Thomas Gerard

Abt 1488 - 1523  (~ 35 years)

• Name	Thomas Gerard
  Birth	Abt 1488	of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Nov 1523	Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England   [1, 2, 3, 6]
  Person ID	I35766	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	10 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	Peter Gerard,   b. Abt 1460, of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England d. 20 Jun 1494 (Age ~ 34 years)
  Mother	Margery Stanley,   b. Abt 1458   d. Aft 1505 (Age ~ 48 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1476  [1, 2]
  Notes	Date of dispensation.
  Family ID	F21034	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margery Trafford   d. 10 May 1540
  Marriage	Bef 19 Aug 1511  [1]
  Children	+ 1. William Gerard,   b. of the New Hall in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England d. Bef 1567 + 2. Thomas Gerard,   b. Between 1502 and 1512, of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England d. Aft 1550 (Age ~ 49 years)
  Family ID	F21016	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  VCH Lancaster (citation details below) calls him "a turbulent and lawless man." He was killed while fighting the Scots at Berwick-upon-Tweed.

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S413] Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S812] The Victoria County History of Lancaster. Portions online, linked from medievalgenealogy.org.uk., year only. [S5946] The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster Made in the Year 1664-5 by Sir William Dugdale ed. F. R. Raines. 2 volumes, contained in Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, volumes 84 (1872), 85 (1872), and 88 (1873), published by the Chetham Society., place only. [S812] The Victoria County History of Lancaster. Portions online, linked from medievalgenealogy.org.uk., year and place only.