Hugh de Cotton

Notes:

A knight of St. John of Jerusalem.

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Hayton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz gives her father as Hugh Cotton of Rudheth, but says her mother is unknown.

Family/Spouse: Hugh de Venables. Hugh (son of Hugh de Venables and Katherine de Hoghton) was born before 1347 in of Kinderton cum Hulme, Northwich, Cheshire, England; died in 1379. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Cheshire 1386.

Fought in the rebel army at Shrewsbury, following which he was (according to some sources) beheaded or (according to others) hanged, drawn, and quartered.

Richard married Isabel de Langton before 21 Jun 1385. Isabel (daughter of Ralph de Langton and Joan de Radcliffe) was born in of Newton and Walton, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1448 and 1449, Over Peover, Bucklow, Cheshire, England
• Alternate death: 1459

Margery married Randall Mainwaring between 1392 and 1393. Randall (son of William Mainwaring and Elizabeth Leycester) was born in of Over Peover, Bucklow, Cheshire, England; died in 1456; was buried in South Chapel, Over Peover, Bucklow, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Being related to her husband in the 4th degree, they received a dispensation from Pope Urban VI through Richard de Dounes, prior of the Carmelites of Chester, in consequence of the services of Sir William in the crusade against Enrique, King of Castile." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Anyll married William de Brereton in 1386 in Audlem, Cheshire, England. William (son of William de Brereton and Ellen de Egerton) was born on 14 Feb 1349 in Egerton, Cheshire, England; died before 31 Aug 1426. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ellen de Grymelond. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas le Grosvenor. Thomas (son of Robert le Grosvenor and Joan de Pulford) was born in of Hulme, Cheshire, England; died in 1429. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Over Peover, Bucklow, Cheshire, England
• Alternate death: 1497
• Alternate death: 6 Mar 1498
• Alternate death: 1499
• Alternate death: 6 Mar 1499

Notes:

"Married the heiress of Ightfield, Shropshire." [Kay Allen, citation details below]

William Mainwaring (d. <1500) = Margaret Warren (b. 1401)
Thomas Mainwaring (d. 1508) = Joan Sutton
John Mainwairing (d. 1518) = Joan Lacon (d. 1524)
Richard Mainwaring (d. 1558) = Dorothy Corbet
Arthur Mainwaring (d. 1590) = Margaret Mainwaring
Mary Mainwaring (~1541-1578) = Richard Cotton (~1539-1602)
Frances Cotton (d. >1630) = George Abell (d. 1630)
Robert Abell (~1605-1663) = Joanna (d. >1682)
Caleb Abell (~1647-1731) = Margaret Post (1653-1700)
Experience Abell (1674-1763) = John Hyde (1667-1727)
James Hyde (1707-1793) = Sarah Marshall (1720-1773)
Abiah Hyde (1749-1788) = Rev. Aaron Cleveland (1744-1815)
William Cleveland (1770-1837) = Margaret Falley (1766-1850)
Rev. Richard Falley Cleveland (1804-1853) = Anne Neal (1806-1882)
(Stephen) Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)

Family/Spouse: Margaret Warren. Margaret (daughter of John Warren and Margaret Cheyne) was born before 11 Jun 1401 in of Ightfield, Whitchurch, Shropshire, England; was christened on 11 Jun 1401. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William de Bromley. William (son of John de Bromley and Margery Mascy) was born in of Baddington, Cheshire, England; died about 1430. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Savage. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cecily married Thomas de Fouleshurst before 1418. Thomas (son of Thomas de Fouleshurst and Joan Fitz Piers) was born between 1395 and 1397 in Glenfield, Leicester, England; died on 24 Jun 1438. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1420, Harfleur, Normandy, France

Family/Spouse: Alice Corbet. Alice (daughter of John Corbet) died about 1459. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ormerod and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography both call her Elizabeth Brereton.

Eleanor married John Savage before 1423. John (son of John Savage and Maud Swynnerton) was born between 1401 and 1410 in of Clifton, Cheshire, England; died on 26 Jun 1463. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown) Huls. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Hulme, Cheshire, England
• Alternate birth: of Bellaport, Muckleston, Shropshire, England

Family/Spouse: Isabella Peshale. Isabella (daughter of Richard Peshale and Margaret Malpas) was born in of Bellaport, Muckleston, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called "Anne Mainwaring" in some sources, including AR8.

Family/Spouse: Richard Charlton. Richard (son of Robert Charlton and Mary Corbet) was born in 1450 in of Apley near Wellington, Shropshire, England; died in 1522. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1486

Notes:

Fought on the Lancastrian side at Blore Heath; he was one of the few Lancastrian survivors.

Said to have had a relationship with Martha Woodville, a sister of Elizabeth Woodville who married Edward IV.

John married Joane Hexstall before 18 Mar 1453. Joane (daughter of William Hexstall and Margaret Bromley) died after 26 Apr 1467. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Tytley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Joan Vernon between March 1422 and Aug 1422. Joan (daughter of Richard Vernon and Eleanor de Holes) was born on 3 Jul 1417; died after 1467. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Aston. Robert (son of Roger Aston and Joyce Freville) was born about 1414 in of Haywood in Colwich, Staffordshire, England; died in 1464. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ralph Mainwaring. Ralph (son of Randall Mainwaring and Margery de Venables) was born in of Kermingham, Cheshire, England; died between 1473 and 1474. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Clifton, Cheshire, England
• Alternate birth: Abt 1422

Notes:

Fought at Bosworth Field. Mayor of Chester, 1484-86. Chamberlain of Middlewich.

"Although there is a possibility that John (III) entered the service of the house of York, it seems more likely that it was his son Sir John (IV) Savage (c. 1423–1495) who did so. He was therefore well placed to benefit from Henry VI's deposition. John (III) served as deputy to Sir Thomas Stanley, afterwards Baron Stanley, as steward of the duchy lordship of Halton, Cheshire. John (IV) married Stanley's daughter Katherine; the couple's children were many and prominent. Aside from John (V), Savage's son and heir, there was Thomas Savage (d. 1507), who rose to be bishop of Rochester in 1492, and of London in 1497, and archbishop of York in 1501, Sir Humphrey, Lawrence, James, Sir Edmund, Christopher, William, George, and Richard. His daughters made good matches, with Ellen being married to Peter Legh of Lyme, Katherine to Thomas Legh of Adlington, Margaret to Edmund Trafford of Trafford, Lancashire, Alice to Roger Pilkington (d. 1527) , and Elizabeth to John Leek of Langford, Derbyshire. John (IV) was knighted at Elizabeth Woodville's coronation in May 1465, and although he is not always easily distinguished from his son and namesake, he probably also became a knight of the body to Edward IV, and a banneret after the Scottish campaign of 1482; he was also very prominent in local affairs in Cheshire and the north midlands. In 1484, as mayor of Chester, he presided when his sons were made freemen of the city." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Katherine Stanley. Katherine (daughter of Thomas Stanley and Joan Goushill) was buried in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Katherine Constantine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1450 and 1456, of Bellaport, Muckleston, Shropshire, England
• Alternate birth: Abt 1455, of Bellaport, Muckleston, Shropshire, England

Family/Spouse: Margaret Mainwaring. Margaret was born about 1460. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Included to show that Richard Charlton and Elizabeth Mainwaring did in fact have two daughters named Anne.

Family/Spouse: Francis Yonge. Francis was born in of Caynton in Edgmond, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1480, of Apley near Wellington, Shropshire, England

Anne married Randall Grosvenor about 1500. Randall (son of Randle Grosvenor and Margaret Mainwaring) was born about 1480 in of Bellaport, Muckleston, Shropshire, England; died between 1559 and 1560. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Needham. William (son of Thomas Needham and Maud Brereton) was born in of Cranage, Cheshire, England; died in 1505. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Stanley. William (son of William Stanley and Alice Hoghton) was born about 1445 in of Hooton in Wirral, Cheshire, England; died in 1512. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Julian Spurway before 29 Mar 1548. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After her husband's death she took a vow of chastity.

Cecily married Thomas Gerard about 1440. Thomas (son of Peter Gerard and Isabel Strangeways) was born on 15 Jul 1431 in of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England; died on 27 Mar 1490. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Delves. Elizabeth (daughter of John Delves and Ellen Egerton) died after 1518. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Tytley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Pallbearer to Edward IV. Said to have had charge of the left wing at Bosworth Field; subsequently made Knight of the Garter by Henry VII.

Killed at the siege of Boulogne. According to J. D. Mackie, The Earlier Tudors 1485-1558 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1952), "The siege was not pressed hard, and save that Sir John Savage was killed nothing of note occured."

"Traditionally, the wife of Sir John Savage is claimed to have been Dorothy Vernon, a descendant of the Vernons of Shipbrook, Cheshire. This claim is based upon the Visitation of Cheshire of 1580 [...T]here is no evidence that Dorothy Vernon even existed." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

"Sir John (V) Savage (d. 1492), who fought for Edward IV at Tewkesbury, became a royal carver and knight of the body, and was second in order of precedence when Edward was buried. He received many important grants, including that of the constableship of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. As such close supporters of Edward IV, and associates of the Stanleys, it is not surprising that John (V) and his father seem to have been mistrusted by Richard III. Thomas Savage may have been abroad during the latter's reign and possibly acted as the Savages' direct contact with Henry Tudor. According to Polydore Vergil, John (V) was one of those who 'invited' Tudor to invade. He certainly played an important role at Bosworth, where he commanded the left wing. The author of Bosworth Feilde described him and his men, clad in their distinctive white livery hood:



Sir John Savage, that hardy Knight,

deathes dentes he delt that day

with many a white hood in fight,

that sad men were at assay.



As a result of this support, in 1486 he received an extensive grant in the north midlands of the forfeited estates of John, Lord Zouche, and Francis, Viscount Lovell, valued at £158 p.a. or more. He also received extensive grants of office, especially in Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. The support of the Savages for Henry Tudor guaranteed them a growing prominence at court, and at eight out of eleven council meetings for which evidence survives during the period June–July 1486 either John (V), or Thomas, or both, were present. Sir John (V) Savage led the force that seized Humphrey Stafford from sanctuary at Culham in 1486. [...] Sir John (V) was killed at the siege of Boulogne in 1492." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 2 Sep 1507, Cawood Castle, Cawood, North Yorkshire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1492

Ellen married Peter Legh about 1467. Peter (son of Peter Legh and Mabel Croft) was born about 1455 in of Lyme in Prestbury, Cheshire, England; died on 11 Aug 1527 in Lyme in Prestbury, Cheshire, England; was buried in Winwick, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Dugdale, in the 1664-65 visitation of Lancashire (citation details below), calls her "Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Savage".

Margaret married Edmund Trafford after 1480. Edmund (son of John de Trafford and Elizabeth Assheton) was born about 1454 in of Trafford, Lancashire, England; died on 15 Aug 1513. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice Jonson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1482, of Bellaport, Muckleston, Shropshire, England
• Alternate death: Aft 23 Feb 1559
• Alternate death: 1560

Randall married Anne Charlton about 1500. Anne (daughter of Richard Charlton and Elizabeth Mainwaring) was born in 1480. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1520

Family/Spouse: Thomas Bulkeley. Thomas (son of William Bulkeley and Beatrice Hill) was born about 1515 in Buntingsdale, Shropshire, England; died in 1591; was buried in Market Drayton, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Cranage, Cheshire, England

Notes:

Sheriff of Shropshire 1528-29, 1535-36, 1540-41. Sheriff of Cheshire 1538-39.

Jacobus (citation details below) makes this Robert Needham a younger brother of William Needham who married Isabel Bromley. Richardson (citation details below) clarifies that Robert was a younger son of William.

Family/Spouse: Agnes Mainwaring. Agnes (daughter of John Mainwaring and Maud Legh) died on 2 May 1560. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

VCH Lancaster (citation details below), evidently in error, calls her father "Sir Thomas Stanley of Hooton", but nonetheless correctly notes that she was "granddaughter and coheir of Sir John Bromley, by whom the estate of Gerard's Bromley came to this family."

Margery married Peter Gerard about 1476. Peter (son of Thomas Gerard and Cecily Fouleshurst) was born about 1460 in of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England; died on 20 Jun 1494. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1632

Oliver married Margaret Torbock before 1587. Margaret (daughter of William Torbock and Katherine Gerard) was born after 14 May 1558; died after 1640. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Margery Stanley about 1476. Margery (daughter of William Stanley and Margaret Bromley) was born about 1458; died after 1505. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Staffordshire 1495-96, 1497, 1504, 1510, 1515, 1523. Sheriff of Staffordshire 1500-01, 1508-09, 1513-14. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1510-11.

He served with Henry VIII in the French war of 1513, and was made a banneret on the field by the king for his conduct at the Battle of the Spurs.

Family/Spouse: Joan Littleton. Joan (daughter of William Littleton and Ellen Walshe) died after 1525; was buried in Leigh, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Julian Spurway before 29 Mar 1548. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Needham. Robert (son of Robert Needham) was born in of Cranage, Cheshire, England; died in 1448. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Frank Renaud (citation details below), he was "afflicted with lameness."

Peter married Jane Gerard before 1488. Jane (daughter of Peter Gerard and Margery Stanley) died on 5 May 1510. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Margaret de Tyldesley about 17 Jan 1514. Margaret was born in of Tyldesley, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married Thomas Gerard before 19 Aug 1511. Thomas (son of Peter Gerard and Margery Stanley) was born about 1488 in of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England; died on 7 Nov 1523 in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Longford. Elizabeth died on 27 Jan 1548. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Taylor. William died after 10 Jan 1592. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1520

Family/Spouse: Thomas Bulkeley. Thomas (son of William Bulkeley and Beatrice Hill) was born about 1515 in Buntingsdale, Shropshire, England; died in 1591; was buried in Market Drayton, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rector of Odell, Bedfordshire.

From The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus (1933):

(Rev.) EDWARD BULKELEY,D.D., second son of Thomas Bulkeley of Woore, Shropshire, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Randall Grosvenor, was born not far from 1540. He matriculated pensioner from St. John's College, Cambridge, Michaelmas, 1555; Scholar, 1555; B.A., 1559/60; M.A., 1563; B.D., 1569; D.D.. 1578; Fellow, 1560. He obtained the rectorship of Odell in Bedfordshire, probably in 1571. He "compounded" for the living at Odell, 6 Mar. 1571/2, as is shown by the Bishops' Certificates of the Diocese of Canterbury. This means that he then paid to his superior his first year's salary, as was then the established practice in the English Church. [...]

It is very difficult to learn much of the personal history of a minister who lived in the sixteenth century and who, by the very nature of his calling, did not figure in the political annals of his generation. He was Prebend of Chester, 1574; of Westminster, 1583; of Lichfield, 1594; and was Vicar of St. Mary, Shrewsbury, 1578-82. We know that he was one of the commissioners appointed by the Bishop of Lincoln in 1608 for the 'Levye of Armour' in Bedfordshire among the clergy.

We owe to the late Col. C. E. Banks the following interesting item, from Shrewsbury Corporation Record, Burgess Roll, 1580: Edward Bulkeley of Shrewsbury, professor of theology, son of Thomas, admitted burges and has issue: Nathaniel, aged 6; Mary, aged 13; Frances, aged 12; Judith, aged 10; Martha, aged 8; Deborah, aged 5; Dorcas, aged 3; Elizabeth, aged 1. [...]

Dr. Bulkeley was a moderate Puritan; he resigned his pastorate in 1609, probably because of increasing age, and died at Odell early in Jan. 1620/1. His burial on 5 Jan. 1620/1 was entered in the Odell registers by his son Peter, who had succeeded him as Rector.

Dr. Rev. Edward Bulkeley (1540-1621) = Olive Irby (1547-1615)
Sarah Bulkeley (1580-1611) = Sir Oliver St. John (1575-1626)
Elizabeth St. John (1604-1677) = Rev. Samuel Whiting (1597-1679)
Elizabeth Whiting (aft 1634-1733) = Rev. Jeremiah Hobart (1630-1715)
Dorothy Hobart (1679-1733) = Daniel Mason (1674-1705)
Jeremiah Mason (1705-1771) = Mary Clark (1705-1799)
Jeremiah Mason m. Elizabeth Fitch
Jeremiah Mason m. Mary Means
Robert Means Mason m. Sarah Ellen Francis
Elizabeth Mason m. Robert Charles Winthrop
Margaret Tyndal Winthrop m. James Grant Forbes
Rosemary Isabel Forbes m. Richard John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (1943- )

Dr. Rev. Edward Bulkeley (1540-1621) = Olive Irby (1547-1615)
Rev. Peter Bulkeley (1583-1659) = Jane Allen (1588-1626)
Edward Bulkeley (1614-1696) = Lucian _____ (?-?)
Peter Bulkeley (1641-1688) = Rebecca Wheeler (1645-1671)
Rebecca Bulkeley (1681-?) = Jonathan Prescott (1677-1729)
Dr. Abel Prescott (1718-1805) = Abigail Brigham (1723-1777)
Lucy Prescott (1757-1792) = Jonathan Fay (1752-1811)
Samuel Prescott Phillips Fay (1778-1856) = Harriet Howard (1782-1847)
Samuel Howard Fay m. Susan Shellman
Harriet Eleanor Fay m. James Smith Bush (1825-1889)
Samuel Prescott Bush (1863-1948) m. Flora Sheldon (d. 1920)
Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895-1972) m. Dorothy Walker (1901-1992)
George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018)

Edward married Olive Irby about 1566. Olive (daughter of John Irby and Rose Overton) was born about 1547 in of Leighthorpe in Cawthorpe, Lincolnshire, England; died before 10 Mar 1615; was buried on 10 Mar 1615 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Shavington in Adderley, Shropshire, England

Thomas married Anne Talbot on 1 Feb 1526. Anne (daughter of John Talbot and Margaret Troutbeck) was born between 1510 and 1515. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Peter Legh before 1488. Peter (son of Peter Legh and Ellen Savage) was born about 1479 in of Lyme in Prestbury, Cheshire, England; died on 4 Dec 1541 in Bradley-in-Burtonwood, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

Thomas married Margery Trafford before 19 Aug 1511. Margery (daughter of Edmund Trafford and Margaret Savage) died on 10 May 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As Douglas Richardson points out (Royal Ancestry 4:27), "she is called Anne and Mary indifferently in English records."

Anne married Benjamin Gill before 16 Jul 1641. Benjamin was born in St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, England; died on 22 Nov 1655 in Port Tobacco, Charles, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Jane Bowles before 1530. Jane (daughter of Thomas Bowles and Maud) died on 22 Sep 1562; was buried in St. Mary's, Stafford, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1632

Oliver married Margaret Torbock before 1587. Margaret (daughter of William Torbock and Katherine Gerard) was born after 14 May 1558; died after 1640. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maud Brereton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Judge of the Common Pleas, 1457; MP for London, 1450; Judge of the King's Bench, 1472.

Notes:

Richardson's Royal Ancestry (citation details below) (3:83; 3:557) makes Jane Legh a daughter of Piers Legh and his first wife, Jane Gerard. But that would make Jane Leigh and Thomas Gerard--who are noted as having been second cousins through common Savage ancestry--into first cousins, both grandchildren of Peter Gerard and Margaret Stanley. John Blythe Dobson (citation details below) says that "there is no doubt" that Jane Legh who married Thomas Gerard was a daughter, not of Piers Legh's first wife Jane Gerard, but rather his second wife Margaret de Tyldesley, and this seems more plausible.

Jane married Thomas Gerard before 1522, and was divorced on 27 Nov 1550. Thomas (son of Thomas Gerard and Margery Trafford) was born between 1502 and 1512 in of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England; died after 1550. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Constance Rowson. Constance was born about 1537; died after 1567. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of Thomas Gerard). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1512
• Alternate death: Between 1550 and 1560
• Alternate death: 1553
• Alternate death: Between 1553 and 1560

Notes:

Sheriff of Lancashire 1548, 1553.

In 1536 he was expected to bring a contingent of 450 men to serve against the Pilgrimage of Grace. He was knighted in 1544 during the invasion of Scotland.

John Blythe Dobson (citation details below) says he was at some unspecified time "M.P. for Lancashire", but the History of Parliament entry for his son, also Thomas Gerard (d. 1601), says nothing about the elder Thomas Gerard having been in Parliament.

Thomas married Jane Legh before 1522, and was divorced on 27 Nov 1550. Jane (daughter of Peter Legh and Margaret de Tyldesley) was born after 1513; died after 20 Nov 1575 in Bromley, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Langley. Robert was born in of Agecroft Hall, Agecroft, Pendlebury, Lancashire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Nevett. Thomas died after 25 Mar 1607. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]