hundred years before returning to Romney in about 1676.
[N2781] He died in the 19th year of the reign of King Henry VI.