Antill family index [OCR source: The Antill Family by R.V. Pockley]

The Antills ...page 7

saltire raguly vert. The crest is the same An oak tree proper acorned or but the motto of the Anketells is "Vade ad Formicam" (Go to the Ant), and that of Edward Antill is "Probitas Laudatur et Alget" (Probity is praised and suffers).

When Oliver Anketill went to Ireland, in 1636, he retained the spelling of Anketell or Anketill, but we assume that some of the younger members of the family settled in Surrey, for from 1640 onwards, in Richmond, Chessington and Twickenham parishes, churches show many registers of births and deaths of Antills, Antells and Antylls, all of whom were closely related to one another, and to the Anketells of Anketell Place, Shaftesbury; the use of the same coat of arms by the grandson of John of Richmond is further proof.

The Antills of Picton, New South Wales, trace their descent directly from Thomas of Chessington, whose Will was proved in 1639. was made on 18 December, 1638; in it he left all his "lands, pastures and meadows, cattle and corn, sown and unsown", and his dwelling house "equally to his beloved wife Katherine" and his son James. He left £40 to his son Thomas, to be paid in four equal annual payments; he left Edward 20 shillings, his daughter Helen 10 shillings, and Avice, John and Mary were to get their portions from the Executors. The Will was proved in the Archdeaconry Court of Surrey on 12 April, 1639.

THOMAS ANTILL of Chessington married Katherine Trevere, who died on 22 January, 1657; she was buried at Chessington. They had 9 children; we are concerned with the fifth child:

JOHN of Richmond. His first wife was named Frances, and they are thought to have moved to Richmond about 1640, shortly after the Anketell branch of the family went to live in Ireland. The birth of the third child, John, is recorded in the Richmond church register, as is the death of his wife Frances in 1657. Shortly after her death, John re-married Ann Scutt, a widow with 4 children, the daughter of Edward Farley of Richmond. John called his first child Frances, but she died in infancy, so he also called his fifth child Frances. Altogether John had 8 children; our line comes down through his sixth child, and third son, Edward. Two years before his death in 1695, John came into property left him by a Mrs Weld, but he appears to have handed it over at once to an Elizabeth Beselar, but the records do not show what relation, if any, John was to either of them.

EDWARD of Richmond. He was born at Richmond, Surrey, on 20 March, 1659, and became an Attorney-at-Law. The pioneering spirit which later became evident in his great-grandson, Hanry Colden Antill, showed up in Edward, in that he left for America in 1680.

A little book, written by William Nelson, was published in America in 1899, and was entitled, "EDWARD ANTILL, a prominent New York Merchant....