Robert Smithwick^[1]

Abt 1545 - 1600  (55 years)

• Name	Robert Smithwick
  Born	Abt 1545
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1588	Hyde, Hertfordshire, UK   [2]
  	Henry VIII seized Abbots Langley in 1539 and split out Hyde, Langleybury, and Chambersbury. Sir William Webb was listed as owner in the 1588 "Feet of Fines", and his cousin on the Draper side, Bennet, was listed with Robert in the Manor of Hyde.
  Died	1 Apr 1600
  Person ID	I385	Smithwick Family Tree | Smithwicks in Ireland
  Last Modified	9 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	Thomas Smithwick,   b. Abt 1500, Wyntonley (Winterley), Cheshire, UK
  Mother	Ellen Furnivall,   b. Abt 1500
  Family ID	F143	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Benedicta Clitheroe,   b. Abt 1545,   d. 1607  (Age 62 years)  [1]
  Married	Betw 1563-1568
  Children	+ 1. Robert Smithwick,   b. 1568, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, UK + 2. Sencippa Smithwick,   b. 1568, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, UK   3. Margaret Smithwick,   b. 1572, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, UK ,   d. 1572, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, UK  (Age 0 years)   4. Dorothy Smithwick,   b. Jun 1573, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, UK ,   d. 8 Nov 1598  (Age 25 years) + 5. Henry Smithwick,   b. Apr 1576, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, UK ,   d. 26 May 1614  (Age 38 years)   6. John Smithwick,   b. Abt 1580, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, UK   7. William Smithwick
  Last Modified	25 May 2020
  Family ID	F145	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Believe that he was buried where he was born -- in Barthomley -- https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQPQ-8GM In 1593, the Haberdashers' Livery Company records that Robert Smithwick, embroider and freeman of Abbots Langley Co. Hertford, has taken on an apprentice John Parre ( City Of London, Haberdashers, Apprentices And Freemen 1526-1933 - FindMyPast)

  
  

• Sources

  [S35] Burke's Irish Family Records, Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, editor, (Burke's Peerage Limited, 1976), p. 1030. [S900] The Herts Genealogist and Antiquary, Volume 3, (William Brigg, 1899), 7.