William Lawrence, of Withington

William Lawrence was born circa 1480.2 He married first Isabel Molyneux, daughter of John Molyneux, circa 1500.2 William married second Alice ?.2 William died before 10 June 1559.2

From http://www.lawrencefamhis.com/ashton-o/g0/p234.htm#i5835

Schuyler Lawrence lists William of Withington Co. Gloucester as a brother of John and Robert and a son of Robert and Margaret Laurence. However, Franklyn indicates that the editors of The Visitation of the County of Glouster 1682/83 (Exeter: 1884) have corrected this to make William the son of John and the grandson of Robert and Margaret. Franklyn indicates that according to Burke's Commoners, 1st Edition, Vol. III, 1836, this William Laurence held landed property in 1509 in the amount of 2,000 per annum, including Sevenhampton in the county of Gloucester, the manor of Sea House in Somerset, Blackley Park and Norton, Co. Worcester, Staple Farm and New House, and many other estates.2

Schuyler Lawrence indicates that the Visitation heralds claim that John and William left heirs but argues that this is impossible for they would have inherited the whole of the Lawrence estates and since these properties passed into the hands of female heirs, the children of Robert and Margeret, or of his brother Nicolas, could not have left direct heirs.3.

I have included the line as indicated by Franklyn here, leaving the debate open to others to decide.

William made a will on 4 March 1558/59. William's will bequeths five hundred pounds and five hundred sheep among his five sons or their children. Having survive his sons Thomas and Edmund, he names Richard Lawence of Foxcote the overseer of his will and directs the he should be buried at Withington near his late wife Alice.4

His will was proved on 10 June 1559 in the Prerogarative Court of Canterbury, England.

Family Isabel Molyneux

Children

• Richard Lawrence4 d. 1575
• Thomas Lawrence d. b 10 Jun 1559
• John Lawrence b. 1514, d. 1568
• Robert Lawrence b. 1521, d. 1584
• Edmund Lawrence d. 29 Aug 1558
• William Lawrence d. b 30 Jun 1582
• Joan Lawrence

Citations

1. (of Withington).
2. [S298] Franklyn M.A. M.D., Charles A. H. A Genealogical History of The Families of Paulet (or Pawlett), Berewe (or Barrow), Lawrence, and Parker. Bedford, England: The Foundry Press Ltd., December 1963.
3. [S172] Schuyler Lawrence, A Communication to the Editor of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Salt Lake City, Utah: LDS Family History Library, December 1935 Microfilm no. 0517241.
4. [S291] Nichols F.S.A., John Gough. The Herald and Genalogist. London, England: J. G. Nichols and R. C. Nichols, Printers to the Society of Antiquaries, publilsh date not known.

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• The Magna charta barons and their American descendants with the pedigrees of the founders of the Order of Runnemede deduced from the sureties for the enforcement of the statutes of the Magna charta of King John (1898)
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• 11. LADY MARY DE WELLES, sister to Sir Lionel, or Leo, sixth Lord Welles, lord lieutenant of Ireland, k. 1461, and Sir William de Welles, lord chief justice of Ireland, 1442, who m. John Laurence, of Rixton Manor, Lancastershire, returned to Parliament for Lancaster County, October 16, 1419. He was a commissioner for musters in Londale Wapentake, commission dated April 28, 6 Henry V., and had :
• 12. MARGARET LAURENCE, who m. her cousin, Robert Laurence (his nephew Sir Thomas, son of his brother. Sir James Laurence, of Standish, m. Lady Eleanor, a daughter of Sir Lionel, Lord Welles), eldest son of Sir Robert Laurence, of Ashton Hall, Lancastershire, member of Parliament, 1459 (whose pedigree, beginning in 1190, is preserved in the Herald's Visitation to Gloucestershire, 1682-3), and his wife, Amphibis, a daughter of Edward de Longford, Lancastershire, and had :
• 13. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, of Withington, 1509, and Sevenhampton, which he bought, in Gloucestershire, Sea House, in Somersetshire, and Blackley Park and Norton, in Worcestershire. He also owned the manors of Staple Farm, New House, Upcot Farm, etc. His will was proved
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• in 1559.(*) He m. before 1518, Isabel, daughter of John Molineaux, of Sefton Manor and Chorly (Sorely), in Lancashire, and had :
• 14. EDMUND LAWRENCE, of Withington parish, Gloucestershire, fourth son. His will dated August 30, 1558, proved January 10, 1559. He had issue by his wife Eleanor, whose surname has not been preserved :
• 15. JOHN LAWRENCE, of St. Albans, in Hertfordshire. He was chief burgess in 1553, and mayor of St. Albans in 1567 and 1575, and had by his wife, whose name has not been preserved :
• 16. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, of St Albans, who m. there, November 25, 1559, Catherine Beamond, or Beaumont, and had:
• 17. JOHN LAWRENCE, bapt. at Abbey Church, St. Albans, January 12, 1561-2, who had by his second wife, m. January 25, 1586-7, Margaret Roberts:
• 18. THOMAS LAWRENCE, of St. Albans, second son, bapt. at St. Albans, February 2, 1588-9, d. March 20, 1624-5. He was an assistant of the borough of St Albans, 1622, and m. October 23, 1609, Joan, daughter of Walter and Joan Antrobus (Anterbus), of St. Albans. Joan m. secondly, John Tuthill (or Tuttell), of Ipswich, and came with him to New England in April, 1635, bringing John, b. 1618, and William, children of her first husband, Thomas Lawrence, of whom :
• 19. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, bapt. at St. Albans, July 27, 1622, d. 1680 (no will). In 1645 he and his brother John, who was one of the patentees of Hampstead, Long Island, New York, obtained the patent of Flushing, Long Island,
  • (*) In the Herald's pedigree (Gloucestershire Visitations, 1682) he is given as son of John, the son of the aforesaid William and Margaret, but by Sir Thomas Phillips, in the pedigree of Lawrence, of Sevenhampton, as brother to John, son of Robert.
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• New York, from the Dutch Governor Keift, and were of the number to whom the confirmatory patent was issued by Governor Nicoll, in 1666. He was a magistrate of Flushing, 1655, and one of its largest land-owners ; was a member of the governor's council, 1700 ; captain of a foot company, 1665 ; high sheriff, 1673 ; justice of the North Riding, 1675. He m. secondly, March 4, 1664-5, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smith (she m. secondly, Philip Carteret, governor of New Jersey, and m. thirdly. Colonel Richard Townley, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, which city was so named in her honor by her second husband), and had by her :
• 20. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, of Flushing, Long Island, d. 1719 (N. Y. Wills, ix. 152), having issue by his wife Deborah, d. 1743 (N. Y. Wills, xv. 47), daughter of Richard Smith: .... etc. _________________________
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