Robert Estes.
Born: 1555 in Ringwould, Kent, England.
Died: 1616 at Ringwould, Kent, England.

Father: Sylvester Estes.
Mother: Jone Estes.

Spouse: Ann Woodward.
Married: 02 Dec 1591 at Sholden, Kent, England.∼
Robert Eastye
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1555 in Ringwold, Kent, England
Death: 1616 in Ringwold, Kent, England

Father: Sylvester Eastye b: 1522 in Deal, Kent, England
Mother: Jone

Marriage 1 Ann Woodward b: 1570 in Sholden, Kent, England
Married: 2 Dec 1591

Children
Matthew Eastye c: 11 Jun 1592 in Sholden, Kent, England
Slyvester Eastye (Estes) c: 26 Sep 1596 in Ringwold, Kent, England
Alice Eastye c: 26 Mar 1597
Matthew Eastye b: 1601
Robert Eastye c: 29 May 1603 in Ringwold, Kent, England
Thomas Eastye c: 2 Jun 1605 in Ringwold, Kent, England
Susan Eastye c: 30 Oct 1608 in Ringwold, Kent, England
John Eastye c: 3 Mar 1610 in Ringwold, Kent, England
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Robert Eastes, a mariner, born 1555 at Deal. Died c.1616 at Ringwould, Kent.[1,2] Married Anne Woodward, 2/12/1591 at Sholden, Kent. Anne was born about 1574,[5] made a will 21/4/1630 which was probated 9/6/1630, and was buried 18/5/1630 at Ringwould.[1,2] Robert and Anne spent the first few years of their married life at Sholden, moving to Ringwould about 1595.
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*Robert Estes
•Given Name: *Robert
•Surname: Estes
•Sex: M
•Birth: 1555 in Ringwould, Kent, England
•Death: Abt 1616 in Ringwould, Kent, England

•Note: !The English Ancestry of The American Estes By Neil Gunson: The Estes are one of the great pioneer families of the United States.Numbered in their thousands they are to be found in most parts of the country and a selection of their life histories would amply illustrate the history of America. They are to be found in the annals of the American Revolution, the expansion westwards and the Civil War and are representative of the whole social fabric from 'log cabin to Whitehouse'.Though not among the great political families they produced avice-presidential candidate in Senator Estes Kefauver and a son-in-law on the bench to President Harrison1 , and they produced their own brandof tycoon in Billie Sol Estes . They were trail blazers, slave-owners and freers, Quakers, Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Baptist. Theydrowned in frozen rivers and were captured by Indians as children. They fought on both sides in the Civil War and nursed their dying countrymen in that terrible conflict. Their traditional Biblical names shared places with those of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson and their family name, which is hardly known elsewhere, has become very much an American surname. While it is known that the ancestors of the American Estes came from Kent in England and while there is a strong belief that the family was ultimately of Italian origin, very little has been written about the English ancestors and the English branches of the family. Indeed, a greatdeal of speculation and incorrect information has been circulated over the last hundred years, both in America and England. Largely due tothe researches of an English genealogist employed by Charles Estes3 the American families have been exposed to the belief that they descend from a family named Este which, in turn, descended from the Marquis Francesco d'Este of Burgundy who settled in England after the death of his friend and patron Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.4 Thestory has some credibility in that Fancesco, a trained diplomat, may have been in the service of the Duchess, widow of Charles, who was an English princess and known to be sympathetic to the English pretender Lambert Simnel who claimed to be her nephew. Never the less it seems strange that no record of Francesco appears to survive in the English State Papers. The English Estes, most branches of which had adopted the Eastes spelling by the mid-eighteenth century, perpetuated another variant of this story though they had Francesco's descendants remaining in Europewhere some of them became Protestants and fled England to escape persecution. A garbled form of this story was given false authority by another English professional genealogist in the mid-nineteenth century who stated that two brothers, sons of the Baron d'Este, a descendant of the Marquis d'Este, were Huguenots and fled to England after there vocation of the Edict of Nantes. As the families of the two brothers can be traced back much earlier in Kent the story only makes sense if those who fled England did so in the mid-sixteenth century when hundreds of Walloon and Fleming refugees fled from the Spanish Netherlands (the former Duchy of Burgundy) to escape the Inquisition. It makes even greater sense when we recall that the Flemings and Walloons were commonly referred to as Huguenots in later times. What we know of the English Estes is pieced together from a thoroughexamination of the parish registers and bishops transcripts available for Acrise, Ashford, Buckland, Canterbury, Deal, Dover, Elham, Folkestone,Guston, Hythe, London, Lydden, Margate, Nonington, Northbourne,Ringwould, Ripple, Rotherhithe, St. Margarets at Cliff, Sandwich,Sholden, Waldershare, Walmer, West Langdon, Wingham and Wooton. The greatest linking was only achieved in recent years by an experienced English research, Donald Bowler, but other researchers have contributedin fitting the genealogical jigsaw together. The Estes of Kent were described as a 'maritime' family and this may explain why the earliest appearances of the name are found scattered about the southern coast from Morwenstow in Cornwall (1558) to Harwich in Essex.7 There was probably a link between the Estes of Harwich and Deal, both centres of Walloon refugee settlement, as there gisters of St. Leonard, Deal, list the burial on 31 August 1621 of Hugh'Estie' of 'Harwitch' who was 'bound from Germinie [Netherlands] in aship called the Sion of London [Zion, a typical Protestant name]'. It is clear from the records of St. Leonard that all variants of the name were used interchangeably, the earliest instances being as follows: Eastes(1581), Este (1601), Estis (1618) and Esatis (1726). John Estye, who became a freeman of Canterbury by purchase on 27 July 1562, was a shearman or maker of shears, an occupation closely associated with the Walloon textile industry. He was no doubt the same John Estey or Estye who was a clothworker mentioned in Canterbury records between 1571 and 1593.9 The first progenitor of the Deal family for whom we have reasonable records was Henry Este or Eastes who made his will as Henry Eastice,fisherman of Deal, on 13 April 1590. Henry left his 'pinasse' (twomasted vessel) and other property to be shared equally between his three sons Richard, Henry and Aron who were all very young. His executor was his brother Robert who was probably the founder of the Ringwould branch. Robert of Ringwould had links with Deal through his son Matthew,the marriage of his grand-daughter Ellen with Moses Estes, grandson of Richard of Deal, and the fact that some of his family became mariners, like the Deal family.

Father: *Sylvester Estes b: 1522 in Of Canterbury, England
Mother: *Joan (Estes) b: Abt 1524

Marriage 1 *Annie Woodward b: Abt 1574 in Dover, Kent, England •Married: 2 Dec 1591 in Shelden, Kent, England

Children
1. Matthew Estes b: Abt 11 Jun 1592 in Shelden, Kent, England
2. Sylvester Estes c: 26 Sep 1596 in Ringwould, Kent, England
3. Alice Estes b: Abt 26 Mar 1597 in Ringwould, Kent, England
4. Matthew Estes b: 1601 in Ringwould, Kent, England
5. *Robert Estes b: Abt 29 May 1603 in Ringwould, Kent, England
6. Thomas Estes b: Abt 2 Jun 1605 in Ringwould, Kent, England
7. Susan Estes b: Abt 30 Oct 1608 in Ringwould, Kent, England
8. John Estes b: Abt 3 Mar 1610 in Ringwould, Kent, England
9. "Infant" Estes b: 1616 in Ringwould, Kent, England


∼My 9th great grandfather