Dorothy Thomson

Dorothy Gilbert, daughter of Richard Gilbert, was born circa 1532 at of Somerson, Suffolk, England.1 She married John Thompson, Esq., Sheriff of Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire, Burgess of New Windsor, Auditor of the Exchequer on 26 July 1546 at St. Matthew Friday Street, London, Middlesex, England.

Notes

From http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/th...

John Thomson died 3 Apr. 1597, leaving to his wife the contents of his house by Charterhouse churchyard. His son and heir, Robert, aged 30, received a gold chain of 1,164 links and all his ‘armour, artillery and munition of war’.

From 'Parishes: Husborne Crawley', in A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1912), pp. 394-399. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/beds/vol3/pp394-399 [accessed 18 August 2019].

In the north-east corner of the chancel, against a blocked window, is an alabaster tomb with effigies of John Thompson and his wife Dorothy; he was an auditor of the Exchequer.

Will

From Abstracts of wills in the Prerogative court of Canterbury at Somerset house ... By Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Prerogative Court. Page 207 - 208 GoogleBooks

619 Dorothie Thomson of Husborne Crawley, co. Beds., wid. (Dat. 31 Oct. 1618.)

• My late husb. John Thomson of Husborne Crawley, esq., decd.; bur. in chan. ot Husborne Crawley, nr. sd. husb.; *son Robt. Tomson and his wife, Mrs. Jane Thomson;
• dau. Lady Kempe;
• grson Sir John Thomson and his wife;
• my grch. Dorothie Andrewes, her husb. Mr. Edolph Andrewes;
• grch. Susan Thomson;
• rep. of bridges and highways in Husborne Crawley;
• grson-in-law Rd. Sutton, esq., and my grdau., his wife;
• Rd. Harvey, clk.;
• Rd. Impey, one of Sir John Thomson's men;
• grdau. Lady Cuttes, her husb., Sir John Cuttes;
• grdaus. Lady Chichley and Lady Skipwith, her husb., Sir Henry Skipwith;
• grdau. Lady Digges, her husb., Sir Dudley Digges;
• grson-in-law Sir Jas. Altham and grdau., his wife;
• my grson John Fishe and his wife;
• grson-inlaw Edm. Blofeild and grdau., his wife;
• Mrs. Page;
• Dorothie Worsley, wid.;
• kinsw. Mary Allen, Dorothie Lawrance and Anne Mery;
• Valentyne Boner;
• tent. bot. of Mathewe Wrightsonne, John Adkinson and Thos. Knighte;
• Exors: Rd. Sutton, esq., and Rd. Harvey, clk., vic. of Husborne Crawley;
• Overs: frd. Frauncis Stanton, gent.
• [mark]
• Wits: John Woodland, Richard Impey, Richard Kent.
• (Adm. gr. 24 May 1620, to Sir John Thomson, Kt., grson of decd., Sir Rd. Sutton, Kt., and Rd. Harvey, clk., ren.)

References

• The visitations of Bedfordshire, annis domini 1566, 1582, and 1634, made by William Harvey, Robert Cooke, and George Owen as deputy for Richard St. George : together with additional pedigrees, chiefly from Harleian ms. 1531 by Blaydes, Frederic Augustus, pg. 146 Archive.Org children listed as Robert, 1. John, Elizabeth, 2. Henry, 3. Francis
• https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3008.htm... cites
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 556.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 277.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 280.