The Horsham connection (pre 1730s)

The Lintotts are a Sussex family whose history goes back well beyond the start of Parish Registers. The earliest records that other Lintott researchers have come across date from the 13th century. By the 16th & 17th centuries Lintotts could be found in a number of areas, the main ones being Bolney, Cowfold and Horsham. The Horsham branch of the LIntotts was certainly the most populous but where my Richard LINTOTT (a butcher living in Horsham at the beginning of the 18th century) fits in is not certain. There appear to be two possibilities for his parentage:

EITHER

He was the son of Walsingham LINTOTT (1622-1677), a Yeoman, who was born at Horsham but settled at Lindfield after marrying Anne BRIDGES (of Lindfield) in c1653.  In Walsingham's will of 1677 his real estate in Lindfield was to be sold to pay legacies of £50 to each of his eight children. Their son Richard was born in 1663 and could have used his £50 to set up as a butcher in Horsham but if this is so then he was only 18 when he married Mary ROGERS at Horsham four years after his father died. This line goes back to Richard LINTOTT (1547-1608), Yeoman of Southwater & Horsham, who married Elizabeth AGATE at Horsham in February 1590/91.

OR

He was the son of John LINTOTT who was baptised at Bolney in 1647.  The most likely candidate for his father is the John (born at Horsham in 1609) who married Joan PILLFOLD at Ifield (a village to the north of Horsham) in 1634.  They had at least four children baptised at Horsham before moving to Bolney.  John was the son of Richard LINTOTT (1573-1613) and his second wife, Margaret HARBITELL, who married at Rudgewick in 1604.  Richard was the son of Nicholas LINTOTT (1541-1600) & Agnes MASCALL who married at Horsham in 1567.  Nicholas was the 'Keeper of the Gaol'.  He was responsible for the well-being, and punishment, of the prisoners. His father Nicholas LINTOTT (?-1550) and brother John LINTOTT (1520-1602) owned the land on which the first two gaols in Horsham were built (c1540 & 1600).

Richard LINTOTT (?-1716)

Richard LINTOTT (1682-1759)  Richard's son