John Saket of Sackett's Hill

John Saket, husbandman of Sackett's Hill, St Peter in Thanet, Kent, was probably the son of Richard Saket the younger and Crystian ___ and if so, was born, presumably in St Peter in Thanet, after 1533. These assumptions are based on the 1545 will of Richard Sackett the younger, who owned a tenement at Sackett's Hill and who named as beneficiaries his children John and Margery, both of whom were less than twelve at that date. John Saket of Sackett's Hill was buried at St Peter's Church on 8 April 1592.¹ He married in say 1555, Margaret ___. She was buried at St Peter's Church on 19 December 1596.²
     John was named as a beneficiary in his father's will made in St Peter in Thanet on 9 April 1545.³ John, who was under twelve years of age when his father died, was to receive ten sheep and a cow when he attained that age and was to receive a horse, cart and plough, and wheat and barley at twenty-one.
     John made his will on 1 March 1590 at Sackett's Hill, St Peter in Thanet, Kent. Named as beneficiaries were his wife Margaret; his son Thomas; and his daughters Joyce, Katherine, Judith and Eve.⁴ Two of John's and Margaret's children, John and Mary, had died young. Of the remaining five, Katherine, Judith and Eve were charged with the maintenance of Thomas and Joyce. It is assumed that Thomas (for whom a birth record has not been found) was under age in 1590 but Joyce would have been nearly 29. As she was to be cared for by her sisters, it would appear that she was sickly by this date. She died at about the same time as her mother in December 1596. The will was proved in the Archdeaconry Court, Canterbury, Kent, in May 1592.⁴