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About Bridget Dixon
- John Bernard, Esq.1,2,3
- M, #21894, b. circa 1490, d. 4 February 1549
- Father John Bernard, Esq.2,3,4 b. 1469, d. 20 Aug 1508
- Mother Margaret Daundelyn2,3,4 b. c 1466
- John Bernard, Esq. was born circa 1490 at of Abington, Northamptonshire, England; Age 18 in 1508.2,3,4 He married Cecily Muscote, daughter of John Muscote, Gent. and Alice Beaufeu, circa 1520 at of Abington, Northamptonshire, England; They had 2 sons (Francis, Esq; & John) and 4 daughters (Dorothy, nun at De La Pré Abbey; Mary, wife of George Purley, Gent; Elizabeth, wife of John Covert & of William Dixon; & Bridget, wife of John Dixon).2,3,4 John Bernard, Esq. died on 4 February 1549 at of Abington, Northamptonshire, England; Buried at Abington.2,3,4
- Family Cecily Muscote b. c 1495, d. 21 Sep 1557
- Child
- Francis Bernard, Esq.+2,3,4 b. 1526, d. 21 Oct 1602
- Citations
- [S6653] Unknown author, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 20; The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th Ed., by F. L. Weis, p. 56.
- [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 102.
- [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 186.
- [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 344.
- From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p729.htm#i... ______________
- The Bernards of Abington and Nether Winchendon: A Family History, Volume 1 By Sophia Elizabeth Higgins
- https://books.google.com/books?id=LeHZgdEtzPcC&lpg=PA53&ots=K6BbNWq...
- https://archive.org/details/bernardsofabingt01higg
- https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n29/mode/1up
- Pg.12
- Two sons only are mentioned as the issue of Thomas and Margaret Bernard — viz. John and Thomas. .... There is some difficulty about the age of John Bernard, who was apparently the elder brother of Thomas, but not necessarily, although he succeeded to Abington. .... John is described as twenty-eight the year after his father died, that is in 1465 ; his brother had then been a vicar sixteen years. Of Thomas nothing more is related ; either he was of too devotional a character to seek for preferment, or else he died too young to have
- https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n30/mode/1up
- Pg.13
- hoped for it. Otherwise the family patronage and influence must have helped him to rise.
- Sir John Bernard,1 the next lord of Abington, .... etc.
- His wife was Margaret, daughter of Henry, fourth Lord Scrope of Bolton, by Elizabeth, daughter of John, fourth Lord Scrope of Masham.2
- .... etc.
- https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n37/mode/1up
- Pg.20
- JOHN BERNARD, eldest son of Sir John and Margaret Lady Bernard, had the good fortune to marry Margaret Daundelyn,1 who is styled in the 'County History' heir of her father, William, and her grandfather, John Daundelyn, of Doddington and Earl's Barton. In the 'Visitation of Northamptonshire' she is called heir of her father and of William Daundelyn, a cousin. The two accounts probably mean the same thing — namely, that Margaret was the last of her branch of the Daundelyns, and inherited all, or nearly all, the family property. .... etc.
- https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n41/mode/1up
- Pg.24
- .... John Bernard died on August 20, 1508, shortly before King Henry VII., who died in the following year. When his affairs were wound up his wife, Margaret, is mentioned as deceased. This probably means that she died before him, aged about thirty-five; he must have been ten or more years older.
- John, the eldest son of John Bernard and Margaret Daundelyn, was only in his eighteenth year when he lost his father, and in all likelihood he had already lost his mother. Even if placed under guardianship for a short time, he must have achieved complete independence with his majority, and would seem to have taken advantage of his liberty to 'marry for love' — a rare event in those days. Or perhaps, while fancying that he was asserting his rights, the young squire was really captured by designing parents. His chosen wife, whoever chose her, was Cicely,1 daughter of John Muscote, of Earl's Barton. Muscote is styled 'gentleman,' 2 not esquire ; this, however, denotes inferiority in estate rather than in blood.
- .... etc.
- https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n45/mode/1up
- Pg.28
- In the record of John and Cicely Bernard's children there is no longer any difficulty about the names of daughters. They were the parents of four girls as well as of two boys.
- .... etc.
- Dorothy, a daughter of the Abington house, was a nun at De la Pré Abbey, on the south side of Northampton, within a short distance of her paternal home, when the order came for its dissolution. .... It seems strange that John and Cicely should have chosen for their child a career which had
- https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n46/mode/1up
- Pg.29
- become uncertain and almost perilous ; perhaps they, like many other persons, trusted that all danger was over when the Cardinal died, and gave way to the young girl's own desire for the life of a nun at all hazards.
- .... etc.
- https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n48/mode/1up
- Pg.31
- Dorothy Bernard evidently remained true to her vows. Husbands are assigned in the pedigrees to the three other daughters of John Bernard,1 but none to her. .... etc.
- 1 1. Elizabeth married John Contyt or Covert ; and, 2ndly, William Dixon.
- 2. Bridget married John Dixon.
- 3. Mary married George Parley or Purley, of co. Lincoln.
- 4. Dorothy, a nun at De la Pré Abbey at the Dissolution.
- The authorities for this list are Baker and The Visitation of Northamptonshire (1618-19). Lipscomb's account is imperfect. This is the order in which Baker arranges the family. The Visitation names Dorothy first, then Mary and Elizabeth, and, lastly, Bridget.
- 2 .... etc.
- https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n50/mode/1up
- Pg.33
- John Bernard died in 1549, early in the reign of Edward VI. ; Cicely, his wife, in 1557, towards the end of Mary's reign. Some remains of their tombs are still to be seen in Abington Church. .... etc.
- https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n51/mode/1up
- Francis Bernard, the eldest son of John and Cicely, was probably turned thirty at the time of his father's death, and perhaps already married to Alice, daughter of John Haslewood of Maidwell, Northants, Esquire.1 His only brother John married her sister, Mary Haslewood. The mother of these ladies was Alice, daughter of Sir William Gascoyne, Knight. Their paternal grandfather, John Haslewood, is styled 'Master of the Fleete Prison' ; he married Katherine, daughter and heir of William Marmyon, of Kington, Lincolnshire, .... etc.
- https://archive.org/stream/bernardsofabingt01higg#page/n52/mode/1up
- Pg.35
- .... he escaped trouble by dying in 1559, the year following Queen Elizabeth's accession. But there is some likelihood that Mr. Bernard himself did not yet delight in the new order of things, which at its commencement had rendered his sister Dorothy an outcast, .... etc.
- John Bernard, the younger brother of the Abington squire, had a son Robert ; the pedigree does not carry his line further, nor does it state where he lived ; but it is not unlikely that Robert may have been the grandfather of a distinguished man. Dr. Edward Bernard, born in Northamptonshire, who will be mentioned in a subsequent chapter.1
- Francis Bernard and Alice, his wife, became the parents of twelve children, who lived to be men and women and married. They had also two daughters, who apparently died in their cradles. .... etc. _____________________________
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Bridget Dixon's Timeline
| 1523 |
1523
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Abington, Northamptonshire, England
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| 1602 |
October 21, 1602
Age 79
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Abington, Northamptonshire, England
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