Elizabeth Bourchier, of Grantham

• 'Elizabeth Hall1,2
• 'F, #143553, b. circa 1533, d. before 29 November 1577
• Father Francis Hall, Esq., Comptroller of Calais1,2 b. c 1502, d. Jul 1553
• Mother Ursula Sherington1,2 b. c 1505
• ' Elizabeth Hall was born circa 1533 at of Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.1 She married Sir Ralph Bourchier, Sheriff of Yorkshire, Keeper of Rochester Castle, son of Sir James Bourchier, Lt. of Ambleteuse in Pas-de-Calais and Mary Bannaster, on 3 February 1557 at St. Denis Backchurch, London, Middlesex, England; They had 2 sons (William, Esq; & Sir John) and 4 daughters (Ursula, wife of Sir Richard Molyneux, & of Sir Richard Trewe; Bridget; Lucy; & Katherine, wife of Richard Mauleverer).1,2 Elizabeth Hall died before 29 November 1577.1,2
• 'Family Sir Ralph Bourchier, Sheriff of Yorkshire, Keeper of Rochester Castle b. c 1530, d. 11 Jun 1598
• Citations
  • 1.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 290.
  • 2.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 490.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p4781.htm#...
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• 'Ralph BOURCHIER
• Born: ABT 1535, Benningborough, Yorkshire, England
• Died: 11 Jun 1598, Barking, Essex, England
• Father: James BOURCHIER
• Mother: Mary BANNISTER
• 'Married 1: Elizabeth HALL (dau. of Francis Hall of Grantham and Ursula Sherington) 3 Feb 1557
• Children:
  • 1. William BOURCHIER
  • 2. John BOURCHIER
• Married 2: Christian SHAKERLEY
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BOURCHIER1.htm#Ralph BOURCHIER1
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• 'Sir Ralph Bourchier (c.1531–11 June 1598) was an English landowner, administrator and politician.
• He was the son of James Bourchier of Haughton and Mary, heiress of her brother John Bannister. His grandfather was John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners. In 1556 he inherited estates in Yorkshire from his uncle, John Bannister, on which he built Beningbrough Hall (since rebuilt in 1716).
• He was appointed keeper of Rochester castle in 1559.
• He was elected to Parliament in 1571 and 1572 as MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme. He was subsequently returned for Newport, IoW in 1584, Scarborough in 1586 and as knight of the shire for Yorkshire. He served as sheriff of Yorkshire in 1580 and was knighted in 1584,
• He died in 1598 and was buried in Barking, Essex. He had married three times: 'firstly Elizabeth, the daughter of Francis Hall of Grantham, Lincolnshire, with whom he had two sons and four daughters'; secondly Christian, the daughter of Rowland Shakerley of London and widow of John Harding of London; and thirdly Anne Coote, a widow. His estate went to his grandson Robert, as his son William was declared insane. Robert died childless at 18 and the estate then passed to Robert's brother John, who subscribed as an adventurer for Virginia in 1620 and was one of the signatories to King Charles death warrant in 1649.
• References
• History of Parliament - BOURCHIER, Ralph (c.1531-98), of Haughton, Staffs. and Beningbrough, Yorks.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Bourchier
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• 'BOURCHIER, Ralph (c.1531-98), of Haughton, Staffs. and Beningbrough, Yorks.
• Family and Education
• b. c.1531, s. of James Bourchier of Haughton by Mary, da. of Sir Humphrey Bannister of Calais and h. of her bro. John. 'm. (1) Elizabeth, da. of Francis Hall of Grantham, Lincs., sis. of Arthur Hall, 2s. 4da.;' (2) 1577, Christian, da. of Rowland Shakerley of London, wid. of John Harding of London, prob. s.p.; (3) Anne, wid. of one Coote, ?s.p. suc. fa. c.1555. Kntd. 1584.1
• Offices Held
  • Keeper of Rochester castle, Kent 1559; sheriff, Yorks. 1580-1; j.p. Yorks. (N. Riding) from c.1573, (E. Riding) from c.1584.2
• Biography
• Bourchier’s grandfather was the 2nd Lord Berners, appointed deputy of Calais in 1520. His father, one of Lord Berners’s many illegitimate children, spent most of his life soldiering, first at Galais and later as lieutenant of Ambleteuse. Bourchier himself inherited the manor of Haughton and other lands in Staffordshire, most of which he sold between 1568 and 1575, having by then inherited an estate in Yorkshire from his mother’s brother, John Bannister of London.3
• Bourchier’s local standing was no doubt sufficient to secure his own return to Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme and for Scarborough, where he had a lease of the rectory and other property. In 1572 he was first returned at Petersfield, probably through a connexion with Sir Henry Weston, before choosing to sit a second time for Newcastle-under-Lyme. His nomination at Newport must have been due to Sir George Carey, who had obtained the borough’s enfranchisement in the same year, though the actual connexion with Carey has not been ascertained; Bourchier may have met him either at court or during the northern campaign of 1569-70, and he may also have known Carey’s kinsman Edward, who had sat for Scarborough in 1272. For his fifth and last Parliament Bourchier sat as one of the Yorkshire county Members. On 26 Feb. 1589 he was named to a committee concerning captains and soldiers. He had already by then been active in local affairs in Yorkshire for some years. Indeed, as early as 1564 it had been suggested that he would be a suitable j.p. for the North Riding. In 1591 he was appointed with several other people to inquire into a dispute over the office of clerk to the castle and county court of York.4
• He died 11 June 1598 and was buried the same day at Barking, Essex. The administration of his property was granted on 15 June to his widow, who died the following August. Bourchier is not known to have had any estates in Essex and may have been visiting his daughter-in-law, formerly Katherine Barrington, whom his eldest son, William, married in about 1588. Through her mother, Katherine, she was related to the Hastings family, and Henry, 3rd of Huntingdon, was one of the witnesses of her marriage settlement. In the same year Huntingdon recommended to the Privy Council that Bourchier should be made a captain of horse. William Bourchier later went mad and the father delayed carrying out the stipulations of the settlement until a petition had been presented to Burghley by Francis Barrington. On Bourchier’s death, his property passed to a grandson, William’s eldest son, except for half the manor of Hanging Grimston in Yorkshire left to his younger son, John. William’s second son, Sir John, who eventually inherited Beningbrough, was a regicide.5
• Ref Volumes: 1558-1603
• Author: Patricia Hyde
• Notes
• 1. C142/107/39; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ed. Clay, i. 305-8; Vis. Yorks. (Harl. Soc. xvi), 30; London Mar. Lic. (Harl. Soc. xxv.), 77; Staffs. Parl. Hist. i. (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.) 366-7; PCC admon. act bk. 1598, ff. 251, 258, 266; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. n.s. ix. 29, 85.
• 2. CSP Dom. Add. 1547-65, p. 491; CSP Dom. 1598-1601, p. 62; HMC Var. ii. 99.
• 3. Parl. Rep. Yorks. ed. Gooder (Yorks. Arch. Soc. Rec. ser. xcvi), 34; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xiii. 270; xiv. 176; n.s. ix. 29, 85; CPR, 1558-60, p. 244; C142/107/39; Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. li), 441.
• 4. LP Hen. VIII, xiii(1), p. 562; D’Ewes, 439; HMC Var. ii. 92-5; J. J. Cartwright, Chapters in Yorks. Hist. (1872), p. 67; Cam Misc. ix(3), p. 72; APC, xxi. 161-2; xxii. 400-1.
• 5. Border Pprs. 1560-94, p. 324; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 87; Essex Arch. Soc. n.s. ii. 9; VCH Yorks. N. Riding, ii. 162; C142/337/98.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/bo...
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GEDCOM Note

Elizabeth Hall b. circa 1533, d. before 29 November 1577 Father Francis Hall,Esq., Comptroller of Calais b. c 1502, d. Jul 1553 Mother Ursula Sherington1,2 b. c 1505 ' Elizabeth Hall was born circa 1533 at Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.1 She married Sir Ralph Bourchier, Sheriff of Yorkshire, Keeper of Rochester Castle, son of Sir James Bourchier, Lt. of Ambleteuse in Pas-de-Calais and Mary Bannaster, on 3 February 1557 at St. Denis Backchurch, London, Middlesex, England; They had 2 sons (William, Esq; & Sir John) and 4 daughters (Ursula, wife of Sir Richard Molyneux, & of Sir Richard Trewe; Bridget; Lucy; & Katherine, wife of Richard Mauleverer).1,2 Elizabeth Hall died before 29 November 1577.1,2