Ancestry of Audrey Barlow, wife of William Almy, of Rhode Island
Douglas Richardson
With the recent annoucement that Governor Sarah Palin, the Vice
President nominee of the Republican Party here in the U.S.A., is a
descendant of the colonial immigrant, Audrey Barlow, wife of William
Almy, of Rhode Island, I thought newsgroup members would be interested
in seeing a detailed account of Audrey Barlow's ancestry back to King
Henry II of England. All of my sources are cited below in the
standard puddle of references format. For the first eight generations
of this account, please see my book, Plantagenet Ancestry (2004).
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Audrey Barlow's Descent from King Henry II of England.
1. HENRY II, King of England, by a mistress, IDA DE TONY.
2. WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Knt., Earl of Salisbury, married ELA OF
SALISBURY.
3. IDA LONGESPÉE, married WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Bedford,
Bedfordshire.
4. BEATRICE DE BEAUCHAMP, married THOMAS FITZ OTES, Knt., of
Mendlesham, Suffolk.
5. MAUD FITZ THOMAS, married JOHN BOTETOURT, Knt., 1st Lord Botetourt.
6. ADA BOTETOURT, married JOHN DE SAINT PHILIBERT, Knt., of Eaton
Hastings, Berkshire.
7. MAUD DE SAINT PHILIBERT, married WARIN TRUSSELL, Knt., of
Billesley, Warwickshire [see TRUSSELL 8].
8. MAUD TRUSSELL, married JOHN HASTANG, of Chebsey, Staffordshire.
9. MAUD HASTANG, daughter and co-heiress, baptized at Chebsey,
Staffordshire 2 Feb. 1358/9. Her godparents included Maud Trussell,
who appears to have been her maternal grandmother, Maud (de Saint
Philibert) Trussell. She married shortly after 20 August 1373 (grant
of her marriage) RALPH STAFFORD, Esq., of Stafford and Crakemarsh,
Staffordshire, and, in right of his wife, of Grafton, Worcestershire,
Grandborough, Leamington Hastings, etc., Warwickshire, and Shenington,
Oxfordshire, Knight of the Shire for Worcestershire, 1383, 1384, 1401,
Justice of the Peace for Worcestershire, 1389–1390, Knight of the
Shire for Staffordshire, 1404, illegitimate son of John de Stafford,
Knt., of Bramshall and Amblecote, Staffordshire, Knight of the Shire
for Staffordshire, Joint Warden of part of the Marches of Scotland, by
Margaret, daughter of Ralph de Stafford, K.G., 1st Earl of Stafford
[see STAFFORD 9]. He was born about 1355. They had three sons,
Humphrey, Knt., John, and Fulk (clerk). He accompanied his cousin,
Hugh Stafford, Earl of Stafford, in the French expedition of 1373. He
was in France in 1376, when the dean of Poitiers granted him a license
to choose his own confessor. He went abroad again in 1381, when he
was issued letters of protection as a member of the free company
commanded by Theodore, the so-called canon of Robesart. Further
letters were issued to him in 1383, on his departure to Dunkirk with
Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich, for his ill fated crusade on
behalf of the rebellious townsmen of Ghent. In 1384 he and his
cousin, Sir Nicholas Stafford, were appointed to act as attorneys for
Richard Tyseo, a clerk. In 1390, he was arrested and held in the
Tower, as a result of his violent intervention in a dispute over a
prebend at the collegiate church of Gnosall, Staffordshire. He was
examined in Chancery, and released on bail of £600, raised by his
brother, Humphrey Stafford, Knt., and John Delves, Knt. In 1399 he
obtained a papal indult allowing plenary remission of sins at the hour
of death. He was a retainer for his cousin, Humphrey Stafford, Earl
of Stafford, during the rebellion of 1400, and followed the Earl on
his journey to Scotland later that year. In 1401 he was bound over in
100 marks to behave peaceably towards Ralph Merston. In 1405 William
Beauchamp, Lord Bergavenny, claimed that he and his son, Humphrey,
broke into his park at Feckenham, Worcestershire and caused
considerable damage. In 1406 he acquired lands in Longridge (in
Penkridge), Staffordshire from Simon Pykstoke and his wife, Alice.
RALPH STAFFORD, Esq., died 1 March 1410. His wife, Maud, predeceased
him.
References:
Nash, Colls. for the Hist. of Worcestershire 1 (1781): 156–173.
Bridges, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 275–280.
Nicolas, A Synopsis of the Peerage of England 1 (1825): 307 (sub
Hastang). Gentleman’s Mag. n.s. 40 (1853): 379–380. Grazebrook,
Heraldry of Worcestershire 2 (1873): 544–545 (Stafford arms: Or, a
chevron gules, a canton ermine). Williams, Parliamentary Hist. of the
County of Worcester (1897): 21 (biog. of Ralph de Stafford).
Genealogist n.s. 18 (1902): 30; n.s. 31 (1915): 175–177. C.C.R. 1369–
1374 (1911): 590. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 1913 (1913): 336. C.P.R. 1370–
1374 (1914): 299, 320, 335, 348. Wedgwood, Staffordshire Parl. Hist.
1 (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 3rd Ser. 1917) (1919): 76–78 (biog. of John de
Stafford), 162–163 (biog. of Ralph de Stafford). C.P. 6 (1926): 344
(sub Hastang). VCH Warwick 6 (1951): 94–99, 151. VCH Stafford 5
(1959): 115–116. Emden, Biog. Reg. of the Univ. of Oxford 3 (1959):
1750 (biog. of Fulk Stafford). Roskell, House of Commons 1386–1421 4
(1992): 444–446 (biog. of Ralph Stafford: “Despite his relative wealth
and influence, Stafford remains a somewhat obscure figure, for even
though he was well placed to pursue a distinguished career as a
soldier or administrator, he sat only briefly on the Worcestershire
bench, and never held office as either sheriff or escheator. Yet his
later life was not uneventful, showing signs of a bellligerent
temperament which may account for his lack of promotion.”).
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, Staffordshire Record
Office: The Phillipps Collection: documents relating to Staffordshire
from the collections of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Reference: 3764/169
(notarial instrument dated 1373 of William de Nauhagh clerk, regarding
the marriage of Ralph de Stafford illegitimate son of Lady Margaret de
Stafford to Matilda daughter of John Hastang deceased in the church of
St. Bertelin) (abstract of document available online at
http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
10. HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Knt., of Grafton, Worcestershire, Leamington
Hastings, Grandborough, etc., Warwickshire, and, in right of his wife,
of Huncote, Leicestershire, Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, and
Ditchampton, Wiltshire, Knight of the Shire for Worcestershire, rider
of Feckenham Forest, son and heir, born about 1384 (aged 26 in 1410).
He married before 1400 ELIZABETH BURDET, daughter and heiress of John
Burdet, Knt., of Huncote (in Narborough), Leicestershire, by
Katherine, daughter of John Arderne, Knt. They had three sons, John,
Humphrey, Knt., and William. His youthful years were filled with
violent incident. In 1401 Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, was
ordered to arrest him, his servant and two men from Bromsgrove and
bring them before the King’s Council to face indictment for the murder
of Richard Merston. In 1403 he entered the service of Henry of
Monmouth, Prince of Wales, as an esquire and likely fought at the
Battle of Shrewsbury under Henry’s banner. In 1404 he appeared in the
King’s Bench to answer for Merston‘s murder, whereupon he produced a
royal pardon and securities for his future good behavior. In 1405 he
was required to find sureties that he would in no way harrass John
Brace of Droitwich, one of Beauchamp’s retainers. In 1411 he took out
letters of protection to join Monmouth‘s retinue at Calais. In 1417
he enlisted in the Earl of Warwick‘s retinue for the second expedition
to France. He was heir in 1419 to his aunt, Joan Hastang, wife
successively of John Salisbury, Knt., Rustin Villeneuve, and Roger de
Swinnerton, Esq., by which he inherited the manor of Chebsey,
Staffordshire. SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD died overseas 20 Feb. 1419. His
wife, Elizabeth, predeceased him.
References:
Nash, Colls. for the Hist. of Worcestershire 1 (1781): 156–173.
Bridges, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 275–280.
Gentleman’s Mag. n.s. 40 (1853): 379–380. Lennard & Vincent, Vis. of
Leicester 1619 (H.S.P. 2) (1870): 23–24 (Burdet pedigree: “Eliz.
[Burdet] fil. et hr. ux. Humphr. Stafford de Graffon in Com. Wigorn
militis). Henricus de Bellomonte Baro vocatus Comes Boghan ob. 14. E.
3.”). Grazebrook, Heraldry of Worcestershire 1 (1873): 92 (Burdett
arms: Azure, two bars or each charged with three martlets gules); 2
(1873): 544–545. Colls. Hist. Staffs. n.s. 4 (1901): 151.
Genealogist n.s. 18 (1902): 30; n.s. 31 (1915): 175–177. VCH
Worcester 3 (1913): 125–126. Wedgwood, Staffordshire Parl. Hist. 1
(Colls. Hist. Staffs. 3rd Ser. 1917) (1919): 162–163 (biog. of Ralph
de Stafford). VCH Warwick 6 (1951): 40, 94–99, 151. VCH Wiltshire 6
(1962): 9. Roskell, House of Commons 1386–1421 2 (1992): 412–413
(biog. of Sir John Burdet); 4 (1992): 436–437 (biog. of Humphrey
Stafford).
11. HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Knt., of Grafton, Bromsgrove, and Kenswick (in
Knightwick), Worcestershire, Chebsey, Staffordshire, and Bourton-on-
Dunsmore, Grandborough, Leamington Hastings, etc., Warwickshire,
Sheriff of Warwickshire, etc., Knight of the Shire for Worcestershire
and Staffordshire, 2nd son, born in 1400. He was heir in 1422 to his
older brother, John Stafford. He married by license dated 2 Jan.
1423/4 ELEANOR AYLESBURY, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Aylesbury,
Knt., of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Aldbury and Tiscot (in
Aldbury), Hertfordshire, by his 2nd wife, Katherine, daughter and
heiress of Laurence de Pabenham, Knt. She was born about 1406 (aged
17 in 1423). Her maritagium included the manor of Blatherwycke,
Northamptonshire. They had five sons, Thomas, Esq., Humphrey, Esq.,
Ralph, Richard, and John, and three daughters, Elizabeth (wife of
Richard Beauchamp, K.B., 2nd Lord Beauchamp of Powick), Anne (wife of
William Berkeley, K.B.), and Joyce (wife of Marmaduke Constable,
Knt.). By an unknown mistress (or mistresses), he also had an
illegitimate son, William, and an illegitimate daughter, Jane (wife of
Guy Wyrley). In 1423 she was co-heiress to her nephew, Hugh
Aylesbury, by which she inherited the manors of Milton Keynes,
Bradwell, and Broughton, Buckinghamshire, and a moiety of Pytchley,
Northamptonshire. In 1438 he sued Robert Catesby for the manor of
Hopsford (in Withybrook), Warwickshire; Catesby quitclaimed the manor
to Sir Humphrey and his heirs in 1441. In June 1448 he and his son,
Richard, were assaulted at Coventry, Warwickshire by Robert Harcourt,
Knt., resulting in Richard’s death. This initiated a continuing feud
with the Harcourts, which resulted in the Staffords raiding Stanton
Harcourt, Oxfordshire in May 1450, burning house and church, and
driving the Harcourts into the church tower. SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD
was slain by Jack Cade at Sevenoaks, Kent 7 June 1450. He left a
will. In 1453 his widow, Eleanor, and her sister, Isabel, were co-
heirs to their cousin, John Cressy, Knt., by which they inherited the
manors of Dodford, Northamptonshire and Oxhill, Warwickshire. In
Trinity term 1472 his widow, Eleanor, was sued by Edmund Acton
regarding the manor of Dodford, Northamptonshire, and 20 messuages and
various lands in Brockhale, Claxthorp, Flore, Hartestone, and Walton,
Northamptonshire; Eleanor claimed that the manor had previously been
demised to her for life by various trustees, with successive
remainders to her children, Joyce, Thomas, Esq., and Humphrey, Esq.
In Michaelmas term 1472 Eleanor in turn sued John Hathewick regarding
the manor of Dodford, Northamptonshire, together with 28 messuages and
various lands in Brockhale, Claxthorp, Dodford, Flore, Hartestone,
High Hayford, Honnington, Little Creton, Low Hayford, Walton,
Sprotton, Thorneby, and Yelvertoft, Northamptonshire. In June 1472
Eleanor granted to her cousin, John Hathewick and his wife, Agnes, an
annual rent of £10 from the manor of Dodford, Northamptonshire, in
return for a commutation of the said John’s interest in the manor. In
1478 Eleanor presented to the church of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
On 15 June 1481 the king awarded the manor of Dodford,
Northamptonshire to dame Eleanor Stafford and her son, Thomas, who in
turn were ordered to pay £200, plus £50 charges, to Edward Wydeville,
Knt., to satisfy his claim to the said manor.
References:
Nash, Colls. for the Hist. of Worcestershire 1 (1781): 156–173.
Bridges, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 275–280. Shaw,
Hist. & Antiqs. of Staffordshire 2(1) (1801): 12–13 (Basset
pedigree). Baker, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822–1830): 349–
356 (Keynes-Aylesbury-Stafford pedigree). Coll.. Top. & Gen. 7
(1841): 255–256. Gentleman’s Mag. n.s. 40 (1853): 379–380.
Testamenta Eboracensia 3 (Surtees Soc. 45) (1865): 324. French,
Shakspeareana Genealogica 1 (1869): 164–166. Mundy et al., Vis. of
Nottinghamshire 1569 & 1614 (H.S.P. 4) (1871): 123–128 (1569 Vis.)
(Chaworth pedigree: “Elinor [Aylesbury] t’is 17 an’ Ao 2 H. 6. ux.
Humfrey Stafford of Grafton Governor of Callice.”). Grazebrook,
Heraldry of Worcestershire 2 (1873): 544–545. Flower, Vis. of
Yorkshire 1563–4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 65 (Constable pedigree).
Metcalfe, Vis. of Northamptonshire 1564 & 1618–9 (1887): 57 (1564
Vis.) (Wyrley pedigree: “Guydo Wyrley of Wyrley mar. Jane, da. of Sir
Humphrey Stafford of Grafton, co. Worc., Kt., and of Elyanor his wife,
da. and one of the heirs of Sir Thomas Alisbury, Kt.”), 160 (1618–19
Vis.) (Wyrley pedigree: “Tabulated as in the Visitation of 1564,
omitting the descent of Jane, wife of Guy Wyrley, and describing her
as natural da. of Sir Humphrey Stafford, of Blatherwick, Knt.”).
Colls. Hist. Staffs. n.s. 4 (1901): 151, 176. List of Early Chancery
Procs. 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 12) (1901): 226. Genealogist n.s. 18
(1902): 30; n.s. 31 (1915): 175–177. C.P. 2 (1912): 135–136 (sub
Berkeley). VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 27, 30–31, 51, 125–126, 184, 378,
440. Kingsford, English Hist. Lit. in the 15th Cent. (Burt Franklin
Bibliog. & Ref. 37) (1913): 360. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 284, 304,
402–403. Wedgwood, Hist. of Parliament 1 (1936): 420–421 (biog. of
Sir Robert Harcourt), 792 (biog. of Sir Humphrey Stafford). VCH
Northampton 4 (1937): 209–210. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 125; 6 (1951):
94–99, 151, 265–268. C.C.R. 1468–1476 (1953): No. 909. Harvey, Jack
Cade’s Rebellion of 1450 (1991). Roskell, House of Commons 1386–1421
2 (1992): 87–89 (biog. of Sir Thomas Aylesbury). Bodine, Anc. of
Dorothea Poyntz (1995): 33. Biancalana, Fee Tail & the Common
Recovery in Medieval England (2001): 393. Shakespeare Centre Library
and Archive: Gregory of Stivichall, Reference: DR10/1895, Misc. Inq.
Post Mortem dated 5 Aug. 1546, draft inquisition taken at Warwick
before Richard Newport, gent., Escheator for the county of Warwick,
upon the death of Humphrey Stafford, Knt. The jurors swear that he
was seised in demesne as of fee in the manors of Lemington Hastings,
Grenburgh and Burton, alias Burton upon Dunsmoor in Warwickshire and
in 32 messuages, 60 cottages, 600 acres of land, 41 acres of meadow,
600 acres of pasture, 12 acres of woods and 4 acres of heath in
Lemyngton, Grenborough, Burton, Hyll, Napton, Caldecote, Burdebury and
Draicote, together with the advowson of Burton. These were held by a
charter dated 21 Jan. 1423/4 to Humphrey Stafford of Grafton, Worcs.,
Esq. and Alienor his wife, grandparents of the said Humphrey, to be
held of the chief lord of the fee for services due and accustomed.
The jurors also declare that he held the manors of Bradwell,
Happesford and Rowdon in Warwickshire, with 16 messuages, 2 cottages,
100 acres of land, 60 acres of meadow, 10 acres of pasture [ms
damaged]. Held by charter of Humphrey Stafford, Knt., dated 1 Oct.
1442 to John, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Sir Ralph Boteler, Lord of
Sudley, Sir William Mountford, William Stafford, Esq., John Humpage,
John Wood, John Massy, Thomas Lytleton and William Pullesdon (as
trustees to uses declared under the will of the said Humphrey
Stafford) viz: Grandborough, Calcutt, Birdingbury & Rawdon were to
descend to Thomas Stafford, one of the sons of Humphrey, at age 18,
with successive remainders in default of male issue to his other sons
Humphrey, Ralph, Richard and John; Leamington [Hastings], Burton,
Hopsford[Hall] and Broadwell were to pass to Humphrey at 21 with
similar remainders to the other sons. Thomas and Richard predeceased
their father; Ralph and John died without issue and all the estates
passed therefore to Humphrey, father of Sir Humphrey (subject of the
IPM) to whom they in turn descended (abstract of document available
online at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
12. HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Esq., of Grafton, Bromsgrove, Kenswick (in
Knightwick), and Upton Warren, Worcestershire, Milton Keynes,
Buckinghamshire, Blatherwycke and Pytchley, Northamptonshire, Chebsey,
Staffordshire, Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Broadwell (in Leamington
Hastings), Grandborough, and Hopsford (in Withybrook), Warwickshire,
Ditchampton, Wiltshire, etc., and, in right of his wife, of Cottered,
Great Munden, and Rushden, Hertfordshire, and Sudbury (in Eaton
Socon), Bedfordshire, Knight of the Shire for Worcestershire and for
Warwickshire, 2nd but eldest surviving son, born about 1426–7. He
married after 1462 KATHERINE FRAY, 2nd daughter and co-heiress of John
Fray, Knt., of Cottered, Great Munden, Rushden, and LaMore (in
Sandon), Hertfordshire, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by Agnes,
daughter of John Danvers, Knt. She was born about 1447 (aged 14 in
1461). They had two sons, Humphrey, Knt., and William, Knt., and two
daughters, Anne (wife of Richard Neville, K.B., 2nd Lord Latimer) and
Margaret (wife of John Archer). Katherine and her mother, Lady Agnes
Fray, were admitted to the Fraternity of St. Nicholas in London in
1462. In 1467 Humphrey Stafford, Henry Walter, of Huncote,
Leicestershire, yeoman, and John Willenhale were attached at the suit
of the king for forcibly entering into tenements in Leire,
Leicestershire against the Statute of 5 Richard II. The same year
Edward Hastings, Esq., of Draylesford, Worcestershire was attached at
a suit of Humphrey Stafford for a debt of £20. His wife, Katherine,
died 12 May 1482. He was a strong supporter of King Richard III. In
1483, then being Sheriff, he held the fords of Severn against his
distant kinsman, Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, and brought
about the Duke’s defeat and death. He took part in Lord Lovel‘s
insurrection against King Henry VII, for which he was attainted in
1485. HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Esq., was executed at Tyburn 8 July 1486,
and was buried in the church of the Grey Friars (now Christ’s
Hospital), London.
References:
Nash, Colls. for the Hist. of Worcestershire 1 (1781): 156–173.
Bridges, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 275–280.
Clutterbuck, Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 2 (1821): 391 (Fray-Say
pedigree). Baker, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822–1830): 349–
356 (Keynes-Aylesbury-Stafford pedigree). Coll. Top. et Gen. 1
(1834): 324–329 (Danvers pedigree: “Catherine the iiird doughter to
Sir John Fraye was maryed to Humfrey Stafford, and they had issue ii
sonnes and i doughter; Humfrey the eldest sone maryed the doughter of
Sir John Fogge, and they have issue; his brother William is maryed and
hath issue; his sister Anne is maryed to the Lord Latymer and Lorde
Connyers, and they have issue.”). Foss, Judges of England 4 (1851):
316–328. Gentleman’s Mag. n.s. 40 (1853): 379–380. Gyll, Hist. of
the Parish of Wraysbury, Ankerwycke Priory, and Magna Charta Island
(1862): 16 (Fray pedigree). Grazebrook, Heraldry of Worcestershire 2
(1873): 544–545. Macnamara, Memorials of the Danvers Family (1895):
153 (Fray arms: Ermine a fess sable between three beehives or).
Colls. Hist. Staffs. n.s. 4 (1901): 150–151, 176. VCH Worcester 2
(1906): 210–211; 3 (1913): 27, 116, 125–126, 164, 184, 378, 426, 440.
VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 195. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 124–129, 229
(Stafford arms: Or, a chevron gules and a border engrailed sable),
266, 273. C.P.R. 1485–1494 (1914): 159. Genealogist n.s. 31 (1915):
175–177. Kingsford, Grey Friars of London (1915): 139–144. Misc.
Gen. et Heraldica 5th Ser. 6 (1926–28): 288–294. VCH Buckingham 4
(1927): 284, 304, 402–403. VCH Northampton 4 (1927): 209–210. C.P. 7
(1929): 481–482 (sub Latimer). Wedgwood, Hist. of Parliament 1
(1936): 792–793 (biog. of Humphrey Stafford). Hemmant Select Cases in
the Exchequer before all the Justices of England 2 (Selden Soc. 64)
(1948): 115–124 (re. trial of Humphrey Stafford for high treason).
VCH Warwick 6 (1951): 40, 94–99, 151 (Stafford arms: Or, a chevron
gules and a canton ermine), 265–268; 7 (1964): 68–69. Ancient Deeds—
Series B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.6456; 3 (List & Index
Soc. 113) (1975): B.9347, B.107988, B.10852, B.12726. Sainty, Judges
of England (Selden Soc. Supp. Ser. 10) (1993): 93 (re. John Fray).
Biancalana, Fee Tail & the Common Recovery in Medieval England (2001):
393. James, Bede Roll of the Fraternity of St. Nicholas 1 (London
Rec. Soc. Pubs. 39) (2004): 59, 61.
13. HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Knt., of Cotered and Rushden, Hertfordshire,
Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1526–1527, son and heir, born 1 May 1478
(aged 42 in 1517). He married (1st) after 1490 MARGARET FOGGE,
daughter of John Fogge, Knt., of Ashford, Kent, and London, Treasurer
of the Household to King Edward IV, Privy Councilor, Keeper of the
Writs, Knight of the Shire for Kent, Burgess (M.P.) for Canterbury,
Kent, by his 2nd wife, Alice, daughter of William Haute, Esq. She was
near kinswoman of Queen Elizabeth Wydeville, wife of King Edward IV of
England. They had three sons, Humphrey, Knt., William, K.B., and
Robert, Knt., and three daughters, Joan (or Jane) (wife of _____
Williams and Maximilian Celsus), Ellen, and Mary. Margaret was a
legatee in the 1490 will of her father, she being then unmarried. In
1514 his father’s attainder was reversed, and the family estates
partially restored to him, including the manors of Milton Keynes,
Buckinghamshire, and Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire. In 1508–1509
John Hoke, butcher, of Derby, kinsman and heir of John Somerby, clerk,
conveyed the manor and advowson of the church of Great Munden and the
advowson of Rowney Priory, Hertfordshire to Humphrey Stafford and his
cousin, William Waldegrave, Knt. Humphrey was heir in 1517 to his
uncle, Thomas Stafford, Esq., by which he inherited the manors of
Blatherwycke and Dodford, Northamptonshire. He married (2nd) in 1532
JOAN _____, widow of William Lane. SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD died 22
Sept. 1545.
References:
Bridges, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 275–280.
Baker, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822–1830): 349–356 (Keynes-
Aylesbury-Stafford pedigree). Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826):
400–402 (will of Sir John Fogge, Knt.). Gentleman’s Mag. n.s. 26
(1846): 31–33. Whellan, Hist., Gazetteer, and Directory of
Northamptonshire (1849): 442. Burn, Registrum Ecclesi Parochialis:
Hist. of Parish Regs. in England (1862): 275–276, 283–284, 286.
Pearman, Hist. of Ashford (1868). Antiquary 4 (1873): 313 (Fogge
arms: Argent, on a fess, between three annulets, sable, three mullets
of the first pierced). Collectanea 1st Ser. (1885): 238–242.
Blaikie, Alliance of the Reformed Churches: Minutes & Procs. of the
4th General Council London, 1888 (1889): 307. Leadam, Domesday of
Inclosures, 1517–1518 1 (1897): 315. List of Sheriffs for England &
Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 93. Leadam, Select Cases
Before the King’s Council in the Star Chamber 2 (Selden Soc. 25)
(1903): 169–170. Pollard, Reign of Henry VII from Contemporary
Sources 2 (1914): 17–19. Harvey et al., Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees
Soc. 144) (1930): 57–58 (Widvill pedigree: “Margareta [Fogge]”).
Wedgwood, Hist. of Parliament 1 (1936): 339–342 (biog. of Sir John
Fogge). Adams & Stephens, Select Documents of English Constitutional
Hist. (1939): 218–220. Mellows, Last Days of Peterborough Monastery
(Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 12) (1947): xxxviii. VCH Warwick 6
(1951): 40. Adams, Living Descendants of Blood Royal 2 (1959): 239,
659. Ancient Deeds—Series B 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.9074,
B.9849.
14. HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Knt., of Blatherwycke, Dodford, and Kirby,
Northamptonshire, Chebsey, Staffordshire, etc., Sheriff of
Northamptonshire, 1547–1548, Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII,
son and heir by his father’s 1st marriage. He married by settlement
dated 10 Feb. 1526 MARGARET TAME, daughter of Edmund Tame, Knt., of
Fairford, Gloucestershire, by his 1st wife, Agnes, daughter of Edward
Greville, Knt. They had two sons, Humphrey, Knt., and John, Esq., and
three daughters, Anne (wife of Anthony Cope, Knt.), Frances (wife of
Thomas Smith, Knt.), and Ellen (or Eleanor). His wife, Margaret, was
co-heiress in 1544 to her brother, Edmund Tame, Knt., by which she
inherited the manor of Rendcombe, Gloucestershire. In 1545 he demised
the manor of Chebsey, Staffordshire to his brother, William Stafford,
Knt. In 1546 he sold the manor of Dodford, Northamptonshire and all
the lands belonging to Dodford and Farthingstone [Dodford Wood etc.],
excepting a rent-charge of £64. 2s. 11-½d. per annum, to John Wyrley,
Gent. In 1547 he presented to the church of Blatherwycke,
Northamptonshire. SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD died 8 May 1548, and was
buried in Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire. His widow, Margaret,
married (2nd) (as his 3rd wife) JOHN COPE (or COOPE), Knt., of Canons
Ashby, Northamptonshire, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1545–1546,
Knight of the Shire for Northamptonshire, 2nd son of William Cope,
Esq., of Banbury, Oxfordshire, Cofferer to King Henry VIII, by his
wife, Jane, daughter of John Spencer, Esq., of Hodnell, Warwickshire.
He was born before 1513. They had no issue. He was knighted before
March 1550. SIR JOHN COPE died 22 Jan. 1557/8. He left a will proved
21 May 1558 (P.C.C. 25 Noodes). His wife, Margaret, survived him.
References:
Kimber & Johnson, Baronetage of England 1 (1771): 50–55 (sub Cope).
Bigland, An Account of the Parish of Fairford in the County of
Gloucester (1791): 12, 19–27. Bridges, Hist. & Antiqs. of
Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 275–280 (Tame arms: a Griffin and a lion
crowned Countersalient). Rudge, Hist. of the County of Gloucester 1
(1803): 255, 309. Baker, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822–
1830): 349–356 (Keynes-Aylesbury-Stafford pedigree). Nicolas,
Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826): 749 (will of Anthony Cope). Gentleman’s
Mag. n.s. 26 (1846): 31–33. Whellan, Hist., Gazetteer, and Directory
of Northamptonshire (1849): 442. Lee, Hist. of the Town and Parish of
Tetbury (1857): 79. Warwickshire Antiqs. Magazine Pt. 8 (1859): 148
(Verney pedigree: “… [Thame] ux. Sr. Hump: Stafford of Blatherwick
Kt.). Holt, Tames of Fairfield (1870). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 6
(1870): 250–251. Grosart, Complete Poems and Translations in Prose of
Humfrey Gifford Gentleman (1875): 167. Chitting & Phillipot, Vis. of
Gloucester 1623, 1569 & 1582–3 (H.S.P. 21) (1885): 260 (1623 Vis.)
(Tame pedigree: “Margerett [Tame] ux. Humfrey Stafford Knight sonn and
heire of Sr Humfrey of Blatherwick in com. Northampton.”) (Tame arms:
Argent, a dragon vert and a lion azure, crowned gules, combatant.”).
List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898):
94. Macklin, Brasses of England (1907): 239. Ward Brasses (Cambridge
Manuals of Science & Literature) (1912): 136. Gifford, A Posie of
Gilloflowers (1933): xiii. Adams, Living Descendants of Blood Royal 2
(1959): 239, 659. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 119–124. An Inventory of
the Hist. Monuments in the County of Northampton 6 (1975): xvii. VCH
Gloucester 8 (2001): 42–69; 11 (1976): 264–269.
15. ELLEN (or ELEANOR) STAFFORD, married (1st) ANTHONY COPE, Esq., of
Adstone, Northamptonshire, son of John Cope, Knt., of Canons Ashby,
Northamptonshire, by his 1st wife, Bridget, daughter of Edward
Raleigh, Esq. They had no issue. He left a will dated 6 June 1558,
proved 20 Dec. 1558, requesting burial in the church of Canons Ashby,
Northamptonshire near his father. His widow, Ellen, married (2nd)
before 1568 THOMAS BARLOW (or BARLOWE), of Huncote (in Narborough),
Leicestershire. They had one son, Stafford, Gent. Thomas witnessed
the 1571 will of John Smythe, of Huncote (in Narborough),
Leicestershire. He may be the “Master Barlowe” who was named an
overseer of the 1576 will of John Pallet, of Huncote (in Narborough),
Leicestershire. His wife, Ellen, may possibly be the Ellen Butler,
widow, of All Saints parish, Leicester, Leicestershire who left a will
proved 20 Feb. 1607/8, whose executor was their son, Stafford Barlow.
This will has not survived.
References:
Bridges, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 275–280.
Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826): 749 (will of Anthony Cope).
Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 6 (1870): 250–251 (“It is a curious
coincidence that two of John Stafford’s sisters married two Copes—
thus: Anthony Cope of Adstone, co. Northampton, Esq., third son of Sir
John Cope, Knt. before mentioned … married Ellen or Helen Stafford.
This Anthony Copy by his last will, dated June 6, 1558, and proved
Dec. 20 following, desires that his body shall be buried beside that
of his father in Canons Ashby church. He therein names Ellen his wife
as “sister of Sir Humphry Stafford” (elder brother of John), “and
daughter of dame Margaret Cope” (his step-mother); and devises his
lands in Eydon to his brother George Cope (Test. Vetusta, 749). He
ob. s. p., and Ellen his widow remarried before 1568 Thomas Barlow of
Huncote, co. Leicester, by whom she had issue a son, Stafford Barlow
(Close Roll, 18 Eliz., p. 4).”). Abstracts of Proven Wills of
Leicester District Probate Registry [FHL Microfilms 800668, 800669,
800670].
16. STAFFORD BARLOW, Gentleman, of Narborough and Lutterworth,
Leicestershire. The name of his wife is unknown. They had two
daughters, Audrey and Mary (baptized at Narborough 1608). He was the
executor of the 1608 will of Ellen Butler, widow, of All Saints
parish, Leicester, Leicestershire, who was possibly his mother. He
served as a witness to various wills: the 1621 will of John Hodge,
husbandman, of Foston, Leicestershire, husbandman; the 1621 will of
William Allen, laborer, of Glen Parva, Leicestershire; the 1638 will
of Thomas Wood the elder, husbandman, of Lutterworth, Leicestershire;
the 1638 will of William Callis, rope maker, of Lutterworth,
Leicestershire; and the 1638 will of Thomas Beale, yeoman, late of
Ashby Parva, Leicestershire.
References:
Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 6 (1870): 250–251. Bishop’s Transcripts,
Narborough, Leicestershire [FHL 592585]. Abstracts of Proven Wills of
Leicester District Probate Registry [FHL Microfilms 800670, 800672].
17. AUDREY BARLOW, born about 1600–1603 (aged 26 in 1626, aged 32 in
1635). She married by license dated 17 July 1626 WILLIAM ALMY (or
ALMEY), Gentleman, of South Kilworth, Leicestershire, son and heir of
Christopher Almy, of South Kilworth, Leicestershire, by _____,
daughter of _____ Clarke, of Lutterworth, Leicestershire. He was born
about 1600–1601 (aged 26 in 1626, aged 34 in 1635). They had three
sons, Christopher, John, and Job, and two daughters, Katherine (wife
of Bartholomew West and Nicholas Brown) and Annis (wife of John
Greene). In 1625 Edward Clement, clerk, sued William Almey, yeoman,
son and executor of Christopher Almey, deceased, in the Court of
Requests by regarding the parsonage of Lutterworth, Leicestershire and
a bond connected therewith. He and his wife, Audrey, and their two
children, Annis and Christopher, immigrated to New England in 1635 on
the ship, Abigail. They settled initially at Lynn, Massachusetts, but
in 1637, they removed to Sandwich, Massachusetts. In 1638 he was one
of several Sandwich men who were fined “for keeping swine unringed.”
He took the oath of fidelity at Sandwich in 1639. In 1640 he received
8-½ acres in the division of meadow at Sandwich. In 1642 he sold his
dwelling house in Sandwich, Masschusetts to Edmond Freeman the younger
and removed to Portsmouth, Rhode Island. In 1643 he received a grant
of eight acres of planting ground in Portsmouth. In 1644 he was one
of three men “to have land at the wading river” at Portsmouth. In
1650 the Portsmouth town council granted that he should have the land
that lies at “the head of his farm to come to the same height that
Philip Shearman his land now runneth.” He served as Deputy for
Portsmouth to the Rhode Island General Court, 1648, 1650, 1656–1657,
and 1663; assessor for Portsmouth, 1659, 1663; and Portsmouth town
meeting moderator, 1660. In 1652 he sued John Smith, of Warwick,
merchant, claiming that Smith and his partner William Field had
detained the quantity of five anchors and a half of liquors worth £40;
the town of Providence first dismissed the case, but reexamined the
evidence and found for Almy. In 1656 he sold to Richard Bulgar of
Portsmouth a grant of eight acres of land within the common fence. In
1659, as “William Almy of Portsmouth, planter,” he deeded to his son,
John Almy, about 50 acres of land, it being part of his farm in
Portsmouth, Rhode Island “whereon I now dwell.” In 1669 the town of
Portsmouth voted to institute a suit against him for throwing a fence
across a highway which “doth lead to one of the most principal
watering places for cattle in this town.” The town subsequently won
the suit in the court of trials. WILLIAM ALMY left a will dated 28
Feb. 1676/7, proved 23 April 1677. His wife, Audrey, was living 28
Feb. 1676/7.
References:
Austin, Gen. Dict. of Rhode Island (1887): 236–239. Metcalfe, Vis. of
Northamptonshire 1564 & 1618–9 (1887): 61 (Almey pedigree: “William
[Almey]”). Early Records of the Town of Providence 15 (1899): 15, 50–
53, 57–61. Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth (1901): 44–46, 65–
66, 69, 75, 91, 93, 102, 108, 116, 130, 133, 140, 150–152, 155–156,
164, 342–343, 372. Reports & Papers of the Leicestershire
Archæological Society 27 (1903–1904): 535 (marriage license of Wm.
Almie & Audrey Barlowe). Sinnott, Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers,
Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and Allied Fams. (1905): 227–228.
Hartopp, Leicestershire Marriage Licences, 1570–1729 (Index Library
38) (1910): 9. Essex Instiute Hist. Colls. 49 (1913): 172–176. NEHGR
71 (1917): 310–324. Worthington, Rhode Island Land Evidences, Vol. I,
1648–1696: Abstracts (1921): 103–104 (will of William Almy). Rhode
Island Hist. Soc. Colls. 21: 131. TAG 20 (1943–1944): 119–120.
Anderson, Great Migration 1 (1999): 42–47 (biog. of William Hubbard).
Bishop’s Transcripts of Lutterworth, Leicestershire [FHL Microfilm
592576]. Rhode Island Hist. Soc. Colls. 21: 131.
lma...@att.net
Doug,
Its good to see that youve used the Leicestershire will abstracts that
I recommended to you.
Regarding the supposed marriage of Edmund Tame of
Fairford, Gloucestershire, to Agnes, daughter of Edward
Greville - You might want to check the Transactions of the
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society,
(apparently for the year 1958) , p 171 and 172,
which states, from a snippet on Google Books:
"Agnes's father was not Sir Edward Greville but his father John
Greville of Milcote, Warwickshire"
according to a group of late medieval deeds in the Gloucestershire
Record Office.
http://books.google.com/books?id=1jsSAAAAIAAJ&q=greville&pgis=1#search
There's another colonist who should be included in your books
- Dr. Richard Tilghman of Maryland, as detailed in Gary Roberts,
RD600.
Leslie
John H
Edmund Tame Snr, was the daughter of John Greville and wife (Lady) Jane nee
Forster.
All John Grevilles lands (Agnes's Father), were assinged to Edmund Tame upon
the marriage, but sold off to pay debts.
Ashley Manor being transferred in 1503 to John Westby (D1224 No 8) who
married Margaret daughter of Robert Greville.
Ashley Manor and interests at Charlton Kings (Cheltenham, GLS) were
surrendered to Edward (Sir) Greville #(D1224 No13) from John Westby (Edward
Tame actually owned them D1224 No 8 c1503) and Sir Edward was still in
possession in 1520 when he mortgaged them for �400.
+++
I show following for Sir Edmund Tame:
"Edmund of Fairford, England."
Knighted by King Henry Vlll 1516
Henry VIII visited Fairford in 1520, staying at the
Tame manor house from August 26th until September 2nd.
During this visit King Henry Vll appointed Edmund Tame "steward for life of
the lordship of
Fairford" and also knighted Sir Edmund's son, also Edmund.
John H
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