John Sackett of St Nicholas at Wade

John Sacket, yeoman of St Nicholas at Wade, Thanet, Kent,, was born in say 1540. He married first Joane ___ and they had a daughter Martha.¹ Joane ___ died in St Nicholas at Wade in 1570 or 1571.² He married second at St Peter's Church, Thanet, on 26 July 1571, Joan (___) Emptage.³ This Joan was the widow of Richard Emptage by whom she had had four children.⁴
     John made his will in 1588 St Nicholas at Wade, Thanet. Named among the beneficiaries were his wife Joan and his daughter Martha.¹ The will also mentions Edward and Alice Emptage, two of Joan's children by her former marriage. John Sackett's will reveals him to have been a reasonably prosperous yeoman farmer, employing a number of staff. The present day value of the £60 left to his stepson Edward and to his son-in-law John Foorde is in excess of £10,000. He died in St Nicholas at Wade, Thanet, Kent, on 22 June 1588.⁵ His memorial⁵ at St Nicholas at Wade reads:
          "Here lyeth buried the body of John Sacket so'
          time of the P'ishe of S. Nicholas at Wade, hou died
          the xxii daye of Juine A' Ve D'ni 1588, whose
          soule we hope God take to hys marcie"

     John's wife, Joan (___) Emptage would appear to have married a third time after John's death. She died on 6 January 1603/04 and her memorial⁴ inscription at St Nicholas at Wade reads:
          "Here lyeth buried the body of Jhane Knooler, late wife of John Sacket
          & Richard Enitage (sic). By the forsaid Richard Enitage she had issue
          2 sons & 2 daughters, the which said Jhane deceased the 6 of January
          A'no D'ni 1603."⁶