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Southcott
Southcote
Landed Gentry family
Argent, a chrevron engrailed gules between three coots sables
Country
Current region
Earlier spellingsSudth (7th c.), Sudcote (1086), Southcot (14th c.)
EtymologySouthcott (West Saxon dialect, Old English): "South Cottage"
Place of originSouth West England
FoundedAncient
Titles
List
Style(s)
List
TraditionsAnglicanism, Southcottians Movement
MottoNerth Dre Lelder
(Strength Through Loyalty)
Estate(s)

Southcott is a surname of a prominent family from Devon and Cornwall in England.

History

The Southcott surname is first recorded by Michael Southcote in the 13th century, and later recorded by Nicholas Southcott Jr of Bodmin, Cornwall in the 15th century.[1]

His grandson, John Southcott of Bodmin, in 1544, following the Dissolution of the Monasteries was granted Indio. At the time he was steward to Thomas Cromwell and held relationship which also leas to him obtaining several monastic holdings in Devonshire on favourable terms.[2] An ancient document exists, in connection with the Dissolution accounts, which refers to "Rent of a messuage in Yondyeo leased on 15 July 1531 to John Southcote, his wife Joan and Johns’s heirs for ever, 26s 8d". He was also made Clerk of the Peace for Devon.[3][4][5]

Lords of the Manor of Bovey Tracey (1544–1670)

Lord of the Manor of Mohuns Ottery (1580–1670)

Southcote Baronets, of Blyborough (1662–1680)

Southcote Baronets Family Chart

Sir George Southcott MP
(1572-1638)
Robert SouthcoteGeorge SouthcoteThomas Southcott
(d.1657)		JudithMaryRebecca
Richard Southcote
(b.1665)		Thomas Southcote MP
(c1622-1664)		Sir George Southcote Bt
1st Baronet of
Bliborough
Created 1662
(1629-1663)
Thomas Southcott
(b.1689)		Elizabeth PortmanSir George Southcote Bt
2nd Baronet of
Bliborough
(1664-1680)		George Southcote s.p.Elizabeth
(b.1620)		AnneKatherine Palmer
Katherine SmithConstantine Fitzherbert

Notable people

Joanna Southcott

Main article: Joanna Southcott

Joanna Southcott (1750–1814) was a religious prophetess.[8] She was born in the hamlet of Taleford, baptised at Ottery St Mary, and raised in the village of Gittisham, all in Devon, England.

At the age of 64 Southcott affirmed that she was pregnant and would be delivered of the new Messiah, the Shiloh of Genesis (49:10). The date of 19 October 1814 was that fixed for the birth, but Shiloh failed to appear, and it was given out that she was in a trance. She died not long after.

Joanna Southcott dicpicted above the crib of the Shiloh, the new Messiah

The "Southcottian" movement did not end with her death in 1814. Her followers are said to have numbered over 100,000, but had declined greatly by the end of the 19th century. In 1844 a lady named Ann Essam left large sums of money for "printing, publishing and propagation of the sacred writings of Joanna Southcott".[9][10]

Southcott left a sealed wooden box of prophecies, usually known as Joanna Southcott's Box, with the instruction that it be opened only at a time of national crisis, and then only in the presence of all 24 bishops of the Church of England (there were only 24 at the time), who were to spend a fixed period of time beforehand studying Southcott's prophecies. Attempts were made to persuade the episcopate to open it during the Crimean War and again during the First World War. The box was supposedly opened in 1927, however Southcottians claimed that the box opened in 1927 was not the authentic one and continued to press for the true box to be opened.[11] An advertising campaign on billboards and in British national newspapers such as the Sunday Express was run in the 1960s and 1970s by one prominent group of Southcottians, the Panacea Society in Bedford (formed 1920), to try to persuade the twenty-four bishops to have the box opened. The current state of the box is unknown.

Southcott prophesied that the Day of Judgement would come in the year 2004, and her followers stated that if the contents of the box had not been studied beforehand, the world would have had to meet it unprepared.[citation needed]

Ernest Southcott

Main article: Ernest Southcott

The Very Rev Ernest William Southcott (1915–1976) was an eminent Anglican priest and author[12] in the 20th century.

He was Vicar of St Wilfrid's, Halton, Leeds, where he pioneered the House Church movement, and then Rural Dean of Whitkirk until 1961 when he was appointed Provost of Southwark Cathedral.[13] He resigned Southwark in 1970 and became Vicar of Rishton in Lancashire. He died on 17 January 1976.[14]

Southcott was notable for his height- six feet six inches- and his conducting of services in parishioners' houses, celebrating communion at family dinner tables. On this subject, Southcott pronounced: 'We don't go to church; we are the Church.' Nevertheless, his own services were so popular that the church was full half an hour before proceedings began.[15]

Members of Parliament

Members of the Australian Parliament

Family Prayer

[17] [18]

Coat of arms

Coat of arms of Southcott Family
Crest
A star rising from a cloud Proper
Escutcheon
Argent, a chrevron engrailed gules between three coots sables
Motto
Nerth Dre Lelder (Cornish for Strength Through Loyalty)
The Current Southcott Arms
Arms of the Southcott Family
Southcote Baronets
Arms of Southcote Baronets
The Original Southcott Arms
Alternative Arms used by the Southcott Family
Arms of the Southcott family

Notes

References

Citations

  1. ^ boveytraceyhistory.org.uk, quoting Youings, Joyce (Joyce Youings, Devon Monastic Lands: Calendar of Particulars for Grants 1536–1558 (Exeter: DCRS New Series, 1955))
  2. ^ boveytraceyhistory.org.uk
  3. ^ Pole, p.432
  4. ^ boveytraceyhistory.org.uk, quoting Youings, Joyce
  5. ^ boveytraceyhistory.org.uk, quoting Youings, Joyce (Joyce Youings, Devon Monastic Lands: Calendar of Particulars for Grants 1536–1558 (Exeter: DCRS New Series, 1955))
  6. ^ Vivian, p.698; Pevsner, p. 193; Risdon, p. 134
  7. ^ a b Pole, p. 131
  8. ^ Denham, G (1815). "Remarks on the Writings and Prophecies of Joanna Southcott: being an attempt to prove her assertions inconsistent with the will of God as revealed in the scriptures of eternal truth". Dean&Munday. p. 23. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  9. ^ Austin Wakeman Scott (1966). Select cases and other authorities on the law of trusts. Law school casebook series (5th ed.). Little, Brown. p. 682.
  10. ^ Frank Swancara (1971). Obstruction of justice by religion: a treatise on religious barbarities of the common law, and a review of judicial oppressions of the non-religious in the United States. Civil liberties in American history. Da Capo Press. p. 171.
  11. ^ "Religion: Servant Woman's Box". Time. 8 May 1939.
  12. ^ Amongst others, he wrote: "Unto a Full Grown Man", 1942; "Receive This Child", 1951; "The Parish Comes Alive", 1956; and "Meditations for Lent", 1957. British Library web site, accessed 27 November 2010
  13. ^ New Provost Of Southwark The Times Friday, 7 July 1961; pg. 14; Issue 55127; col E
  14. ^ "Deaths". The Times, 20 January 1976; Issue 59606; p. 24, col A.
  15. ^ "Private lives made public".
  16. ^ "SOUTHCOTE, George representing Tavistock - History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
  17. ^ Calstock Parish Church History, Rev Gordon Ruming
  18. ^ https://www.cornishdictionary.org.uk/?locale=en
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