Thomas Gerard

1512 - Aft 1550  (~ 49 years)

• Name	Thomas Gerard  [1]
  Birth	Between 1502 and 1512	of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	1512  [4]
  Alternate death	Between 1550 and 1560  [4]
  Death	Aft 1550  [1]
  Alternate death	1553  [5]
  Alternate death	Between 1553 and 1560  [2]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. William Gerard ,   b. of the New Hall in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England d. Bef 1567 ▻ Constance Rowson ;  (Unknown mistress of Thomas Gerard) + 2. Thomas Gerard ,   b. Between 1502 and 1512, of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England d. Aft 1550  (Age ~ 49 years) ▻ Jane Legh ,  m. Bef 1522
  Person ID	I35764	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	Thomas Gerard,   b. Abt 1488, of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England d. 7 Nov 1523, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England (Age ~ 35 years)
  Mother	Margery Trafford   d. 10 May 1540
  Marriage	Bef 19 Aug 1511  [2]
  Family ID	F21016	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane Legh,   b. Aft 1513   d. Aft 20 Nov 1575, Bromley, Staffordshire, England (Age > 61 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1522  [2]
  Divorce	27 Nov 1550  [1, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Katherine Gerard   d. Bef 1575
  Family ID	F21015	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2021

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S413] Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S5955] The House of Lyme from Its Foundation to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Evelyn Caroline Legh Newton (writing as "The Lady Newton"). New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917., place only. [S812] The Victoria County History of Lancaster. Portions online, linked from medievalgenealogy.org.uk. [S5956] Henry Sutliff, 4 Nov 1999, post to soc.genealogy.medieval. [S5955] The House of Lyme from Its Foundation to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Evelyn Caroline Legh Newton (writing as "The Lady Newton"). New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917.