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THE STORY AS I KNOW IT

The Chillon or Shelton family is connected to the Brockman family in England. With the Brockmans we are reaching as far back as the 14th century. William Everett Brockman has written A Genealogical chart of the Brockmans. The story needs confirmation. An English book Kent Parish Records, Newington Marriages lists at least four Brockmans from a period of 1566 to 1623. They are in the place and at the time William E. Brockman asserts. One of the four matches the genealogical data exact the others are other sons not connected to our line.

Thomas Chillon of Kent England had at least one and maybe two daughters. It is likely that he had no son, because his daughter was his heiress. The writer, William Everett Brockman identifies her without name as "the daughter and heiress of Thomas Chilton (Sheltons of Virginia)". This is supported and expanded by D. H. Drake's Record of the Brockman and Drake-Brockman Family. Drake gives the daughter the two possible names of Rebecca or Thomasina.

Miss Chillon was born about 1510 in Newington Kent. We do not know her mother's name.

She married Henry Brockman about 1530 in Newington. They had at least one child, John Brockman. According to W. E. Brockman John was born about 1545.

However, D.H.Drake-Brockman, supported by an entry in "Burkes Knightage and Landed Gentry" 104th edition lists the children of Henry and Rebecca Chillon to be:

1. WILLIAM⁶ BROCKMAN, b. 1531, Beachborough, Newington, Kent, England; d. 16 April 1605, Newington, Kent, England.

2. JOHN BROCKMAN, b. Abt. 1533, Newington, Kent, England; d. Bef. 1638.

3. ANNE BROCKMAN, b. Abt. 1535, Newington, Kent, England.

4. JULYAN BROCKMAN, b. Abt. 1537, Newington, Kent, England; m. THOMAS BRODNAX; d. 1602, Godmersham.

Henry became an extensive land owner. He purchased Newington Manor, Cheriton Manor. He had "acquired Beachborough". As his wife was an heiress, we can assume that her inheritance helped expand their estate. The wording "acquired" may mean that was her Chillon home.

Rebecca or Thomasina is buried at St. Nicholas Church, Newington Kent, near Hythe. It is not known when she died. Henry died in 1573 and is also buried in Newington. Both sources agree on that date.

The Chillon family had other lines that continued on and eventually members migrated to America. W.E. Brockman notes all the families that had intermarried and were found in the late 1600s in Virginia. The St. Leger family settled in King and Queen County VA. Brockman and Brodnax immigrated to Virginia. The Chillon, became Shelton, one of the early wealthy Virginia families. They had the first brewery in Albermarle County, Virginia.

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1. What was the daughter of Thomas that married Herny Brockman?

2. When did they marry?

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4. What did she inherit?

5. When did she die?

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