Rev. Richardus [Richard] Sponer [Spooner]

Records

Rector of Knightwick, 10th November, 1561 to the 20th September, 1563.

In Register Heath, f. 30. an award is mentioned to be made by Richard Pychard gent. and Thomas Hanbury, vicar of Cotheridge between Richard Sponer, parson of Knightwick, and John Alderford gent. of the same, that they should be lovers and friends, and forgive one another all manner of actions, suits, quarrels, debates, and commands whatsoever, that have been between them from the beginning of the world to the present time, and so always to continue; the parson to receive twenty loads of dry wood, as near as possible to his house.

I found a Spooner [Sponer] family at Wickhamford Manor, oldest record was of Thomas Spooner, who was baptised, 20th February, 1547. There was a Richard Sponer, baptised, 5th November 1597. No other Richard as above though.

THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.

Spooner, of Wickhamford; as granted to •Thomas Spooner,
of Wickhamford, by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux, 29th
November, 1589, 32nd Elizabeth. Azure, a boar's head
in bend argent armed or, couped and guttle gules.
Crest : A boar's head and neck couped or, pierced with a broken
spear argent, embrued proper. {Harl. MS., 1422.}

A pedigree of this family was entered " at Droitwich, com Wig.,
10th August, 1683," in the Visitation Book of Warwickshire (K. 3,
Coll. Arm., fo. 179). It commences with Thomas Spooner, of Wickhamford, who was buried at Tanworth, co. Warwick. His son
and heir, William Spooner, was father, by Eleanor, nie Rouse, his
wife, of William Spooner, of Henwood Hall, in Warwickshire, who
died circa 1674, having had issue, by Margaret, his wife, daughter of
John Huggeford, of Henwood, a son and successor, William, aged
53 in 1683, whose son and heir, Samuel (by Mary, his wife, daughter
of Samuel Hill, of Hill End, Upton-on-Severn), was then aged about
26. (Mis. Gen. et Her., Monthly Series, L, 300.) The same arms
and crest were borne by John Spooner, of Leigh Court, High Sheriff
of Worcestershire in 1789.

• Jane, the wife of Thomas Spooner, died March xoth, 1584, aged 74.
(M.I at Wickhamford. — Nash, ii., 463.)

St. Mary the Virgin, Knightwick. [Now closed and sold as a house]



St. Mary and St. Andrew, Mortuary Chapel, Knightwick.