John Delbridge

[1] His son Richard married firstly to Elizabeth Chichester (d.1628),[1] to whom he erected a mural monument in St Peter's Church in Barnstaple, a daughter of John II Chichester (d.1608) of Hall, Bishop's Tawton, in which latter parish John Delbridge owned a country estate.

The Inscription on the monument is as follows: "To the memorie of Elizabeth the wife of Richard Delbridge of Barnstaple, merchant, & daughter to the worthy John Chichester Esq.r of Hall, together with her child of which she died in childbirth 18 December 1628" She is depicted kneeling at a prie dieu with a baby in swaddling clothes on the ground in front of her.

On top of the monument is an escutcheon with the arms of Delbridge (Sable, a chevron argent between three swan's heads and necks couped proper) impaling Chichester.

On Richard's marriage his father settled upon him his lands in Bermuda as the following summary of a deed held by the Royal Institution of Cornwall records:[5] "Covenant:(i) John Delbridge of Barnstaple in Devon, merchant (ii) Richard Delbridge his son and heir; to convey all lands of (i) in the Bermadoes alias Somer Islands in Somersett Tribe and Harryngton Tribe upon marriage of (ii)".

They had children as follows: Richard IV, Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, Anne and Frances (b.1759), of "Kinsington Mall", whose 1821 petition including a diagram of the above pedigree exists at North Devon Record Office.