Sir Thomas Arnold

Not the son of Sir Roger Arnold, of Llanthony. Not the ancestor of William ‘the settler’ Arnold (settler in Rhode Island).

Thomas was granted "land and tenement" located in Cirencester, Gloustershire, where he died. He married in 1494 to Agnes, daughter of Sir Richard Warnestead, Knight.

His eldest son, John, had a grant (in 1541) of the livery and manor of Higham and Over in parish of Churcham, Gloucestershire, where he died. This son was buried in the church at Churcham. Brass plate [One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families, p. 16].

Children:

1. John, of Hinghan and Over; died Sept. 15, 1545.[1][2]
2. Richard, [1][2]

Sources

1. "Arnold" hosted by rootsweb (dead link)
2. Drowne, Henry T. (communicator). "Mr. Somerby's Genealogy of the Arnold Family" New England Hist. and Gen. Register. 33:432. 1879

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Upon the death of his father, Thomas succeeded to Llanthony and other estates [Mr. Somersby's Genealogy of the Arnold Family," p. 9]. [NO]

Another pedigree:

https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/180542/I2858/thomas-arnold/individual

THOMAS ARNOLD(16) was b. abt 1428 of Churcham, Gloucestershire, England. He md. Agnes Warnestead abt. 1458. She dau. of Richard Warnestead, and widow of William Wriothesley, on 18 June 1477; he was granted 'land and tenement' located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, where he died before 1489. Issue of Thomas and Agnes (Warnestead) Arnold are:

• i. JOHN ARNOLD, b. abt. 1459 of Churcham, Gloucestershire, England, d. abt. 1546 at Dursley. He md. Issabell Hawkins abt. 1489.
• ii. Elenor Arnold, b. abt. 1461 of Churcham, Gloucestershire, England. She md. Sir John Wriothesley, Knt., abt. 1487.

Sources

• Leonard Wilson Arnold and Ethel Zwick Luckey, Arnold Luckey Family Ties (New York City: 1931) Page: p. 16
• 2. Title: Arnold, George Carpenter, Pedigree of Arnold, A.D. 1100, family tree : descendants of Stephen and Sarah Arnold, and William and Christiane Arnold (Washington, D.C. : L.C. Photoduplication Service, [19--])

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Caution

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Arnold-66

This person is part of a false pedigree of William Arnold, the immigrant to New England, created by Horatio G. Somerby in 1870. Individual parts of the pedigree may be correct, but many of the parts are incorrect and false

From Wikipedia <link>

In 1870, genealogist Horatio G. Somerby compiled a pedigree[3] of the Arnold family. This pedigree, showed William Arnold as son of a Thomas Arnold and a descendant of a 12th-century King of Gwentland (in modern day Wales) whose name was Ynir. In 1915, Edson S. Jones on checking Somerby's information with his sources, discovered discrepancies in dates and places, mixed up generations and unrelated people. "This fabricated research was not an isolated incident; Mr. Somerby had also been implicated in other fraudulent research and was out to please his clients regardless of the veracity of his work"[4]

From Anderson's Great Migration:

In 1915 Edson Salisbury Jones published a brief account[5] of his research into the ancestry of immigrant William Arnold (NEHGR 69:64-69), which showed the problems of the supposed pedigree done by Somerby, which did not have the correct father or location of William Arnold the immigrant. Anderson states unequivocally, "The pedigree prepared by Somerby is completely erroneous, and William Arnold came from Ilchester, Somerset"[6]