Frances Dyer

biography

From page 154 of Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset, Volume 10

Sir Thomas Dyer, Kt., of Weston, Somerset, eldest son of Alexander Dyer, married, first, Frances Darcy, widow of William Thornborough, whose marriage licence (Faculty Office) is dated 7 February, 1532-3. link William and Frances Thornborough left issue Catherine Thornborough, who was married to Alexander Dyer [and also a son, John Thornborough, mentioned in Thomas Dyer's will]

Sir Thomas Dyer had issue by his first marriage,

• 1. Johane Dyer, who was married to Maurice Rodney, son of John Rodney, of Blackwell and Rodney Stoke, Somerset, whose will is dated 6 August, and proved 13 September, 1588. He was born in 1538.
• 2. Margaret Dyer, married to her cousin, John Dyer, of Roundhill.
• 3. Frances Dyer, married, as his second wife, to Sir John Stawell, of Cothelstone, Somerset, whose will is dated 10 January, 1602, and proved 20 June, 1603 (43 Boleyn). She died before her husband.

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From page 108 The History of the Part of West Somerset Comprising the Parishes ..., Volume 1 By Sir Charles Edward Heley Chadwyck-Healey

This last share no doubt came through Lady Gorges. William Thornborough, son and heir of Robert Thornborough, refers in his will * to the hereditaments in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Devon, and Somerset, descended by the death of Lady Gorges. This property he left to his wife Frances for her life and after her death " to the use of such right heirs as stand now inheritable thereunto." Other lands descended from his father were to be held upon like uses after the death of his M mother in law Dame Anne Wyndsor." John Thornborough was son and heir of this William who died on the 3rd December 1535, as we learn from a survey of his estates.5 From the same record we find that " Dame Anne Wyndsor " was the wife of Sir Anthony Wyndsor and "grandmother in lawe" to John Thornborough. The survey merely refers to the Somerset property, " Certen landes and tenementes in Weste Luckham," as " descended" and as being worth by the year, with other property in Devon, 6oj. John Thornborough was aged one year and a half in June, 1536.

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• https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/qr/rodney1.php
• page 67 of Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, Etc: Copied from the Manuscript Collections of the Late Rev. Frederick Brown. Frederick Arthur Crisp Privately printed for Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1890 - Somerset (England).
• http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-44_ff_75-6.pdf