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Family of Thomas * GIFFORD and Joan * LANGSTON

Husband: Thomas * GIFFORD (1462-1511)
Wife: Joan * LANGSTON (1460-1535)
Children: Thomas GIFFORD (1481- )
Anne * GIFFORD (1485-1519)
Mary GIFFORD (1486- )

Husband: Thomas * GIFFORD

Name: Thomas * GIFFORD
Sex: Male
Father: John * GIFFORD (1431-1506)
Mother: Agnes * WINSLOW (1439-1506)
Birth 1462 Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England
Death 10 Oct 1511 (age 48-49) Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England

Wife: Joan * LANGSTON

Name: Joan * LANGSTON
Sex: Female
Father: John * LANGSTON (1429-1506)
Mother: Margaret * DANVERS (1434-1499)
Birth 1460 Caversfield, Buckinghamshire, England
Death 22 Mar 1535 (age 74-75) Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England

Child 1: Thomas GIFFORD

Name: Thomas GIFFORD
Sex: Male
Birth 1481

Child 2: Anne * GIFFORD

Name: Anne * GIFFORD
Sex: Female
Spouse: John * SAXBY (1472-1535)
Birth 1485 Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England
Death 3 May 1519 (age 33-34) Cotesford, Oxfordshire, England

Child 3: Mary GIFFORD

Name: Mary GIFFORD
Sex: Female
Birth 1486

Note on Husband: Thomas * GIFFORD

"17 THOMAS GIFFORD (John Thomas Roger Sir Thomas Sir John Sir John le Boef Sir John le Boef Osbert Elias Elias Elias Osberne Osbern de Bolebec) of Twyford co Bucks the testator of 1511 REGISTER vol 74 page 268 living in 12 Edward IV 1472 3 died 10 Oct 1511 ib vol 74 page 235 He married JANE or JOAN LANGSTON who survived him, daughter and heiress of John of Caversfield co Bucks.

 

Children

 

i THOMAS of Twyford Esq the testator of 1550 ib vol 74 page 270 b about 1481 he is described on 10 Nov 1511 as aged thirty years and more d 25 Nov 1550 m MARY STAVELET dau and heiress of William of Bignell co Oxford Esq whose wife was a daughter of Sir John Francis Knight Children 1 John the testator of 1572 ib vol 74 p 272 utter barrister of the Middle Temple London under twenty two on 2 Nov 1550 d between 8 Aug and 23 Oct 1572 2 Ursula d at Twyford A8 Begbroke was a Gifford estate it seems likely that the Harleian pedigree printed in the Visitations of Oxfordshire which makes Agnes the daughter of Thomas Winslowe of Burton who married Agnes Throckmorton is correct tin the abstract of the inquisition post mortem of Thomas Gifford printed in REGISTER vol 74 p 235 either Thomas should be substituted for John in the second line or Thomas Gifford or an equivalent expression should be substituted for himself in the fifth line7 Dec 1558 m Thomas Wayneman or Wenman of Carswefl and Witney co Oxford s of Richard Esq of Carswell and Anna Bushe for issue see Publications of the Harleian Society vol 5 p 179 they were ancestors of the Viscounts Wenman 3 Mary not mentioned in her father's will but see PCC Fettiplace 4

 

ii ANNA m RICHARD SAMWELL of Edgecote co Northampton who is mentioned in the will of his father in law Thomas Gmord in 1511

 

iii MARY living in 1511 m WILLIAM BECKE of Stow Stowe o Bucks "

 

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" The Will of Thomas Gefford, 10 October 1511. To be buried in the parish church of Twyford [co. Bucks]. To the mother church of Lincoln 3s. 4d. To the church at Twyford one paire of vestments. To Jane, my wife, my purchestt house in Marysche [?], to have it towards paying my debts. The exchange of land that I made with Richard ffranclyne and Thomas Licerworytt and Jone, his wife, shall stand. I charge my son upon my blessing to come home and take his wife unto him. Thomas Langston and Richard Samwell to make my daughter Mary sure of her jointure. Residuary legatees: Jayne, my wife, Thomas Langston, and Richard Samwell, and they are to be my executors. Supervisor: My Lord of Notley. Witnesses: Thomas Radishe of Hertwell, Sir John Dayll, Clerke, Richard Spenser, and others. Proved 18 November 1511 by Thomas Friser, proctor for Joan, the relict and executrix named in the will. (P. C. C., Fettiplace, 4.)"1

Sources

1Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register" (NEHGS). Vol. 75.